families - hofreps - 1970

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

Does the Minister agree that this state of affairs represents a desperate situation to the parents of these unfortunate children and other members of their families and places a tremendous strain on the health of the parents caring for the retarded? [More…]
Does the Minister consider this to be just in view of the fact that these houses are tied to Commonwealth Railways employment, that the employees have to vacate the houses on retirement and that families have to vacate them in the event of the death of an employee? [More…]
Do general practitioner consultations produce the bulk of the medical expenses of most families. [More…]
Is there any lack of liaison between Customs and airline officials which has resulted in arriving passengers missing families and friends waiting to meet them. [More…]
Is it a fact that aircraft landing on and taking off from runway 16 at Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport pass over heavily populated suburbs in the electoral division of Grayndler causing distress and suffering to pensioners, families, and shift workers, and to persons in hospitals, schools, colleges, churches and industry. [More…]
The total increase in contributions resulting from the contribution adjustments made is estimated to be $20.4m a year, lt was also decided to further, liberalise the Subsidised Medical Services Scheme which, since 1st January 1970, has provided full insurance coverage for persons in receipt of unemployment and sickness benefits, newly arrived migrants and families whose incomes did not exceed $39.00 per week (since amended to $42.50 per week). [More…]
The legislation passed by Parliament in June 1970 extended this Scheme so that families whose income do not exceed $48.50 per week need to meet only a portion of normal health insurance contributions to insurance organisations to be covered for their hospital and medical expenses. [More…]
It was not necessary to find accommodation for any families. [More…]
How many families had been living in them. [More…]
What accommodation was found for the families. [More…]
Has the Public Solicitor taken action on behalf of any of the families. [More…]
I am unable to substantiate the Professor’s figures as details of some of these items, for example, the level of income of families with children attending these schools, are not available to me. [More…]
I should not like this occasion to pass without registering on behalf of my Party, the Australian Country Party, that we wish to join with the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in the expression of deep concern and deep sympathy in respect of those who have lost their lives, those who have suffered, and in particular the families and relatives of the men involved in this tragedy, and at least to have the survivors and dependants understand that all Parties in the Commonwealth Parliament have expressed deep distress and sympathy. [More…]
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How many (a) families and (b) children have been involved in these repostings in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
Is it a fact that the rate of medical or psychological failure has been greater among the sons of high income families than among those who come from the lower and middle income groups. [More…]
What assistance for education costs is available for children of low income families in Commonwealth Territories? [More…]
Is it a fact that the present taxes on birth control devices are not in Australia’s long-term population interests and that, in addition, they discriminate against poor people and their right to limit the size of their own families? [More…]
The serious decline in social services has intensified the hardships faced by pensioners and families on lower incomes. [More…]
What was the (a) date, (b) nature and (c) outcome of all negotiations between- his Department, the Department of the Army and the Victorian Government concerning the refusal of that Government to permit the extension of the Home Help Service of the Shire of Seymour to the families of Army personnel living at Puckapunyal. [More…]
I think this is well understood, and further I think the practice of Ministers bringing their families to Canberra and establishing homes here is welcomed. [More…]
each of the categories of (a) unemployed, (b) migrants, (c) sickness beneficiaries, (d) other eligible beneficiaries and (e) families with weekly incomes of (i) below $42.50, (ii) between $52.45 and $45.50 and (iii) between $45.50 and $48.50, who have applied for subsidised health insurance by registering with (A) the Commonwealth Department of Social Services and (B) a hospital and medical benefits society since the introduction of the subsidised medical services scheme? [More…]
Statistics issued by the Commonwealth Commissioner of Taxation prior to the commencement of the Subsidised Medical Services Scheme on 1st January 1970 indicated that about 100,000 families, comprising 300,000 people, could become eligible for assistance under the Scheme. [More…]
Immediately prior to the extension from 1st July 1970 of the eligibility limits for assistance under the Scheme these statistics indicated that a further 84,000 families, comprising an additional 271,000 people could become eligible for partial subsidy. [More…]
Will the Minister for the Army, subsequent to his assurance that all troops will be home from Vietnam for Christmas, and bearing in mind that some Western Australian servicemen have been advised that they will have to travel from Townsville in Queensland to Western Australia by train and that they will arrive in Western Australia after Christmas, either arrange earlier departure dates from Townsville to ensure that Western Australian servicemen arrive home for Christmas or arrange air transport so that families and servicemen will not be disappointed? [More…]
Further, will he give assurances that all troops will in fact be provided with transport within Australia which will allow them to be reunited with their families for Christmas Day? [More…]
Permissive residents and their families are also free to utilise the same welfare benefits that are available to other Papua New Guinea residents. [More…]
Is the cost involved in moving themselves, their families and their belongings to a new place of residence an allowable deduction for income tax purposes to farmers, farm workers, miners and other people in rural or gold-mining areas who because of the critical situation in those fields have been or will be in the future forced to move elsewhere to obtain employment. [More…]
In this regard, I have directed my Department to make arrangements for South and West Australian soldiers to be returned to Australia by air to allow them sufficient time to be reunited with their families for Christmas. [More…]
According to a report by Mr Wallace Brown in the ‘Courier Mail’ of 25th June, it also decided to adopt as policy, free family planning clinics, free contraception, legal advertising of contraceptives, free child care centres and a public investigation to determine the best way to encourage small families. [More…]
Can the Minister say what is the formula used for the means test applied by the Departments of Health in each State and Territory for uninsured families and individuals on low incomes for (a) a visit to an out-patients clinic, and (b) use of a public ward bed. [More…]
What percentage of families in the three Services was required to move in 1970-71. [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of (i) migrants, (ii) sickness beneficiaries, (iii) unemployment beneficiaries, (iv) special beneficiaries and (v) non-income families receiving (A) less than $46.50, (B) $46.51 to $49.50 and (C) $49.51 to $52.50 per week who (I) were eligible to enrol in the subsidised medical scheme, (II) had registered with the Department of Social Services for membership in the scheme and (III) had registered with a private health benefits fund in each State and Territory and in the Commonwealth as at 2nd November 1971. [More…]
Will he request members of the Cabinet to disclose the shareholdings of themselves and their families in big firms which have enjoyed subsidies, tariff protection or other Government support. [More…]
I am of the opinion, rightly or wrongly, that in the past some judgments in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission have been given by men who themselves, their spouses or other members of their families have been shareholders in an interested party to the award. [More…]
Our proposals are geared to achieve social and economic goals of significance to all Australians and particularly families. [More…]
What was the means test for eligibilityof low income families for the subsidised health benefits scheme when the scheme first came into operation. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Will those firms be included in the assistance which are prepared to provide child care centres within their establishments for the benefit of employees, particularly women who are responsible for the sole support of their families? [More…]
Has he received a proposal from the Brotherhood of St Laurence that the Department of Social Services make immediate provisional payments to applicants for Commonwealth pensions and benefits to give families an income at the level they will receive when their application has been finally processed and granted. [More…]
As Army staffs are heavily committed to their military tasks, I do not propose to authorise the extensive and time consuming survey which would be required to obtain the information sought by the honourable member from over two thousand Army families in the Holsworthy/ Ingleburn area. [More…]
As announced in my Budget Speech, the Government proposes to introduce legislation as soon as possible to assist in the establishment and running of child care centres operating on a nonprofit basis to benefit children from low income and other special need families. [More…]
It is envisaged that these centres will cater for the children of working parents, giving priority of admission to children in special need, such as those from single parent families, and to children of sick or incapacitated parents. [More…]
5100 (Hansard, 30lh May 1972, pages 3293-4) which stated that arrangements were being made to post out, with child endowment cheques, notices outlining the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan and aimed to enrol more low income families in the Plan, were these notices only sent out on 1st, 15th and 29th August 1972. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that these delays cause great hardships and resentment, particularly as they affect parents and grandparents of Australian families who merely wish to come to our country for a visit? [More…]
It has not done, as some other States have done, given rights to that land to the Aborigines as individuals or families. [More…]
We have seen Ministers employ members of their families and give them other perks. [More…]
Will the Minister for Social Security consider removing the 16-year-old qualifying age with respect to invalid pensions in order to provide relief for families who hear the immense physical, psychological and financial burdens of caring for their severely handicapped or retarded children at home? [More…]
(2) What was the cost of the public purse of trips by (a) Ministers’ wives and families and (b) wives of civil servants during the period. [More…]
I am able to give the honourable gentleman the assurance that the provision of houses will take place in such time as to ensure that the needs of the 79 families at HMAS ‘Stirling’ will be met at the appropriate time, that is, when they need them. [More…]
Does the Treasurer agree that the interest rate increases, wherever they may finish, will lift the cost of living to families by $5 to $10 a week by increased mortgage repayments, increased hire purchase repayments and increased prices because of the increased cost of borrowing money incurred by the manufacturers of goods or the builders of homes? [More…]
Advisory Council is currently considering a suggestion that Reid House should be used as emergency accommodation for families in distressed circumstances. [More…]
I ask: Will the honourable gentleman in his forthcoming discussions with the Premier of the People’s Republic of China request that sympathetic consideration be given by his Government to the granting of exit visas to Chinese citizens who desire to be reunited with their families in Australia? [More…]
We on this side of the House also share the relief of those families whose loved ones have been saved. [More…]
If so, will he investigate the high costs charged to families of the deceased where subsidies have been paid over the last 12 months. [More…]
If so will the Minister investigate the high costs charged to families of the deceased where subsidies have been paid over the last 12 months. [More…]
Is it a fact that the 8 families long established in Bendigo who would be affected by any transfer are gravely concerned at this prospect. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General give an assurance that these families will not be retrenched or transferred from Bendigo. [More…]
I am aware that there are a number of countries, I think including Czechoslovakia, where there has been some difficulty in securing permission for people to enter to visit members of their families. [More…]
It was an unfortunate sort of statement and shows that the people who made it do not appreciate the problems of so many families in the community today. [More…]
If so, are over 200 families affected by this decision. [More…]
Did the Minister for Housing and Construction say in a Press statement on 2 May 1974 that the mortgage tax deductibility scheme proposed by the Government would provide $250 a year to one million families? [More…]
Political life is hurtful enough to those involved in it without involving their families. [More…]
How many families or applicants are on the waiting list for public housing in each State at present. [More…]
1 ) Has a study been carried out of the effects to taxpayers of amending the law to provide for the lodging of joint returns by married couples, or by families, after providing lower rates of income tax. [More…]
Will he also give assurances that the Australian Government will assist in this reunion of families? [More…]
454 in which he indicated that his Department is studying the situation of families on low incomes and the high cost of accommodation which prevents them from taking a holiday, how many officers of his Department were engaged or are engaged in this study. [More…]
While Mr Fraser claims that the Budget: penalises those families that do save, through life or superannuation policies for their old age, and that want to provide a different kind of education for their children - the economics writer for the National Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Alan Wood, has pointed out that in reality: [More…]
It has brought tremendous hardship to families who want to bring their relatives here to join them. [More…]
As honourable members know one in 6 families in Melbourne lives in unsewered areas and most of the flow from the catchment area of Melbourne goes into Port Phillip Bay. [More…]
Having regard to criticisms in the House relating to gifts to Ministers of State and their families, and his reply to my question without notice on 30 October 1975 (Hansard, page 2645) will he provide an itemised list of all gifts received as a result of Government service by all Ministers and former Ministers. [More…]
As a member of the Returned Services League and having served with the Eighth Army, may I inquire what steps the Prime Minister proposes to take to make certain that a detachment of the armed forces and the ex-service organisations are at Windsor for that service as a tribute not only to Viscount Montgomery but also to the families of those whose lives were lost in the last war? [More…]
It will do this by substantially increasing family allowances for families. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the difficulty many tertiary students from poor families are having in existing under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme has led to wide post-budget ill feeling amongst student groups. [More…]
Will these moves force many Asian students to return home or place exceptional burdens on their families if they continue to study in this country. [More…]
1 ) Have the results of the 1974-75 Household Expenditure Survey revealed a significant difference in the expenditure patterns of migrant families as against the expenditure patterns of the community at large. [More…]
Do the results of the survey indicate that recently arrived migrant families face budgetary problems which reflect particular hardships associated with settling in Australia. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Prime Minister, concerns the South African Airways tour of South Africa for members of Australian police forces and their families about which he wrote to the Premiers last Monday. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that hundreds of workers and their families are leaving Canberra because of cuts in the Public Service and the depression in the building industry. [More…]
Are families, who are seeking to have relatives at present in Lebanon enter Australia, being informed that they must meet normal entry criteria. [More…]
and (2) On 5 November 1975 I stated publicly that under any future Liberal/National Country Party Government, significant gifts to Ministers or their families received because of the Minister’s position would be declared to the Government and valued. [More…]
That this House believes that there is a real need for the Government to urgently and compassionately investigate the problems facing the children of Australia who are being raised by lone fathers and lone mothers, so that they might face the future with at least the possibility of equal opportunity and advantage which accrues to children fortunate enough to be raised to adulthood in 2-parent families. [More…]
On behalf of the House I have forwarded messages of sympathy to their respective widows and families. [More…]
This applies especially to the Department of Social Security which has a particular task that obviously is of great importance to a very large number of individuals and families at present. [More…]
In view of the undoubted concern that the sick and aged and, of course, their families must be experiencing, will the Minister make a clear cut statement on this extremely important issue? [More…]
The Government made so much noise about what it intended to do for families in 1976. [More…]
She said that by this move alone the Government was robbing two-child families of $50 a year, three-child families of $100 a year, and four-child families of $ 1 44 a year. [More…]
That is how the Government gyps people who have large families. [More…]
Was a request made that in the interest of Italian-Australian friendship the deportation order be withdrawn and the case reexamined in the light of the fact that the action taken is regarded as offensive to the Italian community in Australia and having regard to the value of Mr Salemi ‘s work in the Italian community on behalf of the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]
Has the Minister noted that the Salvation Army and other voluntary agencies in Victoria which have been providing emergency aid to families of people out of work because of the power strike have depleted their funds? [More…]
The fact is that the Government realised full well what it was doing when it took away from families the benefits which should be theirs. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled ‘Families and Social Services in Australia’, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Social Security relating to the report. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether on his recent visit to Bangkok he pursued the issue of Vietnamese refugees and, in particular, the issue of the reunion of Vietnamese families in Australia. [More…]
What have been the dates and outcome of visits by the Australian team of officials to East Timor and the Indonesian team to Australia to arrange the reunion of East Timorese families about which he made a ministerial statement on 30 March 1977. [More…]
Can he say if there is a fanning property owned, rented or otherwise occupied by the Fairbridge Society or its officers or agents, in Western Australia; if so (a) do any of the immigrants or members of their families live at the farm (b) for what periods have they lived there, and (c) what duties do they perform at that farm? [More…]
Does he agree with the Minister for Foreign Affairs that it would be unfortunate if citizens of Croatian origin were to be confused and their relations with their families in Yugoslavia compromised by their association with an institution which obviously could provide no consular or diplomatic services. [More…]
What percentage of married two income families have children. [More…]
Is he aware that this would be a severe extra burden on the sick and the poor, especially where these two categories are combined in large families? [More…]
Nonetheless the Government does recognise that bulk billing confers very real advantages on low income families, to ethnic groups and to Aboriginal communities and the Government will certainly not abolish bulk billing until satisfactory arrangements have been made. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Health give an indication of the likely considerable savings to families now covered by Medibank Standard consequent upon the announced changes in health insurance in the Budget? [More…]
Generally speaking, the more able, more articulate and more affluent two-income families are catching them. [More…]
Because of this it is also important that the ABS produce regular monthly statistics as to the effect of unemployment on families and households. [More…]
I am concerned because this affects not only the two gentlemen concerned but also their families and the whole parliamentary institution which all of us believe in so much. [More…]
Only those with conditions requiring very frequent medical attention or those with large families requiring frequent medical attention should consider taking out medical insurance. [More…]
If so, can the Attorney-General say why Mr Hutt, other ethnic groups or even.other Australian families cannot get similar sentences for murder, if their groups are prepared to mete out their own punishment. [More…]
The Prime Minister will recall that last year he was asked whether he subscribed to the philosophy that all members of Parliament should disclose the assets, liabilities and tax returns of their wives and families. [More…]
This is a very considerable tax reduction to all families and to all individual taxpayers; and quite plainly the honourable gentleman is not prepared to recognise that. [More…]
and (b) The Prime Minister in his election policy speech in November 1977 promised to encourage families to care for their sick and aged by increasing and expanding the domiciliary nursing care benefit. [More…]
Have 50 Aboriginal families, including a handful employed on the station, inadequate housing, water and sanitation facilities while the manager’s homestead has lawn sprinklers. [More…]
I instance family allowances, which for the very first time gave low income families an opportunity to take advantage of money that would go to mothers to assist in the support of their children. [More…]
Has compensation been paid in full to the families of people killed in the Teneriffe airline disaster. [More…]
The families ‘ interests must be taken into account, but so must the wider public interest. [More…]
It therefore provided an opportunity for the Government to give social justice to the families of those government employees whose death had deprived their families of their breadwinners. [More…]
The Government’s repeated changes to health insurance which have destroyed the community rating principle and will mean that the elderly, large families and the chronically ill will be unable to afford adequate cover. [More…]
The Government’s repeated changes to health insurance which have destroyed the community rating principle and will mean that the elderly, large families and the chronically ill will be unable to afford adequate cover. [More…]
In other words, the Government is refusing to give assistance to those single income families. [More…]
We keep reading in the newspapers that various members on the Government back benches are so concerned about these people that they are floating all these schemes around about how they are going to look after the single income earning families. [More…]
We are told that they are concerned because they are paying more tax than the families which have the same income that is earned by two people. [More…]
Yet, here we have a situation in which they could do something about assisting single income earning families by increasing the spouse rebate, by indexing it for this financial year. [More…]
My Government has decided that families on low incomes should be helped to meet the cost of health insurance by a graduated subsidy designed to pay the full cost of health insurance for families with incomes not in excess of the average minimum wage, and part of the cost of meeting health insurance for families whose incomes are little in excess of the average minimum wage. [More…]
We have, for instance, multi-problem families. [More…]
It will facilitate family reunion, as in the past for financial reasons some Yugoslavs preceded their families here, lt will avoid the social consequences of separated families in future migration and, by easing the financial strain of migration, strengthen and speed successful settlement in Australia. [More…]
Australia undertakes to extend to Yugoslav workers and their families the facilities available in Australia for migrants to learn English. [More…]
This, however, would leave approximately 74 families living in sub-standard conditions. [More…]
They pointed out also that as a number of Aboriginals with large families would receive from $20 to $30 per week in unemployment benefits, they could not understand why the Government did not make up the difference to at least the basic wage of $42.30 and ensure that Aboriginals had full employment opportunities. [More…]
Another reason is that the average cottage being erected today for young families is much better equipped, and is therefore a better home than it was a few years ago. [More…]
In such words, and in such a fashion, do we decree that men shall still be sent to die - not for a cause, not for a reason, not for a crusade, not for wives or families or country, but so that ‘some’ may be ‘scheduled for such withdrawal’ at ‘some stage’. [More…]
We are talking about people, about men women and children, about families living in rural towns and directly concerned with the profitability or otherwise, with the economic viability or otherwise, of this great industry which has sustained Australia for so many years. [More…]
They fall most heavily on those with smaller incomes anil larger families. [More…]
Large families need and deserve greater assistance. [More…]
Your Committee, in the course of inspections of RAAF bases in various places in Australia, has noted the proximity of existing and planned houses for RAAF personnel and families to sources of aircraft noise generated by RAAF aircraft. [More…]
It is unnecessary to outline to the House the soldiers’ complaints about pay, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, Service housing, the disruption and expense caused by frequent repostings, separation from families, repatriation and resettlement problems. [More…]
They are constant sources of irritation to servicemen and their families, and it is right that remedies should be found. [More…]
At the base of the trouble is the fact that with farms which are at the limit of production and which are still earning insufficient income for their owners and their families, particularly those with younger families, it is very difficult to see a way out. [More…]
Few honourable members would have liked to return here immediately after Christmas because most of them would have been with their families enjoying the school holidays. [More…]
The families that made the sacrifices in World War I were the same families that made the great sacrifices in World War II. [More…]
I could number hundreds of families which made no effort in either war but who, while our men were away, feathered their nests and are now very wealthy. [More…]
Local governments virtually are powerless to provide the services which obviously should be provided for the people unfortunate enough to have thrust upon them th: task of rearing families in high rise flats or, for that matter, those passing their declining years in high rise flats. [More…]
I proudly represent some 50,000 electors and their families in the electorate of Burke, considerably more than half of whom decided that I should come to this place. [More…]
This development adds nothing to the quality of life of hundreds of young Australian families. [More…]
With a lack of classrooms, classes larger than the experts recommend, a shortage of teachers, a drift away from Australia of some of our best teachers - attracted overseas by more equitable wages and conditions - we are again disappointed to see that despite the anxiety of the electorate no proper provision for relief in the education field in basic matters affecting all families is mentioned. [More…]
We can only hope this will be an early decision of the Government and not become a CommonwealthState relationship argument as this concession is so necessary to our pensioners who have families which left Western Australia years ago. [More…]
This, of course, is a moderate assumption because the tendency is - and 1 am basing this on my own subjective impressions from dealing with these people - for people in this group to have large families. [More…]
One probably would find in most cases that families are far larger than 2 and, accordingly, the problem of need is much graver. [More…]
Generally the first thing he says when he introduces legislation in the Parliament is: This will cover 10,000 or 20,000 families or something like that. [More…]
This is the first occasion on whichI have had the privilege to speak in this place on behalf of my people, some 100,000 Australians in the State of Queensland,the electors of Bowman and their families. [More…]
When areas such as the Gold Coast are added it is obvious that the university must be commenced now, if for no other reason than the inconvenience and financial burden to families and students facing long hours of travel to study at St Lucia. [More…]
The electorate is comprised basically of the homes of working families and covers an area of approximately 20 square miles. [More…]
Take the case of two families living side by side, each paying $100 a year in rates. [More…]
It is a well known fact that a high proportion of Australian families live at or below the bread line. [More…]
It is true that we are experiencing full employment but this does not mean that our families are enjoying -a standard of living which the wealth of this country should allow. [More…]
We must bear in mind this cost when we consider the cost of subsidising Australian families. [More…]
We could have a system of subsidies paid to families on a sliding scale according to the number of childdren they have. [More…]
I also mentioned that the government regards the task of increasing the help given to poor families as being of greater importance than the abolition of the Means Test. [More…]
Soldiers and officers have established homes in Bendigo, have raised their families there and have made friends in the community. [More…]
Is it possible for such a damaging nation wide strike, affecting all sections of the community - not just the families directly involved - to be called without reference to the men themselves? [More…]
By adopting this attitude I think the Government is destroying its objective of helping aged people to at least have a holiday, to travel, to be able to visit their families. [More…]
The time to travel and to see their families is, in the main, when the entire family can travel together, such as at holiday weekends or during school holidays. [More…]
If the Government persists with this idea of excluding them on school holidays and public holidays it will break up families and where pensioners would normally be able to go for a. holiday with their families, because of the increased cost they may have to have second thoughts on the matter. [More…]
Why does the Commonwealth not co-operate with State and local government authorities to defeat the land speculators and usurers who are exploiting young people seeking homes in which to raise families? [More…]
The facts of life are that, as more and more families wish to live in our capital cities and close to places of employment land prices must rise. [More…]
In the past a great deal of the assistance has come from women whose families are grown or nearly grown and for one reason or another they feel they have a little time to spare. [More…]
He achieved a great deal for individuals and for families in Canberra. [More…]
Welfare officers regularly visit all major corrective institutions in the Territory and detainees are encouraged to discuss with them domestic matters including fears they may have for the well-being of their families. [More…]
Surely that would have been little enough in a debate that lasted several hours and dealt with a matter of economic life and death to many families in my area. [More…]
Does not the question raised by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) only this week dealing with war service homes concern hundreds of men in the community who have a desire to provide homes for their families? [More…]
We must not endanger the lives of people or the happiness of their families. [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Services really aware of the sometimes extremely difficult plight of deserted and widowed fathers who are trying to raise young families and at the same time to provide for those families? [More…]
The Bill now before the House provides the machinery for the payment of higher rates of Commonwealth and fund medical benefits, introduces new measures concerned with the administration of registered medical and hospital benefits organisations and provides assistance on a wider scale towards the cost of health insurance for families on low incomes. [More…]
I wish to turn now to the position of low income families under the new health benefits plan. [More…]
In October 1969 the National Health Act was amended to provide free health insurance for persons receiving unemployment and sickness benefits, for families with weekly incomes not exeeding $39 and for migrants during their first 2 months in Australia. [More…]
As a result of the increase in the Commonwealth minimum weekly wage in December 1969 it is proposed to increase the eligibility level for full health insurance for low income families to $42.50 per week. [More…]
The Bill also provides for graduated assistance toward the costs of contributing for health insurance to families with weekly incomes not exceeding $48.50. [More…]
In future, families with incomes of up to $42.50 per week will be entitled to full medical benefits and also to hospital benefits equal to the cost of public ward treatment without any payment of contributions. [More…]
Families with incomes between $42.50 per week and $45.50 per week will be eligible for the same benefits on payment of contributions at one-third the usual rates, while families with incomes between $45.50 and $48.50 per week will be eligible for the benefits on payment of contributions at two-thirds the usual rate. [More…]
It is estimated that some 84,000 families and 271,000 persons will be eligible for assistance, because of the extension of the assistance, and that the additional cost in a full year will be $3m. [More…]
Families eligible for this assistance may secure insurance cover higher than that needed to meet public ward hospital charges by paying the extra contributions involved. [More…]
We need radical changes to protect our young people who are being exploited in acquiring land to build a home in which to raise their families. [More…]
The facts of life are that, as more and more families wish to live in our capital cities and close to places of employment land prices must rise. [More…]
I hope much of what has been said by the Opposition tonight will not deter young people from taking advantage of this very useful means of improving their opportunity to become the owners of a home, to build a place for themselves and for their families and to become a really positive part of the Australian nation - to become stake-holders, so to speak, in a material way in this nation of ours. [More…]
More than 60,000 Australian families are living in sub-standard accommodation. [More…]
The Government met three-fifths of the rebates which were made available to low income families by the States. [More…]
Some of them are in the developed area in the cities; some are large homes which suit young couples with families. [More…]
For instance, a journey by sea is in itself an attraction to those intending to migrate, particularly to families with small children who can be provided with better facilities and accommodation on a ship. [More…]
They have their homes and their families in Kalgoorlie or are raising families in Kalgoorlie. [More…]
If these people are unable to rent homes and they commit the offence of buying homes to fulfil their essential housing needs and to provide a roof over the heads of their families, they are excluded forever from the possibility of obtaining benefit under this legislation. [More…]
Did the survey also reveal that 6”r. or 42,300, of that city’s children are growing up in acute poverty and that of these children 40% come from families with at least 4 children and 22% are children of fatherless families. [More…]
If help from (heir families is taken into account this percentage is further reduced. [More…]
Most of the farmers in my area and most of the farmers’ families, of course, will be provided with some benefits under this Bill. [More…]
This double barrel shot at the families of property owners is scandalous. [More…]
Their application on the families of the deceased is bewildering and cruel at a time when widows, children and relatives would normally expect some consideration and sympathy from the State. [More…]
The proposed reliefs combined with the relaxation of administrative requirements will be a substantial step towards ensuring the retention of economic farm units by primary producers and their families. [More…]
Economic units in the hands of families of non-rural character should get equal relief - the shops, factories, hotel’s and services being provided - where they are fixed assets. [More…]
It has not tumbled for 2 reasons: Firstly, I am very pleased to say, most of the farm operators and farming families are standing fast. [More…]
Three Weethalle families- [More…]
The families . [More…]
Furthermore, if the Government had had a responsible anticipation in this matter, which concerns not only thousands of Australian men in Vietnam but also families in Australia and the whole standing of this country, then better preparation would have been given. [More…]
I only hope that if things do go wrong honourable gentlemen opposite can look themselves and their families in the face and say that they did make the right decision. [More…]
Is he also aware that unless some special consideration can be given to these societies many thousands of young families throughout Australia will be in a hopeless position in trying to acquire a home? [More…]
An example of others is the loss of understanding that often develops between migrant families and their children. [More…]
This deduction, coupled with the assistance given to low income families who pay their insurance premiums, produces this situation: People on below $42.50 a week get Government assistance to pay all their health insurance premiums; people on less than $45.50 a week and more than $61.50 a week get two-thirds of their insurance premiums paid for them; people on less than $48.50 a week and more than $70 a week get one-third of their insurance premiums paid for them; and the people in the middle - that is those on between $48.50 and $70 a week - get least. [More…]
The recommendations had been to provide free or subsidised fund benefits for low income families. [More…]
Instead, the Government’s amendment fixed on $39 a week as the upper limit for families to receive free insurance. [More…]
In fact, the concluding portions of the second reading speech of the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes), when he mentioned the position of low income families, bring home to us some of these problems. [More…]
As a result of the increase in the Commonwealth minimum weekly wage in December 1969 it is proposed to increase the eligibility level for full health insurance for low income families to $42.50 per week. [More…]
The Bill also provides for graduated assistance toward the cost of contributing for health insurance to families with weekly incomes not exceeding $48.50. [More…]
In future, families with incomes of up to $42.50 per week will be entitled to full medical benefits and also to hospital benefits equal to the cost of public ward treatment without any payment of contributions. [More…]
Families with incomes between $42.50 per week and $45.50 per week will be eligible for the same benefits on payment of contributions at one-third the usual rates, while families with incomes between $45.50 and $48.50 per week will be eligible for the benefits on payment of contributions at two-thirds the usual rate. [More…]
It is estimated that some 84,000 families and 271,000 persons will be eligible for assistance, because of the extension of the assistance, and that the additional cost in a full year will be $3m. [More…]
Recreation leave accrues annually for agreement workers accompanied by their families, and at two year periods for unaccompanied workers. [More…]
How many are accompanied by their families. [More…]
How many of those not accompanied by their families entered into contracts of employment for (a) 12 months, (b) 2 years and (c) any other period. [More…]
Of 12,145 agreement workers engaged in 1969 25 were accompanied by their families. [More…]
The employment agreements entered into by the 12,120 workers in 1969 who were not accompanied by their families were almost in all cases for two years. [More…]
Your Committee, in the course of inspections of RAAF bases in various places in Australia, has noted the proximity of existing and planned houses for RAAF personnel and families to sources of aircraft noise generated by RAAF aircraft. [More…]
This means that married men are separated from their families. [More…]
The weekly contributions by families will be increased under the provisions of the Bill by 25% over the highest existing table. [More…]
He is friend, adviser, philosopher and goodness knows what else to families and in many instances has lived a lifetime in a particular community. [More…]
This becomes a great burden on such people and on their families. [More…]
The Bill makes provision for the Commonwealth Government to assist families with incomes of up to $42.50 to receive full medical benefits and hospital benefits equal to the cost of public ward treatment. [More…]
Families receiving between $42.50 and $45.50 will be able to receive the same benefits on payment of contributions at one-third the usual rates, and those receiving between $45.50 and $48.50 a week on payment of contributions at two-thirds the usual rate. [More…]
This might lead the Queensland Government, if it intends to relieve itself or some of the financial burden of running the free hospital scheme, to consider assisting low income earning families who in the future will have to pay only the 80c for a visit to a doctor if the common fee is charged. [More…]
The report put forward a very generous idea of assistance which took into account the needs of families. [More…]
In future, families with incomes of up to $42.50 per week will be entitled to full medical benefits and also to hospital benefits equal to the cost of public ward treatment without any payment of contributions. [More…]
In New South Wales, medical contribution fees are to rise by 15c a week, from 60c to 75c a week in respect of families. [More…]
As we know, the Government will subsidise families which have an income of $42.50 a week. [More…]
Those families will be wholly subsidised. [More…]
In the case of families whose income is between $42.50 a week and $45.50 a week the Government will provide a subsidy of twothirds of the insurance contribution. [More…]
Those families receiving between $45.50 a week and $48.50 a week will be subsidised onethird by the Government in respect of their insurance contributions. [More…]
We have medical and hospital benefits without payment of contribution for persons receiving unemployment or sickness benefit or for families whose income is below $39 a week. [More…]
The Bill does assist to some extent those families on very low incomes, but this aspect has been covered fairly well by other members from this side. [More…]
The sympathy of all of us is with the people in the United States, Australia and other countries who have lost members of their families in the battle in Vietnam. [More…]
They have seen what it has done to them, to their families and to their jobs. [More…]
Some honourable members who have taken the trouble and have exercised their right to visit New Guinea will know that most of the rural transport - the transport of plantation products - is in the hands of individual indigenes or families of indigines, and they earn out the job very successfully. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I make this point as I made it earlier: I sincerely hope that this Government will look more carefully, more in conscience, wilh some humility and humanity at this issue of providing homes for our younger people so that they may bring up decent young Australian families to live a normal existence in a normal atmosphere. [More…]
The legislation sets a family unit as being at least 2 persons and no consideration has been allowed for the large family even though the expenses incurred by large families are quite considerable. [More…]
Further assistance must be given to people with large families. [More…]
When one starts to weigh up the extent of the suffering - the sequel to that kind of human devastation - in terms of families affected, one can start to measure the tragedy of this situation. [More…]
No jobs are available for the widows or housewives who need to earn something to help their, families. [More…]
In so doing the family placed itself outside the normal regulations governing the readmission of migrant families to Commonwealth hostels. [More…]
The elderly people I speak of are mainly those who reared their families during the depression years; who, because of circumstances beyond their control, fought every inch of the way for years in order to feed, clothe and educate their children in a world that at that time was sick with poverty; who, many times denied themselves food so that their children could eat: who would have given anything within their power to have owned their own homes; and who worked 44, 48 and more hours a week at their jobs to earn a meagre living - and when I say worked, I mean worked, not just filled in the hours, because at that time there were 6 men ready to fill 4 men’s jobs. [More…]
A major banking group is investing $150m in housing to provide accommodation for 12.000 families So there is also great private expenditure. [More…]
I was informed that in 1937 before the implementation of the Basle Page scheme for health insurance 300 prominent families in Adelaide set this fund up. [More…]
I was told that 300 families in South Australia had set the fund up and they became the shareholders and acquired some sort of equity in the fund. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister’s family is one of the 300 prominent families in South Australia. [More…]
However, it is a pretty notorious fact that the 300 prominent families in South Australia have a fair bit of hegemony over the affairs of that State. [More…]
The Labor Party also said that I in 4 of the larger families in Australia live in real poverty and that they cannot begin to lift themselves out of poverty as long as the Commonwealth contribution is limited to occasional and meagre cash handouts. [More…]
Perhaps more attention should be paid to bringing them back into the nursing profession once they have raised their families. [More…]
Many of the people who call into my office in Mount Isa are desperately seeking housing for their families. [More…]
Housing is being provided at a fairly abnormal rate but it is not nearly sufficient to cater for all the people coming to Mount Isa with their families. [More…]
In the area which Ebia Olewale represents there are families, some living in Australia, on those islands which Queensland outrageously took in the 1880s within 200 or 300 yards of the Papuan coast and the mainland people speak the same language. [More…]
The rates which we recommend are in our opinion no more than sufficient to ensure that Members shall have available for the maintenance of themselves and their families, for the upkeep of their homes, for the education of their children, and for other outgoings normally paid by persons in private employment out of their remuneration, the full amount of their parliamentary salaries (less, of course, the compulsory Retiring Allowance contributions). [More…]
We get free travel, but we have to pay for our own accommodation and living costs and while we are away we have to maintain our families at home. [More…]
But even to go to the universities in Sydney was beyond the financial competence of 95% of the families within my area and still is. [More…]
Must not the Government’s neglect seriously aggravate inequality of educational Opportunity to the special disadvantage of less well off families and also impair the flow of skill so sorely needed in the Australian economy? [More…]
Plenty of water will be needed to do this particularly if these people are to have a diversity of interests nearby so that they will have reasonable chances of full employment and diversity for their families to get jobs and so to stay in these centres. [More…]
Married quarters, obtained under the Com.monwealth/State Housing Agreement, are provided in areas in close proximity to Army installations for married members and their families who are posted to those installations. [More…]
This, of course, results in great personal tragedy to the people concerned and to their families. [More…]
The prime objective has been to encourage regional development of social services throughout the State so that services for handicapped children are located where the children’s families are living or to assist within the immediate region so that family involvement can be maintained with the needs of the children. [More…]
We are dealing with children and with the families of children who suffer enough because of their handicaps without having an additional financial burden with which to contend, or the addi tional concern that the children are receiving something less than the best attention possible. [More…]
We know that the problem and the responsibility have rested upon the families of people who have been handicapped. [More…]
In the latter half of his speech the Minister expressed his sentiments about the families of handicapped children. [More…]
I know that his sentiments are very real but people with handicapped children or handicapped relatives say that eloquent words are of little help to (heir families or to the handicapped children and do nothing to assist them at the greatest point of need. [More…]
They represent a desperate situation for many families. [More…]
The burdens carried by these families include high medical costs, high transport costs, special safety measures in the home, excessive laundry costs, costs of excessive clothing replacements and other excessive costs which may be incurred by the condition of a particular child. [More…]
Indeed, the need for residential accommodation for these people is very great, lt could be lessened if a range of community services were available to help these families to keep a child at home. [More…]
I suggest that Commonwealth bursaries should be made available for student social workers to encourage them to work with families which have handicapped, particularly mentally handicapped, children. [More…]
This presents financial hardships to the families or the parents of handicapped children. [More…]
I say without fear of contradiction that any further responsibility placed on parents associations, other voluntary bodies and local government bodies and on the shoulders of the families of these unfortunate handicapped people is only a vicious form of indirect taxation on a section of the public which is now bearing much more than its share of Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
With the knowledge also that all Slates are screaming for more revenue from the Commonwealth Government to meet their commitments, local councils, voluntary organisations, parents organisations and the parents and families of these unfortunate people whose welfare we are. [More…]
It seems to me that the key word for families who have to make the decision I have mentioned is hope’. [More…]
families and people concerned. [More…]
Any measure, therefore, to alleviate these burdens will be welcomed by the families concerned. [More…]
I am not prepared to stand here and say that the Minister has failed totally in his obligations and that he should bring down a Bill now to cover, in a blanket sort of way, all the deficiencies we have experienced over the years, but he should, out of his sense of responsibility, require his Department to work forthrightly and objectively towards identification of the problem and he should be prepared to say that over a period of years we are going to relieve these unfortunate families of this depressing and pressing obligation to which they have been subjected. [More…]
However; one thing is certain and that is that there should be tax relief for these families; there should be special equipment; there should be a more personalised approach. [More…]
In our region we have but one social worker to look after 150,000 people, including the physically and mentally handicapped people and their families. [More…]
For this I am very pleased and I am certain that the thousands of families who are involved in this important and what has seemed frustrating situation will be very pleased too. [More…]
There should be nursing staff available to go around and visit the families who have children in very serious situations. [More…]
There should also be social welfare workers available to be able to go around and visit families so as to assist the parents in educating handicapped children if the parents are undertaking this task. [More…]
Many of the cerebral palsied or handicapped children come from low income families and it is of great assistance to them if the. [More…]
I feel that the primary producers, particularly the dairy farmers and their families in marginal areas, are so entrenched in dairy production, which is their way of life, that even with this voluntary system it will be very difficult to entice many of them from their farms. [More…]
Of course, this affects some thousands of farmers and their families. [More…]
They were fighting for justice; fighting to save themselves from bankruptcy; fighting to save their families - all because of the policies adopted by this Government. [More…]
He complained that excessive if not usurous interest rates had caused great hardship to families seeking homes. [More…]
They pointed out that public servants with no other source of income would still have to provide for their families. [More…]
Who has applied regressive charges that fall upon families, whether rich or poor, in a more indiscriminate manner? [More…]
6, assessing eligibility of low income families. [More…]
Perhaps I could point mit the Government’s attitude by saying that the Act at present provides for low income families to be assisted with the cost of contributing for medical and hospital benefits and, as honourable members ure aware, the Natonal Health Bill proposes extensions to this assistance. [More…]
The bases of assessing eligibility are weekly income for families below pensionable age and ‘means as assessed’ for families of pensionable age. [More…]
The National Health Act, however, provides for these forms of income to be included when calculating the ‘means as assessed’ for low income families. [More…]
The amendment would have the effect of providing that, for families over pensionable age, eligibility would be based on means as assessed identical with that applied under the Social Services Act. [More…]
Families with means as assessed under the Social Services Act equivalent to $47 or less a week are eligible for age pensions, plus enrolment in the pensioner medical service. [More…]
Families with means assessed under the Social Services Act equivalent to between $47 and $70 per week are eligible for what we have come to term tapered pensions, but are not eligible for enrolment in the pensioner medical service. [More…]
To assist honourable members appreciate this point, I have circulated a table setting out comparisons between 3 typical families. [More…]
If the income falling within the categories I have listed above were excluded when assessing eligibility, then it would place the recipient of the income in an advantageous position as compared with other families. [More…]
Although the amendment would involve only a small increase in the cost of providing assistance to low income families, the Government rejects the amendment on the grounds that it would introduce a number of anomalies as between families in similar financial circumstances. [More…]
The table below illustrates the effect of the amendment on three families, A, B and C. [More…]
Tremendous pressure, particularly in New South Wales, was applied on governments to cut the land up as fast as was possible so as to get those men and their families on the land. [More…]
Firstly, the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) in his statement said that because these gentlemen, who are directors of the funds, give very substantial time in a voluntary capacity to them - no one will deny that perhaps they do give substantial time in a voluntary capacity - it would be an unfair intrusion into their private affairs to expect their holdings, or those of their families, in any organisation in which the fund’s reserves have been invested to be revealed. [More…]
In other words, a lot of families are dependent on these industries. [More…]
Victoria - Due to the Slum Reclamation programme in the Melbourne metropolitan area the trend has been towards providing flat accommodation for rental and making houses available for purchase on low depotit Large families of five or more children receive priority for houses vacated and are allocated these homes on a tenancy basis; currently a wait of between 18 months and two years is usual. [More…]
How many immigrant families, consisting of man and wife or man, wife and family, arrived in Australia during each oft he past five years; [More…]
Figures for immigrant families arriving in Australia (a family being defined as a man and wife, or man, wife and children) do not take account of those cases in which the husband and wife migrate separately. [More…]
Because of this, such figures underestimate the total number of families received. [More…]
Is this any way to encourage qualified persons to settle in the Territory or to raise families there under proper conditions? [More…]
Australia required in 1969 additional dwellings for at least 108,000 families newly formed by marriage and at least 25,000 families newly arrived from overseas. [More…]
We required additional dwellings for 9,000 families who had previously shared accommodation and for 17,000 families who felt sufficiently affluent to want a second home. [More…]
Those best able to inform the Commonwealth Government on this matter are the State officers who are in day to day contact with families, widows, deserted wives and others seeking housing assistance. [More…]
She has also discussed this with a number of State Ministers and, following on these discussions, has reached the conclusion that this is a matter for the States, several of which are actively engaged in land development and have introduced schemes to keep the price of newly developed land as low as possible to young families. [More…]
As a result of informal discussions with the States it has become apparent that the States wish to experiment with new types of estate development which would include, in addition to the building of cottages, the building of a number of terrace houses and groups of cluster housing as well as modest high rise buildings for single persons and families without children in particular. [More…]
I think that the discussions which are taking place between the Commonwealth Minister for Housing and the State Ministers for Housing will reveal that the people who need urgent assistance, who need to be given preference in obtaining homes, are those in the low wage bracket and with large families. [More…]
In fact, we have reached the stage where the only consideration in relation to housing which is evident in Government policy is how much money will be spent on it; how much interest will be charged; and how much can be extracted from young families in order to meet repayments over ever-extending periods. [More…]
The delegation’s special thanks go to Sir Arthur and Lady Tange for acting as joint hosts at the reception given at the High Commissioners residence and to other members of the High Commission and their families for the kindly assistance extended to us all. [More…]
However, I do ask him what steps have been taken to accommodate the families which, I am told, were left to shelter under the trees. [More…]
It is regrettable that 900 soldiers and their families in Australia should have been exposed to this sort of psychological and emotional barrage in a year of heavy casualties in the task force area. [More…]
For the average and below average wage earner, especially those with families, the new imposts will more than cancel out any temporary cash gain through income tax reduction. [More…]
Effect on Families [More…]
I have had a table prepared comparing the benefits and charges contained in this Budget as it affects families. [More…]
Families will be able to see how closely it tallies with their own experience. [More…]
But the conclusion is clear and it is this: Seventy per cent of Australian families are worse off because of the direct and immediate consequences of this Budget, and the poorer a family is, the worse it is affected. [More…]
The proper concern of trade unions and white collar and public service organisations is the living standards of their members and their families. [More…]
The second aspect of the complaint is that the problem can be evaded if there is not a progressive system of taxation, lt can be evaded if there is high and increasing indirect rates of taxation which fall on families and on working men irrespective of income. [More…]
We know that the cost of housing for Australian families is great. [More…]
People may have moved to this area around the airport when they were young and were starting their families because they felt they could buy land cheaply near the airport. [More…]
It is hard to assimilate the purport of these signs as one travels round in such a cursory and superficial way, but in the end it comes down to the fact that people will be affected in hospital, that children will be distracted from their efforts to gain an education, that families will be unable to watch television without interruption, that radio reception will be interfered with, that telephone conversations will be impaired, that shiftworkers will be unable to sleep and that other factors of this type will be involved. [More…]
People with large families and low incomes who now do not pay any income tax cannot gain any relief from that quarter and they will be obliged to face up to these increased charges, to the additional sales tax and excise. [More…]
I want to return briefly to the subject of taxation in order to draw attention to the fact that the Government has once again, as it has for so many years, refused to make any alteration in zone allowances or in zone boundaries despite the fact, which must be obvious to everyone, that under existing allowances and boundaries a number of taxpayers and their families in remote and far flung areas are being treated in a most unfair manner. [More…]
If it is considered that these families can exist or even subsist on an increase of 50c in their living allowance, I would like some honourable member on the Government side to stand up in this place and tell me the standard at which he expects such families to live. [More…]
I would like to hear some honourable member tell me what goods these families should deprive themselves of in order to remain alive in this society, even if they do not participate in it. [More…]
It is not a problem which will be easy to solve, but it is one which must be solved in the name of humanity and it must be solved quickly because costs are increasing and the ability of families to pay is decreasing. [More…]
Their commitments include the education of their children, looking after the health and welfare of their families, paying off their homes and providing their families with what most Australians would consider to be the standard of living to which they are entitled. [More…]
The Government’s failure to adjust these dependants’ allowances has meant that large families have had their relative tax advantage over the single man substantially reduced. [More…]
A fair deal is denied the pensioners and the families while prices continue to spiral uncontrolled bringing hardship and chaos to local government and to industry. [More…]
I should like to close my remarks in speaking to this Budget by referring to perhaps the most important people in Australia - ‘the families. [More…]
One cannot consider the families unless one considers the broad questions with which we have already concerned ourselves. [More…]
As we are aware, migrants have made a significant contribution to the growth of this country but it is time we looked at our own Australian families and did something more positive for them. [More…]
In 1968-69 child endowment payments amounted to $l87.9m for 3.7 million children from 1.701 million families. [More…]
These sums might appear to be very large amounts but 1 say to the Parliament that the matter of rearing families is of vital concern to this nation. [More…]
Of all the people suffering from the uncontrolled price squeeze the hardest hit are perhaps the families who are struggling to live on one pay envelope. [More…]
1 plead with the Government to take a realistic view of the problems facing the family, because the families are the future of this country. [More…]
It denies justice to pensioners and families. [More…]
Low income earners and young working class families - they constitute a large proportion of the balance of my constituents - who are forced to live 40 or 50 miles from Sydney by the rising price of land near Sydney also have been deeply moved by the Treasurer’s generosity in granting them tax concessions amounting to 75c or $1 a week. [More…]
But compare the position of these groups with the position of pensioners and other low fixed income recipients, with low income families and with large families, at almost any wage level. [More…]
What is the Government doing to help low income families? [More…]
Do we have to wait until this time next year when more families are bankrupt and when an industry that has served my people so well, and indeed the whole of this nation is finally finished? [More…]
The Budget has failed the pensioners, the low and middle income groups, the farmers, the motor cnr companies, the oil companies and the mothers and fathers of our families. [More…]
As 1 understand it, the pension was instigated as a supplement to a lifetime of earning and thrift, lt implied that people of a certain age at a certain level of existence would be receiving help from their families and relatives. [More…]
1 also think that families in which twins and triplets are born should be given a better deal. [More…]
Like all honourable members, including those on the Government side, I know the plight of people in receipt of social services - the people on low incomes, people with families who. [More…]
I have seen people on dairy farms whose children have had to get up in the morning to milk the cows because their families could not afford to hire labour. [More…]
If the war stopped immediately, in 10 years it will have cost Australia $165m, quite apart from the loss to the work force, the loss in human life and the effect it has had upon the families that are left. [More…]
I do not complain about this because members of families are entitled to differ in their politics. [More…]
Families have their own rights. [More…]
As some of the families just do not have the facilities to do this themselves the community should take an interest in their position and assist them. [More…]
That is, pensioners, superannuitants and large families supported on low incomes will have a proportionately greater burden cast on them to support much of these costly programmes. [More…]
They paid their taxation commitments and reared their families here. [More…]
The Treasurer has not provided one single measure aimed at encouraging families living in this country to bear the unjust taxation burden that grows progressively as the family increases in size. [More…]
I hope that not only all the young families in the electorate of Denison but the many thousands of young families throughout the length and breadth of Australia who happened to have missed those stark words when spoken by the honourable member for Denison may at least have had the opportunity to hear them repeated this evening. [More…]
In dealing with the matter to which I was referring last evening, the neglect in the Budget of families, it is fitting to mention the widower and the grave plight that he faces in his endeavour to educate and care for his family without the help of his marriage partner. [More…]
Many pensioners have families. [More…]
I know that, for certain reasons, it is not possible for all families to assist, but the majority of young people could do far more for their parents man they are doing at the present time. [More…]
What so many of our pensioners need today is a little love and attention from their families. [More…]
Our first responsibility must be to our families. [More…]
If in the twilight of their lives their families cannot give them a little of their time and care, how can we expect others to show a genuine interest? [More…]
So many families seem to neglect their parents completely and have little respect for them in their old age. [More…]
Today far greater sacrifices should be made by families to see that their parents are better provided for and have the love and attention they deserve. [More…]
1 have not been able to assess the many thousands living with their families and friends but this would be a considerable number. [More…]
Through the Government’s inaction many such families have joined the 1 million who, according to the Australian Institute of Political Science, are now said to be living in poverty. [More…]
Alternatively, increases could have been made for the support of families through child endowment and maternity allowances, things that the Government has forgotten about years ago. [More…]
These women have gone out to work to boost the family budget because the alternative is starvation and financial trouble for themselves and for their families. [More…]
however, is that local authorities are also expected to finance almost entirely from rates - that indirect tax burden on the little people - all the capital and internal costs of all of the other investments required to make our cities decent places for people to live and raise their families. [More…]
They are torn from the heart of their families. [More…]
Queensland: Supplementary benefit may be payable by the Department of Children’s Services to one-parent families receiving age pension, on the basis of $2.50 per week for each dependent child, subject, however, to a ceiling total income (child endowment being excluded) equal to the basic wage adjusted to take account of family size. [More…]
J would have liked to see more encouragement for families because there are certain categories of people in this country for whom special attention is needed. [More…]
Neither the Opposition nor the Government is giving proper attention to the encouragement of larger families in this country. [More…]
I do not think anybody appreciates to the full what the mothers of large families suffer. [More…]
To my way of thinking, it would be very much better to spend some of the millions provided in this Budget to encourage larger families. [More…]
I would say, somewhat less to produce more people of our own if people were given encouragement to have larger families. [More…]
The best way to increase Australia’s population and to get a better kind of person would be to encourage bigger families through child endowment. [More…]
lt is a sectional Budget because it gives no consideration to the young people, particularly those about to marry or those married couples who are living with their families and are just beginning or wanting to start a life of their own. [More…]
With a family relationship, we are like so many families - fiercely independent. [More…]
In this respect constructive rehabilitation and training programmes for rural families, including children, who have no economic alternative but to leave agriculture, is an essential requisite in Australia. [More…]
It will reduce the overall living standards of farmers and their families and will be a continual drain on the resources of this nation. [More…]
Let us not, by recognising so-called tribal land claims, encourage groups and families to attach themselves more firmly to isolated and inadequate plots of land, so that those whose future by inclination and aptitude ought to be away from the land are impeded and hindered in realising the best that they can achieve in a single Australian community. [More…]
A housing project for refugee families was completed in 1969 and financial assistance given to refugees. [More…]
The Australian’, however, pointed out that Lord Slim at 79 years of age was receiving a pension as a retired Field Marshal of $11,240 per annum, $1,740 more than is paid to members in this House, many of whom have young families to rear. [More…]
Those sections of the community with families, those bringing up the young Australians, will be particularly affected by this decision and this abrogation of policy. [More…]
This system is too expensive not only for people in the poverty area but also for people on middle incomes and even people’ on average weekly earnings who have large families and who are confronted by the cost of books, uniforms and fees for sport and for the various other services associated with the facilities that are offered at the schools the children attend. [More…]
This applies not only to class A widows; there are many other people in this category such as single age and invalid pensioners who pay rent, large families on low incomes, many migrant families and all of those groups identified by social workers in Australia concerned about the existence of poverty. [More…]
The United States of America is currently proposing this for families as part of a family assistance plan. [More…]
They had to raise their families the hard way and they did this without grumbling so that their sons and daughters would not experience similar hardships. [More…]
The Government does little or nothing adequately to encourage families in the lower income bracket to bring children into the world. [More…]
If economic circumstances were better, thousands of parents would be keen to increase the size of their families. [More…]
If we look at the last column of the report we see that the average annual rate paid to endowed families has increased from $90,796 to $108,098, an increase of only 19.1 per cent. [More…]
The motivation and cooperation are lacking in a great number of working class families. [More…]
We often find that in certain situations whole families can be affected. [More…]
I therefore submit that this Government is not interested in promoting young Australian families and in removing the necessity for wives to go to work. [More…]
It has consistently promoted the situation in which families have to have 2 wages or salaries. [More…]
Both women have to look after their families. [More…]
It will go a long way towards training women to return to work and to earn money to keep their families. [More…]
Unless this is done and unless justice is given to all these segments of the community about which I have spoken today - those with families, the civilian widow who has so much to look after, the deserted wife, the invalid and age pensioner and these various other sections of our community who need assistance - this Parliament will stand damned. [More…]
In accordance with my undertaking I will mention briefly that I have been a little disappointed in the last couple of years that the Government has not been able to respond to the situation of widower fathers and deserted fathers on limited incomes supporting families. [More…]
They are mindful of the fact, for instance, that child endowment, maternity allowances, child allowances, wife’s allowances and certain other benefits are very important and necessary for the welfare and reasonable living standard of a large number of families. [More…]
We know that these pockets of poverty exist not only among the pensioner population but also among younger people, particularly those with large families who are trying to exist on small wages. [More…]
At the inception of the scheme of pensions for the aged and the infirm the concept was to give aid supplementary to that given by the families of aged people. [More…]
These families are importuned and handicapped to an extent not fully understood and appreciated by the community. [More…]
There has been the flat 10 per cent reduction in tax for salaries up to $10,000 but there is no increase in the allowance for families, and what is more, there has not been lc increase in child endowment. [More…]
Our system also provides for financial compensation by way of a war pension for disabled veterans and their dependants, and for the families of deceased ex-servicemen. [More…]
The medical treatment which is provided includes rehabilitation services where they are required as a part of the treatment for war-caused disabilities, and also for the families of deceased ex-servicemen. [More…]
We are dealing also with members of his family who at this stage probably have families of their own. [More…]
I wonder how many other families do the same sort of thing. [More…]
From our own observations we know that in many low income families children can obtain only the basic items and sometimes not even thse . [More…]
Dr Radford’s findings of several years ago, substantiated by recent smaller surveys, establishing a gross over-representation of students from upper socio-economic families and an excessively large underrepresentation of children from lower socioeconomic families at universities only adds grist to the mill of protest at the way in which want in education is institutionalised by neglect, and privilege and advantage fostered by direct government support. [More…]
1 think of the families like the Leahy and Collins families who went up there many years ago. [More…]
In many cases families are unable to meet this sum. [More…]
All our measures in Vietnam have been sabotaged because the regimes there were, nml are, composed of men who are members of, or allied with, mandarin families that hold title to properties they have no intention of renouncing. [More…]
He does not even except families. [More…]
Nowhere in that statement does the honourable member except families as a part of this process of politicalising power at every stage of the community. [More…]
They will be fought in the kitchens of the nation where families have to eat and survive, and where the families are concerned. [More…]
We should be paying attention to the survival of the families of the nation as a whole and not to street photographs and not to turning this great national forum into a palace of petulance. [More…]
We who live in the Territory know that the building up of commercial enterprises, the influence of sophistication and the effect of alcohol on the Aboriginals is placing more strain on families than previously. [More…]
They have to take their families with them. [More…]
The families sit outside waiting for the children to get better. [More…]
In 1969 Australia required additional dwellings for at least 108,000 families newly formed by marriage and at least 25,000 families newly arrived from overseas. [More…]
We required additional dwellings for 9,000 families who had previously shared accommodation and for 17,000 families who felt sufficiently affluent to want a second home. [More…]
One of the major aims of our housing contribution in the next few years will be to encourage the States to provide decent housing for lower income families who are unable to obtain satisfactory private rental accommodation . [More…]
I receive complaints from families who have had their names down for a State Housing Commission house but who have had to accept a flat. [More…]
They prefer to suffer the continued hardship rather than accept what they consider is a way of life detrimental to their families. [More…]
At the Eastbridge Hostel in Nunawading on the edge of my electorate of Deakin, 9 Turkish families have moved in in the past 2 months. [More…]
Already 3 families have moved out to private accommodation. [More…]
The Government of Britain was having a torrid time, with all those dreadful, smelly people who were stealing food be cause they and their families were hungry and all those long haired lay-abouts who were not only muttering about their problems but were actually prepared to do something about them. [More…]
Some of the immigrants came from the finest families. [More…]
In my electorate I have a very large percentage of families who came to Australia as immigrants. [More…]
We require training in many more skills and the pressure on our education system is attributable largely to the tremendous intake of migrants and migrant families. [More…]
Chain migration enables the base families to act as welfare officers to migrants. [More…]
If we are to use base families in this, the Department of Health and the Department of Social Services must review their attitude to standards for elderly and ailing members of such families. [More…]
It would seem that expenditure in this respect will salvage many families from despair when they reach Australia. [More…]
This integration should occur in such a way as to ensure the maximum return in human and economic terms, not only to the Australian society but also to the migrant families. [More…]
So many of the families are outside any kind of community activity. [More…]
We have seen circumstances in the past where courses of study undertaken by young men, for various reasons - perhaps because of the length of their course of studies, perhaps because of tragedies in their families or an inability to continue a course for a year or so, perhaps due to failure in a year - have gone beyond that point where, if they were to continue and complete the course, they would be able to complete their military obligations before reaching 26 years of age. [More…]
This in turn will mean that persons with small incomes or with large families will be hit much harder than those with large incomes or with no family at all. [More…]
Does he not know that traditionally - and in his electorate of all electorates there are so many migrant families - groups of families band together in co-operative schemes, and 400 gallons a year split among 5, 6 or 7 families is certainly not an excessive concession? [More…]
As an example let us take 2 families each with 3 children under the age of 16 years. [More…]
It is quite a feasible proposition that most of the taxpayers of Australia and most families would be better off if the Government did away with the taxation concessions for children and doubled the amount of child endowment which was payable. [More…]
Where is the Government’s taxation relief to those people with families? [More…]
These men are not necessarily all skilled workers; but, nevertheless, most of them are men with families. [More…]
For example, the sacking of 300 men in Geelong will affect their families and in turn will create a slackening in demand with grocers, butchers, bakers or whoever the supplier may be. [More…]
Does the agreement give concrete assistance for (he first time in 20 years to re-uniting divided families among die 750,000 Italian settlers and their descendants in Australia today? [More…]
In some cases even the families of those who have been afflicted, but certainly society in general, would like to push this problem under the carpet and pretend it is not there. [More…]
You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, private eyes, gangsters; more violence and cartoons. [More…]
The Government has decided to appoint a committee of inquiry to make a thorough study of the duties and responsibilities of officers of the Australian armed forces and to recommend appropriate salary rates; to review the working of the group pay system whereby industrial award rates in respect of civilian employment are translated into rates of pay for skilled other ranks of the armed forces; and- no less important - to examine the demands and exigencies of Service life as they affect all ranks and their families in order to see whether any revision in financial recognition is called for. [More…]
I am very much alive to other aspects which have a marked impact on servicemen and their families. [More…]
The third is to examine the demands and exigencies of Service life as they affect servicemen and their families in order to see whether any revision in financial recognition is warranted. [More…]
These men are resigning their commissions before reaching retiring age, through utter disgust and frustration with the conditions under which they labour and which, in many unhappy respects, affect their families. [More…]
Without the telephone they could not very well leave their families on the farms. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he and the Government consider it to be just and equitable that one family should be compelled, under the lottery system of selecting national servicemen, to supply 3 sons for the Army while thousands of families are never expected to provide even one son. [More…]
I cannot obviously give a general answer to a particular question of this kind, other than to say that I do not think it accurate to say that there are thousands of families who could never be expected to provide a son for service, because where families have sons of serviceable age, in all cases those sons have the same chance of being called up as anybody else, unless of course they are deferred as a result of their university studies or unless they decide to take the proper legal course, if they wish to avoid the chance of being called up, of joining the Citizen Military [More…]
I am hoping that dairy farmers in New South Wales in the near future might be able to have this advantage because it is of concern to see so many dairy farmers leaving the industry in parts of the State when, f believe, these families could be kept in business - they could stay on the land, perhaps not in dairying but in other forms of activity - by getting access to suitable finance which they have great difficulty in getting at the moment. [More…]
The shopping privileges for United Stales soldiers and their families at post exchanges and commissariats are much more extensive than those provided by the canteen system in Australia. [More…]
1 do not know how he can reconcile his mercenary arguments with the fact that much of the officer cadres of the Australian forces come from traditional military families. [More…]
These men come from fairly affluent families; they could not bc described as under-privileged or lacking in education. [More…]
With such a system of random selection, the Minister seems to be saying: You must on the laws of chance pick up a wealthy man or a university graduate or a son of one of the privileged families. [More…]
Above all, if we want men and their families to be happy in the Service we must recognise their preoccupation with the circumstances in which they will find themselves when, at a mature age, they embark on a civilian life, usually in competition with younger breadwinners. [More…]
These areas should not be isolated completely because soldiers and their families should not be denied certain necessary facilities. [More…]
The average is nearly 2 hours a day; with some misfitting between work and transport timetables, many families do without their breadwinners for 11 or 12 hours. [More…]
To get a family of 6 from Green Valley to the beach or the zoo and back takes most of a day, including half, a day’s travel by car or perhaps 2 days’ wages in’ fares and expenses … 60 per cent of Green Valley’s families have no car and 29 per cent have no wages. [More…]
Those in need of assistance include low income families - many of them migrant families - aged persons and invalids, lt is a unfortunate fact- [More…]
The Minister went on to say that the Government would encourage the construction of better housing for low income families who are unable to obtain satisfactory private rental accommodation or who are paying more than they can really afford. [More…]
At the bead of the list of our national housing aims are encouragement of ‘ the production of more homes, the building of homes specifically for renting to those in need of a decent or cheaper home, and the offer of assistance to low income families wishing to own a home of their own. [More…]
We have an enormous and increasing number of families waiting long periods for homes. [More…]
These are the families that are accepted as bona fide applicants and who, because of their financial circumstances, would have difficulty attracting finance to build or purchase from any other source. [More…]
Requirements were imposed by the Commonwealth which diverted money for housing for low income families: 30 per cent of the funds made available was to be diverted to building societies and a further 10 per cent was to provide houses for serving members of the Forces. [More…]
These matters, in my view, needed attention but they should have been attended to without making inroads into the limited housing opportunities available to low income families. [More…]
This drift away from the Services can be arrested if full note is taken of the disadvantages suffered by Service personnel by the provision of such things as temporary rental allowances, educational allowances, removal allowances and due compensation for officers and their families when they have to move from place to place. [More…]
Quite often there is a feeling of dissatisfaction among the wives and families who have to make new friends and fit into new communities. [More…]
All these anti-Vietnam demonstrations, all the howling we hear from the Opposition, all the demonstrations and cries about getting out of Vietnam and of reducing the Services that we hear from the Opposition, including the screaming member from Port Adelaide (Mr Birrell) are pressures that are brought to bear upon Service personnel and their families. [More…]
The homes and hospitals for the aged are so inadequate and the fees charged in private institutions are so high that an aged or invalid pensioner cannot afford to meet the charges, and families are therefore expected to subsidise quite heavily the fees of pensioners in these institutions. [More…]
This has to be found by families, often with heavy demands in raising children, buying homes and so on, for their elderly parents. [More…]
Over a number of years, the Victorian Government, through its Department of Social Welfare, has given assistance to families receiving Commonwealth pensions, such as widow’s pensions and so on. [More…]
This is not impossible for such instances do arise in the case of mature marriages or in cases of grandparents looking after young families. [More…]
These people are being asked to leave some of the private homes if they do not have assistance from their families because they cannot afford to meet the costs when the only income is the pension. [More…]
But to add to the problems of the municipality, we have instant families. [More…]
I believe that families such as those of migrants with 4 or 5 children, deserted wives, widows and deserted widowers with dependent children are the ones who are seriously affected in the community. [More…]
Did the survey also reveal that 6 per cent, or 42,300 of that city’s children are growing up in acute poverty and that of these children 40 per cent come from families with at least 4 children and 22 are children of fatherless families? [More…]
The anxiety and tension which many families endure over this situation must contribute in no small measure to the nation’s health problem. [More…]
These people are now forming a queue in the hope that the Board can get some money to save the situation for them and their families. [More…]
We have to assist the Aboriginal families in such a way that they do not think they are being pushed around. [More…]
But in regard to the examples of successful citizenship, I think I should mention, perhaps with some pride, that a national champion has emerged from one of the families in the Riverina area. [More…]
This would help to give them more incentive to remain in employment, to give their children something better to come home to, to give them the opportunity to come home to families of which the father is in employment and is able to feed them well and therefore make them healthier, stronger and more resistant to disease. [More…]
The third point is that town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the breadwinner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
We are told that 20,000 Aboriginal families need decent housing. [More…]
Council instructs me to respectively request you to lay before Parliament the following with reference to the housing of Aboriginal families. [More…]
But this has been disproved by the adoption of Aboriginal babies in infancy by white families which treat them as their own. [More…]
This gives the lie to all of those grazing families who have told me that there is a difference and who have said that you cannot get rid of the call of the wild. [More…]
One of these families quotes the case of a girl to whom they said they gave the same advantages as they gave to their own daughter. [More…]
In fact, if one considers total farm labour costs, which include the labour costs of the owner or owners and his or their families, of share farmers and what have you, the increase in the price of a bushel of wheat would be not 2c but 6c. [More…]
It is a social welfare problem; it is a matter of educating or reeducating the families of wool growers and taking social welfare measures. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the breadwinner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town bousing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
At the present time there are families who wonder whether they are going to eat at all in the future. [More…]
These figures include families involved in initial postings on entry and final postings on discharge as records held do not enable these removals to be ascertained separately. [More…]
We suggest this because it seems to us that there is an extra burden on families in nonmetropolitan areas who send their children away to a tertiary institution. [More…]
How many (a) families and (b) children have been involved in these repostings in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
How do we demonstrate the fact that by doing so they will enhance their own status and increase their own usefulness to themselves, to their families and to the community at large. [More…]
If the Prime Minister does intend to take this humane and necessary action will he have regard also to the needs of families by substantially- increasing endowment payments? [More…]
Often their families had little choice because of economic pressure or political pressure in their homeland. [More…]
Other families have come to Australia because of Australian publicity either from the Government or relatives already here. [More…]
I think there is a generally accepted fallacy that things in Australia necessarily are better or more pleasant than in the country from which migrant families come. [More…]
I compare the situation of migrant families and migrant children with that of the mentally handicapped. [More…]
There is an urgent need for ‘contact’ social workers to provide links between migrant families and schools. [More…]
They all have increasing families although in fact they are probably better off even if they are at the Australian poverty line than they were in Italy. [More…]
The children of migrant families are entitled to this consideration. [More…]
In a large measure this situation had developed as the result of an increase in the intake of non-English speaking migrant families. [More…]
I am sure that none of this will bring consolation to people who are producing wool in my area; people who at one time used to sink dams and build fences and shear sheep, lt is not much consolation to the business people who are second, third and probably now fourth generations of families in that area and who are not there because of the profits they make’. [More…]
The most economic, humane scheme for migration is for the government to encourage and to assist in coming to Australia the relatives, friends and families nominated by those who are already here. [More…]
Poverty is increasing to the degree where many dairy farmers are forced to work their families under conditions of almost slave labour. [More…]
Poverty is increasing to the degree that many dairy farmers are being forced to work their families under conditions of slave labour and children are being denied the opportunities of decent education. [More…]
Take, for example, the decision to suspend the transfer of Public Service families from Melbourne to Canberra and the consequent postponement of the construction of 50 Commonwealth homes here. [More…]
The net effect of that exercise would seem to me to be that 50 fewer homes will be built this year in Canberra and 50 more homes will have to be built in Melbourne to accommodate the families who would otherwise have taken over the homes of the transferred public servants. [More…]
Cut down the number of farmers, get them off their land and into the cities, promote company enterprise and replace the families. [More…]
One of the major aims of our housing contribution in the next 3 years will be to encourage the States to provide decent housing for lower income families who are unable to obtain satisfactory private rental accommodation. [More…]
No information is available or required to be made available to me or officers of my Department concerning the incomes of families of national service registrants. [More…]
To achieve that objective they will require travel opportunities so that they may return to their families in the remote parts of this country from time to time. [More…]
Today the small farmers are in serious trouble, lt is unjust and inequitable to allow bona fide farmers and their families with small peaks to be crucified by savage inflationary forces to the extent that the only alternative facing them will be to sell their farms, irrespective of how efficient they might be. [More…]
In many cases they are highly efficient when it comes to the yield of sugar per acre and the cost of production per acre, but their net cash income is simply insufficient to give them a livable income to support their families and to provide a sufficient reserve with which to replace their capital equipment. [More…]
The same survey found that 44 per cent of fatherless families were living in poverty or marginal poverty. [More…]
These are largely the families of widows. [More…]
As Mr Harper points out in chapter 6 of People in Poverty’, which was released recently, the most disturbing feature of these families is the numbers of innocent children affected by this deprivation. [More…]
Finally I want to refer to the position of fatherless families because I am very concerned about this problem. [More…]
They need love and affection and this can best be provided by their families and friends. [More…]
The pattern of inhibition and punitiveness found in their families appears to be consistent with rapists’ reports of extensive heterosexual and homosexual activity with little enjoyment. [More…]
The Agreement provides for advice to Maltese migrants on the acceptance of vocational qualifications in Australia and records that the Australian Government will endeavour to advance the acceptance of Maltese qualifications within the framework of Australian laws,’ regulations and practices; the rights of Maltese settlers as residents and as workers are set out, and that Australia undertakes” to extend to Maltese workers and their families the facilities available in Australia ‘ for migrants to learn English. [More…]
The children in the western suburbs come from families whose income level is very much lower than that of those in the other areas, yet they are receiving far fewer of these Commonwealth secondary andteritary scholarships than do children in the northern suburbs. [More…]
I would appreciate it if the Minister would have yet another look at the hardship which the Government in its stupidity is inflicting not only upon individual members of this community who are called up but also on those families who are in circumstances similar to those I have described. [More…]
1 speak not only of cost in terms of government expenditure, but of the tragic waste and loss of human resources, the unhappiness that is caused, the erosion of human character and the break -down of families. [More…]
Scores of families who had made all arrangements to spend their summer holiday in its peace and beauty have been officially prevented from setting foot on it. [More…]
A sympathetic review of this situation would be of considerable value to those families whose breadwinners have been forced through accident or illness to cease work. [More…]
But the men and their families are certainly losing because of their refusal to take another job- which would mean termination of their present employment and loss of accumulated entitlements. [More…]
Whilst last year the company said its profit was only 11 per cent in reality for the person who has held shares for the last 20 years - and I have only taken 1955, bearing in mind that many of these shares have been held by families ever since BHP was BHP - today would find that an 1 1 per cent dividend was in actual fact about 57 per cent. [More…]
Certain types of desirable welfare assistance which should be given to physically, culturally and/or socially handicapped persons in this modern, affluent society are not available here and would be less effective if recipients were to continue to enlarge families which they admit are now too large for them to care for. [More…]
I have not spelt out dor have 1 considered in detail a hypothetical situation in which such priorities ‘ should be provided because the fact remains that all types of public housing in’ this country are totally inadequate and very few families occupying such housing ‘have anything more than the very minimum standard of living, so such a restriction or condition would not arise because it would impose hardship. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
Is he aware that in one industry alone building contractors have laid off more than 100 men and that many of these men are breadwinners and that their families are without income or support? [More…]
It has led men into a situation where it now has to do something to protect them, their wives and families and their properties. [More…]
Health insurance is provided free for low income families. [More…]
If there is a commercial dispute - as apparently there is - it ought to be resolved in a commercial manner, not by depriving this community of the production of the men on strike and not by depriving the families of the men on strike of their income which is so necessary to maintain their standard of living. [More…]
Many of the families in it are on the edge of disaster but still there has been no concerted attack on these problems. [More…]
West Germany claims that its penal system is conducted with regard to families and links with group discussion. [More…]
Many of the children in my electorate are the children of low income families. [More…]
If they are middle income families they are in the lower section of the middle income families. [More…]
In other words, probably about 2 in 9 of the school’s children were from families on very low incomes. [More…]
Many of the children came from families living in poverty. [More…]
A survey in 1969 showed that 47 per cent of the children were from families of 4 or more children. [More…]
These families have been in the wool business for 300 or 400 years. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
My next point is that the Opposition should be asking itself a third question - whether it is right that, when men are called out on strike, no regard should be paid to the welfare of their families, who have to do without the take-home pay and consequently must live in a state of distress while the strike continues. [More…]
Their fees, books and school uniforms are paid for and an allowance is given to their families. ] [More…]
It is apparent that the motor companies have taken a decision to use strong arm tactics against their own employees, regardless of the consequences, not only to the employees and their families but also to the motoring public. [More…]
Today I had the privilege of presenting to the Parliament a petition on behalf of those people, as did another Western Australian, the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwan), requesting that earnest consideration be given to the crisis in Aboriginal welfare which exists in Western Australia, that urgent attention be given to providing town housing to all Aboriginal families with a breadwinner, and that further welfare assistance in the form of homemaker assistance, that is, a welfare officer to guide them in home settlement, be given. [More…]
Some more fortunate than others may find emergency temporary camping with a relative or friend who has a home, but it can only be called camping because Aboriginals usually have large families and those already living in a house arc living often in sub-standard conditions, leaving only verandahs and outhouses for the visitors. [More…]
They are not alone in this for 1 am given to understand that there are some 200 families in camps or sub-standard accommodation in the city area. [More…]
There appeared to be little hope of these people obtaining in the near future a house of a standard acceptable in the white community, even though their families were being sent to schools and were receiving the same education as the white population. [More…]
That town bousing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
We will continue to build houses for members of the Territorial Forces and their families. [More…]
Surely this is an indictment of any government which says that it advocates and supports assistance for our younger people and for families. [More…]
It would contain more young people and more large families, particularly in areas such as Mount Druitt, than any other electorate in this country. [More…]
But I feel that those people should be given encouragement to have families and they should receive help to give them a reasonable opportunity in life in the future. [More…]
This action was a further penalty on pensioners and other people on low incomes or with large families. [More…]
Does it come from families who are already trying to raise young children and accept their responsibility to their elderly parents? [More…]
Do they know of old people who are kept at home by their children who love them, even though they completely disorganise the household and lead to breakdowns of the mothers of the families and the disadvantage of children in those families. [More…]
Government members appear to think that the families of pensioners dodge their responsibilities. [More…]
One thing the new Treasurer has overlooked is that families are becoming more and more dependent upon working mothers, overtime, and upon breadwinners taking part time employment to supplement their normal wages. [More…]
The simple fact is that, notwithstanding overtime and working mothers, families are still being forced to rely more and more upon finance companies to bridge the gap between income and the cost of living. [More…]
Someone might suggest that since the families of these aged pensioners will eventually benefit they should maintain the homes. [More…]
The Minister also apparently overlooks the fact that pensioners generally are a fair minded section of the community whose minds go back to the depression days and to the complete lack of consider ation that was extended to workers and their families during that time. [More…]
I am sure that the attack which the Minister made on Tuesday against the workers and their families will bring him no thanks and no congratulations from the senior citizens of his country. [More…]
Most electorates have about 22 per cent of their population in the over 60 years group, leaving about 78 per cent as wage earners or members of wage earning families. [More…]
In determining the appropriate content for the social welfare programme one of the greatest difficulties is to decide how much emphasis should be placed on meeting the needs of individuals and families in trouble and how much to place on overall schemes which improve the standard of living of the whole community. [More…]
Their wives and families are moved all over the country and they are at sea more often than ever. [More…]
But what concerns me most of all is the possibility of some 20 growers and their families being forced off their properties and the effect that this would have on such a small town whose community depends so much upon these growers. [More…]
Obviously it would not be only 20 individuals; it would be them and the families associated with them, the businesses and the community as a whole. [More…]
In 1967 there were nearly 17 million US families earning $US 10,000 or more a year. [More…]
Obviously this Government does not know that they are the aged, the sick, the infirm, the families with only one parent, the unemployed migrant, the Aboriginal, the unemployed and the chronically ill. [More…]
We spend hours in this House talking about the damage which is done because of the neglect of families. [More…]
This is an occasion when all relatives rally to help bring in the harvest, and it meant that in many instances there were few survivors amongst very large families. [More…]
I might mention that this great human tragedy has left the survivors stunned and bewildered as many have lost their entire families and possessions. [More…]
This group of people would not number more than a few hundred families of Portuguese citizenship. [More…]
There are a few hundred families in Macao who have links with Australia and who desire to come to this country. [More…]
They have very fine families and very nice children. [More…]
If there is a reason, the House and the nation should be told because surely this case which concerns a few hundred families is a test of our good attitude in this matter. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
It is well known that many doctors treat individual patients and their families for a lot less than the actual fee which may be charged. [More…]
As a result of turning down the applications, forced sales and court proceedings are taking place and families are going. [More…]
The additional fall in population beyond the reduction in mine employees would be brought about by the movement of some of the employees themselves and their families, together with the expected fall off in the numbers employed in the nickel exploration field which is gradually diminishing and also in the transport and building construction fields associated with the nickel exploration. [More…]
These students speak to hundreds of Western Australian families about their lives. [More…]
Why are these striking stewards able to hold Tasmania to ransom and cause unemployment there and hardship to Tasmanian families? [More…]
The honourable members to whom I referred cannot openly say that decisions about the future of workers and their families should be left alone to bank managers and managers of businesses. [More…]
If enough people believe them then the bank managers, business managers and financial newspaper proprietors will be left with all the power to say what is to happen to workers and their families. [More…]
When the Parliament is debating tariffs and discussing industry generally it is important not only to think of the economic viabilty of an undertaking but also to have regard to the problems that are created for many people and their families if anything is done to disrupt that industry. [More…]
Predominantly it is the children of middle class families who have the benefit of pre-school education. [More…]
There is very little public financial support for these centres and so the families have to make very substantial sacrifices if they want their children to get the benefit of pre-school education. [More…]
Should this educational opportunity be available to families with or without direct charge, or should it be a charge on the public purse and based on the principle of capacity to pay through the utilisation of the uniform taxation system, which meets so many other educational requirements? [More…]
Is this to be relegated to young communities where young couples are confronted with paying off their homes and establishing their families? [More…]
At the same time, the fees charged for pre-school education impose a special burden on families of low income. [More…]
Children from low income families, migrant children, Aboriginal children and handicapped children are unlikely to be equal to others in the level of intellectual and social skills which they have achieved by the time they reach the primary school. [More…]
One of the major aims of our housing contribution in the next 3 years will be to encourage the States to provide decent housing for lower income families who are unable to obtain satisfactory private accommodation. [More…]
The average is nearly 2 hours a day; with some misfitting between work and transport timetables, many families do without their breadwinners for 11 or 12 hours. [More…]
Hugh Stretton points out that 60 per cent of Green Valley’s families have no car and 29 per cent are in the deserted wife category and do not earn wages. [More…]
It affects those who are unable to obtain pensions, superannuitants, those who are receiving assistance in many forms, pensioners and families. [More…]
The State Minister for Housing, Honourable A. D. Taylor, M.L.A., estimates that in Western Australia alone $20m is required to house Aboriginal families. [More…]
Whilst I personally regret the number of men stood down, with the resultant loss of income for their wives and families, I feel that the whole dispute is a result of the fact that in this case, as in other cases involving BHP at Whyalla, it is the company itself that does not believe in accepting umpire’s decisions, as employees are asked to do. [More…]
What action has been taken on the submission by the United Church that the absence of married accommodation for students can permanently damage the structure of the families and handicap the wives of future leaders. [More…]
Liberal governments have failed to provide proper domiciliary care services for patients who, if given such services, could remain at home with their families or to provide enough beds for those whose need is long-term institutional nursing care. [More…]
Under Labor’s programme families will receive in return for a contribution equal to l1/4 per cent of their taxable income, with a $100 ceiling, free medical treatment and free hospital accommodation in single or multi-bed wards as doctors advise. [More…]
As soon as possible, they should be transferred from the central hospital to a small satellite hospital where they will be near their families and their general practitioner and away from the large impersonal institution. [More…]
If they are retained, then realistic and worthwhile initiatives will need to be taken in consultation with these officers to ensure that they can see some future for themselves and their families when the time comes for them to leave the Territory. [More…]
If those decisions are not sound decisions and are not working- in a way that will guarantee peace in industry, 4i million people, their families and people dependent upon them will suffer. [More…]
This should be one of the most important items in this agreement because it deals with the people who are going to be hurt - the farmers and their families who, under the Government’s policy, will have to get out. [More…]
For instance, there will be also the families of those farmers. [More…]
There will be some - not a great number perhaps - farm employees and their families. [More…]
There will be some businessmen, such as shop keepers and their families and employees of those business people and their families. [More…]
This Bill represents a high water mark of betrayal in the countryside, and I appeal to every member who has families facing ruin to reject the blueprint and join us in a call for a new deal for the countryside which has been exploited for a generation with the blessing of a government to which they have largely given their support. [More…]
Whole families are endangered. [More…]
When they are between the tender ages of 12 and 17 years we will take them from their families and put them in the Yirara College or the Kormilda College. [More…]
Injured workers and their families frequently suffer severe financiol burdens when the breadwinner is incapacitated in this way. [More…]
As I have said in the House before, at least at the primary level there are certain convent schools that have been a minus quantity in fees because nuns and others have actually fed migrant children from indigent families. [More…]
housing contribution, in the next 3 years would be to encourage the States to provide decent housing for lower income families. [More…]
Dame Annabelle Rankin, D.B.E., did say that: ‘One of the major aims of our housing contribution in the next few years will be to encourage the States to provide decent housing for lower income families who are unable to obtain satisfactory private rental accommodation, or are paying more for it than they can really afford. [More…]
These figures include those persons eligible for assistance under the Scheme by virtue of being in receipt of unemployment, sickness or special benefits, as well as members of low income families. [More…]
If we had decent conditions not only for the officers and men of our armed forces, particularly the Army, but also for their families and their dependants, if we were to see that while they were in the forces and when they got out when they were still young and active they had conditions as good as their civilian contemporaries, we would be able to have a volunteer Army of sufficient size and we would be able to retain those senior NCOs and those junior officers whom we cannot conscript. [More…]
The aim is to improve the housing conditions of families of members of the forces. [More…]
Generally speaking they have no wives; they have no families and they have no vote. [More…]
1 am acutely conscious that such adjustments involve people - families and communities which have contributed their share to Australia’s prosperity and wellbeing for many years. [More…]
How many families in Canberra with more than four children were waiting for transfers from (a) 2-bedroom and (b) 3-bedroom government houses to larger government accommodation at 30 April 1971? [More…]
If not, will the Minister arrange for consultations to be held in view of the number of large underprivileged problem families wilh most of the children unplanned and inadequately provided for? [More…]
assisting individuals, families, business or non-profit associations concerned with, or about to be displaced by, projects carried out by improvement programmes? [More…]
How many of these people were (a) men and (b) men accompanied by their families? [More…]
The Communists and the extreme Left are adept at this type of manipulation of workers who want nothing more than to get on with the job and take a full pay packet home to their families. [More…]
The way in which we operate shows a complete lack of consideration for the staff, for the families of honourable members and for the public generally. [More…]
The most serious infringement upon the human beings in this game is the way we treat ourselves and our families. [More…]
They have families to go to and it is only human to see that their family affairs are attended to. [More…]
Wc were pleased to do that so that those honourable members who have to travel long distances could get home on the Saturday at least and have a few hours with their families. [More…]
It envisages not families but companies providing the backbone of rural Australia, and increasingly foreign owned companies at that. [More…]
Our concern is not just with the falling price of wool or any other commodity but with the falling incomes of families who depend for a livelihood upon such commodities. [More…]
We should see at least that farming families which have contributed so long and so well to our present prosperity are not denied a share of that prosperity while they wait for markets to recover or places to be created for them in other sectors of the economy. [More…]
5m a year to build homes for civilian families in need of housing assistance as a consequence of the Commonwealth’s offer to provide advances to be used to construct dwellings for the families of servicemen. [More…]
But this is for the whole State in a full year and we find 1,000 primary producers are now in the queue with the Rural Reconstruction Board dealing with about SO a month and lucky if it can help 80 families a year with debt adjustment and build-up. [More…]
The Government has promised a loan of up to $1,000 to rehabilitate displaced families. [More…]
The farmers in the most pathetic situation are those who have sold properties to families or others who have been unable to meet their commitments. [More…]
The serious decline in social services has intensified the hardships faced by pensioners and families on lower incomes. [More…]
lt has always given encouragement to the families. [More…]
This will be helpful to many families. [More…]
The Government has certainly granted increases in child endowment to families with more than 2 children but this increase can be completely absorbed by increased pharmaceutical benefit charges when sickness strikes, so it is another case of the Government giving with one hand and taking with the other. [More…]
To those families with fewer than 2 children it is not just another increased charge but a 100 per cent increase in a charge, an increase that the Government is asking the lower paid family man to bear. [More…]
Sometimes we have 2 or 3 families crowded into a house with all the problems that that brings in terms of social behaviour, standards of health and the like. [More…]
I think the Labor Party and anyone else who attempted to introduce such a scheme would find when they started to evolve the details of it that considerable resistance would develop among the young and among married people who are bringing up families to the providing of resources on such a large scale to the older members of our community. [More…]
States of reduced rents for families regarded as being in need of this assistance. [More…]
The States will determine which families are to receive it. [More…]
Rents being paid by families in the major cities, particularly in Sydney and its surrounding suburbs, are often a great financial burden. [More…]
This new measure will provide some relief for needy families. [More…]
I hope that families in need in the electorate of Mitchell will be granted some of this assistance. [More…]
I should like to comment specifically on 2 matters of great concern - the age pension and assistance to families with children. [More…]
I know that the Minister has always been very conscious of the problems faced by families with children, and I congratulate him on the provisions made for such families in this Budget. [More…]
This first Budget of the new Treasurer (Mr Snedden) will be nothing less than brutal in its end results upon the low and middle income families of this country. [More…]
The reality is that men cause wage increases, and men cause price increases - the former in search of justice and dignity for themselves and their families and the latter in search of dominance and privilege. [More…]
Areas which are heavily built up and populated by young families would be vitally affected by the very great problems of aircraft noise. [More…]
In other words, we would only be transferring the aircraft noise problem partially from around Mascot and putting it out into those areas where the great majority of the population are young people bringing up families and I do not think that this is just. [More…]
The serious decline in social services has intensified the hardships faced by pensioners and families on lower incomes. [More…]
The serious decline in social services has intensified the hardships faced by pensioners and families on lower incomes. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
The increase in child endowment will cost about $26.5m per year, and will benefit about 1,020,000 children, comprised in about 610,000 families. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members I incorporate in Hansard the following table which sets out the weekly rates that will be payable for families of different sizes: [More…]
Mr Speaker, the child endowment increases in the Bill will, as I have said, benefit more than one million children, spread in more than 600,000 families. [More…]
The increases I have just outlined will help ease the financial stress facing many families. [More…]
Assistance is given to families via the National Health Act where the family insurance rates for a family with children - however many children - are pegged at the rate applicable to a married couple without children; special assistance is also provided for handicapped children and children of pensioners, the last a matter which I shall deal with more fully in a moment. [More…]
Many social workers have drawn attention to the special hardship suffered by what are called one parent families and by families where the breadwinner is incapacitated. [More…]
This Budget, as I have said, is especially oriented towards the needs of dependent children, particularly towards the needs of children in deprived families, where bereavement or invalidity has struck. [More…]
This would bring about a situation where they were away from their families on only Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening and would be back in their offices first thing Friday morning. [More…]
How many married families are living in single Government accommodation and is it intended to transfer any or all of these persons to Government houses. [More…]
It was considered in view of other pressing demands on government construction funds, especially for houses to provide family accommodation, that available resources should be directed more towards meeting the pressing needs of families. [More…]
Provision to increase child endowment for third and subsequent children in families and for children in institutions by 50c per week is contained in the Social Services Bill before the House. [More…]
Albania; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentina; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; China; Republic of Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador - all literate citizens; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic (East Germany); Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia; Netherlands; Nicaragua - literate or married persons; Poland; Rumania; United Kingdom; Uruguay; U.S.S.R.; Venezuela; Vietnam (North); Vietnam (South) and Yugoslavia. [More…]
families of low or moderate means. [More…]
These families are desperately in need of health and hygiene education and education on family planning, ft has been reported that 50 per cent of Aboriginal children are under the age of 15 years. [More…]
The Aboriginal families would remain in their own districts and would not have to travel with their children many miles from home to Alice Springs or some other hospital. [More…]
I now wish to refer to another aspect of the Budget which aims a further disastrous blow at Australian families. [More…]
The concessional deductions should at least not be used to discourage people from having families, as they appear to do at the present time. [More…]
This has extended some small measure of benefit to families. [More…]
It is also a matter of lifelong maiming, suffering and poverty for lots of families because this is the main cause of people being in wheelchairs and living a stunted and withered remnant of a life. [More…]
Can the Minister state the number of people in each State and Territory in each of the categories of (a) unemployed, (b) migrants, (c) sickness beneficiaries, (d) other eligible beneficiaries and (e) families with weekly incomes of (i) below $42.50, (ii) between $42.45 and $45.50 and (iii) between $45.50 and $48.50, who have applied for subsidised health insurance by registering with (A) the Commonwealth Department of Social Services and (B) a hospital and medical benefits society since the introduction of the subsidised medical services scheme? [More…]
Families with less than $46.50 a week qualify for a full subsidy on hospital and medical benefits costs. [More…]
I would estimate that there are tens of thousands of low income families who are eligible for assistance under the scheme. [More…]
For one thing, a lot of the families in the community which are eligible for this assistance simply do not know it is there. [More…]
The purely mechanical means of increasing the publicity through the mass media is not, I am sure, going to get through to the tens of thousands of families in such situations. [More…]
I asked the statistical research service to examine what would be the poverty level according to the sizes of families on the standards laid down by the Department of Applied Economic Research, which is Professor Henderson’s department, at the University of Melbourne, using the criteria that it used in a survey of poverty in 1966. [More…]
Whilst the dropping out of employment of married women would not show up in the figures of the recipients of benefits it would very seriously affect the economy of the area and of the families concerned because the income of these women has become a part of the normal income of the family and the spending rates and standards of living have been geared accordingly. [More…]
Are these people turning now in greater numbers to register with State housing authorities to enable them to secure homes in which to rear families? [More…]
Coming back to the substantial increase of $2 in child allowance, no doubt all honourable members have had experience with one-parent families. [More…]
Many parents in this category have had great difficulty in providing for their young families. [More…]
Socially I believe the right place for them is in the home of their families. [More…]
As we become more affluent we seem to care less not only for people in needy circumstances but, as I have said before in this House, also for members of our own families. [More…]
I am sure this was not the case pre-war when members of large families were prepared to share their possessions with a genuine concern for those in need. [More…]
I believe what they also seek no government can provide - that is love and understanding from members of their families. [More…]
In conclusion, I repeat that no government should be expected to take over the entire responsibility of caring for those in need while members of their families contribute little to their welfare. [More…]
Child endowment is designed to help the family - to encourage Australians to have larger families and to populate our country with the best migrants we can have. [More…]
It is beyond question that rising costs hit, first, the pensioners, the sick, the old, the low income earners and the people with large families. [More…]
Despite the increases in this legislation, 85 per cent of endowed families, that is, in the first child and 2 children categories, will not receive any increase at all. [More…]
As Commonwealth statistics show, those families in the lower income brackets have the highest number of children, but many parents today are hesitant about having larger families simply because they cannot afford to do so. [More…]
On this side of the House we have always believed that particular help should be given to families with children. [More…]
Assistance to one-parent families ranks very high in Government priorities. [More…]
The special attention that is being given to assistance to families with children stands as a key feature of the social services programme. [More…]
Naturally enough, some of the immigrants who come here, after staying for a number of years and qualifying for an Australian pension by living here and paying taxes as good citizens, might decide to go home and live with their families in their years of retirement. [More…]
Pensioners in the main are people who have helped develop this country, paid their taxes, reared their families and in their years of retirement, are entitled to social services pensions to provide them for their needs and requirements. [More…]
The increase in child endowment will cost about $26,500,000 and will benefit 1,020,000 children in about 610,000 families. [More…]
In many cases aged parents are cared for in nursing homes away from their families. [More…]
I believe that it would be well, received by the people and families of this country. [More…]
These increases will help to ease the financial burden faced by many families. [More…]
Assistance is given to families through the National Health Act. [More…]
Even where increases are given, such as in endowment for families of 3 or more children, a very large part, if not all, of that increase will be regathered by the Treasury through increased charges imposed by the Government upon several articles which the majority of families find necessary to purchase. [More…]
The very people for whom the Government pretends concern, the largs families, will be hit the hardest. [More…]
It is clear that parents with large families are not being assisted to the extent that they should be and that in turn the whole family is suffering in the areas of health and education. [More…]
Some families on farms have other business interests and wool growing is only a sideline for them. [More…]
The examples that I have given deal with the big majority of families, because 75 per cent of all families have less than 4 children, leaving 25 per cent with 4 children or more. [More…]
Surely there is some justification for doing something for the families. [More…]
1 think that that in itself is sufficient evidence to deal with the Minister’s claims that families and pensioners are better off today. [More…]
It is also true to say that in most oases the children of pensioners are forced to leave school at an earlier age, unless they are extremely lucky, because of the incomes of their families and the economic circumstances in which they find themselves. [More…]
In looking at policies relating to age pensions, families and endowment the Opposition has completely ignored that aspect of consideration. [More…]
We do not like to have any families existing at a povery level, just as nobody wants to have even 0.1 per cent of people unemployed, but where performance has been good it ought to be recognised. [More…]
This is due to a much higher minimum wage which lifts nearly all earners’ families out of poverty as well as rather more generous pensions. [More…]
I think this is well understood, and further I think the practice of Ministers bringing their families to Canberra and establishing homes here is welcomed. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether the policy document which he has sought on the subject of ministerial accommodation in Canberra will cover the suggestion that Ministers whose duties require them to live in Canberra with their families, as clearly a Minister for the Interior must, should be able to have accommodation in Canberra during the term of their office as Ministers. [More…]
In these areas men and their families live in half a galvanised iron shed. [More…]
I repeat: They live with their families in one half of a galvanised iron shed. [More…]
Does he realise the position of these men and their families in having to sacrifice their homes at forced-to-sell prices so that they can purchase homes, if possible, at their new destinations? [More…]
It is my belief that the millions of people who belong to trade unions in Australia are responsible people, people whose major interests in life are to provide themselves and their families with a decent standard of living and to live at peace with the community, without taking a very active part in politics - most trade unionists do not take a very active part in politics - without making excessive demands on the community but expecting from the community that which they have a right to expect in a society with a standard of living as high as the Australian society has. [More…]
South African Embassy families are living in terror in Canberra. [More…]
We are dealing with the sick of our community and the families of our community and a better scheme for public health in Australia must be introduced. [More…]
What about all the problems with housing young families and old people? [More…]
They have come up there to have their families of 2 or 3 children and in the foreseeable future they will have to put up with the problem of airport noise. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
It refers to the subsidised health insurance scheme for low income families. [More…]
Did the Minister, when he introduced this scheme, quote figures which indicated that the scheme would cover a total of 184,000 families, or over half a million adults and children, living in poverty or near poverty? [More…]
Is he aware of figures produced this week by the Department of Health which show that only 6,402 families, or fewer than 16,000 persons, were receiving help at 30th June - in other words, less than 4 per cent of all eligible persons? [More…]
1 draw attention also to the injustice of inflation to poor people, particularly those with large families. [More…]
It is not that I do not have regard or sympathy for members of this House, especially those with young families and who perhaps may be paying off mortgages on homes. [More…]
Some farmers, for example, may have to resolve concurrently or beforehand very complex issues associated with physically relocating themselves and their families if there is to be an assurance of employment in the occupations for which training is sought. [More…]
We think the scheme should include not just farmers, the families of farmers and the work force on those particular farms or those people affected by technology, but also people who work in country towns and are out of work because of the problems in the rural areas. [More…]
The main intention of the scheme is to assist farmers, their families, their work force and those workers who have been displaced because of technological change. [More…]
That the following words be added to the motion: but this House is of opinion that the scheme as proposed by the Government should not be confined only to displaced farmers, their families, their work force or those workers displaced by technological change but should include all people in rural areas whose occupation is directly dependent on th? [More…]
The subsidised health benefits plan which has been in existence since January 1970 provides assistance, in meeting the cost of medical and hospital treatment, to persons receiving unemployment, sickness and special social service benefits, to migrants during their first 2 months in Australia and to low income families. [More…]
Payroll tax was introduced to Australia in 1941 specifically to provide the funds required for the payment of child endowment to the families of wage and salary’ earners. [More…]
We see the traditional coal mining families, who have remained loyal to an industry and their small town of Blair Athol, when they could have moved on to better homes and to much improved amenities. [More…]
Many of our graziers and farmers, particularly in the newly settled brigalow areas - young men with young families - are told that it might be 2, 3 or 4 years or longer before they have a telephone. [More…]
In the same way such fiscal or budgetary policies as large domestic budget surpluses, such as the one planned in this Budget of $630m, the siphoning off of funds from the community by higher personal and company taxes and by higher charges for such items as postal and telephone services, broadcast and television licences, petrol and other fuels, the doubling of the patient’s charge for pharmaceutical benefits from 50c to $1 - a wicked charge for so many, particularly young families on lower incomes and in many cases large young families at that - are but some examples of the methods of this Government in this Budget. [More…]
But we should be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves as a country of affluence - this lucky country - to be prepared to put up with these inadequacies inflicted on our education system and with the poverty suffered by so many of our people, particularly the pensioners and large families of our nation. [More…]
The principle is still the same whether 1, 25 or 100 families are affected. [More…]
If there is any distress or loss of equity because families have been compulsorily transferred the Government should take this into account. [More…]
I believe that 42 families are to be moved from Cairns south to Townsville or elsewhere. [More…]
The Department proposes to take 42 families from Cairns but does it realise the imposition that this will be on these families? [More…]
If the Department lifts 42 families from Cairns and sends them to Townsville this will disrupt those 42 families and make a big difference to the income and economy of the Cairns area. [More…]
These people will be forced to go back into that area again, and the Government will be losing money in the meantime by sending them and their families from Cairns to Townsville. [More…]
They are not Labor supporters, but they are with me in opposing the action that the Department has taken in sending these families away from Cairns, and ceasing the service they were providing in that area. [More…]
The Government will have to pay for them to come back into the Cairns area to do the design and engineering work that will be necessary, and it will cost the Government a damn sight more than it will cost to shift these families to Townsville. [More…]
These 43 families are to be shifted from this area to Townsville. [More…]
Statistics in relation to the Subsidised Health Insurance Scheme are compiled in respect of the following groups: (0 low income families; [More…]
In respect of low income families, there was only one category of beneficiary when the Scheme commenced operation on 1st January 1970, viz., families whose gross weekly income did not exceed $39 per week, a figure which at that time approximated the average minimum weekly wage payable under Commonwealth awards. [More…]
As from 1st July 1970, the National Health Act was amended by extending this assistance, on a graduated scale, to low income families whose gross weekly income did not exceed $48.50. [More…]
Eligible families were divided into three categories, viz.. Class A, Class B, and Class C. [More…]
It is only necessary for low income families to make application to the Department of Social Services for assessment of their eligibility for assistance. [More…]
Is he now able to explain the almost total failure of this scheme as shown by figures indicating that only 7 per cent, or 13,000 out of the estimated 184,000 families eligible for assistance under this scheme, have been approved by the Department of Social Services and that about only half of this number have been registered with a benefits organisation? [More…]
What steps has he in train to ensure that all people who are eligible for assistance do so benefit especially as roughly 84,000 families earning between $46.50 and $52.50 must be in the scheme for 2 months to benefit? [More…]
Finally, as the means test at present victimises large families who need a larger income to be above the poverty line than the means test allows, will he broaden the means test to take account of differing incomes needed for differing family sizes? [More…]
The figures did show that under the category of low income families only 11,000 families were listed. [More…]
The information I have been given shows that the figure we should be looking at for an indication of the coverage of the scheme is not 11,000 low income families but in fact the 84,000 people who receive benefit which, as I think the honourable gentleman will agree, presents an entirely different picture. [More…]
The supply of land for home construction for Australian families is not unlimited. [More…]
The fact that many of Australia’s largest, wealthiest and best-known families established their fortunes in these deals is a constant reminder of the excesses of the developers of those days. [More…]
Why encourage greater growth, traffic bottlenecks and environmental problems, the high cost of servicing generally unhappy environments for families and for children? [More…]
Postings, particularly for men with families, are being reduced to a minimum necessary for service needs, and this situation will improve further when the unavoidable turbulence caused by unaccompanied service in Vietnam has gone. [More…]
It is unjustifiable on economic grounds, on the ground of the suffering it causes to people, on the ground that it takes from our nation men who are in the position where they can use their newly attained skills in trades and professions and on the ground of the suffering it brings to the few families that are involved. [More…]
Men who have been conscripted have died in the paddy fields of Vietnam and today their families mourn them, no doubt with pride, because they gave their all. [More…]
Let them visit the homes of some of the families whose sons have never returned except, of course, in a military casket. [More…]
The main point of the honourable member’s speech, which he was not impeded in making, seemed to be that the sons of poor families went to war and the sons of rich families did not. [More…]
Other important items in 1970-71 were the improvements in Bien Hoa Hospital (complementary to a similar programme completed the previous year), surgical teams for the hospital, training of Vietnamese students in Australia, repairs to the Ban Me Thuot radio transmitters, and continuing Civic Action Work in Phuoc Tuy Province including the construction of housing for the families of members of the Regional/Popular Forces. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
In particular, since the Commonwealth Government provides 50 trees and shrubs for every family it brings to Canberra, why is similar provision not made for families which it transfers to Army bases? [More…]
If so, will he consider the introduction at an early date of a modified scheme to at least provide child-care assistance in the case of children of single-parent families. [More…]
Child care assistance in the case of single parent families is part of the considerations underway with respect to the whole initiative. [More…]
Involving, as it does, the welfare of tens of thousands of Australian families, this matter of urgency is of the utmost importance. [More…]
For tens of thousands of Australian families it could have helped to provide a break in the poverty cycle in which low income, poor housing, poor diet arid poor hygiene are passed on from parents to children. [More…]
Of over 100,000 migrant families and individuals who arrived in Australia in 1970, only about 27,000, or 1 in 4, applied for registration with a health benefits organisation. [More…]
Figures given in 1969 and 1970 by the former Minister for Health - the present Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) - who introduced this scheme indicated that there were approximately 184,000 specifically low income families living on the minimum wage or $6 above it - these figures are in black and white - who would have been entitled to full or partial subsidy for the cost of health insurance. [More…]
Little wonder, then, that in answering a question last Tuesday, he fell back on the claim that the number of low income families receiving benefit under the scheme was not in fact 13,000; instead he said it was 84,000. [More…]
These include migrants, families on a specifically low income and people receiving unemployment, sickness or special benefit from the Commonwealth. [More…]
So we can see that the figure which the Minister used in claiming that there were 84,000 low income families inflates the success of the scheme by about 300 per cent. [More…]
One expects that a scheme aimed at protecting low income families would be for a long term. [More…]
Let us consider those who are specifically low income families, who receive the minimum wage or up to $6 more than that. [More…]
Here we find from page 64 of the report of the Department of Social Services that 57 per cent of all the families in the categories of class A, class B and class C had been enrolled in the subsidised local scheme for more than 6 months. [More…]
Let us dispel the cloud of confusion that the Ministers have deliberately thrown around the claim that the 84,000 supposedly included within their scheme are’ actually low income families. [More…]
For one thing, using the Government’s suggestion that two-thirds of those enrolled in benefits organisations- are low income families and individuals, then of all the 300,000 applications passed by the Commonwealth Government last year as eligible for assistance, probably 200,000 should have been chronically low income families. [More…]
If that were the case, the number registered in 1970 as specifically low income families should not have been 13,000 but a far greater figure. [More…]
One thing that is most disturbing is the very small number of families led by adult male wage earners that are covered in this scheme. [More…]
At 30th June this year there were probably no more than 2,000 families led by male wage earners in this subsidised scheme, in the class A, class B and class C system. [More…]
The interesting thing about the group of people in the less than $46.50 a week income bracket who have registered is, as the Department of Social Services report indicates, that 6 out of 10 families registered are families led by women and, in particular, by deserted wives. [More…]
The honourable member criticised, amongst Other things, the low income benefits and referred, as the basis for authority for his comments, to recent Press statements which alleged that because by 31st December 1970 only about 12,000 low income families had applied for assistance under the subsidised health benefits plan, which was introduced on 1st January last year, the plan had failed in its objective. [More…]
They are, firstly, the low income families; secondly, unemployment, sickness and special beneficiaries; and, thirdly, migrants. [More…]
A high proportion of the persons receiving unemployment, sickness and special benefits would receive annual incomes less than the annual limit of income which determines eligibility for low income families. [More…]
In the year ended 30th June 1971, 82,000 unemployment, sickness and special beneficiaries became members of health insurance funds, about 11,000 low income families became members and about 28,000 migrants became members. [More…]
The total of the 3 groups approximates 121,000. lt is estimated that 84,000 of these consist of families on low incomes. [More…]
It is also relevant that the original estimate was that 184,000 families would become eligible for health insurance assistance. [More…]
Projections based on figures for the 1968-69 income year, which are now available, indicate that by now the maximum number of eligible low income families is approximately 125,000. [More…]
The new procedures involve the introduction of a simplified application form of low income families and the adoption of one certificate for all beneficiaries, whether low income families or unemployment, sickness or special beneficiaries. [More…]
But I think I would be performing a useful- and factual - service if 1 were briefly to outline certain aspects of the health benefits plan as they apply to low income families, to those receiving unemployment, sickness or special benefits, and to migrant settlers for medical or hospital expenses incurred during the first 2 months in Australia. [More…]
2550 which was supplied to the honourable member for Bendigo shows that this figure of 11,000 can be quite grievously misleading, lt represents double counting, because when one looks at the breakup of membership of health insurance organisations for low income families one finds that it is a total figure covering people registered, in the first place, for medical insurance and, in the second place, for hospital insurance. [More…]
In each case, for instance under class A, only a little over 5,000 families are registered. [More…]
So what in fact has happened is that the Government has lumped a little over 5,000 together twice and said that this is 11,000 families, but in fact this is double counting and it is fairly obvious that the families drawing on low income medical insurance are the same families appearing under hospital insurance claims, and similarly for the other groups - the migrant groups and the unemployment and sickness beneficiaries. [More…]
Fewer than 4 families out of every 100 low income families entitled to draw on this scheme have done so. [More…]
For a cost in 1970-71 of about $4.6m, Labor’s scheme would fully meet the cost of all contributions for all low income families with one or more dependants on a taxable income of up to $1,730. [More…]
Labor’s scheme will cost about one-third of the Government’s scheme for subsidised health insurance, but it will cover nearly twice as many families - about 325,000 families. [More…]
Low-income families make application to the Department of Social Services where eligibility is assessed and a certificate issued. [More…]
I accept that many of the low-income families are poorly educated and some must perhaps be helped in taking these steps, but this is much better than converting it into another government handout. [More…]
When the graduated scheme was introduced in July 1970 it was estimated that 184,000 families would be eligible for assistance. [More…]
The figures represented the maximum number of lowincome families which could become eligible for the assistance available. [More…]
Families in that State, therefore, would not need to enrol under the subsidised health benefits plan. [More…]
This would reduce the estimated number of eligible families to about 110,000 instead of 180,000 as mentioned by the honourable member for Bendigo. [More…]
It is probable that a large number of eligible families have not applied for assistance because they have not needed hospital or medical treatment. [More…]
Hospital treatment would be the greatest cost incurred by low income families as they would be accustomed to receiving medical treatment in the out-patient’s departments of public hospitals and most probably would continue to do so. [More…]
One recommendation of the Nimmo Committee which was not accepted by the Government concerned additional assistance for large families. [More…]
The Government decided finally that health insurance should not be used as the vehicle for assistance to large families because other welfare measures such as taxation concessions and child endowment currently provide assistance of this nature. [More…]
This scheme is designed to help families which are in a low income bracket. [More…]
It can assist many people and many families throughout Australia who need assistance. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a need to provide special finance for family units so that families can extend their homes by the building of self-contained in-law units. [More…]
I want to turn now to the very human problems involved - the depopulation of many areas, the pressures on families, the dislocation, the frustrations and the uncertainties that will emerge if we continue to denude the rural areas. [More…]
It is a fact that 100 families have left the Huon Valley in the past 18 months. [More…]
We mean by that that we hope to have them embarked and home with their families by that time. [More…]
But honourable members opposite can be assured that we will do all in our power to have those who arrive in Australia before 25th December with their families on that date. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
Its range is so vast that it could be said with fairness to affect a majority of Australian families. [More…]
A recent survey in Melbourne reported that the incidence of poverty among families without fathers was ‘substantially higher than in almost any other group in the community’. [More…]
Max Neutze reported that of the housing commission flats investigated in Sydney 36 per cent were occupied by unmarried heads of families, many of them widows or deserted wives. [More…]
It is a decline which could be prevented if the Government were prepared to grant just that little bit of extra help which would not only bring about an increase in production but also, much more importantly, would mean that many more men would be employed and many more families would be retained in or attracted to the areas concerned. [More…]
There are approximately 600 canning fruit growers in New South Wales, about 2,000 people on the farms with their families and about 10,000 people who depend upon them. [More…]
The subsidised health benefits plan, which has been in existence since January 1970, provides assistance in meeting the cost of medical and hospital treatment to persons receiving unemployment, sickness and special social service benefits, migrants during their first 2 months in Australia and low income families. [More…]
The inadequacy of pre-school education particularly penalises migrant children whose families speak at home languages other than English and the 400,000 children whose families earn incomes below the poverty line or just above it. [More…]
Seventy per cent of the children from suburbs where migrant and low-income families congregate score below average in the communication skills which are fostered by a pre-school education whereas in more privileged suburbs the incidence of below average scores is only 30 per cent, less than half as great. [More…]
The economic crisis is now to hit the student campus and the casualties will be from the lower income families. [More…]
If the Commonwealth was properly concerned about economic barriers to higher education, the plight of many students and families and the crisis in universities finance, it would do precisely the opposite - it would subsidise universities that kept fees down. [More…]
But there are ways that can be contrived, as a previous speaker from the Government side has said, to ensure that people from low income families receive the opportunity to go on to higher education. [More…]
However, this objection to the spending of Commonwealth funds on rich private schools fails to recognise that there is a significant group of private schools - the Catholic parish schools - which are poor, inadequate and over crowded and in which the children in the main come from poor families. [More…]
The resultant loss of spending power due to the removal of families from Parkes will result in a progressive reduction in the work force in service industries and commerce enforcing a movement of more people to the already over-crowded cities. [More…]
They include people on sickness and unemployment benefits of $10 a week and whole families whose income is $49 a week or less. [More…]
its costliness to patients and their families, and [More…]
It is to the everlasting credit of a great number of specialists that when treating people in the middle to high income bracket, the specialists, knowing that these people have families to rear and are paying off their homes, have been satisfied to take the contribution from the medical benefits funds. [More…]
I say this because of the evidence of the gross failure of the Commonwealth Government’s subsidised medical scheme for low income families. [More…]
Although this has been disastrous in itself nevertheless it exposes to the public only the financial side of the health care of low income families and groups in Australia. [More…]
The figures show that only 25 per cent of eligible migrant families and individuals arriving in Australia last year fully protected themselves in the Government’s scheme by registering with a private benefits organisation. [More…]
Government over the figures of those who are specifically low income families living under or slightly above the minimum wage. [More…]
Suffice to say that even if we accept the dubious Government device of legislating 60,000 families out of the low income category so that today not 180,000 but 120,000 families are eligible for assistance, the simple fact is that this low income section of the community has been prevented by the over complexity and under publicity of the scheme from joining it. [More…]
As at 30th June this year, just 18 months after the scheme came into operation, only 6,102 families in Australia earning less than $46.50 a week were registered with private benefits organisations and thereby protected against the costs of ill health. [More…]
I repeat that as at 30th June this year, 18 months after the scheme came into operation, 6,102 families on incomes below $46.50 were registered with a private benefits organisation and properly covered by the Government’s scheme. [More…]
the means test should take account of family sizes to cover 250,000 low income families or 1 million people. [More…]
It is satisfied with claiming eligibility for only 120,000 families. [More…]
Yet only by including the largest number of low income families can the scheme succeed. [More…]
Here is the Govern* ment’s paradox: If it does not include all these families, the whole scheme will not be effective; but if it does, there will be so much red tape and bureaucracy involved in coping with a multiplicity of means tests that, as Scotton and Deeble have pointed out. [More…]
This is one of the reasons why the Canadian royal commission on health recommended that for a health scheme to be effective and economically to exempt low income families, it would have to be a single compulsory scheme, that is, a scheme along the lines proposed by the Labor Party. [More…]
Similarly, even supposing every low income family eligible for Government assistance was involved in the Government subsidised scheme, the fundamental questions would still remain: What sort of care do such families require, and are these needs being met? [More…]
For example, only a fraction of families led by male wage earners on the minimum wage is included in the scheme at present. [More…]
According to the 1966 survey of poverty, while 17 per cent of intact families in Melbourne were not insured, the percentage of fatherless families not insured was 25 per cent. [More…]
In 1966 there were about 15,000 such families in Victoria; so a quarter of these, or 3,750, would be uninsured. [More…]
Yet no more than 2,373 families earning less than $46.50 or more were enrolled with the Government scheme in February this year, while 4 months later a total of only 658 families and individuals were registered with a private benefits organisation. [More…]
As it happens, about 60 per cent of all the families registered under the category earning less than $4.50 were families led by women. [More…]
Thus the scheme has massively discriminated against and excluded tens of thousands of low income families led by male wage earners and wives. [More…]
As a consequence of all these factors, a very large number of low income families and pensioners attend not a general practitioner but the outpatient clinic of the base hospital. [More…]
One could talk at length about the health needs of the aged, the low income families, migrants and the Aborigines, yet of all these groups it is difficult to speak effectively. [More…]
It will help to lift some of the financial burden from nursing home patients and their families. [More…]
This still happens of course in some families, and perhaps would happen in more families if we could provide the right kind of assistance. [More…]
We should integrate these municipality based services with municipal social work services, so that a co-ordinated system can exist, with a central reference point to help families make appropriate plans for their frail aged members. [More…]
incentives for families to care for their aged relatives in their homes. [More…]
For many people it has meant using up their savings or having their nursing home fees paid out of the wages of sons and daughters who have their own families to support as well. [More…]
So, in addition, the pensioners’ families are going to have to find still more funds. [More…]
Last week 1 raised the matter of service men who will be returning home from Vietnam being assured of being home with their families at Christmas. [More…]
The distress of the servicemen and of their families must be no less than the distress of people who would have been affected before the Minister’s assurance was given in the House. [More…]
Let us ensure their safety and the happiness of them and their families by extending the Minister’s assurance to those servicemen who are left in Vietnam. [More…]
The suggestion was that the Government was being very pinch- penny in its attitude in not providing means of transport in order to honour the promise that these servicemen would be able to be with their families at Christmas. [More…]
That means only one thing, that men coming out of Vietnam with that withdrawal will not be travelling by train on Christmas Day; they will be with their families, if this can possibly be arranged. [More…]
These men will be flown out to Australia from Vietnam by the means which I have just described, and the Army has undertaken that all these men who are coming out by these means will be able to be with their families by Christmas - unforeseen circumstances excepting. [More…]
There is every indication that the promise will be kept and that the men coming out in this main force withdrawal will be with their families by Christmas. [More…]
The table below gives a distribution of head of families in private dwellings at the 1966 Census by numbers of dependent children (defined as children under 21 years of age nol in the labour force) without distinguishing between married and unmarried heads. [More…]
The resultant loss of spending power due to the removal of families from Parkes will result in a progressive reduction in work force in service industries, commerce enforcing a movement of more people to the already overcrowded cities. [More…]
If Dalgety’s were in desperate need of this cash subsidy, as is the case with large numbers of desperate wool growers and their families, then this company would He entitled to financial assistance. [More…]
The total cash payment to be made by this Government only to those interests to which I have referred is equivalent to the total income tax paid by 2,000 married men and their families earning the average Australian wage. [More…]
Already there is a constant everincreasing stream of country people who, out of sheer desperation, being unable any longer to make a living for themselves and their families on the land and in country towns, move into the great capital cities of Australia. [More…]
For 7 years the operations of this scheme have shown that the scheme discriminates massively against the children of low income families whether they be in the inner suburban areas or in country areas. [More…]
That is a lot of money which could be used profitably on children of families of low incomes. [More…]
I have since received many inquiries and representations from honourable members,town councils and others concerning the economic and social effects of the withdrawal of staff and their families from country towns, some of which are already quite seriously affected by circumstances within the primary industries. [More…]
If so, has the Commonwealth considered the implication of this instruction with reference to students from low and middle income families. [More…]
However, I would point out that the Commonwealth is aware of the need to provide assistance for students from low and middle income families. [More…]
Is it a fact that Western Australian soldiers returning from Vietnam have to pay the difference between the rail and air fare from Sydney to Perth if they want to fly directly home to their families, the amount being about $60? [More…]
I would say that that would be an extremely high percentage of the work force because a large number of that 44 million were children because as is well known these families have large numbers of children. [More…]
I have in mind particularly the com.nunity at Blair Athol where we see a handful of miners who have been whittled down slowly but surely to just a small group of families. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
Under this scheme local families generously extend their hospitality and friendship to individual junior recruits from other States. [More…]
Much good can come from an early contact with suitable families in the Perth area and the meeting of junior recruit and sponsor should take place as soon as practicable after entry. [More…]
Low income group families and pensioners are deprived of access to public housing and condemned to sub-standard accommodation while spending years on the waiting list for what housing there is. [More…]
In the absence of public housing these people and their families must find high rentals or accept sub-standard conditions. [More…]
This means that the other tenants, themselves lowincome earners, are subsidising with their rents those necessitous families. [More…]
Because of its long experience in providing housing for Australian families, the Division would be an ideal body to undertake these new concepts of housing. [More…]
Because of the increased interest rates for housing loans, a proportion of families who previously could have obtained private assistance turned to the Commission when finance at levels they could afford was no longer available. [More…]
Perhaps the owners would drop rentals a lot if they could have access to a depreciation scale and they might be encouraged not to put up with substandard dwellings plastered here and there, housing families, and creating all the associated problems of delinquency. [More…]
The rental assistance grant of $ 1.25m a year, for each of the next 5 years, is a general Commonwealth contribution towards the cost to State housing authorities of reduced rents being charged to the more needy families. [More…]
That is a measure of the extent to which advances under the War Services Homes Act represent a very generous, fair and just contribution for homes for ex-servicemen and their families in Australia. [More…]
Community resources are affected by the demand created by importation of families and considerable strains are imposed by inflation. [More…]
Thirdly, to allow sponsorship of migrants to rest with Australian residents who sponsor families and friends - from whatever country - and with well-known pyramid effects, will be disastrous. [More…]
The first of them is this: The Government has been tardy in the extreme in the matter of reuniting families, ft took it 20 years to agree to provide assisted passages to enable a man to bring his wife and children to this country. [More…]
Some people had to pay 20 per cent interest on borrowed money in order to get their families here. [More…]
But there are still delays of up to a year in reuniting families, there are also delays of nearly a year in issuing visas for people to come and visit their children. [More…]
Earlier this week the Government announced a deferment of the arrival of 3,000 migrant workers and their families in order to assist some of those who are currently registered for employment to obtain jobs which the Government believes may otherwise be taken by migrants. [More…]
Obviously the easiest and most economical way to do this is to encourage larger Australian-born families, as was pointed out a few minutes ago by my colleague the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt). [More…]
Employment being almost beyond him, the families that have nominated him are forced to share his poverty. [More…]
While stating that its immigration policy shall be administered with the avoidance of discrimination on any ground of race, or colour or nationality, the same Labor Party Conference adopted a policy to advise Australian mothers to limit their families. [More…]
Yet, at this time, Australians have been asked by the Labor Party to curtail their families. [More…]
I have made the suggestion before as a sort of rough improvement in equity that if the concessions for dependants - that is, wives and children - were doubled for everybody - I accept the fact that they would be doubled for the wealthy as well as for the poor - and if all other deductions were eliminated the saving to revenue would be about $200m as a consequence and the majority of taxpayers were dependants, particularly those families where there there is only one breadwinner, would be advantaged if that were the case. [More…]
To be effective in assisting families this concession should be given in the form of a fixed rebate of total taxation for all family people and not be specifically designed to give a concession which increases with the wealth of the individual recipient. [More…]
In a country that has so many natural resources surely families can expect something better than this. [More…]
There is competition in that prosperous industry in which a newer model must be secured by the families in the suburbs. [More…]
There are, however, a large number of unemployable people and pensioners who, with their families, live on pastoral properties at standards which are not satisfactory. [More…]
The policy that is now being followed by the Government is the very policy that was responsible for the resessions of 1956 and 1961 and, remember this, the depression of the 1930s which brought misery and suffering to the unemployed who could see their families living below the breadline. [More…]
The remainder of the advances were used by State housing authorities to provide housing, primarily for persons of low or moderate means, with the proviso that they could be required to set aside in each year up to 5 per cent of the housing advances made by the Commonwealth for the construction of dwellings for servicemen’s families. [More…]
Advances under the Housing Agreements with the States have been used to provide reasonably priced rental accommodation for low income families and to assist these families to own their own homes by the offer of low deposit long term loans at a concessional rate of interest. [More…]
This grant of financial assistance is to be used by the housing authority of the State for the purpose of reducing the rents of dwellings for families they consider to have insufficient means to pay the rents ordinarily payable to the authority in respect of those dwellings. [More…]
I have to worry about the families that are concerned in my electorate. [More…]
Let me say in rebuttal of what has been said by the honourable member for Angas that there is not a redundancy problem insofar as the sulphuric acid plant is concerned which is affecting the social welfare of some members of families both at Nairne in the honourable member’s electorate or in the Largs North area. [More…]
What is to happen to wives and families of men who are thrown out of workin these 2 industrial areas? [More…]
It will probably mean also that a significant number of people and their families will be out of work. [More…]
The honourable member for Braddon has said this is a deliberate attempt to virtually bankrupt a viable company in Australia and to deliberately put men and their families on the labour market. [More…]
It is a disgrace in terms of policy to bankrupt deliberately the companies manufacturing pyrites and sulphuric acid thereby putting men and their families on the labour market. [More…]
When I think that industries and families will be affected by a decision of the Government I will speak as I feel and as I want to speak. [More…]
It has been estimated that up to 1,000 servicemen could remain in Vietnam, lt is up to the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) to spell out what is to happen to these men so that they and their families can plan for the future. [More…]
In 1949 families with 3 children received endowment of 11.5 per cent of average male earnings but a family with 3 children now receives 5 per cent. [More…]
regulation, at least where donations are made by the families of residents rather than by the residents themselves. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
At least one-third of all rural families live below a poverty line of 100 rupees, or $12, a month for a family of 5. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
These are people who think that they are insured for a likely or possible hospital charge which may hit them or their families but what happens is that should they be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a psychiatric illness they will be unable to claim on any fund in New South Wales. [More…]
I think it is important to draw the parallel that whatever we incur, whatever we enjoy in the way of dental care is paid for by somebody in this country but the regrettable and unfortunate fact is that it is often paid for in an inequitable way, that is to say that families which have a need of dental care cannot afford it. [More…]
I have personal knowledge of the enormous burden which is placed on the families of these children. [More…]
Of course, it would also be the end of the opportunity for thousands of families to go to that lovely park and picnic. [More…]
What a reward for people who were prepared to suffer hardships initially in establishing a future for themselves and their families in the area. [More…]
The improvements provided for in this Bill will enable the Scheme to continue making an important contribution to the national welfare by assisting eligible persons and their families in all parts of the Commonwealth to obtain homes and I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
It is at the grass roots level of our society - in families, in particular with parents-7-that the responsibility lies, and where ultimately the possible solution to this problem will be found. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
The whole of the work force of the mine and the workers’ families would be obliged to move, as also would most businessmen and their employees, and the only place to which they would be likely to move would be the capital city provided, of course, that they could obtain housing. [More…]
The present population in Norseman is approximately 1,600 and it is estimated that a closure of the mine would mean a reduction in that population by at least 50 per ‘cent almost immediately and then, as housing became available elsewhere for the families of workers, the population would reduce still further. [More…]
If the goldmines close where then do those workers and their families go? [More…]
As previous speakers have mentioned, it was thought that the mining development around this goldmining area would in fact make employment available for those families which were being phased out of the goldmining industry. [More…]
These people and their families will have to go elsewhere to look for work. [More…]
One of the major aims of our housing contribution in the next 3 years will be to encourage the States to provide decent housing for lower income families who are unable to obtain satisfactory private accommodation. [More…]
One major group amongst the undeserving poor is families who, because of their social instability or their tendency to fall into rental arrears, are excluded from public housing. [More…]
These are the ‘problem’ families who frequent public and voluntary welfare agencies with a variety of social disabilities, such as alcoholism, children at risk, employment instability, marital problems and so on. [More…]
A reasonable argument can be advanced in favour of the policy by which State housing authorities exclude problem families from public housing. [More…]
It can be argued with respect to the social problems of these families that housing authorities are not social welfare agencies and are not organised to solve the social disabilities of problem families. [More…]
It is unfair that other public housing tenants should be required to put up with the nuisance created by problem families. [More…]
However, this position does not cut across the fact that problem families have, or can have, an acute housing problem in addition to their other problems - the Bill does not solve that problem - and that under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement these families are effectively excluded from receiving public assistance with their housing problem. [More…]
That is to say, all that the present situation tells us is that public housing authorities are an unsuitable vehicle for assisting problem families with their housing needs. [More…]
The further question of whether or not these families should be dented public assistance with housing is left untouched. [More…]
If this viewpoint is adopted, and if it is also accepted that public housing authorities are not the appropriate vehicle for helping problem families with their housing needs, it is necessary to evolve new forms of assistance for these families with their housing problems. [More…]
What appears necessary is extensive research into the housing difficulties of problem families and into possible mechanisms whereby public assistance can be provided in order to overcome difficulties. [More…]
These people have an acute housing need but, as with problem families, their housing need is inseparable from their complex of other social problems. [More…]
These migrants find strong social needs to live amongst their extended families, friend* ft om their former village, ethnic shopping facilities, theatres and clubs, and to accept public housing would involve the breaking of these many social bonds. [More…]
In particular it will be directed towards meeting the shortage of cheap rental accommodation for families of inadequate means. [More…]
This type of accommodation is not conducive to having young families at a time when they ought to have them. [More…]
The South Australian Housing Trust has carried out some very interesting and valuable investigations of incomes of families obtaining rental housing. [More…]
I have here the result of the most recent study covering the 5 week period to 1st October 1971, in which 412 families were allotted rental homes. [More…]
The latest annual report of the South Australian Housing Trust gives an account of an income study of families accommodated in rental or rental-purchase houses over the last 18 months. [More…]
The study dealt with family incomes and incomes of male heads of families. [More…]
More than 46 per cent of the families earned $60 or less a week. [More…]
For male heads of families the commonest income was $42.50, and 62 per cent of male heads of families were earning between $41 and $60 a week. [More…]
The Trust stated: lt is obvious that the vast majority of families applying to the Trust for assistance cannot afford to buy their own houses, or even pay the relatively high rents that prevail today. [More…]
This will help the States to reduce rental costs to those families they regard as being in need of assistance. [More…]
I get complaints - I suppose other members do, too - from families who have had their names down tor a State housing commission house and have had to accept a (flat. [More…]
While we have had some very frank discussions with the Commonwealth I must in all fairness to the Commonwealth say that 1 do not doubt for one minute the sincerity of its desire to assist the States in housing low and moderate income families. [More…]
Why the Government has neither encouraged nor demanded of the States experimentation in the design of low cost housing to allow for the changing needs of families amazes me. [More…]
It may have escaped the notice of the Government that less than half a century ago a 2-bedroom villa, with perhaps an enclosed front verandah, satisfied the needs of most families. [More…]
The demand is for much greater variation to meet the demands of the various members of the family, even though families have decreased in size. [More…]
These needs apply to the families of low income earners also. [More…]
This Bill offers no evidence that the government is aware that families are not standardised, lt appears to be totally unaware that low income housing, more than any other, should provide for flexibility of use. [More…]
Only myopic vision and lack of openness to the future - not constitutional impediment - prevents this Government from insisting on the States doing the following: Firstly, extending the Holmesglen prefabricated concrete factory’s activities to include competition with speculative bi,i.d:rs; secondly, ensuring that provision is made for expert advice and the granting of loans for the renovation of houses in the inner suburbs; and, thirdly, taking positive steps to ensure that low income houses, which inevitably are small, have sufficient inbuilt flexibility of design to m?2i the changing needs of families. [More…]
Referring again to Dame Annabelle’s address to the building and construction forum in September of last year, I would draw honourable members’ attention to her intention to ask the States to use more of the Commonwealth advances for housing needy families on the lowest income scales. [More…]
Only the Commonwealth Government has the powers to ensure that families are raised in an environment that does not place strains on the other needs of the families. [More…]
I regret that this is a position that pertains in far too many families in my electorate. [More…]
Advances under the housing agreements with the States have been used to provide reasonablypriced rental accommodation for low income families and to assist these families to own their own homes by the offer of low-deposit long term loans at a concessional rate of interest. [More…]
It certainly cannot hoodwink those thousands of families anxiously awaiting a place of their own. [More…]
There will be a hopeless situation in regard to housing the low income families in the various Sta es. [More…]
for the purpose of reducing rents for families in indigent circumstances’. [More…]
Parents of families which have grown up and left their homes to live elsewhere or to get married, often find themselves in a home which is larger than they need and which requires a considerable amount of upkeep. [More…]
They would be young families who are prepared, because of their work and because the type of home suits them, to live in homes in these areas. [More…]
The philosophy of a house and garden for all families which can afford a deposit and regular repayments is as central to housing policy and administration today as it was in 1918. [More…]
As a consequence of this many people who are wage earners - the 2- income families, the young people who go out to work - find themselves buying homes the value of which excludes them from eligibility under the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
In particular, we wish to thank those families whose sons, fathers, brothers, husbands have gone to Vietnam. [More…]
And above all, we want to thank and offer our sympathy, understanding and prayers for those families who have lost their loved ones on the field of battle in Vietnam. [More…]
I was just doing a little mental calculation which indicates that in the total period of the scheme’s operation - I think it is one of the most magnificent any country has ever adopted - a total of 324,217 ex-servicemen have been provided with homes, and with their families, which is the way we normally calculate things in Australia, this means that about 1 million people have been provided with homes. [More…]
No doubt many of them will be able to obtain homes for their families through the provisions of this scheme. [More…]
This, of course, changed the whole social attitude to university education and families such as mine could see that not only people such as the odd one who managed to make the distance for some reason or other - the person who became a teacher and then for professional reasons managed to get into university - received a university education but that a university education became a natural social objective for the whole family. [More…]
That is a milestone on the path towards making advanced education as exclusive and as prohibitive as university education already is for many children of lower income families and particularly students in country areas. [More…]
The hour is late not only for the Parliament but also for a gallant body of farmers and their families who tonight feel that they have been cheated and betrayed. [More…]
As from 1st November 1971 it is proposed to introduce a simplified application form for use by low income families when applying for assistance, and provision will be made on the form to enable a responsible person, such as a hospital secretary, to assist a person incapable of completing the official application form and in taking the necessary steps required in applying for the assistance available under the Plan and enrolling in a health insurance fund. [More…]
For the purposes of determining the eligibility of low income families, ‘income’ includes the income of the claimant and members of his family, other than child endowment and certain allowances specified in regulation 20A of the National Health Regulations. [More…]
They must move more frequently than any other families in the country. [More…]
These people will be serving in an occupation which takes them and their families very rapidly from one place to another; it is an occupation which they have to give up at a relatively early age. [More…]
I conclude by saying again that the Government has to act and show some leniency understanding and compassion towards those soldier settlers and their families ‘ :n Australia today who, through no fault of their own, are in pitiful and serious financial difficulties. [More…]
I believe that they are victims of circumstances beyond their control and that the seriousness of their plight demands special measures to assist the persons and families involved. [More…]
There should be no doubt whatever that assistance to lower income families, especially to their children, should be increased now. [More…]
There should be no doubt that interest on hire purchase for lower income families should be reduced now. [More…]
The poor kids in country areas will have to leave the country and come to the cities and try to get jobs, and by doing so they drag their families with them. [More…]
This is not serious to the Government, but it is serious to the people who have the misfortune to be unemployed and to their families. [More…]
The nation as well as the families directly concerned, has spent very large sums of money on educating those children. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age bt invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
We have a situation where many migrant families who have come to Australia, many of them large families, are suffering hardship through employment and housing difficulties. [More…]
We have found families sleeping on the floor, the man of the family without employment or money for fares to go and look for a position. [More…]
A recent report in an eastern States newspaper referred to our migration programme as the great Australian con trick and talked of Turkish families promised well paid jobs in their own profession. [More…]
allowing families to be united. [More…]
Some families have had to be permanently separated because one section of the family has nol been accepted here and has been accepted by such countries as Canada. [More…]
Unless families move out of the areas and go fruit picking or whatever it may be, they remain on the dole for 6 or 7 months of the year and simply receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
The number of families on Cape Barren Island varies from month to month because of regular movement between the island and Tasmania. [More…]
The families who live on the island are reliant for medical services on Flinders Island. [More…]
We have programmes that meet the people on the settlements; we have programmes such as secondary school scholarships for Aborigines whose families are assimilated in our community. [More…]
Great numbers of Aboriginal families are going into the inner parts of Brisbane, crowding into houses and paying high rents because the Queensland Government has abolished any kind of rent control. [More…]
Over the years a number of nien experienced farmers who have set their families up, have come to me saying that they would like to give service somewhere but they cannot get appointments because they do not have the necessary qualifications, yet some youngster, who has come out of university with no idea of practical problems, secures a position. [More…]
The serious decline in social services has intensified the hardships faced by pensioners and families on lower incomes. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
Strikes cause too much suffering to the strikers and their families. [More…]
As the value ot money has depreciated by some 300 per cent or more since then, will the Minister give urgent consideration to raising substantially the amount of exemption and so avoid the widespread difficulties being experienced by families in adjusting their affairs and in the payment of a very unfair tax? [More…]
Marihuana is not responsible in any country in the world for problems insofar as crime, disruption of families or increases in the road toll are concerned of the magnitude caused by alcohol or heavy drugs. [More…]
This is something which is often felt by families when ;they lose their children to the metropolis at the end of their school days. [More…]
An example is the proposed reorganisation of postal services throughout the Commonwealth; this may involve the transfer of only a few personnel and families but it can have a serious impact on economic activity in a small community. [More…]
There is no undertaking as to what is to be done before the end of the year, before Christmas, and of course we are dealing with people and families who are suffering hardship. [More…]
It should be mentioned today that the Prime Minister is going to move up to 14,000 wool growers which, of course, means that, including their families, 40,000 people will be affected. [More…]
Members of Parliament, whatever else may be said about them, do, ex officio, see less of their families than anybody else and it is impossible really to carry on in this occupation unless one has a fairly tolerant wife. [More…]
We wish them too, as well as our opponents, happiness at this time with their families and their relatives. [More…]
I believe that we can look back on a session productive of legislation and keen debate, and it is my hope that the festive season will bring happiness and contentment to all members and to their families. [More…]
Evidence as to the provision of amenities such as a canteen and provision for the families there in a community centre was given by the Site Administration Officer at Nabalco. [More…]
Even a trade union organiser said that the union wanted a hotel so that the workers in the mine could have their families there. [More…]
It came out in evidence that this would cost about $20 a night exclusive, of course, of the costs of flying the families to this place and back home again. [More…]
As from 1st July 1970, the Plan was extended to provide graduated assistance with health insurance contributions to low income families whose weekly income slightly exceeds the eligibility limit for full assistance. [More…]
A simplified application form has also been introduced, for use by low income families when applying for assistance. [More…]
and (5) Social Welfare Benefits are intended primarily to help people awaiting statutory aid, such as deserted wives with children, or persons who are unable to qualify for Commonwealth pensions or benefits and for various reasons cannot support themselves and their families. [More…]
The number of families to be served. [More…]
These children are excluded from receiving assistance, but the Minister does nothing to ameliorate the serious economic stress of these families. [More…]
Is it a fact that the plan which he announced in early December 1971 to remove 14.000 woolgrowers from the countryside involves families exceeding 40,000 people? [More…]
It is humiliating that men in order to feed their families are directed to dig weeds out of gutters in the streets. [More…]
They paid high prices for land, built houses and settled their families. [More…]
This is particularly hard on parents with young families attending school. [More…]
Surely the employer must realise he is dealing with human beings who have responsibilities to maintain their families, and that he is nol dealing just with motor cars and other materialistic things. [More…]
The missing children are mainly from nomadic families or are living in very remote and small places. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
The policy that has been followed by the Government is the very policy that was responsible for the recessions of 1956 and 1961 and, indeed, the depression of the 1930s, bringing misery and suffering to the unemployed who saw their families living below the breadline. [More…]
lt is serious when adult males who have families to support arc o st of work. [More…]
The protests were that this would have a terrible effect on low income families. [More…]
It is almost impossible to find out just how many families with school age children there are in Canberra whose incomes are such that the fare increase will cause hardship. [More…]
I do not know how many of those are married and have families or in how many cases the other spouse does not have in income, but there must be many of them. [More…]
I know from my own experience of the large number of people coming to my office here in Canberra with one problem or another who are trying to live and support families on a total take-home pay of $55 or $60 a week. [More…]
Families with a breadwinner who earns $53 a week or more get no relief, notwithstanding that for, say 6 school children their bus fares now amount to $3 a week. [More…]
They get no assistance even if they are paying rent of perhaps $30 or S35 a week, and there are many families in Canberra who are paying such rent on a take-home pay of less than $60 a week. [More…]
But the Council did suggest that the Department of Education and Science should consider the granting of school bus fare concessions to families suffering hardship. [More…]
But the moment the Government raises the payment to 5c a person who has 3, 4 or 5 children - and families consist of this number of children not only in the ACT but everywhere else in Australia - is affected and hardship is caused in thousands of homes. [More…]
It is assumed that the honourable member’s question relates to the number of families on low incomes who have enrolled in health insurance organisations and thereby received the support available under the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan. [More…]
The following information relates to those persons who have registered specifically as low income families during the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
It should also be noted that a significant proportion of those enrolled in health insurance organisations under the Subsidised Health BenefitsPlan, by virtue of being in receipt of unemployment, sickness or special benefit from the Department of Social Services, could also be regarded as families on low incomes. [More…]
Is he aware of the great difficulties faced by many families out of reach of any local school, where mothers must not look after the home, but often help work properties end in addition attempt to educate their children? [More…]
Is he also aware that changes in technical requirements for those families which are on the School of the Air are likely to involve up to $800 for the purchase of new wireless sets for homes in order to remain on the School of the Air? [More…]
I have had a number of representations from individuals concerned, from an organisation that has been established specifically to try to promote some greater assistance for families in these circumstances and also from a number of members of Parliament including the honourable member for Maranoa who I know is very concerned about this problem. [More…]
I certainly give a full undertaking that this whole problem of the relatively few but very important families living in these parts of Australia will be reviewed. [More…]
I think that the people who live in the outback represent much of the best of Australia and at the moment they are in a very difficult position in relation to the education of their families, and I am very much aware of that. [More…]
People sell according to their station of life and, of course, some of them come from poor families and become some of the greatest citizens of this country and do so much for the community. [More…]
Others from prosperous and rich families do nothing at all for Australia. [More…]
I can well understand members of the Opposition saying that this question of parental concern is a matter of no moment or of no concern to them because they would believe that government policy and government actions should replace the obligations and responsibilities that in many areas should properly lie with the families themselves. [More…]
This is a typical attitude that the Opposition has adopted in a number of areas, believing that government activity can undertake matters which the families properly should do for themselves. [More…]
If, as a result of what I have said, there are some families who become more concerned to support their children than otherwise might have done, I will be content. [More…]
Where a deliberate action of a government by varying a tariff creates hardship in the form of unemployment of people or resources owned by those people, there has to be a constructive and not destructive policy to compensate those people who, through no fault of their own but because of Government policy, find themselves out of a job or discover that they have to move their families, sell their houses and assets and settle in some other place. [More…]
incomplete families. [More…]
Large families (criterion 2 above) [More…]
The Authority has no general information on families receiving cash and other supplementary help, and therefore the percentage of children receiving free meals was taken as the most accessible measure of this criterion. [More…]
More recent and accurate Information on Social Class - Large Families was available from the Special Literary Survey carried out by the ILEA in 1968 and this was used for these two measures. [More…]
The longstanding tie between private schools and Australia’s business and landowning families scarcely needs “proving”: their continued and current exclusiveness, too, might safely be taken for granted. [More…]
Obviously if there is a crash in wool prices and there are great pastoral families who have been prosperous and have developed the habit over generations of sending their children to a school like Geelong Grammar, such families will either pay for their sons out of capital or will have to withdraw the children from the school. [More…]
It is the classic product of the crude materialism of the Liberal Party and the apathy of the Australian Country Party, which are prepared to leave farmers and their families at the mercy of cruel economic forces. [More…]
This is a very great financial burden on families. [More…]
Some of them ure refugees in the cities with their families. [More…]
The former Prime Minister promised to pay special attention to the needs of low income families with young children. [More…]
I am not keen to shove them into units which would move them away from their traditional home site, their home in which they raised their families and with which they have had a long term association that is a sort of spiritual relationship with their environment. [More…]
We ought to be encouraging families to hold together the extended family unit. [More…]
We, as Australian citizens, should be proud, as the Minister pointed out, that 80 per cent of married age pensioners in Australia today own their own homes and that 50 per cent of single age pensioners also own their own homes, Many of the others are satisfactorily housed in aged persons homes under this Act or are living comfortably with their families as they choose. [More…]
There are a good many widows with families whom I personally know and who are paying extortionate rentals for the accommodation. [More…]
In the Minister’s view much too large a proportion of families with children at state schools didn’t give their children the encouragement in their home environment to encourage them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
This sort of argument would have much greater force if the Government did anything at all to assist poorer families to keep children at school. [More…]
These principles are: Firstly, a greatly increased expenditure on education; secondly, expenditure on education to be allocated on a basis of need so that education will overcome the disadvantages of those children from families with limited incomes - in other words, to provide equality of opportunity; and thirdly, decentralisation of decision making and devolution of power so that maximum autonomy is given to teachers and students. [More…]
I can well understand members of the Opposition saying that this question of parental concern is a matter of no moment or of no concern to them because they would believe that government policy and government actions should replace the obligations and responsibilities that in many areas should properly lie with the families themselves. [More…]
This is a typical attitude that the Opposition has adopted in a number of areas, believing that government activity can undertake matters which the families properly should do for themselves. [More…]
Some of the criteria by which that organisation works in relation to schools are the social class of the personss in the vicinity, the housing stress, the number of large families, the question of poverty, the number of immigrants, the number of handicapped pupils, teacher stress, the hours that teachers have to teach, the subjects and the class sizes, pupil turnover, parental interest and the adequacy of school buildings. [More…]
Perhaps they have never thought that some of these parents might be widows, or some of them might be invalided or some of them might have large families. [More…]
These are 600 families who had been settled on the land by government. [More…]
The 600 families to whom I have referred are not the only people involved in this case. [More…]
It is all right for those children who are lucky enough to come from families which have available to them a substantial body of literature and in which the parents have a substantial body of learning. [More…]
When you come to the State schools, the Government schools, unfortunately there are still some families who don’t give their children- [More…]
Then, as he said only some families he corrected himself - perhaps much too large a proportion of families- that is, whose children attend State schools - who don’t give their children the encouragement in the home environment which helps them, or encourages them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
There appear to be reasonable grounds therefore for suggesting that a more effective use of the funds at present devoted to the scholarships might be either in adding to the number of tertiarylevel awards, or in using some form of means test to ensure that awards at the secondary school level go to families likely to be in real need. [More…]
I am a little surprised that the Leader of the Opposition should continue to ask questions concerning a child endowment scheme in view of his proposals for matters, such as child endowment, which are intimately concerned with the Australian population and Australian families. [More…]
I would ask him to look a little more closely at his own proposals and attitudes towards the Australian population, the people involved in its development and his proposals for immigration, Australian families, the numbers of children born in Australia and the rights of Australian children, old, young and even unborn. [More…]
The families of workers certainly do not want to see their men on strike in any way whatever because strikes bring severe hardships to many people. [More…]
It is of some consequence and I think it is rather important to many families living in non-metropolitan areas. [More…]
If there is no prospect of suitable employment in their own home area, it is not good for them to be hanging around doing nothing and, to use the phrase of the honourable member for Corio, sponging on their families. [More…]
They should not be getting into the bad habit of sponging on their families, or on the Government, if it can be avoided. [More…]
I would like to express our deep concern and compassion for those who are prisoners of war or missing and for the families who are suffering as a result. [More…]
Effective training, job satisfaction, adequate remuneration, status, proper recognition and provision for families are some of the factors in producing an effective fighting force. [More…]
low income families; [More…]
I (4) In the case of migrants lt is necessary to take into consideration that the total figures for migrant settlers do not represent the number of persons entitled to be enrolled in the Subsidised Health Benefits Flan because in the case of families, enrolment by the head of the family provides Subsidised Health Benefits entitlements for the whole of the family. [More…]
Those 5,481 apiarists would represent possibly 20,000 people, if we include their families and the people who work for them. [More…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of (i) those applying for and (ii) those approved for assistance under the schemes as at 18th February were (A) farmers, (B) members of farmers’ families, (C) farm employees and (D) others. [More…]
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentine; Austria; Barbados; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Cambodia; Canada; Ceylon; China: Costa Rica; Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Equador; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic; Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (South); Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia: Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua - literate or married persons; Poland; Romania; Sweden; Switzerland - males; Tanzania; Thailand - Thai nationals; Tunisia; Turkey; United Kingdom - British and citizens of Irish Republic living in United Kingdom; Uruquay; U.S.S.R.; Venezuela; Vietnam (South); Vietnam (North); Yugoslavia; Zambia. [More…]
That town housing must be provided for all Aboriginal families where the bread winner has permanent employment or an age or invalid pension entitlement. [More…]
With the rural depression and the drift of country people, including Aborigines, to the cities, large numbers of Aboriginal families now live there in sub-standard housing. [More…]
If there are 2 or 3 Aboriginal families living in sub-standard housing in your street or in my street or next door, this affects the total sociological climate of the whole environment. [More…]
What was the number of (a) families and (b) people for which it was expected to provide cover under the heading of (i) each category of low income grouping, (ii) unemployment sickness beneficiaries and (iii) migrants. [More…]
(i) Low Income Families - When the subsidy arrangements were introduced on 1 January 1970 there was one category of low income family, namely families with incomes of $39 per week or less. [More…]
In this category it was estimated that 100,000 families, comprising 300,000 persons, would be eligible for a full subsidy. [More…]
Graduated assistance was introduced on 1 July 1970 when it was estimated that a further 84,000 families, comprising 271,000 persons, would become eligible for partial subsidies. [More…]
A significant proportion of persons receiving unemployment, sickness or special benefits would have annual incomes less than the ceiling which determines eligibility for low income families. [More…]
Similarly, during any reference year, the great majority of newly arrived migrant, families would be resident in Australia for a,. [More…]
period less than 12 months and their annual incomes may be below, the eligibility limits for low income families. [More…]
The original estimates made in 1969 and 1970 indicated 184.000 families would become eligible for subsidised health insurance contributions. [More…]
Projections based on figures for the 1968/69 income year, which are now available, indicate that currently the maximum number of eligible low income families would be approximately 125,000. [More…]
Experience has shown that, in 1970/71, 82,000 unemployment, sickness and special beneficiaries, about 11,000 low income families, and 28,000 newly arrived migrants became members of health insurance funds under the subsidy arrangements. [More…]
Income groupings for low income families at 1 July 1971 were as follows: [More…]
Clyde’s pupils are from families that can afford to pay $1,800 a year for board for their daughters. [More…]
In the Wilmot Electorate, Dulverton is expected to close at the end of April as it is serving only two families, one being that of the Postmistress, and Falmouth could close later in the year because very little business is being transacted and alternative mail arrangements can be made. [More…]
Our Government believed that families were worth while. [More…]
Thousands of farmers and their families together with the associated work force have been forced to leave rural areas. [More…]
Once he has reached this stage of economic decline he often finds following the selling up of his property that he does not have very much equity left at all and this applies particularly to farmers with families. [More…]
It strikes particularly hard at those people who may be a little older than one would like to be when starting off to search for a new career and also at those with families. [More…]
Even if there were no danger of synthetics making inroads into the market it would still be necessary and proper that the Australian housewife, the Australian families and Australian people generally, wherever they obtain their meats should be protected against unreasonable and prohibitive prices. [More…]
Consistent with our aim of ensuring maximum membership control of organisations, we believe that the rank and file should have every opportunity of being consulted on the fundamental question of whether they should withdraw their labour by striking and so suffer loss of wages with consequent hardship to their families. [More…]
Is it a fact that the plan which he announced in early December 1971 to remove 14,000 woolgrowers from the countryside involves families exceeding 40,000 people. [More…]
Above all, miners who have gone into the bowels of the earth to win its riches for the benefit of all Australians must be given the security of full employment and the sanctuary of the home and the community in which they and their families live. [More…]
People in this area urgently need a phone to enable them to arrange for the marketing of their goods, to help their children who are going to school, for the health of their families and for all of the other purposes for which one would require a telephone. [More…]
Australians who remain in the service of the New Guinea government will equally be responsible to the House of Assembly, but the Australian Government will accept responsibility for their salaries and the welfare of their families. [More…]
I believe that it is a serious reflection on the way this country regards the Parliament that in the 45 years since this Parliament was established in Canberra nothing has been done for the families of members. [More…]
People are torn from the areas where they have lived for many decades, where they have lived their whole lives, where their friends still live and where their families probably live. [More…]
I ask: Following the recent discussion on immigration, can the Minister assure the House that there will be no change in the Government’s policy of facilitating the reunion of families through sponsored immigration, while at the same time continuing the policy of Commonwealth sponsorship of migrants from countries from which there is no tradition of family sponsorship? [More…]
The Prime Minister was unable to accept Bishop Hulme-Moir’s offer, but on 3rd May the Minister for Social Services, accompanied by my colleague the Member for Sydney (Mr Cope), inspected instances of poverty in the Sydney area and on 4th May I joined the Bishop and the Bishop in Parramatta, the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) and Mr Southey, M.L.A., to visit impoverished families at Mount Druitt. [More…]
I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard case histories prepared by Church of England social workers on families visited by the Minister. [More…]
I ask leave also to incorporate the case histories of families which the honourable member for Chifley and I visited at Mount Druitt. [More…]
Families with 3 children in 1949 received in child endowment 11.5 per cent of the average man’s weekly earnings and now receive 4 per cent. [More…]
This is due to a much higher minimum wage which lifts nearly all earners’ families out of poverty, as well as rather more generous pensions. [More…]
Is he saying that the 4i million employees and their families in Australia are not part of the community? [More…]
And as though these examples of crass stupidity and double-talk were not enough, the Government proposes to give Conciliation Commissioners an increase of $84.60 a week, retrospective to November of last year, as the price it is prepared to pay its $16,000 a year Commissioners to exercise wage restraint against the hundreds of thousands of working men whom it expects to maintain their families on a miserable $52 a week. [More…]
Is it not in the public interest for workers to be paid a reasonable wage so that their families will not have to live in poverty? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has also said during some of his contributions in this Parliament that 85 per cent of people in Australia are either workers or families of workers. [More…]
Over wide areas this income fall has been disastrous for thousands of farm families and others in the rural community dependent upon them. [More…]
Druitt which is one of the new suburbs well outside Sydney built with Commonwealth money to house fair-sized young families. [More…]
Albania; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentina; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; China; Republic of Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador - all literate citizens; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic (East Germany); Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia; [More…]
Take, for instance, Andorra where all male heads of families may vote. [More…]
What does he know about the starvation diets on which families have to live? [More…]
I ask the Government who it thinks the trade unionists and their families are? [More…]
If the families of these people are taken into account it can be seen that a major section of the community is involved. [More…]
Child endowment This is paid to families who enter for permanent residence from the beginning of the first 4-weekly period after arrival in Australia. [More…]
If so, is this family one of a number of big families of homeless, jobless and almost penniless Eurasians who are arriving in Western Australia owing hundreds of dollars to airline companies that brought them here. [More…]
Whilst some mixed descent families may arrive in Western Australia with limited funds, available evidence indicates that they quickly acquire employment and accommodation, and those who have taken passage loans make regular repayments. [More…]
This problem has become a tremendous burden on many families throughout Australia. [More…]
In the development of this country people are trying to cope with modern conditions and wives and families are living in areas where, for example, an ambulance is available but they do not have the means to call it simply because the PostmasterGeneral’s Department cannot provide telephone services. [More…]
It is an area in which many young people are trying to bring up big families. [More…]
Now Peter Hazelhurst speaks out about disastrous events in Mohammedpur and Mirpur, suburbs of Dacca, killing, starvation and break up of families of Biharis who have remained in Bangladesh. [More…]
What percentage do these payments represent of estimated costs to these families for the goods and services in each case. [More…]
Since then they have married and have families. [More…]
It is prepared to sacrifice the economic livelihood of thousands of traditional small wool growers and their families in order to support powerful wool broking interests and an inefficient auction system. [More…]
Inter-corps transfers of personnel will be necessary but these transfers will seldom involve changes in station of members or their families. [More…]
Please give your vote for a humane cause so that lonely old people can re-unite with their families or friends wherever these might be, notwithstanding the conclusion of reciprocal agreements. [More…]
Australia has benefited from thousands of such young men and their families coming here. [More…]
Many have small families or are single and they feel that one day they may wish to return to their country of birth. [More…]
Many say goodbye to their families and friends and travel thousands of miles to Australia to commence a new life and the least we can do is to negotiate the best possible deal for them. [More…]
At present many of these aged people are a great financial burden on their families because they cannot obtain fringe benefits under the pension scheme. [More…]
They paid 20 per cent and 30 per cent interest on loans to bring their families with them, while some favoured categories of migrants could hop on a plane and come here with ease and maximum help. [More…]
I know families who have come to this country, the husband of which has decided to become naturalised, but for her own private reasons the wife has been reluctant to do so too quickly, and sometimes many years have passed before she has become naturalised. [More…]
Does he appreciate that this trend will lead to serious socio-economic disadvantages for families where the mother chooses to concentrate on her role as a mother, especially where larger families are concerned? [More…]
They entail real hardships to some individuals and their families, and it is incumbent on industry and on governments - State and Federal - to ease these hardships to the maximum extent possible. [More…]
After all, men who are committed to the education of their children, to the upbringing of their families, suddenly find themselves out of work. [More…]
If it is good enough for people who have families to keep and who have to do so on $52 a week, to receive a $2 a week increase it is good enough for the tall poppies to make their contribution by taking significantly less at a time of wage restraint. [More…]
But if the Government extends its patronage at the expense of those who want it, it cannot expect the people on this side of the Parliament to support it because our policy is to support those in need and to give to them the money necessary to maintain their families in security and happiness in this age of inflation under Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
However, there is no hope of families having discipline in the homes if we, by administrative action, by parliamentary action or as a result of an action by you, Mr Speaker, do not indicate at some point that this sort of thing ought to stop because these children have to grow up in a community where morality is not destroyed. [More…]
That is the situation in which families find themselves these days. [More…]
Over wide areas this income fall has been disastrous for thousands of farm families and others in the rural community dependent upon them. [More…]
Thousands of wool growers and their families and rural communities throughout Australia are in desperate need, but their needs can be met only as a result of Government decision and action. [More…]
Is it accepted that carcinoma of the lung is a disabling disease causing direct economic cost through lost productivity as a result of illness as well as making demands on expensive health services, and are there also indirect social costs caused by the distress, disorganisation and other tensions imposed on families of persons affected by terminal carcinoma of the lung. [More…]
If the Minister is concerned at the small number of low income families who have applied for enrolment in the subsidised health benefits scheme, will he take steps to liberalise the means test which is now denying assistance to tens of thousands of families. [More…]
The income limit applying to low income families under the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan, in respect of free health insurance, is based on the average minimum wage payable under Commonweaalth awards in the various States. [More…]
What percentage do these payments represent of estimated costs for these goods and services to (a) social service pensioners and their families and (b) the other relevant categories of families in each case. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that I ask this question at the request of a great number of the men and their families? [More…]
I can well understand the honourable gentleman’s concern about the impact that the announcement which was widely reported in the national Press during the last weekend has had directly on the men concerned and their families and, of course, on the operation of the plant. [More…]
He went on to point out that 4,000 officers and non-commissioned officers would be found to be redundant and would, therefore, have to be discharged, with all the difficulties that that would create not only for them but also for their families. [More…]
As a direct result of this irresponsible industrial action these men and their families face difficulties, and quite possibly hardships. [More…]
I raise an issue which concerns the question of the poverty survey that the Government has decided to institute and in particular the effect that the cost of health insurance is having on poor families in Australia. [More…]
I refer especially to the failure of the Commonwealth Government’s scheme to offer subsidised or free health insurance to low income families. [More…]
It is getting through to only a very small minority of the poor families who are supposed to be eligible for it. [More…]
The Federal Government is crucifying tens of thousands of low income families in Australia on an outmoded and extravagant system of health insurance. [More…]
1 give just some quick indications of how this scheme of free and subsidised health insurance for low income families has failed. [More…]
I am talking particularly about that section of families which is supposed to qualify for free health insurance when the family income is below $51.50 per week. [More…]
There is a tapered means test up to $51.50 a week, but the latter section does not count because so few of those families are enrolled in the scheme. [More…]
Originally the Government estimated that throughout Australia 180,000 families would be eligible for free health insurance. [More…]
At this stage there are probably no more than 7,000 families, or 4 per cent, enrolled in the scheme. [More…]
In Victoria only 750 families are fully covered with free health insurance, yet on the Government figures there should be 60,000. [More…]
In other words, in Victoria only about 1 per cent of all the eligible families is actually covered by this health insurance scheme. [More…]
I am talking very largely about hospitals in areas where there are many low income families. [More…]
I suppose that in my own electorate there should be at least 3,000 to 5,000 families getting subsidised health insurance but the figures reveal that the position is nothing like that. [More…]
The maximum number of families covered for free health insurance because of low income below $51.50 at the moment is 2. [More…]
The Government is now inflicting another publicity scheme on poor and low income families in Australia. [More…]
The people who suffer the most from the means test are those on low incomes and those who have large families. [More…]
Will the Government take steps to provide funds to ensure that a suitable service of this kind is provided for Service personnel and their families at all Army camps. [More…]
Approximately 1,060 adults and 1,570 children live in Army married quarters in Puckapunyal while approximately 540 adult and 530 child members of Army families live in married quarters in the environs of the town of Seymour. [More…]
(5) and (6) This information is within the province of the Seymour Shire Authorities and relates to their private dealings with individual families. [More…]
The subsidised Home Help Service operated by the Shire of Seymour is available to Army families living in the Seymour area, but not to those living in Puckapunyal pending the outcome of the negotiations in (1). [More…]
Representations to the Victorian authorities resulted in 1970 in extensions of the Home Help Scheme to Army families living in married quarters in the Seymour area outside of Puckapunyal, since when the situation described in answer to part 7 has continued. [More…]
The new scheme will thus provide an incentive to able students and at the same time make available special assistance to those students whose families may find difficulty in maintaining them at school for a full secondary education. [More…]
I hope that this new scholarships scheme for secondary students will significantly assist able children from low income families to remain longer at school than they otherwise would. [More…]
There appears to be reasonable grounds therefore for suggesting that a more effective use of the funds at present devoted to scholarships might be either in adding to the number of tertiary level awards, or in using some form of means test to ensure that awards at the secondary school level go to families likely to be in real need. [More…]
The form of assistance to the States still lacks any Commonwealth approach to create a fund to bring poor schools up to acceptable standards and to assist poor families whose children attend government and non-government schools. [More…]
We propose subsidies to enable these centres to offer reduced fees for low income families and others in special need. [More…]
It should be the right of this substantial number of children from underprivileged families to break some even ground, to overcome the inequalities that exist in this country at the present time. [More…]
I think I mentioned this morning also - if I did not, it remains a fact - that the revised programme of assistance for scholarships will do a very great deal to help an additional number of families to have their children pursue their education further. [More…]
We need to look at the economic conditions of many families who cannot put their children through a secondary education. [More…]
A recent survey of applications for child care conducted by the Sydney Day Nursery Schools Association showed that 40 per cent of all applications were from oneparent families - usually a divorced mother, a widowed mother or a deserted wife - in which the mother had to work to support herself and the children, and that 47 per cent of 2-parent applications were from families in economic difficulties because of high rents, hire purchase debts or debts arising from illness or accident necessitating hospital and/or medical care. [More…]
We must think of the young children born into families of great economic and social deprivation. [More…]
Only 26 per cent of children in non-English speaking families had been to kindergarten. [More…]
The point made in this statement is that while it is very desirable for our normal Australian children to have pre-school education it is all the more desirable so for children of families where English is not normally spoken. [More…]
This is a comprehensive, early childhood education programme for disadvantaged pre-school children and their families. [More…]
It is a comprehensive programme to look after children and their families in deprived areas. [More…]
thousands of whom may never find themselves in employment again; incomes ruined; standards undermined; lives ..wrecked; families broken - all because of. [More…]
This was the time to put purchasing power in the hands of Australian families by restoring the value of child endowment or introducing family endowment. [More…]
What’ I did say in another place was that the majority of taxpayers in Australia would be advantaged if we doubled the concession for families - that is for wives and children - and eliminated all other deductions. [More…]
In which case, how does the Government expect unemployed persons and their families to live on substantially less? [More…]
According/y, it seems to me that the case for unemployment benefit to equal the standard pension rate - at least until the minimum wage is reached in the case of larger families - has become unanswerable. [More…]
On 1 st August this year some representations were made on behalf of families of members of the crew of HMAS Parramatta’. [More…]
A $1 a week increase in the rates of child endowment would have been of much more value to the families of Australia than the increase of $52 a year in the allowable deduction for each dependant of the taxpayer. [More…]
The shadow Treasurer has said that the Labor Party would cut down the allowable tax deductions except the allowable deductions in respect of families. [More…]
The Commonwealth made $4.2m available to the Victorian Government to enable the growers to be paid, to avoid bankruptcies and hardship to families and entire communities. [More…]
The growers face bankruptcy, their families face hardship, the towns’ prosperity is hit hard. [More…]
The position has been aggravated by a series of industrial stoppages which have caused loss and hardship to many thousands of families and have, as a result, retarded our economic development. [More…]
There is no gainsaying that the present rates of death duties throughout Australia are too high and cause hardships to many families. [More…]
Families throughout the country will be greatly helped by the provisions of this Budget not only in regard to taxation but in the whole field of social welfare. [More…]
They then have to earn more and suffer a further reduction of pension or reduce the standard of living of their families while the amount that they have been overpaid is repaid to the Department. [More…]
Families with 3 children in 1949 secured in child endowment a sum equal to 11.5 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
As industry and commercial redevelopment gobbled up workers’ homes in the inner city areas and young couples commenced their families, they were forced to leapfrog over the middle class belt that surrounds the city to the outer urban areas. [More…]
This recent migratory phenomenon of young commuting families to the Central Coast, that commenced with the electrification of the railway to Gosford some 7 or 8 years ago, is only part of the reason for the massive growth rate of the Central Coast. [More…]
When one in every 3 adults and one in every 4 citizens are over 60 years of age, when a large number of the remaining people are young families, when an area has over one million resident tourists per year, when it has the highest motor vehicle accident rate in New South Wales - caused by the Pacific Highway running through the area - and when it has a high incidence of marine accidents, then there is a great demand on its health facilities. [More…]
Throughout Australia there are between 90,000 and 100,000 families waiting for public housing. [More…]
I know that some women wish to work, but other women do not; they wish to look after their families and I do not think that it is right or just that a woman should be forced into this situation, particularly when she does not have a partner to share the responsibilities of parenthood. [More…]
Couples with young families are struggling to raise their families and I know that their main demand in social welfare is an increase in child endowment. [More…]
The Budget provides $5m for child care centres which mainly is to be allocated to centres catering for one parent families. [More…]
Horizontal equity requires that individuals and families in similar circumstances bear the same taxes. [More…]
In this Budget $5m is appropriated to provide accommodation and training for specialised staff to deal with the children of low income and special need families as well as the children of working parents who must leave their child ren, sometimes in the care of friends or relations or sometimes without care at all. [More…]
As I said earlier, the method which the Government has decided to use on this occasion in relation to alterations in the taxation scale has further aggravated and further reduced the living standard of the family man and the man on the lower income as measured against those without families or in comfortable or wealthy circumstances. [More…]
The burden of providing an adequate education for their children is a greater burden to those taxpayers in the far flung and remote areas of the Commonwealth than for families resident in the city. [More…]
The proposed schools will take the children of the families which will be living in this area. [More…]
I have said often that families should accept a greater responsibility for their aged parents. [More…]
More than half of these people would not be in homes if their families accepted a greater responsibility and if more hostels and adequate home care services were available. [More…]
The proposal to introduce new integrated measures to help not only chronically ill patients in nursing homes, but also to assist aged infirm people who can be looked after in a home environment will meet the support of all those Australians who have detected within our prosperous community a tendency for families to avoid their responsibilities to their elderly people. [More…]
the official plan for Sydney with an expected 5 million people by the end of the century would not work unless the 300,000 workers and their families could be moved to country jobs. [More…]
Where is the recognition in this Budget of the fact that some 90,000 families have joined the long and frustrating queue for homes from State housing authorities? [More…]
What is the real dilemma of these families? [More…]
The second problem encountered by these families is the repayment rates, and it is possible to extend these repayment rates over a longer period in order to meet the paying capacity of the families concerned. [More…]
This is the magnitude of money that is going to rural industries in Australia; yet we still have the pathetic and tragic stories of young families coming to the cities because they cannot be accommodated on rural properties. [More…]
But the report of the Commonwealth’s Director-General of Social Services says that the number of children per family endowed is 2.18. and in only one out of 12 families is money coming from the Commonwealth for the third child. [More…]
But it is also true that there are many families who feel deeply a sense of family totality and who make considerable sacrifices to keep elderly relatives within the home even when they may require constant nursing. [More…]
The whole concept has been to stuff old people into nursing homes and not to provide the services which would allow them to stay in their own homes, to stay with their families, to stay in the suburbs where they have been born and bred, where they have reared their children and where they have a spiritual relationship, which is a very important thing and which has been wrecked and shattered to the great disadvantage not only of those people but also of society, because there are social costs involved in this sort of thing. [More…]
If genuine concern had been felt, immediate taxation relief by way of tax deduction for money expended on child minding in day care and family care centres would have been provided; These mothers’ efforts to maintain themselves and their families should be rewarded. [More…]
He has 2 families to support. [More…]
This restricts and retards the future of the children of both families. [More…]
I venture to say that if it had kept pace with and been attached to wages and the current cost structure, we would have had a natural increase in the size of Australian families. [More…]
The strike by the Victorian power distribution employees earlier in the year, caused a loss of millions of dollars to the nation and to the men and their families who were affected by it. [More…]
In view of the unemployment problems in Western Australia, will the Minister investigate the possibility of immediately curtailing further Commonwealth immigration to Western Australia except of those persons who have guaranteed employment and housing or to reunite families and will not displace or add to the employment difficulties of people who are already citizens of Australia? [More…]
Mothers of families will be able to live without the fear of having to meet an assessment for death duties which they know is beyond their capacity to pay. [More…]
The size of the tax deductibility which has been set to favour the family man and to assist oneincome families is not only popular; it is proper, just and immediate. [More…]
I have had many favourable responses in my own electorate from exservicemen and their families, whether they are in receipt of a Service pension or not. [More…]
It will be of great comfort to the hundreds of thousands of people who will reach 65 years of age in the near future and of great solace to their families as well. [More…]
The second point which again was mentioned by one daily newspaper only in Australia was the Government’s decision to impose strict controls on fees charged by nursing homes for the aged as part of the Government’s new plan to assist patients and their families. [More…]
These people might even be restored to more active participation in the community and in their families. [More…]
One can just imagine the tumult from all those children from working class and migrant families when Melbourne Grammar drops its fees from $1,050 a year to $1,025 a year or when Geelong Grammar drops its fees from $1,000 a year to $950 a year. [More…]
So they are asked to lie around the countryside with no work - which they want to have - to live on this miserly unemployment benefit and to keep their families living in poverty just because they cannot get jobs. [More…]
Again the families - the people who are responsible for maintaining this country - are the ones who are suffering most because of the blindness and hardhearted attitude of this Government which through the years has shown scant respect for the family. [More…]
Families have been neglected in this shocking and shameless way. [More…]
The Government has failed the families of Australia. [More…]
I put it to the Government that if there is one area in which this Budget has failed - and failed in a most grievous way - it is in neglecting the children, and also the mothers of families who carry the great burden of high costs at present. [More…]
I am afraid I cannot agree with my honourable friend from Macquarie (Mr Luchetti) when he says that this Government has neglected the families in Australia. [More…]
The sorts of things that are so obvious as symptoms of a general breakdown in our society reach well beyond families. [More…]
As things currently stand, most people, and particularly those with families on lower income levels, would be advantaged if family concessions were liberalised and all other deductions eliminated, and the revenue yield would go up as well. [More…]
The hide of him to stand in this House this afternoon and talk about the workers of Australia and his concern for their security, and to talk about the young families in Australia when all this Government is prepared to do for young families in regard to such an item as child minding centres is to offer them as much as it is prepared to offer the farmers to pull out trees which a few years ago it encouraged them to plant. [More…]
Prime Minister to claim that the Government is genuinely interested in young families. [More…]
Firstly:the Association calls for more Government finance for public housing programmes, especially for cooperative building societies, and secondly, it calls for a reduction in or subsidy on interest rates as a practical means to assist lower income families to- obtain- their own home. [More…]
If the Government is genuine in its desire to help young families where in this Budget is provision made for this? [More…]
Surely it is time to consider such things as 100 per cent loans for low income .families unable to save the required deposit, ‘which would be some where between 10 per- cent and 20 per cent of the cost of a home? [More…]
To most members of the Labor Party and to most members of the community the only real surprise in the Budget is the fact that families have been virtually neglected. [More…]
Families have been neglected and families are the life blood of the community. [More…]
It will be too late, although I predict that something will be proposed by the Government in its policy speech, for some families in the community if they have to wait much longer for assistance. [More…]
Many families in Australia today live close to the poverty line. [More…]
It is literally true that more taxpayers would pay less tax if the concessions for families were doubled and every other deduction was eliminated. [More…]
I do not know of anyone who can accurately determine the statistical evidence in this respect but I am confident that most of those with high savings bank deposits are young people who are perhaps not yet married and are saving up to buy a home, 2 income families and persons in the middle age group whose family is off their hands. [More…]
Some are older with families off their hands, such as the honourable member who interjects and myself. [More…]
They have all the responsibility of bringing up their families and they must do this on the one income. [More…]
Similarly, I suppose, we all remember the Treasurer having his fingers burned earlier this year when he flew a kite about taxing families rather than individual units within a family. [More…]
We could make a payment to large families where mothers have young children and are unable to work. [More…]
We might be able to provide selective benefits to the low income families so that their children could be sent to proper child minding centres, not just somewhere where the children are plonked in front of a television set all day. [More…]
We might be able to give money to the poorer sections in the outer metropolitan areas which, as honourable members know, have rate problems, or we might be able to give money to low income families or to pensioners to help them to pay their rates. [More…]
The House extends its deepest sympathies to the families and relatives of the deceased, and calls upon all countries which participated in the Games to preserve this unique institution from attacks on its competitors and its ideals. [More…]
In regard to the incidence of taxation on the lower income group, especially those with young families and more especially those families in which there is only one income earner, the average reduction overall is 10 per cent. [More…]
The proposals announced in the Budget Speech to provide for the allowance of deductions for self-education expenses, the increase in the minimum taxable income and in dependants allowances, and the reduction in the rates of personal income tax, which will average 10 per cent per annum, will provide substantial reductions in the total income tax payable by all persons, but especially those with families. [More…]
The zone allowances were introduced by a Labor government in 1945 and were opposed very bitterly at that time by the Liberal-Country Party Opposition although they were granted in recognition of and as compensation for the disadvantages which taxpayers and their families suffer by living in zone areas, disadvantages such as the high cost of living, the uncongenial climatic conditions and the isolation. [More…]
So it seems to me that if the court’s decision to grant $300 was correct, then the Government by taxing the allowance is deliberately lowering the living standard of those taxpayers and their families in district allowance areas by $2 a week. [More…]
It was not possible to amend the eligibility level for low income families until the following parliamentary session as the change involved an amendment to the National Health Act. [More…]
The eligibility limits for low income families under the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan have been altered on 3 occasions, 1st July 1970, 1st March 1971 and 5th June 1972. [More…]
As from 1st July 1970, the Government decided to provide also graduated assistance toward the costs of contributing for health insurance to 2 additional groups of low income families. [More…]
The figures for eligible low income families supplied by the Department of Social Services are those as at 3rd January 1972 and for unemployment, sickness or special beneficiaries as at 25th December 1971. [More…]
With regard to migrants, it is necessary to take into consideration that the total figures for migrant settlers do not represent the number of persons entitled to be enrolled in the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan because, in the case of families, enrolment by the head of the family provides Subsidised Health Benefits entitlements for the whole of the family. [More…]
Did this report recommend a variety of educational, health and welfare measures for the benefit of the handicapped and their families? [More…]
The House extends its deepest sympathies to the families and relatives of the deceased, and calls upon all countries which participated in the Games to preserve this unique institution from attacks on its competitors and iti ideals. [More…]
We have expressed our sympathy to the families of the victims, as decent men should. [More…]
People who are now residing in aged persons homes and various institutions for aged people would be far better off if their families had the necessary conveniences to look after them and in another Bill to be introduced into the House, those families will receive $14 a week for looking after aged persons. [More…]
He did not actually mention the balancing figure, but his figures seem to me to leave some 200,000 pensioners who either live with their families or live in adequate rental accommodation. [More…]
We have heard comments this afternoon from various honourable members about the problems of growing old, and the Minister mentioned in his second reading speech the alarming trend in the community for families and relatives to look to nursing homes to solve the problems of the accommodation and care of the aged. [More…]
Mr Wesley-Smith was suggesting the provision of accommodation for the families of Aboriginal teaching students. [More…]
The College will play an increasingly important part in educating Aborigines who, in turn, will be able to influence their families and other Aboriginals in the community to recognise the advantage of a better educational standard. [More…]
A fully effective programme should both keep up with the growth rate in family formation, which is roughly estimated to be of the order of 1,200 new families a year, and overcome at the same time the very substantial backlog. [More…]
I estimate that for the first time the allocation for 1972-73, taken along with what the States are doing with funds from their own resources, should provide enough houses to keep pace with the rate of family formation amongst those families wishing to occupy houses provided by governments. [More…]
The housing programmes aim primarily to assist families, whose children will benefit thereby; a great deal of health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist schoolleavers. [More…]
The aged pensioners and the families all pay the same rate of sales tax as the wealthiest person in the land. [More…]
If that money were used in the state sector alone or the Catholic sector, it could bulldoze and demolish some of the decaying and antiquated inner suburban and country schools where children from working class and migrant families are suffering under the most squalid physical conditions. [More…]
Many of the children from the St Luke’s Toddlers Home are from broken families. [More…]
There is a strong argument for that, because one can argue on the need for decentralisation, that is, the desirability of permanently settling in country areas as many families as possible, that is, settlers who will raise their children in those areas as distinct from, say, itinerant workers and who would form the nucleus of small country towns. [More…]
About 600 members of the Closer Settlement Association and their families have been settled on the land by the Government. [More…]
Those 600 families have said: ‘Well, we will stay by the words of those members as members and not as Ministers.’ [More…]
That is a very nice technical statement, but it does mean that there are families and settlers in those locations who are in trouble. [More…]
If a settler walks off his block, other settlers in the area or their immediate families are given first choice of purchase by paying 15 per cent deposit and taking over the existing mortgage. [More…]
If post-1945 exservicemen were able with priority to establish eligibility to take over existing mortgages, current settlers, most of whom are in their 50s and many of whom do not have families interested in taking over the blocks, could sell to the younger men who are perhaps fitter and more able to keep this part of the fruit industry alive and progressive in the increasingly competitive atmosphere of today. [More…]
Why does the 1971-72 report omit such important information as the 1970-71 report gave on the age groups of men and women who were unemployed for long periods, the areas in which there were concentrations of men and women unemployed for long periods and the number of children in the families of the unemployed? [More…]
It is through the home environment, through better housing and the obtaining of housing soon after marriage that we can assist families in this country to stay together. [More…]
It can best be preserved by maintaining a high rate of home ownership and by assisting our young married couples and their families to save for their own homes and to acquire homes as soon as possible. [More…]
Home ownership is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity for many of our people and it is the right of all families. [More…]
If each of those families had one child it would mean that three-quarters of a million people in Australia have benefited from this legislation in the short period of 8 years. [More…]
It is quite clear that some of the bits and pieces of the cities that do not deserve any attention and do not deserve any precise administration or precise calculation are those bits and pieces inhabited by millions of Australian families and which in fact involve their own homes. [More…]
Potential migrants arc told most families have a car, New South Wales abounds in unspoiled natural beauty, there is plenty of housing- [More…]
For example, at present there are 40,000 families on the waiting list for New South Wales Housing Commission homes. [More…]
I’ll say it would, ls it any wonder that British migrant families are returning home when they find that the advertisements for New South Wales which they answer are absolutely false. [More…]
We have 40,000 families in New South Wales faced with a 4 year wait before they can get a Housing Commission home. [More…]
So one appreciates the personal disaster affecting the people from Mt Druitt, Green Valley, Inala and a host of other fringe housing development areas where large numbers of families on lower and moderate incomes seem to congregate. [More…]
We have had more than enough evidence produced in this place and in other places to show the socioeconomic discrimination which works so oppressively and so terribly against people from low and moderate income earning families that they literally cannot break through the barriers of social and economic discrimination into higher education. [More…]
One can see cases where people from low and moderate income earning families are struggling valiantly to put their children through university. [More…]
It has covered only 93 out of every 100 families it was supposed to cover. [More…]
When the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) introduced the Budget on 15th August last he stated that it was geared to achieve social and economic goals of significance to all Australians and particularly to families. [More…]
There are some working men who have to raise families and pay off their homes on less. [More…]
It is collecting more and more in taxes in aggregate in terms of the gross national product than it was previously but does not give priority to families by way of child endowment. [More…]
Families of various compositions represent various proportions of the standard family. [More…]
Of course, the Act provides for various forms of pensions which are paid to disabled veterans and their dependants and for families of deceased ex-servicemen. [More…]
The Act also provides for medical services, including rehabilitation services, for war caused disablement and to the families of deceased exservicemen. [More…]
Government supporters cannot show me one direction in which the Government has done anything for the children of families, apart from the 75 cents which is granted in respect of the children of war widows, the benefits relating to orphans and a couple of little things like that. [More…]
It is also reasonable in these circumstances that Ministers should be able to bring their families to Canberra and establish their homes here, at least temporarily if they wish to do so. [More…]
This is a very important aspect because on many occasions families engaged in primary production have managed, over a great number of years, to make their farms viable. [More…]
The families of deceased owners will receive greater benefits to which I feel they are entitled. [More…]
This should be examined more carefully to ascertain whether greater benefits can be given particularly to those families in the categories to which I have referred, that is, immediate relatives and those who qualify under the classification of spouse, children or grandchildren of the deceased. [More…]
It has caused great personal hardship particularly throughout the countryside, led to the destruction of family farms and even to the break-up of families themselves in tragic circumstances, trying to meet an impossible tax conceived 2 generations ago and allowed to grow into a mindless, inflexible Frankenstein monster which has devoured and destroyed. [More…]
A saving will be made, but at the expense of the families themselves. [More…]
Farm properties have been built up by the efforts of families over many years. [More…]
failing to provide decent housing for Aboriginal families; [More…]
Paragraph (d) of the amendment moved by the Opposition refers to the provision of decent housing for Aboriginal families. [More…]
He suggested that the rate of new family formation was about 1,100 or 1,200 Aboriginal families a year. [More…]
We believe we have to find out the needs on an individual basis of communities and families. [More…]
There will be hundreds of Aboriginal families who will go to bed cold, hungry, wet, miserable and uncomfortable tonight. [More…]
As a consequence, 30 per cent of the students of United Kingdom universities come from low income families of the United Kingdom. [More…]
We devise a scholarship system which awards scholarships emphatically to those children who are in better off families and in the most privileged schools. [More…]
As we look around at the deprived areas in Australia and the deprived schools about which We of the Labor Party talk we see that they are, typically, in the working class area - the areas with larger families, the areas where both parents go to work, the areas where there is a greater concentration of migrants, areas where there are more families dependent on welfare payments and areas where more children have to leave school at an earlier age. [More…]
This is an urgent problem, where either those children are not getting an adequate education or in many cases the cost of sending them to school is breaking their families, he said. [More…]
Unfortunately, when one speaks of parents and children in outback areas, there seems to be a tendency in some quarters to believe that one is talking about rich pastoralists or cattle kings and their families. [More…]
The major extension of Commonwealth scholarships at both secondary and tertiary levels will help many families and bring the opportunity for wider and higher education within the reach of many more thousands of students. [More…]
Seven per cent or 350 out of the 6,200 children attending state secondary schools and technical schools in my electorate are from families which earn less than $51.50 per week. [More…]
Looking at the new Commonwealth secondary scholarships scheme, the fact that for the first time since 1965 a means test has now been introduced into this scheme is in itself a condemnation of a consistent policy of discrimination in favour of the children from more affluent families. [More…]
I can guarantee right now that not more than 30 per cent of the pupils who will get scholarships in the future will be getting the full allowance of $250, and that is a very generous estimate because the simple fact is that the children who come from low income families do not win these scholarships in the first place. [More…]
What it will mean is that more scholarships will go to children from families with average weekly earnings to the higher income families but the children who are in maximum need in the community will not get assistance at all. [More…]
One of the most notable developments one finds if one travels through the country is that following the vicissitudes the farming industry has experienced over recent years many sons of the farming families, and daughters too, do not want to continue with the vocation of farming. [More…]
The great change here is that the greater part of the assistance will go tolow income families and the, smaller part will be a reward for academic ability. [More…]
This is a significant advance and one which will assist a large number of low income families, and all the talk from members of the Opposition cannot hide that fact. [More…]
Families with incomes not exceeding $51.30 a week are eligible for free health insurance. [More…]
Families with incomes between $54.50 and $57.50 are asked to pay twothirds of the normal contribution rate for medical benefits coverage and public ward charged. [More…]
In talking to teachers and those associated with schools in areas where there are large numbers of children from migrant families, one is depressed by their extreme frustration. [More…]
The first is the long delays in issuing visas, particularly to people who are coming on short term stays to visit their families. [More…]
This can be guaranteed only if we have assisted migration, not if it depends upon families sponsoring their own relations. [More…]
The Catholic schools will not be asked: ‘How many children do you have in this school from low income families?’ [More…]
They will not be asked: “What is the proportion of children who are dependants of widows or deserted wives or what proportion of children come from migrant families?’ [More…]
Some men drive their families out into the woodlands at the weekend. [More…]
What action does the Government contemplate to overcome the needs of children in New South Wales, particularly those in large families, who will be denied any State assistance at all because of the New South Wales means test? [More…]
Quite a few Aboriginal people do not realise the need for a proper system of hygiene or what can be the result of lack of it for themselves and families in the immediate and distant future. [More…]
They include mothers with young families. [More…]
The latter include one-parent families, newlyarrived migrants, low-income groups generally and families where one of the parents is sick or incapacitated. [More…]
The Bill provides for special recurrent grants to enable centres to offer reduced fees in respect of enrolled children from low income and other families in financial need. [More…]
For this purpose, ‘children in special need’ is defined in the Bill - Clause 12 - as children of one parent families, of families in the first 3 years of settlement in Australia, of families where one of the parents is sick or incapacitated, and of families eligible to receive assistance under the subsidised health benefits scheme. [More…]
The circumstances of families placing children in child care centres cannot be predicted in advance. [More…]
The evaluation will reveal what is happening in the centres and what their impact is on the community, on the families involved and on the chilren themselves. [More…]
The quality of child care is important not only to parents who, for one reason or another, choose to work, but also to all parents because in today’s mobile society, with families living apart from grandparents and other relatives, there are many who have nowhere to turn when they are ill or in need of assistance with their children during the day. [More…]
The problem encountered by families in remote areas in educating their children are of concern to me. [More…]
and (2) The number of people who can be accommodated in a migrant hostel fluctuates almost daily according to arrivals and departures, the size and composition of families including the age and sex of children, whether or not rooms are to be shared by members of families, and the number of rooms undergoing maintenance. [More…]
It was considered that most low-income -families receiving child endowment would be contacted in this way, but the lodgment of applications is a matter for action by those families. [More…]
If in fact this happens, intolerable budens will bc placed on the workers and their families, on the State Treasury for the cost of upgrading the train service to cope with one-way peak loads, and on the Commonwealth taxpayer in order to pay for destructive inner city expressways and bridges. [More…]
The Western Australian Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning, Mr Gare, said that a survey had shown that nearly 1,500 families were living in substandard housing in urban areas. [More…]
It seems to me that when we talk about wage rates and working conditions, we should keep in mind that a very large section of the Australian community is either involved directly in earning wages and obtaining good working conditions or their families are relying on it. [More…]
I talk of, for example, sons of dairy farmers upon whom their families have relied for many years to make a living. [More…]
The lads themselves do not object to national service training but their families are in a bad position because they cannot afford to employ other people even if they could get them. [More…]
National service not only disrupts the families of cockies but also the families of apprentices who are undertaking their early training and hoping to be helpful to Australia when they finish their time. [More…]
That is why approximately 90,000 families are awaiting homes on housing commission lists throughout Australia. [More…]
A more direct and immediate effect could have been obtained on the economy generally by stimulating the housing sector- by measures to reduce land prices through greater allocations for provision of essential services; by taxation and/ or direct subsidies to reduce effective interest rates on housing loans: by special allocations to assist lowerincome families to obtain homes. [More…]
25m has been granted to reduce rentals for needy families. [More…]
I recall the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) and the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) stating that the waiting lists for all the State housing commissions total something of the order of 90,000 to 96,000 families. [More…]
I believe that the families of Australia are being forced into a 2-wage economy. [More…]
Of the $l,509m advanced to the States over the 15 years to 30th June 1971, $ 1,024m was allocated to the State housing authorities which up to 30th June 1971 built some 145,000 dwellings with these moneys for rental or sale to families and other persons of low or moderate means. [More…]
It is a general Commonwealth contribution towards the cost to State housing authorities of charging reduced rents to families that they regard as needing assistance. [More…]
It is a sell out of wool growers, their families and the country environments in which they live and operate. [More…]
Will he consider making free membership of medical funds available to families of TPI pensioners? [More…]
In addition, the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) is introducing 3 new measures: Firstly, to give additional assistance to chronically ill aged patients in nursing homes; secondly, to increase the Commonwealth subsidy paid to organisations providing home nursing services; and, thirdly, a new domiciliary care benefit to encourage families and relatives to accept responsibility in their homes for the provision of professional nursing care and supporting services required by an aged infirm person, in order to reduce the demand for nursing home treatment. [More…]
I believe one of the things we have to accept is that the Department must readily co-operate with other authorities - State, semi-government and local government - in providing those services which individuals and families require. [More…]
The waiting period for telephones has created tremendous difficulties, particularly for families living well away from their doctor or any medical attention at all. [More…]
There are 90,000 families on the housing commission waiting lists for homes in Australia. [More…]
Another suggestion was made by the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) that free membership of medical funds should be made available to the families of TPI pensioners. [More…]
The fact is that if a child of one of these unfortunate families in these circumstances turns 16, and if the child has ability and his family and the community generally want that child to stay at school and perhaps go forward to university, the allowance payable for that child ceases immedi ately. [More…]
So honourable members can see that ibis can help obtain a deposit for some families but that is as far as it helps. [More…]
The new nursing home fund benefits are to apply to persons eligible for benefits under the subsidised health benefits scheme, that is, unemployment and sickness beneficiaries, low-income families and migrants within 2 months of arrival in Australia. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House, while not refusing a second reading lo the Bill, is of the opinion: (a) that the Commonwealth Government should take the initiative to establish Child Care Centres to meet the needs of working mothers, and should do this on a basis of priorities, to give maximum advantage to a maximum number of families, rather than leave the provision of this service to the chance interest of employers and local authorities, and (b) that Child Care Centres should be within the province of the Department of Education and Science, and should be part of a pre-school system developed progressively throughout the nation’. [More…]
- or, as an alternative from married women who go into industry, even if they have young families, because of the sheer need for a double income in the circumstances in which the lower income groups find themselves. [More…]
I understand that only about 3 per cent of the student body in Australian universities come from families with a gross income of from $50 to $60 a week, which one might say was the basic wage for a family today. [More…]
I believe that the changed basis of the secondary scholarship proposal which will have a means test attached to it to provide by far the greater part of the total assistance to students from low income families will be a significant help. [More…]
I stress to honourable members that Australia makes double the provision of tertiary places that the United Kingdom makes, that scholarship schemes have been very greatly expanded, that now within universities a greater proportion of students than ever before is supported by Commonwealth scholarships, and that those scholarships for next year and from next year on are to be made available on much more favourable terms than ever before in all their history, again providing the greater part of the support for low income families. [More…]
I would think that the fact that under the old arrangement 40 per cent of the Commonwealth scholarship holders are gaining all or part of the living allowance indicates that they come from lower income families. [More…]
We do know the income groupings of those students with Commonwealth scholarships and quite a number of them come from lower income families. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton has failed completely to recognise the changed basis of the Commonwealth secondary scholarships which out of the total value of the secondary scholarship over 2 years will provide $500 of the $800 available to students from low income families. [More…]
I repeat that no amount of twisting of the figures can get to anything like that figure of very nearly $1,000 which the States and Commonwealth between them make available for students with scholarships from low income families and who attend government schools. [More…]
Completely unfair impositions are placed on their families as a result of the posting turbulence and the general isolation which they too frequently suffer with military postings. [More…]
So the pensioner medical service scheme has been introduced and the subsidised insurance scheme has been created to pay the health insurance costs of low income families. [More…]
Is the Government aware that many primary producers have not qualified for rural reconstruction finance only because of great personal sacrifice on their part and on the part of their families, and that they now need and deserve long term finance to enable them to take advantage of the present favourable prices for many rural products? [More…]
Well, in most cases of desertion, I am glad to say, the husband does return and until there is some clarification and crystallisation of the position it is in the interests of the families concerned that the administration be done at the grass roots level. [More…]
We must consider also that we are unfair to the men and their families who choose to serve voluntarily during some of their prime years of life in this essential occupation. [More…]
There are very great disadvantages for people in the armed forces, particularly for their families, and we should not be grudging in seeing that our Commonwealth institutions, schemes and funds are promptly adapted to encourage people to enlist and to re-engage and to serve in the armed forces. [More…]
a question of Army or Air Force facilities; it is a question also of the effects which those additional families will have on the city or town. [More…]
Mr Speaker, in a personal sense I think we can all sincerely and genuinely wish each other happiness with our families after the ardours of the next few weeks. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition also mentioned the pressures that are placed on our wives and families. [More…]
I wish all members good health and a happy Christmas with their families. [More…]
Will he undertake a comparison with the charges at Narrandera pre-school kindergarten for the children of the 24 families contributing to the kindergarden. [More…]
and Narrandera to enable the 24 families with a 4-year-old already attending to send them to further sessions and to assist the 11 families who wish to send 3-year-olds but are precluded from so doing by the cost. [More…]
A national round of advertising in Press and on radio was undertaken in July following the raising of income limits for families on low incomes. [More…]
The emphasis of my Government’s immigration policy will be on the reunion of families and the welfare of migrants already in Australia. [More…]
My Government has offered immediate financial assistance to the States to increase the number of dwellings under construction for letting to needy families. [More…]
Its aim will be to increase the stock of dwellings available for letting to needy families at rents they can afford to pay, and so to reduce the time an applicant must wait before a government dwellling may be provided. [More…]
These people and their unhappy families neither sought to be, nor wish to remain, among the ranks of the unemployed. [More…]
The difficulty was that Australian families were on the island of Penang. [More…]
When the riots broke out we had to move those families across to Butterworth. [More…]
The Minister said that there will be some amplification of the rules for the use of VIP aircraft by members of Ministers’ families. [More…]
I think it is quite wrong that Ministers arc not allowed to take with them a member or members of their families who are dependent upon them if there is room on the plane and if no additional expense is caused to the Government. [More…]
My Government has offered immediate financial assistance to the States to increase the number of dwellings under construction for letting to needy families. [More…]
When we look at the faceless, impersonal, giant corporation, we see in most cases a callous and cynical machine which has no concern at all for those who work for it, for those who develop it, for those who produce the wealth of its organisation and, certainly, no concern for the families of these people. [More…]
What happens to those employees and their families? [More…]
The rules governing the issue of visas to members of families in the past have caused continuing hardship. [More…]
Rising prices affect pensioners and others on fixed incomes, most families, and a very large section of primary and manufacturing industry. [More…]
With over 2,000 New South Wales Housing Commission homes spread over 13 suburbs in the electorate, there are still almost 2,000 families waiting for Housing Commission homes and facing a minimum wait for them of 2 years. [More…]
The Stirling electorate lies in a coastal belt rapidly spreading northwards from Perth, a microcosm of Australia with its crosssection of old and mushrooming new suburbs filled with new families, of coastal and inland suburbs, with a significant migrant population, and large Government low income housing areas and in the centre of it, a booming light industrial area. [More…]
Pensioners and people of low income families make up a considerable proportion of my electorate and for both of these groups poverty, or the threat of poverty, is an ever present reality. [More…]
I would have liked him to have expressed some feeling for the families who have suffered. [More…]
The jobs of 300 south west timber workers, the future of their families and those who serve them, the future of 30 small sawmills and the well-being of an important decentralised industry must be considered. [More…]
We all know of Aboriginal families who are satisfactorily housed, satisfactorily placed and satisfactorily employed in the community. [More…]
But one could guess that if there are 25,000 to 30,000 Aboriginal families in Australia, some 20,000 of them are inadequately housed. [More…]
This is in accordance with the purpose of the scheme to provide homes for eligible persons with families. [More…]
For the benefit of profit, they argued, a situation should be created in which human beings who are able, willing and ready to work for their families, should be deliberately thrown out of work. [More…]
But in making this provision, we on this side of the House are concerned that the methods used do not destroy the will and desire of those who, with encouragement and assistance, could lift themselves and their families from a position of being dependent on the rest of the community to a position where they are making a positive contribution to the economy. [More…]
For example, the welfare and education of our children and the needs of young families must be of primary importance in establishing pur priorities. [More…]
It is interesting to note in my electorate of Swan that the demand for larger accommodation units is from migrant families who, in some cases, live frugally if not in poverty. [More…]
This situation is highlighted by the findings of the Melbourne survey which indicated that large families with at least 4 dependent children, and particularly those with more than 5, were poor or marginally poor. [More…]
The only chance they have of keeping their families under any sort of decent circumstances is for us to make sure that they get reasonable assistance from the Government. [More…]
The beneficiary under this Bill may be better off than many normal low income families. [More…]
Does he seriously stand in this House and say that he upholds the right for the employment of child labour by sub-contractors who utilise their families, including their children, because of a gap in the arbitration laws whereby families are excluded from those laws? [More…]
It happens in this industry; under age children are employed by their families. [More…]
I know that this money is to go towards the cost of funerals, but many families prior to the death of the member have been existing on pensions without any other income. [More…]
It is into these various types of unit development that families move. [More…]
Because the houses being sold are in the inner metropolitan area low income families have been deprived of low income housing in inner suburban areas, and are being driven to the outer suburban ghettos where they face all the sorts of social problems that the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and other members of this Government are now trying to grapple with. [More…]
Many young families in my area pay $25 to $35 a week in rent and very often they are receiving incomes of less than $65 a week. [More…]
There is no more urgent need than a compensation scheme for people who in the prime of their life for some reason are stricken down, whether it be bv a heart attack or some other illness, and their families left destitute in a short space of time. [More…]
Yet we have discriminated against these people by Government policies because they were in a lower income group and because they had families. [More…]
I might add that the needs survey also did not take into account the specific financial needs of children such as isolated children or Aboriginal children or grants that may be made in the future for children whose families are in need of financial assistance. [More…]
We realise this fact, and we realise that in these changing times many young people who have reached the age of 18, who have left school and who have accepted the responsibility of assisting in the support of their families and in the payment of taxes from their incomes should be given the opportunity to receive the franchise and to have some say in the election of people from their own age group, if they so desire, to this Parliament to assist in the decision making of the nation. [More…]
It will be a matter for each university to determine who should receive, assistance but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide funds to the State housing authorities so that they may quickly build more homes for letting to needy families and persons. [More…]
Consistent with the principles it adheres to, the Government is directing assistance to the more needy - those who are least able to provide adequate shelter for themselves and their families - those who need decent and reasonably-priced rental accommodation. [More…]
I make it clear that I realise that the bulk of the women not in the work force are working, and in many cases working very hard, in their homes in caring for their families. [More…]
Surveys show that 11 per cent of the mothers of 2-child families, 28 per cent of the mothers of 3-child families, 41 per cent of the mothers of 4-child families and 45 per cent of the mothers of 5-chiId families would rather not have had their last-born child. [More…]
A recent Swedish study reveals that children born after their mothers have been refused abortions were far more likely than other children to become members of broken families, inmates of public institutions and recipients of welfare benefits. [More…]
I am in favour of the Bill on the grounds that families who opt to use contraceptives, and particularly those on low incomes, ought not through economic pressures to find the exercise of their choice constrained. [More…]
The contribution towards extending choice in family planning for low income families is a proper social consideration and I believe that the removal of sales tax from contraceptives is justified. [More…]
The technological revolution has freed most women from the heaviest of domestic work, and while most - not all - feel they ought still to be home with their families while they are young, many have been well educated for a non-domestic vocation or, in fact, for a career occupation. [More…]
The relative boredom of a daytime suburban home has thrown up the serious problem of suburban neurosis among young married women with young families and of women whose families no longer require the full time care which formerly, when they were younger, the mother gave to them. [More…]
Apart from the very lowest income families the removal of sales tax on contraceptives will have very little impact on the status role and quality of life of women and very little impact on the net disposable income that remains. [More…]
1 wish to speak also about the problem of the less advantaged families in our community. [More…]
I refer to families which, in many instances, are increasing the number of children within them - families which are aware of the difficulties that they will encounter in giving to their children the care, education and opportunities for the future which they would wish to give. [More…]
There are other families growing in numbers who do not have a realisation of the proper opportunity and equality that should be made available to their children and, for the objective observer, these families are creating a situation in which there is likely to be a perpetuation of the less advantaged people in the community. [More…]
This raises a new problem in our community, namely, that of young people who grow up in single parent families. [More…]
Families who adopt children are screened by profes sional social welfare workers and in most cases are more adequately equipped for parenthood than the natural mother and father. [More…]
Further, it discriminates more against the poorer people - the very people who, because of our iniquitous economic system, need to be protected most from large unwanted families. [More…]
Because of the controls of medical science we have reached the stage where even comparatively small modern families contribute to a very rapid growth in the world’s population. [More…]
In any case, even if families with more than 2 children were harming this country I think that a woman is perfectly entitled to weigh the pluses and minuses and to come to her own decision. [More…]
I know from experience in my previous calling that a tremendous number of delinquents who ultimately become professional criminals come from large families and in all probability were unwanted children who did not receive warmth or affection. [More…]
One of the things that has happened m the structural changes in the proprietary companies is that there has been a great deal of finance invested in companies which previously were to a considerable degree locked in because families were involved over a successive number of generations and as a result of the death of one or another of the early members of the family it was not possible to apply large amounts of capital to develop or to change the basic operation of the former family based company. [More…]
Since 1960 the Commonwealth Savings Bank has lent $li billion to help 228,500 families buy and acquire their own homes. [More…]
Since 1960 the Bank has provided more than $ 1,500m in loans to help 228,500 families buy their own homes. [More…]
In the same speech that I mentioned the Minister said .that there were many families and individuals for whom it is not the right solution. [More…]
On the one hand the Government, through this Bill, has placed the Commonwealth Bank back in the competitive housing loan business, because the Government strongly supports home ownership and wants to help needy families; and on the other hand it says that some cases it is not the right solution. [More…]
All I want to say to him at this stage is that it seems to be the case that for 93,000 families or more home ownership in fact has not been the solution to their problem because it has been inaccessible to them. [More…]
The housing programs aim primarily to assist families whose children will benefit thereby. [More…]
After the February 1971 flood about 20 families were moved from the low lying areas surrounding Moree to what is called the Mehi Crescent and were provided with emergency accommodation in caravans, and 16 of those 20 caravans are still providing shelter for approximately 110 Aborigines - more than 30 adults and 80 children. [More…]
However, a number of families want homes built in their old settlement areas. [More…]
In the school I visited 81 per cent of the children come from migrant families. [More…]
The children of some families leave school and decide that they do not want to work. [More…]
We on this side of the House say that until people who suffer misfortune can re-establish themselves they should be given every opportunity for rehabilitation and that neither they nor their families should suffer financially. [More…]
It will be a matter for each college of advanced education to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that the grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by bread-winners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the bread-winner; loss of earning power by the bread-winner or any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
How many houses are available in the Australian Capital Territory to meet the needs of compulsory transferees and low income families. [More…]
Allocations of houses to low income families are made from suitable houses which may be available at the time. [More…]
It is an area of young people and young families. [More…]
Do we divide houses, families, streets and towns? [More…]
Hie average number of children in no-income families was 4. [More…]
Mostly, these families are in the low income group, and are severely affected by the delays in workers compensation, insurance, Commonwealth sickness and unemployment benefits, and pensions, and worst of all by delays in initial payments of Social Welfare Department assistance. [More…]
Yet, if the children in those families were admitted to State care, the cost to the State would be $60 per child per week, minimum. [More…]
With the families involved this number totals some 9,000 to 10,000. [More…]
These areas are the electorates with higher percentages of migrant population, greater incidence of poverty and higher than average levels of pensioners or oneparent families. [More…]
Not in the country but in the city and rural-urban electorates - in places like Mount Druitt, in the electorate of Chifley, where 70 per cent are under 14 years and in my own electorate of La Trobe, which covers more than 1,000 square miles, with the second largest voting population in Victoria and with a fair percentage of migrants and an above average population of pensioners and one-parent families. [More…]
There is one point to which the Minister did not draw attention - maybe he did not because it overlaps into areas of other ministerial responsibilities - and that is that this problem of migrant children, or of children generally from underprivileged families and underprivileged homes, cannot be tackled or solved solely in the school itself. [More…]
I know of some that have national nights for those of Greek origin or for those of Italian origin so that the families can come along to the school to see what happens and to participate in school activities, and to encourage a real concern for what their children are doing. [More…]
So, when any social or domestic problems strike their families, they are particularly vulnerable. [More…]
In general, wealthy families were able to avoid the payment of death duties more effectively than the less wealthy. [More…]
But we in the Country Party are conscious of the great personal hardship caused to those ordinary families where the farms, the businesses or the homes have all been established by unrelenting application to work and self-sacrifice by the whole family over a period of years. [More…]
1 feel that the Government stands in good light and is in good standing with the whole of the community for removing something which was obnoxious, which did not yield very much to the coffers and which was an impost on a few enterprising people who attempted to do something for themselves in the interests of their families and friends. [More…]
The people who were at the meeting see these others coming into town on payday and spending their cheques on grog and not spending enough money on their families. [More…]
Nonetheless it is most unfortunate that members of the medical profession have sought to inconvenience members of the public, not only people who are likely to be patients but also their families, in a display of medical politics. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s reply a moment ago to the honourable member for Diamond Valley and his expressed concern for an efficient allocation of resources, does he think that this will improve the living standards of the people concerned and their families and lead to a more efficient use of our human resources? [More…]
I was concluding on the point that the public wants us to debate the question as to whether, by the imposition of a contribution, what will in fact be the heavy burden of taxation will be imposed upon the middle and lower income earners and, in particular, upon families. [More…]
This Government rests upon the goodwill of the mass of ordinary working people, their wives and their families. [More…]
Families grow up and cannot be accommodated. [More…]
In addition $ 1.25m per annum has been provided to enable needy families to enjoy reduced rentals. [More…]
Today, according to housing commission applications alone, more than 93,000 families in Australia are waiting for a home. [More…]
Almost half of these families are in my own state of New South Wales. [More…]
The real number of families waiting for homes must be almost half a million. [More…]
There are now about 47,000 families waiting for homes in New South Wales. [More…]
This applies particularly to large families, deserted wives or the aged. [More…]
Families today have one, 2 or 3 cars. [More…]
This Bill, as other honourable members who have spoken have mentioned, provides $6.5m as an emergency grant to the States for the provision of housing for low income or needy families. [More…]
The money provided under this Bill is designed to provide more rental accommodation for low income families and, as I have said, this is a principle with which there would be general agreement on all sides of the House. [More…]
This Bill provides a special grant for the provision of rental housing to low income or needy families. [More…]
1 realise thai misfortunes may befall families or individuals and that circumstances arise as a result of those misfortunes which have a detrimental effect on the standard of living of those concerned. [More…]
I have personal knowledge of many instances in my own electorate where rentals being charged by certain landlords have resulted in the standard of living of many families being drastically reduced. [More…]
I mention this fact because it is clear that with low wages and no control over rents, many Queensland families are placed in an extremely invidious position. [More…]
The United States of America - I do not think anybody would suggest that the United States is a socialist country - has a program of assistance for rental and co-operative housing for lower income families. [More…]
In the United States of America it is recognised that people on low incomes should be assisted in this way, and a scheme has been devised by which the lower rental families are subsidised. [More…]
In 1971, the Canadian Government-financed loan company, the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, was seeking proposals from builders and developers for the construction, ownership and operation of rental housing for low income families in 26 centres in Canada. [More…]
The financing arrangements and the rentals agreed between the Corporation and the builders and developers would provide rental accommodation at below market prices for low income families. [More…]
5m for the provision of finance to the States to build homes, particularly for needy families. [More…]
Because this Government had carefully been assessing over the previous 3 years what its policy should be and because it had realised the great need for cheap houses for needy families, one of its first actions on assuming office was to announce that emergency grants would be given to provide cheap housing for needy families. [More…]
He was fortunate enough to live in a Housing Commission home, not in an affluent area but in an area surrounded by people who were bringing up young families and who were prepared to give everything they could to the education of those families and to give them an opportunity in life. [More…]
They are young people bringing up their families, striving hard to do it, and I am sick and tired of those people who try to rubbish the area. [More…]
In other words we should ensure that cheap housing for needy families is not simply housing. [More…]
It is a poor environment in which to bring up families. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s clumsy efforts to cover up for the Yugoslav Prime Minister are an insult to the Australian people, to the Australian Parliament and especially to the families of the men who were put to death. [More…]
The provisions in this Bill will not only enable the scheme to continue making an important contribution to the national welfare by assisting eligible persons and their families in all parts of the Commonwealth to obtain homes but will also bring the privilege of these benefits and restore justice to many who were previously deprived. [More…]
Honourable members may remember that in the original second reading speech I spoke about families whose income had been annihilated by drought and bushfire and so on. [More…]
I said that it will be a matter for each university to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside thencontrol such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary income; the annihilation of family income in flood, drough or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason and so on. [More…]
The State of New South Wales produced a situation in which fees rose by I6i per cent, and this came as a very heavy blow at one university where the income of many families was seriously affected by drought. [More…]
It is noteworthy that in this Bill not only students from low income families can expect aid, but also special circumstances such as death, injury or serious illness of breadwinners can also be used as qualifications for financial assistance. [More…]
From an administrative point of view, I think it would be preferable to involve high school principals in the decision of need because, firstly, they have generally known students and their families for up to 6 years in an educational relationship. [More…]
You will appreciate the difficulties in catering for these boys, the estimated number within the range of 20 to 25 for each course, due to the fact that many come from low income families and will be unable to attend full time courses unless they obtain some living allowance. [More…]
This is essential for low income families. [More…]
Of course, there are always minority groups coming from low income families and families that perhaps do not place sufficient emphasis on education. [More…]
It is also desired to give parents a full understanding of the reasons why their children need a higher level of training than has been required in the past so that they will provide encouragement for their families to become more highly qualified. [More…]
These employees, and their wives and families who may be dependent on them, number about 500,000. [More…]
They fought for the right to provide sufficient food, clothing and shelter for their families. [More…]
The third was that it is unlikely for workers to inflict loss of earnings on themselves and their families without feeling that they have good reasons for the action they are taking. [More…]
I am not in a position to challenge him as to whether that is right or wrong, but I would point out to the right honourable gentleman that whatever was achieved was achieved at very great cost to the 130,000 Australian families which at that time found that a member of the family was unemployed. [More…]
They wanted an end to industrial warfare which disrupts industry, hurts men and their families, weakens the national economy and above all pits Australian against Australian in unremitting conflict in the false name of the class struggle. [More…]
Union representatives will be able to picket private individuals’ homes, to parade up and down the street intimidating wives and families, throwing stones on the roof. [More…]
They have the right to take their families with them. [More…]
The present Government has announced that its main criterion in selecting migrants will be the unification of families, and that migrants should be nominated by families already in Australia. [More…]
To the malice of an assault on innocent life the Bill in its present form adds the malice of assault on marriages and families. [More…]
We need a new concern for assistance to children in poor families. [More…]
In May 1969 there were 413,900 families in Australia with children under 12 without a parent during working hours. [More…]
I want to go on record here and now as saying that it is my belief that the current inflationary spiral will need some of this rather drastic treatment in time to come if the families and wage earners are to have their costs kept at a reasonable level. [More…]
The very existence of people downstream, their families, expansion, irrigation requirements and settlement - as in my own State, the very existence of the people of Adelaide - are dependent upon water going downstream in the River Murray in a non-polluted state. [More…]
Parents with well-based fears of disease are denying their families access to the creeks and rivers which once played such an important part in the experience of an Australian childhood. [More…]
The Cities Commission will see that the sites selected for these cities are the best available and that they are equipped at the outset with the diversity of employment, accommodation, recreation and education which they will need to attract families from the present State capitals. [More…]
I do not know where the idea of a Cities Commission fits in with the Labor Party’s idea of reducing the immigration intake and its advocacy of a zero population growth, limiting families to 2 children, as has been stated by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on various occasions How do we build a country in that way and how will development survive? [More…]
I am a former contributor and I know of a number of contributors who, because they had growing families and could not raise the necessary finance to commence the purchase of a home, decided to use the accumulated money they had in the Superannuation Fund. [More…]
I wish to refer to a matter concerning a Mrs Young of my electorate who belongs to an association called the Australian Adoptive Families Association. [More…]
The biggest problem faced by these families, or at least the individuals, who wish to adopt the children, the dispossessed, the orphans of Vietnam is to validate the adoption through the State authorities. [More…]
special assistance to individual Aboriginals whose regular income is insufficient to enable them to provide adequately for themselves and their families; [More…]
I would be disturbed indeed if I thought that any of my Ministers held shares in companies in those circumstances or if they had adopted the device of transferring them to their wives or dependent members of their families. [More…]
Unlike the housing assistance offered to the States by the former Government, we propose, and the Agreement provides, that our assistance will henceforth be directed towards those families and persons most in need of it. [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with our advances will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main bread-winner - exclusive of any overtime and child endowment payments - does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as defined in the Agreement. [More…]
Those eligible will be mainly the lower income families who are paying too high a proportion of their incomes in private rents or are living in unsatisfactory accommodation. [More…]
These families and persons include the majority of those in need of decent accommodation at a modest price. [More…]
The Agreement also provides that each State will ensure that the number of family dwellings allocated by its housing authority to families who satisfy the needs test shall not be less than the total number of family dwellings built with our advances and become available during the year for allocation for the first time, and 25 per cent of the number of family dwellings constructed by the States with financial assistance under this and. [More…]
Indeed, we are most concerned to ensure that the benefit of our housing assistance in the form of a relatively very low rate of interest be passed on to needy families and persons. [More…]
I have suggested to the States that rents charged to families with incomes close to the upper limit of the needs test should not exceed 22 per cent of those incomes and that the proportion of income paid in rent should be reduced as income declines. [More…]
Whilst the Government is firmly convinced that those most in need of housing assistance are families and persons who are seeking rental accommodation, we are certainly not opposed to home-ownership. [More…]
Under the proposed Agreement up to 30 per cent of the family dwellings built by housing authorities with our advances may be sold at a fair price to families who satisfy the needs test. [More…]
For the most part, these will be families who would be unable to borrow privately the finance they need to own their own homes. [More…]
We have not overlooked the most helpful role of the cooperative terminating housing societies in assisting lower income families to own their own homes. [More…]
In line with our policy of ensuring that our housing advances for welfare purposes benefit the more needy, applicants eligible to receive home builders’ account advances will be families consisting of a married or engaged couple, or a single parent or guardian with one or more children, where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner, inclusive of overtime but excluding child endowment payments, does not exceed about 93 per cent of average weekly earnings, plus $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
When renovated, they can not only provide decent homes for families for many years, but can also improve the quality of the residential environment. [More…]
It is the policy of the Government to avoid the development by State housing authorities of estates in which almost all the residents are in receipt of government housing assistance, and there is a tendency on the part of some people to regard families living in those areas as being second class citizens. [More…]
As, under the agreement, it is proposed that the Commonwealth Minister will determine the amount of welfare housing advances to a State during the next 5 years, the Australian Government will be able to ensure that an increasing flow of finance will be available to the States to enable them to expand the construction of homes for needy persons and families. [More…]
This project would take out of the metropolitan area approximately 1,000 employees and their families into a pollutant-free environment and provide a wonderful opportunity for the economic use of many natural resources within the Central Gippsland region. [More…]
The previous Government was committed to measures with respect to retraining and reconstruction but many of the 8,600 farmers and their families who left the land over the 5 years up to 1971-72 were virtually forced off their land. [More…]
Perhaps only time will tell, and in 20 years time people may point to the speech I have made today and say that as there has been no increase in the number of broken families and no increase in the number of divorces in our society I was well and truly out of touch. [More…]
I wish them all the best of luck and hope that there will be no increase in the number of broken families which unfortunately exist in our society today. [More…]
Already the legislation of the Commonwealth, through broadening for social security purposes the definition of the term ‘widow’, provides for families other than those where the family is fatherless as a consequence of the death of the father. [More…]
I wish to express my grave concern about the increasing financial pressures being imposed upon the single income 2-parent families. [More…]
Whilst I support this legislation for what it will do for the children of fatherless families, I do urge the Government to look into the establishment of a far more comprehensive family benefits scheme whereby young mothers with very young children can, in effect, be paid to be at home providing the care that they wish to give to their children so that, instead of the community having to pay for substitute mothers, the natural mother of the child can provide care at home, certainly during the infant and pre-school days. [More…]
We now have a situation where a widow or a person in receipt of this supporting mothers benefit will receive an income considerably more in excess of the acknowledged poverty levels than similar 2-parent single income families with dependent children. [More…]
I think we need to look at them in a more sensible fashion and to adjust the benefits at levels according to the needs of the families to enable them to spread their earning capacity in a way which permits them to provide their children with a reasonable standard of living at all stages of the family’s development. [More…]
But I do want to place on record today the need for us to examine the deserving demand of the families of the nation in order to place them in a position where they too can have financial benefits to provide their children with the home care and mother care which are so essential to their educational development. [More…]
If the benefit were across the board - available to the children of all families - such an intrusion of the private lives of people would not be necessary. [More…]
Is it a fact that the plan which he announced in early December 1971 to remove 14,000 woolgrowers from the countryside involves families exceeding 40,000 people. [More…]
ls it a fact that the plan which he announced in early December 1971 to remove 14,000 woolgrowers from the countryside involves families exceeding 40,000 people. [More…]
I think it is a bit pathetic if, because some honourable members opposite are being found out in regard to their repudiation of an agreement, they now intend to follow a course of action presumably taken officially on behalf of the Opposition, which would have the effect of preventing the 95,000 families who are waiting for housing commission homes around Australia from getting the assistance they urgently need. [More…]
Th:s Bill will do nothing to alleviate the distressing spectacle of 100,000 families, or thereabouts, comprising the waiting lists - the increasing waiting lists - for State housing authority homes. [More…]
I simply say that if honourable members look around their own electorates, friends, acquaintances and families they will know from their own experience many examples of the kind of situation to which I am referring. [More…]
It is urgent that active measures be introduced to help young families. [More…]
Young families must be assisted to maintain and, where possible, to raise their standards of living. [More…]
Continuously the difficulties of these choices were placed before these 2 young families. [More…]
I think the time has come when we need to examine urgently the resources made available to young families. [More…]
At the same time they want to do the best for their children, and they cannot do the best for their children if one of the heaviest burdens upon them is the burden of maintaining the home within which they wish to bring up their young families. [More…]
I believe the community as a whole accepts that it is in the best interests of the community, the children and the families who make up the community that the mother should be at home to care for her young family. [More…]
This legislation recognises that we must reappraise many of our social welfare measures to ensure that inherent in them are no side effects which will put impossible burdens upon the normal families in the community. [More…]
This Bill is particularly welcome to those of us who established homes in developing areas in the post-war period, who have brought up families in those developing areas and who in many instances have served on the local councils of those areas. [More…]
This would mean little difficulty except that certain local government areas may face special difficulties as a result of an influx of migrants or young families who place greater demands on community services than do older people because the extra people outnumber the extra ratepayers in any such increase. [More…]
As I mentioned when speaking on the second reading of the Housing Bill and also on the Defence Service Homes Bill, the fact that nearly 100,000 families are waiting for homes is something that needs urgent and immediate attention. [More…]
The need for good quality, low rental accommodation for families with low incomes is easily understood when one considers the economic factors operating in the housing industry at present. [More…]
As the Minister for Housing has stated, ‘unlike the housing assistance offered to the States by the former Government, we propose and the agreement provides that our assistance will henceforth be directed towards those families and persons most in need of it’. [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by the State Housing Authorities with our advances will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinners will not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as defined in the agreement and, where the family includes 2 or more children, this will be increased by $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
Those eligible are mainly the lower income families who are paying too high a proportion of their incomes in private rents or are living in unsatisfactory accommodation. [More…]
For an appalling number of people, both individuals and families, home ownership is just not available. [More…]
Whilst the Government is firmly convinced that those most in need of housing assistance are families and persons who are seeking rental accommodation, we are certainly not opposed to home ownership. [More…]
Under the proposed Agreement up to 30 per cent of the family dwellings built by the housing authorities with our advances may be sold at a fair price to families who satisfy the needs test. [More…]
For the most part they would be families which would be unable to borrow privately the finance they need to own their own homes. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned that 85 per cent of the homes built by State housing authorities with Commonwealth Government advances will be allocated to families whose income does not exceed a particular figure. [More…]
The Bill provides that 85 per cent of homes built by State authorities must be provided for low income families. [More…]
To the 93,000 families now on the waiting list of the various State housing commissions, or whatever they are called in the respective States, this probably is the most important Bill that will come before this Parliament. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the legislation provides that no fewer than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with Commonwealth funds will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner does not exceed 85 per cent of the average weekly earnings per employed male unit. [More…]
Those who will be eligible will be mainly the lower income families who are paying too high a proportion of their incomes in private rents or whose accommodation is of an unsatisfactory nature. [More…]
Under the beading ‘Immediate Funds for Housing Agreements Soon’, which I believe is a presumption, the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) says that the purpose is to provide housing for letting to needy families and persons, which is already a State housing commission role. [More…]
I want to stress, however, that according to the means of the parents, under the Commonwealth’s isolated children’s scheme it would be possible for a Commonwealth scholarship holder to get $150 plus $350 and the $654 of the isolated children’s grant, this being the full potential for families whose means justify the total grant. [More…]
Just before Christmas, Aboriginal families, especially the children, had a real doing with scabies. [More…]
I have heard that families right up to Echuca and Wallaga Lake have them. [More…]
The wage and salary earners of the nation, and their families, who derive their livelihood from employment in the factories, the mines, the farms, the shops and the commercial enterprises of this nation will see and experience the effects of that alarm and uncertainty in their own way. [More…]
Their proposal is that people with families - people paying out for hospital and medical expenses and insurance for the future - are to lose those deductions. [More…]
If the Government has serious concern for the problems created for working women in caring for their families it ought to be more closely examining the concept of work recycling as distinct from the total number of working hours on a 5-day week basis. [More…]
Throughout society today there is certainly a conflict between the traditional role of women and the opportunities now available to women as a consequence of education, smaller families and the greater range of suitable work provided by modern technology. [More…]
The position really is that the previous Government ignored the difficulties of families. [More…]
That sort of approach is not one which is consistent with allowing the Opposition to attack this Government in its concern for families and those members of families who are forced to work. [More…]
The ILO Convention is designed to overcome discrimination against married women in employment who have families, and this legislation certainly does that. [More…]
The concept of this Bill is to make life a little easier for those families of which the mother has to work. [More…]
In addition to the recommendations amounting to $660m referred to above, there will be in 1974 to 1975 substantial expenditures arising from existing legislation: $4.5m for nongovernment school buildings; $11.5m for secondary school libraries; $16.5m for science laboratories in both government and nongovernment schools; and considerable outlays on expanded programs for the education of Aboriginal children and children of nonEnglishspeaking families. [More…]
I support any benefits scheme that will allow these people on retirement to remain part of the community; which will provide to them allowances which will allow them to continue to live where they are happy, and I support the provisions of the legislation in which the commutation provisions will, if they wish to take this step, allow them and their families to start a new career or business enterprise. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: In addition to his comprehensive program for social welfare will he give urgent consideration to the problems of families, and the need to provide increased family assistance so that mothers will not be compelled by economic circumstances to seek employment which would disadvantage her children? [More…]
Some of them are permanent residents whose families have held the land for 2 generations. [More…]
The figure, calculated by the Reverend Peter Hollingworth, is the sum of a statistical breakdown of the under-privileged into numerous categories - civilian and service pensioners, unemployed, chronically ill, widows and single parents and many thousands of families whose total income from gainful occupation or from assistance schemes is below $50 to $60 a week. [More…]
The composition of the cases in the area is as follows: Deserted wives 335; unemployed 193; people on sickness benefits 51; husbands in gaol 11; temporary crises 174; pensioners 302; unmarried mothers 64; advice only needed 273; referrals from other agencies 28; home visits by Smith Family welfare officers 111; migrants 870; food parcels as family hampers 206; food parcels as small hampers 98; clothing issued 694 families; furniture issued to 86 families; and food vouchers for perishables issued to the value of $146. [More…]
The Government’s immigration policy is designed to give priority to the re-union of families in Australia. [More…]
The Rental Assistance Grant is a general Commonwealth contribution towards the cost to the State housing authorities of charging reduced rents to families they regard as being in need of this special assistance. [More…]
I remember that as Minister for Immigration he was an extremely kindly man to immigrant families whose cases were presented to him, as I presented some in my first years here. [More…]
He brought to that particular Ministry a wealth of experience and personal knowledge of the problems of repatriation and rehabilitation, and a particular sensitivity to the needs of returned men and their families. [More…]
The disadvantages faced by servicemen and their families are not widely enough appreciated. [More…]
I refer to soft drinks - that commodity which is so important to all school children, to mothers with families and to everyone else. [More…]
Only about 4 in every 100 families who are supposed to be covered have in fact been covered. [More…]
Detailed programs will then be developed to implement the Government’s objectives that all children are given the opportunity of one year of preschool and that child care facilities are established to meet the needs of the children of working parents and under-privileged families. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government, as announced in the Budget Speech, will provide $60m assistance to the States by way of repayable loans, and $30m is promised by way of grants for the establishment of land commissions designed to provide Australian families with land at fair prices. [More…]
Should those figures be related to food prices which affect all families alike but particularly pensioners, basic wage earners and the battlers, the people whom the ALP claims to represent, the picture is far worse. [More…]
His Government - of which he was Treasurer, let, us not forget - had the opportunity to halt inflation but his cure was to take jobs from Australian workers and to deprive their families of a decent living standard. [More…]
Because of engineered unemployment during the term of the last Liberal-Country Party Government, and the Leader of the Opposition’s efforts as Treasurer, misery was brought to about half a million Australian workers and the families which they had to keep. [More…]
I was pleased to hear the Treasurer refer to the setting up of land commissions designed to provide Australian families with land; at fair prices. [More…]
I have no doubt that statements by the Treasurer relating to housing are welcomed by low income families, young couples and other persons purchasing a home. [More…]
If so, will he also investigate the possibility of making the homes so purchased available to young families to preserve the balance of population in the areas and to utilise the services available. [More…]
If so, have the necessary arrangements been made to accommodate properly officers and their families from the date of transfer? [More…]
It will disadvantage lower income families by failing to lower income tax scales in the face of Government induced inflation and by failing to offer assistance by way of tax concessions or additional child endowment. [More…]
The Budget forces lower income families, pensioners and superannuitants to bear the main burden of Labor’s spending spree by imposing a wide range of indirect taxes and charges. [More…]
The Government would be loath to continue with a scheme that leaves a very large section of the community unable to contribute to it and so having no health insurance for their families. [More…]
But more important he virtually forgot the betrayal of rural interests by his own Government which resulted in 30,000 farmers and their families being run off from the. [More…]
land, including families from my own electorate. [More…]
In today’s affluent society many average families possess 2 cars, many have one car and perhaps a boat, and many have only one car. [More…]
Independence, the livelihood of thousands of families, and quite a bit of old fashioned rugged freedom will be burnt in the process. [More…]
And it is not to be compared with Melbourne Grammar which was put up in roughly the same year - housed nearly 800 children, more than 40 per cent of them from non English-speaking families, and 33 of them Aboriginal, on a site of 1.2 acres. [More…]
A new program of financial assistance totalling $ 1.75m has been introduced for low income families and $9. [More…]
Special assistance programs may need to exist for the mentally handicapped, for single parent families or for the aged - sometimes in the form of income support payments or pensions and sometimes in the form of sheltered workshops or counselling services of some kind. [More…]
We also note that in- the Budget the Treasurer is prepared to make allowances of up to $304 a year for children from low income families. [More…]
The lives of families in those areas and in particular the lives of elderly people there are overshadowed by the fear that in the case of serious illness people will not be able to get in touch with a doctor, or if indeed they are able to get in touch with a doctor he will not be prepared to answer thencall. [More…]
Together, the Australian and State governments can achieve what all Australians would want them to achieve - to give Australian families access to land and housing at fair prices. [More…]
At least 5 per cent of Australian families earn less than even the basic wage, whereas more than 5.000 Australians earn in excess of $20,000 a year - a combined income that would be greater than that of over 420,000 pensioners. [More…]
A supposed sign of universal affluence is that there is about one car for every 2 people in Australia, yet a Melbourne transportation survey discovered that 63.2 per cent of low income families did not own motor cars whereas 42.8 per cent of high income people owned at least two cars per family. [More…]
In Australia the likely members of such an under-class are mainly Aborigines, deserted wives and widows with young families, pensioners and large low income families. [More…]
To enable children in this group to attend the last 2 years of secondary school an allowance will be paid to low income families. [More…]
This section of our community is unfairly disadvantaged, not just those on old age and other pensions but everyone on superannuation and fixed incomes who are not in a position to take any steps to protect themselves and their families from the ravages of inflation. [More…]
There are over 280 families in the Barraba community, a small country community, dependent on this industry. [More…]
What has he done to retard the trend by which inflation forces into higher tax brackets the low and middle income earners, the great majority of Australian families? [More…]
Under the present inflationary pressure growing numbers of families find themselves unable to reconcile the financial difference between the childless 2-income situation of early married life and the single income situation that comes with parenthood. [More…]
The financial commitments for young families are heavy and by this Budget they have been made heavier. [More…]
The low and middle income earners comprise the great majority of young Australian families. [More…]
All are uncertain as to whether they will be further burdened by the withdrawal of concessions now available for education expenses and for the cost of insurance which enables them to protect their families. [More…]
We will also automatically cover unemployed people, certain pensioners and large families on low incomes. [More…]
This is part of our overall plan to increase the attractiveness of the Northern Territory as a place for families to live and put down their roots. [More…]
A couple of examples in the field of education are the $304 per annum means tested educational allowances to assist the children of low income families to complete the final 2 years of secondary school, and the grants to provide additional places for much needed trainee social workers. [More…]
I cannot refrain from expressing my support for the special assistance to be given to children from disadvantaged families and to the many schools throughout many areas of this nation whose facilities are not yet up to the appropriate standard. [More…]
the provision, adequacy and viability of pregnancy support services, adoption services, counselling and other forms of assistance for families, mothers and mothers-to-be, given the social, economic, medical and social welfare problems in which they may find themselves involved. [More…]
We should be no less appalled by the social, economic, medical and social wefare problems which make of pregnancy not a human joy but an economic disaster for many families, mothers and mother-to-be and by the shortcomings in sex education and family planning services of which abortion is but one sympton. [More…]
Whereas 5 out of every 10 Australian children are born as a result of unplanned pregnancies, among low income families 6 out of every 10 children are unplanned. [More…]
Whereas only 11 per cent of the mothers of 2-child families would rather not have had their last-born child, 28 per cent of the mothers of 3-child families, 41 per cent of the mothers of 4-child families and 45 per cent of the mothers of 5-child families would rather not have done so. [More…]
Any amendment which seeks to insert into the terms of reference matters such as housing, child minding facilities, pre-school facilities, domestic assistance for families and working mothers, the social status of women in the community and other assistance to women employed in industry will be seen as an attempt to replace an investigation of specific, pressing and practical problems with an inquiry into the whole human condition. [More…]
Such pressures should be examined having regard to the adequacy of (i) housing, (ii) child-minding facilities, (iii) pre-school facilities, (iv) disabilities of families with handicapped children and the means of assisting them, (v) domestic assistance for families and working mothers, (vi) adoption procedures, (vii) assistance to single parent families, (viii) social status of -women in the community and (bt) other assistance to mothers employed in industry. [More…]
The problems of working mothers, of single parent families and the need for social welfare support are all highly relevant. [More…]
When we investigate, in accordance with the amendment, all circumstances relating to abortion and children and families, I hope we will also find time to spare a thought for those women who prefer to have their unplanned, possibly illegitimate babies rather than face an abortion. [More…]
It could produce remarkable results for children and, certainly, for our families. [More…]
If we can make the lot of women, children and families any easier and their lives any happier, surely even the most shortsighted and cynical male will be lucky enough to derive residual benefits from such a changed world. [More…]
We want an inquiry into the provision, adequacy and viability of pregnancy support services, adoption services, counselling and other forms of assistance for families. [More…]
His motion provides no machinery and no intent for a really comprehensive inquiry into social, economic, medical and social welfare problems of families. [More…]
Paragraph (d) refers to the question of housing and whether some particular assistance ought to be given to families; the question of the ability of the parent, whether single or married, to provide shelter for the child; the question of child minding facilities to which I have already referred; to pre-school facilities; the question of disabilities of families with handicapped children and the means of assisting them; and the question of domestic assistance for families and working mothers. [More…]
There are many people in the community, such as young marrieds with families to support, homes to establish and pay off and a future to be made, who have less income than this but are denied such benefits. [More…]
Taxation on means test free pensions is necessary in order that aged people in the higher income groups are not put in a privileged position as compared with other aged people who have little other income and with young people who are raising families. [More…]
If the age allowance were maintained we would have the position of struggling young families being worse off than a married couple on the full pension. [More…]
However, many families which have a house to be paid off, as well as rates to be paid, when the breadwinner dies, are as impoverished as anybody. [More…]
With the various provisions for assistance to people such as unmarried mothers and widows, we are rapidly reaching the stage where the Government must look seriously at some proposition to assist those mothers who do not qualify for any form of assistance but who prefer to stay home and rear their young families in the best manner possible - that is, by being with the children at home - instead of chasing financial gain by going out to work. [More…]
But with all due respect to their position - and I do appreciate their position - before we get as angry about that as have the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) and the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) I believe we should not ignore the position of younger families in similar financial circumstances. [More…]
According to the Bureau of Census and Statistics report very large numbers of the work force supporting young families are in that category. [More…]
The scheme will be cheaper for three out of 4 families and, where there is a working wife, for seven out of 10 families. [More…]
The Department of Social Security has advised me that because of the income cut off point and because of the way in which the subsidised health insurance benefits are described to benefit families as distinct from individuals, a great number of pensioners would be excluded from subsidised health insurance benefits. [More…]
Basic foods are rapidly becoming a luxury for many low income families. [More…]
For instance, of what use are programs for the aged, except in a limited way, in the rapidly burgeoning areas in the fringe suburbs of our cities where young families often on low and inadequate incomes are congregated? [More…]
Similarly, the reverse situation would apply if a rigid commitment were made as a matter of centralised policy making that the priority would be given to programs for the needs of the young families while the needs of the aged were ignored. [More…]
In addition, the rapid price increases have placed burdens on persons on low incomes, persons on fixed incomes, larger families and pensioners. [More…]
Whatever work we do we are all Australians with some common objectives and hopes for ourselves and for our families. [More…]
Under this system those in the Australian workforce and their families have had a protection for their wages, incomes and conditions of work unparalleled throughout the world. [More…]
About 11,100 families are receiving assistance under the isolated childern’s scheme and this involves about 15,500 children. [More…]
Of the 11,100 families receiving assistance, about 4,223 families, or 40 per cent, are receiving more than the basic $350. [More…]
The Australian Government’s Department of Education has sent circulars to about 2,800 families indicating that possibly they are entitled to the further additional assistance of $304 for secondary students or $200 for primary students beyond the $700. [More…]
The Australian Government at present is allocating $100,000 a year to enable families on correspondence who use transceivers to turn over to the new transceiver. [More…]
Interestingly enough, though the paternal families were consulted, the arrangement was usually much more between the maternal families of the boy and girl. [More…]
This impoverished situation exists not only in Aboriginal families but also in white families which are in similar positions, but, of course, it is much more predominant in Aboriginal families. [More…]
Frankly, given the universal acceptance that no improper motives or activities by management committees could possibly be involved - on the contrary that they have earned the highest respect and gratitude of residents, their families and the Government alike - I have never been able to understand the general reticence of management committees on this question of taking residents into their confidence. [More…]
There are many families who are in need of domestic help and who do not meet the criterion of age. [More…]
Most of them are pioneers who have paid their taxes over the years, who have reared their families, who have accepted their responsibilities in the past and who are now happy to stay in these homes, in which they are extremely well cared for, without having to accept any responsibilities. [More…]
Those men were there because they felt their entire future - the future of their farms, the future of their families, their lives and their lifetime investment - was in doubt. [More…]
This movement of staff will cause a lot of heartburning and disruption of homes and families and possible setbacks in the careers of the displaced staff members concerned. [More…]
Mr Speaker, this evening I wish to draw to your attention and to the attention of the House the added burdens that are being imposed by the present Government on young families of this country and in particular young families in South Australia. [More…]
These burdens are being imposed in many directions on young families seeking to establish homes, to buy them, to build them, to set them up and to bring up young children. [More…]
But there is another area in which young families in South Australia are bearing a particular burden. [More…]
As a consequence, young families expecting children are now faced with an added burden. [More…]
This is an indirect form of placing an added burden on young families which the Government indicated it would assist when seeking election prior to 2 December 1972. [More…]
Baker, the Prices Commissioner in South Australia, are, as he claimed, the recommendations of an expert, will he ensure that the Government contribution is such that added burdens are not placed on young families in South Australia? [More…]
If the Minister will not provide money to enable the difference to be made up out of government resources, will he grant approval to the benefit organisations in South Australia to increase their premiums so that the burden on young families, who seek general practitioner attendance on confinements, can be reduced from $25 to $5, as is the case now if a young mother seeks specialist treatment? [More…]
From October 1972 there were 50 Ugandan Asian families in the ‘Endeavour’ hostel in Sydney and I think all honourable members will be pleased to know that only 10 families remain at the hostel. [More…]
It was pitiful to see the families which had spent years and years in the Latrobe Valley having to send their children away from home to get employment because employment opportunities had ceased as a result of the sabotage of the industry to which I have made reference and to which our friend has been alluding. [More…]
It is apparent to all that the program has been controlled by the motive of securing an affluent economy for the nation and virtually nothing has been done towards securing the welfare of migrant families. [More…]
At the age of fourteen or fifteen years, when they are most in need of communicating with their families on the abstract and complex ideas of higher education and its demands, they find themselves unable to do so. [More…]
Some schools in these areas have up to one-third of their total enrolments made up of migrant children or children of migrant families. [More…]
The needs of children from migrant families whether they be Australian-born or not is one such area and the Australian Country Party is pleased to give its support to this Bill. [More…]
They must be in the schools and they must be part of that bridge building, which has been referred to, with the families. [More…]
We are talking of the families involved. [More…]
Planning must be on a regional basis, not for large institutions, and be planned well away from families. [More…]
The present residential centres are seriously overcrowded and understaffed and yet they are still being pressured to admit more patients by families who are waiting in desperate circumstances for a bed. [More…]
It is only when we come in contact with these desperate families and have witnessed the pressures they are under that we realise there is a great need in many cases for an extension of the number of beds available to these people. [More…]
Until that time I had a fleeting understanding and a peripheral concern for the families of handicapped children. [More…]
The fourth category is: Register - families are coping with the retarded child, placement may never be necessary. [More…]
The real danger area, according to the social workers’ report, is the list of 525 families in varying degrees of desperation on the urgent and most urgent waiting lists. [More…]
I hope that this will not involve the reduction in our living standards which we have been inclined to accept by having an economic system which compels so many young mothers, against their inclinations, to go out to work to support their families. [More…]
The problem is compounded because most of the families are young and are paying for houses at a time when the home repayments form a high proportion of their incomes. [More…]
We on this side of the Committee are concerned at the great problem that the payment of death duties causes to small families, particularly to women who unfortunately through a sudden death find themselves widowed and left to shoulder the burden of rearing a young family. [More…]
They comprised a number of families and their children. [More…]
I was told that there were 45 families that needed housing immediately. [More…]
Explicit or implicit means tests do not allow legal services to be given to the very groups in most need of them, and I’m talking about men on the basic wage, deserted wives and working men with large families. [More…]
The New South Wales Government makes a grant to families of $88 per child if the child is going to a private secondary school if the parental income is below $7,000 a year - this is the grant that will commence under the new New South Wales Budgetbut it is of no advantage to the school. [More…]
New South Wales grants $75 a head to schools at the primary level and at the post primary level it grants $88 for families towards paying their children’s fees. [More…]
The areas involved are low income earning families, people receiving unemployment, sickness and special benefits and migrants. [More…]
There are thousands of 2-children families in the community in which both parents are working. [More…]
Be that as it may, the point I seek to make here is that while we are committed to a broad based education of high quality, improving the opportunities for all children, especially those who come from disadvantaged families and disadvantaged groups and especially those who require special treatment and specially trained teachers - matters which we put in train over a year ago - and while we are committed to better conditions in schools, to which we became committed over a year ago, we are not necessarily committed to the techniques and methods which the Minister is using to achieve the result that he thinks to be necessary, because we are not committed to centralisation of education in the Commonwealth’s hands. [More…]
We believe, firmly in instilling in all families a concern for the needs of education and a desire to encourage their children to maximise their potential. [More…]
These schools enrol a shade over 2 per cent of the nation’s learners and, at a good guess, at least 80 per cent of the families involved are either well-to-do, rich or completely loaded. [More…]
These increased monthly repayments might come at a stage of their lives when their families are growing up and they are faced with extra expense in settling them in life or in making higher education available to them. [More…]
The Government, through the Minister for Housing, has expressed a desire to assist families on low incomes with their housing problems. [More…]
Another very important aspect of the Housing Agreement with the States is that not less than 85 per cent of the homes to be built must be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner, exclusive of overtime and child endowment payments, does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Because of this condition those eligible for homes mainly will be the lower income families who now are paying too high a proportion of their income in private rents. [More…]
It is estimated that at present the provision of these homes trails by 41 years the requirement of houses by individual Australian families. [More…]
We realise also that a nation as prosperous as Australia should not be faced with the present position and that in the years to come every endeavour should be made to close the gap between the demand and the supply of homes for individual families by the Government supplying homes at the moderate cost I have set out in my speech. [More…]
This is an enormous increase in the allocation for welfare housing, and it signifies tha great priority which the Federal Labor Government puis on providing housing for families with a limited income. [More…]
In other words, the Opposition would let the private housing sector have its head, and to hell with the hapless families -who are queueing up for public housing from State housing commissions. [More…]
That is quite a simple policy to implement, provided one is prepared to disregard the neediest families in the community - and that is just what the Liberal government’s record shows they did. [More…]
I should mention also that the Government will be introducing another important measure to assist low income families in particular to own their own homes. [More…]
The Bill before the House and the Government’s housing policies are aimed at diverting the provision of homes to families with limited incomes. [More…]
I believe that we have to be quite ruthless in this field and quite heavy handed with our foreign exchange regulations to ensure that foreign capital coming into Australia is not used to make residential land more expensive for Australian families. [More…]
I think it is something we could look at because I believe it could mean a great deal of financial relief to young families. [More…]
They are doing time in the Northern Territory and they are moved from the Northern Territory to a gaol in South Australia and their families do not. [More…]
It is well known thai because of the failure of the previous Government to complete the acquisition of all land in the Australian Capital Territory years ago so that it could be properly developed for houses to be built on it for families and people who wanted to live the good life, some pockets of land remained. [More…]
Some 60 or 70 families were thought to be involved but the township of Woomera has other functions and it has been designed specifically for fluctuations of this sort. [More…]
It is true that there are odd families in financial crisis - largely families that have been left in this crisis because of the failure of Commonwealth Governments in the past to cope with this crisis. [More…]
In those families there is positive starvation. [More…]
It is not a question of calcium and protein deficiency; it is a question of those families not having enough money to buy food. [More…]
The Coombs Task Force and the Cabinet have agreed that it is far better to save this Si 2m - the cost has grown in 20 years from $3m to $12m - and make some provision for families in need than to try to force milk down the throats of those who do not want it. [More…]
An article in the ‘Australian’ of 2 October this year carried the heading ‘A long, hungry winter for U.S. families’. [More…]
Because emergency services, such as hospitals, ambulances, police, and fire departments would have priority over the common man in getting petrol, oil gas and electricity, whole families would suffer. [More…]
These people have invested in order to provide some security for their families. [More…]
Persons suffering from psychiatric and similar problems return to coping normally much more quickly when treated in their usual community environment, with their families and friends around them. [More…]
Consequently the Government intends that care in the community should henceforth be placed, in effect, at ‘shop-front’ clinics and, indeed, ‘at the door-step’ of families which might otherwise delay going to an institution for help. [More…]
But let me concentrate for a moment on what I consider to be our most serious immediate economic problem - a problem reaching disastrous proportions - intiation, increasing costs and prices undermining the social welfare of ordinary Australians, families, young and old; inflation with its crippling costs bearing down on industry and services; inflation undermining the morals of the people and leading to inevitable restlessness and industrial troubles. [More…]
In an electorate such as mine, where there is a large number of young families, there are many kindergarten committees. [More…]
In the developing suburbs in my own electorate are a large number of young families coming from all walks of life. [More…]
I do not have any analysis of the proportion of students from poorer families. [More…]
There are many fellows who have been settled, with the best of motivations, on blocks which are too small and with an inadequate capacity to produce sufficient to enable the settlers to raise their families and to live at a normal level of sustenance. [More…]
Otherwise, aged people in the higher income groups would be put in a privileged position as compared with other aged people who have little income and with young people bringing up families. [More…]
The proposed phasing out of the means test would make the age allowance even more anomalous, and the benefits which it now provides to some aged persons with quite large incomes even more inequitable by comparison with the position of young married couples setting up home and raising families on the same or smaller incomes. [More…]
I believe that we should take up the slack in times of stress but that we should not be making the pace and ensuring that other areas of administration - State parliaments and local governments - and individual families and the people themselves have less in materials, in time and certainly in money with which to carry out the work that they want carried out for their own personal and family benefit. [More…]
I would hope that we would make considerable progress in future not only in this case but in all cases in which families find themselves in this sort of situation as a result of dual nationality. [More…]
Persons suffering from psychiatric and similar problems return to coping normally much more quickly when treated in their usual community environment, with their families and friends around them. [More…]
Therefore, the Opposition believes that this question of mental illness is something that impacts itself upon human beings and upon families. [More…]
It is one of the greatest tragedies that can impact itself upon families. [More…]
That does not measure the amount of agony and anguish that alcoholism causes to human beings who suffer from it, and their families. [More…]
So, for low income families, the difficulties of the passage through university of their children will, I think, be just as hard and just as great. [More…]
It may be that it is difficult to tackle this specific problem, but I doubt whether the Government’s objective of providing assistance to families or individual students who would not have been able to receive such help under the previous scheme will be achieved by this legislation. [More…]
In general it provided financial assistance for secondary education to those families least in need of such assistance. [More…]
It also needs to be recognised that on average students from high income or higher status families will stay longer at school and perform better on tests of scholastic achievement. [More…]
The awards under this scheme cannot be looked at in isolation; they must be looked at in conjunction with the foreshadowed legislation whereby assistance will be given to students who come from low income families. [More…]
At the high school, one in which I taught, a great number of the students came from the homes of families on a low income. [More…]
I would personally hope that this type of financial assistance to secondary students will be phased out after 1974 and that the money that is at present being used for this purpose will be given to students of families on low incomes. [More…]
I imagine that the policy that the Government is espousing is that it is trying to help the children of families who could not attend post secondary and tertiary institutions if they had to pay fees. [More…]
Students from poorer families, who are grossly unrepresented in the university intake, have a financial as well as an academic barrier. [More…]
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that among tertiary students of all kinds the children of manual workers are under-represented and those of higher status families over-represented. [More…]
The process in which the social selectivity of tertiary institutions is as an end point of education goes back into the schools and beyond them, into the families where children are conceived and raised. [More…]
Migrant children from working class or lower middle class families have virtually no chance at all of getting a Commonwealth secondary scholarship according to a Monash University survey. [More…]
The secondary allowance scheme will assist families with limited financial resources to maintain their children at school for the final 2 years of secondary education. [More…]
I represent an area in which many of the families have raised their level of aspiration for their student children to as high as university level. [More…]
But isolated children are not necessarily excluded from receiving secondary scholarships and in some cases neither are children from low income families. [More…]
Low income families. [More…]
There are three categories of low income families whose eligibility is determined by weekly gross incomes; Class A beneficiaries are exempted from paying health insurance contributions for the level of assistance provided; Class B beneficiaries need only pay one-third of normal contributions; Class C beneficiaries need only pay two-third of normal contributions. [More…]
The money was to be used for the construction of homes for rental to needy families. [More…]
She simply vocalises a problem which is of increasing concern to many families in all parts of this country. [More…]
However, it is difficult to establish how the requirements for migrant labour can be met without replacing the existing hostel structure or providing some other form of transitional housing for migrant families. [More…]
I say categorically that I do not believe the present hostel can be maintained with any decency by the Australian Government as a place where one would expect large numbers of persons to keep their families for any length of time. [More…]
Their families who look after them are still facing the added cost involved in looking after them at home. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for plugging two of the gaps in areas of social welfare injustice in providing for the single or no-parent families with dependent children, the supporting mother’s benefit, which clarified one area, and the double orphan’s pension for the parentless or orphan child. [More…]
They have indicated to me their thankfulness for the proposals made and the benefits granted, but it is pathetic to hear them complain of doctors who ask them to pay fees in cash before a consultation for their families is even entered into. [More…]
Low income families will be protected. [More…]
I have not had time to go through particular examples, but it is true to say that three out of four families will be better off under the scheme and seven out of ten single people will be better off. [More…]
I share with all the families affected by the strike all the desires for a settlement as quickly as possible. [More…]
This ought to have been done to ensure that the needs of the lower paid workers and their families are properly met. [More…]
In what areas, and in what numbers, were the sponsoring families located. [More…]
Does he agree that it would be desirable if these older Australian associations with the horse were maintained and made more readily available, especially to city children from less affluent families? [More…]
Our program will be cheaper for three out of four families, including families in which there is a working wife. [More…]
The Minister states in the report that the Government scheme will be cheaper for three out of four families and seven out of 10 people. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar raised the point about young families. [More…]
But we have not done much about families. [More…]
The scheme we are introducing is cheaper, as we have asserted in the report, for 3 out of 4 families, including those in which there is a working wife, and for 7 out of 10 single people. [More…]
Even if it is true - I very much doubt that it is and the Minister does not have the guts to give us the figures upon which he bases such statements - it would still be more expensive for one in 4 families and for 3 out of 7 individuals. [More…]
The Minister has stated that the new arrangements will be cheaper for three out of four families. [More…]
An estimated 350,000 Australian families will pay nothing. [More…]
I ask the Minister to explain by simple arithmetic his statement that three out of four families, and seven out of ten individuals, will pay less. [More…]
In addition, the cost of providing telephones in rural areas is beyond the capacity of many people who urgently need telephones for their own businesses and for the protection of their wives and families. [More…]
Official Postmasters in an office of this status are mostly young married people with young families attending the local school. [More…]
Clearly, any extension of these limits arising from further increases in the rates of pensioner benefits would create situations of inequity between such pensioners and the many non-pensioner families in the community who have weekly incomes less than these amounts but who are required to take out health insurance coverage. [More…]
These are people who went into what was a bush area and pioneered a district, went without the usual facilities planning to retire to small properties to provide security for them and their families. [More…]
Many of these schools are attended by children of relatively poor families, a significant proportion of them migrant or Aboriginal, whose schooling should offer a measure of redress for the economic and political disadvantages of their background rather than a compounding of them. [More…]
Local communities and local governments should become much more actively involved in supporting action for the families of handicapped children and for the handicapped children themselves. [More…]
If we are to detect need in children we must face the fact that families most at risk are least likely to go voluntarily to infant welfare clinics, least likely to use child care centres, least likely to have the services of competent medical practitioners, social workers or phychological advisers. [More…]
In those new suburbs there are young families with three, four or five children. [More…]
In certain parts of the metropolitan areas the population consists mostly of young families with a lot of children. [More…]
Indeed the proposal must discriminate against those who have raised their families and whose children have moved to other electorates. [More…]
In many families the children act as interpreters. [More…]
Job vacancies filled by migrant workers with little regard for vocational qualifications, language disabilities, housing and accommodation, welfare provisions and adequate eduational facilities for their families, is to create such additional problems as would far outweigh the temporary stopgap policy of manning the assembly lines and filling the less-popular and often lower income vacancies available. [More…]
Furthermore it has living around it in that area many of what I might call civilian, non-reserve type Aboriginal families who are highly thought of and respected in the community. [More…]
Persons in receipt of: age pensions invalid pensions widow’s pensions sheltered employment allowance service pensions certain persons undergoing rehabilitation persons receiving an allowance under the Tuberculosis Act dependent wife (or other female) children or student children of the foregoing persons persons receiving unemployment, sickness or special benefits low income families entitled to medical coverage and hospital benefits migrants who have joined a scheme - paid for by government for the first two months [More…]
If those pensioners entitled to benefits under the pensioner medical service were to be covered by the subsidised health insurance program - assuming that were possible because every effort to cover all people so far has failed with only four in every 100 low income families being covered so far - many of them would in fact be squeezed out because the income eligibility levels are much lower than they are for the pensioner medical service. [More…]
For instance, our computer bank has detailed information on over 1,870,000 families in Australia including their addresses. [More…]
These are families where there is at least one child under 16 years and where child endowment is paid. [More…]
The result is many families today are unable to afford a house on their own block of land. [More…]
Together the Australian and State governments can achieve what all Australians would want them to achieve - to give Australian families access to land and housing at fair prices. [More…]
This work will involve not only the assessment of purely military requirements but will also evaluate the need of units of the Services for industrial and technological support, ways to facilitate the closer joint operation of the Services, and the best possible access to amenities for servicemen and their families. [More…]
Every possible move has been taken to try to alleviate the sufferings of the thousands of people in Darwin, particularly the elderly people and those with young families who are suffering most. [More…]
Will the Minister for Social Security table in the House all the information contained in the documents and calculations on which he bases his assertion that health insurance under his proposals will be cheaper for three out of four families and seven out of ten single persons? [More…]
The first category involves families who, within a few months of buying a home for themselves in that area, experience unexpected multiple births, and so they have to get a larger house, obviously. [More…]
They could see no good reason for retaining the tax concession to permit a thorough inquiry into the effect its termination might have on workers and their families and on the community generally on the mining fields. [More…]
They also consist of thousands of people and ordinary families whose members are wage and salary earners. [More…]
They did the best they could in all the circumstances to provide for themselves and their families. [More…]
This meant, because of the fees that had to be charged, that only girls who belonged to relatively wealthy families could afford to attend these institutions. [More…]
In many inner city suburbs where there are large families, where often 2 parents are working or where large concentrations of migrants are living, it is essential to provide satisfactory pre-school centres staffed by adequately trained teachers who can apply themselves to problems which face these young people. [More…]
We find that at least SO per cent of the people in Perth live in homes which are unsewered and that in Sydney and Melbourne approximately one out of every 6 families live in unsewered homes. [More…]
Surveys conducted by the Inner Suburban Education Committee in Melbourne have shown how a comparatively small number of schools which include Melbourne’s oldest, least well equipped and least generously staffed schools, have been obliged to bear the brunt not only of the influx of children who speak little or no English, but also of the children from low income families and broken families who are attracted to the inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney by the availabilaity of low cost housing commission accommodation. [More…]
It is interesting that the Inner Suburban Education Committee identified, among the enrolments of these schools, a great proportion of large families and a great proportion of families in which only one parent or the other was present. [More…]
The result is that whether one looks to retention rates or to the students who are able to proceed to a tertiary education, one finds that children who come from lower socio-economic status families are in no way proportionate to their numbers in the overall population. [More…]
In addition to the greatly increased capital, recurrent and library grants which will apply to almost all students, there will be extra millions of dollars in each of these and other aspects of education for those in disadvantaged schools - children of lower income families, many migrants with low incomes and language and social adjustment problems, Aborigines and children living in isolated areas. [More…]
His electorate is very similar to mine and his problems with disadvantaged children, migrant children and children from broken homes, high density living and low income families are similar to mine because I represent an inner western suburb of Sydney and the honourable member for Casey represents a suburb of Melbourne. [More…]
I have seen the children of migrant families trying to teach other migrant children the English language. [More…]
Some do not and for those it is perhaps best to let them follow their bent and integrate either in single families or in small groups of families into the normal Australian community. [More…]
It was going to put Aboriginal families into the streets. [More…]
But this principle should be extended also to farmers to enable them to sustain themselves and their families when the area in which their properties are located is declared a drought area. [More…]
Four hundred families live there; yet there is no electrified rail service to Melbourne. [More…]
How many children from disadvantaged localities or families go to category A schools? [More…]
Young people with young families may very well want to live further away from the city centre; but, as the children grow older and leave home, the parents who are left on their own may very well want to live in the closer city area. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide land for housing purposes at as low a cost as possible to families which want to buy houses. [More…]
Many of these people are members of families who have lived in the district for a long time. [More…]
The Albany station directly supports over 100 families who received $700,000 in wages last year. [More…]
Is it a fact that, even apart from the alleged murders, Syria is in breach of at least 3 basic covenants of the Geneva Convention relating to prisoners of war, arising from its refusal of access to prisoners by independent third parties, its refusal to allow prisoners to establish contact with their families and its refusal even to provide the names of prisoners held? [More…]
Eight families of the Commonwealth Police members could be affected by the withdrawal of Commonwealth Police cover from the Ordnance Factory, Bendigo. [More…]
Seven of these families reside in the BendigoLonglea area and one member maintains his home at Little River (near Geelong). [More…]
My amendment continues: and that therefore this Bill and associated Bills should be withdrawn, because the Government’s alternative proposals to the existing health scheme will (a) lower the quality of medical care for Australian families, (b) increase total costs for the Government and thus for taxpayers, (c) increase total costs for the majority of taxpayers, because they could only maintain the present quality of their health care by additional heavy commitments for private insurance, (d) reduce freedom of choice, (e) jeopardize the future of religious, private and country hospitals and (f) by design and intent be the first stage of nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
Most importantly, as I said at the outset, we claim that the Labor scheme will lower the quality of medical care for Australian families. [More…]
Private hospitals will have empty beds because the cost of additional insurance for private hospital treatment to Australian families will necessarily be so heavy that they will simply be unable to afford intermediate or private ward accommodation. [More…]
It will add to their taxes and force most of them and their families into public wards whereas 70 per cent of them already choose to insure for intermediate or private accommodation. [More…]
It will lower the standards of health care for the majority of Australian families. [More…]
The Minister says that his scheme will be cheaper for 3 out of 4 families and 7 out of 10 single people. [More…]
In view of the costs I have quoted, let the Minister do what he has refused to do to date and make available to the House the statistics which show that his scheme will be cheaper for 3 out of 4 families and 7 out of 10 single people. [More…]
Secondly, it will result in a lowering of the standard of health care for Australian families. [More…]
The Minister has sought to claim that this scheme will be less expensive for 75 per cent of Australian families. [More…]
The Minister has made a great deal of an argument, without providing facts, that 3 out of 4 Australian families” would pay less under his system, but that is to say that they would pay less for what he is offering, which is standard ward treatment in a public hospital and, perhaps, in a private hospital. [More…]
In countries where medical expenses are still met from personal purses with or without an element of private insurance, any long or complicated illness may spell financial ruin for families which, until the illness, were not poor. [More…]
It does nothing to solve the problem of families who are faced with crippling bills for elderly relatives in nursing homes which charge more than the standard fees. [More…]
On 22 November last I asked the Minister to table in this House the documents and calculations on which he based his assertions that health insurance under his proposals will be cheaper for 3 out of 4 families and 7 out of 10 single persons. [More…]
Under the new program we can not only make a general rule which is equitable, but we can also provide for further exemptions for low income families and other special groups, which leave everyone protected but which do not add significantly to administrative costs. [More…]
Several groups, including families in which the wife works, will pay more for a service that will not be as good as the present scheme. [More…]
How can it be cheaper for families? [More…]
Such a system will only continue if families are able to pay for extra private insurance. [More…]
We consider many families will be prevented by the scheme from doing this, especially when both husband and wife are working and both pay the 1.35 per cent levy. [More…]
Such families will seek admissions to public hospitals, which will adversely affect the concept of a dual system and also impose unnecessary burdens on accommodation available in public hospitals. [More…]
The Prime Minister places no significance whatsoever on the families of these workers. [More…]
Families for generations have dealt with the foundry on account of the known quality of its products and the economics of its price. [More…]
The Prime Minister simply does not care about the disruption of families and workers which could be caused if the Toowoomba Foundry were forced to close through pressure exerted by a centralist government in Canberra. [More…]
Secondly, there are at least 2 studies which indicate that the intake of milk is greater on average among low income families than among high income families. [More…]
The evidence today is that this is not so except in those families who are literally starving, who are so poverty stricken that they cannot get even adequate calories. [More…]
In view of the sorts of deprivation that are evident in the more deprived families in the community, we believe that the $12m spent on the scheme last year, which would increase every year, is far better spent on the sorts of benefits that have been brought forward under our social security policy to help low income families and to enable them to choose their priorities for nutrition. [More…]
The scheme will operate to the disadvantage of families where the husband and wife are both working, as they will each pay 1.35 per cent of their net taxable incomes. [More…]
My colleague will also point out the hypocrisy of a Party which carps at the grant to the Government’s insurance program from Consolidated Revenue and which at the same time proposes to cover the services of pensioners and other low-income families in the most expensive possible way by the reckless infusion of another SI 80m or so into existing private insurance funds. [More…]
The honourable member may support the Bill which has been introduced in another place by the Democratic Labor Party, by which it is proposed that the Australian Government subsidise private insurance contributions of families on incomes up to $69.50 a week and single persons up to $30 a week. [More…]
I 1am informed that this proposal could involve means testing, every year, of up to half a million families and half a million single people. [More…]
We propose a universal health scheme based on the needs and means of families. [More…]
He saw his contributions rise and still the present scheme, the Liberal scheme, did not accord with the needs and means of families. [More…]
What about the 70 per cent of adult males and their families who earn less than average weekly earnings? [More…]
Occasional or casual care centres, before and after school and holiday care centres, as well as support services for families, including financial assistance, counselling and education, might also form an integral part of such a program. [More…]
Therefore, the people in those areas are denied medical care when they or their families need it. [More…]
As I understand the thrust of this Bill, it provides for the establishment of these centres by the Commonwealth in order that those people and their families can be attended to when they are ill or need medical care. [More…]
The utilisation patterns of 31 multiproblem families were studied for 30 continuous months of comprehensive care provided by a family-oriented health tare team (physicians, nurse, health aide, and social worker), with continuity, co-ordination, and constant availability of care. [More…]
The changing pattern of medical care behaviour of these families created an effective utilisation of allied health personnel, with physician-sparing results. [More…]
I think it is more likely that those people, especially mothers of large families, deny themselves medical services because they do not wish to embarrass their families financially. [More…]
Have any of them left families in Colombia? [More…]
If so, what action does the Minister propose regarding these families? [More…]
I give the honourable member this assurance: I hope in the next few weeks to be able to determine the cases with a view to seeing that justice is done to the migrants and their families. [More…]
The honourable member is quite right - the families are still in Colombia, wondering very much what is going to happen. [More…]
In still other cases, of course, there are special circumstances within families which necessitate children attending boarding schools. [More…]
But we have decided, on the advice of experts in the National Health and Medical Research Council and in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in Sydney who have actually sponsored surveys in this area using school medical services and other sources, that it would be more productive to use the money which has been dissipated in this area to upgrade the services available to families that are in fact suffering from malnutrition. [More…]
Despite the school milk scheme and despite all the other schemes which have been adopted on an across the board basis, we believe that the proper way to assist families that are nutritionally in trouble is through the Australian Assistance Plan which will discriminate in favour of those families that need help and give them the sort of help they need. [More…]
This meeting of representatives of Australian Federal and State Public Service Organisations representing over 400,000 public servants and their .families throughout Australia rejects any attempt to repudiate the Australian Government’s clear undertaking to introduce a new quantum and conditions of long service leave for Australian Government public servants. [More…]
With that awareness, I extend the season’s greetings to all members of this great institution, the Australian Parliament, and to those who serve it and to their families. [More…]
T take this opportunity to wish everyone, including wives and families, the very best for Christmas and a happy new year. [More…]
This will result in fewer Aboriginal children having to leave home to attend school, and those who must still live away from home will at least be within easier reach of their families. [More…]
Will he investigate the possibility of making low interest loans available to families wishing to install such a flat for their parents. [More…]
It is understood that in one State a scheme is being developed under which the State Housing Authority will build self-contained flats for aged parents on their families’ blocks on a rental basis. [More…]
If these evictions take place, will it (a) affect the schooling of the families of strikers and disrupt family life, (b) cause hardship by way of cost of transfer of household effects and (c) cause further industrial unrest. [More…]
(a) and (b) Had these evictions been enforced and the employees and their families been required to move elsewhere the education of the children, and the family life of the people involved, would obviously have been affected. [More…]
I am concerned that companies could consider utilising employee entitlements such as the provision of accommodation as an industrial weapon with which to threaten workers and their families. [More…]
Their places hav been taken by students from wealthier families who occupied a lower place in the order of merit. [More…]
His professionalism then restored many ill bodies and his understanding and kindness removed much worry without in any way causing any sense of embarrassment for patients’ families. [More…]
Firstly, I express sympathy to the families and relatives of those who lost their lives in the recent floods. [More…]
The Government is asking pensioners, fixed income earners and lower income families to cope with increases in food prices of 23 per cent a year. [More…]
This means that some 100,000 families, covering I would presume 400,000 people, will be waiting for homes at the end of the year. [More…]
I should like to add the sympathy of the Government to the men, women and families in his electorate, particularly in such large cities as Lismore and Murwillumbah, who have now been stricken as were so many people further north a month and two months ago. [More…]
Three factors were evident in his excellent report: The unbelievably high proportion of aged people, the growing numbers of young families with children and the need to provide improved health care in the community and at home. [More…]
As can be appreciated, with an average annual increase in population within this western area of 25,000 people, practically all of whom are young people with young families, the probems associated with the hospitalisation and care of children are practically impossible to surmount. [More…]
Sir, you would have been equally astonished to hear the honourable member for Henty advocating the discredited system of Commonwealth secondary scholarships which this Government has replaced with a system of bursaries for low income families. [More…]
The system was a betrayal not only of logic and humanity, but also of the wish of Prime Minister Menzies that secondary scholarships should provide assistance for needy students and their families. [More…]
The families of 100,000 Australians lost their incomes, some of them for a year. [More…]
As a direct result of Government policy it is estimated that 100,000 families or 400,000 people in this country will be waiting for homes at the end of this calendar year. [More…]
These families will be either unable to obtain the funds required because those funds are not available or unable to borrow because they cannot afford the increased cost of borrowing. [More…]
Then, of course, there was the willing response of the Federal Government in regard to the providing of immediate relief for families amounting to $3,000 a family and $15,000 a household in respect of major repairs. [More…]
Such policy initiatives, which the Minister claims to have introduced, as the development of new and expanded welfare services, the schools program, the examination of the problems of over 60 inner city schools in Melbourne, the emergency telephone service, expanded facilities for teaching English, the policy of re-union of families - which was announced in 1968 - and expanded migrant counselling services were all announced before the Minister came to power. [More…]
Another effect that this second class status has on the system is that people who come to technical colleges tend to come from poorer families which cannot afford the true costs of technical education. [More…]
It has been necessary to create special courses for these mature people who in many cases have already raised families but who wish to stay in their chosen occupation. [More…]
It is forcing women to work at -the expense of their families. [More…]
By stealth it is impoverishing the nation and impoverishing in particular the young who are seeking to buy their homes and bring up their families. [More…]
Likewise their families, if they are young, will, of course, face an impossible situation. [More…]
We, as the majority of people, can look only at what is good for the majority - which comprises ourselves and our families as citizens of Western Australia - and df we look at the facts and statistics of what has occurred for the good of the general population since the inception of the Labor Government, we will indeed be loath to see any diminution of this progress. [More…]
The inevitable increases that took place in the prices of staple items in the budgets of Australian families then generated claims for wage and salary increases which could not in equity be denied by our wage fixing authorities. [More…]
Even the policy of the reunion of families was first mentioned and emphasised by the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) in 1968. [More…]
I would remind honourable members that until we came into office, it was part of a conscious policy pursued by previous LiberalCountry Party governments to maintain unemployment benefits at a depressed level so that there would be enormous financial pressure and social stress on families - the people who had to live in the inadequate rate of benefit - to go and take any sort of work at all, no matter whether it was of a lower status than that which they normally pursued. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that the needs of school children from low income families are fully protected by the Australian Government? [More…]
The one million Australian families who are likely to benefit from the tax deductibility of mortgage interest rates will certainly not acquiesce in the honourable member’s contention that the proposal is socially regressive. [More…]
Whereas 40,000 grants were made in 1972-73 under the homes savings grant scheme, one million families will be assisted under the scheme I mentioned. [More…]
It was for the disabled and for the families of those who died that the repatriation system was created over 50 years ago. [More…]
They must consider their families, their husbands and the occupations of their husbands. [More…]
More than one million families will benefit from the tax deductibility scheme, not on one occasion only but every year they have a mortgage. [More…]
We maintain that the children of Australia are entitled to decent housing and that adequate help should be given to the families of those children to achieve that end. [More…]
It is therefore the more to be regretted that he chose to involve himself today in an attempt to palm off on this Government the blame for the shortages of housing by which so many Australian families are currently disadvantaged. [More…]
There is increasing evidence that sufficiently widespread motivation for limiting family size cannot be produced without more families becoming aware that their standard of living is rising, including benefiting from a higher level of education, especially for women. [More…]
To be ranked (1) in political rights it has to be assumed that the great majority of persons or families in the state have both rights and opportunities to participate in the electoral process. [More…]
Those of us who have visited that country have observed over the years the skill and attributes of the indigenous people in their attempts to win from the sea food for themselves, their families and their villages. [More…]
Public statements by the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the repeated failure of the Cabinet to accept the Superannuation Board’s recommendations on at least 4 occasions have led to widespread anxiety amongst both past and present Commonwealth public servants and their families. [More…]
I am glad that the families of deceased members who were, at the time of their death, either beneficiaries receiving benefits from the Fund or indeed were contributors due for lump sums are to receive a benefit from this distribution. [More…]
When these men received salary increases they were automatically entitled to take out additional superannuation units, and because they did not know what the future would hold they felt, for the protection of their wives and families, that they had to take these units and contribute to the Superannuation Fund at higher rates. [More…]
What has happened is that this Government and this Minister have approved rising charges to patients but have done nothing to reduce the gap between the Governnent subsidy and the charges which the patients or their families must pay for themselves. [More…]
He complained that they were locked up and denied the right to see anybody - any members of their families. [More…]
Indeed it would throw out the tax deduction scheme which is going to provide benefits to the tune of SI 20m a year to well over one million Australian families. [More…]
Did he receive a letter from Mr Thompson, former Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, requesting that a subsidy be paid to families based on the number of children. [More…]
If so, did Mr Thompson assert that this would overcome the fact that women with large families could receive more money if their husbands deserted them or were unemployed. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) I have no record of having received a letter from Mr Thompson, former Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, requesting that a subsidy be paid to families based on the number of children. [More…]
It was felt that more oppropriate funding could be made to families who were in special need through our social security program and other measures which the Government was undertaking. [More…]
Firstly, it would lower the quality of medical care for Australian families; it would increase total costs for the Government and thus for all taxpayers; it would increase total costs for the majority of taxpayers, because they could only maintain the present quality of their health care by additional heavy commitments for private insurance after having paid the 1.35 per cent super tax; it would reduce freedom of choice and it would jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals. [More…]
Firstly, we claim that the Labor scheme will lower the quality of medical care for Australian families. [More…]
The main objectives of the purchase of the estate are to avoid the sudden displacing of the existing population and to avoid any disruption to existing community networks, and 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. [More…]
I make the point that on the one hand we have a meat industry which is being rapidly forced into bankruptcy while on the other hand the consumers of Australia, the housewives - we are concerned for the housewives - and their families, have to put up with high meat prices. [More…]
Not only are the Government’s policies causing severe damage to the industry; they are also grossly inflating the price of housing and eating into the accommodation available to low income and needy families. [More…]
It will discriminate against families with children as compared with those without children. [More…]
Revised figures just made available to me by the Treasury now put the number of families who will benefit from the scheme at 1.4 million and the annual cost at $130m. [More…]
Mr Snedden does not seem to worry about the one million families who would lose $250 a year or $5 a week if Labor’s home mortgage tax deductibility scheme is not introduced. [More…]
In other words, it was the Minister himself who said in an election campaign that one million families would receive $250 each. [More…]
The likely employment prospects for migrants and their families are surely an important consideration in ensuring that the migrant is satisfactorily integrated into the Australian community. [More…]
He gave no direct answer to that very great problem which confronts a large number of the elderly sick in our community, and the families who have a concern for their welfare. [More…]
I think that puts in proper perspective what 1 have been contending, namely, that the $250 rebate will be not for every one of the one million families but for the average family. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Crean) now tells me that it is more likely to cost $130m and to benefit not the one million families I contended would be the likely beneficiaries but 1.4 million families. [More…]
Mr Snedden does not seem to worry about the one million families who would lose $250 a year or $5 a week if Labor’s home mortgage tax deductibility scheme is not introduced. [More…]
Mr Snedden does not seem to worry about the one million families who would lose $250 a year or $5 a week if Labor’s home mortgage deductibility scheme is not introduced. [More…]
Those 2 statements are not in contradiction; they are only a further implication that there are one million average wage-earning families, all of whom would benefit by $250 a year or $5 a week. [More…]
This situation is not remote from the average Australian; it is something that goes into every home and affects the wives and families of those who might be on strike themselves. [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…]
If not, I would like to know where the tradesmen at the Bendigo Ordnance Factory are to find alternative jobs in Bendigo without having to uproot their families and shift to the metropolitan area. [More…]
Is the Government suddenly setting itself up as a body which will move whole families from country areas to metropolitan areas? [More…]
These farmers and their families have applied themselves diligently to their task, but they find the crush of economic adversity wearing them down. [More…]
It is, to use the words of the Minister, ‘to retain the opportunity for low income earners and families and aged people to live close to the city as part of a wider community.’ [More…]
We could add to this area immediately another 300 homes so that we can house another 300 families. [More…]
The investigation that was carried out by social workers and welfare organisations in the municipalities of Springvale, Dandenong and Berwick showed that the groups most affected were, as one might imagine, the one parent families, particularly deserted wives; families who were evicted from their houses; the elderly; and also, in areas like those centred in Dandenong, quite a large group of young people and families who come to those areas in the expectation of easy employment because cities such as Dandenong are reputed to be boom cities. [More…]
People have lost their life savings and their businesses, and families have been broken up, all as a result of participation in pyramid selling schemes - schemes that were presented as sure-fire successes but which, as far as the participants were concerned, were doomed to failure. [More…]
1 preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Housing and Construction, by asking him to bear in mind that the Prime Minister is on record as saying at the Premiers Conference that more low income families are to be given the opportunity tobuy homes of their own. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s answer to the honourable member for Isaacs, will the Minister acknowledge that he has before him numerous requests for both subsistence expenditure and capital expenditure for new and existing child care centres and pre-schools, particularly a number from my own electorate with its large number of 2- income earner families? [More…]
Since that time the situation has deteriorated very markedly to the point where aged sick people and their families in some instances have been paying as much as $60 to $100 a week over and above their pension income in order to have the type of accommodation that they deserve and require. [More…]
People, the sick aged and their families and those who understood the problem, spoke out and took action. [More…]
But what about the additional fees that patients and their families are committed to pay in respect of the weeks leading up to 1 August? [More…]
It did not provide the necessary subsidies, such as housekeeper services and so on, to help people who did not have families to look after them or who had families who could not care less about their aged parents. [More…]
Everything costs the same for families, regardless of morals, and I do not think we should stand in judgment on them when we are handing down pensions. [More…]
When the Minister for Labor and Immigration gets up in this chamber and boasts that because of these economic stresses these women with young families have been forced to take employment which they would not take of their own choice, I find it, if I may say so, a little distasteful. [More…]
Whilst the Government is doing this it should look at the whole structure of the tax scale at the bottom end so that those families with small incomes also have the benefit of paying no tax on an income which can only be described as meagre. [More…]
Consider the situation of a young person with a wife and several children, who has to pay off a house and pay for furniture, a car - an essential item for most people these days, just by the nature of labour requirements - education, health and a multitude of obligations which we all accept, and gladly accept, in our desire to give our families an opportunity. [More…]
So their families got together and raised the necessary resources. [More…]
Families with a gross weekly income of $68:50 or less will not have to pay health insurance fund contributions at all, provided they apply for the subsidy. [More…]
It has been occurring in the community already that young families, knowing that the wife is expecting a baby, book into a hospital and insure up to the total limit sufficient to cover the hospital bill. [More…]
They know of its ability to wreck families and drain friendships. [More…]
However, I am concerned that the high cost of accommodation is preventing families on low incomes from taking a holiday. [More…]
This represents an average across the nation level of 10.2 per cent of families. [More…]
Rural Australia accounts for 142,000 of those 399,000 below the poverty line families. [More…]
So 14.4 per cent of rural families are below the poverty line compared with the national average of 10.2 per cent. [More…]
employed families whose breadwinner’s gross income does not exceed $121 per week or where there are more than two dependent children $121 per week with an additional allowance of $2 per week for each dependent child in excess of two. [More…]
The additional cost of that extra insurance is an allowable deduction for taxation purposes and that cost, with the basic levy of 1.35 per cent of taxable income, for most people in the community and for most families will still be less than the cost of hospital and medical insurance under the present scheme. [More…]
The subsidised health insurance program at best could cover only four out of every 100 low income families which it was supposed to cover. [More…]
Every baby born in Australian families requires hospitalisation and the best of medical care for mother and child. [More…]
The points we made were, firstly, that it would lower the quality of medical care to Australian families; second, that it would increase the total cost to the Government and thus to the taxpayer; third, that it would increase the cost to an individual because, in addition to increased taxation, expensive additional private insurance would be required to maintain health care standards; fourth, that it would reduce the freedom of choice of doctors and hospitals; fifth, that it would jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals; and, sixth, that it would be the first stage of nationalisation of health care in Australia. [More…]
At present the bulk of the population must insure themselves and their families through one of the multiplicity of health insurance funds. [More…]
Surely it is a personal responsibility, and it is for each and every one of us for ourselves and our families to accept that responsibility; but surely it is also a responsibility that should be shared by Government. [More…]
These are people who, in the main, are the sorts of people for whom the community must take responsibility- age pensioners, single mothers, people on low incomes with large families and people who just do not think about the necessity for cover and who are irresponsible but who, with this Government’s scheme, will be forced to discipline themselves. [More…]
That family and similar families are all desperately wanting a scheme that looks after paying the bills in some civilised and easy way so that there is one more thing about which they do not have to worry. [More…]
This benefit helped many families. [More…]
Every word we heard this morning from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and the Opposition spokesman on health and social security, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), showed clearly that they are out of touch with the health care services upon which an overwhelming majority of Australian families are obliged to rely. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are no more able to understand the state of ordinary medical and hospital services to which they would never dream of entrusting themselves or their families than they are able to understand the ordinary schools to which they would never send their children. [More…]
The money spent on this Joint Sitting would have provided 30 houses for Aboriginal families, 2 medium sized pre-schools, half the price of the new plane the Premier of Queensland wants to buy, half a mile of bitumen surface, one Olympic swimming pool or one high school library. [More…]
People will be out of work; there will be social dislocation; and personal harm will be suffered by those unemployed people and their families. [More…]
It will ensure that workers and their families will be able to enjoy some of the amenities which people in southern Australia often take for granted. [More…]
The possibility of restraint from all sections of the community will be enhanced by the decisions I will announce designed to reduce the burdens on and increase the benefits for wage earners and particularly low and single income families. [More…]
In addition to the reductions in tax on low incomes in general under the new rate scale, we see a particular need for tax relief to low income families. [More…]
The total cost to revenue of the restructuring of the rate scale and the special rebate for low income families is of the order of $430 million on a full-year basis. [More…]
The great majority of wage and salary earners, and especially lowincome single-income families, will pay less tax as a result. [More…]
Above all for employees we have ensured a rise in their real standard of living as members of the Australian community, as members of families, as parents, as city dwellers, as public transport users and as road users. [More…]
Inflation causes uncertainty and even fear from which few members of the community can be exempt, least of all employees and their families. [More…]
The Treasurer also announced substantial concessions for low income and single income families. [More…]
It could be seen to apply to the immediate families of members. [More…]
But what the situation calls for is a lot more versatility on the part of the private sector and a greater preparedness to work in a co-operative way with the Housing Commission so that we can fulfil our aspiration to break down the waiting list for low income families who have been seeking houses for such a long time. [More…]
It is utterly stupid to think that in this day and age when we can put men on the moon one in every 6 families in Sydney and Melbourne are still living in unsewered areas. [More…]
Families are forced out of their houses. [More…]
In most floods early this year, roads were cut and families forced out of their homes 3 times within a few days. [More…]
Great hardship is experienced by families with sick children when they have to get ill children medical attention. [More…]
But above aU there must be continuing growth of employment so that families can stay together when children go out to find their first jobs. [More…]
These include young people with young families, mortgages, interest rate problems and cost of living stresses. [More…]
Whilst we can understand the concern of the Department that migrant families be properly advised, I do believe that our experience in this area should be sufficient to avoid a lot of additional time-consuming work and delays in processing, and would like to suggest- [More…]
What sort of pressure will be put on to them or what forms of intimidation will they and their families have to undergo so that they will not appear before the High Court? [More…]
I believe, as does the Minister, that the people of Australia want to get down and work and that the families, wives and children of people employed in industry, whether it be the building industry or any other, want to be able to rely on receiving a weekly income that is not interfered with by any person outside or any influence which they themselves do not commission. [More…]
If we want to talk about the activities of the builders’ labourers I invite honourable members opposite to take their families around Australia and see those parts of the country that have been preserved because of action taken by the builders’ labourers. [More…]
They should take their families and their children around Millers Point and the Rocks area and Woolloomooloo and have sufficient courage to tell them who it was who saved those areas. [More…]
They have taken many actions to preserve lots of buildings and trees and areas of green which honourable members opposite ought to take their families to see, and they should point out who saved these areas. [More…]
Money from taxpayers, most of it from low income groups, heavily subsidises students who come mainly from families in the upper 25 percent of income earners. [More…]
Community practice is concerned with the integration of services provided to individuals and families in the community, and its approach is therefore necessarily multi-disciplinary. [More…]
No government can meet the great clamour from the people for better services, better education, better welfare services, better defence, better roads and all the rest of it, while it does so many things to damage the nation’s productive capacity, to discourage people from investing their earnings and their savings in producing industries, and to persuade people that they are wrong, if not stupid, to seek to advance themselves and their families through hard work and thrift. [More…]
These high interest rates have prevented them in most cases from financing loans to build homes for themselves and their families. [More…]
Investment from houses, people and families throughout Australia provides the great bulk of investment for the expansion of Australia and the development of Australia and enables companies, small and large, to proceed into the future. [More…]
I understand that the Australian Tourist Commission will expand its activities and, after aiming at the youth market will turn its attention to the middle age group- in which I could be classed- and also to the families and even to the elderly. [More…]
I know a number of working class families for whom the load was lifted by this Government’s action because no matter how good their children were many of them would not have obtained scholarships. [More…]
It would highlight in their minds the way in which this Government is ignoring defence, allowing our defence forces to run down and really jeopardising the future not just of the young people but of families like mine. [More…]
The great majority of wage and salary earners, and especially low-income single-income families, will pay less tax as a result. [More…]
It is perhaps less common for honourable members to raise the predicaments in which their own families have found themselves from time to time. [More…]
The jump in interest rates- as high as 10 per cent on mortgage loans in California- has forced many families to postpone indefinitely their dreams of buying a new or bigger house. [More…]
Telephones are vital for survival by families isolated from normal community services and for the purpose of communicating with doctors, tradesmen, business and friends. [More…]
Many families have suffered the heartbreak of seeing homes and personal possessions destroyed or damaged, while the farmers with land situated in the flood plains have suffered losses to pasture and stock. [More…]
One in 4 families in country towns live in poverty or near poverty conditions. [More…]
There are more poor families in Australia’s small country towns than there are in Sydney and Melbourne combined. [More…]
Into the bargain, we have also made provision in the tax scheme to give particular benefit to single income families and with special emphasis on larger sized families. [More…]
In fact, 90 per cent of the people will benefit through $430m tax cuts, abolition of television and radio licences and a special tax rebate for low income families. [More…]
The fact is that nearly all families will benefit in areas of education, health and welfare. [More…]
The Government’s decision to reduce the income tax deduction for education expenses strikes not only at the non-government schools, which was its intention, motivated by the desire to restrict freedom of choice, but also at the young mothers and the single parent families who depend on pre-schools and kindergartens, which are often costly, while they make a living to support their families. [More…]
The enjoyment, the integrity and the existence of 75 per cent of families in this country are to be found in the private sector. [More…]
Beyond that, it also rests with thousands of parents of families throughout Australia to face up to the financial agony which the Government’s decision represents. [More…]
Beyond that, he knows perfectly well that the Government’s decision on this matter is causing very great distress to thousands of Australian families. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that this decision will affect in a grievous fashion families which do not deserve to be affected. [More…]
We have begun with the provision of relief to low income families. [More…]
There are many families which will not avail themselves of the education tax allowance because their incomes will be tax free. [More…]
In that respect I do not mean the boarding schools in the traditional sense that many honourable members on the Government side of the chamber immediately think of, but the boarding schools which are of social value to children of broken homes, in particular, and to the children of families who live in country areas. [More…]
We deplore this decision not only because of the monetary deprivation of many families throughout Australia that will result from its implementation but also and above all because it represents a basic rejection of the principle of maintaining a real freedom of choice in education. [More…]
We have already done that with respect to our assistance to the low income families. [More…]
We now operate a rebate system on deductions for dependants to assist low income families. [More…]
Whilst it might give some cheap goods to some people in this country, it is giving many families great concern because their breadwinner has been put out of employment and the family unit is going to suffer. [More…]
In the last census some figures were taken out on families where husbands did not have wives and there were dependent children under 21 years of age. [More…]
There were 12,000 families where there was one such dependent child; 7,000 families where there were 2 such dependent children; 3,500 families where there were 3 dependent children; 1,500 families where there were 4 dependent children; and 1,000 families where there were S or more children thus dependent. [More…]
In round figures there were 25,000 families and 50,000 children involved. [More…]
There are also other people we are concerned about and we are exploring ways of helping them- families on low incomes, impact families. [More…]
I know of many such families, with a husband and wife too, and we have got to help those people. [More…]
It is those areas of the inner and western suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney and certain rural areas where the overwhelming majority of our low income families or our non-English speaking migrant families are concentrated which lack proper provision for pre-school education. [More…]
While we recognise on the one hand that there is an enormous number of mothers in this community who are obliged to go out to work by economic circumstances and who have a pressing need for child care centres, equally there is an enormous number of women in the community who would simply welcome an occasional break away from their families. [More…]
It no longer encourages mothers to leave their young children in centres provided for them but encourages them to stay at home with their families. [More…]
So on the question of child care honourable members opposite ought to appreciate greatly what the present Government is doing for the women, children and families of this country. [More…]
The latest move will do practically nothing to improve the situation of 3,000 families now looking for accommodation in Canberra. [More…]
1 ) As a rehabilitation centre for those families experiencing difficulty in adjusting to an urban European environment, for others in need of special help and as a home for the aged; [More…]
There are about 25,000 to 30,000 Aboriginal families in this country. [More…]
There are now hundreds of Aboriginal families in homes who were denied them in the past. [More…]
I believe that to this extent over coming months while the cost of the reduction in the education allowance will to many families represent an extra $100 a year that increases in burden will not be measured according to the technique presently employed. [More…]
Traffic fatality statistics are honourable members’ families and mine. [More…]
It is also very much more convenient for us and our families to get up at 6 o’clock instead of 5.30 in the morning to get a 7 a.m. flight. [More…]
They organised the Levels Library demonstration to show Port Adelaide people what a library could mean to them and their families, apart from dispensing books. [More…]
The speaker who will follow me, the former Minister for Social Services, during a State Electricity Commission strike in Victoria denied unemployment benefit to 6,000 people in my electorate and said that their families could starve as far as he was concerned because one member of their union was involved in a strike over 100 miles away in which they had no say whatsoever. [More…]
I have no doubt, however, that a fair amount of modification will have to be made because if this allowance is to fulfil its purpose of keeping handicapped children at home in the care of their parents, who must have the full capability of giving the proper care, not only the children, but also the families of the children will have to be assisted. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Denison (Mr Coates) referred to some of the strains that occur in the families of handicapped children. [More…]
We have been responsible for the elimination of injustices and anomalies, such as the payment of widows pensions, Classes B and C, at lower rates than widows pensions, Class A, and the payment of unemployment and sickness benefits at rates much lower than were paid for pensions, for families of equivalent standard. [More…]
I will admit that we give preference to people in receipt of the unemployment benefit who have families to keep. [More…]
If there are 40 men in an area and there are only enough projects to employ 20 of them, and if 20 of them are married with families and 20 of them are single and capable of doing work elsewhere, I believe that at a time when we need 1,400 able-bodied men in the steel industry we ought not to be using RED employment to employ single men who could get a job immediately in another industry, instead we ought to use our money to employ people who are tied to a family home and who cannot go away long distances to work. [More…]
This racket has grown out of the real and desperate need of families of working people for decent and adequate housing. [More…]
This is a problem that is faced by many young Australian families. [More…]
I hope that the time will come in the not too distant future when both young and old families who are buying homes will be able to feel confident that they will be able to continue to meet the obligations of that purchase. [More…]
There is a guaranteed source of income which will alleviate the worries of the families concerned. [More…]
Pushing money through the terminating building societies means only that low income families will be able to arrange mortgages of $ 12,000 to $ 1 5,000. [More…]
Mr Edmunds asked how many tenancy and purchase applications respectively were outstanding in the following categories of families in the metropolitan area: (a) up to 3 children; (b) 4 children, and so on. [More…]
This will include direct lending by the Corporation to families for housing. [More…]
At the Preston North East State School in my electorate a large number of the children come from socio-economically depressed families. [More…]
The people of Deakin are average, hard-working Australians who aim to own their own homes and who aim to improve their standard of living and that of their families. [More…]
How many ordinary average families can continue paying this son of cost for long? [More…]
How many families with an income of $4,000, $5,000 or even $6,000 a year can afford the freedom of choice to send their children to independent schools which have school fees of $300, $400 or $500 a year? [More…]
I emphasise that the Government expects the terminating society movement to continue to give due consideration to the need for home finance of these needy families whose incomes are lower than others who will now be eligible for loans. [More…]
I would like to put to the Government for considerationI do not say this in any critical sense- the proposition that an examination might be made of our social services to see whether it is possible to give some incentive to families to care to a much greater extent for the elderly members of their families in their own home environments. [More…]
Some people are able to have what are colloquially called granny flats, where it is possible for grandparents in the community to have some kind of privacy and separate life but still be under the same roof as their families and able to mix with the rest of the family in a way that is beneficial to both them and the other members of the family. [More…]
I am in total agreement with him that the home environment is undoubtedly the ideal one, but with so many families now in small homes and so many parents working it is not feasible for a large number of elderly people to live with their relatives, and therefore we desperately need homes for the aged where they can retain independence and nursing homes for those who are no longer able to care for themselves. [More…]
The personal suffering to the individuals and to their families is extreme, to say the least. [More…]
I am told that they have no real intention of working or wishing to settle here with their families. [More…]
The people in Rangoon who had waited outside the Australian Mission and were turned away went back to their villages and families saying: ‘The walls are not down; the doors have not been opened; the white Australia policy is as real today as it was before ‘. [More…]
Crises home and holiday accommodation for needy families planned by the Rotary Club of Albany East 180 families. [More…]
Bunbury South: Australian Birthright Movement 90 families. [More…]
Civil Rehabilitation Committee 150 families. [More…]
Blackwood Trained Nurses Association 150 families. [More…]
We were aware of the nature of this problem, of the distress it inflicts on many families and the very many careers which were being blighted by it at a time when we could get neither interest nor sympathy from honourable members opposite and indeed could not get them to acknowledge that the problem existed at all. [More…]
Low income families are culled out to live in Queanbeyan and we have more than our average share of social problems in that city. [More…]
Did the Minister state on 13 August 1974 that the de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states into the USSR will facilitate the reunion of families. [More…]
But worst of all people are being hurt very severely because they are unemployed and unable to sustain their families in a dignified and decent way of living. [More…]
This is a worrying sum for shopkeepers and other traders, to say nothing of the depressing effect on families where retrenchments have created severe financial problems. [More…]
True most of those retrenched are the second wage earners in the family and even then their wages are being continued for 6 months by the Government but how few families can afford a sudden cut in income now or in 6 months and how many of the women retrenched are, in fact, supporting their families? [More…]
Thousands of Burmese returned to their families and villages and were able to say, with the knowledge of their own experience, that Australia was not genuine- that they had gone to the Australian Embassy and they had been turned away from the door. [More…]
We should recall the many statements which have been made by the Minister to the effect that the States will be given all the money that they can spend to house low to moderate income families. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister is interested in this problem, but it seems to me to be the nub of the issue of the Government’s making money available to low income families. [More…]
Both of these factors are working against housing not in the sense of bricks and mortar but in the sense of families wanting to obtain them, whether they are well-to-do families or poor families because everyone has the right to purchase a home. [More…]
It still seems that Hargreave’s Law applies with respect to the family situation and it still seems that families with more than the average number of children tend to be poorer families. [More…]
I refer to the less welltodo families in Australian life. [More…]
But it is obviously much easier for people who are in receipt of a more substantial income to provide housing for themselves and their families. [More…]
This comparison, more than anything else, illustrates the commitment which this Labor Government has to housing families of limited financial means. [More…]
If the Australian Government carried out the policy of the Liberal Party 5,000 families this year alone would be deprived of a chance to get a decent home. [More…]
But they certainly do prove that home ownership for low income families was a nonexistent priority for the last Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
The honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie) said- of course it is an obvious fact- that people who are in receipt of a substantial income are in a better position to provide homes for their families. [More…]
They might be in a better position but unless they are in receipt of a very substantial income they have difficulty also in finding homes for their families. [More…]
With the growth of the Australian population- the anticipated increase in the number of families in the Australian populationthe fact of the matter is that the building industry today is indeed in a very parlous state. [More…]
Such a person would have $67 left for clothes, food, light gas, fares, school books, medical benefits and the host of other things for which families have to pay. [More…]
Those families who are living in bungalows behind parents’ homes are in a similar and frustrated position. [More…]
In addition to being an incentive payment, the benefit has enabled families to meet the extra costs involved in caring for the aged. [More…]
Under the 1973 Housing Agreement the Australian Government provides substantial financial assistance to the States for welfare housing and the Agreement specifically provides that the advances may be used for the purpose of providing accommodation for couples of which the main breadwinner is an invalid, and for single invalid persons as well as for families in receipt of low incomes. [More…]
Few Aboriginals are able to provide homes of their choice for their families because they are unable to obtain finance from existing sources. [More…]
Most of the students attending it are children who come from families of modest circumstances. [More…]
It hits the poorer taxpayers hard and it hurts the large families most of all. [More…]
There seems to be this obsession about those people who are most able to help themselves and little regard for the vast majority who are least able to help themselves- those, who by chance of birth, happen to be born into poor families and, therefore, born with a lifelong, in many cases, lack of opportunity. [More…]
Parents with large families are particularly badly affected by this decision, coupled with the lack of any child endowment increase. [More…]
1 seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a table which shows the effect that this reduction in the taxation concession will have on various families. [More…]
The extension of the Aboriginal Enterprises Assistance Act and, indeed, the Aboriginal Loans Commission has been a very wise step because it will provide a facility now for Aboriginal families to obtain such important household items as refrigerators, furniture, all types of floor coverings and so on. [More…]
General practitioners do not cope with alcoholism and drug addiction, do not do social work, do not look after the bewildered or the disturbed child and do not go to help families when they are about to break up. [More…]
As a result of the reduced income tax scale and the new tax rebate scheme for lower income earners with dependants, many families will have a dramatically reduced tax bill this financial year. [More…]
Added to that is a further $60m special rebate for lower income families and another $ 130m is lost in revenue as a result of the new mortgage interest payments deduction scheme which is also involved in the Bills about to come before the House for consideration. [More…]
The special rebate is to assist low income families and the mortgage interest payments deduction is also structured so that the proportion of payment that can be claimed as a tax deduction is reduced by 1 per cent for each $ 100 of net income over $4,000. [More…]
Leaving aside the mortgage interest payments deduction for the moment, the impact of the other two measures is quite dramatic for lower income families. [More…]
For lower income earnersthose receiving lower than average weekly earnings- and particularly those with families to keep, the proportion of income paid this year in income tax will be less than that paid last year. [More…]
Briefly, this legislation provides for increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on certain forms of fringe benefits, the specific allowance of deductions for depreciation on child care facilities, a reduction of the limit on deductions for educational expenses, the deductibility of mortgage interest payments, a reduced level of the special deduction allowable to life assurance companies, a rebate of dependants’ allowances for low income families; and technical amendments fo the principal Act with respect to dividends payable from Papua New Guinea, the relief of taxpayers in cases of hardship and provisional tax for 1974-75. [More…]
It will be of considerable assistance to many families, especially migrant families, who are not yet united in Australia. [More…]
Rebate for Low Income Families [More…]
Clause 35 provides for a rebate for low income taxpayers with families. [More…]
A special rebate of tax has been introduced to provide relief for low income families. [More…]
But where that does not occur the tax saving to those low income families will be a considerable amount. [More…]
They freeze funds and they make sustenance in many cases unavailable to families. [More…]
The first relates to the surcharge on property income contained in the Income Tax Bill, which has just been passed, and the second relates to the rebate for low income taxpayers with families as proposed in the Income Tax Assessment Bill. [More…]
In other words, those who thought that they had protection for their families by providing certain life insurance with established bonuses flowing to those policies in response to certain policy commitments, now in the twilight of their lives find that these benefits are being rapidly eroded not only by inflation but also by the actions of this Government which is taking away bonus benefits. [More…]
But when one looks at what these proposals have done to the small people and to the honest Australians who have tried to protect their families into the future, one finds that these actions go very much beyond the philosophy that I have just mentioned. [More…]
There are many such families where the contribution in time at work taken on a family basis is not different. [More…]
In other words the families could be in like circumstances yet the tax burden borne by those 2 families could vary significantly, to the extent that one family would be discriminated against. [More…]
This Government has introduced a hotch-potch of methods whereby it seeks to achieve some equity to take account of the differing responsibilities of families. [More…]
In my own State of South Australia 90 per cent of the population depends on water from the Murray system to sustain industrial growth and to provide for the normal water usage of families now and into the future. [More…]
But, for the purposes of a political exercise, in order to achieve leverage, the Premier of Victoria refused one of his instrumentalities the right to recruit labour in a situation which would relieve unemployment and thus give the families of those people who would be employed the wherewithal to live. [More…]
Until he advances a program which is going to include job incentives and certainty of employment for people working in decentralised areas- a program for overcoming communication difficulties to make it easy for people to be able to communicate with the families they leave behind in major cities such as Melbourne or Sydneyand until he makes up in those decentralised centres for recreational disadvantges, people will not be ready or willing to make a move, notwithstanding the substantial cost they may incur by wanting to continue to live in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
I think that families who have their elderly friends or relations in nursing homes should make sure that those people, whatever their choice of vote might be, are given the opportunity of lodging a vote for the parry of their choice. [More…]
Specific documented cases can be produced by local general practitioners, church organisations, community welfare groups, the Royal District Nursing Service and the East Bentleigh police concerning emotional difficulties, suicide, chronic illness, psychiatric disorders, mental retardation, alcoholism, drug abuse, marital disruption, one-parent families, physical handicap, school drop-outs, juvenile delinquency, preventable criminal behaviour and multiple psycho-social economic and family problems associated with many common physical ailments, whose needs are not being met by the existing general practitioner service or by the public or voluntary community agencies. [More…]
I urge that, in the interests of road safety and in the interests of families who will otherwise suffer, careful consideration be given to the desirability of placing a give-way sign on the stop signs in areas where the meaning of the stop sign is in the process of being changed. [More…]
Their families are being penalised by the actions of the Premier of Victoria who is acting for a purely political motive to advance some selfinterest program of his own. [More…]
He is denying people the wherewithal to keep their families purely to advance his own political ends. [More…]
Over the years, dairy farmers have made a major contribution to decentralisation, to giving employment to people and to rearing good hard working families. [More…]
If the members of those families have not gone onto the land, they have gone to the cities and elsewhere. [More…]
I was interested to read only a few days ago, on 16 November, that in New South Wales alone more than 35,000 families are now waiting for Housing Commission homes, which is a 25 per cent jump in applications in 4 months. [More…]
It is believed, and no doubt it is true, that the 7,000 extra families added to the list are casualties of the credit squeeze. [More…]
The failure of the Government to protect the jobs of Australian families. [More…]
The failure of the Government to protect the jobs of Australian families. [More…]
We do not mind a fight like that, but why should so many families suffer as a result ? [More…]
Several studies of rental applications were made during the year and these studies highlighted the growing problem of housing for single-parent families. [More…]
The proportion of houses allocated to one-parent families is more than twice the proportion of applications currently being received from this group. [More…]
An analysis of allocations during the December quarter 1972 showed that 4 1.3 per cent of vacancies in semi-detached rental houses were filled by one-parent families. [More…]
The study of applications from one-parent families also revealed that 25 per cent were currently living with relatives and friends and that 32.4 per cent had one child, 33.6 per cent two children, and 34 per cent three or more children. [More…]
I believe that this legislation will have a bad effect on health care and the health of Australians and their families. [More…]
Employees and their families would be the first to suffer. [More…]
Finally, in a really goodwill message that comes to me, may I, even to members of the Country Party, to members of the Liberal Party and their families, to the staff and their families and to all concerned with the workings of this Parliament and democracy in Australia, express on behalf of the Government best wishes for the festive season. [More…]
They appeared less than a year ago, placed in the knowledge that the decisions the Prime Minister was taking were wrong and would lead to recession, price rises, unemployment and soul destroying indignity to people and to families. [More…]
Specifically I would like to thank the men and women of the Darwin Bureau of Meteorology who stayed at their posts as the cyclone intensified, plotting its course with a growing degree of certainty while their families bravely faced the horror at home; the men and women of the Postmaster-General’s Department who kept the communication lines open as much as possible and then worked without rest to reopen them; the men and women of the radio and television stations who broadcast continuously advice on cyclone warnings and preparations and then, when the storm abated, immediately set about to restore broadcasting. [More…]
To the bereaved families I know that we all would like to express our condolences. [More…]
As Australians we all share the loss of the bereaved families. [More…]
The tragedy of that city is still being experienced by many families throughout Australia. [More…]
Experience elsewhere demonstrates that a too-rapid rate of growth leads not only to a lack of adequate services and amenities but also to social problems within families and within communities. [More…]
It recognises that the town must return to as close to normal functioning as is possible and that families must be re-united with a minimum of delay. [More…]
They are: Firstly, the maintenance of those parties and their children unable to support themselves without social security assistance; secondly, the administrative costs associated with increased demands upon either the existing legal system or the establishment of the Family Court of Australia; thirdly, the increased demands upon the Australian Legal Aid Office, as is provided for in clause 117(3) and (4); fourthly, the probable increased demand for child care centres; and, fifthly, the increased demand for services to deal with the psychological and physical ill-health of disadvantaged one-parent families. [More…]
Aristotle saw the village as a union of families and the state as a union of villages. [More…]
The family unit produced stability for the overall society and the state helped to create circumstances in which families could prosper and be protected. [More…]
In matters which affect the wellbeing of the state- the collection of families- majority views may need to be enforced. [More…]
In laws governing families as single units the historic principle should be maintained and the state should interfere as little as possible with the freedom of action and responsibility within the family. [More…]
Thus, agricultural societies usually have large families providing social security and sharing in production and consumption in a subsistence economy. [More…]
Thus the size, structure, economic circumstances and attitudes of members of families have changed greatly with industrialisation. [More…]
Once the accepted Christian principles of the family are eroded the end result must eventually be a lack of respect for the traditions of marriage with the resultant growth of fragmented and broken families and a consequent lack of parental control and a possible increase in anti-social behaviour. [More…]
If we are to maintain stability in our families- the framework of our nation- it is absolutely essential that divorce be granted only after a searching inquiry based on time honoured and acccepted grounds such as adultery, cruelty, desertion, and true separation and incompatibility over a reasonable period of time. [More…]
-This Bill, I believe, brings in very much needed reforms affecting relationships between individuals within families. [More…]
Change in the economic status of the family in the modern urban society is also creating increasing stresses on relationships within marriage and without and this again is an area in which we need to adjust our approach to and our thinking on that marriage relationship- the fundamental cornerstone of families in the past. [More…]
I speak for my family, for all families, for those people who are the very basis of this society. [More…]
In conclusion, I want to place on public record my personal sympathy to the families in my electorate who lost relatives and friends in this very tragic accident. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation proposed in this BUI permits us to explore a fresh field of endeavour, that of direct relations between government and private enterprise, and between government and non-profit organisations, in the housing of the large number of ordinary Australian families. [More…]
That scheme, effective as it has proved, concentrated on one area of action- State enterprise in the housing of the poorer families in our Australian population. [More…]
Families renting are often both poor and unprotected. [More…]
Rental housing of good quality for families will be encouraged by direct partnership with private enterprise. [More…]
In addition, so far as it can within its resources, the Corporation will make housing loans available to families, using the family allowance provisions in the Austraiian Constitution, and it will also make loans to those other specific categories of home-seekers for whom the Australian Government has a constitutional responsibility. [More…]
He did not believe it to be right that families should be broken up in this way or that work situated long distances from a married man’s home was an appropriate offer in those circumstances. [More…]
Nonpensioners who are being subsidised heavily by their families for nursing home care will welcome this Medibank scheme like manna from heaven. [More…]
However, the achievements of the Commonwealth Railways would not have been possible without the dedication of its staff who, with their families, are required to live in some of the remotest parts of Australia and under some of the harshest climatic conditions this continent has to offer. [More…]
Of this amount, $47m is for State housing authorities’ programs and $18m for disbursement through the Home Builders’ Accounts to assist families of low and moderate incomes to acquire their own homes. [More…]
Surely this Government will not allow these skilled pilots, their families and other members of their specialised industry to add to the existing unemployment figures. [More…]
At first the Corporation will concentrate on lending directly and indirectly to servicemen, ex-servicemen, and low and middle income families. [More…]
It can be shown that in these days of free- or at least fee-less- education there are many people who are prevented from undertaking education simply because of the financial problems of trying to provide housing for themselves or in some cases their families. [More…]
Whether it be the provision of rental accommodation, homes for low income families or pensioner units, whatever aspect of the implementation of that Agreement that one looks at, the most inept administration in the Queensland Housing Commission stands out clearly in my mind. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation could also become involved in the provisions or rental housing for families. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation, in partnership with private enterprise, will do much to alleviate the problems that exist today in providing housing for Australian families. [More…]
Many migrant families find themselves unable to obtain accommodation within the price range that they can afford when they first come to this country. [More…]
There is no accurate way of measuring the socio-economic and psychological effects that inadequate housing has on people and families. [More…]
Similarly, by the use of the family allowance provisions in the Australian Constitution, the Australian Government can provide financial assistance to families. [More…]
Indeed, in the Melbourne ‘Herald’ recently Peter Fitzgerald published a very frank series of articles on the hardship caused to many families who suffer through savage rentals. [More…]
The Corporation can, for example, make subsidies to charitable organisations, such as the Brotherhood of St Laurence, for the provision of housing for needy families. [More…]
I am attracted to the proposition that the family allowances power in the constitution will be utilised in order to help certain families and certain classes of families who presently are not eligilbe to obtain the finance that is available. [More…]
The Corporation could be directed to lend to families who did not meet the eligibility conditions set out in the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement, but who could not meet the repayment burden imposed by the much higher interest rates charged by permanent building societies and banks. [More…]
It is all very well for the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria to say that they want to encourage home ownership, but this does not justify their harsh, in fact punitive, attitude to those families who cannot, or for various reasons do not wish to, buy their own homes. [More…]
There are families in which there must, of necessity, be 2 wage earners. [More…]
A census taken in 1915 indicated that the top one per cent of families in Australia owned 39 per cent of the country’s wealth, a concentration that compares with the current United Kingdom and United States of America levels of 42 per cent and 32 per cent respectively. [More…]
There could be many mechanisms involved in the process over the last half century which has led to the egalitarian distribution of wealth I have mentioned, and in particular by which today some 99 per cent of Australian families have increased their share of the nation’s private wealth from 61 per cent to 91 per cent- a very high proportion indeed. [More…]
The matter on which I wish to speak tonight is one of concern to 9 members of the Commonwealth Police in Bendigo and, of course, their families. [More…]
These men have raised their families in Bendigo. [More…]
We can only hope that the Minister will take urgent steps to protect the 9 families who are concerned in Bendigo and also will take necessary action to ensure proper protection and security for the 2 undertakings concerned. [More…]
This may be the case in some professional families, but in the majority of working families where the wife has no professional qualifications it would impose severe hardship upon her and, if there are some children- in most cases they wish to remain with their mother-it would also impose severe harship on these children. [More…]
Legislation should do what it can to positively support the family and it should, in seeking to be compassionate and just to those leaving the marriage, be very careful of the needs of all families and of other members of that family. [More…]
Rather than undermine families and marriage, the Bill strengthens them. [More…]
To me it is a tragic matter that Parliament should be asked to approve this Bill which must deal a devastating blow to our families and which places marriage on the basis of a yearly contract, because that is what the Bill does in clauses 48 and 49. [More…]
One would think that this would have been a monumental piece of legislation to strengthen and protect families, not for the easy, speedy, quickie divorce for which the legislation before this House at present provides. [More…]
I can only hope that, if the contingent motion proposed by the Minister for Tourism and Recreation is carried, the Bill will be redrafted in a sense that it will strengthen homes, strengthen families, protect women, protect children and help to advance this country. [More…]
‘If one could abuse the privilege of confidentiality and read some of the letters people have written to me on this matter setting out the details of the divorce or the break-up of their own families, I think we would all look at this Bill in a new light. [More…]
Families regulate such intimate and personal matters, and so many of their rules are vague understandings arrived at by experiment and mutual adjustment, but there seems to be an especially strong case for leaving them alone. [More…]
The legal rules, for instance, governing the property rights of husband and wife are quite irrelevant in families where all property has always been pooled. [More…]
What I instanced was the fact that under section 51 ofthe Constitution, placitum (XXIIIa) there is a power to make allowances for families. [More…]
We want to make it clear that the Housing Corporation can provide rental subsidies direct to families, on the one hand, or indeed to do in Australia what is done in other parts of the world, that is, to assist even the entrepreneurs because the fact is that this sort of thing is done in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and in Germany. [More…]
It can shilly shally around as much as it likes on this legislation but if it rejects it the Opposition wil take away the prospect of supporting families whose income is such that they are unable to afford adequate rental housing. [More…]
If one looks at the remaining functions that the Commonwealth is entitled to exercise, one can see that it is clearly limited to certain sections of people, even if one includes families. [More…]
This disaster has dislocated many families and brought with it great emotional problems. [More…]
There has been great dislocation of families. [More…]
At least 25 per cent of families had no medical insurance although only one family answered that they used the subsidised medical service. [More…]
Nothing can overcome the problems of families when children come home from school and say: ‘Why is my father not at work today? [More…]
There are the people who want to insure themselves and their families against hospital charges. [More…]
It is quite unfair and ridiculous to suggest that people should make a sacrifice that would affect their families or their future simply because of the old concept that people who are elected to Parliament need not be paid anything at all. [More…]
Is he aware of the allegations that some of the sacked women are single parents and the breadwinners of their families, while some of the men who now occupy their positions hold more than one job? [More…]
Reversion to the old system would mean that those families who, at very great sacrifice, have got their children through the fifth and sixth forms on very low incomesthis would involve some 14 000 children at present- would lose vital assistance. [More…]
The Bill is being denounced as a conspiracy to wreck marriages, break up families, spread immorality, tear the social fabric and destroy the nation. [More…]
As the vote is on a personal and individual basis I put it to honourable members that they have a great responsibility for the future happiness and security of large numbers of people and families who can only benefit if the Family Law Bill is carried. [More…]
However, since I have been a member of this place I have seen the breaking up of many families. [More…]
But I think too that most people would also agree that it is inevitable that some marriages will break down, that families will be placed under stress, and that human failings, bad judgments, community pressures and all sorts of other influences will place many people in situations which they can no longer tolerate, which they should not be expected to tolerate, and which are bad for them, for their children and for society. [More…]
The loss to the families of the 500 people who are now unemployed is a bad one. [More…]
In this matter, the sole role of the Australian Government was to bring eligible children to suitable adoptive families as promptly and as safely as possible. [More…]
As soon as the Australian Government received advice that the first requirement had been met and that, on the second, the States had approved 246 adopting families, arrangements were made to bring the orphans by Hercules transport to Bangkok and by chartered Qantas jet to Sydney. [More…]
Faced with this fact, my Government determined that it could do nothing in the matter of allocating children to families as this was clearly a State responsibility and therefore if there was to be any disagreement between adoptive families about the children then it was a matter for the States to determine. [More…]
When one looks at legislation which will affect families and family life and which will have an effect on children, the relationship between parents and the interdependence of one individual on another if a relationship is to continue no longer, I believe that there must be- and it is very difficult to escape from- a situation where fault is taken into account. [More…]
Marriage is the very basis of the family and it has been the motivation of the bread winners in the families which has kept our society as we know it today going. [More…]
In the end it comes down to the point that the people on the Aboriginal councils are able to discriminate against families. [More…]
Therefore we are considering a fundamental question of the freedom of movement of people and the right of reunion of families. [More…]
These amendments are put forward as perhaps not the perfect answer to the problem but certainly to recognise the fact that the nonAboriginal administration should not be able to to take away from the Aboriginal people who have been born on these reserves, who have lived there and whose families have lived there, the right of entry or otherwise. [More…]
As I said before, self determination for communities does not include an absolute right over freedom of movement and the reunion of families that is implied in the present situation. [More…]
If any of the families of those boys who died in Vietnam are listening to the debate, I inform them that he was one of the men who sent their sons to their death. [More…]
In moving to establish the Children’s Commission the Australian Government has recognised that changing social patterns have put considerable pressures on families with infant and school-age children. [More…]
These changes include a growing number of families where both parents work, and of single parent families, as well as a frequently increasing sense of isolation affecting women looking after children at home. [More…]
Priority will also be given to families in economic or other distress, and to groups with particular needs such as Aborigines, migrants, handicapped children and isolated children. [More…]
The Attorney-General, then Senator Murphy, was asked to arrange legal aid for the families of crewmen on 9 January 1975. [More…]
In particular, it is difficult to work out how people change their expenditure given a change in the size of families or an increase in income. [More…]
For years nothing had been done to check the intolerable burden of rates and charges imposed on Australian families, on pensioners and on those who live on fixed incomes. [More…]
The whole object of the personal income tax cuts, of our support for wage indexation and the substantial improvements we have achieved in the provision of health, education, public transport and community services has been to sustain and raise the real standard of living of families beyond that provided by the pay packet alone. [More…]
Our object is to reduce the need for vast wage increases which individuals and families feel obliged to demand in order to chase rising prices and maintain their living standards. [More…]
I am campaigning for them and their families against the Government’s destruction of their personal freedom and dignity as individuals. [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…]
These decisions have been taken with regard to the principle of maintaining the unity of families. [More…]
Some 170 000 pensioner and beneficiary families will receive increases in additional payments for approximately 340 000 children. [More…]
Many of those identified in the first group were government officials and their families, policemen and some politicians, including one senator. [More…]
How many families of six are in this enviable position? [More…]
There is the naked question: How many families of six are in this enviable position when the breadwinner is working? [More…]
In my view the establishment of a commission with the purposes set out in this Bill will not enable the Commission to do what many like the New South Wales Federation of Infant School Clubs think it should do, namely ‘establish a philosophy in relation to ultimate goals incorporating standards, innovations, needs and priorities in relation to families’- and I emphasise ‘families’- ‘and the community’. [More…]
Most Australian families either choose to care for their pre-school age children especially those of 3 years of age and under, or would like to be able to make that choice. [More…]
Governments, and the community itself, must take positive action to counteract some of the economic and social pressures affecting families. [More…]
We must endorse the trend to family orientation of child care by strengthening the capabilities of families with measures designed to improve their social and economic conditions. [More…]
Such matters as taxation policies originally designed for a nation of single income families or taxation concessions and child endowment and other benefits which have lost their real value are matters that are in need of urgent attention. [More…]
Growing numbers of families find themselves unable to reconcile the financial difference between the childless, 2 -income situation of early married life with the single income family role that comes with parenthood. [More…]
Much legislation discriminates against the normal 2-parent family and, in addition, places 2 -income families in an advantaged position when compared with those families where the wife and mother stays at home to care for her children. [More…]
If families are to be given the opportunity of providing adequate home based care for their young children, measures with both direct and indirect consequences must be introduced to ensure that a real choice is available where today no real choice exists. [More…]
But the most significant way in which support could be given to individual families to overcome the financial difficulties that now face them when the mother chooses to provide full-time home based care is to change those laws and practices which now discriminate against families which make this choice. [More…]
If we are to continue to have working families and if we are to encourage working parents to raise families, then governments must make provision for the care of these children. [More…]
I know that in my electorate there is a need for someone to check hospital admissions of mothers in order to see what can be done for their families. [More…]
There is obviously a trend towards 2-income families and we are all aware of the reasons for this. [More…]
These families are being forced into the area of the poverty stricken and we seem indifferent to the circumstances that bring this about. [More…]
The progress of a people- naturally, I refer to the progress of the Australian people- is very intimately connected with the progress of Australian families and the progress of the children in those families. [More…]
But so far I have not heard the Government say, as a government needs to say, what its philosophy is concerning Australian families and what is its philosophy concerning the role of mothers in the Australian families. [More…]
This is the Minister who said that Australian families would be protected from unemployment, yet during his term of office more families have suffered the hardships of unemployment than in any period since the great depression. [More…]
During that time it was my aim to look at the total philosophy of the Government in relation to this Bill and its philosophy towards families in the community which is being exemplified in this Bill. [More…]
Obviously that meant it was the Government’s deal with respect to the families of Australia which are raising children. [More…]
The interim committee to set up the Commission must establish a philosophy in relation to ultimate goals incorporating standards innovations needs and priorities in relation to families and the community. [More…]
Ultimately, when a government intrudes into intimate institutions such as the family and when it intrudes into the responsibilities of families with respect to children, the power of that government will play a very great role in determining ultimately the values of the community. [More…]
I am concerned at the transfer from home to community of services organised through this Bill and through other measures of assistance to families that have existed in the past. [More…]
Is that $75m an addition of resources available to children in the community and to the families caring for children in the community? [More…]
It is only part of a subtraction from the resources available to families in the community. [More…]
For example, the one measure of assistance that has not risen with inflation but has been kept absolutely constant are the families assistance programs, all of which are nominated in the national accounts for mothers’ maternity allowances, bonuses, and so on. [More…]
One must take into consideration the amount involved in lost taxation deductions for the education of children which, for many families, represents an extra cost of $2 per week. [More…]
In all of this, through the power of the purse, the power of an interventionist government, there is a decreasing of the ability of families to make their own decisions concerning their own children. [More…]
But I deny the proposition which seems to be ignored in the Bill that poor families somehow or other do not reside in those communities where there are -2 parents, only one of which is working. [More…]
Some of the poorest families in Australia are families where there are 2 parents and only one of them is working. [More…]
Frankly, that is a philosophy with respect to families which I do not support. [More…]
Obviously rigid controls and frequent checks on families who conduct these family unit care centres will be required. [More…]
Returning to the question of child care being paid for by the Government- that is, if the Government pays for the care of children of working parents- that amounts to a redistribution of income away from single income families towards 2-income families. [More…]
It might well be asked: Why should a family with one breadwinner have to pay for the care of children of families who have 2 breadwinners? [More…]
Whether one agrees with the principle of women in the work force or not, the fact is that many families with modest incomes forgo the second pay packet because of a firm belief that being a full time mother is more important. [More…]
That being so, why should such a family be penalised by having to pay through taxation for the care of children of families who are receiving that second pay packet? [More…]
This is a penalty on single income families which I do not believe can be justified. [More…]
I am concerned that money has been outlaid already for child care centres but the charges that are being made on the families will recover only some of the recurrent costs of the organisations which are running them. [More…]
It discriminates against families which have 2 incomes. [More…]
It discriminates against families vis-a-vis single people. [More…]
It discriminates against people with families. [More…]
It was a very bad statement, a statement which sounded the death knell for many young Australian couples engaged in a struggle to obtain the necessary funds to bridge the deposit gap to own or build homes in which to bring up their families. [More…]
Well over 70 per cent of families in Australia are buying or own their own homes. [More…]
It has taken over the greater part of the burden of the lower income families with a mortgage on their homes by allowing the mortgage interest to be tax deductible. [More…]
It is regretted that when a Labor Government introduces measures such as this that give greater assistance to low income families we hear the cry of the Opposition that it is socialism. [More…]
I say it should be questioned because it is not the only form of providing adequate long term shelter for individuals and families. [More…]
Since over 70 per cent of Australian families own or at least are paying off their own home and nearly all Australians aspire to this state, the political advantages of both the Government and the Opposition in helping them out are evident. [More…]
Large families who had difficulty in finding suitable accommodation under $22,500 were excluded. [More…]
By contrast, families in real need of assistance with housing may not be able to obtain the benefit of the grant because of their inability to accumulate savings. [More…]
When one looks at the number of people who have been assisted by the homes savings grant scheme on an annual basis- in the vicinity of 40 000 families- one can see that here again the benefit is extremely limited compared with the tax deductibility scheme in that close to 1.5 million famines will benefit, not only once but every year. [More…]
There is a difference between 40 000 families on the one hand, and 1.5 million families on the other hand. [More…]
Since its establishment, the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation has assisted 168 000 families obtain homes by insuring loans totalling $2,040m. [More…]
Millions of Australians now rely on the life insurance industry for their long-term security and the welfare of their families. [More…]
The compelling answer is that insurance fulfils a necessary or essential social need; it provides financial protection against unpredictable losses and a means for individuals and families to provide for their own long term economic security. [More…]
It is trying to create in those who are in the industry the greatest fear of all- that of unemployment- without regard to the effect it has on the bread winners of the family or the dependants of the families employed in the industry. [More…]
In foreign affairs language, unilateral declaration of independence is a dirty expression but in the case of families a unilateral declaration of independence can be made under this Bill by either spouse whether either or neither of them is guilty. [More…]
I simply say that I genuinely believe, over a period of time of taking an interest in these matters- I note that persons in the Senate after an exhaustive investigation concluded the same way- that in the majority of circumstances it is the second year of separation which leads to so much bitterness, divisiveness, heartburn and breaking asunder of families. [More…]
If so, will the Minister explain whether the Government has any manpower proposals for the building industry which will marry the wish of workers to find jobs to the wish of families to buy houses? [More…]
But I am concerned to see that families are strengthened and that the interests of children are protected. [More…]
I recognise that it involves counselling a large number of families; but the price involved in providing that counselling for a large number of families, if it gives a happy family life in a 2-parent situation for a significant number of children, is worth paying. [More…]
What progress has been made in studies being undertaken by his Department into the high cost of accommodation and the consequent effect of restricting families on low incomes from taking a holiday. [More…]
We believed that circumstances- geographical, climatic and personal- were so varied and so different that we had to handle the matter on an ad hoc basis and with enormous sympathy and care for those to whom damage had been done, and those whose livelihoods and families might have been affected in a traumatic and difficult way. [More…]
On 24 April, South Vietnamese students petitioned the Government to allow in their immediate families. [More…]
In defiance of the Government’s own policies, families are being separated and fiancees are not being allowed to enter Australia. [More…]
But that is a most misleading figure because it includes married couples who would draw only one rent allowance and it includes a number of people- a majority of them- who are living with their families and do not pay rent. [More…]
It is not only the pensioners who suffer under this lack of responsibility; the home builders and the many hard-working families in Victoria, for example, who today are paying up to one-third of their earnings to get a roof over their head also suffer. [More…]
This not only affects those who are age pensioners; it also has a particular bearing on many families where the children of the family are supported by a widow. [More…]
People should be encouraged to do more for their families and for themselves by working either part-time or full time. [More…]
The company found that it was impossible to continue to amass stocks and was faced with the necessity of closing down large sections of its plant, which would have had particularly sudden and serious consequences in employment and social terms in the areas in which these plants are located, both for the families directly concerned and the many others indirectly dependent upon the company and its employees. [More…]
Many families have left Darwin. [More…]
How many people are estimated to be eligible if the guidelines are extended to include families of Australian Vietnamese nationals or residents such as brothers, sisters and their families, including perhaps spouses and children? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister indicate whether his Government is now in a position to review its earlier guidelines to enable the reconciliation of families? [More…]
The homes of Australian families also contain many items of importance in our cultural heritage. [More…]
Some of the families who have graves in this area have seen to their renovation and kept them in proper order. [More…]
In South Australia the Housing Trust- I believe there are similar provisions in some other States- sells homes to some families on low incomes for what was 50 deposit. [More…]
These were chiefly manual workers in their twenties and thirties, married with families. [More…]
It has provided assistance to 168 000 families and insured loans in excess of $2,000m. [More…]
So we see in those buildings 3 or 4 families. [More…]
The cost of those amenities should be spread across the families who live in that dwelling. [More…]
As one of its services, the Postal Institute subsidises travel by its members and their immediate families. [More…]
Does the Government agree with the Premier of Queensland’s statement that it is necessary to ensure beef producers get a proper return and that Australian families are not subject to wide swings in supply and price of meat [More…]
The funds say that multicover will cost no more than the present medical benefits contributions- $1.86 a week for families and 93c a week for single persons. [More…]
No one wants to see large sections of the plant closed down because this could have very serious consequences on employment and in social terms in Ballarat, Shoalhaven and Burnie particularly, both for the families directly concerned and for many of those indirectly dependent on the company and its employees. [More…]
So why should the company, its employees and their families bear the costs of continuing unwanted production- production that is not ‘commercially prudent’, as the company itself saidbecause of the disastrous economic situation brought about by the Government? [More…]
To prevent violence between the families a neutral person was needed to collect the fine from the culprit’s family and give it to the victim’s family This person became the ombudsman, meaning the person or the messenger collecting the fine. [More…]
There is internecine warfare in this Government when it should be concerned with the real issues before Australians concerning individuals and families. [More…]
In addition, low income earners have benefited from the two restructurings of the personal income tax rate scale in 1974-75 and the Government’s decision to bring in a special rebate of tax for low income families. [More…]
Resources for poor families: An experimental income supplement Scheme. [More…]
I wish to record my deep sympathy to his widow, Thelma; to his sons, Des and Glen; to his daughters, Valda and Jan; and to their families. [More…]
the adequacy of housing, child-minding centres, pre-school centres, domestic assistance for families and working mothers, assistance to single parent families, other forms of assistance for mothers employed in industry, and adoption procedures; [More…]
the disabilities of families with handicapped children; and [More…]
People with families who are in fact paying tax will be making savings. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, it will benefit families more and it will benefit the most needy most of all. [More…]
By and large, families will be better off. [More…]
Do they want to obstruct this beneficial sort of redistribution which is going to help families in the community -the people about whom we are all supposed to be concerned- so that a minority who are comparatively better off will retain those benefits at the expense of the majority? [More…]
Has the Treasurer seen reports of a statement yesterday that families deriving benefits from Tuesday’s Budget tax reforms are spendthrifts? [More…]
Can he say what advantage the half a million families newly exempted from taxation payments were previously able to gain from the Liberal taxation deduction system? [More…]
Can he say whether there is any reason why families which simply cannot afford large outlays for insurance and school fees should be denied the advantages of tax reform? [More…]
I make a plea today for thought and consideration to be given to these people who have helped to pioneer our country, have reared families and have built homes for the purpose of having a place in which to live in the closing period of their lives. [More…]
Is this a waste of resources to assist the families around this country? [More…]
I suppose it is a matter of notoriety that all Government departments have as one of their constant companions inertia, and frequently this affects serving personnel and their families in a most grievous way, and to that extent the creation of the office of Ombudsman is welcomed. [More…]
It was during the 23 years of rule by those forces on the other side that the sewerage backlog occurred, with more than half of the people of Perth and more than one in seven families in Sydney and Melbourne living in unswered residences in the 1 970s. [More…]
I support the Bill, but I ask the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) and the Government to start looking around for more effective ways of deterring the over-use of drugs than financial penalties which can selectively hit low income earners with chronic illnesses or with large families. [More…]
We would structure the tax scales so as to assist families- especially single income families. [More…]
Our policy is tangible evidence of our longterm objective to return a greater degree of choice and independence to individuals and to families. [More…]
I ask permission to incorporate in Hansard tables setting out the implications of the new tax measures for single taxpayers and for taxpayers with families of various sizes. [More…]
I refer particularly to the rebate system of income tax and the fact that it has given some relief to families, particularly those in the lower income group. [More…]
The Budget helps young families with children. [More…]
Even if wages remain at their present level, 2 groups of wage earners will be savagely hit- the single person and families where both husband and wife have jobs. [More…]
It is paradoxical that when in individual families wives and children are rejecting the notion that father knows best the Labor Government is acting as though it knows best. [More…]
According to the Opposition the country has gone bankrupt, but there has never been more money circulating in the country, there has never been more families with 2 motorcars than there are today, there have never been more families with a full range of home appliances than there are today. [More…]
He went on to talk about Australians who can afford 2 cars and families with 2 cars and colour television. [More…]
The position is that the Government has, by its policies, forced families into a 2-income situation. [More…]
The well being of the building industry and its manufacturing support industries is vital to a very large number of Australian families. [More…]
The breadwinner ‘s pay packet goes to satisfying the family’s needs; or that is what should be done with it and, in most families in Australia, it is done. [More…]
We believe that to do that would be cruelly unfair for the hardest hit of all by inflationthose least able to help themselves, the lower paid, the large families, the pensioners, the long-term sick and the disabled. [More…]
In the long term the workers also will pay dearly themselves because they and their families will have to face the backlash of inflation that their own wage demands cause. [More…]
One of the beneficiaries will be families with one income earner. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that Medibank cards for families are being delivered in separate envelopes, e.g. [More…]
The non-metropolitan population comprises largely primary producers, small businessmen and the employees of both categories, plus the families of all these people. [More…]
Small businessmen’s families contribute to the populations of country towns and population is vital to those towns. [More…]
A better allocation might have done something to absorb the large number of unemployed in the building and kindred industries as well as supplying families with badly needed housing. [More…]
They are the weak of our society- the unskilled, the migrants, the big families, the Aborigines, the ill and the injured. [More…]
What of families, particularly poor big families? [More…]
Would the Government put a muzzle on all the Italians who complained about the activities of FILEF- the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families. [More…]
Let the honourable members opposite hear the stories of neighbour fighting neighbour, of former friend killing former friend and of members of families being kidnapped, with their wherabouts unknown. [More…]
It is due to the disillusion and frustration of thousands of Australians, particularly young ones who want to raise families under decent Australian and British conditions. [More…]
Families still struggling to reach even the poverty line, pensioners who depend entirely on the benevolence of the Treasurer to keep pace with rising costs, and working mothers, farming out their children to friends while they wait for professionally staffed child care centres, will wonder what Mr Fraser’s equality holds out for them. [More…]
The next Liberal government will strongly reassert the right of families and of individuals to retain their own earnings so that they can meet their needs as they see lit. [More…]
The destruction of programs which have this aim would substantially impair the living standards of the overwhelming majority of wage earners, welfare recipients and their families in Australia. [More…]
What I did say was that expectations were growing higher, that Australian families were growing smaller, that houses were growing larger and I thought that costs were such that there would have to be some reductions. [More…]
The Government shows no compassion for suffering and deprived families. [More…]
-I am pleased to support this Budget because for the first time in over 20 years some justice is being afforded under the new personal taxation system to the young married couples with families to raise and to educate. [More…]
This will provide relief for one parent families. [More…]
I know of several of these families in my electorate and I appreciate the difficulties they experience. [More…]
Families have to be helped by government provision of hospitals, of the services within the hospitals, and by the provision of schools, school equipment, school buildings and school teachers. [More…]
Mr Fraser ‘s statement at the Press Club luncheon that the next Liberal Government will strongly reassert the right of families and individuals to retain their own earnings so that they can meet their needs ‘as they see fit’- this is his emphasis not mine- -implicitly says that we all have the ability to provide for our own needs out of our own earnings. [More…]
It was the concern and the aim of our Government that eligible children be brought to this country for adoption by suitable families, this to be effected as promptly and as safely as possible. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of allegations that the guidelines for the operation of the access radio station 3ZZ which prevent the use of the station by political parties have been violated by representatives of the Italian organisation FILEF, the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families, and by an official of the Communist Party of Australia who has been a political candidate for that Party? [More…]
For that reason, we would propose that the taxation scales should be restructured to assist families, especially single income families. [More…]
In the long term, they delude even themselves, for they and their families have to face the lash-back of inflation they generated by their own actions. [More…]
The Budget penalises those families that save, through life or superannuation policies, for their own old age and that want to provide a different kind of education for their children. [More…]
The unambiguous policy of this Government is to improve the real standard of living of the Australian employee; of all Australian families wherever they live. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an attack on the new Budget measures in the Sydney Morning Herald by 2 lecturers from the Law School of the University of New South Wales, alleging that the new tax scheme gives advantages to large families. [More…]
Is it a fact that the new tax scheme will benefit parents of non-zero population growth families? [More…]
But the great advance that this Budget makes is that all families of the same size will get the same amount of assistance from the taxpayers, whatever their incomes may be. [More…]
Perhaps worst of all, is the feeling that the Government is not doing enough quickly enough to rebuild the Tasman Bridge and restore the links that fostered trade and held families together. [More…]
Let every person involved in science and technology in Australia- not just the 8000 staff members of the CSIRO and their families, but also those in manufacturing and primary industriesrecognise that the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs is not interested enough to come into this place and take part in a debate. [More…]
They come from large families and live in poor standard accommodation. [More…]
The husbands and wives and the families to whom I have spoken seek the same things for their family groups as any one of us would seek for our families; that is, education, decent housing and health services, to name a few. [More…]
In the new suburbs there are young families with none of the ordinary family relationships that exist in other parts of Australia. [More…]
The Opposition believes that it is the aged, the disabled, the new settlers, those on fixed incomes and young couples with families who have been betrayed by this Government. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Bass (Mr Newman) has told me of the grim plight of many families in the Launceston area. [More…]
The social welfare agencies in Launceston, such as the Salvation Army and the City Mission, report that each week more and more destitute families are seeking relief. [More…]
When the Liberal and Country Parties were in government home ownership in Australia was easily achievable, and it is a fact that over 73 per cent of Australian families were living in thenown homes, or homes they were buying, when we were in government. [More…]
The cut-back in what are called welfare housing grants to the States will further enlarge the ever-growing number of homeless Australian families. [More…]
The Government has cut back its spending in only 2 areas, housing and industries assistance, the very areas where reductions in expenditure will hurt Australian families most. [More…]
These tax scales will increase the ability of medium and low income families to undertake and to repay loans for housing commitments. [More…]
They will also mean that a number of families who are now ineligible for loans from the traditional lending institutions will qualify for such a loan. [More…]
Your reply showed you have no knowledge whatsoever of the fact that many, many families in Australia have no housing whatsoever. [More…]
We will help the families and citizens of tomorrow overcome the cost of building which increased by 18.3 per cent in the past 12 months and is running ahead of the 1 7.6 per cent rate of inflation. [More…]
Also we have brought in substantial restructuring of the tax schedule, which will enable many families to purchase houses. [More…]
Only a few years ago there was a great dearth of secondary schools in the area but because of the change in the type of community with the growth of units and villas and so on which were more often occupied by retired and professional people and not so much by people with young families there is now an over-supply of secondary schools. [More…]
-Children who are poor, children who are black, children who are female, children from families where English is spoken, if at all, as a second language, children from country areas or children who suffer from mental or physical handicaps, including specific learning difficulties, have been victims of educational deprivation on a massive scale. [More…]
Other emerging nations have found that the Public Service has become a haven for mediocrity and the means of resolving employment problems amongst families and friends of politicians and senior public servants. [More…]
2529 families or persons with dependants and 485 single persons were on the waiting list. [More…]
That, I think demonstrates a cynical disregard on the part of the Western Australian Government for the plight of the workers who are about to be put out of work and their families. [More…]
People in country areas are faced with increased costs in transporting their children to secondary schools in order to get an education, and again if there is any sort of serious illness in their families. [More…]
Far more families have far more cars than ever before and they squander so much petrol that the present reserves of it are rapidly dwindling and, in the process, they have created dangerous and massive pollution. [More…]
In places where there are no domiciliary nurses and which may well be without access to a doctor except in cases of emergency, it is absolutely essential that families in these remote areas, who are perhaps more likely to look after aged parents and other relatives at home, qualify for the benefit. [More…]
It is of great benefit to people from low income families. [More…]
Sadly this is not always possible and they have to live with their families. [More…]
This period is intended to enable members of the staff and their families sufficient time to assess the personal, social, economic, educational and other implications of the transfer. [More…]
This scheme has helped more than 1.3 million families throughout Australia at a cost of $ 130m. [More…]
I believe it was an imaginative innovation which will provide home loans to low income families who may perhaps never have any opportunity to own a home or may not even be able to get a subsidised rental home. [More…]
I think the flexibility within the Act is extremely interesting and will lead to a lot more families- particularly families of deserted wives and those Aborigines who are not able to move into home ownership- being able to buy a home, which is the dream of most of us, through the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
That means that 12 additional Aboriginal families in Moree are further away in 1975 from their promised house than they were at the time of Labor’s Surfers Paradise pledge in 1973. [More…]
When this Government is ordered by the Australian people to go it will leave behind it more Aboriginal families unhoused than when it came to office in 1972 so full of promises. [More…]
It must be concerned with the whole process of housing the population and the aspirations of all- the age pensioner, the businessman, the farmer, the worker, large and small families, the Aborigine and the student. [More…]
We will let the 41 400 households and all the households in Australia know why these 41 400 families are living permanently in tents, huts, caravans and houseboats. [More…]
-From listening to the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) and for that matter to the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) one would believe that aU the problems associated with housing Australian families eventuated in the last 3 years. [More…]
They soon and easily forget that for over a generation they were responsible for overcoming the problems of housing Australian families and that their attitude constantly was that it was the responsibility of the private sector. [More…]
I can remember one occasion since I entered this Parliament in 1969, a Minister for Housing in b.e Liberal-Country Party Government, the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), at one stage being asked about a survey to forecast housing needs of Australian families. [More…]
Australian families have occurred in the last 3 years. [More…]
They have families to support and to educate but no fully organised program of migrant education. [More…]
If this Government were sincere in the matter the answer is not to disguise the progress of ever increasing unemployment by stopping the input of people and causing loneliness and despair among individual migrant families; the solution needs to be sought elsewhere- in better management and in reasoned policies. [More…]
It is my deep concern that very often the cutbacks are on the building up on the new infrastructure to provide the opportunities for the newly forming families to be able to purchase serviced land at a price they can afford. [More…]
All too often it is those programs at the fringe which are cut back while the rest of the community goes on upgrading the services that are available to it and the young families pay the price of having to live in inadequate accommodation because they are unable to afford to purchase their own home, unable to realise the dream of home ownership? [More…]
An area of 20 000 acres of farm land involving 42 families is in doubt. [More…]
I believe that the user of the land must obtain some relief, otherwise only the middle and upper class income families will be able to afford a block of land and eventually to build a home on it. [More…]
It would be very nice and no doubt very comforting to think that some growth centre in future may be named Urenville but in the meantime, while that dream is being pursued, hundreds of ex-servicemen and their families are being forced to accept financial hardship because of this Government’s lack of foresight and its maladministration affecting the defence service homes loans scheme. [More…]
In 1970, one in every 6 families in Sydney lived in an unsewered area. [More…]
Dairy farmers throughout this nation cannot be expected to tolerate in the membership of their corporation a union representative who is intent upon effecting industrial strife that will affect the livelihood of dairy farmers and their families. [More…]
With their families they are established in towns built and provided by the mining companies in that area. [More…]
It seems pointless for families to pay something of the order of $ 1 .80-plus a week to receive a maximum refund of $5 for any medical service. [More…]
Independent trade unions are non-existent and the courageous voices of those who spoke up in those early years to remind their countrymen of the plight of the tens of thousands of political prisoners and their families are scarcely ever heard in public. [More…]
Current population trends resulting from rural decline should be a grim reminder to the Government that its continuing neglect of nonmetropolitan Australia not only places in danger our future economic wellbeing but imposes a great hardship on those families long established in cities who more and more are required to finance authorities in their losing battle to meet the escalating costs of gross expansion. [More…]
The whole of the newspaper medium in Australia is controlled by 4 families. [More…]
We know that those 4 families want an election. [More…]
They are not entitled to any more say than any other average 4 Australian families. [More…]
Restructure tax scales so as to assist families, and especially single income families. [More…]
This Budget’s proposals specifically direct a large share of relief to families, and the new dependants rebates and the sole parent rebate particularly benefit single income families. [More…]
These people and their unhappy families neither sought to be, nor wish to remain, among the ranks of the unemployed. [More…]
Honourable members should place themselves in the position of migrants who have come to this country expecting opportunities to work, expecting that if they show enterprise, thrift and initiative and if they work hard they will be able to gain some reward for it and make a better life for themselves but more particularly for their families. [More…]
Honourable members should assess the view of these people coming to Australia about the prospects that their families will inherit due to the economic mismanagement brought about solely by the efforts of this Government. [More…]
deal further with those people who are age pensioners, invalid pensioners or who have large families and who rely to a degree on such social.service benefits as child endowment. [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 the House is of the opinion that the reduction of $20.8m for welfare housing is a breach of the undertaking given by the Australian Government not to reduce the advances to the States below the 1974-75 level and that many low income families will be needlessly disadvantaged as a result’. [More…]
There is no concern for the people who want to work or for the people who want to provide for themselves and their families. [More…]
Most families which are paying rent are paying one-third of their take-home pay in rent and no family budget can cope with this. [More…]
The families which because of their jobs have to move regularly, rent their homes because it is more practical. [More…]
Of course families do better in houses where there is a garden for the children to play in and marriages fare better when the family is adequately housed. [More…]
That pinch has been applied with respect to housing and the places in which Australian families and households live and develop. [More…]
People who desire housing and who want to form homes and families ought not to be made the first and the most lasting victims of monetary policy. [More…]
In boom periods those economically deprived people cannot afford houses and in periods of recession they are the people who become unemployed and are still just as far from adequate accommodation for themselves and their families. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he would provide an itemised list of all gifts received, related to the service of the Government, by his Ministers of State and their families, having regard to the circumstances referred to by the Minister for Transport. [More…]
1 refer to himself, his family, and all the Ministers of State and their families. [More…]
When the Whitlam Government took power in December 1972, 50 per cent of homes in Perth were unsewered In Sydney and Melbourne one in every seven families was in an unsewered area. [More…]
It is because when the pay packets cease this Government will not be blamed but those who sit opposite will be blamed for stopping people with families from getting their pay. [More…]
It has been suggested in certain sections that the great deficiency in the Committee’s report and in this motion, which virtually seeks to implement the Committee’s recommendation, is that the shareholdings or pecuniary interests of members’ families- of spouses and children of members- do not have to be disclosed. [More…]
Morale and efficiency of the defence forces could be seriously and adversely affected by the travel restrictions which have already had to be placed upon them and their families. [More…]
It is vital to scores of thousands who hope to escape the indignity of being unable to pay for their own or their families’ funerals. [More…]
Aided and abetted by the ultra-conservative Press, the ownership of which is exclusive to a few Australian familiesthe same families that own and control the visual and audio media outlets- the conservatives finally had their way. [More…]
Eligible persons comprise certain low income families, persons in receipt of social security, unemployment, sickness and special benefits, and migrants during their first 2 months in Australia. [More…]
The entire constitutional upheaval that this country witnessed, the personal bickering between families and friends, was simply the result of a greed for power that could not wait 1 8 months for a legitimate election. [More…]
Young families would be able to move into the homes that are vacated by these elderly people. [More…]
It is almost entirely residential and it is the home of many fine families. [More…]
I ask honourable members to consider the tremendous psychological effects that it has on individuals and on their families. [More…]
If the Government is going to give something to everybody all over Australia, if, for example, it is going to provide child care services all over Australia, it will be terribly expensive, but if it can be argued that such things should be provided only in certain geographical areas or to certain disadvantaged families - [More…]
I think we must be very careful that where land is acquired, in many cases highly productive agricultural land, we must do it as kindly and as sympathetically as possible at a price which is completely satisfactory to the families concerned. [More…]
Governments cannot guarantee good health but Labor at least legislated so that financial hardship caused by illness would no longer torment individuals and families. [More…]
It is families on lower incomes whose hopes for a Housing Loan will recede under the Fraser Government. [More…]
They have come here because they want to start a new life for themselves and their families in a land well away from the haunting spectre of Marxist socialism, no matter under what label it may masquerade. [More…]
I urge immediate application of the IAC recommendation on household support so that families with no income may have enough to eat. [More…]
I think about a thousand of those families have settled in Australia. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister on behalf of the Assyrian families. [More…]
But basically, and more importantly, it is people- hundreds of families who could not live in Cootamundra without the work provided directly or indirectly by Conkey ‘s. [More…]
Has it been worth all the personal and financial hardship that will follow for hundreds of families? [More…]
But the honourable member for Hume comes into this chamber and misleads the Parliament by suggesting that the meat workers are totally irresponsible, that they are prepared to deprive their wives and families of the necessities of life and risk incurring greater debts in their individual homes because of a triviality. [More…]
It was also for those in receipt of unemployment, sickness and special benefits and for certain low income families. [More…]
Unfortunately the subsidised health benefit plan did not work as it was originally intended, when introducing this scheme in 1970 the then Minister for Health, Dr A. J. Forbes, stated that it was to be available to an estimated 100 000 families or 300 000 individuals. [More…]
There was an extension in June 1970 to provide for a further 84 000 families or over 250 000 individuals to be catered for under the scheme. [More…]
In many instances they will avoid getting the necessary health care, particularly those families in the low income and disadvantaged area that I mentioned earlier. [More…]
I have seen such families as no doubt has the honourable member for Maribyrnong. [More…]
Such a charge is beyond the means of many families. [More…]
These people include those on unemployment, sickness or special benefits paid under the Social Services Act, migrants during their first 2 months in Australia and families on low incomes. [More…]
the proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from middle and low income families to those on higher income levels’. [More…]
The final part of my amendment refers to the question of the economy and refers specifically to the fact that middle and low income families are going to suffer most under this Government’s administration. [More…]
Finally, the amendment of the honourable member for Scullin stated: … the proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from the middle and low income families to those on higher income levels. [More…]
The people most harmed by the inflationary excessed, by the high unemployment and by the high interest rates that existed over the last 3 years were those very people, the middle and low income families. [More…]
This is also a novel way of justifying the cutting of deferred mortgage repayment schemes for housing loans for the low income families who are already struggling to exercise their independence. [More…]
The previous home savings grant scheme worked very much to the disadvantage of lower income families. [More…]
An Australian Labor Party government by now would have been lending money on more flexible repayment terms to assist families in making their housing repayments in accordance with their means. [More…]
It is not my intention to dwell on that disaster, but I should like in my maiden speech to extend my sympathy to the families who lost their loved ones and to pay a tribute to the many people who worked so genuinely and so hard during those months in 1975. [More…]
Scores of families were literally forced to walk off their properties, leave their districts and travel to the city to seek work. [More…]
As a result of the closure of the Mount Morgan mine some 700 families will be adversely affected, not to mention the hardship that will be felt in the smaller towns such as Bajool and Ambrose. [More…]
There are 1974 applicants throughout Australia and their wives and families are seriously prejudiced. [More…]
the proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from middle and low income families to those on higher income levels.’ [More…]
I know of families who are very well off and still claim these special allowances simply because they have some small amount of Aboriginal blood in the family, even though they own large properties or have high incomes. [More…]
The Fraser Government, on coming to office, tackled the fundamental problems facing the Australian community, namely, to bring order where chaos now exists in the economy, to provide an economic climate where people can find employment, and to provide an economic climate where the stresses on the families of the nation are reduced so that mothers who wish to care for their children at home are able to do so. [More…]
There is a need to provide the children of a larger number of families with increased opportunities for and access to pre-school education. [More…]
So much of its legislation put on the family pressures that created a need for child care services where families were previously able to provide and wished still to provide those services for their children. [More…]
In developing a continuing program to fulfil the needs within the community the Government now in office will recognise the needs of families. [More…]
It will enable young families to purchase homes and to make those purchases at times so that those families can have a normal home situation. [More…]
It was the Opposition when in government that destroyed the aspirations of families and those children who need child care, by creating a huge pool of unemployed in the country and by fanning the fires of inflation so that the value of the services that a government could provide out of the Budget resources available in real terms did less for the community than those resources should have achieved. [More…]
There are some 10 to 15 families along this 50-mile section of railway line who will have to either move or go into other employment. [More…]
The inequalities in our community now reflect not so much gross disparities in income but the failure of successive Liberal governments to create opportunities for the overwhelming majority of our people- the lower, the modest and the middle-income families- opportunities which only governments can make and increasingly in Australia the national Government must initiate those opportunities. [More…]
They worked close to their homes, reared their families and liked to live in the heart of a great city. [More…]
Paragraph (c) reads: the proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from middle and low income families to those on higher income levels. [More…]
You are talking, I hope, about the major transfer of resources from middle and low-income families to those on higher income levels. [More…]
I have countless numbers of migrants coming into my electorate office pleading a case for the re-uniting of their families in Australia. [More…]
Why should they have to bear the strain and the sorrow of having members of their closely knit families separated by thousands of miles due to inhumane and narrow immigration guidelines for family re-unification? [More…]
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the inquiry was that it revealed that there were 250 000 dependent children in very poor families in this country. [More…]
I think we should go further and look at the incidence of taxation on families themselves. [More…]
I hope that we can give some relief to these families which now suffer and also bring about the end of that social disease known as latch-key children. [More…]
I think some of the lessons that have been learned by the host families on one side in Japan and by me as a member of a host family in Australia are of importance and are of great interest to us. [More…]
In understanding the social customs of the 2 nations one brings together the understanding of how families live in the 2 countries. [More…]
How were the primary producers and their families rated by the former Govenment? [More…]
The social problems, the effect on families, the effect on children and the effect on country communities are becoming quite serious. [More…]
Sixty-seven national groups were represented at the conference by 503 members of parliament accompanied by 269 advisers and 338 wives and members of families- 1110 people altogether. [More…]
We tend to forget all about them completely and about their wives and families. [More…]
He told me that he had 20 families affected by this decision. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from 6 years to 18 months for patients eligible to receive cows milk substitutes as a pharmaceutical benefit under the schedules of the National Health Act will cause serious financial hardship to many families; [More…]
I have told my constituents that I believe he is capable of redressing this great injustice which has been done to many families. [More…]
That is the assurance that they would get $96.80- is the prime mover for the majority of students to join the course and to give up jobs that supported their families which they will not be able to take up again. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘while not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that (a) the problems of the canned fruit industry are a legacy of the reckless overexpansion of the production base fostered by successive Liberal and Country Party Governments throughout the 1960s, and (b) the Government should consider immediately the AIDC report handed down in September 197S, with a view towards significant rationalisation of this industry to prevent further hardship to growers and their families’. [More…]
It is because the livelihood of our 2000 growers and their families is affected by this crisis, along with the workers in canneries, that the Opposition will support this legislation. [More…]
It is at least humanitarian to guarantee that these growers and their families receive money which should be available to them from these canneries. [More…]
By the way I have not seen this report; I do not think that anyone has- with a view towards significant rationalisation of this industry to prevent further hardship to growers and their families. [More…]
It is only because the livelihood of 2000 growers and their families, along with the workers in the canneries, is affected by these prices that the Opposition will support this legislation. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘while not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that (a) the problems of the canned fruit industry are a legacy of the reckless overexpansion of the production base fostered by successive Liberal and Country Party governments throughout the 1960s, and (b) the Government should consider immediately the AIDC report handed down in September 1975, with a view towards significant rationalisation of this industry to prevent further hardship to growers and their families’. [More…]
So at the places where the families are now residing special provision is being made for English speaking classes for adults and the children are being placed in schools close to the hostels where special English language classes are available to them. [More…]
The Opposition claims that the Government is transferring resources from middle and low income families to those on higher incomes. [More…]
As all honourable members probably know the social security beneficiary- the widow, the would be breadwinner who is an invalid, the unemployed and the sick- who have dependants in their families are worst off. [More…]
The elitism and reactionary style of this Government cannot be better evidenced than by the fact that- and I quote from the amendment- ‘the proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from middle and low income families to those on higher income levels’. [More…]
the proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause the major transfer of resources from middle and low income families to those on higher income levels. [More…]
It refers to the economic situation and the major transfer of resources from low income families to those on high incomes. [More…]
I could easily continue to enumerate the instances where this Government has clearly demonstrated its intention of transferring resources from the middle and low income families to those on higher incomes. [More…]
The remainder, by necessity, battle on in an effort to achieve an after tax income which enables them to support their families and complete the purchase of a home. [More…]
Many inequalities in society essentially reflect differences between families rather than between individuals. [More…]
This is done in the United Kingdom but there most families pay less tax than they would had the spouses been taxed separately because the rebates available to those taxed separately on the family unit are not otherwise available. [More…]
There are over 90 000 families already buying their own homes with loans from these societies. [More…]
Many young families will be slugged for another $4 or $5 a week. [More…]
Such people are accumulating wealth; but they also have pride- a pride in their own person, a pride in their families, a pride in their own homes which flows on to a pride in their community and nation. [More…]
The Queensland Government has seen fit to try to alleviate the situation by providing some funds out of its own Budget, but the backlog at the moment is something like 6500 families with applications before the Commission. [More…]
In this way, with the same amount of money, if houses can be constructed more economically by the use of new techniques, more dwellings can be constructed, more families can be accommodated. [More…]
In that way families can be housed in a much shorter time, and the people can have a house perhaps at a lower cost. [More…]
Yet the Commission moves families into the area. [More…]
During those 3 years too many Australians, too many Australian families in too many areas, had insurmountable problems of access to housing. [More…]
The frustration of many Australian families in not being able to obtain housing was contributed to by an unsympathetic Labor Government which was unable to control interest rates and to provide encouragement to the private sector to build houses in all areas. [More…]
Provision was made for additional rental assistance towards the cost of reduced rents charged to needy families in State housing authority homes. [More…]
It did not care about the families who were homeless and cold in the middle of winter. [More…]
This figure represents families with no permanent home because of the strategies and policies of the Australia Labor Party. [More…]
In the southern area of Tasmania there are 2178 families waiting for homes; in the northern area there are 837; in the northwestern area there are 751; and King Island, Flinders Island and other isolated communities take up the balance. [More…]
I suppose that the other 2080 families who are waiting have not yet got around to contacting their new member or perhaps they have contacted somebody else. [More…]
Where does one bring into account the costs borne by students and families, including the income forgone during a period of study to gain employment later at a higher level and, presumably, with higher remuneration, and the cost of educational subsidies both direct and indirect? [More…]
Yet only a short time after that remarkable statement, farmers have been walking off their properties to find work in the dues as labourers, unskilled factory workers, and to work at any job they can get to support their families and to help to maintain and service the debts that have been built up on their farms. [More…]
In some quarters it has been suggested that the decline in fertility since 1971 is a temporary phenomenon due largely to a recent marked change in attitudes towards starting families. [More…]
While there is some evidence of deferment of first births in some families, this in itself seems to have been only a minor factor in the severe fall in fertility since 1971. [More…]
The proposals outlined in the Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from middle and low income families to those on higher income levels. [More…]
They now know that the proposals outlined in the Governor-General’s Speech are so framed as to cause a major transfer of resources from the middle and low income families to those on higher income levels. [More…]
These were not the pleas of so-called bloated capitalists but the cries of people who wanted to be left to themselves to strive and achieve, to be given the right to express themselves, to enjoy their families and not to be told: ‘Give me your earnings. [More…]
I might add that, after surviving many years on pocket money, which in most families did not amount to much, the unemployment benefit was an extremely attractive and generous gift. [More…]
For that pension on a long term basis to be merely related to the consumer price index will not ensure that those pensioner families, whether they be the aged or the widows with dependent children, share adequately and equitably in the growing wealth of this country. [More…]
After all, the changing pattern of single income and two-income families in themselves must throw into some doubt the adequacy in the future- in 10, 15 or 20 years time- of merely adjusting pensions against the income of one of a two-income family. [More…]
As the honourable member for Stun pointed out, there are many families in the community that are receiving 2 incomes and the person relying on benefits is likely to be receiving 1 income. [More…]
It is hedged about with unreasonable means test provisions and I do not think it has really operated as it should have done to the benefit of pensioners’ families because of its relationship to what I would call the funeral industry. [More…]
It is not known how long all these children will be in the area; it is likely that families will be moving away from the hostel to other parts of Australia. [More…]
The defence forces have such an arrangement to enable those who have served this country well to retire with a minimum of disruption and disadvantage to themselves and their families. [More…]
Those who own their own homes are now a declining percentage of families. [More…]
Fewer young families can afford to buy new homes. [More…]
Entry to home ownership is quickly becoming restricted to three types of families- those who inherit money, the top 30 per cent of income earners and families with 2 incomes who are acceptable to the lending institutions. [More…]
Other families are missing out altogether. [More…]
This accounts for most Australian families. [More…]
Twenty thousand fewer families are able to live in their own homes each year. [More…]
Migrants who come to this country from overseas and who bring with them their life savings to invest in the new country in which they will be dwelling, raising their families and contributing so well to our community, will have those life savings considered as part of this program and gain additional finance to establish their home. [More…]
It provided substantial relief to lower income groups from the greatest financial burden they carry- the cost of housing their families. [More…]
It is applicable to all sections of our society, from the young family to the older families, from single people to married people, and it is applicable to all permanent residents in Australia. [More…]
1 hope that it will give hope eternal to the 6490 families in Queensland who at present are homeless and are at present unable to obtain homes. [More…]
We decided to substitute the home savings grant scheme for tax deductibility allowances which involved an expenditure of $ 130m and was likely to assist about 1 Vi million families. [More…]
Yet we have this new situation which will disadvantage many many thousands of Australian families because the scheme is now to be limited to people who are making repayments in respect of their first home and only during the first 5 years of those repayments. [More…]
I want them to understand that thousands of families will be very adversely affected and will be losing tax deductibility benefits which in many cases would amount to $8 a week. [More…]
In many cases families are split up. [More…]
To return to the handout mentality of road funding is to court disaster for thousands of Australian families. [More…]
It seems to me that the people who have come to this country as migrants have settled in an area of work in which, unless we do something about lifting their potential in the workforce, they are destined to remain, like a lot of the children who come from Greek families in my own electorate. [More…]
We have been concerned not to add unnecessarily to the distress of the immediate families of the newsmen. [More…]
I would be disturbed indeed if I thought that any of my Ministers held shares in companies in those circumstances or if they had adopted the device of transferring them to their wives or dependent members of their families. [More…]
So the predominance of people- people rearing young families and incurring family costs- are going to lose the benefit. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would well know that because of the increased proportion of money that has been saved in recent times there is a great capacity amongst individuals and families of Australia to make such purchases. [More…]
Therefore I would have thought it was quite plain from the experience of the last two or three years that merely adding to money wages and leaving ills in the economy, as has been the case, will not do anything for the recovery of the economy in a way which will assist individuals and families all around Australia. [More…]
It shares the concern of the families of the journalists who died. [More…]
Of course the sad reality is that many growers and their families will suffer subsistence levels of income and be forced off their places before this rationalisation comes about. [More…]
I think it is without question that subsidies often encourage people to stay on the land when they and their families - [More…]
I am saying that subsidies encourage people to stay on the land when they and their families would be much better off making the break and setting up in another field of endeavour which would give them a more acceptable standard of living. [More…]
If it is just a matter of an individual making a choice for himself, it is not so questionable; but, when young families, wives and mothers are concerned, they are deprived of normally accepted amenities which other people often enjoy. [More…]
Quite frequently their only regret is that they did not make the decision much sooner and that they delayed the decision for far too long, to the detriment of the welfare of their families. [More…]
Farmers and their families are suffering badly, and not even the most blinkered city dweller can dismiss this as the ‘cockies whingeing again ‘. [More…]
One of the factors that may not be known to the community is the tremendous effort that has been made by the wives and families of fruit growers. [More…]
The wives and families of fruit growers have stood by them, particularly in the picking season, to enable the farms to continue to operate for the time being at least. [More…]
Many wives have worked in the industry for years so that their menfolk and families might be able to carry on into a period of greater prosperity. [More…]
I know that the wives and families are not compelled to assist the fruit growers to the extent that they do; but this has been the spirit with which fruit growing has been conducted. [More…]
That means people from my area have to go to Melbourne, which I think it is a most unfortunate social depredation for those people and for their families and the communities that they leave behind. [More…]
If we are to discourage people from going to nursing homes unless they really need to do so- if their families and outside support services can help them- we should be looking at increasing the domiciliary nursing care benefit in line with the rate of inflation, we should be providing as much help as possible for these people in the way of community services, such as district nursing services, and perhaps we should be extending the flexibility of the domiciliary nursing care scheme not only to allow for a change in the ratio of registered nurses to nursing aides but also in relation to the requirement of a medical assessment for the domiciliary nursing scheme as distinct from the medical assessment that is required for the aged at the present time. [More…]
Indeed, the more we talk about this sort of matter the more we are inclined to deter families from accepting the obligation that they otherwise might have accepted, particularly when we claim in the conversations and debates that we have that we are our brother’s keeper in respect of the care of the aged. [More…]
In migrant areas such as Earlwood, Arncliffe and Rockdale this is not the case because migrants and other Australians are coming into the area with their, families. [More…]
What can be done to protect the reputations of deceased Ministers and prevent great emotional distress to their surviving families? [More…]
There is no doubt that these young families will be looking for better and different lifestyles. [More…]
Decisions taken by private firms, developers, local government, planning authorities and individual citizens and their families depend on firm assurances of government support for growth centres. [More…]
Government officials estimate that on average now at least 500 families a week in Sydney are deciding to quit city life and figuratively head for the hills. [More…]
Many of the residents are lonely, isolated from their families and friends, uncertain and insecure. [More…]
I do not challenge the integrity of the AJA: to my mind it has gone to extraordinary lengths to hunt out the truth on this matter and to safeguard the interests of its members and their families. [More…]
Royal Australian Air Force flights or Service flights- because of the pitifully inadequate reimbursement that their families would receive in the event of death or injury. [More…]
It apparently has told the ABC that its employees must fall in line with the compensation offered the families of other public servants under the Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1963-1973. [More…]
Those cuts in expenditure and reductions in programs have had to be severe to bring back into reality the Government’s command over the resources of Australia, to leave adequate room for individuals, for families and for businesses so that jobs and opportunities can be created for people all over Australia. [More…]
Medibank will be made so expensive for many taxpayers that they will have to take out private insurance or risk leaving their families without protection. [More…]
So were the Liberal Party’s other threats and cutbacks- cutbacks in the Children’s Commission, cuts in foreign aid, threats to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, higher pharmaceutical charges, reductions in drug supplies for the chronically ill, the abandonment of the housing corporation with its help for low income families, the abolition of funeral benefits for pensioners, penal clauses against unions, a campaign of harassment and intimidation of those on the dole and restoration of radio and television licence fees. [More…]
It is ridiculous to try to save such a small amount if by its expenditure some families could be prevented from breaking up with resultant deserted wives and children getting into trouble. [More…]
It appears from the Prime Minister’s speech last night that all of a sudden the Prime Minister has discovered that there are 300 000 families in the Australian community who pay little or no tax. [More…]
Despite many hardships and disappointments they have established themselves and their families in the Territory on rural properties, isolated settlements and towns of great character and vitality. [More…]
Remember that we are not talking about an effect on high income families. [More…]
When we introduce measures in the Parliament to stimulate investment, to increase productivity, to provide jobs for the unemployed so that they can look after themselves and their families, what is the reaction? [More…]
I would have liked to give the House more details of this petition and the benefits that would accrue to tourism, to the business community, to families, and- for the benefit of the honourable member for Melbourneto pensioners, for whom he does not care one whit. [More…]
Can it be said that union leaders realise that a responsible national approach will benefit all working Australians and their families? [More…]
I believe that those with large families will benefit quite significantly, especially the lower income families. [More…]
We say that the car industry has to be maintained in the national interest because tens of thousands of workers and their families are dependent on employment in that industry. [More…]
Now will you pay for our families to be shifted into an area where we can find like employment at like salary?’ [More…]
How do honourable members opposite reconcile that with the sort of stuff the Government is going to put over tonight about giving with one hand purportedly to the poorer families in the community and taking away from the same group in another way, that is, by the imposition of a levy on Medibank that is probably going to be something of the order of $ 1, 000m. [More…]
More than one million families are at present benefiting as a result of this provision which I understand is incurring or involving expenditure in excess of $120m a year [More…]
As I have said, one million families have been benefiting to a very considerable extent. [More…]
Will he be able to tell me how many families will be deprived of this benefit? [More…]
How many families would honourable gentlemen know who incur a level of hardship that they have not incurred before when children come along? [More…]
The Government is more intent on giving money to wealthy people rather than continuing this benefit which has provided assistance to one million families or more throughout Australia. [More…]
I would mention here, however, that the Government’s proposed new arrangements for assistance to families will be of particular benefit to Aboriginal families. [More…]
Consideration is being given to changes in the program designed to ensure greater emphasis on child care to children of needy families. [More…]
Assistance to Families [More…]
The Government is also proposing a major reform of present arrangements for assistance to families, so as to direct much more support to those families in real need. [More…]
These arrangements discriminate against families in which the income of the main or sole income earner falls short of the minimum taxation threshold. [More…]
Such families are unable to take advantage of the taxation rebates for children which are available to the great majority of families. [More…]
A system under which low-income families are denied the main form of assistance to families is clearly a matter of very great inequity. [More…]
The broad effect of these changes will be to increase the weekly level of child endowment paid to families by between $3 and $4 per child. [More…]
As the weekly equivalent of the present maximum taxation rebate is $3.85 in respect of most children, the overall position of families able to take full advantage of these rebates at present will not be greatly changed. [More…]
There are, however, about 800 000 children in low income families which pay little or no taxation. [More…]
The new system will provide greatly increased assistance to 300 000 such families. [More…]
Another effect of the new system will be to bring about some redistribution of income within families. [More…]
It will be payable by Australian residents who do not have appropriate cover for themselves and their families with a registered private insurance fund, or through payment of a premium to Medibank. [More…]
The proposals outlined arise from a review til” the manner in which assistance for families is now available. [More…]
Most families receive assistance for children under 16 years of age and students by way of child endowment and personal incometax rebates. [More…]
However, the benefits that arc available to some taxpayers by way of tax rebates for children do not apply to some 300 000 families whose incomes are insufficient to enable them to take advantage of those tax rebates. [More…]
The Government regards it as of first importance that these families who, as a class, are those most in need, should receive the additional financial help which this Bill will provide. [More…]
Increases in the sole parent rebate and the rebate for a dependent spouse will be of benefit to all single income families which are subject to taxation. [More…]
For such families they will more than offset any reduction in assistance for children arising from the substitution of increased family allowances for personal income tax rebates. [More…]
Too many members of the work force of this country, unfortunately for the honourable member, are now appreciating the absolute folly of wage increases which to them and their families have become illusory as the process of inflation induced by the honourable member and his colleagues has continued unchecked in recent years. [More…]
I believe that it will greatly assist families, particularly those in the poorer financial brackets, and as I think I said in the statement, it will directly have a very advantageous impact upon the 300 000 poor families with some 800 000 children. [More…]
The withdrawal of hospital subsidies, the destruction of Medibank, the drastic increases decreed in public hospital charges for intermediate and private wards will put the best medical care beyond the reach of even moderately well-to-do families. [More…]
We were told by the Treasurer that more than 300 000 families and 800 000 people will benefit from that measure alone. [More…]
Some relief is provided to the suffering of the poorest families in our community, particularly by a measure directed at the children of poor families and is deserving of support. [More…]
The only trouble is that the rest of the package combined with this Government’s policies for the reduction of real wages and the maintenance of high levels of unemployment in order to temper wage claims will guarantee that more and more families and more single people, both old and young, will be sucked down below the poverty line. [More…]
An extra ship in the defence budget or the gross and anti-egalitarian hand outs of superphosphate bounties did nothing to improve the suburban families’ standard of living. [More…]
Inflation has seriously and adversely affected all sections of the community but in no area has it been more severely felt than in the area of the low income group and disadvantaged families. [More…]
It has become increasingly obvious that the system of taxation rebates was of little benefit to families whose taxation was either at a very low level or even non-existent. [More…]
Two-income families will not be forced to pay 2 levies. [More…]
The increase in child endowment and the abolition of the tax rebates for children mean that families will have less cash in their pay envelopes. [More…]
However, in the announcement of its final decisions it ensured that special considerations will be given to the future of the problems of low income families and the needy to provide justice to the individual taxpayers. [More…]
The Government will prevail upon the medical profession to ensure that its members do not charge a moiety or make an additional charge to pensioners and low income families. [More…]
Shortly before question time the Minister for Health and other people were in my office looking at a draft of a simplified document which will enable people throughout Australiawhether they be single people, married people with one income between the two, or 2-income families- to determine the choices available to them. [More…]
It will allow them therefore to make the proper choice depending on whether they want universally available health care under Medibank, which will provide for all people in Australia the cheapest form of health cover of a good and high standard- both medical and hospital cover- or wish to make a decision which would enable them, for themselves as single people or for their families, to take out some additional insurance to enable them to be treated in hospital by their own doctor in either an intermediate or private ward. [More…]
I would have hoped that honourable gentlemen on all sides of the House would wish this information to be freely and properly available so that individuals and families can make the best decision in their own interests. [More…]
The benefits for those 200 000 or 300 000 poor families of which the Treasurer spoke will tend to erode year by year after the first year and will provide little alleviation of the problems of those in need, because of the inroads of inflation solely because these benefits are not indexed. [More…]
If there is anything that Australia needs it is to make sure that our young families are provided for because these are our future and this is the area in which we should be working. [More…]
The change from child endowment to family allowances, together with the abolition of the tax rebates for dependent children, will bring very great benefits to low income families. [More…]
Whilst this is welcome for that reason alone it is especially welcome because there are many primary producer families today which have little or no income. [More…]
The very serious depression in the cattle and dairy industries in particular, and in some other rural industries as well, has resulted in many farm families receiving a very minimum income. [More…]
However, the basic change now to be made with the introduction of family allowances at a much higher rate than the previous child endowment will prove to be of major assistance to many of these low income farm families about which I have spoken. [More…]
Indeed, it was under the Labor Government that the number of permanent residents entering the country to join families steadily increased as a proportion of the total migrant intake. [More…]
At least the presence of members of their families who have already settled here will soften the blow of these cuts that I have mentioned, cuts that have destroyed most of the support systems available to our new arrivals. [More…]
There are many cases, particularly when both parents are deceased, where the people involved wish to join their brothers or sisters in this country to reunite what is left of their families. [More…]
A further most disturbing aspect of this inquiry was that it revealed that there were 250 000 dependent children in very poor families in Australia. [More…]
In this context it is of great significance, in relation to the Government’s decision to use the vehicle of family allowance to direct resources away from the relatively well off to the poor, that the report showed quite clearly that the group of people in the community whose incomes fall below the poverty line by the biggest percentage were in large families whose fathers were earning the minimum wage or a little more. [More…]
Indeed, one of the most disturbing aspects of the situation was that there were a quarter of a million dependent children in very poor families, many of them in 2 -parent families with the father in full employment. [More…]
We therefore recommend that substantial increases be made in rates of child endowment and that taxation allowances for children be replaced by tax credits which should be added to child endowment to help poorer families. [More…]
In further support of these proposals I also mention that the Government has paid particular attention to the needs of families with only one breadwinner, especially sole parent families. [More…]
As a group, sole parent families constitute a large [More…]
Proportion of the 300 000 families and their 00 000 children who do not receive the full benefit of the existing rebates for children and students and accordingly who will be among the principal beneficiaries of these measures. [More…]
The Government has recognised that the previous system of taxation rebates for dependent children benefited those in the high tax brackets and did little for the really poor families, particularly those who did not pay any income tax at all. [More…]
This Government regards it as imperative that the poor families who did not benefit much if at all from the rebate system should receive the additional financial help which this Bill will provide. [More…]
I have always felt that this was an abuse of scarce government resources, particularly when there were many poor families who needed much more in the way of family allowances to provide better food, clothing and other basic or essential items for their children. [More…]
Although child endowment is not means tested, the impact of the combined measures- that is, the increases in endowment payments and the abolition of tax rebates for children- has a similar effect to that of a means test and quite properly will ensure that resources will be directed away from the relatively well off families and into the hands of the poorer families in Australia. [More…]
I have alluded already to the fact that by redistributing the benefits of family allowances to the poorer families this money will be spent on more essential items for the children. [More…]
Conversely, because of this redistribution, if wealthier families wish to purchase less essential and more luxury items for their children, obviously more of this kind of expenditure will have to come from their own resources and less from the Government. [More…]
A further advantage of the new system is that families will not have to wait until the end of the financial year to receive the benefits of family allowances, as occurred under the tax rebate system. [More…]
To those who suggest that it is wrong for the Government to subsidise those who have children and to penalise those who do not, I simply say that in the aggregate there has not been any significant increase in government resources directed to helping families who have children, whether these resources be measured in the form of direct expenditure via child endowment payments or in the form of a loss to revenue through tax rebates. [More…]
The total amount has simply been redistributed to poorer families. [More…]
The other criticisms I have heard- I repeat them- are that this scheme is an incentive to have more children and that in particular it gives encouragement to certain irresponsible people who have large families but cannot afford them. [More…]
To the people who make these kinds of criticisms about poor people and large families, I say that it is morally questionable to suggest that the capacity or incentive to have children should be judged solely by pecuniary considerations. [More…]
Our migrant families are a particular group in the community who will benefit very substantially from the introduction of the family allowances proposals. [More…]
In those families where there are a large number of children- these are normally the poorest people in the community, particularly the non-British migrant families- the allowance will provide substantial regular income. [More…]
The changes that have been made in the means of distributing funds in this area are to the advantage of the large families on low incomes. [More…]
The money that is to be paid in child endowment to a substantial number of families but not all families will be more than offset by the losses of expendable income in areas in which people have greater reserves and are more likely to spend that income. [More…]
Many people banked the tax concessions that have now been taken away by not claiming them at the time but leaving them with the Taxation Office to draw at the time that they submitted their taxation returns, which happened to be a very convenient time for most families. [More…]
Subject to the grace of the Commissioner of Taxation, the taxation refund usually arrived in October, November or, at the latest, early December- immediately prior to Christmas and just prior to the period of greatest expenditure for most families. [More…]
The new scheme of family allowances which benefits those worst off families the most is a major advance in social welfare in Australia and is recognised as such by all Australians. [More…]
I refer to statements that have been made to the effect that the family allowance proposals will benefit the 300 000 families and their 800 000 children throughout Australia who could not take advantage of the previous system of tax deductions for dependants. [More…]
I started by speaking about Medibank; but I want, in passing, to make one point on another matter; that is- I will not deal with it for any great length of time- the tax tables and the prose and cons of the benefit figures which were published last week by the Taxation Office on the situations of families with different compositions and different incomes. [More…]
I say to every trade unionist that we are concerned about them, their families and their jobs. [More…]
Let me quote from the section of the report entitled ‘Measures to Assist Families’. [More…]
The most urgent need of poor families is for income support. [More…]
More money will alleviate the stress on these families, provide greater security, and increase the families’ choices in the way they organise their lives. [More…]
We have seen that poverty among 2-parent families is related to family size . [More…]
The- earnings of heads of large families are, in fact, very similar to those of heads of small families. [More…]
As an immediate measure, therefore, the Commission would concentrate help to families through child endowment and abolish taxation deductions. [More…]
These measures will help 300 000 low income families and their 800 000 children. [More…]
The Special Study of the Medical Care Program for Steelworkers and their Families, a study encompassing over 1 million steelworkers, ‘corroborated the United Mineworkers of America findings by revealing that the 38 879 who obtained their health care through a prepaid, direct service, comprehensive group practice plan, where doctors were on salary, had similar experiences. [More…]
Unlike the former Government, the present Liberal-National Country Party Administration has a very firm interest in seeking to protect the position of families in isolated areas. [More…]
Poor families would be disadvantaged. [More…]
Families on higher incomes can, if they so wish, obtain the type of services that the honourable member for Maribyrnong mentioned- the services available in our great public hospitals- and can take out, in approximate terms, a $300 family premium or package that will cover them for the cost of treatment in standard wards of public hospitals with hospital staff engaged by the hospital. [More…]
In other words, if there were not that sort of arrangement whereby people or families on the $13,000 to $ 14,000 income level could opt out of Medibank, people earning $40,000 a year would be paying enormous amounts, far beyond what would be judged to be fair, to remain in Medibank. [More…]
He is the one to whom they go in times of trouble to themselves or their families. [More…]
Families get their local doctors out at all hours of the day and night. [More…]
What families wanted was irrelevant. [More…]
Something like half a million families are going to be deprived of tax deductibility on their mortgage interest rates. [More…]
Some 24 500 families, or half the number of Canberra households, will probably be adversely affected by this measure together with the decision to increase interest charges to 9 ‘A per cent. [More…]
Clearly this is an impossible imposition to place on low income families. [More…]
We have acted on the basis of the Henderson report on poverty in Australia, which showed only too clearly that over 300 000 families with some 800 000 children live below the poverty line. [More…]
We recognise that local government provides the opportunity for competitive diversity in those qualities of life which Australian families would like to see achieved in the environment of their choice. [More…]
Apart from the very low wage earners and those on very high incomes, especially those with large families, there is little in the package that could be regarded by wage and salary earners as compensation for reduced real wages. [More…]
Such people will be able to take out private insurance cover for themselves and their families for what we have estimated to be $135 per annum, or approximately $68 per annum in the case of a single person. [More…]
They will be able to buy a Medibank package at $300 to cover them and their families rather than pay the levy, or they will be able to take out with a private fund private insurance to cover themselves and their families against medical costs. [More…]
The philosophy of the Government in relation to child care will be to see that the funds which the Commonwealth makes available provide facilities for child care for those who need it, especially for single parent families. [More…]
He is prepared repeatedly to risk human lives to divert funds to the sectional interests which his Government represents, to risk human lives and cause heartbreak and disaster to thousands of Australian families to obtain funds to pay the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) $5,000 per annum as an inequitable superphosphate bounty. [More…]
It was a brutal exercise in buying rural votes at the expense of the lives of urban motorists and causing distress to urban families. [More…]
The families of the air travellers, motorists and road passengers whose lives are to be risked unnecessarily by the actions of this Minister and his Government should know of his callousness. [More…]
There is a great danger, particularly in 2-car families where a driver used to one set of controls, and having to make a quick decision, will make the wrong one. [More…]
The benefits will be available at no cost to a single person with a taxable income of up to $2,604 a year; they will be available at no cost to families with a taxable income of up to $4,299 a year. [More…]
The old Country Party shibboleth has manifested itself- again-encourage production, ignore world trends, wait until a crisis is around one’s ears and then vacillate, call for a second, superflous IAC report on the industry, which the Minister has just done, and waffle at farmer meetings month in and month out while thousands of families go destitute across the nation. [More…]
Living at poverty levels of existence imposes permanent disabilities on dairy farmers’ wives and families who are often called upon to work on the farm to survive, and this is often done at the expense of adequate education opportunities for their children. [More…]
I have the greatest sympathy for dairy farmers, particularly those with young families, who find themselves trapped in or locked into the dairy industry- and they certainly are trapped in and locked into it. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I was saying that I have the greatest sympathy for dairy farmers, and particularly those with young families, who find themselves locked into the dairy industry and just cannot get out. [More…]
They have made all sorts of sacrifices for themselves and for their families in the hope that some day things would come good, that conditions would improve. [More…]
Anyone travelling under Commonwealth auspices should have the same rights and privileges in relation to seeking som.pensation by themselves or their families. [More…]
While there is a continuation of these programs and commitments in the forthcoming year, what we would want to do is to see that a greater part of Commonwealth funds goes to providing genuine child care for those in need- for single parent families who wish to be independent; who want to work and cannot work because they cannot get adequate child care facilities. [More…]
Owners occupying their own homes are now a declining percentage of all families. [More…]
Fewer young families can afford to buy new homes. [More…]
Entry to home ownership is quickly becoming restricted to 3 types of families- those who inherit money from their parents, the top 20 per cent of income earners or families with 2 incomes acceptable to lending institutions. [More…]
All the families, apart from the 3 groups which I mentioned, will miss out altogether. [More…]
This applies to most Australian families. [More…]
That was not going to involve just 40 000 people; it was going to involve over one million families in this country. [More…]
I think that an analysis of those speeches of members of the Opposition will make known to the Australian people the undeniable fact that the Opposition is pledged not to allow Australian families and their children to own their own homes. [More…]
The confidence that has been inspired in Australian families has resulted in positive action. [More…]
During my term as Minister for the Army the cadets I came in contact with were the sons of solid working class battler-type families. [More…]
Included in these proposals is the possible reduction to 2 in the number of families of PABX units. [More…]
The shape of the new scheme reflects its main purpose, to increase substantially the amount of assistance provided in respect of children in low income families. [More…]
He and the Lady Maie represented one of the finest families with which I have personally been associated. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the deaths of Thomas Louis Bull, O.B.E., a former senator for the State of New South Wales; William Edward Aylett, a former senator for the State of Tasmania; George Irvine Whiteside, a former senator for the State of Queensland; and Mr Laurence John Failes, a former member of this House for the electorate of Lawson; places on record its appreciation of their long and meritorious public service; and tenders its profound sympathy to their families in their bereavement. [More…]
In particular I should like to express to the families of the late Senator Bull and the former member for Lawson, the late Mr Laurie Failes, my own personal sympathy. [More…]
Similarly, on behalf of the members of my Party I extend sympathy to the families of the former Senator Aylett and former Senator Whiteside. [More…]
To their families I extend my deepest sympathy and also express an understanding of the traumas that parliamentary life imposes on the families of all members of this place, irrespective of the parties to which they belong. [More…]
In offering our condolences to the families of these former members of this Parliament, I think it is worth remembering those responsibilities, the way they are borne and, of course, the loneliness of frequent separation. [More…]
In extending our condolences to the families of those who were former members, I think it is also worth expressing thanks to those of our own families who also bear those burdens. [More…]
It was obvious that families above $ 10,000 a year that wanted this extra insurance would be driven out of Medibank by the size of the levy. [More…]
The only action taken by the Government was to give a subsidy estimated to cost $ 15m to keep the cost of premiums for shared room intermediate ward hospital accommodation within the reach of low and medium income families. [More…]
Many families did that because they wanted to be treated by their own doctor in hospital. [More…]
In the last few years the wages factor has resulted in a big downturn in the service that has been provided to the visitors to that pan of the world, so much so that it has become completely a family concern, with families running these individual organisations. [More…]
I take the opportunity, in waiting for the response from the Philippines, to point out the immediate assistance that is being rendered and also at this stage to commend the humanitarian efforts of the project personnel and their families. [More…]
The new system of family allowances, which is helping 300 000 families and over 800 000 children, was and is hailed as one of the most far-reaching social reforms in the history of Federation. [More…]
They will assist large low income families, and they will do more for Aboriginal families than the moneys wasted by the Australian Labor Party over the last 3 years. [More…]
I am aware that a great number of members of the Lebanese community are seeking to have reunited with them members of their families who can manage to get away from the Lebanon and reach Australian posts surrounding that country. [More…]
Child care services for needy children and families will be curtailed. [More…]
Those governments ensure, not only that private enterprise prospers, but that individuals and families have a minimum standard of living and social welfare and that the private sector accepts its share of the cost of providing it. [More…]
With the advent of increased education, job expectations in that area have grown but the job opportunities are available only in the capital cities, with the result that there is a buildup of pressure on young people to leave the provincial and country centres, to move into the cities, to leave their families and thus to be lost forever to those areas. [More…]
Programs, which were initiated by the previous Government and which have virtually been discontinued by this Government, to provide the amenities of life to people who have been forced into the capital cities and who are rearing families in those cities were stop gap measures which at best were unsatisfactory. [More…]
However, it involves funds which go directly to Aboriginal families and gives them an independence and capacity to spend those funds as they believe best in their own interests. [More…]
Two major areas into which a number of these projects have a substantial input are the development of services relating to families and social welfare manpower planning. [More…]
In reference to the former, wide ranging research is being conducted on family services in each State and the Territories, to ascertain current and future service needs of families in Australia. [More…]
This slowing down of construction can only add to the problem and create conditions of serious hardship for large numbers of families and aged persons. [More…]
In some areas there is a tendency for families to be larger than families in other parts of Australia. [More…]
This has made a very great difference in my electorate, particularly in the beef areas where I know of some large families with no income who were finding it increasingly hard even to feed their children. [More…]
But no, the Labor Government, completely preoccupied with grandiose schemes designed only to transfer power to Canberra, ignored the plight of families. [More…]
Under our new policy, some 300 000 low income families involving 800 000 children and with income levels that previously derived little or no benefit from rebate schemes will benefit the most. [More…]
They were waiting for some sign or some indication that this Government cared about what would happen to their jobs, to their homes and to their families. [More…]
The Finer Report, the report of a community on one-parent families in the United Kingdom in July 1974 found that even at the level of disposing of everyday chores and despite the degree of merger between the traditional roles of male and female which has taken place in the last decade, many household tasks still tend to be allocated sexually. [More…]
I am following about 5 minutes behind the member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) who spoke on a matter relating to families. [More…]
This scandalous decision to subject the settlement income to tax comes as a serious setback for the families of these children, who for some 15 years have suffered anxiety and uncertainty in the protracted negotiations and legal actions aimed at securing compensation. [More…]
I know that he had put strongly, on behalf of the affected families and children, the case for total tax exemption. [More…]
I also know that many of the families with whom the group which operates out of my electorate has an association regard the new attitude, as expressed by the Treasurer recently, as being totally unacceptable. [More…]
I am speaking now of people who work full time- up to 80 hours a week- with help from members of their families, for a miserable return of $1,000 or less. [More…]
Not only farmers are suffering, but also people employed by farmers, farm labourers, shopkeepers, small business people in country towns, and indeed all the residents of these areas and their families. [More…]
All of us in central Queensland are not only concerned about the plight of the primary producers and their families. [More…]
But I am even more concerned for the situation that has been imposed by this Government on all working people and their families. [More…]
Families struggled to afford a place to live, to meet the rising costs of education, to find and keep a job, to afford the prices at the supermarket and to protect the value of their savings. [More…]
He does not see- or does not care- that an excessive tax burden not only erodes incentives but also makes Australian families increasingly dependent upon what politicians choose to provide. [More…]
All of this is due not just to the elimination of the taxation rebate for families, which has caused hardship for many families. [More…]
Specifically they suggest that women leaving work to have families should be paid a benefit for the period during which they are caring for their family. [More…]
It is interesting to find that Meredith Evans, whom I have quoted previously in this House and whose views are basically different from my own, made the point in a recent article that a guaranteed income scheme is designed, amongst other things, to redistribute income vertically towards families in poverty and that the introduction of a guaranteed income scheme could lead to many wives in low income households ceasing to work. [More…]
In 1963, evidence of the living conditions for Theiss Peabody Mitsui mineworkers and their families at Moura appalled Judge Gallagher. [More…]
Evidence in the case, which followed a strike by the Moura workers, had revealed that workers and their families were subjected by the company to conditions which Judge Gallagher described as ‘nauseating, revolting and degrading’. [More…]
The new family allowances will assist some 300 000 low income families with in excess of 800 000 children involved. [More…]
This was a priority for the well being of the low income areas of our society, and it is making a great contribution to the stability of these families. [More…]
Professor Henderson has noted that there are many low income families with children who constitute a major proportion of the poor in this country. [More…]
The best way to assist them in most instances is to put money into the hands of the mothers of those families. [More…]
There have been too many occasions on which efforts to assist the poor in the community, and low income families in particular, have resulted in additional salaries being paid to middle income professionals. [More…]
This scheme will be of great benefit to families throughout the nation. [More…]
Encouragement is being given to families. [More…]
He admitted that families were 80c worse off with one child, then he said that they would be 30c better off with 2 children, and so on. [More…]
Hopefully the honourable member for Eden-Monaro could make the appropriate calculations for families with 4, 5 and 6 children but I shall give him the figures for a family with 4 children. [More…]
Such a strategy is not uncommon for LiberalNational Country Party governments which rely for success on an increase in unemployment and a subsequent increase in hardship for hundreds of thousands of Australian families. [More…]
Death duties are a great burden to the families of people in all walks of life and they have a particularly vicious effect in the rural sector. [More…]
As my colleague says, in this way poorer families including, as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) stressed recently, Aboriginal families, receive a significant net addition to their incomes. [More…]
Indeed, about 300 000 low income families and their 800 000 dependent children are benefiting in this way. [More…]
Some 300 000 low income families with some 800 000 dependent children. [More…]
That is more than an indexing of this amount; it has been done in the interests of assisting single income families. [More…]
Similarly approximately 300 000 low-income families with 800 000 children Will benefit by the excellent family allowance scheme. [More…]
1 have just learnt that South African Airways has available, on request, brochures advertising tours of South Africa, on a package basis, for members of the various police forces in Australia and their families. [More…]
However, so far as real disposable income is concerned, any judgments regarding the effects of the new health service financing arrangements would also need to take into account the introduction from 1 July last of full personal tax indexation and significant improvements in the manner of assisting families through family allowances. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that when they or their families come to face the payment of the bills they now find that the Commonwealth help they have been receiving is $45 a week less? [More…]
It is a classic example of a selfish pursuit of excessive wage claims without regard to thousands of other workers, their families and the community. [More…]
Only 50 per cent of Perth was sewered, and in Sydney and Melbourne one in six families did not have their home connected to sewerage works. [More…]
In the meantime, if I can believe the report in the Australian and attributed to the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson), the families of these young people can look after them; they will be under wholesome family supervision for 3 months until - [More…]
Probably a mix of all these proposals would be the best, but certainly we should now be looking at an unemployment relief scheme to provide employment particularly for young people and men with families. [More…]
The lives that are lost as the result of his Government’s decision to reduce expenditure on safety standards and procedures on the roads and in the air under the smokescreen of re-allocation expenditure will be on his head, and before he, as Minister, makes such decisions he should give some thought to the distress and hardship that he will be creating for thousands of Australian families. [More…]
Secondly, reduced take-home paythe impact of the Government’s fiscal measures relating to the introduction of personal tax indexation, the increase in child allowances, the abolition of tax deductions for children and the imposition of the Medibank levy- will have the combined effect of disadvantaging many families. [More…]
It will assist greatly 300 000 families and 800 000 children in this country. [More…]
The scheme will make a great difference to many families, particularly the poorer families in the community. [More…]
The family allowances program, after allowing for the abolition of the tax rebates for children, will provide a net income gain for low income families which have a relatively high propensity to consume, as do pensioners, who with full and automatic indexation are assured of having their incomes increased proportionately by at least as much, and probably more, than the general working population. [More…]
4 is due to the loss of tax rebates for children, but this has been more than countered by the increased transfer payment to families through the family allowances scheme. [More…]
The family allowances scheme has provided a massive redistribution of income from the wealthier families to the poorest families in the country. [More…]
Quite apart from incentives, the wage brackets consisting of incomes of $5,000 to $8,000 are urgently in need of review because families in these brackets face a daily battle for survival and can ill afford the inroads taken into this bracket of income by taxes at the rate of 35 per cent. [More…]
As the Budget shows, before young families and people in need benefited under the generosity of our Government, family allowances were very small and under the inflation that exists today did not do very much. [More…]
There are many 4 children families which receive $20.50 a week. [More…]
If there are people who need help in Australia they are the mothers and young families. [More…]
A recent survey revealed that money for housing that is channelled through the States is not reaching families most in need. [More…]
This study disclosed that in Australia 144 000 families are in need. [More…]
As I said, $75,000 has been set aside in the Budget to set up a pilot workable system which will eventually provide rent assistance for families in need. [More…]
This will allow families some personal choice in selecting premises in which to live. [More…]
This differential treatment has caused problems and is causing concern to large numbers of Lebanese families who are seeking to have relatives enter Australia from the Lebanon. [More…]
I deal with a specific case because I think it highlights problems with which most members of this House are confronted and which are frustrating many families almost beyond endurance. [More…]
On the night after I had made a statement about the net gains to families due to the very forward thinking family allowances, the honourable member for Prospect was very rude about my engineering training and claimed that as a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties he probably had a great deal to offer. [More…]
He might also have referred to the family allowances scheme which will increase the capacity to spend of certain categories of families and increase their well-being over and above that which would have occurred under previous arrangements. [More…]
How many Aboriginal families will go to bed miserable tonight because of inadequate housing? [More…]
I know of families in my constituency which have now reached the stage of purchasing groceries only. [More…]
‘Groceries only’ is the order of the day in the economy of many rural families today. [More…]
But the cost is also borne by families which are employed. [More…]
I am pleased to have been able, through representations and discussions with the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Staley), to temper this economic necessity with the introduction of a flexible and thoughtful lower interest rate and rental rebate system which ensures that those people and families in Canberra needing special consideration are cared for by an understanding administration. [More…]
At that stage we were concentrating on re-uniting families in category A- husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, dependent children. [More…]
The Australian Government will help workers and their families move to another district to secure suitable employment. [More…]
The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations is to make grants of as much as $ 1 900 for jobless families to move to where jobs are available. [More…]
The cost of shifting 1500 building workers’ families from Sydney and Gosford, areas with the largest number of unemployed building workers, to Perth would take up all the Government’s $2m. [More…]
They are age and invalid pensioners, repatriation beneficiaries, defence personnel, families earning less than $4,300 yearly and single people earning less than $2,605 yearly. [More…]
This would be grossly unfair to the 2-income families and to the low income families as well. [More…]
People higher on the income tax scale will pay according to their taxable incomes, that is, according to their means, unless they choose to pay the Medibank ceiling premium of a maximum of $300 per annum to cover their families for full Medibank medical and public ward hospital benefits. [More…]
Under the proposal of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Labor Party, 85 per cent of the families which now are insured for hospital-only cover would be worse off and 90 per cent of the single individuals would be worse off. [More…]
Only those families which have an income ranging between $8,400 and $9,400 would have been better- and then only marginally better off-by paying the ACTU-ALP levy of 1.6 per cent of their incomes. [More…]
One of its recommendations was that a national health insurance commission be set up to supervise the funds, to arrange for the insurance funds benefit tables, the basis of payment of medical and hospital fees, special assistance for low income families, surveillance of operations of insurance organisations and observance by them of the conditions imposed by and under the National Health Act. [More…]
But a large percentage of young working families are expected to pay only the health insurance levy. [More…]
I have just learnt that South African Airways has available on request brochures advertising tours of South Africa on a package basis for members of the various police forces in Australia and their families. [More…]
If you carry that supposition into the lives of individuals and families, the cost of day to day life must decrease and the net benefits to those families and individuals conversely increased. [More…]
Families, particularly families with young children, have been and still are under immense pressure. [More…]
There are too many families in Australia who take the position of the family for granted. [More…]
There is, however, in the large silent majority of families a strongly held view that the primary care of young children should be given by their mother in a comfortable, secure family setting. [More…]
This reform for family allowances will enable an increasing number of families to do just that. [More…]
But I urge upon this House and upon those families which have that desire and aspiration to recognise that they must express their views, and express them publicly. [More…]
The family allowances that have been introduced will relieve to some extent the economic pressure on families that up until now have faced increasing difficulty in gaining sufficient resources to enable the mother to be the primary care giver of young children during the preschool years. [More…]
As I have said, there are many people in the community who would like to see the young children of this country become the primary responsibility of the State rather than being the primary responsiblity of their families. [More…]
This Budget, containing as it does provision for the necessary funds to enable the new family allowances to continue to be paid, will assist those young families to meet the financial commitments involved in caring for young children.In a question I asked the Treasurer about a fortnight ago I urged upon him that when reviewing family allowances he do 2 things. [More…]
Those support services include the provision of a higher family income to enable parents to provide for their families the standard of living the community has now come to expect. [More…]
If it is possible when the children of a family are at school for the mother to work and she chooses to do so- and over 50 per cent of mothers in the community make that choice- then in those circumstances the family has 2 incomes, but families with young children are very often dependent on only one income. [More…]
There is an urgent need for careful examination of family incomes to ensure that families with young pre-school children have sufficient income. [More…]
Furthermore, such families need the support of a whole range of childhood services that are not based upon the idea of child care, which in the minds of so many people conjures up the idea of substitute care. [More…]
They are families of a particular type. [More…]
They need support, but the type of support that they need is not the type of support that is needed or wanted by the great majority of 2-parent families. [More…]
I have placed considerable stress upon the need to provide added incomes for families with young children. [More…]
The comparative tax take from those families, which are equal in all respects, places the single income family at a considerable disadvantage. [More…]
I think careful consideration should be given to the possibility of introducing in the case of the family with preschool children an optional income splitting system in the form of some concessional family tax that recognises the need of families with young children to have larger resources available to them than the present tax system allows. [More…]
About 50 families in Albury-Wodonga had contracts with the Corporation to buy their holdings. [More…]
It is our best hope of not allowing ourselves to fall into a situation such as the one facing us now, in which we have not made a decision upon whether we should have a shipbuilding industry and in which we have a Government which may allow 7000 workers and their families to be added to the list of unemployed people. [More…]
We have 120 children enrolled at our Centre at present and we have 200 names on our Waiting List and these people want Sessional Pre-School, not full day care for their children, but they and many thousands more children in the future will be deprived of this, if the Government funding is to cease or decrease, as it will put the fees well and truly out of the reach of the people in our community, as the estimated parent contribution without the Government Grants would be approximately $3-$3.50 per hour, and as you can see, this is a completely unrealistic figure that could not be met by families, and here the Government will be affecting the group they most want to help- the needy children. [More…]
288 single-parent families [More…]
The main bulk of consuming units in Australia are the families with a male breadwinner and the families where the wage is the source of consumption expenditure. [More…]
So we are talking about the shifting of 2500 or 2600 men and women and their families from the industry in Whyalla to another area where we hope that they can find jobs. [More…]
The reports of the Social Welfare Commission established quite clearly the overlap in indentifying low income families in old, established inner city areas and new settlers in this country. [More…]
One of these prejudices has been a broad social stigma attached to single parent families. [More…]
It does not recognise the position of families where the mother is lost from the family. [More…]
This prejudice is reflected in the way welfare benefits are provided automatically for fatherless families but not for motherless families. [More…]
Professor Henderson’s research has shown that a very significant percentage of motherless families had incomes below the poverty line. [More…]
But there is no question that improved income support, improved domiciliary care, improved child minding facilities and a more equitable disbursement of welfare funds between lone fathers and lone mothers would go a long way towards relieving some of the pressures on these families. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Giulfoyle) is aware of this problem and is very concerned about these families. [More…]
There are 300 000 low income families with 800 000 children. [More…]
These poor families will benefit most. [More…]
They are the poor families who the honourable member for Chifley was denying the opportunity of finding out what benefits were available to them. [More…]
That is only fair and proper to the men and their families. [More…]
I should mention here that the family allowance scheme, which is estimated to provide $16m directly to Aboriginal families, is not regarded as a substitute for special Aboriginal programs. [More…]
It will however have special significance for Aboriginal families. [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out to the House on 25 August the family allowance scheme involves funds which go directly to Aboriginal families and gives them an independence and capacity to spend those funds as they believe best in their own interests. [More…]
They should go to Broome, for instance, and look at the disgraceful and degrading conditions in which a hundred or so families live there. [More…]
They are all large homes, obviously designed to cater for the larger Aboriginal families. [More…]
Last year the trust was able to house 111 Aboriginal families. ‘ [More…]
The action of your Government will create and perpetuate over-crowding of families in sub-standard conditions. ‘ [More…]
Additionally he fails to take note of the fact that those people coming into Australia under the present polley are skilled workers for trades where there are shortages of people in this country, and are being reunited with their families. [More…]
He is saying that when certain members of families want to come to Australia under the policy of the present Government they should be left where they are because members of the Labor Party do not care about them. [More…]
Did not the Minister and indeed the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) immediately the disaster was made known to them communicate the total support of this Government in terms of financial commitment and in terms of offering to the relatives of those victims in Australia the assistance of the Australian Government in having their families brought to Australia without the normal formalities? [More…]
Those here are usually young men who came as forerunners for their families to establish themselves in Australia and then to bring out their families afterwards. [More…]
Nothing is more moving than the efforts young Lebanese men in Australia will make to help their parents, their younger brothers and sisters and even their married sisters and their families to come to our country. [More…]
I talk of the Italian organisation called FILEF (Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families) which until this year had been serving a purpose which the present Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) said was valuable among Italian migrant workers in Melbourne. [More…]
Because of the present immigration restrictions there are large numbers of migrants who have raised immigration queries relating directly to members of their families who may or may not, in the final analysis, qualify for entry to Australia. [More…]
The reunification of families or of persons with close ties is important. [More…]
The honourable gentleman finished his speech by saying- and I tried to write down what he said- that this Government will make it easier for Rhodesians to come to Australia than for reunions of families from the Lebanon. [More…]
I know perfectly well that the Tahweel family and the Juaclid families and four or five others from Tripoli have been able to get here. [More…]
As a result, that system has been changed to the system of family allowances which does most to assist low income families, the people whom I hope, and I am sure, the honourable member would want to support. [More…]
In line with the criteria established in relation to that exercise, split families were reunited whenever possible. [More…]
In those circumstances and in line with the general policy relating to the reuniting of families in this program, assisted passages were granted to them. [More…]
Considerable changes are required at all levels of Australian society to enable migrant women and their families to have opportunities to develop their potential. [More…]
Women are severely beaten and families neglected. [More…]
With inflation running at 12 per cent, even to maintain the dollar value of the Labor Government’s commitment this Government should have outlaid $21m as against the $14.5m it has allocated to an industry where thousands of farmers are leaving their farms, where farmers’ families are dismayed and distressed. [More…]
However, I appeal to the Minister to investigate any means possible that will alleviate the difficulty of fruit growers who wish only to provide a reasonable standard of living for their families. [More…]
I have just learnt that South African Airways has available, on request, brochures advertising tours of South Africa, on a package basis, for members of the various police forces in Australia and their families. [More…]
The decision to have talks in relation to refugees who want to reunite with their families, whether that reunification is here or elsewhere, was also taken to help the refugees. [More…]
I remember very clearly the attitude of the Leader of the Opposition in relation to people who were in that city and to requests made by people in Australia regarding their relatives, fiancees, husbands, wives and families. [More…]
To that end not only have we provided help through the Indonesian Red Cross, but the Prime Minister has also initiated negotiations to see in what way help might be provided to enable some sort of reconciliation of families or reinvolvement of families either from Timor to Australia or, if they so request, from Australia to Timor. [More…]
I believe it has been demonstrated quite clearly by myself as the responsible Minister, and by this Government since we came to office, that we have a compassionate approach in relation to the reuniting of families. [More…]
This is having the effect of splitting families and is solidifying a situation which denies access to Australian authorities by those without any financial clout. [More…]
This sorry record could have been averted if the proper administrative arrangements had been made at the appropriate times and if the Minister had not raised Lebanese hopes unduly earlier in the year with his confident assertions about the families and relatives of Australianresident Lebanese. [More…]
We realise that there are some other families that are going through great difficulties. [More…]
In all cases, families are worse off each week, and if they are paying Medibank tax on top of that they are considerably worse off. [More…]
This is the case with all tax paying families in this country. [More…]
This situation may not present great hardship to all young people, especially those with families capable of supporting them, but for many others very real hardship results. [More…]
It is now in operation and with the large increase in rates it will benefit in particular large families with low incomes. [More…]
The changes will be of particular assistance to Aboriginal families. [More…]
The rate of handicapped children’s allowances has been generously increased to try to overcome the impact of inflation, which is affecting families with handicapped children. [More…]
It looks as though the news is bad and the future is bleak for families because there is no intention on the part of the Government to increase the payments for dependants. [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a table which takes into account the tax rebate system which we introduced and which represented a significant redistribution of resources to families, indexed with the personal tax indexation figure of 13 per cent plus the cumulative child endowment for different size families, and which shows that under the new arrangement families are worse off financially than they would have been if the old system had been retained. [More…]
I say that because the Henderson Commission’s report clearly showed that the greatest incidence of poverty in Australia occurred in large families whose breadwinners were earning the minimum wage or a little more. [More…]
The allowances under the family allowances scheme were made available not only to taxpayers, as were the rebates under the Labor Party’s rebate system, but to all families with dependent children. [More…]
As a result, 300 000 families with 800 000 children will receive family allowances in circumstances where those allowances in no way replace a tax benefit, because they were not taxpayers. [More…]
A large number of those 300 000 families are the families of pensioners. [More…]
Those benefits will provide to thousands of families in Australia a form of income that was not previously available. [More…]
Now, as the inflation rate comes down and people are receiving some of their own funds, we are achieving a stability and a sense of security for families and people who have benefited by some of the previous Government’s programs. [More…]
The Henderson report on poverty in Australia pointed out very forcefully the effect of inflation on the average family and its effect on deprived families- families with real poverty. [More…]
The background of race and skills of migrant families coming to Australia needs to be known by local and State governments. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that there are a number of residents of private nursing homes and their families in my electorate who are facing severe hardship because of the present level of subsidies for nursing homes? [More…]
On the other hand, for quite practical reasons such as the provision of humanitarian aid and the reuniting of families, we have to accept certain realities. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that many hundreds of families in Canberra have either no television reception or poor television reception due to the lack of a television translator station on Mount Taylor? [More…]
I cannot but express a great deal of feeling and sympathy for armed Service officers who, as they enter middle age, have to retire at a particularly early age, many of them with mature members of their families on their hands who are undertaking expensive higher education- still expensive in spite of the fact that these days fees do not have to be paid at universities. [More…]
-This Government has demonstrated nothing less than a masochistic attitude to the Australian shipbuilding industry which ignores the welfare and well being of all its employees and their dependent families. [More…]
The women say there is widespread feeling among shipyard-department families that their interests are being too readily written off under the blanketing assurance that everything will be done to try to give the men jobs at the steelworks. [More…]
The Whiteman and McGuinness families have been in Whyalla about nine years. [More…]
It is expected that the scheme will provide for about 300 people- workers and their families- to move from the island each year. [More…]
Fairbridge is now a temporary haven for oneparent families where that parent is unable to cater for either boy or girl. [More…]
Why should there be such discrimination against large families? [More…]
Why cannot Commonwealth Hostels accommodate families with more than 4 children? [More…]
It is an intolerable situation when families are divided in this way. [More…]
How inhuman it is to separate families at this time, when above all else, migrants need the comfort and security of their family. [More…]
Fairbridge is of extreme importance for English families with more than 4 children. [More…]
What happens to non-English families with more than 4 children who require Commonwealth hostel accommodation? [More…]
In June this year 32 393 families were on the Housing Commission waiting list in New South Wales. [More…]
The normal waiting period for a 3-bedroom dwelling is 45 months- nearly 4 years- while in Western Australia only 14 437 families are waiting and the waiting period averages 30 months for a 3-bedroom home. [More…]
Of course, with the longterm bond rate now being in the vicinity of 10.2 per cent, that would mean that low income families renting or buying housing commission homes would pay approximately 9.2 per cent or maybe 5 per cent more interest. [More…]
Consequently, families either are forced to have both the husband and wife working or they have to look for rental accommodation. [More…]
As members of Parliament all of us are acquainted with many cases of hardship concerning families who are seeking government rental accommodation. [More…]
There is a long waiting list of families from broken homes, people on transfer, and people living in sub-standard accommodation such as old dilapidated buildings, caravans and tents. [More…]
We must be cognisant of the fact that at the last census for which figures are available, that is 1971, well over 41 000 families were living more or less permanently in tents, huts caravans and house boats, and that at present, according to the latest statistics, some 1 10 000 families in Australia are waiting for welfare housing. [More…]
Once again, the New South Wales Council on the Ageing has produced a valuable study entitled Dedication which shows the difficulties faced by the families of these people. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that there are a number of residents of private nursing homes and their families in my electorate who are facing severe hardship because of the present level of subsidies for nursing homes? [More…]
Every action the present Government has taken is simply reducing what we were doing, increasing the insecurity of the aged in the community and increasing the burden on families of the aged, so that in fact the lights are going out for the aged. [More…]
It does not mean that their families or their businesses will survive or that there will be prosperity for their families. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, on the other hand, is concerned about the welfare of the people and the families involved in this section of the horticultural industry. [More…]
These subsidies have not provided sufficiently for the personal well-being of the growers and their families who are involved in the production of these fruits. [More…]
Reconstruction schemes were introduced in part to assist fruitgrowers who were in financial difficulty to leave the industry, thereby improving their well-being and that of their families, and also to encourage growers to remove their least productive trees, making their farms more economically viable and productive. [More…]
The people find themselves in a situation in which their families represent a social welfare insurance policy for the future. [More…]
When parents have about 6 or 7 children and it can be guaranteed that half of them will die before they are 2 years old, there is obviously a fundamental tendency for families to go for broke, so to speak, to increase the size of their families to the maximum extent in the hope that at least a reasonable number will survive and therefore be in a position to look after their parents in their old age. [More…]
On behalf of the people who work on that Committee, some of whom have young families, some of whom have unsafe seats- of course, we will attempt to make some of them less safe- I would say that it is a challenge. [More…]
Naturally the larger size of families in Blacktown (where in 1 97 1 , 48 per cent of the population was under 2 1 years of age) partly accounts for the low per capita income. [More…]
Mr Hudson was amplifying an address he gave to the biennial planning congress in Adelaide in which he predicted a savage’ rise in the petrol price in today’s Federal Budget and warned of a social disaster for low income and remote suburb families if prices reached $4 a gallon as in Italy. [More…]
Since then several Australian families have suffered tragedy as a result of the Government, which should have been responsible, not being responsible. [More…]
Speaking to a public meeting at Wan- garatta, Mr Sinclair said: “The economic problems facing the eef industry are generating grave social problems for the families of beef producers and their employees. [More…]
It has no concern about the dislocation it causes to families, to districts and to a great industry. [More…]
They earn their livelihood now mainly by working on roads or upon other public works so that they can feed and clothe their families. [More…]
The presbytery survey found that 43.6 per cent of families in June 1976 had at least one member of the family working away from the farm. [More…]
There are families- men, women and children- involved. [More…]
With a small private sector in Canberra there were few alternative job choices and many young people on becoming disillusioned with Public Service employment were forced to leave Canberra and their families and go interstate. [More…]
Let us imagine one of the smaller communities with 5 or 6 families living on the fringe of a town in Queensland. [More…]
In many cases people would be condemned to tragedy and hardship for the rest of their lives particularly the children of families if the breadwinners were involved. [More…]
Surely the people and the families who would have benefited if this legislation had gone through, as I know the Minister wanted it to go through at the time, should not be disadvantaged by the fact that the legislation did not go through the Senate prior to 1 July. [More…]
Are cost factors, such as the cost to the Treasury of payments in unemployment benefits to employees and their families who lose employment because of the loss of these contracts by the Australian manufacturers, taken into account. [More…]
Because of our concern for the centre- in this case Newcastle- and because of our concern for the men and their families the Government was and is prepared to entertain that situation in certain circumstances. [More…]
We found that this would be most severe on 2-income families. [More…]
Sixty per cent of Australian families would be worse off under the plan submitted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, which proposed a 1.6 per cent levy without a ceiling. [More…]
Without these amendments a large number of Aboriginal families and communities will be excluded from the operation of this legislation and will be forced to go once again cap in hand to the Department of the Northern Territory which has led the opposition to the granting of land in towns and to the claims heard already by the interim Commissioner, Mr Justice Woodward. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that, with the abolition of dependant taxation claims, children can now earn over $2,500 without increasing their parents’ or guardians’ net income tax, and that many families have transferred investments and investment income into discretionary trusts so that their children can earn the income from these investments. [More…]
How many high income families will receive a double benefit from this generous provision in the Government’s family allowances program. [More…]
It must be assumed that the remainder received some support from either their own resources or their families. [More…]
The seldom equalled stability of this nation is due in no small way to the large percentage of families who have acquired their own homes. [More…]
It is a goal that has been achieved by a high percentage of our families and is a clear indication that Australians place a deal of emphasis on home ownership. [More…]
The dream of home ownership has become a reality for countless thousands of Australian families. [More…]
These people have really staked their claim and having done so have developed a greater sense of pride in their person, families, cities and towns, and nation. [More…]
There are many instances of families of two and three people occupying 3-bedroom homes long after they could have moved into lesser accommodation, thereby freeing the larger premises for a bigger family. [More…]
I have read ghastly stories, when unemployment was very high- something like 25 per cent to 30 per cent- of employers, with their top hats and striped pants, standing up on the balconies when 200 men were waiting down below for a day’s work so that they could feed their families. [More…]
They would fight each other like animals to grab a token which would entitle them to a day’s pay so that they could feed their families. [More…]
Thus staff who may now be living in Brisbane or Canberra and who do not want to go to the Territory on a permanent basis will have to contemplate what they are going to do and they are being given little time to make what for them and their families are quite crucial decisions. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party believes that alternative measures designed to facilitate adjustment could provide more help to fruit growers, their families and the communities dependent on them at much less cost to the nation. [More…]
I think we should look at a means of providing this health-giving food, fruit- apples and pears in particular- to the consumers in this nation at a cheaper rate so that the families, the children in particular, can enjoy and benefit from the fruit available to them. [More…]
The aim of this Service is to identify management problems in diabetic patients referred from their doctors and to motivate and educate the patients and their families to adhere to their prescribed management regimen. [More…]
Fewer young families can afford to buy new homes because even if they could save the deposit they have no access to home finance. [More…]
Most Australian families will be excluded altogether and greater pressure will be placed on the State public housing authorities. [More…]
There is a queue of over 100 000 families on the waiting lists. [More…]
One and a half million families have been receiving this deductibility and the Government is restricting it now to those people who are paying off their first home, and for the first 5 years. [More…]
To pay for this scheme tax deductibility is to be taken away from thousands of Australian families. [More…]
Some 144 000 families are known to be living in very poor rental accommodation. [More…]
But he obviously does not know about the initiatives that we have developed wherein for the first time homes built on rural lands for members of farmers’ families will attract the homes savings grant. [More…]
It was a long term scheme which benefited many household units and many young families. [More…]
There is not a great deal of assistance for their families or their loved ones in those circumstances, other than the parliamentary pension. [More…]
If people are sacked- or even if they are not sacked, if the employers just wait for wastage to occur when people leave or die or whatever- and then are replaced by subsidised people, the result will be worse because there will be married people with families going off jobs and, at the other end, single people replacing them. [More…]
I am glad that low wage earners with families to support are exempted, but they are the only ones. [More…]
The Commission also considered that existing State extension services and appropriate Commonwealth departments be expanded to cater for the counselling needs of farm families. [More…]
Farm families can adopt a number of different adjustment strategies in order to stay on the farm under the pressure of declining net farm income. [More…]
A more recent survey this year, to which I have previously referred in this House, that of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in Victoria in a survey of farmers in central Gippsland, showed that 65 per cent of farm families find it necessary to seek work away from the farm for at least one member of the family. [More…]
The design of human settlements should aim at providing a living environment in which identities of individuals, families and societies are preserved and adequate means for maintaining privacy, the possibility of face-to-face interactions and public participation in the decision-making process are provided. [More…]
This was an urgent interim measure aimed at relieving the financial hardship of many farming families in Australia. [More…]
The program would have helped the low and middle income families, particularly oneincome and one-parent families, to obtain adequate housing. [More…]
It was our intention that these funds initially would be made available to families whose regular weekly income, excluding overtime and child endowment, did not exceed 1 10 per cent of average weekly earnings in each State. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation proposed in this Bill permits us to explore a fresh field of endeavour, that of direct relations between government and private enterprise, and between government and non-prom organisations, in the housing of the large number of ordinary Australian families. [More…]
The Housing Commissions have concentrated on caring for poorer families, but other forms of assistance for housing are needed in Australia at the present time. [More…]
The Labor Government certainly wanted to assist people overcome the deposit gap because one in five of Australian families at present have to go to finance companies. [More…]
People continue to disappear and this massive persecution affects a wide spectrum of political groups as well as large numbers of other opponents of the government such as lawyers and social workers who are involved in assisting political prisoners and their families. [More…]
This could subsequently be extended, if it is possible financially, to include a communication network between all deaf people and between them and their families, relatives and friends. [More…]
That system concentrates the benefits of assistance in low income families who just could not take advantage of the previous arrangements. [More…]
There must be few families with such a long and distinguished record as that. [More…]
In that way this Government has been able to assist some 300 000 low income families and 800 000 children of those families. [More…]
I mention again our implementation of the system of family allowances, which is of such great benefit to low income families. [More…]
This proved, as far as I was concerned, that the early whalers, the Mahoneys and the Hentys, and the other families there, had not pillaged the ship. [More…]
But I think that the problems of migrant children are perhaps more magnified than the problems of many Australian children because when children of migrant families go home at night, they probably converse in the native tongue of their parents. [More…]
I join the Prime Minister in his tribute to them and in his tribute to their families. [More…]
I join him also in wishing well to all the members on both sides of both Houses and their families too. [More…]
Politicians’ families are probably the most long-suffering in this country and none of us could do our jobs as well as we do- whatever degree of effectiveness or virtue there may be in our performance- without the support of our families. [More…]
In the meantime, I trust that all of us in the bosom of our families will have a very happy Christmas. [More…]
However, the total number of families receiving family allowances in the electoral division of Sydney was estimated to be 1 2 270 at 4 October 1 976. [More…]
It is estimated that there were 22 130 children in these families, for whom family allowance were paid. [More…]
The number of families in electoral divisions in receipt of family allowance is obtained by accumulating figures for individual postcode districts within the electoral divisions. [More…]
He also said that ‘if people want the things that they would like to provide for their own families, it generally requires effort’. [More…]
They will cover the difference between insurance and what will be needed to actually get a building for the families concerned. [More…]
At the same time, it is an area, in the main, of fairly low income people and a great many families in which the mother also is a breadwinner. [More…]
These people are not able to provide in every case the supervised recreation that is available in more affluent families. [More…]
It is a project designed to open up to the children of families which are amongst the most deprived in our community an opportunity for at least some recreation which can develop their intelligence and their senses. [More…]
Of the loan under the Agreement 70 per cent is used for dwelling construction by Housing Commissions while the other 30 per cent of the loan is used by terminating building societies to assist eligible families to buy their own homes. [More…]
We need proposals that will not only guarantee housing at rents these people can afford but which will also guarantee access to housing by easing the supply problem and reducing the number of families on the waiting list which currently numbers 100 000 throughout Australia. [More…]
At present families are eligible for low interest loans- loans where the rate does not exceed 53A per cent- to achieve home ownership, which are available to families where the breadwinners income does not exceed 95 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Will these families be denied benefits of home ownership- like those in our community who earn between 95 per cent and 135 per cent of average weekly wages- by a mechanism of high interest rates and the creation of the arbitrary repayment gap? [More…]
These families whose wage earners earn less than 95 per cent of average weekly earnings will be denied the benefits of home ownership if the terminating building society interest rates approach the levels charged by other lending institutions. [More…]
At a cost of $ 15m for only 4500 families, what sort of assistance to a widespread social burden are we talking about? [More…]
We have yet to determine what will be the levels of rent rebates, what families will be offered assistance, what assistance will be offered for home purchase - [More…]
We have yet to determine what will be the levels of rent rebates, what families will be offered assistance, what will be the formula for calculating market rent. [More…]
I believe our sympathy must extend equally to all Ugandans and their families, from whatever walk of life and whatever religion or faith, who have suffered unjust and arbitrary punishment. [More…]
Many bans have been imposed in this country, not only this year and last year but for many years, and they have militated against people in the work force being able to go to work to earn the bread that they require for their families. [More…]
On the other hand there is the question of the effect these organisations have on young people and on their families. [More…]
These include smaller families, higher female work force participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the employment market’s emphasis on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, and changing life styles. [More…]
Many deserving victims and their families may get nothing at all. [More…]
My Party in 1971 adopted the policy of establishing a national compensation insurance scheme to replace third party and workers’ compensation, and guarantee families and individuals a minimum income sufficient to maintain an acceptable standard of living. [More…]
Ultimately we have seen industries and families go destitute. [More…]
I can certify that migrants, individually or as families create very much more electoral work than people who were born in this country. [More…]
It may be that a conscientious member would find that Aborigines as individuals or families also present a greater work load than Australians of European ancestry or birth. [More…]
As we follow what the Minister for Transport has done and said nation-wide and what the honourable member for Braddon has suggested, the following situation emerges: The Minister for Transport has put people out of work; the honourable member for Braddon now says: If those people who are out of work seek some level of assistance to pay off their homes to feed their children and to educate their families, is it not reasonable that they should go out and dig some holes in the road, clean up some parks, or do some other kind of public work? [More…]
When honourable members opposite denigrate the unemployed I ask them to try to have a little compassion and to realise that there are Australians- human beings- who have young families - [More…]
The Henderson inquiry into poverty in Australia recognised, for example, the plight of large low income families and the Government immediately introduced the family allowance scheme in order to provide greater help to those who needed it most. [More…]
If we were to apply that yardstick to this alleged magnificent scheme we would find that the scheme would help 75 families in Australia. [More…]
It is of little value for honourable members opposite to pat themselves on the back about a favourable family allowance scheme when families have nowhere to shelter. [More…]
There are paraplegics, families who have lost the bread winner and people who have suffered permanent injury. [More…]
This must require more capital intensive industries in the future, and the only prospect of changing the trend would appear to be the reintroduction of a much more positive immigration policy combined with family development policies to encourage more, young people to have larger families. [More…]
However, I feel that it is reasonable to say that alongside the other great, important, powerful families in the world our Royal Family is outstanding. [More…]
Anybody with any knowledge of these matters will understand that in nations where inflation has been roaring along, as it did in Germany in the 1920s, there has been a great social destruction of all the families in these nations and only the extremely wealthy have been able to sustain the impact of high inflation on their assets. [More…]
In the face of this dilemma- this incapacity to pay- which provides a distressing situation for very many families, the bright idea of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is that the Government is going to introduce this housing voucher scheme. [More…]
The particular section of South Australia has, for the last few years, been found very attractive as a tourist area for families on caravan tours. [More…]
They went to Cyprus on the understanding that they would be there for two or three weeks only before they were approved to join their families in Australia. [More…]
My office has dealt with probably more than 300 applications on behalf of families and in the order of over 1000 persons have been brought to the area or are en route. [More…]
He attacked the Minister for letting families in. [More…]
Here was an opportunity to get thirty or sixty families off unemployment and back into productive work but the answer apparently is no. [More…]
Tell that to the unemployed and their families. [More…]
Nothing has been done about the special child care rebate promised in the policy speech for single parent families or families where one parent is an invalid. [More…]
As our economic crisis and our national crisis deepens there will be more attacks on living standards, more unemployment, more pressure on the wages of ordinary breadwinners and families. [More…]
Telephones give families, particularly the women and children, a sense of security so necessary in remote areas. [More…]
Again, ample evidence is already emerging that some employers are misusing the scheme by sacking married men with families and taking on subsidised youth to replace them. [More…]
-The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has a close and personal knowledge of the enormous cost and scale of rehabilitating the fire devastated properties and families in the western part of Victoria. [More…]
They told me of the frightening experience of 1 967 when they looked up in the morning and saw hundreds of Syrian tanks facing them a few hundred yards away from their families and children. [More…]
But we have to take into account the psychological effect that such a situation has on people who are sitting a few hundred yards away from guns trained on homes and families. [More…]
However, this is not an amount upon which growers may live and maintain their families. [More…]
They are real people with families- sons and daughters. [More…]
The remarks of the honourable member for Moore ignore the social implications to families. [More…]
He refers to the reform by the introduction of family allowances that enables individuals and families to spend government financial assistance in the way that they choose, not in the way that the Government sets down. [More…]
There is little evidence that the size of families can readily be manipulated by the Government of a democracy to achieve specific population goals. [More…]
Some countries have used economic incentives … to discourage large families. [More…]
In any event, incentives to have larger families could be very costly, even to the point of drawing resources away from other welfare programs. [More…]
This has worked out for some families; it has not worked out for others. [More…]
I do not think many migrant families coming to Australia who have had to meet the cost of their own passage- substantially that is now the case- would be in a position to enter into contracts to purchase houses at other than disastrous rates of interest, almost usurious rates of interest. [More…]
I do not think many migrant families would be in a satisfactory position to start using resources such as requirements for housing. [More…]
He talked about the Government perhaps invoking policies that would encourage larger families in this country. [More…]
On the question of any stepping up of the immigration program on the basis of family reunions this will necessarily mean that because most migrant families live in Melbourne or Sydney there will be an increase in the population in those 2 cities. [More…]
Obviously families will want to have relatives as close to them as they possibly can be. [More…]
Therefore, we must encourage the reunion of families. [More…]
Failed to recognise that the inequitable rating system places a burden on low income families; [More…]
This is happening today in the treatment of families with young children. [More…]
This may be appropriate in a majority of cases; nevertheless many taxpayer families are disadvantaged by this system. [More…]
The number of 2-income families is rising rapidly. [More…]
Many do so because they choose to care for their own children in spite of the high price they pay by way of the personal income their families forgo. [More…]
Therefore, let what we have done be taken into consideration right now in wage deliberations, along with the new system of family allowances, which has also operated since 1 July last year and which is of very great net benefit to some 300 000 low income Australian families. [More…]
There are a number of Aboriginal families who do live in normal average standard housing. [More…]
The number of families of Aborigines in Australia is unknown. [More…]
That means that there are probably 20 000 families who need immediate and urgent housing. [More…]
The housing for an Aboriginal family in Arnhem Land, is different from the kind of housing that is required at Port Hedland, and the housing in either place would be completely irrelevant to the houses of Aboriginal families who live in the capital cities. [More…]
An attack upon the nutrition of many Aboriginal families would solve some of the problems in other health fields. [More…]
Government Departments will have to be more adventurous in appointing Aborigines to executive positions and in appointing Aborigines to managerial positions on reserves, ensuring Aboriginal families do have the opportunity to live in houses in the same standard of living as the rest of us. [More…]
They saw a way out- a rural environment in which they could bring up their families in their traditional way. [More…]
About 100 families sold up their homes and moved into the Goulburn Valley to grow tomatoes. [More…]
Most migrants to Australia come here either because they have families already here and as a result can integrate into the Australian community relatively easily, or have job qualifications that ensure that they will be readily employed and whereby able to sustain themselves in their new home. [More…]
The only interpretation that that can be given is that there should be no income test for families in relation to unemployment benefits. [More…]
We appointed the Royal Commission into Human Relationships- an inquiry of fundamental importance to the rights and needs of women and families. [More…]
Third, the health and welfare of their families. [More…]
What would his Cabinet of wealthy graziers know about the problems of working wives, women with disabled husbands, women who travel hours to work each day to support their families, migrant women with language barriers, women who break down from overwork or stress or the pressures of large families, women caring for elderly relatives on pensions or low incomes, women cut off from any chance of recreation or enjoyment, women condemned to drudgery and isolation in poor houses or dreary jobs? [More…]
It is time we recognised that women not only have a right to work if they want to but in most cases they need to work to support themselves and their families. [More…]
In other words, those benefits would go directly to a number of wealthy families. [More…]
In a joint communique issued at the conclusion of the visit to Indonesia in October 1976, the Prime Minister and President Soeharto announced that they had agreed that Australian and Indonesian officials should meet to resolve the problems of the East Timorese evacuees who came to Australia without their families. [More…]
The Australian Government has agreed in principle to a visit to Australia by an Indonesian team to consider applications by any Timorese who wish to be reunited in East Timor with their families. [More…]
The Australian Government has very much in mind the distress occasioned by the separation of families and arrangements are proceeding for the visit to East Timor to take place as early as circumstances permit. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is seeking from sponsors details of the disposition of their families so that all relevant factors may be considered in assessing the eligibility of their nominees for entry to Australia. [More…]
For instance, many East Timorese families are divided and are living in different parts of the world. [More…]
Not evacuees- who had gone to Australia without their families. [More…]
In some instances children are now living in Hong Kong, husbands in East Timor and wives in Australia where they are earning a living to supply the wherewithal to enable their families to exist. [More…]
I have proof that families are placed in such circumstances. [More…]
It seems to me that these categories ought to be interpreted in a wider sense, but the criteria should not restrict the Minister’s capacity to make sure that there is no impediment to reuniting families which have been divided as a result of this terrible thing that has occurred in East Timor. [More…]
Maintenance and reinterment of the remains of early pioneers would be the main expense, but I envisage that many families would be happy to cooperate if they knew that their ancestors or relatives were to be given a place of national honour. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will apply the same conditions to the families of refugees- and they are refugees- presently in Australia as he applied to the people from wartorn Lebanon. [More…]
It was of greatest benefit to low income families from wherever they may come. [More…]
While aged relatives may not have contributed through taxes they are an important part of family and community life and the cost of supporting aged relatives of migrants is one which must be recognised and borne by the country inviting immigrant families. [More…]
In the chapter on Italians in Australia attention was drawn to the sizeable proportion of Italians in the lower income groups and the consequent considerable strain on such families of bringing out elderly parents mainly because they do so under a system of maintenance guarantees which leaves them for a time ineligible for government assistance. [More…]
One of the unfortunate things that has occurred in the Western World in recent times is the necessity for the 2-income or 3-income family because this prevents women who wish to stay at home and increase their families from doing so. [More…]
As you will know, the Government has been anxious to reorient the Children’s Services Program to give greater emphasis to the provision of child care services for families in need, particularly single parent and low income families where it is necessary for the mother of young children to go to work. [More…]
That factor must surely be an important item in the budgets of average income families. [More…]
Notwithstanding the arguments I have advanced for increasing our immigration program over the longer term, I submit that this Government and all future Australian Governments have an obligation to ensure that we amend the present social and economic structure of Australia so that those women who wish to raise a family are no longer penalised or discriminated against as compared with the typical 2-income families. [More…]
Many workers see migrants as a threat to job opportunities, either to themselves or to members of their families. [More…]
In many of the source countries from which our migrants have come the family means not merely a dependent parent or a dependent child but brothers and sisters and their families. [More…]
It has changed the basis upon which our families have been built. [More…]
Periodically, I suppose, those of us who were born in this country and those of us whose families have lived here for generations remark on the supposedly volatile nature and temperament of a good many people who have come here in recent years. [More…]
The State governments’ offices in London are undoubtedly being used as a back door way of bringing British migrants to this country in preference to persons from other countries who, I believe, have just as good a claim to come to Australia to make new lives for themselves and their families. [More…]
Perhaps the most significant of all is that any reversal in declining fertility or 2-child families in Australia is unlikely. [More…]
In fact, one in six families in Sydney and Melbourne had unsewered homes. [More…]
For example, a lot of families rely on the wife working. [More…]
In many cases they make out very persuasive arguments of this nature in favour of the reunion of their families. [More…]
There no doubt that the best way in which we can bring about the reunion of families, particularly the brothers and sisters of people already in Australia is to bring about a swift resolution of the economic climate in Australia. [More…]
This was a tragedy and a great national loss because the loss of family security and cover could mean financial hardship for thousands of families should a breadwinner suddenly die. [More…]
In particular, those people who are unemployed, who are unable to get work, who have families to support face a far more difficult time than other persons in the community. [More…]
The wealthy families have done better. [More…]
The most cruel, inhumane and callous exercise of all is that conducted against those people who are continually unemployed, those people who through no fault of their own do not have any say over the job opportunities that are available to them, who have families to keep and who are persecuted by the Government and its back benchers as being some kind of bludgers. [More…]
Barriers of silence and isolation are blighting the lives and stunting the opportunities of countless Australian families. [More…]
It has a legal- in fact, a constitutional- responsibility for immigration and the welfare of migrants and their families. [More…]
An exhaustive survey by Eva Isaacs of the education problems of Greek children in Sydney pointed to extraordinary hardships endured by Greek children from poor families. [More…]
The housing allowance vouchers are an innovation to provide a subsidy direct to families according to their personal needs and will commence in an experimental form at the beginning of next year. [More…]
Under this approach, families who cannot afford even a modest standard of accommodation will receive a special housing allowance based on family size and income and the cost of a standard house or flat in the local housing market. [More…]
I also suggest that the State governments which build pensioner units should endeavour to give greater consideration to allocating units or flats- whatever one may wish to call them- in areas in which the occupants can be near their relatives and particularly their families. [More…]
As I was saying, I think it is very important that we ensure that this accommodation is allocated to people in areas where they can be close to their families. [More…]
There is no point sending elderly people to Mt Druitt in Sydney or other places away from their families and away from the family doctor and the shops. [More…]
Do not they feel concerned about the fact that to my personal knowledge 3 families in Hobart were in a situation that relatives died on the mainland during that weekend and they could not get to their relatives - [More…]
This is a great help as most country families are bigger than those in city areas and have difficulties of distance that do not apply in the cities. [More…]
I wish that the honourable member would come into my electorate where I could introduce him, as I know the honourable member for Grayndler could, to families where the wife refuses, because of instruction or for other reasons, to restrict the size of her family and brings into the world children for whom she cannot care. [More…]
I have stressed in the past and I stress it again that those people who earn up to 135 per cent of the average weekly earnings find it extremely difficult to meet the repayment gap- it is a repayment gap situation- particularly single income families. [More…]
No government, not even the Fraser Government, can afford to put workers and their families destitute onto the streets. [More…]
The first main report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty commissioned detailed research into poverty amongst Aboriginal families in Brisbane, Adelaide and rural New South Wales. [More…]
Now they find that they have been living on a fairly miserable income over a long time and if they want to get off their properties they will have nothing left in their hands to maintain themselves and their families in their retirement. [More…]
I am trying to find the right words to express the situation without downgrading the excellent residents of that sort of area- persons who are underprivileged because of lack of understanding through migrant origin, lack of opportunity, lack of economic means, single parent families, latch-key children, people fromousing commission areas and so on. [More…]
Such families averaged 2.3 school age children. [More…]
Some of them get to know the Aboriginal languages and the families. [More…]
Finally, in view of these findings, does the Minister think it advisable to consider a change in the direction of support for families by placing more emphasis on means tested income support schemes for parents of young children rather than devoting more resources to the building of child care institutions? [More…]
-The Government already makes a significant contribution towards assisting families to cope with the child rearing functions. [More…]
In June 1976, there were 3 997 148 children under the age of 16 years in 1 935 596 families receiving allowances. [More…]
Most of the balance is spent on a range of services of a nature designed to support the family and in particular to give expression to the Government’s wish to give child care to needy families where the children otherwise would be without care of any kind. [More…]
It creates divisions in this House, it creates divisions within families and it creates divisions within communities. [More…]
They are fearful that families will argue amongst themselves and that the community will argue within itself about whether they should be voting for the Liberal Party, the Australian Labor Party, the National Country Party or perhaps even for Don’s party. [More…]
At a time when this nation is suffering from record unemployment, an entrenched high level of inflation and a record deficit, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has flitted overseas to escape the problems at home, being more concerned about the quality of his sleeping accommodation on an international airliner than about the awesome difficulties being faced by the 350 000 Australians who are unable to get work and who are trying to provide for their families. [More…]
In the case of middle income families, is tax indexation sufficient to maintain the incentives we expect of them? [More…]
Where are the great advantages from family allowances which are supposed to have sprung to the families of Australia? [More…]
I believe quite strongly that public servants, where their families, include children under the age of 16 years, should be able to travel first-class when they have to travel many thousands of miles. [More…]
Families who travel for 24 or 36 hours on end are under extreme difficulties. [More…]
It took an estimated 20 000 Victorian dairy farmers and their families who took to the streets in June last year for the Government to make decent gestures towards the level of underwriting for the 1976-77 season. [More…]
Families with a single income equivalent to something like 135 per cent of average weekly earnings are unable to meet monthly repayments, which are set by the lending societies at 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
The following table shows the numbers of families receiving family allowances, and the age groups of children in receipt of such allowances in certain postcode districts at 21 March 1977. [More…]
On 5 November 1975 I stated that under any future Liberal-National Country Party Government significant gifts to Ministers or their families received because of the Minister’s position would be declared to the Government and valued. [More…]
Under our proposals many servicemen would have the freedom to choose the type, quality and location of the accommodation they require for their families. [More…]
The aim of doing so is to try to prevent certain conditions from arising, to pick up disabilities in children and their families early in the piece and to save money in the long run on health costs. [More…]
I suppose that next it will be a disadvantage, Mr Deputy Chairman, if we give legal assistance to pursue corporate criminals in the insurance companies based in Melbourne which are cheated by their management and which are managed by the great families of this country. [More…]
Its callous disregard for the victims of its economic policies including the unemployed and their families; [More…]
Its callous disregard for the victims of its economic policies, including the unemployed and their families; [More…]
What sort of economic recovery is it that requires hundreds of thousands of Australians to go without work and to sacrifice their dignity and self-respect and the welfare of their families? [More…]
I might also mention in a quiet way to the honouable member who is interjecting that families spent a greater proportion of their incomes in 1976 than they did in 1975 and real consumption per capita increased between the December quarter of 1975 and the December quarter of last year. [More…]
On these 2 counts, and there are many others, Australian families were better off at the end of 1 976 both in terms of their real incomes and their levels of real spending than they were at the beginning of the year. [More…]
Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son; that her sister lost children in the 1973 war; that in this Jerusalem street, coolly sweet with night flowers and dark green under the lamps, many other families have lost children … [More…]
I want to bring to the attention of the House some of the human heartbreak and difficulty that has been experienced by families of employees who were previously employed at the Newcastle State Dockyard. [More…]
1) On what dates, at what places and with what results have Australian and Indonesian officials met to resolve the problems of the East Timorese refugees who came to Australia without their families. [More…]
How many of the 205 East Timorese evacuees in Portugal who are believed to have immediate families in Australia have so far been interviewed and how many will now come to Australia (Senate Hansard, 9 December 1976, page 2994 and 10 December 1976, page 3 133). [More…]
1) In the Communique issued on 10 October 1976 at the end of the Prime Minister’s visit to Indonesia, President Soeharto and the Prime Minister announced that they had agreed that Australian and Indonesian officials should meet to resolve the problems of the East Timorese refugees who came to Australia without their families. [More…]
It is not possible to obtain the exact cost of paying single supporting fathers the same benefits as are at present paid to single supporting mothers because of lack of accurate data relating to the income distribution of such families. [More…]
However, a costing based on preliminary data from the survey of families conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in May 1975 indicates that the full year cost of such a benefit would be to the order of $8. [More…]
They involve two or three families at most. [More…]
In providing a reply to the honourable member, I stated that a costing based on preliminary data from a survey of families conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in May 1975 indicated that the full year cost of such a benefit would be to the order of $8. [More…]
We need certainty and confidence so that our families can plan their futures and so that businessmen can invest and provide facilities for the private sector. [More…]
Primary schools have up to 73 per cent of their school population coming from migrant families and often English is not widely spoken in the home. [More…]
They have families; they have dependants. [More…]
But this is not the case only at the Redfern Mail Exchange, where 5 000 employees and their families are involved. [More…]
This is of very great concern to many families, especially low income families which are unable to sustain young people- not just girls but young men as well- who want to start that kind of career. [More…]
That is the real message of this Budget- increased unemployment, reduced living standards, increased inflation, reduced confidence, increased tax burdens for families, reduced services for the whole community. [More…]
Above all, it took no account of the impact of economic decisions on the lives and well-being of human beings- the thousands of young people whose prospects in life have been blasted on the very threshold of their working lives, the migrants who came here for better opportunites and whose opportunities are being destroyed, the small businessmen being forced to close down, the families being deprived of a second or even first earned income, the people paying off a home mortgage or wanting to buy their own home, the Aborigines whose hopes for a decent place in their own country have yet again been deferred and denied. [More…]
It must be emphasised again and again that this Government is not reducing taxation for the vast majority of Australian families; it is increasing it. [More…]
Larger families will be substantially worse off. [More…]
In the Hayden Budget, income was redistributed towards families by the introduction of tax rebates for children. [More…]
Taken together with the tax changes this reduces the income of many families. [More…]
It means that unless family allowances are indexed next year all families with average incomes will be worse ofT. [More…]
While the relative position of families is being worsened, the well off are receiving large tax concessions. [More…]
They must appear more attractive to those three million Australians who were not born in Australia, those who have very strong and continuing links with their families overseas or whose families overseas would like to visit relatives here. [More…]
The second element recommended by the Ranger Inquiry was the development of specific arrangements to protect the natural and historic features of the Alligator Rivers environment, to protect the Aboriginal people who have lived there for centuries and to protect the mine workers and their families who will take up residence there. [More…]
Taking into account all the actions of the Fraser-Lynch Budget of last year the standard of living of Australian families, as measured by after tax income, has fallen by 3.3 per cent in real terms. [More…]
With such large groups of people as the Finns, the Danes, the Swedes and the Norwegians in Australia, many of their families would like to visit them here, but of course the air fares are completely prohibitive. [More…]
The Relocation Assistance Scheme has enabled some 400 families to be assisted to relocate to new areas where permanent employment is available to them. [More…]
Some husbands are working 1,000 miles away from their families, and are likely to remain so, to secure employment that offers sufficient return to meet their commitments. [More…]
I shall quote from a letter dated 25 May 1977 which I received from Mr Giovanni Sgro, the secretary of the Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and Their Families, known as FILEF. [More…]
I was responsible in the first instance for taking up with the then Minister for Immigration and Ethnic affairs the question of Mr Salemi’s readmission to Australia after he had been out here at the special invitation of the Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and Their Families, known as FILEF, had gone back home and then had come back again. [More…]
Those effects are felt not only by individual producers and their families but also by communities, districts, regions, and in fact the whole community. [More…]
Outside my electorate, I believe, the problems facing migrant students are being exacerbated by the demographic trend of migrant families to move out of inner suburbia or not to settle there as they traditionally did. [More…]
Suddenly they are disillusioned by the reality of underpaid assembly lines in industry stripping initiative and motivation from families, inadequate housing, the desperate struggle for survival, adequate food, clothing and accommodationlet alone the promised luxuries- followed by the ultimate disillusionment, unemployment, with weeks of no income and then receipt of the shameful pittance which this Government expects the unemployed to survive on. [More…]
I am appalled that the Opposition seeks to decry the very substantial and revolutionary tax reforms introduced by this Government, especially as such reforms, in proportionate terms, will assist lower income families more than higher income families. [More…]
The resulting huge additional take in taxation meant that they as individuals and as families had no capacity to be self-sufficient and had a limited capacity to seek employment. [More…]
Despite the problems of the building industry there are irresponsible individuals whom we all deplore, who would hold the industry to ransom, who would prevent people from working, who would stop people with families from earning a weekly wage because they wish to establish their position of power. [More…]
They should talk to some members of the broken families who are now unable to get work, where husbands and wives have separated because the family income has dropped so low they cannot meet commitments and they have no prospect of getting work. [More…]
We have eased estate duty provisions so as to ease the burden of estate duty on families. [More…]
This issue was brought to the attention of the Government by me both in representations and in public statements, particularly the effect that the high rate of tax was having on overtime and single income families. [More…]
She used to go around helping the little people, mostly the families and the children in the area. [More…]
The Minister has agreed that the Government will, subject to the availability of funds and the agreement of the families, accept full responsibility for the maintenance of the graves and, where appropriate and necessary, erect suitable plaques. [More…]
Ordinary people, irrespective of their problem, could get more meaningful and effective primary health care while still at home with their families, although their families may be working. [More…]
I again give an assurance to the House and to nursing nome patients that there is a clear intention on the part of the Government to bring about a new sense of security to nursing home patients and to their families throughout Australia as a result of the amendments which we have made. [More…]
Where many families now have two bread winners the single income family feels under great pressure to bring a second income into the family to maintain a comparable standard of living. [More…]
It put additional funds into the hands of large low income families where the help was most needed, but in a period of inflation when prices and wages are still rising, when taxes are subject to indexation and social security pensions are indexed, the relative values of those family allowances declines. [More…]
At present low income families may not be eligible for the handicapped child’s allowance because their child does not satisfy the medical criteria for a severely handicapped child. [More…]
So, despite all the propaganda about tax cuts, there has been an increase in the tax burden, That, together with the cuts in real wages, means that families in Australia are worse off in real terms, as I mentioned before. [More…]
Tell it to the parents of this year’s school leavers- the best educated generation we have so far produced, a generation in which the community and families have invested so much and whose expectations were correspondingly and properly higher than those of any previous generation. [More…]
The social and economic consequences of unemployment now reach through to the families of the middle income earners- the people who swept this Government in and who will just as quickly now sweep it out. [More…]
This Budget is the first of the last three in which the income position of families (as families) has taken a step back, rather than a step forward. [More…]
The first big improvement for people with dependant families came in Mr Hayden ‘s tax reforms of 1 975. [More…]
But the rub for taxpayers with families has come this year -not with what the Government did, but by what it didn’t do. [More…]
It is on this basis that the Opposition is arguing that ‘the vast majority of taxpaying families’ would have been better off had the Government maintained the child rebates and indexed them in 1976 and 1977 in the same way that the other rebates were indexed. [More…]
These measures coming on top of the new scales of family allowances have been a great benefit to families in the La Trobe electorate. [More…]
It is likely that some Aboriginal families will prefer to be housed at Davenport whilst others opt for housing within the Port Augusta township area. [More…]
Allocations to the State housing authorities are to assist with the provision of dwellings for rental or sale on a concessional basis to low income families; those advances bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. [More…]
There are three families involved. [More…]
The vital difference between voucher funding and current Australian practice lies in formal recognition at law of the fact that basic aid moneys are due to children or families and not to institutions. [More…]
I know it is hard for the people who are unemployed and I share the concern of families because their kids cannot get a job. [More…]
Surely most of us can agree that, apart from the growing number of unemployed who are also harshly treated in this Budget, those amongst taxpayers who need most help are lower income group citizens who are bringing up families. [More…]
Even after the changes to the tax scales on 1 February families are going to be worse off. [More…]
As was outlined in the Budget, people in Australia will benefit also from the indexation of dependent allowances, which is also very generous and will go a long way to help Australian families. [More…]
I stress that it will help families because we need to help those people with young children. [More…]
We need to give them more money in their pockets to spend on their families- on education, food and clothing. [More…]
I challenge the Opposition- I challenge the Labor Party- to tell us where it stands in relation to those people who have been stood down, those families which are suffering, because of the activities of a few union officials. [More…]
They will be filled by children from more affluent families who live in areas which may be more remote from these areas. [More…]
It is time that the States exercised their responsibility and allocated greater proportions of funds into the area of childhood services, not merely into child care or pre-school education but into services to support the family in order that children can be brought up by their families and given appropriate care and education so that when they do start school they can begin their formal education without disadvantage. [More…]
E revision made for families in the social security budget. [More…]
The criteria have been eased significantly, and now refer to a substantially handicapped child, particularly relating to low income families or families in necessitous financial circumstances because of the additional cost of looking after that child. [More…]
It is a migrant area, a low income area, a place where there are single parent families. [More…]
The Government was very concerned that many nursing home patients and their families throughout Australia were having great difficulty in meeting the enormous gap between the fees to be paid and the benefits payable, but under the new arrangement the Government has brought a new era of security to nursing home patients and their families. [More…]
Infanticide was one way or controlling the population and the size of families. [More…]
I have noted that the Minister for Primary Industry in the beef package scheme suggested that household support might be altered to make it available to low income families earning less than the unemployment benefit. [More…]
The proposed means test of $1 10.60 per week, which is the level of the minimum weekly wage, plus the allowance of $6 for each child would naturally have the effect of excluding a very large number of families who at present receive the benefit. [More…]
I know that if a means test were imposed many families who now incur very considerable expenditure in terms of providing facilities in the household, transportation, obtaining extra medical care and the like, would be unable to afford to continue to do so. [More…]
1) Did he say, in speaking to the Victorian State Council of the Liberal Party on 19 March 1977, that the Government’s policies have made Australian families better off in real terms. [More…]
There is no reason why poorer families who are being looked after under welfare housing should be forced to pay more for their shelter than is paid by the rest of the community. [More…]
We know that single income families, particularly those living in the western suburbs of metropolitan Sydney, are faced with grave difficulties. [More…]
Even single income families earning up to 1 35 per cent of average weekly earnings find they cannot meet the monthly repayments on a house. [More…]
More than 150,000 families have received these loans. [More…]
The Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty pointed this up very clearly in its inquiry as to who should be entitled to benefits under the Housing Agreement-benefits that give assistance to families of poor circumstances. [More…]
I refer the House also to a Press release that I saw in the Australian on 14 February this year in which it was stated that families earning up to $500 a week are paying only as little as $25 a week for rental under this Agreement. [More…]
The negotiations that are taking place at the moment to redraw the Housing Agreement are of particular interest to those who seek to provide shelter or accommodation for their families. [More…]
Many of these families and individuals benefit greatly by the very generous arrangements that were adopted in earlier years. [More…]
This was an arbitrary test and in fact families that were only slightly outside the 95 per cent suffered by not being able to receive a loan. [More…]
Many of these tenants are reliant upon Commonwealth social security and welfare payments and, indeed, are in need of assistance in providing a home for their families. [More…]
The new Housing Agreement will be a giant step forward for the Government and for those people seeking to provide their families with accommodation. [More…]
I am very anxious to see that the Government pursues its stated objective, which has been expressed on a number of occasions, of decreasing interest rates so that those people seeking to purchase homes can do so with ease and with benefit to them and to their families. [More…]
For example, is the Minister quite indifferent as to whether States might build high rise buildings which have anti-social features and which are bad places in which to rear families? [More…]
A few years ago 80 per cent of families were committed to housing mortgages. [More…]
Translated into homes this is equivalent to denying a home to approximately 1,000 Queensland families. [More…]
The money obtained from the fair market sale could be used to build more houses for initial rental and possibly later purchase by families on lower incomes. [More…]
Because these families would have access to cheaper finance there may not be quite so pressing a need for mothers to work to pay for the home with resultant benefits to family life and greater opportunities for work for our unmarried young people. [More…]
Some of them comprise three or four families; in others, such as at Maningrida, Papunya and Yuendumu and so on in the Northern Territory, there are upwards of a thousand Aboriginal people or more living in communities of their own. [More…]
Estate duty can mean hardship for widows, especially those who have stayed at home to care for their families. [More…]
This decision mirrors the Shire Council’s concern for the welfare of all families living in its district. [More…]
The response from State and Federal governments will have a profound effect upon the future viability of families, the dried fruit industry and the Sunraysia region of my electorate. [More…]
Of course, unfortunately we are also confronted with it on television programs when we go home at night and want to sit down to watch an evening’s entertainment with our families. [More…]
But they can see the end of their working life coming up and they want to enjoy their families here, their sons and daughters. [More…]
Over the next 12 months I certainly will be taking a great deal of interest in just how much money, time and attention is being put into making sure that the 10,000 government dwellings in Canberra in which people and families live are maintained properly. [More…]
I want here and now to congratulate the Government on bringing in so many measures to help the farmers and their families and to provide a sound basis for ultimate recovery and eventual growth in the rural sector. [More…]
With these sorts of cost pressures induced by Government actions, as was the case with the increase in the price of petrol, farm industry, farm producers, farmers and their families will suffer a deterioration in their living standards. [More…]
The 2,300 men involved have been badly misled and the great hardship suffered by them and their families should never have happened. [More…]
It was brought to the attention of the Government that voluntary agencies in Victoria have used their funds to the maximum extent to assist distressed families. [More…]
The Labor Party is supposed to be the great champion of the Australian work force, but it has done more harm to Australians- to hundreds of thousands of Australian families- than all other governments in the history of Australia, and it knows that very well indeed. [More…]
The 2,300 men involved have been badly misled and the great hardship suffered by them and their families should never have happened. [More…]
It has come to notice that there are a number of low income families caring for a child who is substantially handicapped but not severely handicapped and for whom handicapped child’s allowance is not paid because the medical criteria are not fully met. [More…]
During the current year, emphasis will be paid to the acceptance of greater numbers of disabled housewives, especially those from families of low socioeconomic status who would otherwise be unlikely to undertake necessary rehabilitation on a paying basis even if this were offered at reduced charges. [More…]
I am aware of the incidence of glue sniffing amongst children and amongst some Aboriginal families- Aboriginal children in particular. [More…]
The personal tax system has been fundamentally altered in favour of the very top income earners to the disadvantage of the vast majority of Australian families. [More…]
It has been applauded by all families throughout [More…]
Of course in the Victorian dispute, about 2,000 people have caused immeasurable harm to a great many families. [More…]
The Committee also suggests that Aboriginals make greater use of provisions of the Social Services Act to ensure that basic necessities such as food and clothing are provided to families instead of social security benefits being squandered on alcohol. [More…]
As time passes, this revival in foreign investment will provide jobs and security for thousands of Australian families. [More…]
They are entitled to be given the opportunity to support their families. [More…]
If the 1975-76 system of tax rebates and child endowment had continued and if the child rebate had been indexed in line with other rebates, thousands upon thousands of taxpaying families, the vast majority- in fact all on $240 a week or less, which I believe constitute about 80 per cent of tax-paying families- would be better off now than under the proposed tax scales we are now debating, plus the present family allowance. [More…]
In other words the cumulative effects of the Fraser Government’s tax changes in distributing income away from low income families can be seen by comparing tax rates in 1978-79 as they will be with those that would have existed under the fully indexed 1975-76 scales. [More…]
I would briefly like to describe some of the more common trusts under the new taxing arrangements because I have had many calls m my office and I know other honourable members have probably had calls from constituents concerned at the effects of the taxation laws regarding trusts on their own families. [More…]
This Budget is the first of the last three in which the income position of families (as families) has taken a step back, rattier than a step forward. [More…]
The first big improvement for people with dependent families came in Mr Hayden ‘s tax reforms of 1 975. [More…]
The switch left the income of most families pretty much unchanged, but its significance was that it provided greatly increased assistance to about 300,000 families with very low incomes. [More…]
But the rub for taxpayers with families- [More…]
It is on this basis that the Opposition is arguing that ‘the vast majority of taxpaying families’ would have been better off had the Government maintained the child rebates and indexed them in 1976 and 1977 in the same way that the other rebates were indexed. [More…]
To illustrate just exactly what happens as far as the Government is concerned and as far as the disadvantage for families with children is concerned, I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which I have prepared. [More…]
That this House congratulates the Government for recognising the very real problems which many single parent families face in bringing up children and commends it for its humanitarian decision to grant single fathers full social service benefit equivalent to that now being paid to supporting mothers, and further commends the honourable member for Franklin, Mr Bruce Goodluck, and the other members of this House who supported him in his forthright support for the grant of full social service benefits to lone fathers. [More…]
As many areas throughtout Australia are still deprived of television reception-centres such as Pentland and Greenvale, with hundreds of meat and mining workers and their families, Aramac, Muttaburra, Jericho, Isisford, Tambo- and as the people in those areas are already underprivileged in so many ways - [More…]
The original Bill set out to get people who were interested in broadcasting and television and in community affairs but who did not have any financial interest whatsoever either directly or through their families so that they could carry on as was intended under the Act. [More…]
Basically, we support the proposition that those families should be entitled to the allowance. [More…]
Due to the lack of data on supporting fathers- their number, the size of their families, their income distribution- and a lack of knowledge as to the number likely to seek assistance and the period for which they would seek it, it is not possible to estimate the exact cost of paying supporting fathers the same benefits as are available to supporting mothers. [More…]
This is a major discrimination against those families in the country who find it difficult to keep their children when they leave school and cannot find a job. [More…]
Labor will ‘develop a national housing policy as part of its urban and regional policy and, where possible, greatest assistance will be provided to families on low and moderate incomes in achieving home ownership and meeting the costs of rental accommodation’. [More…]
-Of the 100,000 families on the waiting lists of housing commissions throughout Australia. [More…]
Among tertiary students of all kinds, the children of manual workers are under-represented and those of higher status families over-represented. [More…]
It happened to be what the school was about- reaching non christian families. [More…]
The working class generally tends to believe that education is a good thing; that other people get advantages and privileges out of it and therefore there should be more of it for them and for their families. [More…]
The Labor Government also commissioned the University of Queensland to look at the value of the secondary grants that were being made to Aboriginal children and in what ways such grants could be perfected and improved for aboriginal families. [More…]
I believe that even when, at times, there has been little warmth between our organisations, as sometimes occurs in the best of families, there has always been the best of relations between Bob King and myself. [More…]
Under Article 10 of the Agreement between Australia and Yugoslavia on the Residence and Employment of Yugoslav citizens in Australia, which entered into force on 20 May 1970, to promote faculties and establish classes to assist Yugoslav workers and their families to acquire knowledge of the English language; and [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken under Article 11 of the Migration and Settlement Agreement between Australia and Malta, which entered into force on 1 July 1970, to promote facilities and establish classes to assist Maltese migants including their families to acquire knowledge of the English language and to facilitate the integration of the children of Maltese migrants into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of learning the Maltese language. [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken (a) under Article 2 1 of the Migration and Settlement Agreement between Australia and Italy, which entered into force on 8 July 1971, to promote facilities and establish classes to assist Italian workers and their families to acquire knowledge of the English language and to facilitate the integration of the children of Italian workers into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of tuition in the Italian language and (b) under Article 2 of the Agreement of Cultural Co-operation between Australia and Italy, which entered into force on 28 May 197S, to facilitate the integration of Italian children into the Australian community while maintaining their cultural ties with their country of origin. [More…]
The conditions attached to the block grants are that funding can be differentially provided between centres to ensure access to services for children from low income families and children in special need and that the States are required to distribute the funds even-handedly between Community and State sponsored pre-schools. [More…]
The names, contract points, and addresses of organisations which have been established with the principal aim of assisting single parent families, including lone fathers; are: [More…]
This cost estimate is based on the estimated number of families with children under 16 years of age and families with student children aged 16 years to 20 years at 30 June 1977. [More…]
Amounts expended on fares and travelling allowance at overseas posts where Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is represented, and the cost of travel of officers and their families both from and to Australia and inter post are: [More…]
Welfare (State)-Mesdames M. Mabb, L. Dixon, L. Christensen, D. Brown, F. Gardner, M. Thomas and R. Mansell- part-time Aboriginal Homemakers providing personal assistance and liaising with other agencies to assist Aboriginal families who are unable to cope due to social pressures, imprisonment of breadwinner and other related circumstances. [More…]
Western Australia from 1935 to 1947 and Minister of the Crown from 1937 to 1939; of Allan Duncan Fraser, C.M.G., a member of this House for the division of Eden-Monaro from 1943 to 1966 and 1969 to 1972; and of John Alexander Pettitt, a member of this House for the division of Hume from 1963 to 1972; and that the House places on record its appreciation of their long and meritorious public service and tenders its sympathy to their families in their bereavement. [More…]
-I join other speakers in expressing my sympathy to the wives, relatives and families of those who are departed about whom we are now talking. [More…]
I extend sympathy also to the widows and families of the other former members of the Parliament. [More…]
Let me say that in relation to the three children of the two families involved the Commonwealth is in the process of establishing a special trust. [More…]
The Commonwealth is leading the nation in establishing a sum of $ 15,000 for each child in that trust and it will be administered for the benefit of the children and the families. [More…]
That would influence the technique by which we are seeking to assist the families. [More…]
As the honourable gentleman would know, the families are, of course, eligible for assistance under the provisions of the New South Wales employees’ compensation regulations. [More…]
It is motivated more by the political impact of the monthly statistics than any real compassion for the misery and hardship of the unemployed and their families. [More…]
These social costs are borne primarily by the unemployed and their families while less directly, but certainly as importantly, the whole community incurs costs to correct social disorders. [More…]
Middle class families throughout this country are being affected just as much as working class families. [More…]
Demographically though, I believe Tangney represents a microscopic picture of Australian urban society- old people and young families; all types of workers, be they unskilled or manual; professional people; academics; students and migrants. [More…]
I suggested to the Government a scheme to give help where it is most needed by providing unemployment benefits to beef producers who stay on their properties, provided there are more than enough other people offering for and closer to existing job vacancies in the area, instead of forcing them to queue up for scarce jobs, leaving the property to be worked by their families. [More…]
Whatever our problems with unemployment, we must always accept family reunion as an undeniable ground for migration to this country for those Australians, new or old, choosing to reunite their families here. [More…]
I do not know whether the honourable member lives in his electorate, but he clearly has no comprehension of how the local migrant families arrange for their friends to come in and to get jobs. [More…]
The honourable member went on to pretend that the Italian and Greek families have not sufficient money to be able to run their ethnic radio stations or their television stations. [More…]
The proposal limiting refunds to such major items would be a near or real catastrophe for many low income families requiring frequent medical attention for such ‘minor’ complaints as asthma, recurrent respiratory or urinary tract infections, allergies, episodes of depression and so on. [More…]
I often hear from families- I am sure other honourable members have the same experience- which have about $160 weekly income and are paying up to $13 a week in health insurance. [More…]
It disadvantages large families compared with small families or married couples with no children or single people. [More…]
There are still large numbers of families who are not united. [More…]
There are many people in Australia from Timor who have left their families behind. [More…]
It is an absolute disgrace that they would put their personal advantagethe security that they have in a job right here and now, an income that they have for their families- before the needs of that organisation to be able to place properly those people who are out of work. [More…]
But with the advent of irrigation and the cutting up of the holdings, it has developed to a stage where it now supports 400 families. [More…]
We extend our sympathy and concern to members of the families of the bereaved and to those who were injured. [More…]
The traumatic effect that unemployment has on many families throughout this country is seen only when one takes the time to go out and get involved with the unemployed. [More…]
What can be done to encourage people to have larger families? [More…]
Often families are involved with these people, and the decisions that are made on a day to day basis are supported by wives and families working long hours with the manager or the controller of the business. [More…]
Their families often receive fewer benefits than many employees of these businesses. [More…]
Primary producers, as individuals, their families and the whole community suffer from such unfortunate movements or sudden decisions. [More…]
Lone parent families suffer a high degree of social and economic disadvantage. [More…]
The sad aspect about the whole system is that the meat in the sandwich are the unemployed people who in many cases are only concerned to get enough money to feed their families. [More…]
In doing so I want to express sympathy on behalf of all members of the Opposition to the families and dependants of those three ordinary Australians who, in the course of carrying out their daily duties, lost their lives as a result of an indiscriminate bombing attack. [More…]
I am referring to Australia’s families. [More…]
They are in extreme need at the present time and there is an urgent requirement that governments should look at the needs of families to give them support so that they can fulfil the role that has traditionally been theirs and that I believe the Australian community wants them to continue to perform. [More…]
They concentrate on the needs of the individual and the needs of the state and forget the needs of families. [More…]
We have been moving inexorably towards a new way of rearing children without giving a second thought to its consequences or the aspirations of Australian families. [More…]
Over the last two decades families have been under immense pressure. [More…]
Sometimes the policy initiatives that have been intended to assist families have had a counterproductive effect. [More…]
In many instances, policies are introduced and measures are put onto the statute book without consideration being given to their impact on the viability of families. [More…]
As a result, many of the responsibilities formerly shouldered by families have been transferred to the state. [More…]
Policies to assist families have been given lower priority than those to replan them. [More…]
Yet appropriate adjustment has not been made to the financial viability of families to take account of changes in wages policies. [More…]
He also recommended that, as there are now so many two-income families in which both husband and wife are members of the work force, each should when unemployed be eligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
The increasing number of twoincome families makes it imperative that we decide whether women with family responsibilities should be able, if they so wish, to remain within the home to bring up their children. [More…]
These policies must ensure that the standard of living of a family with children and a single income does not compare unfavourably with that of twoincome families and of single men and women. [More…]
Other families with dependent children receive no such payments. [More…]
Single income families are in urgent’ need of assistance. [More…]
In my view they are in need of at least as much help as twoincome families which suffer hardship when one member becomes unemployed or cannot find a job when he or she is available for work. [More…]
If the survival of many families depends on two incomes because one income is insufficient, as concluded by Dr Myers, how can society expect families with young children to survive on one income? [More…]
As the criteria used for determining wages no longer takes account- nor should they- of the needs of those wage earners supporting families, we must look to the tax structure and the social security system to recognise the needs of families. [More…]
The social impact of both the tax structure and the welfare transfer system must be looked at to find out the extent to which families need more support. [More…]
These movements stopped temporarily the erosion of public support for families. [More…]
Indeed the support for families must be increased to more realistic levels and must be maintained in value. [More…]
Indexing family allowances at their present levels would not provide families with the support that they need. [More…]
As resources are limited, those families with the greatest need should be assisted first. [More…]
They are the families which include children under six years of age. [More…]
The majority of these families are single income families. [More…]
Economic equals, that is families with similar incomes, should be treated equally but they are not. [More…]
Nor is the system such that families are not influenced to choose one course of action rather than another solely because of the greater benefit to their taxation position under one of the options. [More…]
Also many two-parent families with two incomes pay less tax on the same aggregate income than a single income family. [More…]
The tax liability on families, especially those with young children, should be independent of the proportions in which the income is received by the family. [More…]
Firstly it could be done by allowing families with young dependent children to split their incomes on a notional partnership basis. [More…]
Alternatively, the same result could be achieved by increasing the spouse’s rebate in respect of those families who are supporting young children from $550 a year to $ 1 ,040 a year and at the same time making an adjustment in the rate at which that benefit is withdrawn by having it withdrawn at a rate equivalent to the standard rate of tax- 32c in the dollar- as the nontaxpaying spouse ‘s income rises. [More…]
A number of other things should be done to assist families. [More…]
We should require that all Government legislation that is likely to have an effect on the viability of families is subjected to a family impact statement. [More…]
I want it to convene a conference on families to assist in the development of a national family policy. [More…]
It should also acknowledge the importance of removing the penalties now imposed on families by the tax structure either by allowing income splitting or replacing the dependent spouse rebate with a parent allowance at a substantially higher level than present rebates. [More…]
Surely the huge number of migrants returning home indicates the blatant neglect by the Liberal Government of the continuing needs of our migrant families. [More…]
Many of them have families and many have young children. [More…]
The effect of this immoral attitude is reflected in the educational and social deprivation of significant numbers of migrant families who are brought to this country and then virtually abandoned. [More…]
In most cases, however, these women are locked into this situation by economic necessity which in turn imposes enormous stress on the life style of thousands of migrant families. [More…]
I refer to the family allowance scheme, the supporting parents’ benefit and the new policies of” expanding the domiciliary care benefit and helping those families which have a handicapped member, which are designed to relieve the additional burdens on the parents of handicapped children so that their financial costs will not be greater than those of parents who have normal children. [More…]
The people I represent know from hard experience that the only chance they and their families have of getting a real share of the riches of this great country come by having a Labor government. [More…]
I have concluded that many families cannot or will not move their homes from a district in which they have been long established to accept or to seek jobs in the same industry or in new industries distantly removed. [More…]
Thirty-three thousand children “have been born to the Polish families that have come to Australia. [More…]
We will not use the earnings of Australia’s families to finance Gold Coast holidays for those who do not want to work. [More…]
We all feel for the families of the two garbage men and the constable who have died. [More…]
The drop in interest rates will still mean that purchasing a home will be well out of reach for most Australian families that are seeking homes. [More…]
The deposit gap was so great that home ownership was beyond the reach of an increasing proportion of young families. [More…]
The Government has revised the home interest tax deductibility scheme in such a way that it concentrates on assisting home buyers in the early years of home ownership and those people who battle against circumstances to establish a way of life and a home for themselves and their families. [More…]
If we look at the public housing area- the area of welfare- we must recognise the Government’s sympathy for those people who do not have the capacity for home ownership and who need shelter, encouragement and provisions for the growth of their families. [More…]
They saw their role entirely as one of providing cheap accommodation, giving no thought to families and individuals, whether they be elderly or young, or the surroundings in which they would be living. [More…]
I wish to mention the great advantage of the removal of death duties to many people, including the families of those people who will be leaving estates to their families. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table that compares the net incomes of families under the dependant rebate and family allowance schemes. [More…]
If the Government does not understand that the economy is not progressing, then Australian families certainly do. [More…]
It is a long list of losers, from the unemployed, to the poor, to our migrants, to our women, to our teenagers leaving school, to our wage earners on low incomes, to single income families on middle incomes, to young couples trying to buy a home, to small businessmen going broke, to small farmers going bankrupt-all the way down to our Aboriginal people who, as ever, remain at the bottom of this Government ‘s priorities. [More…]
A similar report states that a special study of 1.25 million steel workers and their families in the United States of America found that hospital admissions declined from 135 per 1,000 beneficiaries for fee for service to 90 per 1,000 under salaried services and surgical cases from 69 to 33 per 1,000, that is, more than a 50 per cent decrease. [More…]
This Government has been generous in introducing the family allowance which is designed to help those people who have young families. [More…]
I indicated to him the distress caused to families in Australia by continued separation from members of those families in Vietnam since the events of 1 975. [More…]
I submit that what we want in Australia is a medium immigration policy, a policy which will allow the re-uniting of families with a greater spread than is applicable at present. [More…]
Thus we have ensured that the aggregate real household disposable income- in other words, what families have to spend- has not been substantially affected in this period. [More…]
Despite the growing number of unemployed persons and the numerous and clear-cut indications that unemployment is the product of forces beyond the control of individual workers and their families, aid given to the unemployed has remained at what could only be interpreted as a punitive level. [More…]
They want to stay in small groups, in their families and clans. [More…]
When the charges which these registered nursing homes legitimately impose are increased, the amount of the grant should be increased also so that no great hardship is placed on many of the aged persons who reside in these homes and on their families who at present have to carry the burden of supplying the differential between the two amounts. [More…]
Does the Treasurer recognise that the majority of these cases involve farm families who will suffer extreme financial hardship if they are required retrospectively to pay gift duties and interest over a number of years? [More…]
I am not sure whether the honourable gentleman is correct in asserting that the majority of circumstances in which it has been used relate to farm families. [More…]
The loss of 83 lives and the personal tragedy that that brought to the families of those concerned was a terrible price to pay to convince the conservatives that railways must receive an adequate share of public funds if they are to ensure that their services are safe and efficient. [More…]
The social problem lies with the others, many of whom ate out of work not only because of difficult times but because of discouragement, personal apathy, or because they have not been properly prepared by their schools or their families to go about the business of seeking employment. [More…]
But the tragic fact of the matter is that for two and a half years the neighbours of the Aboriginal families in Sussex and Alice Streets, Maryborough, have been subjected to an experience that is grossly unfair. [More…]
They are concerned for their families because of the violence, the disorderliness and all the other characteristics that turn an otherwise tranquil urban situation into one of high trauma. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the difficulties of residents in the St George electorate and other parts of Australia when they know that their families are caught in the midst of a war. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is, however, establishing a Trust Fund for the education and general benefit of the children of the Council workers killed in the explosion as an indication of the Government’s concern for their families. [More…]
What is the effect on the individual and the families of health insurance arrangements which require them to pay a larger or smaller pan of the bill for health care, either at the point of contact, or in a higher percentage of the total bill? [More…]
selection of a random sample of Australian families who would be eligible to participate; [More…]
offering of a number of Experimental Plans to these families, with each plan having a different combination of copayments, coinsurance rates and maximum expense limits. [More…]
Some of the Plans might include enrolling the families in any Prepaid Health Plans that were then in existence, or even creating some; [More…]
families enrolled in each of the Experimental Plans would submit claims (or medical expense reports) to the Project just as they would submit claims to a private health insurance company. [More…]
The enrolled families would also be required to submit biweekly health reports to the project, i.e., brief questionnaires that collect information on use of health care, self-perceived health status of the family and other indicators. [More…]
The pre-enrolment phase would include a baseline interview of a large sample of families, with selection into the Health Insurance Project being on the basis of the information they report in the baseline interview. [More…]
A3.7 The cost of the HIP would depend on how many Experimental Plans would be evaluated, how large a sample of individuals and families would be enrolled in the different Experimental Plans and the duration of the experiments. [More…]
A sample of up to 1,000 families would be adequate for such a project. [More…]
It is obvious in that respect that many healthy young Australian families find themselves contributing far more to the fund than they are receiving by way of benefits. [More…]
If it is proposed that patients should pay more, all that is going to happen is that families will be disadvantaged as against single people, large families as against small families, low income earners as against high income earners, the ill as against the healthy. [More…]
Diplomatic immunity, which does not mean immunity from the law of the receiving State, but from the jurisdiction of its courts, relates to the diplomatic staff of diplomatic missions in Canberra and their families and, in respect of criminal jurisdiction only, to those members of their Administrative and Technical staff and their families, who are not Australian nationals or permanently resident in Australia. [More…]
Expenditure in Britain was on promotional advertising for suitable qualified migrant workers and their families. [More…]
It does not matter whether we use the figures of the Commonwealth Employment Service or of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, it does not matter whether we do not count people who are selfemployed, the farmers and the families of farmers and it does not matter whether we ignore the young people who have to return to school- it matters little which way we approach the issue- the fact is that there are 160,000 more people registered as unemployed than there were when this Government came to power on a promise of restoring full employment. [More…]
However the CES statistics conceal much of the reality- that many people who are unemployed, especially girls, are carried’ by their families and do not register for unemployment benefit, and that people who secure part-time work often- not always- are not included in the statistics. [More…]
Knowledge of government long-term planning is essential to give these men, their families and the communities in which they live reassurance that they can be gainfully employed in the timber industry. [More…]
Is it a fact that at the end of 15 years $43,750 of the principal, or 55.4 per cent of the total borrowed, will still be outstanding on his loan, whereas most Australian families repaying a home loan - [More…]
Mr Brych is deceiving a lot of people and is tearing a lot of families apart in this country. [More…]
For instance, under State legislation it is permissible for the Director of Aboriginal Affairs to take away the savings and property of Aboriginals in Queensland, to cut wages, to control their movements, to deny them the sanctity of their home, and to separate spouses from their families which are left on reserves. [More…]
The proposal would discourage families from seeking advice about early symptoms. [More…]
It would especially discourage the poor families and the large families which are being maintained on a comparatively low income. [More…]
As I suggested earlier, that is a significant proportion of the total amount of money going into certain families. [More…]
We gave assistance to secondary students from low income families. [More…]
If they were to publish for a couple of weeks in a row a nude female on page 3 to try to boost circulation, they would be likely to have a line-up of angry mums from the local area outside the editor’s office saying, ‘Look, we are trying to raise families in this area’. [More…]
To their families and friends I extend my deepest sympathy. [More…]
They can take the species quite deliberately and claim they were taken non-commercially because they are used as food for the crews or the families of the crew. [More…]
One in every seven families in Sydney and Melbourne still live in unsewered homes. [More…]
There are perhaps 30, 40 or 50 families scattered around the town. [More…]
If we are going to meet in this pattern, is it worthwhile our giving real consideration to a five-day week and making some arrangements for our wives and families to have more travel to and from Canberra and such Uke? [More…]
What criteria are used to determine whether potential migrants, who are not dependent members of migrant families already resident in Australia or who are not refugees, are eligible to come to live and work in Australia. [More…]
This would involve many servicemen in due course seeking accommodation for their families on the private market. [More…]
An important issue is therefore whether this far reaching change in established policy would adversely affect the ready deployment of the Defence Force or the morale and welfare of Service families. [More…]
In spending relatively short periods at a station it is important that families be established quickly in new locations and that they be established permanently. [More…]
There are people and families involved, families which have a minimal chance to lead the normal life that another family would lead and which, therefore, need to be in a position where housing is readily available. [More…]
It is not unusual in a number of areas of government service for persons who should be or who are seeking promotion to have a period where they remain static in the interests of their families purely because they are not prepared at the time their families are growing up to undertake the necessary moves around the country. [More…]
But in respect of* that category of houses there are 310 families who are living in the most disgraceful circumstances. [More…]
There are very serious hazards to their families. [More…]
We know also however, that there was a reduction in terms of the total household income then available to all taxpaying families with children. [More…]
The purchase comes at a time when 1,100 people and 1,100 families associated with Chrysler Australia Ltd will feel the cold wind of unemployment and will be on the street looking for work and at a time when half a million other people are on that same street looking for work. [More…]
If there was any lesson that these people and their families must have learned, it was that foreigners- whether German, Australian or Japanese- wearing a uniform and an air of authority were in a position to enforce their wishes and had to be obeyed without question. [More…]
But people have a right to a job- a right to expect that their government is actively planning for the creation of a job for them; a right to demand that their government has manpower programs and job training, retraining, relocation and income maintenance schemes to allow them and their families to cast aside the fear of being thrown on the dole overnight. [More…]
It is an attitude which shows callous disregard, if honourable members like, to the thousands of Australian families which depend on the motor vehicle industry for their livelihood. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which compares the rates paid to tax paying families under the family allowance scheme with those paid under the tax rebate and child endowment arrangements. [More…]
The earlier survey, which is a study done by Messrs Podder and Kakwani shows that the bottom 50 per cent of families in Australia own 15.5 per cent of total net wealth and the top 10 per cent of families own 36.5 per cent of total net wealth. [More…]
They remember the loss of their families and their loved ones in the Sinai war, and the only thing that is holding up negotiations at the present time is that the Israeli Government is debating whether it can accept a declaration of intent in order that a peace treaty can be signed between Israel and Egypt. [More…]
The most interesting feature of Mr Fairbairn ‘s paper is that he goes on to claim that the terrorist nowadays seems to be a young person, welleducated and very often from middle and upper class families, particularly in Europe. [More…]
It seems it is being accepted in Germany that these academics, who often drive Mercedes Benz vehicles, who live in very nice homes and who go home at night time to all the comforts of Western society, are inflicting upon young well-educated people from middle and upper class families, in an almost systematic fashion, such a degree of hatred and desperation about, and such an attitude of decadence towards the community that these people are actively pursuing terrorist activity. [More…]
Single parent families wishing to migrate approach the Fairbridge Society in London which submits details of suitable applicants to the Migration Branch of Australia House. [More…]
Approved single parent families contribute $150.00 towards the cost of assisted passages. [More…]
It is singularly appropriate that this senator from Tasmania bore the name of one of our great pioneering families and that as Minister he should have played such a significant and continuing role in the economic development of Australia. [More…]
Estate duty has caused distress and hardship to thousands of Australian families, to small business, to farmers. [More…]
Added to this list now can be the repeal of estate and gift duties, iniquitous and unfair taxes on the dead causing numerous cases of hardship and distress to those families who are left. [More…]
We are committed to a reduction of gross, bureaucratic elephantitis and to creating an environment in which free individual citizens can run their own lives for the benefit of themselves and their families in accordance with the good of the general community. [More…]
This comment is heard most often, perhaps, in connection with farm properties; it is said that families may have devoted themselves for years to building up virtually only one asset which is land. [More…]
We have put our cards on the table: No gift duties and estate duties on estates passing between families as from 21 November 1977 and no gift duties or estate duties on estates passing between anybody at all as from 1 July 1979. [More…]
There is further social change in that we find families with two working parents. [More…]
About three-quarters of a million people returned from the Services and were scattered throughout Australia and commenced families at a much later time than would have been the case, but for the war. [More…]
Families, irrespective of where they live, are subject to suffering the same consequences. [More…]
It is time we recognised that women not only have a right to work if they want to but in most cases they need to work to support themselves and their families. [More…]
That would affect the migrant families more than it would affect any other group. [More…]
That is usually done by fishermen claiming that the organisms were removed to provide food for their crew or their families. [More…]
Directly or indirectly over 100 families depend for their livelihood on the whaling industry. [More…]
He has spoken out strongly in support of the whaling industry and on behalf of the hundred-odd families who depend upon whaling for their livelihood. [More…]
We are talking about people who, with their families, have settled into an area and often have been there for many years. [More…]
For example, I understand that some 100 families are involved in Albany. [More…]
I cannot believe that people are totally committed to whaling per se; they are committed to being employed and providing for their families. [More…]
How many complaints have been received from servicemen and their families in relation to the standard of accommodation available. [More…]
In addition, I am advised that the three families concerned in this matter are content with the way in which the investigations into these matters are proceeding. [More…]
The Government is anxious to try to assist those people who wish to care for members of their families or relatives or friends in their own home environment. [More…]
If the spouse allowance were abolished for those families that do not care for children or other dependants, $200m to $250m could be saved. [More…]
Their families are concerned and so are the communities such as Seymour in Victoria, and Rockhampton and Townsville in northern Australia. [More…]
In Albany at the moment the whaling industry sustains employment sufficient to support about 100 families. [More…]
In a town the size of Albany the employment of those families is indeed an important question. [More…]
17.8) which provides information on the income of individuals and families. [More…]
However data are available on families where both husband and wife are in the labour force. [More…]
Such families would include those where one or other (or both) of the husband or wife were unemployed and not earning income. [More…]
These data are published in the Australian Bureau of Statistics bulletin Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Families, November 1974, (Reference No. [More…]
The publication shows there were an estimated 1,221,800 married couple families with both the husband and wife in the labour force. [More…]
The publication also shows that of the married couple families with both husband and wife in the labour force, 44,100 (or 3.6 per cent) had either the husband, the wife or both unemployed. [More…]
The Federal Government’s decision to increase the cost of visiting a doctor would inflict hardship on low-income groups, the chronically ill and those with large families. [More…]
It will be extremely costly for the poor and the sick- they often overlap- and for those people with large families. [More…]
Let us look at the effect it will have on famines, including low income families. [More…]
If we look at the low income families and the pensioners with whom I take it the Opposition is concerned, we find that there is no difference in the case of pensioners and only a small amount of difference in the case of the low income family. [More…]
In no way will the agreement reduce substantially the backlog of families waiting for Housing Commission homes- a backlog of nearly 100,000 families. [More…]
Those people have no other chance of obtaining shelter for their families. [More…]
I now refer to the unsatisfactory position of having nearly 100,000 families on the waiting list for public authority houses at the present time. [More…]
This is an area of the Australian economy that needs an urgent stimulus and there are social problems facing people who need housing for their families. [More…]
It gives families something to work for, and it also gives people a capacity to improve their lifestyles and their surroundings. [More…]
The Housing Assistance Bill proposes assistance in two areas to families of low income. [More…]
Firstly it provides assistance for home ownership, and secondly it provides for rental assistance for low income families. [More…]
There is enthusiasm for the ability this provision gives for State governments and individuals living in the States to provide shelter and accommodation for themselves and their families. [More…]
It gives them a capacity, in cases of hardship, to allow a continuation of low interest rates to those families who cannot afford normal interest rates. [More…]
There are plenty of opportunities for this House to discuss matters of this nature which involve home ownership and low income families seeking to acquire their own accommodation. [More…]
Secondly, it provides for assistance at a sensible level, a level that can be met by families. [More…]
Relatively affluent applicants will be joined in competition for homes with the 100,000 applicant families whose incomes are under 85 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not seem to realise that it is possible for pensioner families to receive assistance under the provisions of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]
The rental rebates to be provided to families who are unable to meet the new requirement of market rent levels are undetermined, to the point where a generous policy can prevail in some States and insufficient support be given in others. [More…]
Nowdays new home ownership is increasingly restricted mainly to the top 30 per cent or so of income earners, families with two incomes acceptable to lending institutions, and those people fortunate enough to inherit money or a substantial share in a family home. [More…]
There are 100,000 families on the housing commission waiting lists. [More…]
There are 100,000 families waiting for homes. [More…]
Families with a single income of up to $270 a week find it extremely hard to purchase a home. [More…]
In many cases, this results in rents much lower than 85 per cent of the market rate for lower income families. [More…]
Strong, sturdy Australian citizenship has its base in contented families which treat their houses as their homes. [More…]
They stayed in these homes and often people with large families, people from broken homes and people who were on the poverty line were unable to obtain this rental accommodation consistent with their capacity to pay. [More…]
At the same time, 86,000 families and individuals below the poverty line, out of a total of 146,000 with incomes less than 120 per cent of the poverty line, were renting privately. [More…]
The aim and hope of many Australian families to own their own home is certainly brought within the reach and grasp of ever so many people. [More…]
At that time, there were 26,735 families on the waiting list. [More…]
The situation is equally as bad, if not worse, in Victoria where only 2,531 dwellings were completed in 1976-77 and there are 20,359 families on the waiting list. [More…]
I conservatively estimate that at least 300,000 families are waiting for housing. [More…]
That means that there would be 100,000 families on the government housing commissions’ lists and at least 200,000 families looking for loans from banks, credit unions and building societies to build their own private dwellings. [More…]
It will be a national tragedy if this Government succeeds in winding down and destroying by stealth and denial of finance such an instrument that alone, in these days of high inflation and high interest charges, can satisfy the aspirations of so many working class families. [More…]
One can understand the desire of families, which have rented housing commission accommodation over a long period, to purchase what is in fact their home. [More…]
The honourable member said that this legislation would in no way reduce the backlog of families waiting for Housing Commission homes, that under this agreement we would build fewer houses than we built in 1977. [More…]
In fact, the assistance which will be provided in the form of rebates on the basis of the charging of market rents will mean that many lower income families will pay substantially less than 85 per cent of the market rate which was suggested as being appropriate by the honourable member for Reid. [More…]
Therefore the real household disposable income of families will increase and that will also reduce their hardship situation. [More…]
Of more than 300,000 dwellings constructed under previous agreements, only 170,000 were left for rental to needy families. [More…]
The point is that Government expenditure cannot continue to escalate in line with the trend of recent years because if it does the opportunities for people to do what they want with their money, for the benefit of their well-being and that of their families, will be reduced. [More…]
Currently 90,000 people are injured and 3,700 killed on Australian roads each year, imposing an intolerable burden on families and the community. [More…]
Some of them do their mustering when they get their half grown-up families home from school. [More…]
If this Bill is not passed some of our members who are retiring on 30 June will not be entitled to the benefits which we think they deserve and to which their families would be entitled if unfortunately the member died. [More…]
In the case of Melbourne and Sydney, at least one in seven families were in unsewered homes in the 1970s. [More…]
Some white people were born there, and some of their families have been there for generations. [More…]
The Bill will also exempt from levy for the 1978-79 and subsequent years foreign government representatives in Australia, and their families, unless the person concerned is an Australian citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in Australia. [More…]
Does the Acting Prime Minister recall the stringent criticisms made by the members of this Government when in opposition of the acceptance of gifts by the Prime Minister and Ministers and their families, and the precise procedures set by the present Government to be followed in respect of such gifts? [More…]
Why is his Government now refusing to disclose, as promised, the number, value and location of gifts received by Ministers and their families? [More…]
As the Government claimed at that time that this decision would facilitate the reunification of Timorese families, I now ask the Minister: Firstly, how many East Timorese families, if any, have been reunited since the integration was recognised? [More…]
Thirdly, how many East Timorese people in Portugal have been reunited with families in Australia since the recognition? [More…]
We are working assiduously to bring about the reunification of families from East Timor. [More…]
Yet the position of lower income rural families continues to decline. [More…]
But the assistance given by this Government has not only enabled those men to stay on their farms with their families but also given them a prospect of carrying on to the point where it seems the beef market is about to improve significantly. [More…]
The families of the producers, the families of rural workers, the businesses in the country towns, the builders and other tradesmen are the people who feel the brunt of the failure of the Government to protect the rural industry. [More…]
They include the unemployed and others receiving government benefits, such as the lone parents; low wage earners supporting large families, and people with chronic recurrent illness which results in short periods of absence from work and consequent loss of wages. [More…]
Not only do the healthy subsidise the sick but the single person subsidises the married person, the young subsidise the old, the middle-aged person subsidises both young families and old contributors, small families subsidise large families, and males subsidise females in most age groups. [More…]
At the present time if a large fund such as the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia or Medibank Private offered deductibles it could assume that the healthier persons subscribing to the fund would take out the deductibles- younger people, single people, persons with small families, people who have reason to believe that it is a fair bet that they will not be spending $ 100 or $200 on health care during the year. [More…]
Large families: higher health costs, problems with red tape. [More…]
We have unemployed parents with young families sometimes consisting of a number of children who would not have anything like that income and yet they are not entitled to take advantage of some of the benefits of our health legislation. [More…]
It is true that low income families- in his speech the honourable member for Prospect recognised that there are low income people, particularly those on unemployment benefits- could be disadvantaged by some of the changes, but I put it to the House that these people on low incomes, those whose pensions do not enable them to benefit from what are commonly called the fringe benefits, could go to their doctor if they are chronically ill or have a long term illness and claim from their doctor the right to one month’s supply of pharmaceuticals and two repeats. [More…]
One must look first of all at its history and see how the scheme evolved from the time it was introduced in 1970 for certain low income families. [More…]
Rents for dwellings in the Project will be set at market levels, with rebates being available to families on low incomes. [More…]
Rebates will be available, as at present, to families on low to moderate incomes. [More…]
Large families would also be adversely affected, the AMA warned. [More…]
There is now to be no bulk billing except for pensioners and their families because some doctors have made great financial gains from bulk billing, thus interfering with the system. [More…]
I do not think that is fair because it imposes a further burden on people who are already handicapped- large families, those with sick people in the family, people in the older age groups and the very young age groups who need medical or hospital attention more often. [More…]
It points to those who will be badly hit- migrants, large families, Aborigines and the unemployed. [More…]
Why, then, make life much harder for the unemployed, Aborigines, migrants and large families? [More…]
The fact is that the guidelines for the acceptance, valuation and disposal of gifts recieved by the Prime Minister, Ministers of the Government and their families in association with their duties were laid down in March 1976. [More…]
It is expected, however, that Ministers not accept for themselves or their families, offers of free overseas travel from commercial sources, whether the commercial activities involved are connected directly with Ministers’ responsibilities or not. [More…]
Under these guidelines significant gifts received by Ministers or their families in the course of their official duties are declared and valued. [More…]
and (2) The guidelines governing the acceptance of gifts by Ministers and their families do not specifically mention offers of free overseas travel. [More…]
It is expected, however, that Ministers not accept for themselves or their families, offers of free overseas travel from commercial sources, whether the commercial activities involved are connected directly with Ministers’ responsibilities or not. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an article in Navy News of 24 March 1978 recounting the simulated rescue of Australian families from a wealthy mine in ‘a nearneighbouring country suffering another of her frequent political upheavals’. [More…]
1 ) How many cases have come to the attention of the Department of Social Security of families who have been forced to sell their homes which were being purchased by bank and building society mortgages, because of working wives losing their jobs, and in particular, can the Minister give the numbers in the western suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
Has the Department of Social Security considered any schemes of income support or low interest loans similar to war service loans, which could be made to bona fide cases to preserve these families in their own homes; if so, what action is proposed. [More…]
What steps have been taken to register chiropractors to assist low income families with chiropractic fees and to carry out the recommendation of the committee of inquiry set up to report to the Whitlam Government on chiropractic, osteopathy and naturopathy. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its Recommendations. [More…]
In view of the fact that the families of some of my constituents have lost their lives in bombardment by the Syrian forces in Lebanon and in view of the fact that three relatives of my constituents are in Lebanon and cannot get to the international airport to fly back to Australia, despite their being Australian citizens, will the Minister inform the House of the situation in Lebanon and advise what these Australian citizens should do to get to the airport? [More…]
I think in the end one has the philosophical attitude- I certainly have it- that the whole community should contribute towards the health costs of those who have larger families and sicker families- some members of the family are chronically ill- and who therefore have to take out extra insurance. [More…]
The Government’s proposals are unfair to some of the lower income groups in the community such as those families who will need to insure themselves because they require a lot of medical attention. [More…]
I am talking of large families, of which one or more members have some sort of chronic condition, who do not have access to doctors who bulk bill. [More…]
These families will have to take out extra insurance. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its recommendations. [More…]
The maximum amount of Medibank levy being paid by families at the present time is $300 per annum and the single rate is $ 1 50 per annum. [More…]
They are now residing in homes some 50, 200 or 300 miles away from their surviving spouses or families. [More…]
For example, they have been offering farmers and their families free trips overseas with an associated income tax advantage for those farmers who buy machines under this policy. [More…]
It is labour intensive, it uses grain and, above all, it fulfils and satisfies the appetites of many Australian families and families from overseas. [More…]
Families are not allowed to work on the family business stand and small businesses are being attacked. [More…]
Last Wednesday, when the impact of the 1978-79 Budget became known to the people of Australia, there was revolt amongst the wage and salary earners of this country and amongst the families of this country and there were celebrations in the stock exchanges and by foreign investors. [More…]
They would have to have rocks in their heads if they thought that 250,000 workers in the Public Service of this country would bow to the dictates of this Government; that unless they and their families accepted a substantial reduction in their living standards they would be dismissed. [More…]
Few people seem to be aware that, on a constant basis, servicemen are required to move with their families from place to place throughout Australia, often on a two-yearly basis, thereby disrupting home life, family life and the schooling of the children and thereby causing the onflowing effects which appertain in relation to the wellbeing of the children, their development and growth and their capacity to cope with the educational system. [More…]
These were men who would marry and raise the families of the future. [More…]
He neglected to say that there was an absolute necessity for this to occur because people would not have been able to provide homes for their families on the previous level of loan. [More…]
The great majority of these people had come from an environment, prior to 1914, which generally speaking would certainly not have equipped them to purchase, almost ad lib, homes for their families when they returned to Australia. [More…]
The Labor alternative would see $450m injected into housing and capital works where there is such a catalogue of pressing need- for example, public rental housing to reduce the waiting list of more than 90,000 families; construction in the Macarthur development centre; Aboriginal hostels in remote areas; community health centres, and aged persons accommodation. [More…]
Let there be no doubt: This Budget will lead to improved economic performance over the course of the current financial year and to better living standards for Australian families. [More…]
It is a Budget which is specifically designed to ensure that the burden, the costs and the suffering which are afflicting Australian people should be borne by the ordinary wage and salary earners, by the people who are unable to take a place in the work force- by the unemployed, by the pensioners, by the sick and the aged- and by the families of this nation which traditionally have produced this country’s wealth but which are rarely in a position to influence the way it is distributed. [More…]
So for perhaps half or less than the current maximum health insurance levy of $300, on a family basis, Australian families will be able to receive the benefits that are currently provided by Medibank Standard. [More…]
That is, those 20 units of five per cent each- in total net worth have been calculated after arranging the families in ascending order of net worth. [More…]
Again, the shares in total assets have been calculated by rearranging the families in ascending order of assets. [More…]
The table shows that the top 5 per cent of the families in terms of net worth has 24.6 per cent of total net worth and the top 5 per cent in terms of assets holds slightly more than 22 per cent of total value of assets. [More…]
At the other end, it is seen that the lowest 20 per cent of families has less than 1 per cent of total net worth. [More…]
The top 10 per cent of families has 36.5 per cent of total net worth. [More…]
The bottom 50 per cent of families has about 1 5 per cent of total net worth, which means that the top 50 per cent families has almost 85 per cent of total net worth. [More…]
The bottom 1 5 per cent of families holds 0.5 per cent and the bottom 20 per cent of families holds 1 .2 per cent of total assets. [More…]
The top 10 per cent of families owns 33 per cent of total assets. [More…]
Our children leave the home as soon as they are able, to begin their own nuclear families. [More…]
How many families will receive (a) voucher payments and (b) any other payments in (i) Tasmania and (ii) Victoria. [More…]
1 ) Is the Government undertaking a reduction in the level of services available to Service families in isolated areas. [More…]
1 ) The Services have been asked to recommend the level of services necessary for Service personnel and their families in any isolated areas. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its Recommendations. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) pointed out last night, the top 10 per cent of families in Australia possess 36.5 per cent of total net worth, whilst at the other end of the scale the lowest 20 per cent of families in Australia possess one per cent of total net worth. [More…]
Dealing with broken marriages and the splitting up of families is one of the saddest, most heart-rending aspects of the work of a private member of parliament in his electorate. [More…]
The Government’s action will have the effect of placing extra, and intolerable, financial burdens on many families. [More…]
An inevitable by-product of these decisions will be that many more families will need to become dual income families. [More…]
It is the only way that many families will make ends meet. [More…]
Yet, while it has robbed the family budget and increased financial pressures on families, the savings the Government will make from its changes in this area are meagre. [More…]
This Budget is clearly a direct attack on families and on family life. [More…]
It will have an adverse effect on family budgets, on young people seeking jobs and on family life by forcing both parents into the paid workforce and thus splitting families even more than they are now. [More…]
This Budget is clearly a direct attack on families and on family life. [More…]
The table surely shows that this Government has completely failed the families. [More…]
I am not necessarily saying that those groups are not in difficult circumstances, but I feel that members of families with children and a single income who are trying to establish themselves are the worst off group in Australia at present. [More…]
It helped those families who were not in a position even to pay tax. [More…]
But through changing a tax rebate which was indexed to a family allowance which was not, greater and greater amounts of money are being lost by people with families. [More…]
Much hardship, much suffering and much trauma was caused to many Australian families by the fear that was stirred up by irresponsible newspaper editors and supporters- of course, they all came from the metropolitan areas- indicating that this or that was not going to be included in the Budget. [More…]
They are people who protect us and our families. [More…]
There are 100,000 families awaiting housing commission accommodation in Australia but the completion rate for commission dwellings is currently less than 1 1 ,000 a year. [More…]
Mr Shipton said he believed the cuts, which may leave thousands of elderly and disadvantaged families without the service, were slipped past the Government by the Public Service. [More…]
Many families in Australia may not insure themselves. [More…]
They may accept the Government’s pledges that they will be paid 40 per cent of their medical bills, with a $20 limit on what they have to pay, and then suffer the catastrophe of sudden and serious illness themselves or in their families. [More…]
The second group will consist of families, the sick and middle-aged people who, of course, will not take the gamble on their future good health. [More…]
When pursuing this course they might think of the hardship they are causing to their families and children as a result of this particular problem. [More…]
We know quite well that the problems for many individuals and for many families who need and want to maintain communication would be great. [More…]
The longer this dispute continues the more the families of ATEA members themselves will suffer because the more wages they will have lost; the more difficulties there will be for their own people. [More…]
I ask them to reflect upon these matters, to assess their position, to consider what is really in their own interests, what is really in the interests of their own families and what is in the interests of this nation. [More…]
Is it showing no concern for the inconvenience that is being perpetrated on families and businesses and the employment opportunities that are being jeopardised, not just by the ATEA members about whom the Opposition seems to be so concerned but also by other workers right throughout Australia who will inevitably have to be put off if this dispute continues to keep our telecommunications services at their present level. [More…]
Some families have to pay 40c, 50c or 60c every time they get on the phone to their local business centre. [More…]
Does it support the families of the ATEA members who have suffered in this dispute and who in many cases have been dragged unwillingly into it? [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its Recommendations. [More…]
Already nearly 100,000 families are listed on the State housing commissions’ waiting lists. [More…]
We have the problem of social disaster in families because families are unable to remain as sound economic units. [More…]
It provides increased assistance in real terms for the aged, for the handicapped, for migrants, and for families. [More…]
We have already, over the past three years, instituted fundamental social reforms which have served the interests of families and of those in need. [More…]
Further, the elimination of the home loan interest tax deductibility scheme will make it more difficult for families on low and moderate incomes to afford mortgage repayments. [More…]
A $4 a week reduction was worthwhile to some families and now it is gone. [More…]
Will he take prompt steps to ensure that restrictions similar to those applied in the United States are placed upon the use of 2,4D and related substances in Australia, and to support with appropriate legal assistance claims for compensation by families with a prima facie case that they have suffered handicaps as a result of the use of synthetic chemicals. [More…]
-Nearly 100,000 families are waiting for homes from the Housing Commission and at least half a million people are living in sub-standard housing, and this Government has not only increased the social problems of those elements in the community which need housing and reneged with regard to welfare housing, but it has also reneged on the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
Those are the circumstances that the Australian people want and need in order to be able to purchase their homes, to become renters or buyers and to establish shelter for themselves and their families. [More…]
Indeed, we should be looking at the rate at which families are established. [More…]
The decision to tax family allowances for students receiving scholarships will hit families struggling to educate their children. [More…]
The cuts in the school dental scheme will leave a mark on children of the lower income families for the rest of their lives. [More…]
More families will have to become dual income families and this will mean that fewer jobs will be available for school leavers. [More…]
But what does it care about the welfare of low income families? [More…]
In the present context one could refer to the problems of homelessness and the need to upgrade existing subsidies in that area, families with severely handicapped children, and so forth. [More…]
This is particularly hard on the young of the poor and rural families who have left home looking for jobs. [More…]
In view of the serious damage that has been done to the parliamentary insitution, does the right honourable gentleman now agree that it is important that all members of this House as a matter of urgency should indicate that they are prepared to disclose their income tax returns as well as the nature of the assets and liabilities of their wives and families and that this be done without any further delay? [More…]
At an earlier time there was a parliamentary inquiry into this matter, and that inquiry said that members of parliament should disclose their assets but it did not extend this to wives and families. [More…]
The fact that wives and families were omitted would certainly, in the current environment, become a point for criticism. [More…]
We are the families and relatives of political detainees in Singapore, many of whom have been detained without trial for 10 to 15 years. [More…]
In 1 977, the ventilators in the cells in Moon Crescent Centre were closed, thus further aggravating the already poor ventilation of the cells and causing further physical and psychological stress to the detainees and their families. [More…]
In recent months, severe curtailment has even been imposed on foodstuff supplied by families of political detainees. [More…]
The prison diet for political detainees is inadequate and political detainees are compelled to supplement their diet with foodstuff from their families to ensure their health. [More…]
Thus the government has not only refused to improve detainees ‘ prison rations( which are in some respect worse than that for convicted prisoners), it has also seen fit to prevent detainees’ families from adequately supplementing the prison diet. [More…]
Since April this year, the political detainees have been protesting against these persecutionary measures, staging sitdown protests after each visit because prison authorities have refused to discuss the issue of foodstuff brought in by the families. [More…]
We, the families and relatives of all political detainees in Singapore appeal to you and your organisation to take rapid and concrete steps to ensure that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will have meaning and substance in Singapore. [More…]
Families and relatives of Political Detainees in Singapore [More…]
I will illustrate as my colleagues who have spoken in this debate have already done, how the burdens fall on pensioners and families, particularly families with young children who are the recipients of the family allowance which was substituted a couple of years ago for tax rebates based on the number of children in a family. [More…]
Whilst the intention of this proposal is commendable the effect of it on ordinary families where a child shows some initiative by earning income from such activities as selling newspapers is not at all commendable. [More…]
Workers are now penalised too if they drink, smoke, drive a car or take their families on an interstate holiday. [More…]
Of course we have brought in the family allowance, a major innovation of tremendous benefit to Australian families. [More…]
Stated simply, one side says that we have too many nursing homes and we rely on them, like an elephant’s graveyard for the old, when people get too difficult for their families to manage. [More…]
I know, and so do many people in Australia, that some families cannot wait to get their elderly mother or father out of their home and into an institution or a nursing home. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of the social tensions between families- I would think that a good deal of the break-up of marriages- comes from the inadequacy of the home to be able to give people reasonable privacy or comfort in need or to allow parents or anybody else to feel at home. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its Recommendatons. [More…]
Since that level of education has now been stipulated as necessary for apprenticeship at the mining operation, this will tend to keep the families together in the town. [More…]
The families will not be broken up because the children will not have to go away to undertake their senior examinations. [More…]
What we are facing now is a problem of dealing with the families who are presently on their farms and who, on the basis of stabilisation levels, operate on a subsistence basis. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its recommendations. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its recommendations. [More…]
I find unattractive the fact that the children of parents who receive family allowances will now be able to earn only $20 a week before their families are income tested for the family allowance and I would have preferred to see an extra increase in direct taxes rather than this kind of fiddling tax being added on. [More…]
This hits only immigrants and former immigrants and their families. [More…]
It is a relatively small and paltry sum but the suffering and hardship which it will cause the lower income families who are supporting relatives overseas are immeasurable. [More…]
If it is so ineffective that it cannot stop these abuses it should not be penalising families for whom this has been a worthwhile measure. [More…]
It may be that further stop work meetings will be necessary to draw attention to the Fraser Government’s ruthless attitude to an area where many schools provide for deprived families. [More…]
There ought to be a standard means of recording every artefact which presently exists in historical societies or local museums on a national register and that those people who are so surely amateurs and who would concede that they are amateurs have some body of expertise to whom they can turn to ensure that the artefacts which are presented to them usually by old families in the community, will be preserved for the future benefit of Australian citizens. [More…]
Therefore the Parliament has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial report and its recommendations. [More…]
With a few exceptions the stories which have emerged from Cambodia in the past two years have confirmed the impression, given by the early refugees, of a vast and somber work camp where toil is unending, rewards are nonexistent, families are separated, and murder is a constantly used tool of social discipline. [More…]
1 ) deplores the number of personal attacks being made on the private affairs and interests of members and their families; [More…]
Insofar as the State governments’ public welfare housing is concerned, nearly 100,000 families are on the housing commission lists, waiting for homes. [More…]
The Government is making these cuts at a time when nearly 100,000 families are waiting for homes. [More…]
What is most disturbing about these cuts is not only their depressing effect on the home building industry but also the callous disregard that the Commonwealth Government has shown for the 28,000 families in New South Wales now on the New South Wales Housing Commission waiting list. [More…]
It did not take any notice of the Borrie report, of the nuclear family, as it is termed, and the fact that families will be smaller. [More…]
I can understand the Government’s original proposition which aimed to exclude from receipt of the family allowance those families in respect of whom a trust had been set up to reduce taxation and therefore benefit the children. [More…]
I repeat, it could have resulted fom their having reared large families; it could be because of sickness or because of ill luck that they are in such difficult straits today. [More…]
For instance, in 1973-74 the bottom 10 per cent of families received only 2.8 per cent of total income, whereas the top 10 per cent received 25.47 per cent of total income. [More…]
Government cash benefits redistribute income towards greater equality by transferring a substantial amount of income to the families in the very low income ranges. [More…]
It was found that benefits are given to low income families mostly irrespective of socio-demographic characteristics. [More…]
This shows disproportionately high home ownership among the families in the lower income ranges. [More…]
As I said earlier today, at least 100,000 families are on the Housing Commission waiting list. [More…]
In doing so I draw to the attention of the Committee a concern that I have expressed in recent times about the need for governments in this country to have a family policy- a policy that is designed to enable the families of the nation to achieve the objectives that they would like to achieve. [More…]
I believe that as an adjunct to the development of a policy for the Australian family we should institute the preparation of impact statements by government departments so that when they make policy decisions they are required to indicate the way in which they believe those decisions would affect families. [More…]
If one looks at the statistics one will see that the great majority of them happen to be families in which there are two parents with dependent children. [More…]
Of course we should be looking into the question of the impact and effect of unemployment on different families. [More…]
Some families in Australia today have two incomes whereas others have no incomes because none of the potential members of the work force can get jobs. [More…]
We may well have to look into that question to ensure that work opportunities are adequately and equitably shared among Australian families- to ensure that each family has a fair opportunity to develop for itself and for its children the opportunities that we would all like them to have. [More…]
I should say that under our social security system we do make special provisions for families where there are children with a single parent. [More…]
Everywhere the lady has spoken she has been attacked by gangs of homosexuals and lesbian thugs who have shouted insults and thrown things at her and have set out to curtail her freedom to speak on the need to protect our children and their families. [More…]
When did it become ‘bigoted, illogical, repressive and reactionary’ to desire to protect little children from being used in pornography or to desire to promote a loving, caring community of families in this country? [More…]
-There are many Lebanese Australian families who are anxious for their relatives in Lebanon and they have every reason to worry. [More…]
Not a day passes without a telephone call to these people saying that one of their families has been lost in North Lebanon. [More…]
As a result of the discussion last night with the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister made a statement today before leaving for New South Wales and that statement is of very grave consequence to the families in Lebanon. [More…]
-Is the Prime Minister aware that as from 1 November hundreds of thousands of middle income earners and lower income families will have to suffer the humiliation of divulging to their local general practitioner their financial standing in order that the local practitioner can determine whether these people are socially disadvantaged? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister prepared to give the Parliament and the people of Australia the same information that these hundreds of thousands of families will have to give to their local doctor? [More…]
I think that they will provide an opportunity for many thousands of Australians to see their relatives abroad, to re-join their families. [More…]
The substantial increases in personal tax which have been introduced in this Budget are most damaging in their effect against families- against families on middle and modest incomes. [More…]
Again, it is families who will suffer most of all because the housing mortgage subsidy is withdrawn. [More…]
It is families who suffer because the dependent children of pensioners are receiving no increase in their dependant allowances. [More…]
It is families who will suffer because the students receiving allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme will no longer receive the family allowance. [More…]
It is families who suffer overall because there has been no adjustment to offset inflation in the last three Budgets, including the present Budget, which have been introduced at the hands of the present Government. [More…]
This Government, by its record, is against families. [More…]
Everything that it has done in the welfare field, including the effects of the taxation adjustments, erodes the position of the family, and especially the position of the middle and the modest income families. [More…]
Families are paying for the comfort of the privileged under Fraser Government administration. [More…]
It means that not only can people not afford to live independently but also when they go back into their family situation they are then dependent upon their families. [More…]
It is costing more money for families who are very often- indeed in the majority of cases- lower and middle income families. [More…]
It is to be regretted that through the mass media prior to the announcement of the Budget much trauma was occasioned to, and much uncertainy was instilled in the minds of, many Australian families. [More…]
I advance the thought to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) who are at the table, that when considering forward planning for good, decent living for all Australian people, they bear in mind that under the arrangements for the payment of family allowances and tertiary assistance there is some discrimination against big families. [More…]
I believe that the real strength of Australia is in our families, the big families that have pioneered the harsh land of Australia and made it one of the great trading nations of the world. [More…]
I believe it would be wrong for any government deliberately to design policies in the long term that discriminated against large families. [More…]
One appreciates the difficulty the Government faces in a tight economic situation, but I hope that the Ministers will as part of the forward planning provide as part and parcel of the Australian social security scheme extra assistance to large families because they are the families most in need. [More…]
Students in the last two years of secondary school can still get the family and student allowances and I hope that those people who are facing traumas because of incorrect information on the subject sent out by Opposition members from time to time can take heart from the fact that families can still receive the student allowance in respect of secondary school children as well as the family allowance. [More…]
If we want to encourage Australian families and encourage mothers to stay at home we must index family allowances. [More…]
It is appropriate that the taxation system should be redesigned to help large families and allow mothers to choose from alternatives available to them. [More…]
What we have been talking about and what we have been trying to suggest is that the people in the electorate of Batman, a large number of whom have low incomes, a considerable number of whom are social service beneficiaries and many of whom are migrants with families that are divided between Australia and countries thousands of miles away, are not now to receive, under the terms of this Budget, the treatment which was promised by this Government prior to the election. [More…]
The Government has decided to abolish maternity allowances just at a time when a significant number of Australian families will have to contribute towards medical expenses associated with confinements. [More…]
I agree that to individual families $30 is not a huge amount. [More…]
I speak in particular of young families which are faced with the burden of having an extra child. [More…]
Yet, these families will be unable to receive benefits in respect of the family allowance. [More…]
The opposite is true in respect of the betteroff families. [More…]
These families which do not qualify under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, for example, will still receive the family allowance in respect of their children. [More…]
I refer to the case in which the child is being used as part of a tax avoidance scheme and has significant income via a family trust or some othersimilarmethod.Itisverydifficulttojustify the payment of the family allowance to such families. [More…]
I again emphasise the fact that we are dealing with the abolition of the family allowance in the case of those families which have already passed a means test. [More…]
However, there will be no abolition of the family allowance in the case of other families whose children are attending tertiary institutions up to the age of 25 years. [More…]
For instance, the Government could have considered increasing the size of the family allowance to a decent amount to aid lower income families during a pregnancy and after the birth. [More…]
If the Minister goes back and examines the position he will also see that it was built into the original concept that in many cases the period of childbirth, particularly with low income families, would involve some possible loss of earnings to the mother. [More…]
We have been told by the Henderson survey on poverty that those groups most desperately in need of real assistance in this community are not so much the unemployed or the age pensioners but the young families where perhaps the breadwinner is in receipt of a low award wage. [More…]
The surveys of the Henderson commission of inquiry show that many of those families are living below the poverty line and in respect of - [More…]
I am concerned to make is simply this: There is an argument that the Government ought to continue to look at the continuing payment of maternity allowances in order to meet the problems of so many families which in fact get real benefits from it. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the chamber say that as a matter of social judgment, given the problems that beset many young families throughout Australia in 1978, this allowance should not be abandoned at this time. [More…]
We say that particularly having regard to the fact that the whole question of health benefits and the full flow of those benefits has yet to be worked out in terms of the impact that it will have on the general living standards of young families in this community. [More…]
I invite honourable members to consider that this allowance is a sort of establishment allowance for families in the lower income groups. [More…]
We should be looking to those problems that are presented to lower income families. [More…]
If it did that sort of thing and the families of low income earners were to be assisted, it would receive far more sympathetic consideration from the Opposition than it would by abolishing it. [More…]
Now low income families will lose again as TEAS payments are means-tested. [More…]
I would like to broaden a little what my colleague the member for Bonython (Dr Blewett) has said in relation to the families from which most of those under 18-year-olds come. [More…]
It denies all the economic pressures that come on to the families as a result of the children not being able to find employment. [More…]
-In spite of the fact that the recently introduced Budget will increase enormously the cost of living for families, the Government ignores the plight of the recipients of unemployment benefits by saying: ‘You will continue over the next one and half years to live on $36 a week. ‘ [More…]
It is likely that the migrants, the Aborigines and the large families who are unaware of the possibility of finding a doctor who will bulk bill them will be deterred from seeking early treatment and thus will need hospital treatment later on, at even greater expense. [More…]
How many families in this country require one visit a week to a doctor? [More…]
How many families have significant surgery in any one year? [More…]
Certainly the Government will tempt many people to gamble on their future good health and many families may live to regret their gamble if they are struck by significant illnesses. [More…]
The young and the healthy will stay out and the families, the middle aged and the sick alone will shoulder the cost burden. [More…]
As a result of not being covered for the difference between 40 per cent and 100 per cent of the cost of visiting a doctor many of them will deny themselves and their families the right to visit a doctor. [More…]
That because an additional 3,000 passengers have travelled between Tasmania and the mainland by air in the month of September and as pensioners, families and tourists have benefited substantially, the standby airfare concession scheme should be made permanent; and [More…]
As has been pointed out by the Managing Director of ACTU Jetset, no fewer than six million people, who are members of trade unions and other associations and their families, have these services available to them. [More…]
Many members of trade unions and their families in this country will be able to enjoy overseas travel because of the initiative and industry of Mr R. J. Hawke and the organisation of which he is the head- the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The honourable member for Prospect, for instance, advised people last week not to insure privately unless they had a history of chronic illness or unless they were parents of large families. [More…]
Only those people with chronic conditions requiring very frequent medical attention or those people with large families requiring frequent medical attention should consider taking out medical insurance. [More…]
Some other problems have produced anquish Families move to areas where housing is available and sometimes close to their employment. [More…]
Many are without families, and are living in poverty, with negligible church and cultural associations and without even friends. [More…]
To ensure that wealthy families did not receive unneeded public subsidies for their children’s schooling, tax schedules should be adjusted. [More…]
This meant that children from disadvantaged families found it very difficult to go to a university. [More…]
I have been informed that 15,000 young couples or families wish to purchase homes through co-operative and terminating building societies. [More…]
Already 100,000 families are on those lists and the number is growing faster and faster each year. [More…]
Few Lebanese families cannot have been affected. [More…]
It affects their families, their friends, their cities and their homes. [More…]
I did not know that it was going to permit some discussion on this matter of great importance to the thousands of Lebanese families in this country. [More…]
In the meantime we must express to the Lebanese families in this country our great sense of anguish and sorrow that their very beautiful country is being torn apart at this time. [More…]
In the meantime, sympathies from all members of this House go out to the Lebanese families in this country, who week after week and day after day get sad and shattering news concerning their families. [More…]
In the meantime our heartfelt sorrow goes out to the Lebanese families, especially those who are here and those who are suffering. [More…]
As a consequence, these people find it desirable to take their families within the country and to travel fairly extensively. [More…]
The Lalor electorate includes the Royal Australian Air Force bases at Point Cook and Laverton and a significant proportion of my electors are Service personnel and their families. [More…]
That is a great social benefit to the many Western Australians who have their families split among the various States. [More…]
Despite these disadvantages Queenstown has consistently maintained a stable population, with third and fourth generations of families still working for the company. [More…]
I hope also that everybody will understand that we, as Tasmanians, hope and pray that Queenstown will continue in a way that will create employment opportunities not only for the people who are now employed there but also for their families and for other people who may come to the town in the future. [More…]
If families happen to be better off at the moment as a result of the amalgam of policies put forward from time to time from the variety of portfolios which affect family circumstances, I say that it is due more to good luck than to good management. [More…]
Certainly, individual Ministers could argue that within their particular areas of responsibility, when initiating new measures, they take account of their effect on individuals and families. [More…]
But I suggest that at present there is no co-ordinated approach to the problem of how our families fare as a result of any package of policies- whether they occur through time or at a particular time, such as Budget time. [More…]
As I suggested earlier, if changes to direct taxation levels, changes to the health insurance scheme, changes in pensions or family allowances, changes in education funding and other measures all combine either to improve or disadvantage the circumstances of individual families, it is more a coincidence than reasoned social policy. [More…]
Government policies should be tailored to meet the dictates of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with respect to families. [More…]
I am concerned that governments could, almost by accident and in the absence of family policy, create a positive disincentive for those young families at the margin, where a choice can be made, who wish to opt for the one-income situation. [More…]
There are many ways of correcting the relative disadvantage of single-income families. [More…]
Governments should ensure that for families at the margin where there are dependent children, a genuine choice ought to be available as to whether one or both parents work. [More…]
In the field of taxation, I would recommend that the Government investigate the possibility of allowing single-income families, if they wish, to split that single income between husband and wife for taxation purposes. [More…]
What I am saying is that singleincome families, if they wish, should be allowed to treat their income in a way which will ensure that those mothers who wish to stay at home and raise their families should not be prevented by financial circumstances from doing so. [More…]
But governments can and should do all in their power to overcome those financial circumstances which might cause undue stress to be placed on families and which prevent mothers having a free choice as to whether or not they can stay at home and care for their children. [More…]
Where feasible, it attempts to relocate kids with their families, find jobs or secure unemployment benefits. [More…]
Alternative accommodation for these 14 was found with families and other voluntary groups on an ad hoc basis. [More…]
using personal contacts with families, hostels, boarding houses, churches et cetera- experience counts here [More…]
BYS has built up a list of families, boarding houses, church groups and other informal contacts (it also works through radio stations) who can sometimes put up homeless kids, but the process of placement is very ad-hoc and very time-consuming. [More…]
It would be fair to say that when children were born into the families of honourable members in this House those honourable members were able to take recreation leave or leave without pay from their employment and had the opportunity to assist in the home. [More…]
This Government’s proposal to abolish paternity leave altogether is a backward step and one likely to cause considerable practical hardship, especially to young families. [More…]
Instead of withdrawing provisions which certainly were not generous when compared with those operating in other countries, the Government should be facilitating the establishment of maternity and paternity leave provisions in the private sector; providing adequate child care facilities instead of reversing advances made by the Labor Government in this area; exploring ways of providing adequate permanent part-time work for government employees with young families, and encouraging the private sector to follow suit; and, finally, investigating the effects of making provision for easier re-entry or retention of career rights for women who stay out of the work force longer to look after children. [More…]
I inform the House that after the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, made some comments last June or July foreshadowing changes in the maternity leave provisions, I received five phone calls from both men and women who were concerned about those provisions, either because they were men married to female public servants or, alternatively, being women, because they were planning families. [More…]
This Government seems to believe that it can best meet the problems encountered by working families by reducing maternity leave provisions in the Public Service and by retarding the movement to equal wages for equal work and equal opportunity in the work place. [More…]
The situation of young families has changed considerably since the mid-1960s, above all due to a steady rise in the numbers of gainfully employed women. [More…]
It has been commonly agreed that no financial support for families can match the earnings of a family where both parents are able to go out to work. [More…]
The best economic support for families is to enable those parents wishing to do so to obtain gainful employment. [More…]
Quite clearly, too, the prevailing opinion among young families themselves is that both parents must be able to combine gainful employment with the care of their children. [More…]
In this context, the National Health and Medical Research Council has endorsed the policy statements recommended in the document Health Care Policy Relating to Children and their Families’ to which the honourable member has referred. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to various schemes operating around the world for protection and care of children through the utilisation of childless families, the aged, and other untapped community resources. [More…]
The importance of the scheme used is that it enabled income to be diverted by professional practitioners to the ultimate benefit of their wives and families. [More…]
I realise, of course, there are people with chronic poor health, or families with a number of small children requiring constant medical attention, where some insurance is needed. [More…]
Leo continues: ‘I could see that Oenpelli none of the strong talking owners like Big Bill, Rachael and Hanna were there; there were a few families around but hardly any traditional owners. [More…]
These include the better personal mobility and financial circumstances now generally enjoyed by Service personnel and their families and the greater availability of chain stores, supermarkets and discount houses in all fields. [More…]
These limits would be higher in the case of families with children. [More…]
When did he receive proposals from the Pharmacy Guild of Australia regarding a subsidised scheme for lower income families. [More…]
Since July 1978 a number of representations have been made to me on behalf of members of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, in support of the Guild’s proposal for a subsidised Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the disadvantaged, including low income families. [More…]
This year the State Ministers estimate that there will be no more than 6,000 commencements in the public housing sector although nearly 100,000 families are on housing commission waiting lists. [More…]
The position could well arise where people will be marooned in country centres, cut off from their families, and the better health care and cultural faculties of the metropolitan areas, as a result of the rapid increase in fare levels. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that families could be beggared. [More…]
It does not provide in any reasonable way for the circumstances in which families could find themselves. [More…]
These proposals are vitally necessary when there are more than 90,000 families on the waiting lists of State housing authorities. [More…]
Decisions in Aboriginal society in matters outside those clearly provided for by Aboriginal law and tradition are normally made by consensus following protracted discussions within and between families, clans and other groups concerned. [More…]
How many children (a) come from single parent families and (b) are from 2 parent families where both husband and wife work. [More…]
The figure includes facilities which are soon to become operational as well as operational ones and also includes full day care services, services for handicapped children, other special need groups and families at risk, but excludes preschools and the large number of holiday projects. [More…]
I refer the Minister to the continuing delay in arrangements for the reunification of Timorese families in Australia. [More…]
This is the Government which sought to abolish the funeral benefit, a paltry $20 given to the families of people who leave this life. [More…]
Can anyone think of a more immoral move than to rob families of that amount? [More…]
Although many people who are sick or who have families have to take out health insurance personally, I believe that it would be better for a pensioner to go into a public hospital although he would not have his choice of doctor. [More…]
The principle of an equitable and universal health system is gradually being eroded to be replaced by the insurance principle that the sick, the old, the handicapped and people with large families must bear the bigger financial burden. [More…]
This creates a situation where a number of those people who are in fact healthy will stay out of health insurance, while those who are chronically ill and those who have large families, of course, will seek health insurance. [More…]
In many cases, they contain details of great sadness, of young children who have become sick following years of common membership by their families in a fund. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Does he consider that this places an unfair financial burden on such patients and their families? [More…]
Recently when the Government was floating the proposition that tertiary fees should be restored for students at tertiary institutions- thank goodness that that has now been retracted- it was said that freedom from paying fees at tertiary institutions had not appreciably assisted children from lower income families to gain tertiary education. [More…]
This insensitive implementation of presentable policies has created an intolerable backlog in housing provision, leaving thousands of Aboriginal families with no shelter. [More…]
I trust that all members and their families utilise to the full the coming weeks in their various electorates to the best of their own endeavours and I wish all members and their families for the coming period a happy Christmas and a prosperous new year. [More…]
I trust that aU families enjoy the festive season. [More…]
Over a period, families who have displayed a wish and ability to cope with suburban responsibilities, have been provided with dwellings, as far as possible, in areas of their choice. [More…]
Ms L. Richards, Dr D. Edgar and Professor H. Bisno- La Trobe University, Victoria-Mill Park Project a study of the development of a new outer residential suburb from the families and their social networks through to formal decision making structures in the community’ (1979 $20,000). [More…]
Once eligibility on occupational grounds has been established and all the other criteria for immigration met, these applicants and their families are approved for immigration and issued visas on which the appropriate eligibility category code is entered. [More…]
After 1945 the radial system of trains and trams became increasingly irrelevant to many families. [More…]
If no action occurs the cost to individual families will be immense. [More…]
There could be an increase in journey time of some 50 per cent, an increase in petrol consumption of 25 per cent, and an estimated additional cost to families in the area of $ 16m per year by the 1980s. [More…]
Children’s Services Development Officers assist in the development and co-ordination of services for children and their families. [More…]
The unemployment figures in Australia are unsatisfactory and they are the cause of distress not only to those who are unemployed and their families but to all sections of the community. [More…]
Can he be believed when he says that he is concerned about families? [More…]
If we allow for all of the increases in indirect charges that families have to bear, as a result of the last Budget especially, they are even worse off again. [More…]
The figures of the Commonwealth Statistician for average expenditures of families in remote areas show that they spend less on petrol and telephones than people in urban areas. [More…]
In descending order of importance they were: Access to friends and families, access to education, natural environment, social and recreational facilities, cultural facilities, community facilities, suitable housing and the big city atmosphere. [More…]
It is to the national benefit that many of these retired farmers, miners, rural workers and other people do remain close to where they have lived most of their lives with their families and friends. [More…]
It must be admitted that in times of need during those buoyant periods many rural people could afford to transport their families to other centres that could deliver the required services. [More…]
Many families who are denied these amenities, particularly those with sons and daughters of employable age, are forced to migrate to the urban areas. [More…]
The contempt that this Government and the Prime Minister hold for the needs of the low to middle-income families of our nation is illustrated by the order of their financial priorities. [More…]
This clique evacuated the cities and towns, liquidated the employees of the former government, its soldiers and their families, abolished money, forced the remaining population into labour camps, prohibited or punished recreation and casual conversation and persecuted and exterminated Vietnamese. [More…]
The philosophy of dependants’ allowances had its origins in the First War situation when the families of serving personnel received allotments to ensure that the wives and children left at home received financial support. [More…]
I have said in this place before that the dairy industry in 1975-76 was at an all time low, that the farmers were moving away from the country areas, that families were being broken up and that young people who normally would have gone on to the dairy farms of their parents had decided that they could not get a living out of it, and therefore, had moved away from the farms. [More…]
As Mr Bill Pyle, the Chairman of the United Dairyfarmers of Victoria, said in his annual report to the conference of that organisation in the middle of 1978, that represented three families going out of country areas in Victoria each day. [More…]
We believe that the questions and the issues are relevant to the whole matter of pecuniary interests and not only are members of parliament involved but also are members of the families of members of parliament involved in such a way that it is possible that conflicts of interest might arise. [More…]
A glance at the Who’s Who in Australia would show that the Baillieu family, of which Mr Baillieu is a member, is one of the most privileged families in this country. [More…]
But they return to their homes and families every night. [More…]
The trust then declared dividends out of the profits from providing the services and paid them to its unit holders who were the partners’ families or family companies. [More…]
Most of us recognise that we in Canberra are people and I hope that the rest of Australia realises that we have families and that we aspire to improve our own lot in life but more importantly that the people of the national capital aspire to improve the way of life of all Australians. [More…]
Calls have recently been made to bereaved families notifying them of orders for goods allegedly placed by the deceased. [More…]
I am sure that Melbourne businessmen and the families from Melbourne who want to visit Sydney will be very happy about that! [More…]
Let me reiterate that when the Government set up outside committees to look at this question they did not come down with recommendations to reduce unemployment by imposing a tougher work test, by breaking up families or pushing people all over the country. [More…]
It would have been expected that children would have brought many of the badges, stickers, posters, balloons and so on into the home and that the figure for families with children would have been higher. [More…]
Females and respondents with young families gave a proportionately higher positive response. [More…]
In fact many families- let us not be judgmental- are active, go out together and engage in recreational activities. [More…]
Our community generally is a recreational community, particularly our young families. [More…]
I believe that what we have established in terms of the facts that have already been uncovered in this case study of power is that funds are not distributed equitably, that in fact the treatment that was given to a particular family in the Western District was certainly not given to the families in Gippsland. [More…]
There is an inter-relationship between these families which, in many respects, along with many other large landholders, form the basis of the power of the Liberal Party in the Western District. [More…]
It is because of this relationship that exists between these two families that we have raised this matter in the Parliament. [More…]
I strongly question whether any of the families involved will come out any better off financially. [More…]
As a community we have an obligation to look after, wherever it can be done and needs to be done, the welfare of exservicemen and of their families. [More…]
I did not want to let this opportunity pass without expressing a bipartisan view, on behalf of both sides of the House, as to the importance with which I know that all honourable members regard the whole question of benefits and arrangements relating to ex-servicemen and their families. [More…]
We will not be party to a proposal which puts the protection of the profit and loss accounts in the balance sheets of foreign-based corporations before the protection of the health of Australian families. [More…]
I visited Iran in 1964 and the rule of the hundred families was in question even then. [More…]
The increase followed a hard and bitter strike by brewery workers in Brisbane which sent many families broke and many mouths dry. [More…]
The point that I wanted to emphasise in the amendment was that families in which breakdowns occur and divorce follows fall into two categories- those which have no children and those which have children. [More…]
The title creates the impression that the only concern of governments for families occurs where breakdown has occurred or is occurring. [More…]
Governments need to have a concern for families from their formation. [More…]
Governments need to have a concern for families to ensure that economic or emotional stresses and strains are not placed on them so that the families can cope with the complex society within which we live. [More…]
I urge the Government- I will not have time to pursue the point this evening- to develop a full and comprehensive family policy which concentrates on preventing families from breaking down rather than having to cure the circumstances that have brought about a breakdown and then to provide for the outcome of that breakdown through a heavy burden on the rest of the community by way of economic and other support to children of broken homes. [More…]
The only joy they have is the means of communication with their families by telephone. [More…]
In my electorate persons of up to 87 years of age are being denied the privilege, if it can be called that- I maintain it is not a privilege but a right which this Government should grant to them- of communicating with their families. [More…]
Does the Government want to take from the invalid pensioners the right to communicate with their families, with their children. [More…]
The removal of Medibank benefits for women seeking abortions will mean that more and more women from lower income groups, or those who are just plain afraid to get money from their husbands or families, will be compelled to take greater risks with cheaper and more dangerous abortions. [More…]
The second group comprises married women with families which cannot be enlarged. [More…]
What gives this House of men the right to take away from women, and to take away from families under economic pressure, a civilised provision to which they have every right? [More…]
Anyone who has had to deal with the problem can appreciate the tension of broken families, broken homes and broken minds that can occur with unwanted pregnancies. [More…]
Let those who oppose abortion do more than they are now doing to lift the living standards of those who constitute the majority of the working families so that married couples can at least afford to welcome every child that is conceived. [More…]
I have found not only that that group is expressing concern but also that some local churchmen are having the same experience with homeless, unemployed youth finding themselves looking for refuge at night because they have been rejected by their families as a result of their unemployed state and so on. [More…]
There are patients who have some degree of mobility and who are in a geriatric institution and have the facilities to get outside that institution to visit families and their old homes and have some experience of what life is like outside. [More…]
Adequate compensation for people afflicted with asbestos induced diseases workers and their dependants families of workers exposed in the home as a result of workers ‘ occupational exposure para-occupational and handyman exposure. [More…]
Let us hope that we can decide to act in this House today with compassion and justice, certainly for the unborn, but also for the unfortunate women and their families. [More…]
This Federation represents parents who are not only rearing their own families, but have over the past few years been expected to pay ever increasing tax to cover the cost of antifamily Government policies. [More…]
Hume proposes, would only serve to make safe abortions, which are lawful medical procedures, unavailable to women who would most need them- women on low incomes, women who have been the victims of rape, women with large families and other women to whom an unwanted pregnancy threatens physical and mental health. [More…]
Such critics would also argue that it is the lower income families which will suffer from the introduction of the funding arrangements proposed in the motion. [More…]
Many of us wish that we had had larger families. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have taken steps to reduce the capacity of families to handle the added child. [More…]
There are many families in Australia that could adopt young children and give them the family love that they so richly deserve and need. [More…]
I think it is a shame when we in Australia have families deprived of being able to have children and there are years and years of waiting to be able to adopt a child. [More…]
It will make safe, sterile abortions inaccessible to women who so desperately need them- women on low incomes, women who have been raped, women with large families and women to whom an unwanted pregnancy threatens physical and mental health. [More…]
According to the census returns, the electoral division of Lalor is the most Catholic in Australia, with the highest proportion of migrant families from Europe. [More…]
If the honourable member for Hume and his supporters find difficulty in spending $3m or $6m on funding for abortions they must be prepared to ask the citizens of this country to approve higher taxation and new legislation which will involve the spending of many millions of dollars in supporting not only unwed mothers but often their unwanted and unloved children and one-parent families. [More…]
I understand that the South Australian Government is already making funds available, but all the State governments should join with the Commonwealth Government in expanding the family planning program to avoid the problem of unwanted births and to assist those childless couples in our community who want to have families. [More…]
It denied families of maternity allowance. [More…]
Will it be families again, newspaper boys, pensioners- a whole range of people, including the Australian motorist who has to pay $ 1,200m additional tax because of excise duties on petrol this year- or is it intended to start going to some of those tall poppies in the community who seem to have permanent immunity under this Government, which is the representative of the privileged groups in Australia? [More…]
We stand squarely behind the wage and salary earner, families, the pensioners, the people who just are not protected- those who are vulnerable, exploited and discriminated against by this Government. [More…]
The facts are that the people in the community with families receiving the family benefit today are worse off in real terms than they were at the end of 1975 when they received child endowment and the tax rebate for children which I introduced. [More…]
That is why families are worse off. [More…]
Families are worse off because there has been no indexation of family allowances. [More…]
Why is it discriminating against families so much? [More…]
Many women with families were paying almost no taxation after the normal concessions. [More…]
Increased costs would be incurred by large families. [More…]
People and companies seek the protection of insurance against risks that could cripple them financially, possibly with serious repercussions upon their families and their employees . [More…]
They either stay overseas and bring discredit on themselves and their families or they live in situations which are really deplorable and which very often end with their deaths. [More…]
These people feel that repatriation hospitals understand the special needs of war veterans and their families. [More…]
Ask the families and children of Victoria who were denied milk during the recent strike. [More…]
The Government will not tolerate- the community will not tolerate- the situation in which as a first step in the bargaining process trade unions inconvenience and harm the public- in this case including hospital patients, families and small children. [More…]
I hope, therefore, that housewives do not now take meat from their families’ tables simply because of an immediate price increase. [More…]
I was one of those who contributed to that debate, and I made the point that it was terribly important for the Government to ensure that if a decision was made to close down the Cheynes Beach whaling station adequate arrangements must be made for the hundred or so workers and their families who would, as a consequence, be put out of work. [More…]
The people get on with the business of earning a living for themselves and their families. [More…]
As families grow and the population grows, what should they do about it? [More…]
In many respects it is probably more heart-rending than the decisions that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has to make about families who have settled here, have had children born here, and then, having exceeded their right of residency, are deported. [More…]
-I am glad to see that it is a matter of some levity in the Labor Party that builders labourers and their families are losing hundreds of dollars because of the actions of these officials, which in turn is adding millions of dollars to the cost of major projects all over Australia and therefore inhibiting employment opportunities. [More…]
Generally speaking, the more able, more articulate and more affluent two-income families are catching them. [More…]
Because of this it is also important that the ABS produce regular monthly statistics as to the effect of unemployment on families and households. [More…]
Such a provision affects the well-being of migrant families in particular. [More…]
He said recently that eight out of every 10 Victorian families live in homes of their own. [More…]
Having listened to them in tonight’s debate one would believe that they are advocating that there is a level of income at which parents of families supporting dependent children should be on their own. [More…]
When we transfer that across to an explicit payment we have to be careful to ensure that the public identify and realise that families caring for children are being recognised as having needs over and above those households who have no dependent children. [More…]
I suspect that one of the grave problems that confronts many families in Australia is that that very paradox exists in Australia today where, through the social welfare system, we are seeking to do one thing and we are undermining the attainment of the goals we are trying to achieve by the sort of tax system that we are operating. [More…]
What then becomes relevant is the appropriateness of differentiating between taxpayers having different sized families at any one given level of income. [More…]
He forgets that the large proportion of Australian families are paying income tax. [More…]
Do we not also achieve other advantages for families? [More…]
If we are to present a truly representative Budget- representative of the full extent and nature of public expenditure- then it is necessary for us to recognise that many taxpaying individuals and many taxpaying families receive cash benefits from the Government. [More…]
As families, they would rather the Government pay a cash benefit for the reasons I have mentioned. [More…]
Those who define needs narrowly and who concentrate only on those whom they say are poor, ignore the needs of families on higher incomes when comparing them with single people. [More…]
We should increase the horizontal as well as the vertical redistribution of income in favour of families, and not concern ourselves only with family poverty. [More…]
I believe that it is the responsibility of government to recognise the role performed by families, to recognise that over the life cycle of a family its income will rise and its income will fall in its purchasing power per head. [More…]
The wineries are run by families. [More…]
In the Hunter Valley over $100m has been invested in the past few years and the old established families and firms like Tyrrells’, Tulloch and Sons, the Rothbury Estate and the Wyndham Estate are doing exceedingly well. [More…]
Given the problems in maintaining the continued effectiveness of air safety, it seems to me to be imprudent to the point of stupidity to decrease efficiency, to increase costs and to prejudice aviation safety by insisting that these men, who are performing their functions satisfactorily and well, who need to be close to a whole range of technical facilities and who need to be at major airports where there is a vast range of aircraft, shift their families and homes to Canberra in order to comply with some very centralised bureaucratic concept. [More…]
Those are areas which indicate the greatest need, often affecting single parents “and people who are forced to work- for example, low income families in which the mothers of young children are required to work because of economic circumstances. [More…]
Members frequently take new names when they join and sever ties with their real families. [More…]
For example, the unit available for families at many of these places of accommodation centres supplied, say, a couple of bedrooms, a sitting room with a convertible bed settee, a reasonably equipped kitchen and a bathroom. [More…]
Is this survey part of a general Government policy to reduce assistance to low income families and recipients of social security. [More…]
The Adermanns, of course, have become one of the more notable political families of Australia. [More…]
Now many of these grazing interests want to spurn station hands, evict their families and turn them into parasitic fringe dwellers, while the white get-up-and-go miners deface their land for perhaps a score of years and then withdraw, leaving pollution and plonk as their legacies to the ancient conservers of that land. [More…]
Another matter I want to raise in respect of taxation is the inequity that exists in the Act in respect of one and two income families. [More…]
The final chapter of their treatment in the prison is a form of shock treatment, in which they see the effects which road accidents have, not only on themselves and on the other people involved in the accident, but also on the people who are left- such as the families who are saddened- and the cost involved, et cetera. [More…]
There can be no justification for it, but to argue that it was all on one side would be to distort the truth and forget the discriminate terror carried out by the communists through tactics devised particularly to kill village chiefs and their families and, in despicable fashion, to put pressure on entire communities. [More…]
Some of what they earn is sent abroad to maintain families and relatives overseas. [More…]
In order not to complicate the matter too much I will assume that the whole of the royalty is to be spent equally amongst all Aboriginal families and, as suggested by the honourable member for Dundas, is some form of income. [More…]
We have now uncovered where the honourable member for Dundas stands in relation to the welfare of Aboriginal families in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But the point is that this money does not get into the hands of individual families. [More…]
Consequently, far from going into the hands of individual Aboriginal families, most of that money finds its way into the pockets of lawyers, advisers and administrators, many of whom have the same complexion as the honourable member for Dundas. [More…]
No matter how hard the honourable member tries, no matter how many projects he includes, I say this: If total royalties were to be applied overall to all aboriginal families they would still not be in a position where they would be receiving an income which would be subject to taxation if it was received by any other Australian. [More…]
If we divide that $1,000 by five we find that $200 per Aboriginal family is the amount that is to be taxed at the rate of 32 per cent- at an income tax rate- the honourable member for Dundas is asking honourable members to believe that a taxable rate of income should be applied to the Aboriginal families in the Northern Territory because of the $200 they will get from these royalties. [More…]
Progress has been made in the reunification of Timorese families and there was agreement that this program should be continued as rapidly as possible. [More…]
Here we have a Bill which forcibly redeploys and, I suggest, in practice will forcibly retire public servants whose only means of saving their jobs, saving their careers, saving the income which maintains their families and lifestyles, is to appeal against the declaration which renders them redeployed or retired. [More…]
I want tonight to deal with something much closer to our homes and our families than the wider field that has just been discussed. [More…]
We all accept that the Uniting Church and the Catholic Church- indeed all the churches in our electorates- do their very best to assist broken families; but when it comes down to employing permanently people who can help, to finding a refuge for these people, or to these people being told what they should do in these circumstances, I am sorry to say that members of our society still seem to say: ‘Well, it is hard luck for them; it does not happen in my family’. [More…]
Encourage group cultural, social and recreational activities amongst Aboriginal women and their families along lines tending to conventionally accepted patterns; act as a bridge between women and girls of Aboriginal and European descent providing common activities, e.g. [More…]
Can the Treasurer assure the House that, in reaching Budget and taxation decisions, the impact of such decisions on families, especially single income families with dependent children, will be taken into account? [More…]
I can assure the honourable member for Sturt that in reaching decisions on Budget and, of course, taxation matters- there is nothing quite so fundamental to budgetary decision-making as the decisions one makes on taxation- the Government will take into account the impact of not only revenue matters but also expenditure matters on Australia’s families. [More…]
I think the record of this Government over the past three and a half years in paying regard to the welfare of Australian families in its Budget decision-making and in looking to the interests of Australian families compares very favourably with the record of any government since Federation. [More…]
I have, on a number of occasions, expressed certain views about the comparative position of single income families. [More…]
Single parent families are even more seriously disadvantaged. [More…]
These honourable members want to take away from people the fundamental right to exist and to provide for themselves and their families on $50 a week. [More…]
What is he saying about the overall economic situation of the families of those young unemployed people? [More…]
There are a hundred thousand families on the waiting list for public housing who cannot afford 20 per cent yearly increases in private rents and who either have to join the 60,000 or more people permanently living in mobile or makeshift homes or seek finance on the high interest rate market and shackle themselves to the drudgery, burden and pressure of paying high interest over a period of 1 5 to 20 years. [More…]
Even more seriously, there has been an enormous change in the pattern of land ownership in this country to the point where thousands of young families are unable to achieve home ownership. [More…]
The great sufferers, as I have suggested, are not simply the new home buyers, the young families of this nation, but also industry, which was forced to pay higher and higher prices for industrial land in less and less convenient locations but which was unable to get from the financial sector the funds necessary for the replacement of aging capital equipment and machinery. [More…]
It affects the well being of the families of this nation. [More…]
I can appreciate the concern expressed by many migrants who see the refugee intake as being in direct competition with their own efforts through the proper channels to bring members of their families from overseas to live in Australia. [More…]
But at present we have a responsibly managed and balanced intake which admits families for reunion with persons already in Australia, refugees, and persons whose skills can make a positive contribution to the economic development of this country. [More…]
I believe that tax minimisation on such things as trusts and slit income should be examined so that we could legislate more effectively to provide equity to all Australian families and taxpayers. [More…]
Many of us would agree with the criticism offered by that gentleman that, in order to avoid having to feel concerned about the more than 4,000 unemployed and their families, Australians have given credence to and perpetuated the dole bludger myth. [More…]
The cost is not only to those individuals but to their families as well. [More…]
There has been no relief for families. [More…]
Householders and families are discriminated against. [More…]
I thank the honourable member for Phillip for his question because I know of his strong and continuing interest in the reunification of Jewish families from the Soviet Union with their families in Australia. [More…]
As recently as 29 April this year- before Mr Hawke made his much celebrated and publicised visit to the Soviet Union- I gave permission for an additional SO families, covering 250 to 300 people, to be added to the numbers already being resettled in Australia. [More…]
For some years the Government has been carrying on in an active and positive way a program of reunification of families from the Soviet Union with their Jewish relatives in Australia. [More…]
The problem with health insurance in this country as a result of the Government’s actions is that increasingly the insurance burden is falling on the sick, the handicapped and people with large families. [More…]
There has been a shifting of the burden to the sick, the handicapped and people with large families because of the pattern of options being adopted by people in relation to forms of insurance. [More…]
They should learn to provide for themselves and their families and put a little away for that rainy day. [More…]
The low income people, the lower income families, who may well have a member with an illness or indeed Illnesses, of course can be classified as disadvantaged. [More…]
It means that the poorer families have to pay the same amount as rich or high income families. [More…]
The essential feature of that proposal is to give the option to families to be treated as a notional partnership for tax purposes, which would have the effect of greatly reducing the incidence of taxation in favour of Australian families. [More…]
Australians, as individuals and as families, know that they cannot keep on spending more than they earn. [More…]
The result will be that some contributors and their families will opt out. [More…]
The poorer families will be faced with a cost of $9 for a visit to a general practitioner. [More…]
We have been working to establish the circumstances in which people can be self-reliant, the circumstances in which the weak and the poor can be protected and where families are protected when illness strikes with which they cannot be expected to cope from their own resources. [More…]
It is estimated that one-quarter of families near or below the poverty line are now paying for medical and hospital cover. [More…]
We cannot ignore the fact that, if an aircraft is sabotaged because a head of government is on it and it goes down as a result, it is too late to apologise to the families of the 400 people who would also be killed. [More…]
The essential feature of that proposal is to give the option to families to be treated as a notional partnership for tax purposes, which would have the effect of greatly reducing the incidence of taxation in favour of Australian families. [More…]
Secondary allowances were introduced to help able children whose families did not have adequate financial resources. [More…]
It affects every family for some time of their life and many families for many years of their life. [More…]
At that time there were many families with children who lived a long way from school. [More…]
Tonight I refer to the fact that no monuments are built for the wives who support their families while their husbands are attending the parliament; no tributes are paid to parliamentary spouses as they are so generously paid to members who pass away by the remaining members of the Parliament. [More…]
Has the Treasurer’s attention been drawn to the financial strain and anxiety caused to families in the lower income tax paying ranges concerning the increase in hospital, medical, dental and other family charges? [More…]
The honourable member for Holt raises quite properly the anxiety and concern of the lower income families in our community. [More…]
I say to the honourable gentleman that the greatest gift that any government can make to low income families in our community or those on the age pension is to have the lowest possible rate of inflation. [More…]
I can assure the honourable gentleman that in considering the Budget the position of low income families, the aged and those in genuine need will be kept very much in mind. [More…]
We are talking about a government which tries to pretend to the community that it is a government that is looking after the little people, a government that is looking after the families. [More…]
The second group will be single income families with a number of dependent children who have the recurring problem of visits by those children to doctors. [More…]
We also warned that it was stupid and an intrusion of privacy to allow the medical profession to determine whom of the unemployed, the disadvantaged families and the pensioners would be extended the bulk billing privilege. [More…]
A whopping 24 per cent of families near or below the poverty line are estimated to be paying for hospital or medical cover. [More…]
These families are doing so either because they know they will not be extended the bulk billing privilege by their doctor or because they are reluctant to ask for it. [More…]
Currently some 37 per cent of possible contributor units, that is, single individuals and families, are not in health funds. [More…]
Their decision is most difficult since many of them are low income families and single low income people. [More…]
Do they join the 24 per cent of families on the poverty line who are paying these grossly exorbitant rates? [More…]
As a result of the actions of the Minister and the Government, how many people, including children, from low income families will be denied early medical attention for a significant illness? [More…]
The Government sees this proposal as not only aiding families whose breadwinners are employed in the city, but of considerable benefit to industries that have decentralised to these outer areas and still depend on the major city area for sales and supplies. [More…]
It is important that an early commencement be made on preliminary construction work in relation to the Jabiru town to ensure that a properly developed town of high amenity is established as soon as practicable so that workers and their families are not accommodated in temporary camps any longer than is necessary. [More…]
I stress, as on the earlier occasions when the matter has been canvassed in this House, the companies are proprietary companies and the details are correctly for the three shareholder families alone to resolve. [More…]
To ascertain from the families of Army personnel their views on Community Services provided at Holsworthy (1976). [More…]
What studies have been carried out on the social impact of these moves on the families involved. [More…]
What steps have been taken to ensure that there will be employment available for all the young people not employed in the public service transferring with their families. [More…]
In particular, we will restore half-yearly indexation of pensions and benefits; extend the income limits for pensioner fringe benefits; extend eligibility for pensioner health benefit cards to supporting parent beneficiaries; provide grants to voluntary agencies providing emergency relief; significantly increase expenditure on services for families and children; and increase the rates of workers compensation for Commonwealth employees. [More…]
These very, very significant losses to those families have resulted from the failure to index the family allowances. [More…]
I do think that it is easier for them when they are still living with their families, to a large extent, than it is for those who are already responsible and who must feel terribly depressed when they have that responsibility to their family and are not able to get a job. [More…]
Serving members of the Defence Force and their families. [More…]
Coupled with the health insurance cost hikes of the May mini-Budget of around 40 per cent, does this mean that we will see a further substantial cut in the living standards of Australian families and further erosion of consumer confidence? [More…]
In view of the Prime Minister’s tax hoax in the Budget of last night I ask him how much more he expects Australian families to pay for his economic incompetence. [More…]
Does the Government’s failure to index family allowances mean that the Government is being dishonest with families? [More…]
Very simply, the facts of the matter are that this Government has given to Australian families, through the family allowance scheme, one of the most revolutionary social reforms that this country has seen. [More…]
However, in their case part of the cost of their education at tertiary level comes from Consolidated Revenue contributed in part through tax by their families. [More…]
No such contribution is made by overseas students or their families although many are well able to afford such costs and, indeed, would have to pay fees if the student undertook higher education in the home country. [More…]
The matter I wish to raise tonight seems small enough but it is very important to many families. [More…]
She also said that she could personally afford it but she knew of elderly people, pensioner families, who wished to communicate with their relatives serving overseas and were finding it difficult to do so. [More…]
Educational absorption is lowest in industrial suburbs, country towns and among girls and the children of migrant families, where education is geared to expectation of failure. [More…]
At the same time, there are 93,000 families on the waiting lists of the public housing authorities and the housing commissions of this country. [More…]
There are 93,000 families on the waiting list yet commencements have been reduced from 13,000 in 1976-77 to 6,000 in the current year. [More…]
Access to home ownership is increasingly becoming something that only dual income families or high income earners can afford. [More…]
As a government, we realise that there are many deserving families which have to battle and which do not have the resources to enable them to go out into the private housing market to purchase a house or rent accommodation. [More…]
Other families, with some encouragement from government, both State and Federal, will be able to move away from dependence upon public housing accommodation. [More…]
Let us also give those families that sort of encouragement because when they do become independent they will be able to decide upon the sort of accommodation they should have, where they should live and the size, shape and colour of their house. [More…]
3m to the homes purchase account fund, spread over an eight year period, the Western Australian Government has been able to attract about $I4m from the building societies for immediate lending to low income families. [More…]
He was closely related to two royal families of Europe and obviously was destined for a life of public and military service. [More…]
Will he give serious consideration to making the next mini-Budget or Budget a budget for Australia’s families? [More…]
Did the proposal involve easing the tax disadvantage of single income families, thereby honouring previous commitments to those taxpayers whose relative needs are greatest in preference to those who have a greater taxpaying capacity? [More…]
Will he confirm that the Government is concerned for the general wellbeing of Australia’s families? [More…]
As far as the position of families is concerned, this Government has a record since it was elected in December 1975, through its Budgets and its other economic decisions, of giving support to the family which is the envy of other political parties in this country. [More…]
The extent to which inflation has been reduced benefits no section of the community greater than it benefits Australian families. [More…]
The reduction in the overall burden of taxation which will occur after 1 December will benefit no sector greater than it will benefit Australian families. [More…]
I have made no secret in the past, I made no secret yesterday in answer to a question, and I make no secret again in answering the honourable member for Sturt, of my belief that there are features of the present taxation system that work to the disadvantage of single income families. [More…]
It is not just Labor voters who are affected by this crisis; it is not just Labor families that are affected by this crisis; everyone is affected. [More…]
They do not understand the problems of the families. [More…]
Too many families are being broken up. [More…]
People will become more aware as the Budget of last Tuesday night bites in, as the unemployment figures rise and as families break up. [More…]
This Budget will bring more hardship, more unemployment and more suffering to the great majority of Australian families. [More…]
The Government tugs its forelock before the wealthy might of the medical fraternity and backhands the representatives of Australian families. [More…]
Both measures together, increased fees and health insurance rates, will cost most families an extra $3.50 a week. [More…]
So where, I ask, are the extra dollars that the Prime Minister claims the Government is putting into the pockets of all Australian families? [More…]
Even so, they will be better off than all those families on incomes of $200 a week or less. [More…]
Those families, if they persist with health insurance, will finish either with nothing or by being worse off to the extent of some $2 a week. [More…]
Not all of the Treasurer’s forecasts are as grim as those for families, the work force and the vast range of people who depend on government assistance to survive in our society. [More…]
Most Australians interpret government policy in the perspective of their families. [More…]
By introducing these revenue measures which affect a few but very wealthy institutions in the community which are not making their full contribution to revenue sources in the community, we will be able to ease substantially the tax burden, direct and indirect, on Australian families. [More…]
It is to be paid first by the unemployed and their families. [More…]
Others include increased family allowanceseither an increased spouse’s allowance or a form of family taxation to assist single income families- reduced excise on low alcohol beer, a fourth year for the aged person’s capital grants scheme and a scheme to assist those disadvantaged by the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]
These include low income earners with chronic illnesses and single income families with a number of dependent children. [More…]
Another matter I wish to raise tonight is the matter of the $24,000 which the Government so swiftly donated to the appeal for the families of the victims of the Fastnet tragedy. [More…]
Why did not the Government step forward to offer financial help to the families of the two men who lost their lives whilst participating in the recent Repco rally? [More…]
Australian families are the victims of an unremitting assault against their living standards. [More…]
It is indisputable that this result is no accident and that the Government has consciously set about reducing the living standards of Australian families. [More…]
The purpose of the Government is to reduce the living standards of Australian families so that it can reduce the wage structure in our community. [More…]
One can look to other statistics for verification in order to gain the contrast between the concern for the welfare of families in Australia under a Labor Government, and the brutal indifference of this Government. [More…]
Families of wage earners have been enormously disadvantaged by the way in which the cost of living has eroded their living standards. [More…]
It will result in a substantial reduction not just in wages but also in the living standards of families, of men and women and of their children. [More…]
Why is the Government so determinedsingleminded to destroy the living standards and the cohesion of Australian families? [More…]
But the losers are Australian families. [More…]
The cost squeeze which I have mentioned is coming from a number of sources and it is reducing the living standards of families because of petrol prices, health insurance and the Government’s incompetence in the way in which it has administered the money market. [More…]
That is the sort of record of preserving living standards for Australian families that this Government has achieved. [More…]
All that is achieved by increasing the price of petrol is to aggravate inflation, disadvantage Australian families and to force an enormous cost on to Australian motorists, most of whom are private motorists. [More…]
All this Government wanted to do was to increase the revenue that it clawed back from Australia’s household and families. [More…]
I serve notice on the Government that a health insurance scheme that will cost up to $759 a year for full cover is inappropriate and quite unacceptable for Australian families. [More…]
Families dependent on those sources for their livelihood have suffered an enormous reduction in living standards if they have dependent children. [More…]
The Opposition invites the Government to compare standards of disposable income, security, housing, food costs and the like of Australian families now with what they were in December 1975. [More…]
He said that he was concerned about the living standards of Australian families. [More…]
I will accept that he may be concerned with the living standards of Australian families. [More…]
I will accept that there are people in the Opposition who are genuinely concerned about the living standards of Australian families. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition would have us believe that all one needs to do to profess and to establish concern for the wellbeing of Australian families is to come into this House, to shout a few slogans, to quote a few selective statistics and to hurl a bit of personal abuse; in that way one establishes a credible economic alternative. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, this debate started out with a protestation of concern by the Leader of the Opposition about the living standards of Australian families. [More…]
I share with the Leader of the Opposition a concern about the living standards of Australian families but I disagree with both his understanding of their present living standards and his recipe for changing those living standards. [More…]
That is why the Leader of the Opposition is squeamish about inflation and that is why, so long as the Leader of the Opposition comes into this House to debate inflation or the Australian economy, this side of the House will never allow him to forget that when it comes to making an economic statement he is deafeningly silent on inflation, which is the most important single determinant of the living standards of Australians and Australian families. [More…]
In the years to come when we have to service that debt from the annual expenditure of the Budget, the additional annual expenditure which families in this country will have to fund, through their taxes, the amount will be of massive proportions. [More…]
It is the ordinary Australian family which is carrying the burden of this Government’s mismanagement, not the wealthy families. [More…]
It has taken the Government four years to close a loophole which has been used as a tax avoidance measure by the wealthiest families in this country, namely, the family trust. [More…]
Through the misuse of the family trust, the wealthiest families of this country have, in fact, made quite profitable use of the fact that they have a family. [More…]
So families are still profitable for the wealthiest families in the country but they are a distinct disadvantage for the rest of the people in this community. [More…]
What the Opposition says is that the Government ought to get off the backs of ordinary Australian families. [More…]
I suspect that there are over two million families in this country which are now touched by the horror of unemployment. [More…]
Yet, over the last four years, little by little this Government has eroded the capacity of families to survive. [More…]
The horrifying aspect is that the effect has been greatest on the poorest families, on the lowest income families. [More…]
But they are supposed to like families. [More…]
They forget their families and attack them for being students. [More…]
Students are families too, but the Treasurer has forgotten that. [More…]
Let us just take a brief look at what this Government thinks about low income families in terms of its Budget of just a week ago. [More…]
For families on just under $6,000 a year, the lowest income at which tax applies to families, there will be nearly a six-fold increase in the amount of tax paid this year. [More…]
That is what this Government thinks about families. [More…]
This Government thinks only about preserving the position of the rich families. [More…]
It allows the rich still to make a profit out of having a family while it relentlessly assaults the living standards of ordinary families in this country. [More…]
But let me assure him and the Australian people, Mr and Mrs Australia about whom he speaks, while in the same breath mouthing policies that will do great damage to them and their families, that this Government will not refuse to face the facts. [More…]
Secondly, as I have pointed out, this system of making the user pay strikes particularly at families, for children constitute a high proportion of cost in this field. [More…]
It cerainly will increase the burden particularly on single income families with a large number of dependent children. [More…]
Health costs remain 10 per cent of total Budget outlays but low income people, the sick and the chronically ill, families with high risk such as large families, will be paying a lot more for health coverage. [More…]
Indeed, the Australian Bureau of Statistics earlier this year conducted a survey and found a very high proportion, about 30 per cent, of families below the poverty line were taking out some health insurance and about 27 per cent of those families were taking out full scale health insurance. [More…]
Other speakers have indicated very clearly what the effect of this discriminatory change will be, particularly on these low income families. [More…]
When many people come from single parent families, which is all too common in the western suburbs of Sydney, they are doubly disadvantaged. [More…]
The Government is consistently attacking the living standards of families. [More…]
Families are now much worse off than they were before. [More…]
There is a high proportion of young families involved. [More…]
We all know that in areas such as mine usually there are many two-income families. [More…]
They find that they need two incomes to be able to raise their families and to exist in a proper way. [More…]
We have seen a massive cut in welfare housing buildings with 93,000 families now on the waiting list. [More…]
I see the hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people who are dependent on families receiving incomes of only $150 to $160 per week. [More…]
This man would break up families, destroy stable lifestyles and send young people out on the road looking for work, which the Government will do nothing to provide in their home city- a company town run by this Government. [More…]
They are very dedicated people, conscious of their situation, very keen to assist their families in the present situation which they face. [More…]
They should at least receive compensation payments which would allow them to live comfortably and be able to raise their families. [More…]
The undeniable fact is that this Budget will cost average families an extra $7.90 a week, as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) said in his speech earlier tonight. [More…]
The tax increase has hit hardest at single income families. [More…]
The hospital has served miners and their families since 1904. [More…]
I refer right back to the times of the Wonthaggi mine disaster when 13 miners were killed, all of whom were married with families. [More…]
I am delighted to be able to say that, for those people who have chosen to move here from the land of their birth with their families, we are providing the infrastructure and the help necessary to make their settling-in program easier. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article published in the Sunday newspaper in Sydney quoting Mr Eric Risstrom as saying that the Government intends to take advantage of the families of dead people’? [More…]
Is Mr Risstrom correct in advising families that they should make sure that estates are kept in trust and not distributed if this level of tax is to be avoided? [More…]
It is a compensation made to people on the lower income scale, those who have families and who are suffering more than any other section of the community because of their responsibilities and their willingness to face up to them. [More…]
The cost of housing is very important to families. [More…]
That represents massive support for Australian families and a major social welfare innovation introduced by this Government. [More…]
Many of the questions I have asked in this House and many of the speeches I have made have demonstrated my deep concern for the well-being of Australia’s families and of the children in their care. [More…]
I have called for a national family policy; I have urged the use of family impact statements; I have called for increased family allowances; and I have advocated tax reform in the interests of families. [More…]
Members will therefore not be surprised that I am using this opportunity tonight to call upon the Government to relieve the desperate plight of many hundreds of thousands of families with dependent children, especially those with only a single income. [More…]
To the majority of people it seems, and often is, removed from the day-to-day problems of Australian families. [More…]
My colleagues and I were pleased recently to receive the assurance of the Treasurer- a public assurance- that the proposals of the working party for overcoming the tax disadvantage of single income families would continue to receive very close study by the Government. [More…]
This proposal was formulated because of our concern for Australia’s families. [More…]
The relative position of families with children, especially those with only one income, compared with other households, is worse today than it has been for a long time. [More…]
But except for these moves the erosion of public support for families has continued for at least two decades. [More…]
The financial pressures facing families are insufficiently recognised. [More…]
If we are to give families the support they need we must establish the goals we wish to pursue. [More…]
Our tax and social security systems must not be used only to safeguard individuals and families against unpredictable and catastrophic loss of income or to enable the chronically disadvantaged to maintain a decent standard of living; they must also be used to assist individuals and families to redistribute their lifetime income from the peaks of relative affluence to those periods of relative poverty which are today putting families under so much stress. [More…]
The unit we adopt should be one which takes into account the situation of those who pay, those who receive and many who do both, not only as individuals but also as members of families or households. [More…]
The major problem of our present system of taxation is that families of the same composition and total income are required to pay substantially different amounts in tax. [More…]
Two-income families pay much less tax than the family in which one spouse is the only breadwinner. [More…]
For example, single-income families with incomes under $16,608 pay $707 a year or $13.60 a week more in tax than twoincome families with the same family income. [More…]
Families paying the top rate of tax, if they can split their income, can save up to $7,500 a year. [More…]
The present tax system is one of the chief causes of relative poverty and even hardship experienced by the majority of families with children. [More…]
It does not treat families alike. [More…]
This would have been necessary on grounds of fairness and would have resulted in two-income families paying the same proportion of their incomes in tax as singleincome families. [More…]
In phasing in reform, we should have two aims: Firstly to reform the tax scales in such a way that no taxpayer pays more tax on the same money income that he does under the present tax scales, and secondly to reduce progressively the proportion of income paid by single-income families by way of tax until it matches the proportion which is now paid by two-income families with the same household income. [More…]
At first, indexation should be applied only to the assessment of tax payable by families who are disadvantaged by the present tax law, sole parents and taxpayers living alone. [More…]
Selective indexation should continue for a new optional family tax scale until it places single-income families in the same position as two-income households who split their incomes under the present arrangements. [More…]
At current inflation rates, indexation on the optional family tax scale without interruption since the last adjustment would mean that, within three years, the amount of taxfree income available to all families would be unaffected by the proportions in which the spouses earn the family income. [More…]
The benefit would go first to those who are low income families and their gain would be proportionately greatest. [More…]
Only when reforms of this kind have been adopted will families be given a chance of having a fair go. [More…]
The fact that the unemployed receive their benefits through the post has eliminated the dole queue, but it has not eliminated the anguish and the suffering of hundreds of thousands of decent Australians who simply want a job, or the plight of those thousands of families whose breadwinners are unemployed, who live below the poverty line and whose suffering prompted a significant and important statement by the Catholic bishops of Australia. [More…]
Their work is here, their families are here and their children are at school here. [More…]
In addition we have introduced a policy of family allowances to assist the lower income families. [More…]
Over the last four years to the end of this year we will have paid $4 billion to Australian families in one of the greatest social reforms of all time. [More…]
In addition, we have done a number of other things to help Australians and Australian families. [More…]
Bearing in mind that proportionate to immigrants’ representations in the community, there are many more immigrants or children of immigrants who are unemployed and untrained than there are other members of the community, ordinary Australians, in a sense this cut will hit immigrants and their families more than the rest of the Australian community. [More…]
I think it is a very cynical exercise because when immigrants come to Australia we hear a lot about the need to bring in skilled workers and we encourage them to come, but of course we forget that usually they have families also- wives and children. [More…]
Let me put it in the words of the family: You and your families can spend only as much as you can earn. [More…]
Together they constitute a harsh attack on the living standards of Australian families and are the latest instalment of the Fraser Government’s plan to redistribute income and wealth from the less well off to the wealthy. [More…]
In essence, to those who have, more shall be given at the expense of the middle to low income families of Australia. [More…]
Families have seen their living standards and purchasing power progressively decline under successive Fraser administrations. [More…]
It will increase health costs to families. [More…]
There is something obscene about those kinds of priorities and it comes from a Government and a Prime Minister who profess, tongue in cheek, to have an interest and a concern for families in Australia and a concern for people in need. [More…]
It has made it very difficult for singleincome families to continue to exist in this country. [More…]
Single-income families are being punished continually. [More…]
Each year the Government floats the proposition that single-income families will be able to split their income so as to get the benefits which exist for two-income families. [More…]
Each year in this way the Government builds up the hopes of many of the poorest families of this country and each year it fails to do what it has said it would do. [More…]
This Government has clearly abandoned any pretence of concern for the unemployed and their families. [More…]
For example, evidence given to the Committee was that receivers were able to indicate that in some cases the non-payment had resulted in hardship- sometimes in extreme hardship- to creditors and to their families. [More…]
Secondly, I refer to real household disposable income, which is the money that Australian families have to spend. [More…]
reduces the real living standards of Australian families; [More…]
The Government has not improved the standard of living for Australian families. [More…]
We have heard much carping in this Parliament over the last few weeks about what the Government has done for Australian families. [More…]
Families in my electorate are having a harder and harder time making ends meet. [More…]
Migrant families are now finding out about the con job that has been done on them by the Government over the tax deductibility for overseas dependants. [More…]
The plight of families in Australia, as I have said, is one which is not bright at all at present. [More…]
Families are being forced to seek two incomes to keep up with the current spiralling cost of living. [More…]
The families in those areas have had to consider the dire economic implications of that. [More…]
The Government’s claims that it helps the families of Australia are shown by the figures in the Budget to be manifestly false. [More…]
We have seen that most despicable advertisement with a fistful of dollars which this Government was going to give to Australian families. [More…]
Many of them would prefer to be looked after at home and some additional financial assistance to their families would be of assistance in bringing about that objective. [More…]
It is all very well for the parents to look after their children but as the parents get older they fear that there may not be a place for their children where they will be looked after with the same degree of care that their families have given them. [More…]
The fact that passport fees are to rise by $5 makes it so much harder for migrants and their families to return to their homelands for occasional visits. [More…]
Worse still, ordinary Australian wage earners and average families are the victims of his cynical economic manipulation. [More…]
Australian families will be making - [More…]
Many of those seeking assistance are one income families with four, five or six dependent children. [More…]
Of course, there are about 100,000 families with children on housing commission lists throughout Australia. [More…]
These families are living on very low incomes and those on the pension or unemployment benefits are below the poverty line. [More…]
In only four instances in the family groupings with one, two, three, four or five children and so on do families living on the pension or unemployment benefit receive a weekly income above the poverty line, that is, a married couple without children on the pension and a married couple with six or seven children on the pension, If the same married couple with six or seven children is on the unemployment benefit however, they are living more than $6 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
It all adds up to this: This Government has over the period it has been in office, waged a most insidious and even blatant attack on Australian families which the Government has pledged to uphold and support. [More…]
It is the families which are the victims of its deteriorating policy- this lack of principle that is embodied in so many enactments of the Fraser Government. [More…]
The forecast by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) in the Budget makes it clear that unemployment will soar, inflation is taking off, recession will get deeper and living standards of families will be much lower at the end of the year than they were at the beginning of the year. [More…]
It has no sense of equity and justice and it has no understanding of the extreme problems that Australian families are facing today trying to make ends meet. [More…]
Those factors are bearing down on the capacity of families to lead the kinds of lives they have led in the past and to live in the style to which they have been accustomed. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Carlton) is a former party functionary who knows more about the donors to the coffers of the Liberal Party than he knows about how families survive on less than $ 1 80 a week. [More…]
Yet, even on this Government’s conservative estimate, there are over 70,000 families on the waiting lists for public housing. [More…]
Access to home ownership is now becoming a privelege for those who have stable and relatively high incomes or at least to those families which have two medium incomes. [More…]
That was a very great disappointment to so many young families who were seeking the kind of assistance provided by that scheme to enable them to put a deposit on a house, to get into a house of their own. [More…]
Some of the States spent a massive amount of money buying up huge tracts of land, much more than was needed to satisfy the immediate needs of the people and the families who were seeking public housing. [More…]
Generally, the policies of the Labor Government were totally haphazard and did nothing to assist young home buyers in Australia and nothing to assist the industry to produce houses for young families or any family who wanted to get into a house. [More…]
It knows where it is going and families wanting to buy a house know where they are going. [More…]
The Government believes that the present deregistration provisions are not adequate to deal with the special circumstances where organisations, or sections of them, endanger the safety, health or welfare of Australian families. [More…]
These new provisions are designed specifically to protect the job security, safety, health or welfare of Australian men and women and their families. [More…]
ls current expenditure inadequate and are more families being inadequately housed each year contrary to the recommendations of every Government investigation into Aboriginal housing and all related problems and in breach of election undertakings of the Government. [More…]
reduces the real living standards of Australian families; [More…]
Certainly some families benefited and some lost. [More…]
The families which lost were those on higher incomes. [More…]
The families which gained were those on lower incomes and therefore it was not an unreasonable transfer of resources. [More…]
In 1972 families were still getting five shillings. [More…]
An amount of ten shillings was still being paid to families in respect of the second child. [More…]
Members of this Government have talked and beaten hollow drums about their concern for the family and yet they are presiding over a situation where in every respect the levels of support for families, on a government basis, are being eroded by inflation. [More…]
In the Government’s eyes, families do not count - [More…]
It was the kind of work which gave a foretaste of a better post-war world for war-weary soldiers and a better post-war world, after 1945, than the soldiers and their families had experienced during the 1 9 10s, the 1 920s and the 1 930s. [More…]
However, there is no doubt that the subsequent price increases for export beef have fed through to higher domestic prices and as housewives and families switch to other meats those prices also have increased to meet the increased demand. [More…]
those families who finish up getting a dollar out of this latest tax rort can count themselves as doing well. [More…]
These days in most cases they include the earnings of wives which is assisting more families to get into houses. [More…]
It is a remote community, totally dependent upon that mine, and the social upheaval to the working men and women and their families would have been very great if that support had not been forthcoming. [More…]
If so, what action does he propose to take to enable young families to acquire a home? [More…]
1), namely, that this Budget reduces the real living standard of Australian families, that it will increase unemployment to the highest level in the nation’s history, that it facilitates and stimulates the recent fresh outbreak of inflation, that it ensures that economic growth will be well below the nation’s productive capacity, that it fails to introduce an effective job creation program and so on. [More…]
Tax incentives could be provided to encourage families to retain their aged relatives within their own homes. [More…]
In the United States the top 7 per cent of families receive more of the total income than the bottom half of the United States population and the percentage of the hold that the tiny minority has on discretionary income- money left over after the basics- is even greater; possibly as high as 50 per cent to 60 per cent. [More…]
In this country the top 10 per cent of families get 36.5 per cent of total net wealth and the bottom 50 per cent get 15 per cent. [More…]
There will be a heavy impost for families, and it will be far more savage for commercial travellers, taxi operators and others who do a very high mileage. [More…]
None of wants to engage in a philosophical debate about that but let me say that I support the statements of the Treasurer (Mr Howard), the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and my own leader who believe that it is appropriate for the Government to examine the proposition of the splitting of income in families where there is only one wage earner. [More…]
Furthermore, the Budget which the Government has introduced is likely to exacerbate that problem because it sets out, as the amendment suggests, to reduce the real living standards of Australian families. [More…]
There is no doubt that this Budget will reduce the real living standards of Australian families; nor is there any doubt that it will increase unemployment to the highest level in the nation’s history. [More…]
-In recent weeks, a number of honourable members have raised the problem of so-called religious cults emerging in our society, but as well as the emergence of these pseudo-religious cults there is yet another phenomenon which seems to be developing, which is often causing much in the way of mental and financial anguish to many of our families. [More…]
It is sad to see families torn apart when one of its members enters into Focal. [More…]
What can be seen from this is that the social casualties arising from the Government’s unemployment policies are not among the elite of the Victorian western pastoral districts or among the privileged families of members of the Melbourne Club; it is the spear-carriers of our society who are having to bear these sorts of disadvantages. [More…]
So if the Government moves in this area it will mean that young people, say if they leave at 15 years of age, will move into these programs and they won’t be paid benefits by the Government, their families will be forced to maintain them? [More…]
Many families find it a burden to keep their children at school for as long as they do now. [More…]
The most common theme that I hear amongst union members and their families is from the wives who ask me: Why cannot we have a vote for a strike?’ [More…]
The wives and the families of these men are the people who will judge the ALP at the next election. [More…]
They are saying: ‘You allow us to have safety and welfare; you allow us to earn our money; you allow us to attend to the wellbeing of our families. ‘ [More…]
They are not concerned about their fellow unionists; they are after the finance that keeps their families going. [More…]
There is no thought for moderate unions and the families of moderate unionists. [More…]
It is bad for Australia’s image overseas; it is bad for the Australian worker; and it is bad for the continuance of the wellbeing of Australian families. [More…]
What steps were taken to ensure that former pastoral employees had adequate income to nourish their families since abolition of the training allowance in 1 973-74. [More…]
If so, does the petition claim that the proposed tenants are: unemployed; unacquainted with the work ethic; incapable of removing unsanitary, putrid, domestic garbage and litter; ignorant of hygiene, by-laws and reasonable urban behaviour: subject to alcoholism; accustomed to extended families of scores of humans and canines; noisy, untidy in the streets; not desirous of coping with the responsibilities and stresses of urban living and therefore unhappy in urban housing; and that the proposed tenants damnify the non-Aboriginal petitioners of the neighbourhood who are different in all such respects; who are unable to maintain surveillance of their properties in working hours; are required to withstand the ravages of tax collection and provide essential services at all hours and who will lose sleep, health, the beauty of the town and the value of homes in which they have invested life savings, if the project proceeds. [More…]
Does the Acting Treasurer recall the Treasurer giving me an assurance that income splitting tax proposals designed to ease the tax disadvantage of single income families would receive close study from members of the Government? [More…]
There was a threat of a ban and a stoppage to ensure that the legal rights of the families were protected. [More…]
It might well be that the Indonesian authorities will not allow these officials to rejoin their families while there is some risk of a revival of interest in the fate of this unfortunate territory. [More…]
Consequently, the impact of being without work for the adult breadwinner would be greater than for many juniors especially those young people with the financial and emotional support of their own families. [More…]
It should be at that level of government where people participate most immediately in the process of improving the environment in which they live and in exercising some control over the decisions that affect where their families reside, where their children go to school and the grass roots of their environment. [More…]
The proposals will add to reforms which have already benefited low income families generally. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the current family allowance scheme brought increased assistance to some 300,000 families with 800,000 children who, simply because of their low incomes did not benefit fully, or at all, from the previous system of tax rebates. [More…]
It has now become a great struggle for people to continue at or go back to university in post-graduate work because of the financial burden which is imposed on them and their families. [More…]
These actions cloaked under the guise of interceding on behalf of disadvantaged families were in fact hypocritically calculated to manipulate men fighting to retain their employment under the State award. [More…]
So men with families are working for one or two days a week to get something which is less than a subsistence wage. [More…]
is of the opinion that the Government should give the utmost priority to the conclusion of a lower air fare agreement with Italy and that provision be made for the special needs of families of Italian origin. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House what progress is being made with the reunions of families between East Timor and Australia? [More…]
Does the Minister recall that some months ago preliminary approval was given for about 600 people to come from East Timor to Australia to be reunited with their families? [More…]
This list was to provide the background for the reunion of those people still in East Timor with their families in Australia. [More…]
An additional 85 people have been reunited with their families under normal migration arrangements. [More…]
We want to see the families reunited as quickly as possible and all our endeavours will be aimed at achieving that result. [More…]
We know that over 70,000 families are on the housing commission lists waiting for homes in this country. [More…]
He, of all people, has not the right to sit in judgment upon the wage claims of many of the less extravagantly paid individuals who are trying to eke out an existence for themselves and their families. [More…]
One of the most moving experiences in my public life has been to see the astonishment and delight of people from remote areas when they realise what a domestic satellite can mean to them and their families. [More…]
This applies particularly to the social benefits available to those families. [More…]
They can telephone their families at home without the interferences and delays that are currently inherent in the system. [More…]
It would be outrageous to deny sustenance to stood-down unionists and their families not involved in the dispute. [More…]
The ALP platform speaks of ‘reviewing family allowance programs in order to direct resources to low income families ‘. [More…]
The Government’s proposal, contained in clauses 35 and 42, to allow no payment to families where a worker is stood down though not involved in a strike and even geographically remote from it, is hitting directly at the innocent. [More…]
Up to 20 per cent to 25 per cent of some parts of the electorate consist of single parent families. [More…]
Families at risk in this country need economic and social justice to prevent crisis situations which so often occur unnecessarily. [More…]
Low income families are having a further impost placed upon them and they are having difficulty supporting their adolescent dependants who are out of work. [More…]
The married quarters, except for the one occupied by the Army caretaker at Kingstown Barracks, are used as holiday homes on a rental basis by members of the three Services and their families and civilian staff of the Defence Department. [More…]
Governments should consider what measures in the short term can be taken to help unemployed young persons, including those seeking their first job, in order to prevent them from being a charge on their families. [More…]
It would be outrageous to deny sustenance to stood-down unionists and their families not involved in the dispute. [More…]
How do the people supply the food for their families if they are stood down and do not get the unemployment benefit? [More…]
It is obvious that the Government’s plan is to expedite the standing down of workers who, through no fault of their own, may be affected by a dispute and then to deny them eligibility for unemployment benefit in order to starve them and their families into submission. [More…]
If the Government wished to select an issue on which to create industrial confrontation- I believe that that is its snide, ulterior motive in this instance- it could not have selected a more certain means of doing so than expediting the standing down of workers and unionists and then denying them and their families sustenance in the form of unemployment benefit. [More…]
No doubt the next move of the Government would, be firstly, to effect standdowns and then, secondly, to deny the unemployment benefit to those people and their families along with members of other unions who may be affected by a strike or disputation. [More…]
It is aimed at creating hardship for workers and their families. [More…]
How much longer does he propose to sustain his penalisation of Australian families? [More…]
It is not surprising that he does because he knows quite well that there are about 300,000 families and upwards of 800,000 children who got virtually no benefit out of the old rebate system. [More…]
They got no benefit because the incomes of the families of the parents were not sufficient to be able to gain an adequate benefit through the rebate system. [More…]
The honourable gentleman purports to be concerned about those most in need, but to create a hypothetical set of circumstances with people who might have got a benefit from the rebate system and then compare that with the position now is quite irrelevant to those lower income families who get no benefit whatsoever from the rebate system. [More…]
Most of the letters I have received- I am sure the same applies to the Minister- indicate that the students who are able to take advantage of this offer of ours come from middle and upper class families, because the rest are so poor that they cannot ever contemplate getting out of their countries. [More…]
He reported that to date 285 of those 600 people had come to Australia under the family reunion program and that an additional 85 people outside that group of 600 people had been reunited with their families under normal migration arrangements. [More…]
The program of reuniting families has proceeded much more slowly than we would all want. [More…]
Indeed, there were expectations last year that those 600 people would be reunited with their families by Christmas of last year. [More…]
It is entirely for the families concerned to decide whether they want to stay in Australia or return to East Timor. [More…]
Likewise, it is up to those now in East Timor to decide whether they wish to join their families in Australia, ‘ he said. [More…]
Correspondence that I received subsequently from the then Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, expressed expectations that the program of reuniting families would take place expeditiously. [More…]
that the aim would be for them to rejoin their families and relatives in Australia this year. [More…]
While it has taken some considerable time for the first families to be reunited with their relatives in Australia, I am hopeful that the remaining groups, if able to satisfactorily complete migration requirements, will be able to join their families here in the near future. [More…]
It appears that Indonesian authorities are making it extremely difficult for people to leave and they are not giving them approval to rejoin their families despite all the assurances that were given by Dr Mochtar and other Indonesian spokesmen in the past. [More…]
It is most reprehensible that the Indonesian authorities should take this action to thwart the very real desires of people to be reunited with their families. [More…]
That is an incredible list of charges for people who live in very remote areas, at great risk to themselves and to their families, who have to put up with all sorts of hardships and who bear the loneliness of life in the outback. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s acknowledged policies of reducing real wages and depressing the living standard of Australian families. [More…]
Is he aware that because of these policies an extra $17 a week is now required to restore average income families to the real living standards of 1975? [More…]
Would the net effect of such a policy be to deny to average income families the full $1 1.50 a week offset to which the cost of living increase would entitle them? [More…]
If he is concerned about the living standards of average Australians and average Australian families, he ought to manifest a greater concern about the greatest threat to the living standards of Australian families, that is, the possibility of higher rates of inflation. [More…]
This is especially aggravating to the Defence Force, where frequent movement of members and their families is a feature of service life and there is a range of benefits provided in recompense. [More…]
I think the Government’s priorities should be adjusted to give positive incentives to people on lower incomes and families with one pay packet, to get houses. [More…]
Single income families earning up to 135 per cent of average weekly earnings- something like $270 to $280 a week- are not in a position to get a loan and repay any commitment because of the spiralling cost of housing. [More…]
How does the Minister justify this increase in health insurance costs, which is forcing tens of thousands of Australian families to opt out of the cumbersome and confusing system that the Government has created with four major changes of policy in four years? [More…]
There would have to be at least two families per house in order for them to obtain some shelter. [More…]
They are unavailable during holiday periods when most Australians and families in particular want to travel. [More…]
Outoftown families cannot afford to wait around airline terminals in the hope that they may get stand-by seats on an aircraft. [More…]
The Government must sign an agreement with Italy as soon as possible and that agreement must take into account the special needs of families of Italian descent. [More…]
For one reason or another they are not living with their families and they have not got enough money to look after themselves properly. [More…]
Sometimes they are young people who have fallen out of favour or an effective relationship with their affluent families. [More…]
Assistance to families increased in round figures from 45,000 people assisted in 1968 to 259,000 people assisted in 1978. [More…]
Often that is seen very much in the terms of the honourable member for Darling Downs, who saw it very much as their responsibility, that they or their families have been living in such a way that they have cut themselves off and therefore society itself is not responsible. [More…]
I can well understand the feeling of people who have been forced to flee from their homelands because of persecution of themselves or thenfamilies and who have risked their lives in order to seek for themselves and their families a new, secure and democratic future. [More…]
In particular, Soviet penal regulations, and even more so their implementation, fall far short of humane concepts- in the system of punishments, the rights of prisoners to make complaints, to communicate with their families and friends, and, most seriously, to receive adequate nourishment and medical care. [More…]
The repeated changes have destroyed the community rating principle in health and the net result will be that the elderly, large families and chronically ill will be unable to afford adequate health cover. [More…]
There is a special plan for single girls which is cheaper insurance than the one for families. [More…]
The Australian people, particularly families and the poor, are crying out for a dependable, understandable, comprehensive system to take the worry out of health care. [More…]
First home buyers purchase far less expensive dwellings than families purchasing a subsequent home. [More…]
Australian families have long had a tradition of starting out by purchasing a modest home suited to their current needs and realistically within their reach. [More…]
It is interesting that it is in this area of married taxpayers, the families, the most heavy tax impost is occurring. [More…]
This sits oddly with the Government’s claim that it has done marvellous things for families by way of increasing family allowances. [More…]
Therefore, families find that the net tax impost on them is increasing all the time. [More…]
There can be significant disadvantage to single income families as compared to two-income families. [More…]
Two income families would not be disadvantaged because they could opt for whichever was the most attractive- the flat rate tax or the existing scales. [More…]
The only families that would opt for the existing scales would be those with a combined income of less than $9,500. [More…]
As previously mentioned it would only be the genuine below $9,500 income individuals and families who would opt for the existing scales and pay less than 20 per cent. [More…]
The secretary of the committee, the honourable member for McCarthur ( Mr Baume), says he is concerned about families. [More…]
It is also putting forward proposals to help single income families. [More…]
So much for its concern about families. [More…]
What has this Government got against families? [More…]
But if honourable members look at the net effect, it represented a rip-off to families. [More…]
With all this kite flying about the concern of the Liberal Party for the families, this Government is not prepared to do anything for the families of this country. [More…]
This Government introduced the benefits to families. [More…]
Apart from the purely financial aspects, there would be other reasons for transfers between nursing homes, such as re-location of patients’ families, preferences of the patients involved, et cetera. [More…]
In view of these few- from many- examples of the alarming erosion of family living standards, combined with the abolition or watering down of many benefits, what incentives does the Minister offer to encourage the growth of families that he has espoused with such uncharacteristic vigour? [More…]
But when it comes to people, when it comes to families, when it comes to things that people really need in this community, the Government is remarkably remiss. [More…]
A sort of coldhearted indifference seeps through, whether it is in relation to family allowances or in relation to the provision of adequate library facilities in this country for the people who belong to Australian families and who want to improve themselves or who want to relax in some sort of creative and satisfying way. [More…]
This is important because we are demonstrating in respect of family reunions for Timorese people- as we did with, for example, the similar problems in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and also the Middle East- that we are prepared to do our utmost on the basis of humanitarianism to bring together families which are disunited by events over which they had absolutely no control such as war and so forth. [More…]
I do not believe it would occur if there were more sugar cooperatives in the industry and less of the 60 families which sit on the boards of management and control the biggest business in Australia. [More…]
The cane farmers, who number some 15,000 workers or some 6,500 families adhere to the free enterprise philosophy. [More…]
Once they leave school, young people from poorer families set about getting a job, any job without being able to consider such questions as career, opportunities for advancement or selffulfilment which influence the choice of more affluent students. [More…]
If we are going to spend $800 less, by way of public expenditure and capital expenditure, on a child in one sort of school compared with another sort, we want to know how much of that $800 can be made up by families- and by poor families with numbers of children. [More…]
Seventy-five thousand families are on the long waiting list for public housing. [More…]
The apparent upturn in housing construction is now occurring at a price level that is beyond the reach of most single income families. [More…]
I want to stress over and over again that the real problem facing the single income families, earning up to 135 per cent of average weekly earnings, whether they live in Sydney or Melbourne, is that they are in a crisis situation when it comes to acquiring a home. [More…]
It is a Bill which proposes to deprive many Australian families of financial assistance which hitherto had been available to them. [More…]
It Will make many Australian families worse off. [More…]
-This Bill will result in one in five families who would otherwise have been entitled to benefits under the Home Savings Grants Scheme being denied any benefit at all. [More…]
That means two in five Australian families will be disadvantaged as a result of this Bill. [More…]
As to the remaining three out of five families that will draw benefits under the established scheme one cannot help querying what real benefit this is in terms of assisting people to obtain their own homes when in fact there is a nine-month waiting period before payment is made to applicants, that is, nine months after they establish their home. [More…]
It is about saving approximately $20m at the expense of Australian families that want to establish their homes. [More…]
In fact, broadly in the field of housing policy the Government has been recreant in its responsibilities to Australian families. [More…]
Seventy-four thousand families are seeking housing in the public sector. [More…]
It is up to the Minister either to outline a program of controlling costs in the home building industry or to introduce programs which will mitigate the rapidly rising cost of acquiring homes for Australian families. [More…]
Those are only some of the ingredients of the neglect for which this Government is responsible and the disadvantage imposed on Australian families as a result of Government neglect. [More…]
Australian families are being disadvantaged because of the indifference of this conservative Government to their needs. [More…]
If honourable members on the Government side have any genuine involvement in the needs of Australian families in terms of home ownership and talk to people involved in the home building industry, they will recognise that the contraction in floor space area available for Australian families continues. [More…]
This means that Australian families increasingly are being forced into cramped conditions. [More…]
I move on to the dimensions of the housing problem for families. [More…]
This is an impossible burden, and it shows that there is no genuine concern for the home ownership aspirations of Australian families. [More…]
The first is to disadvantage 40 per cent of Australian families acquiring a home who previously would have been entitled to some benefit. [More…]
Reductions in personal income tax rates are enabling families to save the deposit for a home more quickly than they could, again, when the Labor Party was in office. [More…]
The open space could accommodate 200 families on the basis of space allocated to flat dwellers by the Housing Commission of Victoria. [More…]
The Victorian legislation also provides for a code of ethics which sets out that all the financial interests of the families of the members of that Parliament also will be disclosed. [More…]
We have suggested that our own remuneration and emoluments should be adequate, indeed high enough, to guarantee that people will not be attracted to the idea of using their office to make substantial gain, either directly or indirectly, when it relates to their families. [More…]
They should be well paid and have adequate remuneration but we think that the suggestion that they should also have other sources of income, assets and other means whereby either they or members of their families will benefit through their office detracts from democracy. [More…]
The key weakness in the Government’s decision is that there will be no public register outlining all the pecuniary interests of all members of parliament and their immediate families; nor is there any adequate penalty for failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: the Government be condemned for not making it obligatory for all Members of Parliament to disclose their pecuniary interest and that of their immediate families in a register available to the public’. [More…]
We are going to live with broken families, with crime, with drug offences, with alcoholism, with all the things which come out of high unemployment in this country because the Government refuses to recognise what has to be done. [More…]
It implies that the financial support for these young people will really come not just from the Government but significantly from their own families who are already in financial difficulty. [More…]
In most cases this is probably why the children leave school early as they feel that they have to get out and help their families. [More…]
The increased burden on Australian families of government initiated cost increases. [More…]
The increased burden on Austraiian families of government initiated cost increases. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, as we prepare to leave this House to spend some time in our electorates and with our families and friends for the Christmas season I wish to convey to all members my very best wishes. [More…]
How many of the these delegates will be full-time mothers from single-income, two-parent families. [More…]
How many of these delegates will be fathers from single-income, two-parent families. [More…]
How many of these delegates will be mothers or fathers from single-parent families. [More…]
Is it possible as a first step to the indexing of family allowances to implement a scheme to index family allowances for families who are in receipt of one income on or below the average weekly earning or two incomes which together do not exceed that figure (i.e. [More…]
It would be possible to implement a scheme whereby indexed family allowances would be payable to families where the families’ incomes were equivalent to or less than average weekly earnings, but administration would be complex and costly. [More…]
Would provision be made to vary payments for families whose financial and other circumstances change? [More…]
Would pensioner and beneficiary families be treated in the same way as other families or would special arrangements be made to avoid overlapping income tests? [More…]
Even if these matters were resolved, cost estimates would not be reliable since comprehensive and up to date information on the income distribution of Australian families, in a form suitable for costing purposes, is not available. [More…]
Have members of the Philippines Consulate or their families been investigated on alleged breaches of the Customs Act; if so, when did the alleged breaches take place and was diplomatic immunity waived by the Consulate. [More…]
If so, why are children requiring this treatment and living within 200 km of Melbourne not eligible for assistance to travel to Sydney under the National Health Act, whilst all other families are. [More…]