families - senate - 1970

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

As a means of meeting one of the problems of retention of skilled Service personnel, will the Minister earnestly consider initiating a scheme in the 3 Services whereby postings of serving members with families, with a consequent disruption to family life, will be made only when other persons with similar skills and qualifications and willing and able to accept the postings are not available? [More…]
Has the Government considered any provision for the future employment of farmers and their families who, under Government plans for reorganisation of primary industry, may be removed from the land? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities, refers to the failure of some briefly constituted travel agencies, one recently in South Australia, resulting from which booked passengers, including migrants, have now lost savings or money which they had secured on [oan to visit families overseas, without much chance of recovering the fare money. [More…]
its costliness to patients and their families, and [More…]
its costliness to patients and their families, and [More…]
its costliness to patients and their families, and [More…]
How does the Acting Minister for Immigration reconcile the rejection of an assisted passage to Mr Nigel Joseph and his family with the reiteration by Dr Forbes of an immigration policy that places heavy emphasis on the reuniting of families through normal immigration processes? [More…]
In view of statements suggesting that the Government favours more creches and child minding centres, will the Government consider financing home help facilities to assist mothers who for health or other good reasons need help with young families so that the children can be kept in the home? [More…]
Consideration is being given to closing the Takone and Calder West non-official post offices when the automatic telephone service is introduced shortly, and the Dulverton office at the end of April as it is serving only 2 families, one being that of the Postmistress. [More…]
We read frequently of almost entire families being wiped out by accidents on the road or in the air, or some other misadventure. [More…]
Ministers have to spend a considerable time in Canberra whether Parliament is sitting or not and it is in the interests of the Government, of the administration, and of the country that they should be encouraged to live in Canberra and be assisted by having suitable accommodation available to them, lt 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…]
And that this is an unfair imposition on the human rights of all people who wish to plan their families. [More…]
I refer to the announcement of last July of the 25 per cent across the board tariff cuts and to the Prime Minister’s more recent statement that that decision embodied a Government aim of lower prices for Australian families. [More…]
How many floors are planned for any buildings and how many persons or families are expected to be accommodated. [More…]
1 ) What facilities exist in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory for management of families with a battered child. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-74 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
That the National Compensation Bill 1974 and the proposals Tor a new superannuation scheme for Australian Government employees discriminate in the payment of reversionary benefits against the members of families which: [More…]
are homosexual families; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Compensation Bill 1974 and the new superannuation scheme for Australian Government employees be amended to provide for the payment of reversionary benefits to dependent members of all families, however constituted. [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the guidelines will divide immediate families? [More…]
Since the division of families by wilful act of the Commonwealth Government will not only cause terrible anguish to all concerned but could threaten the very lives of those forced to remain in South Vietnam, will the Government immediately review its guideline policies? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister also list those free tickets given to members of Ministers ‘ families. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
Will the Minister request the Postal Commission to reintroduce the opening of post offices on Saturday mornings so long as it is justified on a cost benefit basis for the convenience of the public generally and particularly for families where both parents work and for reasons of stimulating an increase in business. [More…]
Really I am talking about families now. [More…]
Families with parents of child-bearing age will not be game to transfer from one fund to another. [More…]
1 ) What is the number of motherless families living in Australia and, in particular, families with children under 16 years of age. [More…]
In respect to such motherless families, how many parents have (a) sought and (b) received a special benefit under the Social Services Act during the last two years in respect to assistance in the maintenance of their children, specifying the numbers in each State where such benefits have been obtained. [More…]
In view of the undertaking given by Senator Withers to obtain a comparison of the costs of Prime Ministers I ask him whether he would also obtain a comparison of the costs of all Ministers and their families who travel with them. [More…]
1 ) (a) and (b) The Fairbridge Society sponsors ‘two parent’ and ‘one parent’ families with children for admission to their institutions in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
Arrivals in the last two financial years were: 1974- 75-Two parent scheme, 10 families with 46 children; One parent scheme, 32 families with 98 children. [More…]
1975- 76- Two parent scheme, 9 families with 37 children; One parent scheme, 53 families with 1 14 children. [More…]
It was found that two Timorese families occupied each of the two houses and the rents charged amounted to $60 and $80 per week respectively. [More…]
Further investigations are proceeding to locate other Timorese families and to check the rentals they are being charged. [More…]
It is a policy which has conferred significant benefit and help on about 360 000 families in Australia. [More…]
I extend to you, Mr President, to Mrs Laucke, to all senators and their families, all the best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. [More…]
As the May school holiday season is rapidly approaching and as the stated policy of this Government is to assist those in greatest need, can the Minister inform the chamber what percentage of children of working parents who took advantage of the Christmas holiday children’s care program were children of one parent families or lower income families? [More…]
In the light of the proposed eviction of ten Aboriginal families by the Mareeba Shire Council from council houses at the Mareeba Aboriginal Reserve, what action can the Minister take to ensure that the families concerned are adequately housed. [More…]
Look into the situation of hardship caused by the cost to pensioners and their families who have to meet the difference between fees charged by some nursing homes and the pensions and subsidies available to offset these. [More…]
According to congressional critics of the plan, the 620,000- kilowatt reactor is being built close to an active volcano, close to a potential hot mud flow, possibly near a fault line and close to the Subic Bay naval base where more than 3,000 American families live. [More…]
LOOK INTO the situation of hardship caused by the cost to pensioners and their families who have to meet the difference between fees charged by some nursing homes and the pensions and subsidies available to offset these. [More…]
1 ) How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men- two employees of the Sydney City Council who were members of the Municipal Employees’ Union, and a member of the New South Wales Police Force- killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive. [More…]
Will the Minister explain the apparent contradiction whereby shopkeepers who lost trade as a direct result of the security arrangements for the Conference will be paid full indemnity while three families who lost providers will not be compensated for the loss of future income nor for the emotional stress caused by the violent deaths of the men concerned. [More…]
In addition, the Commonwealth is setting up a trust fund for the education and general benefit of the three children of the Council workers killed in the explosion as an indication of the Government’s concern for their families. [More…]
In 1977 some 70 children from migrant families were given priority places. [More…]
1978/9 prescribes the air travel entitlements of senators and members and their families and nominees for which travel warrants and TAA and Ansett credit cards may be used. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth, we feel very strongly that we do not want any interference from the Government in the payment to families of the family allowance. [More…]
As there is much confusion amongst the young unemployed and their families after Mr Viner’s barely concealed threats to take away their unemployment benefit, will the Minister for Education explain his reference in the telex to ‘a process of early identification of “at risk” students, devising meaningful alternatives for them’? [More…]
We are very conscious that a significant number of people, in their families or in their schools, have lost some degree of self-esteem. [More…]
I am sure the promise which was made then and the action which has been foreshadowed in His Excellency’s Speech will provide a great deal of encouragement to a section of the community which is in need of encouragement, that is, young men with families. [More…]
There ought to be measures to encourage a man with a wife and children, particularly those who have large families, because in the present circumstances these families have a very tough job. [More…]
It will facilitate family reunion as, in the past, for financial reasons, some Yugoslavs preceded their families here. [More…]
It will avoid the social consequences of separated families in future migration and, by easing the financial strain of migration, will 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…]
After all, we are dealing in immigration matters with people, and the sooner we can re-unite families the better it will be. [More…]
They too had been prostituting themselves, so it was decided to take them out to live with the miners and their families and save the disruption which their activities had been causing in the camp. [More…]
Turning to the subject of housing, I point out that more than 60,000 Australian families are living in sub-standard accommodation. [More…]
He said that he believes that more than 60,000 Australian families are living in sub-standard accommodation. [More…]
So, as I see the tasks of the Government, they are to set the general social and economic conditions which will make possible the building of sufficient good quality homes to satisfy the needs of most families and, as the report of the Housing Industry Association Committee very rightly said, I believe, to provide housing for the lower income earners and the underprivileged. [More…]
I refer to those families on relatively low wages who find it difficult to save a deposit, some newly arrived migrants, couples who have married very young, and widows and deserted wives with dependent children. [More…]
1 conclude with these remarks: This sort of tax hurts the great majority of people in Australia - the families. [More…]
the great social issues of pollution, interest rates, housing and land costs, poverty, education and the burdens on families’. [More…]
Meals on Wheels and a few other little devices which gloss over the tremendous problems which have to be faced by families and those who are living below a reasonable level of comfort and dignity. [More…]
There are families which face enormous problems in education. [More…]
There are families which face enormous problems in coping with other payments. [More…]
If these young people were working in the railway service they and their families on annual leave, if they wanted to, could enjoy a railway pass. [More…]
Those people who were lucky enough to travel on the inaugural trip of the Indian-Pacific service would have seen for themselves the sort of isolation which many of these families experience. [More…]
The last proposition in the official Opposition’s amendment refers to burdens on families in a very off-hand manner. [More…]
the great social issues of pollution, interest rates, housing and land costs, poverty, education and the burdens of families’. [More…]
On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families’? [More…]
Very little is being done to try to protect them, f have the greatest sympathy for them for many reasons, f do not like to see people in hardship and I do not want lo see these people flowing into the industrial areas in competition with the work force which is there, not for work, because there is work about for people to do, but for the facilities for them and their families; that is, the facilities to educate them, and the facilities for their health and welfare, which are sadly lacking at the present time. [More…]
Not only will the farmers leave the land, but for every farmer who leaves an area 3 families also leave the area. [More…]
But there is a tremendous job still to be done among the teenagers, those of pre-school age, those attending school, the young married people and those who are now rearing families. [More…]
An amount of S240 to $300 per annum will be paid as a living allowance to the families of children living away from home, lt is designed to cover the full boarding costs and the payment of tuition and other compulsory fees to the school. [More…]
One hundred years ago often the parents of the children employed in mines and spinning mills argued that legislation could not prevent the employment of children because if their employment was prohibited their families would be short of sufficient finance to sustain themselves. [More…]
I refer to the people who had to work in Western Australia and, unlike the squatters, were not sufficiently wealthy to have their wives and families with them. [More…]
How many married ratings travel interstate from HMAS ‘Cerberus’ to see their wives and families each pay weekend because no arrangements have been made for accommodation. [More…]
Not only the families who were assisted to purchase the 304,000 homes at favorable interest rates have gained advantage out of this scheme; the nation itself has been tremendously enriched by the fact that this has been a sensible scheme to assist the serviceman to become a home owner. [More…]
The DLP thinks that these schemes should be far broader and, indeed, that there should be much more assistance given to all families to become home owners in their own rights. [More…]
They have successfully reared families. [More…]
This agreement extends to Yugoslavia the benefits of passage assistance to breadwinners and their families on the same financial basis as all other assisted migrants. [More…]
The agreement is expected to place the movement of settlers from Yugoslavia on a stable and continuing basis, eliminate a major reason for separation of families and speed up the movement of desirable applicants whose movement has been delayed through lack of funds. [More…]
Another reason is that the average cottage being erected today for young families is much belter equipped, and is therefore a better home than it was a few years ago. [More…]
It is cheap in money and it is cheap in votes because if every 20-year-old or every 22-year-old or every young able bodied man in the community were conscripted there would be a wave of reaction through the families which were affected. [More…]
All of the burden of war is being unloaded on to a certain small group of young men who are being conscripted and on to their families. [More…]
Although their families had shifted to live in Townsville those troops have been made to pay their fares back to their home bases. [More…]
I refer to families with young children of 2 and 3 which are forced to live in rooms or with in-laws. [More…]
I am well aware that such a rent exceeds 20% and could even be as much as 25% of the current incomes of some families who receive at least the minimum wage but considerably less than the average weekly male eanrings. [More…]
These families include those in need of housing assistance, as Senator Devitt mentioned. [More…]
I cannot agree with all the comments that he made, but I do agree entirely that the first priority of housing authorities in allocating dwellings at reasonable rentals should be given to those families, including widows and deserted wives with dependent children, who are most in need of housing assistance. [More…]
Many questions of the Commissioner’s representatives have to be answered and in many cases of which I have knowledge it has been very difficult for widows with young families to provide the answers. [More…]
lt is true that the States brought their problems to the Commonwealth, but their indebtedness to the Commonwealth, because of a system, to which the States had agreed, of allowing the Commonwealth to collect all the income tax, because of the tremendous growth of income that came about with our development and our improved prosperity for the families which were already here and the new families which were being added from day to day, meant that the returns to the States were inadequate to meet the demands for expenditure on education and hospitals and all the other expenditures that the States were required to meet. [More…]
All income taxpayers receive allowances to meet the cost of rearing families or keeping their wives. [More…]
At that time - under the guise of land reforms-some 100,000 North Vietnamese were murdered and the families of the victims were left to starve. [More…]
On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families? [More…]
At the same time as he asks the Prime Minister whether the beneficial results of the increased interest charges should be explained to the people of Australia will he also ask whether the appropriate Government spokesman could explain in clear terms to the people of Australia how it can possibly advance the economic wellbeing of Australia to have hundred of thousands of families forced to pay higher interest rates on mortgages on their homes and how it advances the economic prosperity of this country to have hundreds of thousands of people unable to obtain loans at present in order to acquire homes? [More…]
There we learned from the farmers’ first hand knowledge the problems confronting these people and their genuine concern for their own future and for the welfare of their families. [More…]
I am not concerned so much about the fish as about the livelihood of the men who depend upon the fishing industry for their incomes and for the maintenance of their families. [More…]
On behalf of a great number of people who rely completely on this industry for their economic welfare and for the future of their families, I protest. [More…]
Whilst the results of the survey are not immediately available to me, I recall that they showed that some thousands of banana growers who, together with their families, were working their properties were receiving an income which was less than the basic wage. [More…]
This will give great assistance to families with small rural estates. [More…]
On a monetary basis I would suggest that the return from estate duty is not very great when one considers the problems caused and the costs to so many families in the community. [More…]
I have known cases where families have had to sell part of their property to meet their commitments for estate duties. [More…]
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…]
1 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 exceeding $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 wilh 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 twothirds 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…]
It eases from the shoulders of wealthy people their share of responsibility for the health of the Australian community and a heavier burden is consequently placed on the shoulders of the poor people or men supporting large families. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s decision that families on incomes which we, in this day and age, consider are not adequate for the proper sustenance of a family should receive their medical benefits entirely free. [More…]
I think all honourable senators should give unanimous approval lo the Government’s decision that families with incomes of up to $42.50 per week will be entitled to full medical benefits and hospital benefits equal to the cost of public ward treatment without the payment of any contribution. [More…]
This and other decisions by the Government will affect many less affluent families. [More…]
The Minister stated: lt is estimated that some 84,000 families and 271,000 persons will be eligible for assistance. [More…]
The Minister, in her second reading speech, referred to 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 S48.50. [More…]
Therefore, on behalf of the Opposition I move the request for this amendment in the hope that it will bring justice to a large number of families. [More…]
He advised me that the construction work which is being carried on at present in relation to a new dam on Thursday Island has necessitated the removal of 2 families - one with 6 children - and may involve up to 5 or 6 families in this area. [More…]
If they can afford to take the risk so far as health insurance of themselves and their families is concerned they are paying taxation at a pretty high rate, much higher than the ordinary family man in the Australian community. [More…]
If the desire of the Democratic Labor Party is to assist the less privileged in our society - those with families who face hardship - it must on reflection accept the amendment despite the fact that we cannot deny that there may be a wealthy person, not covered at present, who will get benefits. [More…]
The very reason why workers join trade unions - and I shall deal with the question of compulsion in a moment - is consideration for the welfare of themselves and their fellow workers, and also for their own families, because of industrial aspects. [More…]
I am sure that the Australian community is perfectly willing to make a small contribution that will give all people, including their children, protection against sickness and ensure the security and welfare of families. [More…]
[10.1] - Senator McClelland has referred to section 82q of the principal Act and and has told us how it relates specifically to the manner of assessing the eligibility of low income families for assistance with the costs of health insurance. [More…]
Paragraph (e) to which the honourable senator has referred provides that certain forms of income are not to be excluded when calculating means as assessed of low income families for the purpose of assistance with the costs, of health insurance. [More…]
The assistance with health insurance for low income families is directed to those groups in the community which are not otherwise assisted by way of pensions or allowances under the Social Services Act, the Repatriation Act or the Tuberculosis Act and by virtue of the payment of those pensions or allowances are usually eligible for medical, hospital and pharmaceutical care under the pensioner medical service. [More…]
In assessing the eligibility of low income families for assistance it is necessary to place the applicants on the same relative basis. [More…]
If the income falling within the categories I have mentioned was excluded when assessing eligibility, then it would place the recipients of the income in an advantageous position as compared to other families and this would give rise to anomalies. [More…]
As 1 have said, doctors are not bound to charge the most common fee and in the case of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries and low income families it is most likely that most of them will relate their fees to the benefit rather than the most common fee. [More…]
(24), (25) and (26) proposed by the Opposition, which relate to low income families whose benefits are subsidised in full, or to the extent of two-thirds or one-third. [More…]
The first is that the proposed amendment is directed to section 82s which relates to unemployment and sickness beneficiaries and no similar amendment is proposed with respect to section 82t which relates to low income families. [More…]
The Bill provides that the Minister may determine an approved scale of benefits which will be paid to unemployment and sickness beneficiaries and low income families. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) in his statement of 4th March pointed out that the Government had already introduced a scheme for the provision of assistance to families on low incomes in obtaining health insurance cover. [More…]
It therefore follows that assistance to insure must be provided for these low income families. [More…]
Senator McClelland referred to low income families. [More…]
In particular I refer to those portions concerning the subsidised medical service scheme which was introduced with the purpose of helping low income families. [More…]
The Bill now proposes to divide low income families into 3 categories: Class A, with income up to $42.50 weekly; Class B, with income over $42.50 weekly but not exceeding $45.50; Class C, with income over $45.50 but not exceeding $48.50. [More…]
The two points I want to make briefly, Senator, arc that very few families in my experience whose income is under $48.50 weekly will pay the requisite contribution. [More…]
My final comment is to ask: If the Government is sincere in its desire to help low income families, could not the means test for Class A be set at $48.50 weekly and this proposal for Classes B and C abolished? [More…]
This could provide a real benefit for families who must by our present day standards be regarded as ‘the poor’. [More…]
As I have said, doctors are not bound to charge the most common fee and in the case of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries and low income families it is most likely that most of them will relate their fees to the benefit rather than the most common fee. [More…]
I said that the same consideration would apply to amendments 24, 25 and 26 which all relate to the low income families whose benefits are subsidised to the full or to the extent of two-thirds or one-third. [More…]
Their greatest charge most definitely is the every day risk of cover for themselves and their families. [More…]
During the inquiry of the Senate select committee we found that by far the greatest burden on all families was the cost of recurring general practitioner services. [More…]
This is the first time that the Government has subsidised the insuring of low income families as it has done in this plan under which benefits are subsidised in full, or to the extent of twothirds, or to the extent of one-third. [More…]
Senator McManus has suggested that the Government should delete the 3 sections and that all low income families should be subsidised in full. [More…]
I think honourable senators have lo appreciate that the Government is, for the first lime, assisting these low income families in this way. [More…]
During my second reading speech I made the point, which 1 think is important, that 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 S3m. [More…]
Our proposals are designed to ameliorate the problems of men with low incomes, particularly those with large families. [More…]
If honourable senators examine what happened with their families they will find that in most cases general practitioners delivered their children. [More…]
1 ask the Minister whether he knows that Dr Colin Clark recently advocated a type of reverse taxation so that families who are found to be living on what may be considered to be a poverty level of income can be lifted by financial contributions from the public purse to a level of income which will allow them a reasonable living. [More…]
Unmarried or married unaccompanied soldiers arc granted free travel to visit their home and families once in each year. [More…]
We of course feel the greatest sympathy for deserted wives who not only have problems which they face in bringing up their families but have other obvious difficulties as well. [More…]
The Act at present provides for low income families to be assisted with the costs of contributing for medical and hospital benefits and, as honourable senators are aware, the National 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 as assessed under the Social Services Act equivalent to between $47 and$70 per week are eligible for what we have come to term taper pensions, but are not eligible for enrolment in the pensioner medical service. [More…]
To assist honourable senators 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 ground that it would introduce a number of anomalies as between families in similar financial circumstances. [More…]
The tremendous problem is the recurring expenditure, how to pay the specialised staff - the physiotherapist, the speech therapist, the occupational therapist, the psychologist and the nursing staff at these homes and the staff who visit families who have children in need of care. [More…]
My heart goes out to those unfortunates, and particularly to their families. [More…]
if favourable, it could possibly, by strengthening the association’s capacity to care for subnormal children, bring relief from fear and worry to a handful of families scattered throughout Australia. [More…]
In the housing of children these days I am certain that unless there is a love content present among people who are likely to run the organisation the problems that arise for these children in their later life are made even greater by the fact that, because of their affliction, they must be away from their families, lt brings one to realise that the assistance that may flow in future years from this particular measure is not only assistance for the children but, indeed, for a child being born with some affliction. [More…]
The following actions have been taken: - Additional positions of hygiene supervisor, supervisor family services, nursing sisters, a’nd assistant kitchen supervisor have been added to the settlement staff; - The Department of Health has provided additional Health Inspectors to service the settlements and mission stations; - a new kitchen/dining room unit, a home management centre and an infant welfare centre have been built; - 65 houses with an appropriate number of laundry, toilet and ablution blocks have been erected for Aboriginal families; - The hospital has been renovated and improved; - A substantially improved water supply has been installed; - A water-borne sewerage scheme for the settlement is scheduled for early construction and funds have been set aside for this purpose; - Health education is being stressed in the school and adult education programme; sisters of the Health Department are assisting with infant welfare and health education programmes; - A research project into the incidence of deaths amongst children at Yuendumu is being undertaken by the Australian National University and the Adelaide University in conjunction with the Welfare Branch of the Administration. [More…]
If one takes into consideration families of the great number of those workers who are married one finds that a lot of people are dependent upon compensation. [More…]
1 have been advised by the Association of Professional Engineers that on behalf of professional engineers - dedicated men who had worked for the Authority for 20 or 25 years and who were concerned about their own future and that of their families - it tried to get before the inter-departmental committee, but the committee sat in secret and was not prepared to listen to any advice from the professional engineers. [More…]
It is an economic fact that the poorer groups in the community - the pensioners and the low income large families - find it hard enough now to cope with food costs. [More…]
They have to accept the responsibility for the privations of the families in which much of the income goes in an improper manner to swell the profits of clubs and lo provide some money for the Stale. [More…]
All sections of the rural community are very much concerned about the economic situation that confronts them, the economic welfare of their families and future job opportunities for their children. [More…]
As a means of meeting one of the problems of the retention of skilled service personnel, will the Minister earnestly consider initiating a scheme in the 3 branches of the service whereby postings of serving members who have families, with the consequent disruption of family life, will only be made where another person with similar skills and qualifications and willing and able to accept the posting is not available. [More…]
Every effort is made to minimise domestic disturbance and to keep families together. [More…]
If we are objective parliamentarians representing our Slates and the people in those States and if those people have problems, grave and critical problems, confronting them and their families, it is imperative and vital that this Parliament or a section of it comprising a standing committee should give early and earnest consideration to ways and means of ameliorating the problems confronting the people concerned. [More…]
They are concerned also at the lack of someone on the island trained in first aid, for amongst the Island people are aged and invalids as well as families with young children and babies. [More…]
That is social injustice for those with the heavy financial burden of rearing families. [More…]
At least 98% of the underprivileged in Australia today fall into one of 3 categories - pensioners, people with very large families and Aboriginals. [More…]
Let honourable senators opposite compare it with I day’s expenses of their own families if they are game, and then say that this is a great affluent society. [More…]
Take the example of 2 people living beside one another who pay $100 a year to their medical benefit society to protect their families. [More…]
The poor of Australia who are, in the main, simply the aged, invalid and widowed pensioners, the sick and the large families will indeed be in a sad plight if the Budget provisions for pensioners are as anticipated in your report. [More…]
Will the Government institute an investigation into this matter in order to stop this vicious increase in prices and, if need be, introduce price control on essential everyday commodities thereby trying to give some protection to parents with young families where the wife is unable to take an extra job, to pensioners and to those on fixed incomes? [More…]
When one adds to that number the South Vietnamese who have been in the Army and those who have taken up senior administrative and leadership posts in the provinces, plus their families, one must realise that an immediate withdrawal, besides leaving South Vietnam and our allies in the lurch, would be leaving millions of people completely open to mass murder and massacre. [More…]
We wish to avoid a recurrence of excessive cost and price increases that would put home ownership beyond the means of an increasing number of families. [More…]
A further $8m will be advanced to the States to build homes for servicemen’s families. [More…]
This will enable more young families acquiring their own homes to obtain a grant of S500. [More…]
It is estimated that $ 1 4.2m, or $2m more than last year, will be paid out in 1970-71 as grants to young families under the Homes Savings Grant Scheme. [More…]
Those who will benefit include, in addition to many Australian families and pensioners, newcomers to this country of ours. [More…]
Mr Justice Nimmo has stated that 250,000 low income families, representing 1 million Australians, are living below a miserably low poverty line. [More…]
We must undertake the task of assisting those affected, their families and the many organisations which are engaged in the work of helping the afflicted, be they adults or children. [More…]
I can assure the Senate that this question is very close to and held very dear by hundreds of thousands of people who have members of their families who are affected in this way. [More…]
It may open up a new life for many handicapped persons., their dedicated families and teachers throughout the nation. [More…]
We would help hundreds of thousands of families who, I say with all the sincerity I can muster, are looking today for assistance with their great problems. [More…]
Obviously, for many months at a time families were out of contact with their sons, brothers and husbands. [More…]
Many pensioners like to write to their families. [More…]
The converse of this observation is, of course, 4 families in every 5 are not now reached as a result of what product and product image Channel 10 has so far promoted . [More…]
Nine Gurindji families have to date applied for the tenancy of one of the houses at the Wave Hil) residential centre. [More…]
Their families are already aware of defeat. [More…]
I know a little about this survey because it concerns my own child and children of friends of mine, lt has been found that scholarships were going to children of families which could economically afford to send their kiddies through secondary school and on to university. [More…]
present the minimum wage could hardly be claimed to be an adequate income for men with large families. [More…]
The Government has not seen fit to recognise the needs of families. [More…]
In effect, it has not recognised the existence of families; rather it has tended to place importance on large scale and expensive immigration programmes and deprive Australia of the best source of population - that is the children born in this country. [More…]
The Government has not recognised the needs of families for extra income. [More…]
It would be far better if no tax deductions were allowed and if families were subsidised in some direct way; then those who are able to pay would be able to meet the needs of those who are in a much less fortunate position. [More…]
Low income families would receive higher net benefits especially if tax scales were revised equitably, lt is well known that inflation has shifted upwards the percentage of real income paid as tax since scales were last changed in 1954-55. [More…]
1 would urge the abolition of tax deductions and the use of money saved by this manner or by any other manner to pay to low income families such amounts as are necessary to ensure that they can enjoy a decent standard of living. [More…]
The public does not realise that one great problem which confronts all of us here is the loss of opportunity to spend time with our families. [More…]
Mr Justice Nimmo, in opening Salvation Army week last July, pointed out that during the health insurance inquiry of 1968 he had discovered that, apart from pensioners, 250,000 low income families, representing 1 million persons, were living below a miserably low poverty line. [More…]
There is virtually a national disaster, with many of these people - not only those whose families have been on the land for generations but those who have taken to the land a means of livelihood - finding through a combination of seasonal conditions and economic conditions that they are deprived of any hope for the future. [More…]
A recent Melbourne survey by the Brotherhood of St Lawrence showed that one person out of every 5 of the city’s age pensioners, one out of every 4 of its large families, one out of every 3 of its widows, deserted wives or divorcees and the vast majority of our Aboriginals were living in poverty. [More…]
The Government believes that those who are in need should be cared for by their families. [More…]
They reared big families to whom they gave all that they had, and they have never had a favourable opportunity of accumulating any money or wealth at all. [More…]
Such persons are in a more favourable position than many workers with young families and are in a position to meet the normal costs of health insurance, etc. [More…]
He said that the Chifley Government introduced child endowment to assist larger than average families. [More…]
These are of importance to widows and people with families. [More…]
I have also mentioned the measures in the health area, particularly the hospital, medical and pharmaceutical benefits and the subsidised medical services scheme which was introduced by this Government and which has done so much to alleviate health problems encountered by the aged, the sick and the infirm as well as the low income earners with young families - the people who are least able to cope with these problems. [More…]
Tn the days of a Labor Government when the standards for these things were set, the standards which the Government has failed to maintain over the intervening years, it was looked upon as a form of compensation for injuries suffered, lt was looked upon as some sort of return to both the men and their families for the time that they had devoted, in most cases, during the early years of their lifetime to the service of this country. [More…]
Does the recent Commonwealth Public Service Board policy decision to limit cadetships to applicants with first year university attendances, discriminate against children of low-income families. [More…]
Most of them are married people with families, and there are very, very limited education facilities available to their children. [More…]
Quite obviously this is an extreme burden on families with young children, and it is particularly strenuous for the women. [More…]
The Government should also consider providing regular leave not at 12 monthly intervals but at 6 monthly intervals, and also giving financial assistance to these people to enable them to take their families a long way from where they are normally stationed so that they can see something of civilisation. [More…]
This will affect families. [More…]
This has an important effect on practically all Australian families. [More…]
Companies have been registered on that island through the names of well-known residents - the Fletcher Christian, the Quintal and Adams families - as well as the great companies of this country. [More…]
It falls heavily on large families who have a lot of purchases in the fields attracting sales tax. [More…]
It would have been better to give the money to help families through child endowment and education, to increase pensions and to help farmers in necessity. [More…]
Many men and women in the lower and middle income brackets who have been over burdened in trying to maintain their own families at a reasonable economic level will be digging deeper into their pockets in order to give some financial succour to their elderly parents. [More…]
ls it any wonder that today for most families the 2 pay packet system has become not a luxury but a necessity? [More…]
One of those Bills was an arbitration Bill which affected millions of workers and their families in this country. [More…]
The last annual report of the New South Wales Housing Commission shows that the number of applicant families with one or more children totalled 13,244; the number of elderly person applicants totalled 2.689; elderly couple applicants totalled 700; couples without children applicants totalled 2.415. [More…]
It houses 1.300 families each year. [More…]
During that same year the Trust provided accommodation for 6,383 families. [More…]
There are many deserted wives and widows who have young families. [More…]
Families need a take home pay of $69 a week to maintain average living standards. [More…]
If he is correct, most of our one breadwinner families might be better off scrambling for handout crusts in Djakarta. [More…]
If one goes to Melbourne today one will see the whole of the centre of the city encircled by blocks of flats up to 20 storeys high, in which families are to live, in which the facilities are poor, in which the recreation facilities are almost nonexistent in relation to the numbers of people who live in the flats and in which assistance to young mothers in the form of creches and facilities for looking after their children at pre-school centres are almost non-existent. [More…]
Yet in one case the Victoria Housing Commission is proposing to destroy 170 homes and to build in their place 4 blocks of flats, each of which will house 200 families. [More…]
The proof of that is the 20-storey high rise units that are now being built in that area to house families and people with young children who are not able to live in a normal suburban home and enjoy the kind of life that we believe everybody should enjoy. [More…]
So the position in that area is that about $14m could be spent on building high rise flats that would provide accommodation for 800 families. [More…]
This report has been confirmed by a sister who is in charge of one of the creches and who is vitally concerned about the problems of the families living in home units in the high density flats area. [More…]
She said many families could not make ends meet unless both parents worked. [More…]
do not own their own home there are a large number of Australian families which are living in unsatisfactory housing conditions or are committed to paying rentals far beyond their financial means. [More…]
I think I should explain to honourable senators that under clause 11 of the present Agreement the advances allocated to the State housing authorities must be used for the erection of dwellings of reasonable size and standard and primarily for families of low or moderate means. [More…]
This is not to say that there are not sections of the community, such as families on low incomes, which are facing hardship in obtaining adequate accommodation and which must look to the State housing authorities for assistance. [More…]
He spoke about high rise buildings and the problems of families living in flats. [More…]
We appreciate the problems that face families living in this way. [More…]
of their place of employment.I have noted the point raised in this regard because I. too, am concerned about the problems of families living in high rise buildings.I believe thatI have answered the points that were raised by honourable senators. [More…]
For every farmer who leaves a district 3i families leave the adjacent towns. [More…]
The employment of a vast number of people who are living outside city areas and who are rearing families has been put into a state of uncertainty by this depression in the price paid for wool which has spread through the wool industry. [More…]
250,000 low income families whose poverty was self-perpetuating. [More…]
If it had not been the case that an organisation with sufficient finances was available to support the appeal made on behalf of the dependants of the deceased - in this case, 2 appeals were necessary - we can see that many workmen or the families of deceased workmen will be denied their claims to workers compensation unless we can get some assurance from the Treasurer that the action by the Commissioner will not be upheld. [More…]
We know, too, that members of the families of servicemen - wives and dependants - have taken the opportunity to express wide dissatisfaction about such matters. [More…]
As this was their only source of cash income for the families, the persons concerned were left to fend as best they were able, off the charity of the rest of the community. [More…]
I know that a housing programme is being undertaken, but if one looks al the reserve at Burketown, where there are only 4 or 5 Aboriginal families, one sees that these people live in shanties. [More…]
But thousands of Aboriginal people require just the basic wage in order to keep their families in some sort of dignity and to live like human beings. [More…]
As a general rule parents prefer to live in the settlement or mission rather than move their families to Darwin because a child is attending school there. [More…]
They are the aged, the invalid, the widowed, the sick and the members of very large families. [More…]
The social services programme carries on its widespread and diverse activity, some of it in direct benefits, some of it in fringe benefits and some in the value received by members or relatives of pensioners’ families. [More…]
So the socio-economic situation of families in Australia is masked by certain factors. [More…]
and that Australia undertakes to extend to Maltese workers and their families the facilities available in Australia for migrants to learn English. [More…]
People who have fought and battled hard all their lives to raise families and to buy a home strike difficulties when the breadwinner dies. [More…]
where there has been a tremendous increase in the construction, of high rise housing, lt is hardly a suitable environment ici which to raise families. [More…]
construction of suburban home units and where families have’ a chance. [More…]
We are making sizeable advances to the States at a concessional rate of interest to permit them to house needy families at rents which these families can afford to pay. [More…]
But we still need more suitable accommodation for some aged and disabled persons, some families without a male breadwinner and some large families on relatively low incomes. [More…]
These persons and families need housing at rents or prices they can afford to pay. [More…]
A satisfactory number of homes is being commenced to meet the housing needs of the growing number of young married people, migrant families and single persons wishing to establish a home of their own. [More…]
Governments must expect to continue to provide homes for the neediest among our people - some of the aged and those families which cannot afford to purchase a home or to pay market rentals for reasonable accommodation. [More…]
These advances will provide long term housing loans at a concessional rate of interest to low income families who wish to buy or build a home of their own choice. [More…]
We are also providing more transitory accommodation for migrant families in hostels and, for a limited stay of no more than 6 months, self contained flats. [More…]
Whilst it is our policy to encourage and assist as many Australians as possible to own their own homes, we recognise that many families and individuals require rental accommodation at some stage of their lives. [More…]
The recent exposition of immorality and drinking on Palm Island is probably true, but is it not more important that we ensure the chance of life for babies on this reserve, and every other reserve in Queensland, and justice for the adults who, by bureaucratic processes, are refused permission even to visit wives, families and other relatives, sometimes for a period of years? [More…]
If one indulges in fist fighting or assault the laws of this country can be applied but offenders should not he forbidden to see their families, particularly their children. [More…]
They put a. lot of their spare time, as well as time that would normally be spent with their families, into sitting, investigating and reporting to the Parliament, only to see the report finish up in a pigeonhole and lost forever. [More…]
Usually adult migrants are busy in employment, setting up homes, attending to the welfare of their families and the development of their life generally and it is not always possible for them to fit into a private educational programme. [More…]
In the main, we do not bring people to this country as individuals: we bring them as families or as family units. [More…]
It would have been a dreadful thing for our immigration programme if we had rejected many of the fine families which have come here and which are now successfully integrated because perhaps the mother - in most cases it would be the mother - did not have a knowledge of the English language when she came here and did not. [More…]
In large measure this situation has developed as a result of an increase in the intake of non-English speaking migrant families. [More…]
He, his union and members of his organisation are very concerned at the inadequacy of medical facilities available to workers engaged on heavy construction projects at Groote Eylandt, and facilities available to their dependent families. [More…]
Will the Commonwealth Department of Health advise the Stale Departments of Health of its willingness to engage in a publicity campaign through the Press, radio, television and public notices so- that all Australian parents can be made aware of the serious danger of poliomyelitis to their families? [More…]
Will the Minister lake ihe appropriate action to ensure that, at least as far as families arc concerned, members of the family may be free io visit reserves at any time. [More…]
We will continue to build houses for members of the Territorial Forces and their families. [More…]
Australians will continue to be killed there and their families will continue to suffer; others will suffer injuries. [More…]
I 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 breakdown of families. [More…]
For how long thi position can continue, for how long it can be permitted to go on in the interests of the nation and of those people who have committed their own lives and the lives of their families to the rural industry involves a big note of interrogation. [More…]
When most reach the last years of their lives and need urgent medical attention, after 3 months the benefit is taken from them and the burden that should have been carried by the organisation to which they have perhaps been paying for a lifetime has to be carried in part by the families; many of whom can ill afford to meet the cost of hospitalisation of their aged parents, aged aunts or aged relatives. [More…]
It is believed that there are some 60,000 families which are ill-fed, ill-housed and ill-educated and that there are over 1 million people living in real poverty. [More…]
(a) The provision of social security benefits in such contingencies as, for example, sickness, unemployment and old age, so as to guarantee families and individuals a minimum income sufficient in general to maintain an acceptable standard of living. [More…]
Has the company said that it will not help in this regard, claiming that it is the Government’s business to supply medical services, with the consequence that workers or their families have to fly to Darwin at a cost of $35 each way to obtain medical treatment? [More…]
Will the Minister refer to the Treasurer the plight of the wives and families of deceased farmers and graziers who have suffered from drought and low wool prices? [More…]
What degree of sophistication do Aboriginal families have to achieve before their homes can be provided with bathrooms and toilets? [More…]
Who speaks on behalf of the parents of large families which are vulnerable to the ebb and flow of the economic circumstances of this nation? [More…]
Parents who have to look after large families have no opportunity to join organisations or, in many cases, to try to- present their position to the authorities so that the authorities will do something to rectify the position. [More…]
All these people are in a position to seek at any time professional help to protect their economic position, but who speaks for the large families in this community? [More…]
What is the position of the larger families in our community? [More…]
Of the fairly large group of large families 8.5 per cent were poor and 13.7 per cent only marginally above the poverty line on our index. [More…]
That was found to be the position of one of the most worth while groups of citizens in our community, the large families with the little children, in the city of Melbourne. [More…]
This survey found that 8.5 per cent of such families were in poverty and 13.7 per cent were only marginally above the level of sheer poverty, being Jess than 20 per cent above the poverty level. [More…]
Large Families . [More…]
The obvious remedy for poverty among large families is an increase in rates of. [More…]
In other words, child endowment has become virtually a worthless contribution towards the assistance, succour and welfare of families of this nature, but nothing has been done about the matter. [More…]
Surely we should be encouraging large families, not merely because they will provide men and women in this community but also because of the very grave social and economic consequences if we do not do it. [More…]
If families are living in conditions of want, the physical and dietary deprivation of the children concerned is not the only matter involved. [More…]
We are depriving ourselves of this opportunity by keeping in want and need the families from which so many such young technicians can come, and the social and economic consequences of that can be very serious. [More…]
We point out to the Government that a great number of families in Australia comprise the 8.5 per cent, if that is the national average, which is living in poverty. [More…]
There are 333,000 families which have 3 or more children. [More…]
If the 8.5 per cent is applied to the 333,000 families it will be seen that probably 30,000 Australian families of 3 or more children are living in poverty or are below the poverty line. [More…]
It must be emphasised that that figure was chosen arbitrarily and that no actual assessment was made as to the needs of individuals and families of different composition or size. [More…]
In the book People in Poverty’ - actually it was his report - he wrote that the obvious remedy for poverty in large families is an increase in child endowment rates. [More…]
Now one finds that a very real benefit is provided for families or for the mother of a large family in terms of the remuneration received. [More…]
They can therefore better provide for their families than could parents raising children in the latter part of the 1930s and the early war years. [More…]
I think the approach of the Australian Democratic Labor Party would certainly have been fairer had it referred to the various ways in which assistance is rendered to families by the Government, instead of being based on the assumption that the Government has culpably neglected child endowment. [More…]
Through the national health scheme families have a very real ability to insure so that they will be able to offset medical and hospital expenses, a safeguard that was not available when child endowment was introduced. [More…]
We are aware of the problems confronting parents of large families, and particularly the problems of mothers. [More…]
I believe the Government has done a great service for young married people who either have or are about to have families by assisting them to buy their homes. [More…]
Two hundred thousand such grants have been made available to families to buy their homes. [More…]
This is of enormous benefit to families and children who know that they can obtain this assistance. [More…]
It has neglected the parents, the people of Australia who are trying to do so much to raise families in the difficult circumstances that obtain today. [More…]
How can taxation remissions alleviate the financial burdens of such families? [More…]
Other recommendations seek to provide legally more scope for both participatory and spectator sport and allow for the sale on Sundays of the type of goods that families and visitors require. [More…]
I stand by each of the recommendations we have made in the belief that, if put into law, they will help to provide, without amendment for many years, the means by which those who are in the ACT on Sundays may lead useful, happy, and if they desire, leisurely lives amongst their families and their friends. [More…]
From time to time we talk here about the problems confronting young people in providing themselves with a home - in the case of new arrivals, of establishing themselves in this country - and of providing a decent future for themselves and their families. [More…]
We have no right .to disturb the wives and families of diplomats. [More…]
There is no reason at all for people to make offensive telephone calls to the wives and members of families of the diplomatic community, as has happened in this Canberra community in the last. [More…]
We as politicians and members of political parties have not the right to disrupt the lives of families throughout the whole community by using blaring loudspeakers so that people would have to hear whether they wanted to hear or not. [More…]
The average person in the community who can afford to pay cash for commodities is much better off than the young people - the newly marrieds with young families - who have these heavy commitments. [More…]
And perhaps worse than all other changes, homes, the sacred retreat to which families repair for their privacy and their daily way of living, would have to have their doors thrown open to all who desired to convert the occupants to new views, new morals, and a new way of life. [More…]
I conmend the report to honourable senators and members and I hope that the Government will endorse its recommendations, for I feel sure many thousands of men, women and children who are handicapped in so many ways - ‘I have in mind, too, families who have the major responsibility of caring for their loved ones who are handicapped - will gain great assistance when the recommendations in the report are acted upon. [More…]
Perhaps what is more important is that many of those dependent on drugs, their families and friends have been helped to realise that relief. [More…]
To those people who are departing and to their families I and my Country Party colleagues offer our very best wishes for the future and our warmest regards. [More…]
At that time, on behalf of the Opposition, I moved an amendment in these terms to the motion to take note of the Budget papers: and the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget is inadequate in that - (a) it increases taxation and health and housing costs for families; (b) it makes no considered and comprehensive approach to the needs of all schools; (c) it ignores the problems of capital cities and regional centres; (d) it defers further development projects and urgent rural measures; and (e) it neglects industries based on Australian natural resources and defence requirements. [More…]
That also is social injustice for those with the heavy financial burden of rearing families. [More…]
I find no evidence to substantiate this amongst the members of good families who keep close together. [More…]
Today members of families share their conversation; they share their knowledge; they share their interests with each other. [More…]
This figure is based on the fact that 14,900 families are waiting for all types of units and it allows for 3 persons to a family, which is low when we consider .the conditions of eligibility to secure a rental home. [More…]
It is moving into high density flat construction in the city area, which I believe is not the type of accommodation that lends itself to the proper bringing up of families. [More…]
Those subjects include the level of economic rentals and the importance of a proper flow of housing assistance to families of low or moderate means. [More…]
But the main contribution that the Commonwealth makes is through the Housing Agreement which is designed to make both rental and purchase housing available to families of low and moderate means. [More…]
It won’t benefit wage-earners, ft won’t alleviate (he real hardship which exists among pensioners, big families on low wages and persons on fixed incomes. [More…]
Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (10.12) - I had hoped that I would not be expected to speak on this Bill tonight because I am involved in my lifetime of experience on the frontiers of Australia in the early days of my life when the frontiers were being pushed back and when families cleared the land, lived in primitive conditions and, after spending a lifetime on it, some of them made good, and some of them failed. [More…]
It concerns families who have lived and worked on their properties, some of them for generations. [More…]
So many families are coming to the cities to swell the numbers there. [More…]
We believe that the whole scheme has to be reviewed completely to ensure that not only those who are staying in the industry but also those who are being forced out of it, because of economic circumstances or because of the Government’s policy, should receive assistance to enable them to readjust themselves and their families towards assisting in making this nation a better place for all to live in. [More…]
What I want to draw attention to is that for every farmer who leaves his property, 3i families have to leave the town. [More…]
A study has never been made of the loss of incentive in people who want to make provision for their families knowing that as they do so they will have to increase their protection by way of insurance. [More…]
Iri most instances a family cannot afford to buy cigarettes, beer and those goods that are heavily taxed by excise duty.- But these families still get the whip of the sales tax on exercise books, pencils 1 and other materials needed to send their children to school. [More…]
If there is to be, an adherence to the dictates of union executives in the way that Mr Hawke claims he can require the dictates of his organisation to be observed, some people will, in the pursuit of an objective, be denying themselves the employment which they regard as vital for their own and their families’ welfare. [More…]
The economic status of families has a dramatic habit of changing rather sensationally in a generation or so. [More…]
At a point of time in persons’ lives incomes drop so significantly that families are having a dickens of a job to make ends meet. [More…]
Finally, will the Minister say whether it is the policy of the RAAF to regard Aboriginal families as unsuitable neighbours for Air Force personnel? [More…]
They affect not the bosses but the very people and their wives and families that the trade unions claim to defend. [More…]
That would impoverish families. [More…]
The families would have to make sacrifices. [More…]
They are terrified that cries of ‘scabbery’ would be hurled at them if they did what they want to do - go to work in order to provide for their families the standard of living they desire. [More…]
Will the Minister, as a matter ot urgency, review the tragic and critical financial plight of the elderly and sick persons throughout Australia who occupy beds in private nursing homes at fees in many cases $50 to $100 above the benefits paid by the Government, and will he also review the Situation of their relatives who, in many instances, have to deprive themselves and their families of basic necessities in order to maintain aged parents in relative decency. [More…]
The statement continues: I 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…]
Is it a fact that families of four or more children are penalised by a reduction in child endowment payment when the eldest child becomes eligible for student endowment? [More…]
I would have thought the fact that the Government has discharged a measure of responsibility to the pensioners and to people with families consistent with its obligations to the overall economy is the surest indication that the people of Australia will be saved the prospect of a Labor government in years hereafter. [More…]
I refer to the aged, the invalids, the widows and their families. [More…]
The DLP has been greatly concerned in recent years at the plight of the rural sector, and especially at the position in which farmers and their families on small and medium properties have found themselves. [More…]
Squeezed between contracting world markets and rising domestic costs, thousands of rural families have been forced through crippling debts and falling incomes into leaving the land and migrating to the capital cities, thus adding to the congestion in the metropolises, where the municipal authorities are burdened with the financial obligation to provide transport, roads and footpaths, water reticulation, guttering, electricity and so on. [More…]
We spend all our lives working and striving for the security of our wives and families, and most of us will die happy that we achieved just that. [More…]
A problem which arises from legislation does not hit one family only; it hits many families. [More…]
The initial design to cater for Aboriginal families who have never occupied a house before did not include internal bathroom and internal toilet facilities - these amenities were to be provided with each house, but entered from outside. [More…]
The Army will endeavour to follow existing policy of donating them as pets to European families with suitable homes in Saigon. [More…]
The initial design to cater for Aboriginal families who have never occupied a house before did not include internal bathroom and internal toilet facilities - these amenities were to be provided with each house, but entered from outside. [More…]
In Victoria hundreds of families with their own problems, including the purchase of a home and children to look after, are subsidising the costs of nursing homes in which their aged parents are being cared for. [More…]
Just as it has been revealed that the pension increase was not a full pension increase but a very partial one - that fact was concealed by the Government for quite a long time until finally the cat was let out of the bag - the proposed increases in child endowment are not quite as good as they sounded on Budget night because only 31.9 per cent of families will receive increased benefits. [More…]
In other words, less than onethird of the families with children will receive increased benefits. [More…]
Only 4.7 per cent of families will receive more than an additional $1 a week. [More…]
A ridiculous situation arises when a comparison is made between 2 people who are each paying SI 00 a year to hospital and medical benefit funds to protect their families. [More…]
Two persons each pay to a fund the same amount of money for the same protection for their families, but in the result a wealthy person pays after his taxation deduction only $50 a year and another person will pay, after allowing for the taxation deduction, S90 a year for the same protection. [More…]
I know that honourable senators opposite have been bucking about this figure, but it is not my estimate; it is the estimate of Mr Donovan, the chief economist of W. D. Scott and Co. For these 50,000 workers and their families the Budget is a grim harbinger of poverty. [More…]
Justice Nimmo went further and said there were 250,000 low income families in a self-perpetuating poverty belt. [More…]
Has any thought been given to the possible embarrassment and/or harm that could come to our overseas diplomatic staffs and their families from anti-Australian demonstrations that could understandably be organised as a reaction to the larrikin type protests and demonstrations occurring from time to time in Australia outside and in the grounds of foreign diplomatic staffs who are honouring this country by their presence in our land? [More…]
Not many families will be able to count on avoiding paying at least another $1 a week in meeting these new charges. [More…]
Is it a fact that families of 4 or more children are penalised by a reduction in child endowment payment when the eldest child becomes eligible for student endowment? [More…]
However, I was seeking to find out whether large families were being penalised when the eldest child became eligible for student endowment. [More…]
The proposed increase of 50c a week will provide some relief for families with more than 2 children but 1 believe that an anomaly that does exist in the Social Services Act, and which has been referred to today by Senator Drury, has been exposed. [More…]
In Australia, 1,750,000 families receive child endowment payments. [More…]
Of those families, 12,700 have more than 6 children. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, only 12,700 families in Australia have 6 or more children. [More…]
Special attention should be given to the needs of larger families. [More…]
There are not a great number of them, and sometimes the parents have had no desire to have large families. [More…]
1 believe that the parents of most of the large families in Australia are in the lower income bracket. [More…]
It is one that is placing great hardship on the parents of larger families. [More…]
They murdered because they thought that they were inadequate and were failing their families. [More…]
Indeed, those people whom I mentioned previously whose families have not come in touch with crimes of violence certainly are against corporal punishment. [More…]
The breaking up of families is one of the main reasons for lads getting into trouble. [More…]
Young criminals get a start when they are born to drunkard parents or into families that are broken up and the children are left destitute. [More…]
The increase in child endowment will cost about $26.5m per year, and will benefit about 1,020,000 children in about 610,000 families. [More…]
The weekly rates that will be payable for families of different sizes are as set out in the following table which, with the concurrence of honourable senators, I incorporate in Hansard: [More…]
The child endowment increases in the Bill will, as 1 have said, benefit over 1,000,000 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 through 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 latter being 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 there is bereavement or invalidity. [More…]
Are families with 1 or 2 children not required to meet the high costs of living that are with us today? [More…]
I do not think the Government could have been serious when, having said that the first child should receive endowment, it says at this late stage that only families with more than 2 children shall receive an increased rate of child endowment. [More…]
They are levied in the most adverse circumstances and perpetrate harshness and cruelty on families. [More…]
Is he aware also that such illness is a significantly mounting burden of cost upon families, benefit funds and governments and could cripple any national health scheme? [More…]
The honourable senator emphasised one point that I was anxious to make and that is that there is an opportunity for the Government, without great expenditure, to assist the young lads and girls in our society by assisting research officers to find for these children homes with real identifiable families. [More…]
But social and individual needs are interdependent and change in relation to time, to need cycles of individuals and families, to prevailing ideas of what constitutes a need. [More…]
Their families, if they are so fortunate to have them, are forced into debt to maintain them in the Homes because the subsidy plus pension are unrelated to the 1971 cost of living. [More…]
It is impossible in many instances for the families of elderly people who have commitments to their own children, to meet those commitments adequately and at the same time to care for elderly parents. [More…]
So a number of families, of whom I have a record, has not received these benefits. [More…]
I do not think that is entirely what Senator Keeffe meant I firmly believe that what Senator Keeffe was doing was to draw attention to the fact that what is being received by deserted wives with families is not adequate to keep them at a decent standard of living and that some of them - I think this is what Senator Keeffe said - had resorted to this activity. [More…]
Many families depend on child endowment to help tide them over. [More…]
I ask the Minister to do what he can to have this anomaly rectified because there must be thousands of families in this position. [More…]
In the June-July issue of the Institute of Public Affairs magazine it is stated that 1,750,000 families in Australia are receiving child endowment. [More…]
Of that number, 8,000 families have 7 children; 3,000 families have 8 children; 1,100 families have 9 children; 400 families have 10 children and 200 families have 11 children or more. [More…]
I do not mean to indicate that all those families come within the category I have mentioned of eligibility for the student’s allowance. [More…]
I do not have the figures on the number of families which would be penalised in that regard. [More…]
The figures I have cited relate to families with more than 6 children. [More…]
Some action should be taken to restore to those families the money they would have received under the old scheme of child endowment. [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…]
Members of the families of eligible farmers will also qualify for training if they have been working full-time on farming, other than on domestic responsibilities, for at least the 6 months prior to their applications for training, and if they have been wholly dependent for their livelihood on the income earned by the farm. [More…]
Married women and adult single women members of the families of eligible farmers should, generally speaking, apply for training under the Employment Training Scheme for [More…]
Is it clear that of the 184,000 families which, as low income families, are eligible for assistance with health insurance only 13,000 have been approved by the Department of Social Ser-“ vices and that only about half of that small number have been protected fully by registering with a fund? [More…]
It is true that it has been alleged in the Press that, because only some 12,000 low income families had applied by 31st December 1970 for assistance under the subsidised health benefit plan, which was introduced on 1st January 1970, the plan had failed in its objectives. [More…]
For administrative and statistical purposes beneficiaries under the plan are divided into 3 separate community groups eligible for assistance, namely, low income families, unemployed, sickness and special beneficiaries, and migrants. [More…]
In the year ended 30th June 1971, 82,000 unemployment, sickness and special beneficiaries enrolled in health insurance funds, and in addition about 11,000 low income families and about 28,000 migrants became members. [More…]
It is estimated that 84,000 of these consist of families on low incomes. [More…]
This means that 84,000 families received assistance at a time of need and not 12,000 as has been suggested in some comments. [More…]
The new procedures involve the introduction of a simplified application form for low income families and the adoption of one certificate for all beneficiaries, whether low income families, or unemployed, sickness or special beneficiaries. [More…]
My question refers to the expenditure of $397,000 by the Commonwealth Government to pay management expenses’ to the hospital and medical benefits funds at the rate of 6 per cent on the money that they handled in 1970-71 in dealing with bills under the subsidised medical scheme for low income families, migrants and others. [More…]
1 claim for my Party credit for having influenced the Government to alter the flat rate system of child endowment payments and for granting an increased rate of payment in respect of all children in each family after the second child in order to assist big families to get by. [More…]
They all belong to families. [More…]
I have in front of me figures which indicate that the cost to the areas where these divisional offices have been functioning, from the point of view of the spending power of the families in those areas is going to be tremendous. [More…]
This will mean that not only the workers but also their wives and families will not be spending in that area. [More…]
The law is the real protection of the members of this chamber, their families and the community. [More…]
It was designed to assist the Government to accept its responsibilities at that time and to provide financial assistance to families, particularly large families, who were still suffering from the after effects of the great depression. [More…]
Every supporter of the Government must share in the responsibility - whether the Minister thinks it is a matter of great mirth - for 500 families in this country today having lost a loved one A large number of widows will never sec their husbands again. [More…]
The families’, of the victims were left to starve. [More…]
Even if the policy of conscription is unpopular it affects only 8,000 families at the most and the other 112,000 are not affected. [More…]
It was found that in some cases the children were included in families which had been selected prior to the appointment of an Australian medical officer system in Turkey in August 1969 and prior to examinations being properly arranged. [More…]
In some cases it was possible, although this was not able to be identified precisely, that the condition had arisen between selection and departure for Australia and in other cases after the families had come to Australia. [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…]
I repeat that of the 121,000 persons who become members of the fund in 1970-71, some 84.000 would have been from families on low incomes. [More…]
This means that 84,000 low income families will receive assistance at a time of need. [More…]
its costliness to patients and their families, and [More…]
The Opposition is pleased that the Government has decided to move, at the very least, in this direction because the cost of maintaining elderly people in nursing homes has become a very great burden not only on the elderly people themselves but also on their sons and daughters who, more often than not, are flat out keeping pace with the ever-increasing cost of maintaining, rearing and educating their families. [More…]
According to the second reading speech of the then Minister for Health it was estimated that 84,000 families and 271,000 persons would be eligible for assistance under the scheme. [More…]
When the scheme was first mooted last year it was estimated that 84,000 families and 271,000 persons would be eligible for assistance under the scheme. [More…]
We have elderly persons without families where home nursing care would be impossible and where domiciliary nursing care would be impractical also. [More…]
These place an increasing burden on the management of the homes, on the organisations, on the people who voluntarily assist them and, of course, on the families of those people who are patients in nursing homes where there is a gap between what might be given in Government assistance and what is the lowest charge which can be made by a nursing home with the required service. [More…]
I refer, first, to persons in receipt of unemployment, sickness and special benefits under Part VII of the Social Services Act; secondly, to migrants during the first 2 months after their arrival in Australia; and, thirdly, to low income families which have been defined in section 82u of the National Health Act. [More…]
The fact that this assistance is available to low income families brings to mind the ways in which they might best be advised of the services which they are eligible to receive. [More…]
We think perhaps of the increasing development through local government authorities of social welfare officers who are in touch with persons living in a community and who, for various other reasons, are aware of many needs of families throughout the community. [More…]
Very few families can meet that kind of cost. [More…]
In the past many families have had to make great sacrifices. [More…]
This, together with the age pension, has enabled families to avail themselves of nursing homes. [More…]
Those eligible to receive benefits under the scheme are persons in receipt of unemployment, sickness and special benefits under Part VII of the Social Services Act; immigrants during the first 2 months after entry to Australia, and such immigrants must be the holders of entry permits not being temporary entry permits in force under the Migration Act; and low income families as defined in section 82u of the National Health Act. [More…]
its costliness to patients and their families, and [More…]
The figures I have are in the order of 82,000, 11,000 low income families and 28,000 migrants. [More…]
It was designed to help the unemployed and low income families who are unable to meet fund payments. [More…]
I repeat that I regret that the Democratic Labor Party cannot see its way clear to support a genuine proposition put forward at this stage by the Labor movement to protect the take home pay of the ordinary average Australian workers, particularly those with families and with dependents who suffer from chronic illnesses such as diabetes, asthma, ulcers or what have you. [More…]
The Postmaster-General has since received many inquiries and representations from honourable members and honourable senators, 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…]
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…]
and (2) Aborigines who are members of low income families or who are in receipt of unemployment sickness er special benefits arc eligible for this assistance under the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan. [More…]
It is proposed to introduce, as from 1st November 1971, a simplified application form for low income families. [More…]
ls the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that reports of the tidal wave and cyclone which struck the Bengali coast last weekend state thai 10,000 families are believed to have perished, that an estimated 4 million people are now homeless and that the entire crop of the Orissa rice bowl and 5,000 cattle also were destroyed in this disaster? [More…]
In view of the fact that the present policy of assisted migration could separate families and must lead to international criticism of Australia, will the Minister consider some relaxation of the present policy which is prejudical to non-Europeans? [More…]
Some costing has been undertaken, at short notice, in relation to the Opposition’s proposal to increase the levy on taxable income to 1.3S per cent and to raise the level of exemption of low income families to $1,730 per annum. [More…]
Has there been any noticeable increase in applications for health insurance from families on low incomes and eligible migrants since the investigations by the [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that the simplified revised procedures for applications, operative from 1st November 1971, will be distributed to all agencies including Darwin and that trade union organisations are supplied with details for publication in their journals to encourage low income families to avail themselves of the benefits of the scheme? [More…]
I feel sure that this deductibility will be welcomed by the many families who incur expenses under this heading. [More…]
They affect particularly larger sized families because those families have more commitments to meet. [More…]
Unfortunately there are some people in Tasmania today who have had to pawn their belongings - even pawn their beds - to get money to pay rent and to buy food for their wives and families. [More…]
When average earnings throughout Austalia are in excess of $80 a week and we find that people in the community have to pawn their beds, their television sets and their radios in an effort to obtain food for their wives and families, we are in a pretty sorry state. [More…]
I hope that every wool farmer in Australia in his plight tonight, every member of their families, every person in a country town, every storekeeper and every farm worker has made a mental note that in the Labor Party’s terms the Government in injecting valuable credit for the wool industry is squandering money which should have been used for social services. [More…]
It is a fact that today more than ever before there are 2 incomes going into many families because wives work. [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…]
The second is a rental assistance grant to help the States meet the cost to them of reducing the rents of housing authority dwellings for families they consider to be in need of this assistance. [More…]
It is intended as a general Commonwealth contribution towards the cost of the States of charging reduced rents to needy families occupying housing authority homes. [More…]
It is to be used by the housing authority in each State to reduce 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…]
Does the Minister know this is causing considerable hardship to a great number of unemployed workers, particularly those who have young families, and that lack of money is hindering those men in their search of employment avenues that might otherwise be available to them? [More…]
Following the transfer of large shareholdings held in Electronic Industries Ltd by, the Abrahams and Warner families to Pye Ltd of England, GTV was deemed, in accordance with the provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act, to be controlled byPye Ltd. [More…]
J hope that the Commonwealth will recognise, particularly in relation to larger families, how much it is costing Commonwealth. [More…]
State and municipal authorities to permit poor housing conditions, which in many cases are the only conditions available to larger families. [More…]
At present many families are unable to give the little bit of extra assistance in the way of education that they would like to give to their children because they are groaning under the burden of the interest rate of 7 per cent or 8 per cent that they have lo pay on their housing loans. [More…]
They will also receive some $1.25m towards the cos of rental assistance which they have granted to lower income families in past years. [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 Senate. [More…]
What service does he provide to ex-servicemen and the families of exservicemen on the matters which concern them? [More…]
Does he realise that 2,000 men and their families on unemployment relief will cost approximately $2,500,000 a year and that all that is required to keep the gold mining industry alive is for the Government to contribute approximately$3m by raising the subsidy paid on gold from $8 per oz to $12 per oz? [More…]
They have families of their own. [More…]
I am still awaiting an answer to a plea that the case should bc subject to a review to see why the accident of their birth in India and their parentage should in any way inhibit their right now that they are middle aged, to bring their families here under the same circumstances as any other British citizen. [More…]
As our Leader pointed out on that occasion, the policy of the Australian Labor Party would be to re-unite in Australia with their families those who were nominated by Australian residents. [More…]
In that case the father and brother of this man and their families were granted assisted passage to Australia. [More…]
We of the Labor movement believe that the best migrants for Australia are other members of families of migrants who have settled here. [More…]
The Leader of our Party has the belief that the most urgent need for the country today in accepting migrants is to re-unite families. [More…]
Migrants admitted under the present Government’s policy will be more beneficial to the country if they are re-united here with their families. [More…]
Senator Laucke made the point that it has been said that the Act should be amended to allow families to go into partnership on a property or in a business. [More…]
Not only does it contribute to employment but it means that workers and their families who have had a lifetime in isolated areas will be required to seek employment in the metropolitan area, thereby creating a demand on ail the community services provided in the metropolitan area - houseing, water supply, sewerage, power, roads and other services, in addition to schooling for their children. [More…]
By far the biggest group is the low income families who live in a high price area where the situation is being aggravated continuously by increasing inflation. [More…]
They would much prefer to exercise a motherly interest in the welfare of their families. [More…]
The only comment I would make is that unemployment strikes with particular harshness in larger families where the mar.gin between no income and some reasonable income, though inadequate, is slight and the situation becomes very desperate where a number of children are dependent on one breadwinner who becomes unemployed. [More…]
The report went on to state that intimate dealings with the families of the sick, with the chronically ill and the poverty ridden in our affluent society, as well as the anxious and socially incompetent, revealed that they found the fine print in insurance agreements very difficult to understand. [More…]
We also need to have information on large families with low incomes who form a high proportion of Australians living below the poverty line. [More…]
Naturally there will be an additional impost upon families. [More…]
Under the proposed new tariff the cost to a family with 3 children attending school will bc $63 and for a family of 6 - there are a number of families like this in the Australian Capital Territory - it will be approximately $126 per year. [More…]
It is not a completely indirect tax, but it is a taxation measure nevertheless which hits at the larger families once again. [More…]
The fare refund provision was included in the regulations following a suggestion by the Advisory Council that concessions be granted to families suffering hardship. [More…]
Members of the Council did not express any objection to the proposed fare increases but suggested, as a Council, that the Department of Education and Science consider granting school bus fare concessions to families suffering hardship. [More…]
That figure suggests to me that there could be changes in the economic wellbeing of families in this area to the extent that there could be a great addition to the burden of the welfare people here. [More…]
It is very difficult because those who do interest themselves in union affairs - everybody knows that that is a very small minority of the membership of any union today; my colleagues in the Labor Party know this, whether or not they will admit it - are those who take an interest, who have to stand up to not only the physical threats of violence against themselves but also the harassment of their wives and families by telephone calls in the middle of the night which threaten and use vile language. [More…]
Free family planning facilities for those who have large families and cannot decently care for them. [More…]
I have not suggested forcing anyone to have this, but only to make it free to those who ask for it, when it is clearly in the community interest not to have multitudes of problem families. [More…]
But they do object if it happens that some few children in the independent schools come from independent families. [More…]
It was the best evidence that I have seen in recent times of community interest, co-operation and personal sacrifice not only to the members of their own families but also to the education community at large. [More…]
Will he advise the Senate on steps being taken to meet the urgent needs of handicapped persons and their families? [More…]
In particular the Division provides bridging assistance to unemployed persons and their families to cover the period after application has been made for unemployment benefits and before such benefits are paid. [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…]
Employees because of principles which they stuck out to support faced starvation and saw their families deprived. [More…]
In dealing with social service matters the Government seems to be reluctant to pay due deference to families. [More…]
The Government, in its attitude towards families, seems to be imbued with a reluctance to give due consideration to the requirements in an economy such as ours in which prices have been spiralling. [More…]
This has thrown an extra strain on the family unit, particularly on larger families. [More…]
We have always pushed the argument that the current rates of child endowment have been insufficient particularly in respect to families with an excess of 2 or 3 children. [More…]
There are areas where the incomes of people and families are below an established subsistence level. [More…]
There were 11,508 vacant berths on the 3 ships in the crucial months of November and December 1971 and January 1972 when people were dying to travel, to visit their families and to do the other things which they have a right to do. [More…]
As the block will take 4 dwellings I only hope that they put 4 Aboriginal families next to me.’ [More…]
Too many good Australian families in this community of ours are not getting sufficient of this world’s goods while a limited number of people are getting too many. [More…]
It is not really a very funny matter for those people who are suffering hardship, who have families and who are not able to put those little things on the table that one would expect in this day of enlightenment, in this age, in this technological era when we hear so much about the benefits derived from what is happening in this community of ours being passed on to the community at large. [More…]
I could quote a dozen cases, as undoubtedly Senator Negus could, in which families who have lived on a farm for years have found that when the head of the family has died the demands of both Federal and State estate duty have made it essential to sell part of the property. [More…]
It is a blight on our community that for the past 40 or 50 years rural holdings have been broken in two and families have been divided. [More…]
Loss of Renold would reduce Benalla by some 800 people, counting families, from a population of 8.000 down to about 7,200. [More…]
We strongly recommend that visiting nursing services, providing not only health supervision but also demonstrations and nursing care, should be designed to help all persons who have a disability, to help them adapt to the limitations which have been imposed upon them and to enable them to live among their families and friends rather than to find their way into some impersonal institution. [More…]
It is conceded that family groups - ‘wuntoks’ as they are known - have the right to live on and have whatever may be the property of their own families or tribal groups. [More…]
For many years thereafter families did not develop under the institution of marriage because they had been completely shattered as tribes. [More…]
I know from personal and continued contact with the missions not only in the city of Adelaide itself but also in some of its suburbs of the needs of families for clothing, warmth in winter, food, money and general help. [More…]
Many of them are married men with families. [More…]
There are still many, many families living in caravans in Townsville. [More…]
Any responsible government must provide additional services to meet the needs of workers and their families engaged in development schemes such as those proceeding in Queensland under the present State Government. [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…]
Although, as Senator McManus did say, there is no severe drug problem in this country with young people at this time, he meant in effect what the Committee members pointed out in the report, that is, that although no severe overall problem in terms of numbers exists now sufficient young people are being affected as to make the problem serious for them and for their immediate families. [More…]
Families are suffering the side effects of the addiction of their children, especially young children. [More…]
Did the Minister also notice that the ALP undertakes to provide families whose taxable income is less than $1,700 with free health cover? [More…]
I respond to the question by pointing out that whilst the Leader of the Opposition in another place seems to make great play of his proposal that families with a taxable income of less than $1,700 a year would receive free health care, he conveniently overlooks the fact that this Government provides free health care to people whose income is less than $2,417, not $1,700. [More…]
If the latter proposition is the case, will not the 1.35 per cent compulsory levy be substantially more costly to the great majority of families than is the present voluntary scheme? [More…]
You yourself have referred to the problem facing students from low income families who wish to attend a university or college of advanced education. [More…]
In its development of policies for support of tertiary institutions and for assistance to students who can be expected to have a reasonable prospect of success in tertiary studies, the Commonwealth Government has preferred to direct its efforts to an increase in the number of awards and an improvement in the benefits for those from lower income families. [More…]
If this statement is correct, will the Minister bring pressure on the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs to provide additional suitable accommodation for these families. [More…]
Many who had a religious background opposed the reforms because of the poverty that would result in the families in which children of 6 and 7 years of age were holding down jobs for 10 hours a day 6 days a week. [More…]
They saw the awful tragedy of poverty that would be aggravated in the families if these mites, these little children, were taken out of industry. [More…]
So we progressed from that stage, and Australia was part of the progression because in the early days of settlement of this country some of the people who were sent here from England as criminals were people who had been audacious enough to try to form industrial organisations to protect themselves and their families from the circumstances that can so obviously emanate from a completely undisciplined and uncontrolled community with no laws to guide it in relation to manufacturing and other industries, whether they be coal mines, boot factories, spinning mills or the more modern versions that we have today. [More…]
The Government has divided families on this issue. [More…]
Mr Dougherty said large families were not uncommon in rural areas. [More…]
Has any survey been conducted by the Department of Social Services as to the social effects that unemployment is having on rural communities, particularly in regard to persons who have families to rear and educate, and who, in moving to other areas for employment, have to sell their homes at an under-valuation price in order to effect a sale. [More…]
In recognition of the difficulties of families such as these, unemployment benefit rates were increased substantially as from 25 th February 1972. [More…]
They need advice on planning estates, arranging finance, the use of trust funds, entering into contracts, asserting citizen rights under the Constitution, defending themselves or their families in the courts of the land, fighting for their freedom and liberty, and generally in asserting citizenship. [More…]
The families of those 640 men possibly will be denied their livelihood. [More…]
The Broken Hill South company proposes to close this mine and to put 640 men out of work, with consequent effects upon their families, because it says it cannot continue at this rate. [More…]
This action will mean tragedy for a large number of families. [More…]
Full-time students who had to live away from home to take their course also qualified for certain travel costs, for themselves and their families between their home and the centre in which their place of study was situated. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Housing say whether any consideration has been given to establishing housing loans for low income families at extremely low interest rates which are more in line with the actual risk of the capital of the loans so that low income families can have some chance of eventually owning their own home? [More…]
Where is the assistance for large families on low incomes? [More…]
The principal purpose of the Budget is to achieve social and economic goals of significance to all Australians and particularly to families. [More…]
Without doubt, it is a tax benefit situation or a tax reduction arrangement to look after people on middle and lower incomes, the people with responsibilities, the people with families - the thrifty and the provident who traditionally have been the hard core of this country and have made this country great and strong. [More…]
I believe that it has been accepted by the community generally and that it will assist in achieving the social and economic goals which are of significance to Australia and Australian families. [More…]
They are people who perhaps have had small holdings and who wish to get them into the hands of their sons or families. [More…]
As stated in the Budget Speech, it is to benefit children from low income and other special need families. [More…]
The statement of the Treasurer is: to benefit children from low income and other special need families. [More…]
This is a most important matter and one which should, as other honourable senators have pointed out, lead to an encouragement for the people in the community to attempt to provide in the future estates to leave to their families which will not be all taken by way of taxation at the point of death. [More…]
I am thinking of single parent families and in particular of the special difficulties experienced by widowers with young children. [More…]
They also will assist in alleviating the hardship and strain which the families of those people have had to bear as a result of the perpetual cost of paying for nursing home care for an aged parent. [More…]
Our proposals are geared to achieve social and economical goals of significance to all Australians and particularly families. [More…]
As the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) said when introducing this most important national financial document of the year, it is ‘geared to achieve social and economic goals of significance to all Australians and particularly families’. [More…]
The present situation in which orchardists have to grub out their trees means that in many cases they must vacate that ground because the acreage they have is not sufficient to enable them to produce an economic crop which will support them and their families over a period of 12 months. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minster representing the Minister for the Interior been drawn to a statement made by Mr Edmund Vestey in a recent radio interview in London, which was broadcast in Australia, in which Mr Vestey claimed that Aboriginal families were burning the new homes which his company had constructed for them in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Despite Senator Poke reading from the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) to try to prove the contrary, it sets out quite clearly the reductions in taxation over a wide range of incomes, and it proves quite clearly that the income tax concessions are aimed to benefit the lower income workers and those with families. [More…]
Surely the Government does not need to hold an inquiry to discover that in practical terms thousands of families are obliged to live close to the poverty line. [More…]
I refer to those families in which there are 4 or 5 children or more and the father is earning a low income. [More…]
These are the families which are particularly in need of government concern and assistance. [More…]
I have no objection to mothers being free to work if they want to do so, but by failing to increase child endowment the Government has positively disadvantaged those mothers who wish to give full time care to their families, and particularly to their children. [More…]
I suggest that the inquiry into the taxation system, which is to be conducted by Mr Justice Asprey, might consider the possibility of abolishing the present system of concessional tax deductions, except for those deductions which directly benefit families. [More…]
It relates to children of families who live in very isolated ureas and who are suffering because of the problems associated with their education. [More…]
If the Government wants to impose the tax on anyone, it should impose it on charities and strangers in blood, not the members of families. [More…]
The plan is a combination of, firstly, the probate and gift duty provisions; secondly, abolition of the means test, which will help the families on the land; and, thirdly, the provision at the moment of $20m as a start to establish long term loans for diversification. [More…]
The Senate extends its deepest sympathies lo the families and relatives of the deceased, and calls upon all countries which participated in the Games to preserve this unique institution from attacks upon its competitors and ideals. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of growing concern among Service personnel and their wives and families that the delay of the Government in announcing its policy in relation to the report of the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation indicates that the Government is not disposed to accept the recommendations of the Committee? [More…]
J do not accept as a fact what the honourable senator says is the reaction of some Service personnel and their wives and families to delay by the. [More…]
of families. [More…]
I intend to expand on those aspects of this Budget which have relevance to human needs and especially to the social goals of families - Budget aspects which clearly demonstrate that this Government is aware of its responsibilities and is best fitted to lead the country in the 1970s. [More…]
The proposals for an increase in grants under the Home Savings Grant Act from $500 to $750 and the raising of the maximum value of a home which may attract a grant from $17,500 to $22,500 both reflect a realistic appraisal of housing costs and the needs of young families in particular. [More…]
This is a general Commonwealth contribution towards the cost to State housing authorities of charging reduced rents to families that they consider need this assistance. [More…]
This expansion of support measures for migrant families should do much to break communication barriers and to help new Australians adjust to aa environment which cannot but be alien to them at first but which can offer them exceptional opportunities for security, prosperity and happiness. [More…]
Whilst congratulating the Government for its humane approach to the personal needs of migrant families, I would like to refer to the way in which our migration policies go so far towards meeting so many of the basic needs of the entire nation. [More…]
Since most families do not have their own personal household effects with them on arrival not only are the flats fully furnished but also all necessary household equipment, including linen and cutlery, is provided. [More…]
The provision of $14 a week to families which maintain their senior members in the home is indeed praiseworthy and should provide added incentive to family responsibility. [More…]
Previously where one family had been raking in income and little country towns were unknown, as a result of the soldier settlement scheme under the Cain Labor Government of the time in Victoria, those properties were cut up and many, many families were placed on them to develop these areas. [More…]
Our proposals are geared to achieve social and economic goals of significance to all Australians and particularly families. [More…]
In Queensland 194 mothers supervised, 30 families employed domestic help and 40 families employed governesses. [More…]
In South Australia there were 206 fulltime correspondence pupils in homes; the number of mothers supervising those pupils apparently was not known: there were 26 families with governesses, and 4 families employed domestic help. [More…]
In Queensland there are 809 families and 2,205 children made up of 469 at the preschool level, 1,038 at the primary level, 670 at the secondary level and 28 at the tertiary level. [More…]
There are 46 split homes, 40 governesses, 194 mothers who teach correspondence in the home, 30 families that employ domestic help and 748 children who live away to attend school at distances between 100 and 1,000 miles. [More…]
Families forced off land. [More…]
We have the other case, as has been pointed out, of the families which have split homes, as they are called. [More…]
These problems concern families, the children of men and women from all walks of life. [More…]
Departmental records indicate that many of the remaining aged persons would be living either with their families or relatives, under conditions which they themselves would not want to change or in good standard accommodation which they rent from private owners at a reasonable rate. [More…]
Need’ is to be decided by the organisation having regard to the following considerations: (i) the applicant’s degree of frailty or medical condition; (ii) the agc of the applicant - priority to be given to those in the upper age groups, that is over 75 years of age; (iii) the applicant’s existing accommodation situation - preference to be given to frail elderly people living alone or those whose families can no longer accommodate or care for them for domestic, social dr other reasons; and (iv) the financial position of the applicant - other things being equal preference is to be given io pensioner medical service pensioners, particularly those who cannot afford to meet the rental of the premises in which they are residing. [More…]
The children are very much prized and loved in their families as they are in our families. [More…]
I am hoping that it will achieve a better end result for the ordinary Aborigine than was achieved last year and that the money will not flow into vested areas, to created positions, to empire building within a department in a way which will absorb the money and which will be of no use to the Aborigines and their families. [More…]
One finds children of even well to do families dropping out from the higher level of education and giving up scholarships, because despite their parents’ income, of which they are not necessarily beneficiaries, they arc denied the necessary living allowances that are made available to other members of the community. [More…]
There are people who have reared families and refuse to accept the modern idea of a companionship that is not recognised by the rest of the community. [More…]
Indeed, some nations adopted all sorts of techniques to increase the number of members in families. [More…]
However such people certainly should not be economically squeezed as a result of having families of that size. [More…]
People with smaller families have to buy only one or two pens at the beginning of the school year but the mother of those 6 children will be paying 5c tax on every one of those 15c pens. [More…]
At least, if child endowment is not keeping pace with the inflated prices it ought to be keeping p.ice with the inflated taxes that are imposed through sales tax measures upon people with larger families. [More…]
And it should be recounted that over 60 per cent of age pensioners own their own homes and that many others are housed by their families. [More…]
This is a measure which I think is realistic because there are many people now who are in 2 income earning families. [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 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…]
He has divided families and caused bitter quarrels among relatives and friends. [More…]
His insistence on the regular payment of moneys to the church at a rate beyond that which families can economically afford has led to many cases of physical hardship. [More…]
A respected Anglican priest or I will be able to give him the names of the families which have been affected grievously by this man’s activities. [More…]
There have been instances in which families have been thrown out. [More…]
Forest farming is undoubtedly something that will have to come and families should be playing their part in providing the forests of this country. [More…]
It has been of great value to many families in Australia. [More…]
I mention the disturbance of families that have devoted themselves for years to the building up of only one asset which basically is land. [More…]
But we have this situation where a penalty is imposed upon those people who have made honest endeavours throughout their lives to do what they could for their families and dependants who are now penalised by this iniquitous form of taxation. [More…]
We can go further and relate this situation to the rural industry in which we have seen in recent years not just problems but great tragedies faced by many families through the application of estate duty. [More…]
I would hope, as Senator Primmer said tonight, that the State government will try to ease this duty in order to assist people to pass on some of their savings, which they have earned by a conscientious approach to their job and by applying thrift throughout their working lives, for the security of their families. [More…]
We equally believe that if people decide in their lifetime to do something for their children and to build something up in order to pass it on, that is thrift and providence, and they are entitled to pass it to their families without having some person who has never tried to do anything in his life - I am not talking of anybody in this chamber, far from it - saying that they cannot do that, they shall not do that, or that they are not allowed to do that. [More…]
I believe they are the people with families who build up Australia. [More…]
In the latter stages of this debate tonight reference has been made to matters of deep concern to families. [More…]
The reasons may be in the educational structure of the educational system or the structure of some families. [More…]
Earlier in this debate Senator Webster in all innocence referred to the fact that the Commonwealth had raised the threshhold of probate duty, as far as families are concerned, to $40,000. [More…]
He said that this would grant tremendous relief to the families of decreased persons. [More…]
We accepted this point and then requested an allowance to families of non-attendance school children similar to the allowance of $200 per year in Western Australia. [More…]
failing to provide decent housing for Aboriginal families; [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 two months of arrival in Australia. [More…]
In addition, the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) is introducing 3 new measures to assist the health and welfare of chronically-ill aged people (i) by giving additional assistance to patients of nursing homes: (ii) by increasing the Commonwealth subsidies paid lo organisations providing home nursing services; and (iii) by providing a new domiciliary care benefit to encourage and assist families and relatives to accept responsibility in their homes for the provision of the professional nursing care and supportive services required by an aged and infirm person, in order to reduce the demand for nursing home treatment At the same time the Ministers for Health and [More…]
failing to provide decent housing for Aboriginal families. [More…]
The Government is trying to do something in providing housing for Aboriginal families. [More…]
Families earning $54.50 a week ($2,834 a year) or less pay only one-third of the normal hospital and medical insurance contribution; and families earning $57.50 a week ($2,990) or less would pay two-thirds of the normal contribution. [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 minimum wage level payable under Commonwealth awards in the various States. [More…]
The Government considers that the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan is providing significant relief to low income families and other needy sections of the community. [More…]
The graduated scale of assistance provided by the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan to low income families overcomes difficulties which might arise if there were a sharp cut-off point as would be the case under the Australian Labor Party’s proposals. [More…]
They include mothers with young families. [More…]
The latter include one-parent families, newly - arrived 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 children themselves. [More…]
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…]
I hope that the matter will be treated sympathetically as about 15 families are involved because of the new route that has been decided on by the Committee. [More…]
That shortages of School Medical Officers, clinical and educational psychologists, child psychiatrists, speech therapists, social workers and remedial teachers are causing frustration, un-happiness, and emotional instability for large numbers of individual children and their families. [More…]
I believe that they represent a blight on past planning because such development has been to the detriment of the living standards of the families in them. [More…]
If they did this they would eliminate the industrial unrest that is worrying not only the people of Gladstone - the men and their families - but also the State of Queensland generally. [More…]
At the end of motion add, ‘but the Senate 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…]
One should remember that within Australia there are not so many families with different age groups of people within the family structure. [More…]
For them to feel loved they have to be placed with families where they can be absorbed in a normal atmosphere. [More…]
People are not having families of 6, 7 and 8 children in the general sense now. [More…]
Today we try to place orphans as much as we can amongst other families and although not the whole of the gap can be bridged at least part of it can. [More…]
The honourable senator is amongst those who are grizzling and saying that the unemployment figures are the greatest threat the country has ever known when he knows as well as I do that there are many people who have 2 jobs and many families who have 3 jobs. [More…]
We should subsidise private families to fill the gap as that type of care would held less danger of psychiatric damage to the child than any institutionalised system. [More…]
For instance, if the assistance provided is aimed purely at those children who are in need insofar as the assets and background of their families are concerned, there will be created an institution for purely that type of child. [More…]
The children are not separated from their families. [More…]
Senator Little thought that some provision may be made whereby families can take into their homes children of working parents and other parents who cannot look after them. [More…]
There is no provision in the Social Services Act for families destitute in such circumstances. [More…]
Practically anywhere at all north of the Tropic of Capricorn in Queensland, in the Northern Territory to a lesser degree, and in those areas in Western Australia where mining development has taken place or railway construction is being carried out, one can find large numbers of Islanders who have left their island homes because of the lack of employment opportunities for both themselves and their families. [More…]
They have a special impact on the lowest paid group in the community, the pensioners, and the large families, which have no hope of compensating themselves. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a report that half a million people will be on the waiting list of Housing Commissions in 2 years because of the collapse of Australia’s programme to house lowincome families at cheap rental rates. [More…]
I am sure honourable senators will join me in conveying sympathy to the families and associates of those former members of this Parliament, each of whom contributed in his own way to the growth of democracy in this country. [More…]
Two of them held very high office and contributed in their own way to the parliamentary process which we know to be taxing not only on them but also on their families. [More…]
We are proud to serve in the same Parliament as those former members who have passed on and we convey our sympathy to their families. [More…]
It is interesting to recall, as Senator Murphy related, that both the Riordan and the Burke families had an interest in politics. [More…]
Mr President, I should like to associate myself and my Party with the tributes that have been paid and to offer our sympathy to the wives and families concerned. [More…]
Mr Riordan was a member of one of the best known Queensland Labor families and for many years he represented a very difficult seat in the north of Queensland. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable senators will join with me in having this Parliament convey its sympathy to the families of the late Presidents and to the American people. [More…]
On behalf of Country Party senators I extend to the families of the 3 men our deepest sympathy. [More…]
Their families have been born and raised there. [More…]
They have to be separated from their families and from their children for no less than 2 years in order to earn sufficient money to maintain their families. [More…]
It is their native land; it is the land they know; it is the land where they were born and bred and where they have reared their families. [More…]
This section, of the Act is interpreted to apply to families which are temporarily separated but not. [More…]
to families which are permanently separated. [More…]
I will say now that I am satisfied, and a number of other people are quite satisfied, that there has been a racket in divorce, a racket which has been perpetrated against the public and a racket which has meant the ruin of families. [More…]
Does the Minister intend to give such assistance in the future to all migrant families which wish to return to their own countries? [More…]
These people and their unhappy families neither sought to be, nor wish to remain, among the ranks of the unemployed. [More…]
I cannot but criticise a government which claims to have achieved greatness in this matter but which this year is paying and is content to pay to some families an amount well below the poverty line. [More…]
The men had to draw up their roots, leave their homes and take their families to the city in order to try to find employment. [More…]
I have in mind young people who have no families to help them and to encourage them to keep employment. [More…]
Indeed some wealthy employers led the fight to get children out of the coal mines and spinning mills of Great Britain, but they were resisted greatly by many of the parents of the children, who could not see how their families could survive without the incomes they had been used to receiving from the labours of the child members of their families. [More…]
The Department of Immigration looked at the criteria that it applies, and some families and some diplomats were allowed to stay. [More…]
These excessive cost charges have meant the ruin of some families. [More…]
Our purpose is to try to reflect in the best possible manner a more modern concept in many of these matters to the advantage of those unfortunately involved in matrimonial proceedings, with particular regard to the welfare of the families and children of parties involved in divorce litigation. [More…]
The increased prices are placed on the backs of the working men when they marry and wish to buy a home in which to raise their families. [More…]
This implies that the UDBA or Yugoslav Secret Police agents may be involved, lt is considered notable that in the many bomb incidents in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra at Yugoslav consulates and embassies there have never been any deaths or injuries of Yugoslav Government personnel or their families. [More…]
I am surprised that my friends opposite have not recoiled in horror at these large scale nocturnal visits which, in the main, have been on migrant families who have left their countries to come here to be free of that sort of intrusion. [More…]
Looking back through the vicissitudes of the industries since their inception in a very humble and small way we see an indomitable spirit applied by the old families who got these industries going and who, through generations, built them up. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make funds available for the State housing authorities so that they may provide more homes as early as possible for letting to needy families and persons. [More…]
Consistent with the principles we adhere to, we are 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…]
It will particularly facilitate the contentment of people and permit the reunion of families. [More…]
development of a soldier settlement on King Island and have committed people and families to the establishment of themselves on King Island in the pursuit of various enterprises. [More…]
This is in accordance with the purpose of the scheme to provide homes for eligible persons with families. [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…]
It is a matter for each university to determine who should receive assistance, but the Minister for Education has indicated that he 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…]
We are moving more and more into a crisis of world dimensions whereby the civilised members of our community - the teachers, the doctors, the drivers, the clerks, the far.mers - want the peace of mind in which they and their womenfolk and their families can go about their daily lives purposefully, without fear. [More…]
As 1 have said before, if some of the parliamentarians in this chamber were to experience the situation where their own families were being seriously threatened by a released prisoner of. [More…]
to give such assistance in future to all migrant families which wish to return to their home countries? [More…]
Two of the older boys had married, and they remained in Australia with their families. [More…]
This Government rests upon the goodwill of the mass of ordinary working people, their wives and their families. [More…]
It will bring a lot of happiness to many families. [More…]
Does this proposal point to a change in the Government’s policy which was directed towards assisted passages for relatives of families already resident in Australia? [More…]
to provide transport, accommodation, provisions, medical treatment, hospital facilities and amenities for officers and employees of the Authority and their families; [More…]
It must be borne in mind that under the Government scheme if the wife is working - and one-third of all wives work, particularly in the lower income families - the wife as well as the husband will pay 1.35 per cent of her taxable income. [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 in which the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner (exclusive of any overtime and child endowment payments) does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as denned 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 that 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 previous Commonwealth-State Housing Agreements that become available during the year for reallocation. [More…]
Indeed, we are most concerned to ensure that the benefit of our housing assistance in the form of a very low rate of interest be passed on to needy families and persons. [More…]
The Minister for Housing has suggested to the States that rents charged to families with incomes close to the upper limit of the needs test should not exceed 22i per cent of those incomes and that the proportions 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 buy or build a home. [More…]
We have not overlooked the most helpful role of the co-operative terminating housing societies in assisting lower income families to own their own homes. [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: there is a tendency on the part of some people to regard families living in those areas as being second class citizens. [More…]
It is proposed, under the agreement, that the Commonwealth Minister will determine the amount of welfare housing advances to each State during the next 5 years, so that 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…]
Earlier immigration to this country took place, in an era of larger families which coincided with the tail end of the United States development. [More…]
But the numbers of larger families tapered off and the population figure became static. [More…]
The people who migrated to the United States from Europe usually had families, the minimum number of which ranged from say 4 to 6 and the maximum from perhaps 10 to 12. [More…]
That was the reason why in the early life of this Government we endeavoured to accelerate the reuniting of families. [More…]
This is hardly conducive to achieving a smooth flow of locally-recruited workers even though the Company’s officers maintain that many Australians prefer to precede their families and stay in the single men’s hostel in order to ‘look Whyalla over’ before bringing their families. [More…]
Anybody who has traced the history of housing from the bad old days of landlordism will recognise that families can become attached to the area and the surroundings in which they live as well as the friendships formed in their district. [More…]
Whilst he and the Labor Government accepted the principle that young married couples should be provided for in the new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement, there was a greater need to provide accommodation for the low income groups with families and the other persons to whom I have referred. [More…]
In addition to those concessions and advantages the 1971 legislation provided a grant of $ 1.25m each year over a 5-year period for the purpose of providing, as the legislation indicated, assistance for needy families and the type of accommodation they wanted. [More…]
25m - would be made available for the provision of housing for needy families. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable senators would wish the sincere condolences of the Senate to be conveyed to the Indian Government and to the families of the bereaved. [More…]
The committee prepared a reasoned submission which did not oppose the entry of TAA but which .pointed out the danger of the loss of experienced pilots to Australian aviation and, from a humanitarian angle, the effect that any loss of employment would have on young men who have made aviation their life and on their families. [More…]
We should believe in complete integration and complete sharing, both today and in the future, of their families with our families in the potential of this Australia of ours. [More…]
We want to have coming here people who have that great burst of enthusiasm that will enable them to tackle the enormous problems involved in starting life in a new country and integrating their families into our community so that they will become fellow Australians along with all of us. [More…]
We tend to think of them as people who help individuals, families, communities or groups of persons who happen to be disadvantaged in one way or another and that social workers are expected to contribute to the creation of conditions which will enhance social functioning and prevent personal breakdowns. [More…]
So traditionally the social worker is committed to helping people adapt to their particular problems and to the social environment in which they find themselves and generally to understand the norms and the quality of life of individuals, families and groups. [More…]
Palmerston freeway was reconsidered because 11 families would be inconvenienced. [More…]
Yet we sent the Public Works Committee back to Darwin because we found that in a proposal for the Palmerston freeway some 11 families would be inconvenienced. [More…]
I wrote to the Minister that ‘I will fight this thing which I believe is a monstrous thing, and which will cause unnecessary misery, for many families together with other territorians’. [More…]
We must remember that a majority of these people are very small land owners who are doing their best to provide their families with a comfortable home in an area which is rather greater than the area of the blocks in Darwin. [More…]
In some families the wife works 40 hours a week and the husband works 40 hours a week just to keep the family going. [More…]
I know this because 1 receive representations in the repatriation field from people who represent exservicemen and their families; they are not backward in putting forward what they think are propositions which should be considered. [More…]
Ministers of the Government - in the previous Government and in this Government - had and have the great benefit of receiving probably a S 10,000 a year transport benefit for themselves, their wives, their families and others. [More…]
Undoubtedly his adoption of Labor philosophy was a direct consequence of this acquaintance with massive unemployment, the suffering it brought to thousands of Melbourne families, the overnight loss of fortunes, the ruination of business houses and whole streets of houses emptied by evictions. [More…]
Let Senator Mulvihill get up and say that he is going to deny assistance to those 60,000 people approximately whom the Commissioner of Taxation says are on low incomes, that he, as a senator from my State, is going to oppose low income families, because that is what he is saying by way of interjection. [More…]
In the past how many families have gone without many things because some member of the family has had the ability to take higher education? [More…]
In 45 cases the allocations were made to families in distress circumstances. [More…]
Small companies are able to reserve the benefits of their labours during the year, but if they have to pay 50 per cent undistributed profits tax after paying 471- per cent primary tax, it will be disastrous to the families and to the small companies which are manufacturing in the community. [More…]
Such facilities have been made available to the families of ex-servicemen and to civilians also. [More…]
Consider the price of homes, the sum which young people have to pay as a deposit for a home and the heavy burden of loan money which they must impose upon themselves and their families as inflation increases daily the prices of homes and land. [More…]
I repeat that the Budget should be challenged and rejected because it places the burden of its extra costs on the lower and middle income families and on people on fixed incomes. [More…]
They state: ‘Government plans tax cut’; ‘People on low incomes may pay $5 less’; ‘4 million to get tax cuts’; ‘$4 to $5 a week for poor families’. [More…]
Does the Minister support a policy which robs Australian families, entirely unnecessarily, of such a substantial amount? [More…]
I do not suppose the families in Sydney would be very much concerned whether she was Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth II or Queen Elizabeth III. [More…]
Your petitioners believe that in addition to this basic per capita grants additional assistance should be provided in cases of educational disadvantage, but they believe that the appropriate instruments for reducing economic inequalities are taxation and social welfare systems which deal with individuals and families and not with schools. [More…]
To the nearly 3 million Australian families who at this moment are paying off their homes I say that next week or the week after- probably the week after, because that will be after the Parramatta by-election- every one of them will be paying substantially more by way of interest rates for their homes. [More…]
But let the Government say to the 3 million families in Australia: ‘ Look, it is good for you that we have increased the interest rate say by 1 per cent because you will pay $ 1 5 to $20 a month more in interest. [More…]
The fact is that one in every five families in Australia today is leaving its home voluntarily for a change of environment. [More…]
Those grounds were, firstly, because it abdicates its responsibility as an instrument of economics and aggravates inflation; secondly, because it breaks a whole series of promises made in the policy speech; thirdly, because it places its main burden of costs upon lower income families; fourthly, because it attacks the rural community; fifthly, because it dismantles the defences of this country; sixthly, because of its deceit and deception; and, seventhly, because, foreshadowed and presented as a document of great historic reform, it is, in fact, a gross anti-climax and a confidence trick. [More…]
Promises were made a few weeks before the Budget and repeated by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) and others that there would be tax reduction for middle and lower income families. [More…]
It went to the people with a family endowment policy and a policy of helping poor families. [More…]
What is promised now, in fact, is the total robbing of the people of Australia, of the small families of Australia. [More…]
Also $304 per annum will be given to low income families to educate children in the last 2 years of secondary school. [More…]
People who were trying to bring up their families in one room and who were being exploited by landlords who were demanding high rentals of them as well as people who were living in shanties, huts and garages were among those who were applicants for housing authority homes. [More…]
Low income earners, migrants and large families who live in densely populated suburbs where rentals are very high are the ones who are affected most. [More…]
I bet that 90 per cent of honourable senators or their wives or other members of their families in their last illnesses went into private hospitals. [More…]
What about your wives and families? [More…]
Because of the low social service unemployment benefit families were deprived and the demand for goods was curtailed further. [More…]
I am concerned about that when I consider the number of Australian families who expect social service benefits as a result of the Budget. [More…]
Every one of these families has to face up to these increased prices. [More…]
In addition, the rapid price increases have placed burdens on persons on low incomes, persons on fixed incomes, larger families and pensioners. [More…]
I have heard men with families say that it is ridiculous to work because they can get $60 a week unemployment benefits and only $55 a week if they work. [More…]
Your petitioners believe that in addition to this basic per capita grants additional assistance should be provided in cases of educational disadvantage, but they believe that the appropriate instruments for reducing economic inequalities are taxation and social welfare systems which deal with individuals and families and not with schools. [More…]
Servicemen, their wives and families can write to Ministers without those prohibitions which existed, in my day certainly, when daily routine orders carried the prohibition about servicemen not writing to members of Parliament and Ministers. [More…]
It is hard to believe that the Commonwealth expects the skippersmarried men with families to SUPport-to pay the fines out of their own pockets. [More…]
If the Government is not prepared to remit the fines and allow them to return home to their families whom they have not seen for many months because they are being held in AustraliaI think it would not be beyond the bounds of reasonableness for the Commonwealth to do this- at least it should let them out of gaol and allow them to lead ordinary lives among their own community, which has been looking after them. [More…]
Honourable senators can see that they are people who have served a long time in the newspaper world; they are people who belong to families who have given great service for many years in the parliamentary life of Australia. [More…]
It culminates primarily from the action of 2 men- 2 quite remarkable Russians- in recent weeks, one a great author and the other a world famous scientist who decided by their actions and words to put their lives and the lives of their families at risk in telling to the world their firm belief that in the country of their birth things were happening in the suppression of human liberty that they could not tolerate. [More…]
To me his words express the reasons why the man and his fellows are putting their lives and their families’ lives at total risk. [More…]
One hundred turtle farmers and their families are engaged in collecting fish and chaining water to keep these turtles alive. [More…]
Many of the growers have been in partnership with members of their own families, and in certain cases it has been very difficult to distinguish between a grower who is operating in his own right and a grower who may be the recipient of 2 payments of $1,500. [More…]
It matters a great deal to their families. [More…]
For instance, of what use are programs for the aged, expected 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 view of the recent increase in the cost of food and the consequent doubt that all school children receive an adequate amount of food from a nutritional point of view because some families cannot afford to buy enough for them, and because milk is almost a perfect food, will the Minister ask the Government to consider continuing the payment of money for the supply of school milk until a Commonwealth survey has been carried out of the nutritional needs of children, so that we will not deprive children at an age when correct nutrition is so important to their growth and development? [More…]
Whatever work we do, we are all Australians with some common objectives and hopes for ourselves and for our families. [More…]
It is for the benefit of all of us to see a healthier and more economically sound labour force in the community and to see that conditions are provided for working men and women so that they will be interested in their work and have genuine enjoyment, or as much as there can be, in a life which they must spend gaining income for themselves or their families. [More…]
1 ) That the use of the Coolangatta Airport by aircraft, especially ‘Jet DC9’s and Boeing 727V between the hours of 1 1 p.m. and 6 a.m. constitutes a major disturbance of the peace; and particularly of families with young children who are said to be terrified by the noise which at holiday times has continued throughout the night until 4.30 a.m. [More…]
If the ‘Blythe Star’ is lost, which now seems to be the case, I am sure that we all extend our extreme sympathy for the families of those on board. [More…]
In view of the utter failure of the Government’s higher interest rates policy, will the Government undertake an urgent review in order to bring early relief to all families committed by government action to such serious hardships in both home purchase and hire purchase? [More…]
It is a tragic situation for the people of Israel who find themselves in a small country of only some two million people, many of whom still bear the scars of the holocaust under the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945, and many others of whom bear the scars of memory through knowing what has happened to their families as a result of racist, antisemitic persecution in many other parts of the world, fearful of their continued existence because they believe that they are surrounded by many millions of hostile neighbours who do not acknowledge the existence of their state. [More…]
They are not willing to give the Government the legislative powers which it said are necessary in order that we may be able to solve industrial disputes in the way in which every one would want them solved, in an atmosphere of rationality and conciliation so that there would not be these industrial disruptions which affect, most of all, the workers and their families who are involved as well as interfering with the general life of the community. [More…]
There are people in this community whose families have held land for many years. [More…]
The Committee was fully charged at all times with the community’s responsibility to provide and care for disabled ex-service personnel to enable them to return to a fuller life as soon as possible, at the same time safeguarding the welfare of ex-servicemen and their families. [More…]
But there are many cases of people who in the latter stages of their lives- urged on in many instances by their families who are also suffering disability because of the diminished earning capacity of the exservicemanare persuaded to seek some repatriation benefit as a consequence of their diminished physical capacity. [More…]
those students from low income families. [More…]
Who caused the low income families? [More…]
You were the people who forced on the community low income families. [More…]
Will the Minister reconsider the withdrawal of the $3 special compensation allowance which appears as unfair discrimination against these men and 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 who might otherwise delay going to an institution for help. [More…]
When the report of the Committee was presented to the Parliament, I, as a member of the then Opposition, recalled in detail the heartrending examples that we saw at first hand of the problems of many children and their parents and, probably to a greater extent, the problems of the non-handicapped members of families which have mentally or physically handicapped children. [More…]
So at least 93,000 families are seeking homes. [More…]
The Government, in seeking action which it says will control inflation, is seeking to cut back spending by ordinary families. [More…]
In directing a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security, I refer to a statement made by the Minister appearing at page 3219 of the House of Representatives Hansard in which he said that for three out of four families, including those in which there is a working wife, the proposed national health plan would be cheaper than the present system. [More…]
Many of them even like to see their families occasionally during the parliamentary sittings. [More…]
In those days those who attended schools such as the Christian Brothers College and the De La Salle College in largely working class areas such as Burwood and Ashfield came from families the income of which was far below those of families with pupils attending independent schools such as the Riverview College where the famous Father Jordan has had so much to say on this present controversy. [More…]
If anybody went along with me to the All Hallows Convent at Haberfield in the Evans electorate he would find not only that that school is attended by children from low income families but also that the problem is compounded by migrant children. [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 young families while the needs of the aged were ignored. [More…]
However, I do think that in this society certainly not enough attention is being given to the position of young families or of young children. [More…]
I refer to the economic and social position of young families whose income is inadequate and whose children may, as the end result, suffer deprivation and denial. [More…]
This is obviously one of the ways in which the needs of young families, and particularly the needs of young children, can at least be provided for in part. [More…]
We virtually have not succeeded at all in our campaign- certainly in no large measure- in persuading either the previous government or this Government of the need for an adequate provision for child endowment in the case of families which have more than a certain number of children. [More…]
It says with quite a degree of balance that one cannot give an undue accent to the disregard of the position of the aged any more than one can give an undue accent to the disregard of the position of the younger families and children. [More…]
If public submissions are sought from interested bodies, I would indicate at this stage that if the Democratic Labor Party is invited to make a submission and if it is appropriate to do it or if in response to a request we are permitted to do so, we will make a submission to this body on the need for adequate child endowment as one of the most practical, one of the easiest and one of the most justifiable ways of assisting young families in the community. [More…]
I refer now to the query that Senator Little raised about my statement that roughly 80 per cent of students attending universities come from upper and middle income families. [More…]
As far as families are concerned, this action undoubtedly means a rise in the price of soft drinks. [More…]
He was a great figure in the Australian Labor Party, best known for his able leadership, his great endeavours to bring Australia out of the difficulties of the Second World War into an area of prosperity and to overcome the social difficulties which had arisen to allow the young men who had had their lives disrupted to find their way back into society and to make it easier for families to be founded, and for society to reestablish itself in Australia after that terrible war. [More…]
Otherwise, aged people in the higher income groups would be put m 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…]
Will the Minister reconsider the withdrawal of the $3 special compensation allowance which appears as unfair discrimination against these men and their families? [More…]
Does the Minister’s statement, which appeared on page 3219 of the House of Representatives Hansard of 13 November 1 973, that three out of four families, including those in which there is a working wife, would find the Government’s proposed national health scheme cheaper than at present, take into account the extra taxation to be paid if the proposed rate of 1 .33 per cent is itself not deductible from personal income? [More…]
Mr McVEIGH 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 often single persons? [More…]
It asks whether 3 out of 4 families would be better off under the scheme, including those where there is a working wife. [More…]
Let me give an example, which I have worked out, of what it actually means and so give the lie to the Minister’s claim that 3 out of 4 families will be better off. [More…]
I do not suppose that an income of $5,000 a year would be considered an excessive income in working families today. [More…]
He has had a direct opportunity to answer a question so that we would know precisely what this health scheme is going to cost and so that we could compare the statement that he has made to the Press, to the people of the country at large, that 3 out of 4 people will be better off even in the case of families where the wife is working. [More…]
Does the Minister’s statement, which appeared on page 3219 of the House of Representatives Hansard of 13 November 1973, that three out of four families, including those in which there is a working wife, would find the Government’s proposed national health scheme cheaper than at present, take into account the extra taxation to be paid if the proposed rate of 1.35 percent - [More…]
Senator Little cited a number of figures, which he maintains are assertions, to claim that my colleague’s statement that three out of four families will be better off under the Government’s proposals is incorrect. [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 government 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 psychological advisers. [More…]
families whose taxable incomes are $2210 or less and who claim $100 or more in deductions for dependants. [More…]
and their families; assistance with housing; provision of a car for official use; assistance with telephone; allowances similar to those received by other Government employees (for example, travelling allowance); $500 p.a. [More…]
Does the Minister’s statement, which appeared on page 3219 of the House of Representatives Hansard of 13 November 1973, that three out of four families, including those in which there is a working wife, would find the Government’s proposed national health scheme cheaper than at present, take into account the extra taxation to be paid if the proposed rate of 1.35 percent is itself not deductible from personal income. [More…]
and (2) The Minister for Social Security refers the honourable senator to his reply to a very similar question by a Member of the House of Representatives, Mr Tom McVeigh, Member for Darling Downs, which was asked in the House on 22 November 1973- “Mr McVeigh- 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 often single persons? [More…]
Consequently, it seems to me to be pretty good advice to young people who may have families which are somewhat dependent. [More…]
It is a school at which most of the children are the children of working mothers or families on lower or lower to middle incomes. [More…]
Of these pupils, 85 per cent come from lower-income families and are able to attend the school only because of bursaries provided by members of the Jewish community. [More…]
Does the Minister’s statement, which appeared on page 32 1 9 of the House of Representatives Hansard of 13 November 1973, that three out of four families, including those in which there is a working wife, would find the Government’s proposed national health scheme cheaper than at present, take into account the extra taxation to be paid if - [More…]
First of all, I assume that what Senator Little is asking in his original question is whether Mr Hayden, in claiming that three out of four families, including those in which there is a working wife, would be better off under the Government’s proposed health scheme, had taken into account that the 1.35 per cent levy would not be allowable as a taxation deduction. [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…]
I know how it has gone ahead quietly over the years, having been brought up amongst the vineyards of the old wine making families of the Barossa Valley. [More…]
I know how generations of families have ploughed their profits back into it over the years. [More…]
Before those families could really achieve the strength aimed at the Government has imposed upon them a variation of the system of determining what taxes should be paid. [More…]
But in the main it is still in the hands of the proprietary companies of the families who have ploughed back all the money they have made over the years and who have built up something which is an asset not only to themselves- in my opinion they have been very selfless people- but also the districts in which they are situated. [More…]
I refer, for example, to transient workers who come and go and to deserted wives and the families who do not have jobs and are not able to meet the requirements. [More…]
Surely we can assist them, particularly families going on holidays, so that they will receive the service at a reasonable charge. [More…]
In many cases people have to wait until positions are available, and it would seem to me to be reasonable to expect that they should receive benefits that others get because in many cases those young people are helping to keep families going or would be expected to do so. [More…]
Does the Minister realise that this new impost is a severe hardship on some people, particularly pensioners who might leave their homes for one or two months to live with the families of their sons or daughters for the school holidays, etc? [More…]
In view of the fact that the IATA group of international airlines have asked for a 6 per cent rise in fares, will the Government investigate the lavishness of these international airlines in the great reductions in fares which they give to members of domestic airlines staff, many of whom have nothing whatsoever to do with selling air travel, and their families and relatives? [More…]
The present scheme disadvantages some people in the community, mainly low income earners, especially those with large families and pensioners, who presently receive what can only be regarded as a second-class health service. [More…]
We seek to amend extensively the present National Health Act in order to eliminate the weaknesses in the voluntary scheme and to extend its coverage to the low-income single earner, to those with larger families, to pensioners, to newly arrived migrants and to aborigines. [More…]
It disregards the special problems of large families on low incomes, because assistance is pegged to family units of 2 persons. [More…]
But this Bill in its present form and with its associated proposals will clearly do the following: It will lower the quality of medical care for Australian families; it will increase the total costs for the Government and thus for taxpayers; it will 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; it will reduce freedom of choice; it will jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals; and by design and intent it will be the first stage of nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
lower the quality of medical care for Australian families, [More…]
This will mean that the new scheme will be cheaper for three out of four families. [More…]
Three out of four families will be better off under our scheme, including families in which there is a working wife. [More…]
The Opposition opposes the legislation and will vote against it because we believe that it will lower the quality of medical care for Australian families; that it will increase the total costs for the Government and thus the taxpayers; that it will increase total costs for the majority of taxpayers because they can maintain the present quality of their health care only by additional heavy commitments for private insurance; that it will reduce the freedom of choice; that it will jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals; and by design and intent it will be the first stage of nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
He knows that the Government has been trying to hide this from the people of the nation and that it has been doing so to try to give some truth to the lie that three out of four families will be better off financially under this scheme. [More…]
Despite that the Government says that three out of four families will be better off. [More…]
Because we believe that the proposal of the socialist Minister will mean a downgrading of the medical service and a consequent lowering of the standards of health care to Australian families, because it will destroy the existing scheme, increase the total cost to the Government and for the majority of taxpayers, because it will mean the end of private and religious hospitals, and, above all because it will mean the end of the freedom of choice of patients with respect to their doctor or hospital, we totally reject the Bill. [More…]
It is all very well to argue about whether two out of every three families are going to be better off under it or, if it is not going to be two out of every three families, whether three out of every four families are going to be better off under it. [More…]
It is all hogwash and it is all eyewash to get up in this chamber and say that two out of every three families or three out of every four families are not going to be better off. [More…]
Many people give so much of their life to political activities that they forget about preparing to be with their families and with their loved ones. [More…]
Your petitioners believe that in addition to this basic per capita grant additional assistance should bc provided in cases of educational disadvantage, but they believe that the appropriate instruments for reducing economic inequalities are taxation and social welfare systems which deal with individuals and families and not with schools. [More…]
Today the whole of the pension rate is absorbed in nursing homes and the families of the pensioners have to provide an additional $10 to $15. [More…]
This Government, by its inflation, not only has robbed the pensioners but also has robbed the pensioners’ families. [More…]
Under the leadership of Mr Hodges, the Queensland Minister for Works and Housing, 121 families were housed very quickly in Housing Commission homes. [More…]
The total number of people in those families was something like 500. [More…]
Sponsorship programs were arranged which helped both communities and families to become happy and contented units in the Austraiian community. [More…]
I ask honourable senators: Is that sufficient incentive for people to leave their wives and families and the comforts of the southern States and cities to go into these areas? [More…]
Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware of the concern recently expressed by teachers and parents, particularly at several schools in Tasmania, in relation to the withdrawal of free milk for school children and the likely effect on the health of children, particularly in lower income families? [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the tax deductibility scheme as foreshadowed greatly favours families in which both spouses are working compared with families in which there is only one working spouse? [More…]
to provide transport, accommodation, provisions, medical treatment, hospital facilities and amenities for officers and employees of the Authority and their families. [More…]
The only way they can remain in nursing homes is if their families, relatives or friends reach into their own pockets and subsidise the pensioners in the nursing homes. [More…]
But nothing is said about the fact that child endowment is falling badly in its purchasing power all the time and that the working families dependent upon it are being robbed more and more. [More…]
The same is true of people who are genuinely ill and are unable to work to earn the money they need to support themselves and their families. [More…]
They can meet with their families easier and quicker. [More…]
When one thinks about how VIP flights are run these days, what happened during the early stages when this Government came into office and what happened in regard to the transporting of members’ families and so on, surely we could have raised a VIP issue with just as much force as did Opposition senators in earlier days. [More…]
An estimated 350,000 Australian families will pay nothing. [More…]
These are the families with an income of only $45 a week to which Senator Little referred in his remarks. [More…]
The income earners of such families must be working for newsagents if they are receiving such low incomes. [More…]
Of the one-third of the families in Australia in which there are working wivesthat is, of the one million families in Australia - [More…]
An estimated 350,000 Australian families will pay nothing. [More…]
At the same time as he asks the Prime Minister whether the beneficial results of the increased interest charges should be explained to the people of Australia will he also ask whether the appropriate Government spokesman could explain in clear terms to the people of Australia how it can possibly advance the economic well-being of Australia to have hundreds of thousands of families forced to pay higher interest rates on mortgages on their homes and how it advances the economic prosperity of this country to have hundreds of thousands of people unable to obtain loans at present in order to acquire homes? [More…]
I ask: Firstly, is the Minister aware that these housing conditions have resulted in a constant morale problem amongst servicemen and their families in that area; and, secondly, what steps has he taken to make available the funds necessary to enable these deficiencies to be remedied speedily? [More…]
Does the Minister accept that a stop-go policy for a highly skilled industry developing in Australia represents a short term attitude which could disadvantage Australian families who purchase television sets which are totally dependent for maintenance on imported components? [More…]
I know that privileges are extended to our husbands and families in exactly the same way as privileges are extended to the wives and families of male members. [More…]
That would get rid of some of the irresponsible trade union leaders who are causing industrial trouble, leading their fellow workers into strike situations unnecessarily and causing them and their families hardship. [More…]
You have more families and more migrants. [More…]
In essence, the Labor Government’s scheme would lower the quality of medical care for Australian families. [More…]
There are the pensioner patient and the low income families who use public hospitals most extensively; there are the accident and emergency illnesses; and there are the small numbers of people requiring highly specialised medical care, such as kidney transplants and open heart surgery- those skills which have been developed in the major hospitals in Australia. [More…]
Under Labor’s program, families will receive in return for a contribution equal to 1 1/4 per cent of their taxable income, with a SI 00 ceiling, free medical treatment and free hospital accommodation . [More…]
What I am saying is that the sufferers might be the members of their families who need health care. [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…]
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; 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; to improve environmental conditions and social conditions of residents of the estate and surrounding area; and to preserve the townscape and sympathetically rehabilitate it. [More…]
The important thing, if we wish to bring in the young, the keen and those with young families- taking into account the rising commitment that they have which would apply to many members of this Parliament- is to ensure that what they are paid is at least the market rate so that they are not making any major sacrifice. [More…]
The community takes no account of the fact that there are full time members of the Australian Parliament who are solely dependent upon their parliamentary salaries to sustain them and their families and to discharge their obligations as members of Parliament to the community at large. [More…]
The government should assist disadvantaged families where a single parent, a father, is caring for children, whether he is a widower or a deserted husband. [More…]
I believe that in this category there are some 25,000 families and perhaps up to 50,000 children. [More…]
There is no recognition of the special need of the supporting father and the children in such families. [More…]
Through the tabling in the Victorian Legislative Assembly on 6 March 1974 of a report, he indicated that the Victorian Ministry considered that 5 families were inadequately housed and that it had 10 houses unoccupied and in need of repair in this area. [More…]
Let us take the one million or more families, almost all of them on middle to lower middle incomes, in which there are working wives- in other words, the hard core of the solid provident Australians for whom I ought to be speaking up. [More…]
Here is the formula which, on any measure at all, charges working families substantially more for a great deal less. [More…]
I have drawn the attention of the Senate to the fact that the rates to be charged under the Bill would be severely punitive to the ordinary working families and would provide for a standard of health care which would be lower than that provided in the past. [More…]
But when you get differential valuations, I think you will agree with me that you then must weigh them and say: ‘Look, I have 34,000 families, 100,000 people on the waiting list for low cost homes. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the stated objectives of the purchase are to avoid the sudden displacement of an existing population, 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…]
The Government’s emphasis has been on low income families only. [More…]
I want to know what the Minister’s commitment to low income families is. [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…]
Recognition will facilitate the carrying out of certain consular activities, including matters relating to reunion of families and settlement of estates which require contact with the governments in the Baltic states. [More…]
It is a school which takes people from poor families. [More…]
Most of the students there come from working class families. [More…]
The Australian Adoptive Families Association has recently made a submission to the Government, seeking financial assistance for a centre it has established in Saigon, where care and treatment is given to orphans awaiting adoption. [More…]
Surely the Minister for Foreign Affairs was not serious when he said that the recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union will facilitate consular activities, particularly in relation to the reunion of families. [More…]
I preface my question by reminding the Minister that 7 homes are being built for Aboriginal families at Laura in North Queensland to a totally unsuitable design for the tropics and are built on a site away from that chosen by the Aborigines. [More…]
Many of them have been tradesmen who have worked hard, and have taken the risk of going into their own business in order to give themselves and their families the opportunity of greater security in the future, and greater opportunity to express their individual talents in thenown way as self-employed people. [More…]
When their roles as mothers and home makers had been lauded- in fact at some stage ‘Hearts and Flowers’ was played on request- a complete about-face was accomplished so that on the one hand there would be a bigger work force available to manufacture the goods that more and more families were convinced were essential to life. [More…]
Some came from the parents themselves who saw their own families in need of services. [More…]
Some focused on the need for assistance to families so that mothers need not work, while others highlighted the problems of isolation, loneliness, lack of stimulation and assistance experienced by mothers at home with their children. [More…]
There were people concerned about handicapped children and their families. [More…]
This is one of the very few places where pre-school children and now some older children can be sent when their families are in urgent need of this sort of residential care. [More…]
Is the design of seven houses built for Aboriginal families at Laura, Queensland, totally unsuitable for the tropics. [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…]
I stress to the Government that the particular policy it has adopted will cause hardship for many families throughout [More…]
This will include direct lending to families for housing. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration assure the Senate that the decision to impose restrictions on the number of immigrants coming to Australia will not affect the immigration policy of ensuring that the reunion of families holds the highest priority? [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-1974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [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…]
help meet escalating costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-74 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1 973- 1 974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
Is the Government aware of the hardships caused to families living in remote areas of Australia by the Government’s action in reducing the education deduction for taxation purposes from $400 to $ 1 50? [More…]
Is the Government concerned that the families affected do not belong to the wealthy class or send their children to so-called wealthy schools? [More…]
The honourable senator also refers to the problems of people in isolated areas insofar as those problems relate to the rearing of families and giving their children educational assistance. [More…]
While the divorce rate has risen in Australia rather slowly and not in accord with many other developed western countries whose divorce rates are much higher, nonetheless there is every indication that families and marriage are institutions which are not upheld in the strongest regard by the great majority of the Australian people. [More…]
In other words, by the year 2000 the law will have abandoned as socially undesirable, frequently ineffectual and wholly uneconomic the hounding of spouses through the courts for non-support of their families. [More…]
However, many families in the now grownup generations have adapted themselves to the system where the wife exclusively devotes her labour to her household. [More…]
In a period of 2 -income families, the woman who just has to grit her teeth and bear an intolerable marriage is, I am glad to say, disappearing. [More…]
The Finer Commission on one-parent families in the United Kingdom was established in 1969 to report upon the effects of Britain’s new divorce law. [More…]
So there are smaller families rather than larger families, and women are tending to return to the work force in their mid-thirties whereas previously they worked in that brief period between school and marriage. [More…]
One of the only counselling bureaus available to low income families recently had to close. [More…]
This Bill is concerned with the dissolution of families. [More…]
But to the extent that the Bill does not work to hold families together or to strengthen the family unit in our society, the Bill fails. [More…]
I would think that it will require further legislation from this Government or from some other government to offer the kind of measures to support families in what is becoming an increasingly difficult world in which small isolated families can survive. [More…]
The present adversary system is, in my submission to the Senate, singularly unsuitable for the trial of matrimonial issues which under a fault system involve a meticulous examination of the most minute details of marital life to be conducted in an atmosphere of bitter recrimination, usually involving relatives and children and sometimes dividing families. [More…]
Of course, most of the comments made in the bishops’ statement go directly to this question of trying to arrive at legislative systems for relieving the pressures which are placed on people both in families and elsewhere. [More…]
Nobody would doubt that this is a tremendously important question from the human relationships point of view as it affects homes, families and marital relationships. [More…]
We believe that it will be of considerable assistance to those families who have accepted this responsibility in the home. [More…]
I have seen figures which show that there are approximately 25,000 families in this category covering approximately 50,000 children. [More…]
Prior to the formation of the Budget I spoke in the Senate of the hope that I had that it would be possible this year to assist supporting fathers and the children in those families. [More…]
Yet I am sure that those who work within the social welfare field acknowledge that there is deprivation in the emotional sense in a one-parent family and that there is deprivation in those families who reach the poverty level because of the problems of single parenthood. [More…]
It really is a matter of some Government action being taken and some access to Government support being given to families who have special needs at this time. [More…]
We are talking about a group of people who have been isolated from social welfare programs and the fact that the Government has acknowledged the needs of single-parent families if that parent is a mother. [More…]
It recommended fringe benefits for fatherless families but there has been very little improvement in that field. [More…]
It is estimated that at present something like 25,000 families and 50,000 children are affected. [More…]
But the great attraction that this Bill has for me is the provision of a Family Court and also the understanding which I have that proper procedures will be laid down and proper attention will be given to the economic circumstances of families or parts of families who are so seriously disadvantaged as a consequence of the dissolution of a marriage. [More…]
I saw distress caused to families because before they were able to get any assistance from the community they were obliged to institute legal proceedings and to make it known that legal proceedings had been instituted for the recovery of maintenance arrears. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1 973- 1 974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-1974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-1974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
The work that a woman has to do in that area today in so many families consists of using a machine which can be left to do the work while she is away on other jobs. [More…]
I have mentioned before that in the past 20 years of my life I have had relationships with many families of which one partner at least of the marrige is imprisoned. [More…]
If they have families, there is no place to leave the children or have them cared for while their parents attend these courts. [More…]
I will be supporting amendments which will improve greatly the position of wives, particularly wives of mature years who have given their lives to marriage and to raising families and then find that the marriage has broken down. [More…]
There is little or no dispute about the value of stable marriages and stable families to the community. [More…]
Those who feel it are the families where the mother and father are working and have three or four children going to high school. [More…]
Additional tax relief was provided in the Budget in the form of a rebate of dependants’ allowances for low income families and deductibility of mortgage interest payments. [More…]
To help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families, your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents at least to the 1973-1974 level either through taxation deductions or rebates. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973/74 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [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…]
The vast majority of these people over many years have established themselves in conventional urban society in many towns in Queensland and are raising families of whom anyone could be proud. [More…]
It can do nothing more than create further emotional and family disruption and probably destroy the painstaking work of years on the part of the families, the Presbyterian Church and my Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, who have done all possible to assist in the transitional stage of urban living which the people voluntarily undertook. [More…]
The facts are that contrary to his claims, his own actions have virtually condemned hundreds of families to despair by his diverting to other States more than three million dollars, allocated by the Commonwealth Treasurer to Queensland in his budget. [More…]
There is a kitchen measuring 10 feet by 6 feet which has to service 30 families -some of which comprise 10 people. [More…]
They have to cook their meals in a small annexe out the back on a normal wood burning kitchen stove which serves 30 families. [More…]
This is where they have 4 blocks each containing space for 30 families in the barricades. [More…]
When eight married quarters currently under construction are completed, a total of 19 service families will be accommodated. [More…]
Many families have discovered this with the growing number of wives who are going out to work in the situation where both partners work. [More…]
In fact, all families find that the price to the family in money terms of the mother or the wife going out to work is much higher than it is to keep her at home. [More…]
The general statement can fairly be made that most women between the ages of 25 and 40 withdraw from the work force because they become mothers and they have to care for their children to the stage when they feel the children are old enough or independent enough to look after themselves and where harm will not be done to the families if the women do go out to work. [More…]
A conservative assessment currently is that approximately 5,000 families in Australia are in a situation where the husband habitually batters the wife and, almost inevitably in those circumstances, the children. [More…]
Of course there is a secular concept, and that is that in all communities of which I am aware the law makes some provision for the dissolution of the marriage and the protection of families. [More…]
Yet the people whom it concerns- the families of this nation- are not lawyers. [More…]
The problems that concern those families are sociological and economical problems. [More…]
Therefore if we are, to use a quaint Australianism, fair dinkum about wanting good family law, wanting conciliation, wanting to restore marriages, wanting to help families, we will clearly have to make a new and vigorous study of all phases of the family and we will have to look to see how we can help the family from its very earliest stages, even from premarriage. [More…]
It results in broken dreams, broken families and disillusioned children. [More…]
Many of the mothers who would ennoble our families are being forced out to work for money. [More…]
In China families grow apart, particularly as under socialism there is a direction of labour. [More…]
Assistance to overcome the special difficulties of oneparent families, handicapped parents and parents of handicapped children. [More…]
Assistance to encourage families to care for their aged and invalid relatives within their own environment. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1 973- 1 974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-1974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
Apart from the deaths there was the humiliation caused to their families and the inhumanity shown by the Syrian Government when some days later the Syrian authorities delivered the bodies of the girls to their families in a sack for burial. [More…]
It was in fact the Stevens Liberal Government in the 1930s in New South Wales that developed and expanded the building societies which have done more, I remind the Minister, for the ordinary families of Australia than any other device for financing housing and it is this Government that talks about its humanity and its understanding for people that has destroyed it. [More…]
The permanent building societies which in 1973 reflected the lending policies which we had initiated, had provided 75,000 families with housing through loans, will this year on projection provide 1 5,000 loans. [More…]
As the law provides for the establishment of marriage and as the law provides for families as established by marriage, so the law must provide for the difficulties that arise if, due to unfortunate circumstances, that particular marriage breaks down. [More…]
If we are to make this kind of endeavour to help marriages, to help families, should we introduce concepts that will prevent people who are trying to pull marriages together, to understand what is breaking them up, from talking to parties on the basis of complete confidentiality? [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled should take immediate steps to restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-74 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
Of course, the second year, as I have said, is the one in which far from there being much prospect of reconciliation trouble breaks out and permanent harm is done to the relationship within families. [More…]
No matter how much people may seek to argue that the words in the Bill constitute a genuine separation they are arguing, I believe, an impossibility because I cannot accept- I do not believe that ordinary people faced with ordinary situations would acceptthat if a husband and wife are living together under the same roof, in one house, in which the wife provides the daily meals for the husband and in which she provides other household services, such as washing his clothes, making his bed and doing all the other household chores which happily married families would expect a wife to do for a husband, that constitutes a separation which ought to be regarded as a separation for the purpose of divorce. [More…]
In any event, in cases where people cannot afford costs and have to use moneys which would otherwise be used in providing for their families, I think that the burden will be met by the provision of legal aid. [More…]
In talking of care for elderly people I stress that Liberal Party policy for this type of concern is that assistance will be provided for home alterations so that families can accommodate elderly relatives in their own homes. [More…]
Quite clearly, it would be a dreadful thing to entice people into a new growth area, to entice them away from their existing jobs and existing communities and then shatter their families .because of the decline in economic structure. [More…]
In other words, it was clear to the government of the day that the first test of any program should be to develop a national strategy, a national policy, an overall plan, and that that plan must, quite apart from taking into account the attractive qualities of a particular area, look to that area as one which would sustain families economically over the years. [More…]
It provides for increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on certain forms of fringe benefits, 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, technical amendments of the principal Act with respect to dividends payable from Papua New Guinea and the relief for taxpayers in cases of hardship arising out of provisional tax for 1974-75. [More…]
I remind the Senate that this Bill is a complex Bill covering such matters as increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on fringe benefits, special allowance of deductions for depreciation of child care facilities, reduction of the limit on deduction for education 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, technical amendments of 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…]
Having been an active member of parents and citizens associations, I understand the problems of the parent in ordinary average income families in sending his or her children to state schools. [More…]
There is under clause 35 provision for a rebate for low-income families. [More…]
There are kids stolen from families in Queensland. [More…]
However, the Government does appreciate the difficulties faced by people living in remote areas and has accepted responsibility for improving educational opportunities for children whose families live in isolated areas far removed from normal school facilities. [More…]
The effect of this has been that people have been prevented from going back to their tribal lands and from rejoining their families on the settlements. [More…]
The thought that approximately 100,000 families in Australia, in addition to the present unemployed, face the prospect of almost immediate sacking is depressing and I think it is a situation which calls for the strongest immediate action. [More…]
In other words, 7,000 families on low incomes came along and put their names on the list. [More…]
Within the limitations necessarily imposed by the overall demand on its financial resources the Government will from time to time make housing loans available to families and to those other specific categories of home seekers within the Australian Government’s constitutional responsibilities. [More…]
These include persons living in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, families, migrants, students, Aboriginals and persons engaged in work for the Australian Government. [More…]
It will be agreed by all that because of the action that was taken a number of families have been disadvantaged. [More…]
1 ) What educational programs are in existence to make doctors, dentists, lawyers, social workers, child health and community nurses, police officers, teachers and others aware of the incidence, problems, and best management for battered children and their families. [More…]
What preventive health programs exist in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory to predict families at risk of having a battered child. [More…]
and (4) Research into whether families at risk can be identified after the birth of the first child is being considered. [More…]
As far as my Department is concerned, the Australian Information Service has sent to Darwin a journalist and a photographer who are responsible for assessing the feasibility of the Northern Territory ‘News’, which is the newspaper circulating in the Northern Territory, publishing a regular supplement which will act as a vehicle of communication between the people who are actually left in Darwin and their evacuated families and relatives. [More…]
The second observation I make- it is fairly important- is that there has grown up over the years a feeling that Ministers are a special caste; that they are bred like the Polynesian families who are kept in caves so they get a nice white skin, and when they come out not as dark and as ochre coloured as the commonalty of the people they are regarded as pretty important people and wherever they go there are taboos. [More…]
To compensate for the losses that will follow from the proposed reduction and to help meet escalating educational costs faced by all families your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take immediate stepsto restore educational benefits to parents, at least at the 1973-1974 level either by increasing taxation deductions or through taxation rebates. [More…]
On this point you can plan ahead for yourselves and families with confidence. [More…]
They are being subjected to misery, to loss of dignity, to loss of the right to work and to the threat of loss of equity in their homes, in their own communities and in the things they would like to provide for their families. [More…]
The cost of this particular prototype which would house 4 families was in the vicinity of $23,000 to $25,000. [More…]
It is this: Scattered throughout Australia are many families which need to be back in Darwin and want to be back in Darwin. [More…]
Many families want to be reunited and cannot be until the reconstruction of Darwin gets under way. [More…]
Many families are separated and people living in the south want to go back to their city. [More…]
Many of these actions were taken in haste for the benefit of the people of Darwin, for the reconstruction and continuation of commerce in the city, for reuniting families where evacuation was necessary and, in general, for the overall well being of Darwin. [More…]
The most important thing at the present time is to get families reunited in Darwin but we cannot do that unless we build houses for them. [More…]
The most essential thing today is to get families back in Darwin. [More…]
They will be supported by an advisory council which will be further assisted by that special type of person that seems to have developed in Darwin, the person with initiative and enterprise who, given this sort of legislation, can immediately set about building homes and re-establishing families in Darwin. [More…]
If we look back through history we find that so much of the great work in culture was done under the patronage of the Church, in the time of the Renaissance, and under the patronage of wealthy individuals and wealthy families. [More…]
There are many primary producers who run their properties as proprietary limited companies in order to get their families involved. [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-profit organizations, 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…]
One in five of Australian families purchasing their homes finds it necessary to take out a second mortgage. [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 Australian Consitution, and it will also make loans to those other specific categories of home-seekers for whom the Australian Government has a constitutional responsibility. [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…]
The rest of the people who attended were members of the families of the affected public servants. [More…]
What action is the Government now taking to reidentify those orphans who were already committed to Australian families? [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…]
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-profit organisations, in the housing of the large number of ordinary Australian families. [More…]
One in five of Australian families purchasing their homes finds it necessary to take out a second mortgage. [More…]
We have made housing interest payments tax deductible for more than 1 300 000 families, at a cost of $130m, and we have made a special appropriation of $ 150 m to savings banks for housing loans. [More…]
One in five of Australian families purchasing their homes finds it necessary to take out a second mortgage. [More…]
I would have thought that the Opposition, instead of moving a facile motion, could have shown that it had some conscience about the damage it assisted to do to the country by showing some real concern for the children of that country and ensuring that everything possible was done to make sure that they were reunited with whatever remnants of their families were left. [More…]
One of these families is named Davidson and the other is named Anderson. [More…]
What action is the Government now taking to reidentify those orphans who were already committed to Australian families? [More…]
Resettlement Department, requesting the bringing of families- not just children- from Vietnam to Australia. [More…]
Will the Minister’s Department confer at an international level to make any emergency arrangements for the asylum or resettlement of such families who may be placed in situations of acute danger? [More…]
But the honourable senator must keep in mind the number of times that good citizens in this countrythey are good citizens now and were good citizens previously although they were not naturalised- were hurt, their families were hurt and their communities were affronted. [More…]
I have met a lot of them today who usually come from the more affluent families and who are ready to drive up to the barricades in their fathers’ Volvos. [More…]
Is it anticipated that the examination will show that single parent families, where that parent is the father, have a financial need at least equal to that of similar families where the supporting parent is the mother? [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the guidelines will divide immediate families? [More…]
Since the division of families by wilful act of the Commonwealth Government will not only cause terrible anguish to all concerned but could threaten the very lives of those forced to remain in South Vietnam, will the Government immediately review its guideline policies? [More…]
I refer to the question that I asked on Monday relating to the admission of Vietnamese families into Australia, to the assurance given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs then that all the representations which had been made had been taken into account, and to the announcement made yesterday by the Prime Minister which does not seem to reflect that assurance. [More…]
In view of public reaction that the criterion relating to admission of Vietnamese families as described is extremely restrictive, I ask the Minister whether the Government will give early consideration to reviewing the qualification and extend a greater humanitarian term. [More…]
Obviously this employer does not take into account the fact that so many families now are 2-income families and that so many women do not work to fill in idle hours; they go to work because they have to work. [More…]
Work is a necessity to keep their families in the state in which the women think their families should be kept. [More…]
Some 170 000 pensioner and beneficiary families will receive increases in additional payments for approximately 340 000 children. [More…]
They have personal problems- problems concerning their own families. [More…]
Not only would we have to compensate people presumably for loss of goodwill, loss of business and loss of expected contracts, but I presume that we would also have to compensate private persons for loss of enjoyment, for the incalculable disadvantages of having to uproot their families and shift somewhere else, and for loss of consortium between husbands and wives. [More…]
They are put out by ‘Family Power: Families United for Australia’. [More…]
For working families it is all like a bad dream since December 1972 all happiness is going out of their lives, kids leaving school, are told no jobs will be available for at least two years. [More…]
It is still under the headline: ‘Family Power- Families United for Australia’. [More…]
By 1980-6 years from now- we hope that even the poorest Australian born working families will have a new dignity, a share in Australian land and prosperity and a future- their birthright. [More…]
You know damn well that adversity and poverty are forced in some of our finest families by fate. [More…]
There are a million reasons why deprived families stay down, but in a prosperous Australia, those reasons are not valid any more. [More…]
In a dangerously over populated world it is not only justice we are talking about- it is sheer national necessity that our Australian born working families [More…]
I repeat ‘Australian born working families’- [More…]
be strongly based, able to raise families property- and prepare their lives on an equal basis with every other Australian born working family. [More…]
We hired consultants and town planners to develop a plan to use the area for the housing of only 3 families, an artifacts factory for Aborigines and a central office for the Aboriginal cultural organisation which was operating in the area. [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…]
Then sometimes there are two or three Aboriginal families in a house. [More…]
In South Australia landlords will not now let homes to Aboriginal families because they are a credit risk. [More…]
But if it is established that the landlords will not let the homes to the families because they are black an offence is created. [More…]
-Realising the tremendous amount of loneliness in a large number of migrant families, especially womenfolk who are at home for most or all of the day by themselves while their husbands are at work and their children are at school, I and the Government for some time have been keen to establish a form of ethnic broadcasting to try to help break down these tremendous language barriers and this horrible feeling of isolation on the part of a large number of people, especially the womenfolk to whom I have referred. [More…]
Those yet to be housed are Aboriginal families which do not meet such tenancy requirements and who are causing so much trouble. [More…]
As a result, the Australian Government, which is committed to a policy of housing all Aboriginal families, whatever requirements they meet, within 10 years from the time of elections, has provided funds to the Western Australian Government for a housekeeping service whereby women who are employed for the purpose will visit the homes and try to instruct the tenants as to how properly to look after a European home. [More…]
That sum has gone into a fund, for which the Western Australian Government has supplied $411,500, the Australian Government through my Department financing the housekeeping service of those who have to call on Aboriginal families. [More…]
The Western Australian Government is, in the provision of the housekeeping service, calling on European families. [More…]
The disproportionate cost would indicate that there are more European families than Aborigines who cannot meet the tenancy requirements of the Western Australian Housing Commission, but as there are still more Aborigines outside the requirements of the Housing Commission my Department would willingly provide greater housekeeping services. [More…]
That because of the excessively high inflation rate, the Government decision to decrease the taxable allowance for education expenses from $400 to $ 1 50 per student will create unreasonable financial pressures upon many families and will cause great difficulty for such families to provide their children with an adequate education. [More…]
Will the newly established Aboriginal Loans Commission assist Aboriginal families to obtain suitable housing? [More…]
This problem arises out of large urban societies creating loneliness and, for mothers in particular but for families as a whole, creating problems which can be overcome by greater communication and association with people around them. [More…]
Policies and programs, which vitally affect families and children, are already spread over several departments including Social Security, Health, Tourism and Recreation, Labor, Aboriginal Affairs and Education. [More…]
But 1 remind him that the amounts required to be paid to these organisations are generally outside the capacity of most families. [More…]
The reason the Government gives for the necessity to introduce this Bill is that changing social patterns have put considerable pressures on families with infant and school-age children. [More…]
I ask: What is the cause of the changing social patterns that have put such pressures on our families and children? [More…]
But it is inflation that is destroying our families by causing government induced poverty. [More…]
If the Government would look after its own housekeeping, stop intruding into areas that are not a proper role for government, fix inflation and ease taxation, our families would be able to look after themselves and areas of disadvantage would be reduced to such small pockets that existing and voluntary agencies could well take care of them. [More…]
Over the years government has manipulated its taxation policies in such a way that they have advantaged corporations and companies to the disadvantage of our families. [More…]
If this sum escalates at the same rate as the pocket money of the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) escalated recently- it escalated from $llm to $240m in this financial year- we can expect our families to be suffering from even greater disruption and insecurity. [More…]
Of course, family disruption is one of the effects of socialism, and obviously it is the purpose of this Government to disrupt families. [More…]
After robbing families of $74m which the Government says is to be expended on all children in Australia, the Government then allocates priorities to those children whose parents are engaged in employment, to those children who are not being cared for in their own homes, to those children who need assistance and to those children who are sick and physically disabled. [More…]
This Government is taking $74m away from families that have been made paupers by the Government and directing it towards financing the disruption of families, introducing the bureaucratisation of children and creating a diminishing ability in parents to make their own decisions. [More…]
Did the Government not realise that in its business bashing the biggest business it was bashing was our families? [More…]
We intend to move some amendments which I hope will recognise the importance of maintaining our families in their homes. [More…]
When he said that it is a socialist plot to disrupt families in Australia I think he was really drawing the long bow. [More…]
It might well be envisaged that there will be a college established where the main purposes of the legislation will be carried out; that there will be a college well staffed by competent and highly trained experts in the field and that it will provide courses of a great variety, including residential courses for officials and members and their families, short weekend seminars and things of that kind. [More…]
But the challenge that will expose its real merits is if we get purposeful employees pursuing the objectives of trade unionism- that is, by united strength getting better, improved conditions- and not if we have trade unionists whose aim it is to destroy the very system by which they and their families are supported. [More…]
I know that many humble shop stewards do not aspire to be anything more than sub-branch officials, but I would like to believe that the legislation that we are considering will result in the wives and families of shop stewards seeing their husbands reaching a little higher status in the society they live in. [More…]
There were 93 000 families who could not get these benefits. [More…]
The mortgage interest tax deductibility scheme is estimated to benefit 1 .4 million families each year at a cost of over $ 130m a year. [More…]
That means $130m is going back to home purchasers each year and 1.4 million families are receiving the benefits. [More…]
We are trying to replace the homes savings grants scheme that benefited 40 000 families a year at a cost of about $20m a year. [More…]
Our scheme gives back to 1.4 million families $130m a year compared with the previous scheme under which about 40 000 families benefited at a cost of about $20m a year. [More…]
Since its establishment, the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation has assisted 168 000 families obtain homes by insuring loans totalling $2,040m. [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…]
I think he said- 250 000 public servants and their families’. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties have long recognised the serious anomalies in the present scheme which places unnecessary burdens on a large number of public servants and their families … [More…]
The fact is, of course, that only a small minority of families in Australia now have 4 children. [More…]
Will he also tell the Senate what benefits have been given to ensure that former serving personnel and their families are adequately covered on retirement? [More…]
Would Senator Greenwood have preferred that, instead of giving this $650,000 to APPM in an effort to keep it going and to keep up the morale of the work force and keep the work force in being in this town of Burnie and other places while it weathered this storm, we should have let the market take its course, let these men be put out on the grass and spend taxpayers’ money on sustaining them and their families? [More…]
In the first place, not only would it prevent their impending unemployment but it would maintain within the industry the skill and knowledge that is represented by those employees, and it would retain them in the communitiesin many cases in far flung areas of Australia- of which they and their families are significant members. [More…]
It became a close personal mateship and it involved not only Bert Milliner himself but extended to embrace both our families. [More…]
In view of public reaction to the extremely restrictive criteria laid down for the entry into Australia of Vietnamese families and in view of assurances given by the Minister that representations relating to the admission of Vietnamese families would be taken into account, will the Government give early consideration to reviewing the conditions laid down by the Prime Minister and extend greater humanitarian terms to the families? [More…]
I believe that most people regard insurance as a means of building security around themselves and their families. [More…]
We would structure the tax scales to assist families, especially single income families. [More…]
Our policy is tangible evidence of our long-term objective to return a greater degree of choice and independence to individuals and to families. [More…]
They come from families that have been involved in them. [More…]
The Government must restore choice to families and individuals. [More…]
Many wage earners with families will receive income tax cuts of more than $4 a week from 1 January next year. [More…]
We in this country over the years have fought an economy which requires two pay packets in a family, and because people are willing to go out and work to try to create a financial base for the upbringing of their families the Government is hitting them with a heavy tax. [More…]
More of Australia’s upper crust families live in Melbourne than in any other city. [More…]
Among the guests, members of Melbourne’s and Australia’s richest families. [More…]
whose spending power’s increased enormouslymany families like this would perhaps spend more on beer in a week than I ever might do at a restaurant. [More…]
Like other aristocracies, Australia’s top families and landed gentry are dynastic; some like the Baillieus have their own family Coat of Arms, the power and status of these families have been nurtured over generations and reinforced by an intricate web of relationships forged by business links, and marriage. [More…]
The Baillieus, the Myers, the Knoxes, Darlings, Clarkes, these and other such families have all been connected at some stage by marriage. [More…]
If one looks through the names one sees that there are many descendants of the families who have made up the Liberal governments in this country over the years and who have persecuted the workers. [More…]
Does it indicate a widening of the criteria and the giving of a greater degree of consideration to the reunion of families in Australia, particularly those affected by events in Indo-China? [More…]
In many instances, through the work of the Government’s officers and in co-operation with welfare agencies, families have been united. [More…]
The great majority of wage and salary earners, and especially low-income single-income families, will pay less tax as a result. [More…]
This self-made man who in his narcissism is looking at his own political navel in his worship of his own creator has forgotten the little people- the ordinary families. [More…]
It protects the lower paid bracket, the large families, the pensioners, the sick and the disabled. [More…]
Technical education was not just the Cinderella of education in Victoria; it barely existed because, after all, the children receiving technical education came from families who did not matter much. [More…]
We all know the effects that inflation has on those in the community who want to prepare either for their own old age or for the future of their families. [More…]
I said that it destroys the stability of the private sector- private business- and erodes the savings of the ordinary people who have prepared for the future, not only for their old age but for their families. [More…]
As I have said before, houses are not only places for rest and renewal; they are needed by young married people as places where they can mould their own lives and where they can develop their families and themselves as individuals without pressure from their in-laws. [More…]
I believe that hardly any families want to be state tenants all their lives. [More…]
I despise the fact that there are senators and members of another place who have sought to bring great financial benefit from the public purse to themselves and to their families. [More…]
One can do nothing but despise those individuals who have secured jobs for their families on this basis. [More…]
This represents a contribution from the public purse to their families. [More…]
Both parents of families who are struggling to get a benefit for their home and their kids and who go to work are sustaining increases of that sort. [More…]
It is a weapon which disrupts families, initially by forcing mothers out to work for money and then by undermining the basic security of the home. [More…]
The third question asked on what basis is free travel available to TAA employees and their families. [More…]
It is a weapon which disrupts families initially by forcing mothers out to work for money and eventually by undermining the basic security of the home. [More…]
I think the change from deductions to rebates for families is more meaningful for the low income earners. [More…]
Oneparent families are helped. [More…]
That is the second group of families in which Professor Henderson points out that there is great need to overcome poverty; it is the forgotten group in our society. [More…]
Some 2-income families will pay more but 2-income families still will be better off. [More…]
Only two of the Islands are inhabited: Home Island by the Clunies Ross family and 500 Cocos Malays; and West Island by the Australian Administration employees and their families- about 130 people. [More…]
Anyone who is fortunate enough to have been to these islands has seen how delicate is the relationship between the various families, their ecological background, their social structure– [More…]
Consumer affairs is an area in which women are particularly involved since they are major consumers on behalf of the families in our society. [More…]
If Medibank insurance cover applies to all Australians, why is Medibank in Queensland refusing to pay for medical services rendered by doctors to other doctors, their wives and families? [More…]
I was not aware that Medibank in Queensland was refusing to pay for medical services by doctors to other doctors, their wives and families. [More…]
Both electors must seek the same thing and that is a proper and adequate health service for themselves and their families. [More…]
The Italian Foreign Minister has stated that the agreements would define the border, regularise the juridical status of citizens in the area, protect the rights of families who wished to move from one area to another, guarantee the rights of ethnic minorities in the border areas, assure Trieste of possibilities for development and encourage co-operation in a wide range of sectors between Yugoslavia and Italy. [More…]
1 ) Between 200 and 250 people comprising some thirtyfive families. [More…]
The Central Darling Shire Council offered the use of a truck to help people move and a couple of families used the council truck. [More…]
Most families moved themselves or were moved by friends. [More…]
Twenty-four tents were supplied by the Army to the New South Wales State emergency services and Central Darling Shire Council distributed these at the time of the February 1 974 flood to families who moved from the mission area to the mallee area. [More…]
Housing Society establishment grants totalling $54,800 have been paid to the Bakandji Housing Company to develop a housing proposal for permanent housing of all Aboriginal families in Wilcannia. [More…]
Many of them are totally reliant on these allowances for maintaining their families. [More…]
The most severe form of deterioration in relationships was seen in the separation of families. [More…]
Many respondents believed their aged parents would deteriorate very rapidly if they were unable to keep regular contact with their families. [More…]
Has consideration been given to withdrawing the officers and their families to a safe area? [More…]
Why does the Federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs continue to accede to the demands of the radical element of the Aboriginal community when there are so many Aboriginal families in need of housing and direct assistance? [More…]
They were times when once proud working men were reduced to shambling wrecks through no fault of their own, unable adequately to support their families, stripped of their pride and robbed of their dignity. [More…]
I pay tribute to their courage in pursuit of their profession and offer the sincerest sympathy of myself and my family to their families. [More…]
Some weeks ago I asked him about Medibank refusing to pay for medical services rendered by doctors to doctors and members of their families or doctors in partnership and their families, and received the reassurance from the Minister that he would see that this practice was stopped. [More…]
By medical practitioners to members of their own families, whether dependants or not. [More…]
I think that there are of necessity special arrangements which apply when medical practitioners are treating members of their own families or their partners. [More…]
Let me put this to the Opposition: After some 4 weeks of debate on this matter, surely the Opposition has come to the conclusion that by a simple act on its part, that is by walking across the floor, the Supply Bills could be passed, this crisis would be over, we could proceed to pass the necessary legislationwe now have a considerable backlog of legislation- and we could have an opportunity to be with our families for the Christmas period. [More…]
A substantial number of families in Australia are dependant upon a single income. [More…]
Is he able to give any sort of assurance which would allay the fears and apprehensions of former Lebanese citizens, now Australian citizens, who have families in that country? [More…]
One objective is to achieve a more equitable distribution of the burden of taxation that is borne by individual taxpayers, especially in single income families- that is, the worker who has a dependent wife and children. [More…]
It has been said that the provision of a minimum rebate of $540 for taxpayers whose eligible rebatable expenditure is $1,350 or less, will operate as a disincentive to saving through life insurance and will discourage families from spending on the education of their children. [More…]
How many of the people referred to in (1) (a) held official Government positions; (b ) were members of families of Government officials; and (c) were accredited Australian journalists. [More…]
On 8 October and 4 November in the Senate and on 10 October in the appropriate Senate Estimates Committee, Senator Sheil raised the matter of the non-payment of benefits for services rendered by doctors to other doctors, their wives and families. [More…]
However, my first responsibility is and must be to the electors of the Australian Capital Territory and their families, lt is to them that I will give my attention first. [More…]
He announced that preference would be given to refugees closely related to people already living in Australia and that priority would be given to re-uniting spouses and children with their families in Australia. [More…]
One would have thought that his reuniting with their families at Christmas 1972 the kids who were held in the gaols of Australia because they were acting in accordance with their conscience would have justified a longer term in office than he had had when he was forced to an election in 1974. [More…]
These gaps concern in particular the problems of lone fathers who are supporting families: the problems of large families in general who arc not helped by any present income maintenance system: and equally, the problems that most pensioners and beneficiaries of short term benefits with children have. [More…]
-That may be rubbish to the honourable senator but I have heard from Transport Workers Union members that they have been threatened and intimidated at meetings and that their families and their homes have been attacked by militant members of their union. [More…]
The Queensland coast has been lashed by an unusual number of cyclones leaving in their wake destruction, devastation and thousands of Queensland families homeless. [More…]
What satisfaction is this to the hundreds of families in Bundaberg who are today homeless and for whom the future holds no more than bitter hardship? [More…]
Anyhow, what is expense when measured against the suffering and hardship of thousands of families who have been left destitute by cyclones? [More…]
For example, there were community committees for health centres, school boards with representation from parents, students and teachers and community representation on vital bodies such as the committee which allocates emergency housing to distressed families. [More…]
In 1973, the Henderson Inquiry into Poverty estimated that there were approximately 132 000 fatherless families- that is, families supported by women- in Australia at that time. [More…]
Further, 37.5 per cent of these families had a net income below Henderson’s poverty line, and an additional 12.6 per cent had an income less than 20 per cent above the poverty line. [More…]
Thus, half the families supported by women were poor or very poor. [More…]
The application of the means test introduced by the present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Tony Street, and the reduction in training allowance represents a positive disincentive to retrain for women of low dual-income families. [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…]
As the Minister pointed out in her second reading speech, the people who are eligible for these benefits are low income families, people on unemployment and sickness benefits and other special benefits and migrants during their first 2 months in Australia in the settling down period. [More…]
These people, especially if they have large families, will be disadvantaged. [More…]
If the Government is seeking to reduce spending it should let honourable senators know precisely what it intends to do, rather than abolishing altogether the benefits of which at least some of the low income families and groups have availed themselves. [More…]
The main administrative savings will be in the area of staff employed by the Department of Social Security on means testing for the low income families. [More…]
It gave some hope not only to women who had been out of the workforce and who wanted to go back and be retrained but also to women who knew that they were going to have the responsibility of raising their families. [More…]
Some of them were women who were on their own and who were going to have the responsibility of raising their family and some of them were women who knew that, because of the type of man to whom they were married, they would always have to accept part of the responsibility of looking after their families. [More…]
But all of that is very tentative and they knew that it was not really going to provide the sort of life that they wanted for their families. [More…]
I preface it by reminding the Minister that many Vietnamese who are now living in Australia are without regular news from their families in Vietnam. [More…]
These people, many of whom are refugees, are unaware whether their families are well, whether they have been ordered not to write, whether they are being reeducated or whether they are in concentration camps. [More…]
The government should assist disadvantaged families where a single parent, a father, is caring for children, whether he is a widower or a deserted husband. [More…]
I believe that in this category there are some 25 000 families and perhaps up to 50 000 children. [More…]
There is no recognition of the special need of the supporting father and the children in such families. [More…]
After all, their main interest was to feed, clothe, shelter and educate their children- in other words, to bring up their families with dignity. [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, modest and middle income families- opportunities which only governments can make. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: Is she aware that the National Conference on Adoption which was held in Sydney in February gave total support to the placement in Aboriginal families of all Aboriginal children available for adoption or fostering? [More…]
Because of the importance of meat in householdexpenditure rapid price increases place great burdens on persons on low income, persons on fixed incomes, larger families and pensioners. [More…]
It will be expensive for families if it is decided that children who suffer from the allergy require to stay on the list. [More…]
I think that the debate that has ensued between Senator Baume on the one hand and my colleague Senator Grimes on the other illustrates the bind that lay members of the community are involved in when it comes to a matter of prescription for themselves or for the members of their families. [More…]
The former Labor Government demonstrated itself as a government not caring about people who live in remote areas and the difficulties experienced by families living in those areas on a day to day basis, as well as the difficulties involved in operating an industry. [More…]
The theory was, therefore, that people could be persuaded- not in so many words and not explicitly or honestly- by governments to keep down the size of their families, and thereby do something about the population explosion. [More…]
The obvious example that comes to mind here is the man trying to raise a family on his own with the enormous difficulties he meets trying to do that, the enormous limitations which that role places on his earning potential and the consequent difficulties which families in that situation fall into. [More…]
I think the welfare of our families should be an overriding consideration. [More…]
Whereas before the one parent family was disadvantaged, now provisions are made which make it easier for such families. [More…]
Many of the fishermen around the Tasmanian coast operate in relatively small fishing vessels and they and their families are terribly sensitive to the weather conditions there. [More…]
Families of professional fishermen in Tasmania have expressed their great concern about this to me. [More…]
I can understand the strain at present in many of these families when somebody announces that it is time he went to sea again. [More…]
We do not know the background; we do not know a lot of the circumstances; we do not know what sort of a home life they have had or what sort of upbringing they have had; we do not know what impediments they have had to their development as citizens in the Australian community; we do not know what sicknesses have occurred in their families or what other human or social problems they might have had, At least I have seen some of the benefits of this scheme. [More…]
In attempts such as this, in which the Government is attempting to exclude from benefits everyone whom it considers to be a dole bludger, inevitably large numbers of people, especially those with large families, are caught up in the net, cannot receive their benefit entitlements and must go to voluntary social security agencies for help. [More…]
Their families will have to follow them. [More…]
The allowance was set because the Labor Government realised that people who were to be students under NEAT would have to be well established in view of their domestic commitments for home, families, schooling, etc. [More…]
Does the Minister appreciate that so-called light jobs are almost non-existent and that employers shy off persons with a diminished work capacity thereby placing these people in a serious financial situation in which they cannot in some instances support their families adequately? [More…]
Does the Minister further appreciate the fact that persons in receipt of the unemployment benefit seeking to increase their earnings by casual work have a very limited allowance in this connection, thereby subjecting their families to a standard of living well below the poverty level? [More…]
Would it not be possible, for instance, to raise the permissible earnings of people in this situation to a level at which the families in such unfortunate circumstances can have a reasonable expectation of an income? [More…]
At the end of the motion add the words: but the Senate is of the opinion that: (a) the problems of the canned fruit industry are a legacy of the overexpansion of the production base fostered by successive Liberal and Country Party Governments throughout the 1960s, and (b) the Government should consider immediately the Australian Industry Development Corporation report handed down in September 1975, with u view towards significant rationalisation of this industry to prevent further hardship to growers and their families’. [More…]
To see everythingtheir lifetime, perhaps in many instances every cent that they have in this world, the work of their wives and families- crumbling or potentially crumbling before their eyes is not a pleasant sight for anybody who appreciates their position. [More…]
Some 20 000 families are directly involved in growing fruit. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory, because of the structure of the population and the number of young families here, it is a matter of particular importance and one which has faced some problems recently. [More…]
How can we feed our families if you break your promises. [More…]
As I was about to say, women in country areas sometimes have an even harder row to hoe because at least in some areas of our cities people can occasionally board a tram- when the tram runsand go to communicate with their fellows, with people who speak the same language or with their families, although that is becoming increasingly difficult in the cities which we have created. [More…]
If they were given some training that enabled them to obtain qualifications they would then be able to hold down a job while looking after their families and to stand up in the community as equal citizens and not as ones relying on government handouts. [More…]
By the same token there are women in the community who because of their domestic circumstances- they may have a husband who is an alcoholic and upon whom they can never depend to bring in a regular income but who brings in some income- should be given the chance to achieve those qualifications that will enable them to look after their families in a solid fashion without, as has been suggested to some of them by some government employees, having to leave their husbands and so entitle themselves to the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
Does the Minister know that many veterans and their families are now gravely concerned about the cuts in the NEAT scheme? [More…]
In some quarters it has been suggested that the decline in fertility since 197 1 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 197 1. [More…]
The question has to be posed: How can families who earn below 85 per cent of the average weekly wage and who are eligible for rental accommodation from the State housing commissions buy a home or even rent satisfactory accommodation from the private sector? [More…]
We did this as an interim measure after asking each State to indicate the additional amount of money that it could use for the commencement of new dwellings before 30 June 1973, for allocation by various State housing authorities to construct rental housing for needy families. [More…]
If the Federal Labor Government had remained in office, by the end of this financial year that Government, in agreement with the States, would have been responsible for the provision of rental accommodation for approximately 2 1 000 families. [More…]
In the same period, through the operation of the Home Builders’ Account, Labor would have provided approximately 30 000 other families with finance to enable them to buy their own homes. [More…]
There is doubling up of housing with sometimes 4 or 5 families occupying a place which has been built for one family only. [More…]
Last year when two or three of these families tried to buy the homes they were told by the State Department that they could have them for upwards of $ 1 8,000 to $20,000. [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs, through a special allocation, grants money to the States each year for additional homes to be built which can be occupied either by rental or sale, only by Aboriginal families. [More…]
This occurs in respect of deserted husbands and single male parent families, as well as single female parent families. [More…]
The Nardine women’s refuge can accommodate 9 families. [More…]
The people at the refuge turn away 3 complete families for every one that they accept. [More…]
A lot go there because they have been mentally and physically beaten to such an extent that they can no longer see what is right and what is wrong for either themselves or their families. [More…]
The cost of that approach has been people getting into areas of employment into which they were never intended to go, at high expense to themselves, their families and the public. [More…]
I ask also whether special consideration might be given to low income families in this context, as I understand Dr Hughes has also suggested. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Australian Postal Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Commission are now expected to be financially self-sufficient and to contribute to their own capital expansion, what safeguards can the Minister give that the interests of families living in remote areas which would be patently unprofitable to service are being protected? [More…]
Great problems will be created for families who may never see any cash as such and who are accustomed to dealing only in goods if they suddenly find that they have to provide 100 rupiahs a week to ensure that their children receive some form of basic education. [More…]
Families living on low incomes with little or no prospects of these incomes being increased substantially in the foreseeable future face many of the same difficulties whether they live in the country or in the metropolitan area. [More…]
Agencies involved in dealing with this group of families in the Australian Capital Territory are now meeting regularly and looking at both factors involved and treatment programmes. [More…]
Will the Minister investigate this situation and the hardship it is causing many already disadvantaged young people, their families and their teachers? [More…]
Funeral expenses are high and are a burden for many families, perhaps most families. [More…]
Prior to the formation of the Budget I spoke in the Senate of the hope that I had that it would be possible this year to assist supporting fathers and the children in those families. [More…]
One would have thought that if Senator Guilfoyle had had her way at the time something would have been done for deserted fathers and more importantly something would have been done for the children of those families. [More…]
Nevertheless the Department was happy- and indeed considered itself obliged- to do what it could to ascertain the facts in regard to all five men and to keep their families informed. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
When I received a representation from the commercial child care centres this week I said that it was a matter that would receive some consideration because I believe that the utilisation of existing facilities may be of assistance to many needy families who otherwise are unable to obtain the use of child care facilities. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the harsh decision will result in hardships for thousands of Australian families? [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
The possibility of lack of knowledge of the means of parents or families abroad affecting students is a new circumstance to me. [More…]
They have reared families. [More…]
I reiterate here the assurances I have given them that I will work to ensure that the interests of all public servants and their families are fully guarded by this Parliament and the Party I represent. [More…]
There are 233 families on the temporary accommodation list. [More…]
Most of these families are living in caravans or private accommodation and are waiting for allocations of a demountable or better. [More…]
There are 1316 Public Service families on the permanent housing list. [More…]
1 ) Is the future of over three thousand workers and their families directly, or indirectly, affected by the complete lack of forward orders placed with the Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd for ship construction at its Whyalla yards. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
And what makes it more tragic is that the families - [More…]
The headmaster has informed me that between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the students at that school come from single parent families, from broken homes. [More…]
Many of those students going to nongovernment schools are from working class families in which the breadwinners make money sacrifices in order to send their kids to those particular schools. [More…]
The range and level of local employment and the educational levels and incomes of families are all important matters. [More…]
Nominations outside the normal criteria where special compassionate circumstances exist, such as where families have been deprived of their breadwinner or where children have been orphaned, will be accepted and dealt with quickly. [More…]
Has the Government any commitment to the thousands of Australian families who desperately need child care? [More…]
1 ) Did the first National Conference on Adoption, held in Sydney in February 1976, give total support to the placement into Aboriginal families of all Aboriginal children available for adoption or fostering. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
The priority given to reuniting spouses and dependent children with their families followed by other close relatives has been that adopted by the present Government. [More…]
The new arrangements for assistance to families, particularly families on low incomes, should also help in this direction. [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…]
Those families and the children of those families I am sure will remember tonight for 2 particular reasons- our attitude and that of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Another effect of the new system will be to bring about some redistribution of income within families. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Will these measures direct cash resources to families in greatest need, as recommended by Professor Henderson in the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty? [More…]
It is a fact that the statements that have been made by the honourable senator are accurate and that the family allowance system which has been announced will be a major source of income to families. [More…]
In the higher income groups, particularly those with larger families, unquestionably there will be a benefit. [More…]
It was stressed last week that the new measure would mean support for families who are really in the low income bracket. [More…]
Figures relating to the number of families on low incomes have been referred to. [More…]
There are about 300 000 low income families with about 800 000 children. [More…]
The children and these families will now benefit. [More…]
The previous system was of no assistance to low income families. [More…]
He said that low income families will come out about even. [More…]
I suggest to Senator Wridet that the evidence suggests that low income families will benefit very much. [More…]
It makes far better sense to introduce non-taxed family allowances of a substantial nature, as recommended by Professor Henderson, to make sure that the poor families really do get some benefit. [More…]
All the evidence shows that these families are large families, migrant families or families with only one parent. [More…]
This is particularly important in the case of the many families in Australia where young children are being reared and where the wife and mother decides that the best role she can play, in relation to the welfare of her family, is to remain at home and not go out into the work force. [More…]
The figures show that 300 000 Australian families will be better off under this proposal. [More…]
They include Aboriginal families and families who are on incomes of $ 100 a week or on the so-called minimum wage or slightly above it. [More…]
Families with 6 children will be $23 a week better off, which means that the family with $100 a week coming into the household will have a further $23 or 23 per cent more money coming in. [More…]
Of course, not all families have 6 children but every one of those 300 000 families will be better off. [More…]
It is notorious that Australians with families spend their money; they do not put it away. [More…]
We speak for and on behalf of ourselves, our families and the Aboriginal people of Menindee. [More…]
The increased family allowances announced by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and their effect on underprivileged families, I feel, are one of the most important steps that this Government or any government has taken. [More…]
It will have a great effect on migrant families. [More…]
In the case of people with large families or families with chronically ill members, there is very great anxiety. [More…]
No jobs are available for women seeking to support themselves or their families. [More…]
If there is employment then I think at this stage it should be given to those currently trying to support families on the dole. [More…]
There have been breakdowns in families. [More…]
The intention, as I understand it, is for the teachers to be employed as primary teachers at schools with high numbers of pupils from migrant families. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
Will it be assessing the changes on family income structure following the recent announcement by the Government, and the disabilities suffered by those families whose incomes have been diminished as a result of the Medibank levy and health fund payments, the removal of tax deductions on mortgage loans, probable cost increases arising from the slashing of Government programs and foreshadowed indirect taxation? [More…]
What comes through clearly from the figures is that those people with large families receive a distinct benefit. [More…]
The Prime Minister has already announced that funding for child care services this year will be given a priority because of the very urgent need in most parts of Australia for these support services for families and children. [More…]
Mortgage interest rate taxation deductions for families have been excluded. [More…]
Unfortunately, I do not have time to go into the detail of what is involved in the area of assistance to families but I will refer to statements made by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) relating to child endowment. [More…]
That will give far greater assistance to poorer families, particularly as the endowment has been increased significantly, while at the same time the dependent children’s allowance for taxation purposes has been abolished. [More…]
Although they distribute money to the people, as I think Senator Martin said yesterday, and give benefits to some of the poor families, especially the larger poor families, they also distribute money to some of the wealthy families and some of the rich larger families. [More…]
I want to use this opportunity to say something about those things which are my direct responsibility and in particular to speak of the assistance for families which was announced in the measures outlined last week. [More…]
Consistent with this philosophy, the new system of family allowances will give great assistance to the families in this country. [More…]
It represents a major improvement in the Australian social welfare system and it improves the situation of those families who are most in need. [More…]
It is based on giving large non-taxable increases in family allowances to all families. [More…]
We abolished the tax rebate system because we were aware that about 300 000 families in the lower income group in this country would not take advantage of the tax rebate scheme. [More…]
We recognised that there were about 800 000 children in these families and realised that the whole system of child endowment needed to be restructured so that assistance could be directed to all children and to all families. [More…]
Instead of some families being able to take advantage of a $200 rebate for the first child and a rebate for other children, the same allowances will be made for all children. [More…]
We were influenced in this decision very strongly by the poverty report of Professor Henderson which talked of the way in which we could direct assistance to families by abolishing tax rebates, thus enabling a larger amount to be distributed amongst the children in Australia. [More…]
We were influenced by the figures relating to families which have one to three children. [More…]
The number of children in families which have one child totals 668 000; in families with 2 children, 730 000; and in families with 3 children, 352 000. [More…]
The number of children in families with four or more children total 1 74 000. [More…]
It was a case of looking at the families which could have the greatest benefit. [More…]
We also gave heavy increases to those families with four or more children. [More…]
What is important to me and to my department is that the new benefit will be a help to those families where there is a single breadwinner or perhaps where there is a single parent looking after children. [More…]
The lower income families, as I mentioned before, who could not take advantage of the tax rebate, will have this immediate extra support directed to them. [More…]
In all these ways we are hoping that this will be one very positive step towards the alleviation of poverty for the 300 000 low income families whom I mentioned. [More…]
We believe it is a major step forward in the Government’s objective of directing welfare payments to families whose needs are the greatest. [More…]
You must bear in mind that the safety of the skipper and crew of a fishing boat and the welfare and future of their families depends upon making satisfactory catches and returning to port safely. [More…]
If you can achieve this, you will be preventing a great deal of worry and anxiety in fishermen’s families and I honestly think that from time to time, the loss of life. [More…]
I know that he has very strong support from the families of those people. [More…]
I have even read in newspapers from time to time of people who allegedly have not received a benefit and have gone out to obtain money by unlawful acts because they needed to feed their families. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) who has recently made it possible for those families to apply for and receive relief from her department. [More…]
It will do this by substantially increasing family allowances for families. [More…]
This will overcome the existing anomaly that, upon a child reaching 16 years and becoming a student, the total amount payable increases in one and two child families but decreases in families where there are more than two children. [More…]
The proposals outlined arise from a review of 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 income tax rebates. [More…]
However, the benefits that are 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…]
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…]
No levy will be paid by families earning less than a bit over $4,000 a year. [More…]
The 2Vi per cent tax levy to finance Medibank will place an even greater strain on the wage packet of most Australian families. [More…]
I am sure all honourable senators have been besieged with inquiries from their constituents as to where they stand with regard to the new proposals and what sort of action they should take in order to ensure that they and their families are properly covered for all eventualities. [More…]
The sort of information that is needed is how many single persons in the community are above that income, which is able to be determined, and how many one-income families are in the situation of earning $8,600 a year or more, which is able to be determined, but statistics just are not available to show how many 2-income families are earning above $8,600 a year. [More…]
The Government has undertaken between now and 1 October to conduct an intensive scheme of education and information for the public so that members of the public will understand what their alternatives are and what steps need to be taken by them to ensure that they have the type of cover which they choose for themselves and their families. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe spoke of the exemptions for low income families. [More…]
It is important in the plans that we have for health care in this country that low income families not be deprived of the quality of health care that we would want to see for everyone. [More…]
I do not know whether there are many people who would suggest in a personal sense that advances in modern medicine should not be applied to that area or to the members of their families. [More…]
I do not believe that the Australian people will be convinced that they should have one form of health cover or another unless they are convinced that it is the one which best suits them and their families. [More…]
They were recommended as interim measures to relieve ‘ poverty in families, particularly large families, in our community. [More…]
We recognise that these measures involve a transfer of money to large families, to rich families as well as poor, and also a transfer of money within families which is an innovation in this country. [More…]
They give increases in money paid to some very poor families. [More…]
However, I impress upon the Senate, and I would not like the publicity that has been given to these measures to get away from it, that the measures do not solve the problems of poor families. [More…]
So many of our large families and single parent families live in areas devoid of family support services and the extra money supplied to mothers in this way will not buy the services. [More…]
He recommended increases of this order in child endowment to relieve poverty in families with children. [More…]
This recognises the fact which many people forget- that in absolute numbers there are more families in poverty with one or two children than with four or five children. [More…]
Of course, this obviously reflects the spread of children throughout families in our community. [More…]
Professor Henderson recommended that supportive family services of all types should be made available on a local basis to allow more independence and to give an increased range of choices to such families in terms of allocating times between earning and staying at home. [More…]
It is a major innovation which will assist families and the poor. [More…]
It is a Bill about allowances to families. [More…]
It has, as the main part of its proposal, the maintenance and preservation of cash resources for poor families. [More…]
This extremely important report has made a number of observations about poverty and families. [More…]
I refer honourable senators to pages 208 to 210 of the main report where the following general propositions were established: That there is a relationship between poverty and the size of families, and it is important that we should understand this; and that there is no relationship between poverty and the earning capacity, the single wage of the heads of families. [More…]
It merely shows that the resources, the wages, the cash available to large families is inadequate for their needs and that the size of a family tends to be the determinant of poverty in that family. [More…]
Professor Henderson and his group pointed out that child endowment or family allowances are more useful to poor families than to wealthy families; that the allowances are more critical in providing the cash resources available to poor families; and that the provision of family allowances is the appropriate way to increase the cash resources of poor families. [More…]
The rebates or concessions which are being abolished of course are of more value to wealthy families who can gain more from the rebate system. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the paper entitled Resources for Poor Families: An Experimental Income Supplement Scheme. [More…]
Next I look at the paper entitled Chronic Poverty: City and Country Families which refers to a guaranteed family income as being one means of alleviating the poverty which is recognised in the paper. [More…]
Then I look at the paper entitled Poverty Among Aboriginal Families in Adelaide. [More…]
Nevertheless, cash will be mobilised into families. [More…]
This is the first occasion for some considerable time when families as such have been favoured in welfare matters. [More…]
The giving of assistance to families in this way is a high priority matter and one which I am glad our Government has taken up. [More…]
Again it is a provision that will help to put cash into the hands of families in need. [More…]
This Bill, by favouring large families- Professor Henderson has told us that they are the families who often are poor- seeks to redistribute income in 2 ways. [More…]
It will redistribute it from the richer families who previously had the benefit of the rebate towards the poorer families who require cash assistance. [More…]
It will also enable a redistribution of income within families by giving money to women. [More…]
It is because of the taxation disadvantage which many families suffer that they have been driven out of the inner cities. [More…]
They are measures which will give to families something which they will need. [More…]
I hope that this Bill represents the first of a number of steps which our Government will take to alleviate poverty and to try to attack some of the problems which the commission of inquiry into povery recommended to aid the poor, to improve the status of women and to sustain families. [More…]
That is not putting the benefit into the pockets of the low income families. [More…]
It certainly does not give the assistance to the low income families that I hoped it would. [More…]
The statement by Mr Lynch that the new arrangements will be of particular benefit to Aboriginal families and his documentary evidence in his fiscal policy on last Thursday week that there are drastic cuts in Aboriginal programs do not match up. [More…]
If there is an indication that the benefits for Aboriginal families under this Government are to be better than they were before- and this is one of those programs- quite frankly I do not want to see any of the disadvantages which may still be up the Treasurer’s sleeve. [More…]
Such young families already feel that they are disadvantaged. [More…]
But nowhere in those reports is there any mention of a decrease in relation to the essential social services that should be made available to people who are not in a financial position- some of them are not even in a physical or mental condition- to be able to provide those things for their families and themselves. [More…]
The Bill increases the amount of money allocated to families for their children. [More…]
I feel that this is a very important measure, particularly to poor people and those who are working for a living but not always able to provide for their families the necessary items that they would like to provide. [More…]
I believe it is going to have a tremendous effect in particular on the mothers of the poorer families. [More…]
That may be all right in some families but I know of many families in which it is not working out or has not worked out very well. [More…]
Think of the houses that people with Targe and small families need to have provided for them at a price they can afford. [More…]
In families where husbands and wives work as a team, in many instances the Government is taking from the husband and giving to the wife. [More…]
In families which are not a team, the Government is giving to the wife but she will lose because her husband will take from the housekeeping money the extra amount he sees her getting in child endowment. [More…]
Senator Baume talked about large families and poverty, large families and cash. [More…]
What do large families need? [More…]
How many payments of child endowment would it take to provide efficient economic public transport systems which would meet the needs of large families? [More…]
How many child endowment payments would it take to give families, large or small, the chance to start life with a home of their own at a cost they can afford, not spending long years in the hopeless cause of trying to save the money for the deposit on a house while paying rent which are rarely a fair percentage of their incomes? [More…]
What about relieving these pressures on people with families? [More…]
In conclusion, may I say that I do not believe that for people in need there is any new world dawning by giving large families an extra $15 or so a week. [More…]
Women are assured that their brains will stagnate and that they are real no-hopers if they stay at home and bring up their families in the time-honoured tradition. [More…]
It will bring substantial increases to the incomes of 300 000 low income familiesSenator Melzer wondered whether they existwith 800 000 children. [More…]
The old rebate system was of no help to these families because their earnings were not high enough to take full advantage of the tax rebates. [More…]
As the Minister has pointed out, the increases are really meaningful and will be of immense assistance to the low income families. [More…]
It will be paid to single parent families as well. [More…]
In addition, their families have suffered hardship through unemployment and erosion of income through inflation. [More…]
Will the same degree of participation and co-operation be sought from these committees, volunteer groups of mothers and community workers who gave ungrudgingly a great deal of their free time to establish projects for working and non-working families? [More…]
I pointed out that the Bill was primarily aimed at assisting low income families, 300 000 of whom will benefit greatly from the Bill. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber recognise that the Bill will make certain improvements in the financial situation of some very poor women and some very poor families. [More…]
Poor women, particularly poor women with large families, are still oppressed and powerless in this society. [More…]
The majority of them drop out ofthe work force while they have their families. [More…]
Just as most working women have children and are therefore aware of the needs of families, particularly poor families, and are happy to support an increase in child endowment, so I think we should encourage women who are at present at home with their children to think in terms of supporting policies for women who need or wish to work. [More…]
I was quite amazed last night to hear Senator Baume, speaking for the Government, claim that this Bill, which increases child endowment payments, represented some sort of radical program for a genuine redistribution of wealth throughout the community, that it was innovative and that nothing like this had ever been done for women or families before. [More…]
I hope that my reference to those figures will prevent from being made yet again in the Senate the claim that somehow the high participation of mothers and married women in the work force was a phenomenon that came about only as a result of the Labor Government and somehow as a result of pressures put on families by the Labor Government. [More…]
It is totally inaccurate to try to look at such a complex social change as the change in life style of married women and families in terms of anything that might have happened during the 5 years of the Labor Government. [More…]
The situation of students on tertiary allowances, particularly students from poorer families or middle income families, is very grim at the moment. [More…]
We have heard quite a lot of quotations from the relevant Henderson reports on poor families and quite a lot of references to the fact that the Government now is adopting Professor Henderson’s recommendations in respect of child endowment. [More…]
There were a number of recommendations, of which that for increases in child endowment- that is, increases in cash payments to poor families- was only one. [More…]
My understanding of the overall views of the Henderson report with respect to a guaranteed minimum income was that increased cash payments to families by way of child endowment payments would be only one of the steps necessary to establish a guaranteed minimum income. [More…]
While it is true that the Henderson report recommended increasing cash payments to families I do not think the findings oppose the provision of services to poor families. [More…]
There will still be a need for the Government to pour a great deal of money into public services if the opportunities of poor families are to be improved. [More…]
Money alone will not improve the opportunities of poor families. [More…]
Access to good education and good health care and the availability of reasonably priced housing will also improve, perhaps even more significantly improve, opportunities for poor families. [More…]
I think either the last speaker for the Government, or perhaps it was Senator Baume last night, said in conclusion that there would be many more measures to assist poor families. [More…]
Although we all acknowledge that an advance has been made in respect of child endowment payments, we on this side ofthe chamber recognise that it is a very small advance and that there are many more actions that a responsible government can take if it is genuine about improving opportunities in life for poor families. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide assistance to poorer families. [More…]
It does not do a great deal to support families in general. [More…]
In fact, many families in the middle income groups will get absolutely nothing from the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
Many families in the middle income groups will not benefit from this Bill. [More…]
There are thousands upon thousands of trade unionists who earn approximately the average weekly wage or above, and for many of those families as a whole the provisions of this Bill will do absolutely nothing. [More…]
I feel that she will not allow the situation regarding families to rest with this Bill and that she will give consideration to the proposals that have been suggested for a mother’s allowance. [More…]
We do want to say that it is a proposal which has resulted from a review of the manner in which assistance has been given to families. [More…]
It is understood by everyone that, through the abolition of certain income tax rebates, we have been able to restructure the way in which assistance is now given to families in the form of the new family allowances. [More…]
We were heavily influenced by the recommendations of the Henderson report, which showed that income given into the hands of families would be of assistance. [More…]
Whilst at this time of somewhat economic stringency we have been unable to increase to any great degree the amount that is given, we have been able by abolishing a part of the income tax rebate to direct additional payments to those lower income families and those single parent families which otherwise would not have had the opportunity to receive increased payments at this time. [More…]
Senator Melzer spoke of the other benefits that are required to give assistance to families. [More…]
I think that it would be ungracious of anyone to state that the Government believes that this is the end result of what can be done to assist families in the Australian context. [More…]
I do want to take up the points that were made by Senator Harradine with regard to family allowances and the needs of families as distinct from their wants. [More…]
I believe that in calling our new assistance ‘family allowances’ we are talking about assistance that is able to be given to families with children in this country. [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…]
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…]
It will destroy the souls of those farmers and their families. [More…]
Has the Minister also been asked to simplify forms of assistance for rural families who have school children living away from home at hostels and boarding schools. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the deaths of Mr Thomas Louis Bull, O.B.E., a former senator for the State of New South Wales, Mr William Edward Aylett, a former senator for the State of Tasmania, and Mr George Irvine Whiteside, a former senator for the State of Queensland, and Mr Laurence John Failes, a former member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Lawson, New South Wales, places on record its appreciation of their long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to their families in their bereavement. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable senators will join with me, on behalf of the Government, in expressing our sympathy to the families of former Senator Bull, former Senator Whiteside, former Senator Aylett and Mr Failes. [More…]
Anyone who knew Tom Bull knew the strength of his convictions and his concern for the welfare of his family and, indeed, of all families in our community. [More…]
I extend my sympathy also to the families of the other former senators and of the member of the House of Representatives with whom this motion is concerned. [More…]
and (2) The original proposal for a nursing post at Pantijan was based on the likely needs of an anticipated community population of 20 workers and families. [More…]
At present, only 15 itinerant workers, without families, are at Pantijan and funding of the proposed nursing post has been deferred. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Australian Postal Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Commission are now expected to be financially self-sufficient and to contribute to their own capital expansion, what safeguards can the Minister give that the interests of families living in remote areas which would be patently unprofitable to service are being protected? [More…]
These examples indicate that both Commissions are responsive in a practical way to the special difficulties of families in remote areas. [More…]
Will the Government acknowledge that many of the parents involved deserve at least some support and encouragement because they are willing to improve their own and their families’ lives through hard work and initiative. [More…]
The Government is greatly appreciative of the problems of isolated families with children, particularly families such as those of cattle producers who are suffering doubly because of the dreadful fall in beef prices. [More…]
Unemployment is wrecking marriages and splitting families in the outer western suburbs, particularly Mt Druitt. [More…]
The economic circumstances of families are just about inseparable from many of the marriage break-ups that are brought to us, ‘ Mr Don Harley said today. [More…]
I would say that if these recommendations are implemented they will go a long way towards giving assistance to parents of isolated children, parents who are endeavouring to give their families the same educational opportunities as other children. [More…]
No changes for the better have come about in the questions of free emigration and, particularly relating to the problem of uniting families. [More…]
In addition, the activities of the Soviet Governments are inconsistent with their own explanation of the question concerning the unification of families, since there are cases of refusal to emigrate to the members of families who are recognised as such by the Soviet code relating to the marriage and family (see Document No. [More…]
It is important to stress that such unacceptable interpretation of the Final Act, to which authorities now relate, makes it impossible to affect an exit from the country for the Soviet citizens who wish to emigrate, not for the purposes of reuniting with their families, but for religious, political, national, professional or other motives. [More…]
The conditions of the Helsinki Final Act, concerning particularly expeditious examination and satisfactory result of uniting families with sick and old people, are completely ignored by the Government. [More…]
about splitting families who asked for reunification (17 June 1976) [More…]
about repressions against religious families (17 June 1976). [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
Families which receive the allowance for children received the first cheques on 13 July. [More…]
Similar families which receive allowances by bank credit will receive their payments on 7 September if they have not elected to change the method which they chose for the payments to be made. [More…]
West Island is occupied by the Australian Administrator, the office of Administrator being established by the Labor Government, and by the Australian Administration employees and their families. [More…]
I think that at this period when we have many Australians dependent on welfare benefits we might start to consider very seriously the necessity for something like a guaranteed minimum income scheme for all individuals and families in our society. [More…]
There are many women, who formerly had an opportunity to go out to work and support their families, but now exist on the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
They are experiencing many difficulties in supporting their families on that benefit and experiencing many difficulties in the administration of that benefit. [More…]
But the problem probably of greater importance is that our society in its post industrial phase has developed into one of nuclear families where families of 2 generations live in accommodation where there is neither the ability nor often the desire for immediate members of families- for sons, daughters or anybody else- to care for the increasing numbers of aged persons. [More…]
Assistance can be given and I believe should be given to encourage the care of the aged in their own homes or in the homes of families. [More…]
The Council has said that we should be looking at programs that would make it easy for people in this kind of housing- the Council has statistics; the numbers run into hundreds of thousands- to move into more appropriate and simpler housing which they can manage and at the same time get some benefit from giving up their own housing to give to society extra housing for families which is needed at present. [More…]
They are isolated from their families. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government has decided, as shown in the Budget Papers, to increase the price of a meal taken at a community kitchen on an Aboriginal reserve, will this deprive children of impoverished families of the opportunity of partaking of a meal which they now receive? [More…]
Not only is the public treated in this way; with large scale stand-downs there is also a massive effect on fellow workers and their families. [More…]
The hypocrisy of Mr Fraser ‘s assumed concern for the economic hardship of many farming families is exposed by the absence of policy and budgetary assistance. [More…]
I am deeply concerned at the way our system discriminates against one income families. [More…]
It is also very important to low income families and it has increased the confidence of those Australian consumers. [More…]
The State Government is to be asked to provide caravan park facilities for up to 20 unhoused Aboriginal families at a camp in the bush at Lockridge. [More…]
In the Budget $75,000 is allotted for an examination of the establishment of a scheme which would provide a voucher system for individual low income families so that they can search out their own housing, the housing which suits them best, rather than be forced by State government authorities and other authorities to accept housing which is not in their best interests. [More…]
The family allowances scheme, which has been well canvassed since 20 May, will bring benefit to 300 000 low income families. [More…]
As Senator Martin said, we have assisted through our new family allowance scheme those 300 000 low income families, with their 800 000 children, who previously just did not have sufficient income to benefit from tax rebates for their children. [More…]
There have been very few persons to gain from this Budget, apart from the minor exception of a few families. [More…]
It is not the 300 000 families, as the Treasurer keeps insisting, whose incomes were not high enough to take advantage of the dependant’s rebate scheme introduced in the Hayden Budget. [More…]
But this Budget will not provide major benefits for 300 000 families and 800 000 people as the responsible Ministers keep asserting. [More…]
But there will be gains for some low income families and, to the extent that the Budget does this, it is good. [More…]
Legislation being introduced is directed towards establishing a great measure of benefit for some 300 000 families and almost one million children. [More…]
We were obligated to the principle of housing all Aboriginal families within 10 years. [More…]
That in 39.4 per cent of married couple families, both parents work and of these 59 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That reduction of the age limit from six years to eighteen 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…]
In addressing my question to the Minister for Social Security I refer to representations made over a considerable period to the previous Government and the present Government, and to senators, by organisations seeking the alleviation of the hardships suffered by one-parent families, including motherless families, in Australia, with which problem I know the Minister is concerned. [More…]
For single parent families, or families where one parent is an invalid, we will introduce a special child care rebate. [More…]
In response to the question I can say only that the Government is aware of the needs of one-parent families for emergency funding, income and benefits including child care facilities and other supportive services. [More…]
It is very difficult for families like this ever to achieve what they started out to do. [More…]
I think it is worth repeating that some 300 000 low income families with 800 000 children will benefit most from the dependent children’s rebates. [More…]
I think it might be useful for this country if the Labor Party, which is supposed to be the friend of the oppressed, came out and supported what is a most substantial reform in favour of 800 000 children in the community who are in relatively poor circumstances in the 300 000 families which are in relatively poor circumstances. [More…]
It is expected that the scheme will provide for about 300 peoplethat is workers and their families- to move from the island each year. [More…]
Some 300 000 low income families are assisted. [More…]
It is shown that 300 000 families will benefit by this and 800 000 children are to be beneficiaries, ls this the type of reform which can be described as demolishing the social service system? [More…]
In answer to the last part of the question with regard to families who wish to have their payments made on a more frequent basis than 3- monthly, let me say that it is quite competent for families to request that their allowances be paid on a monthly basis with a 4-weekly cheque that can be sent to them at their own address. [More…]
As with education facilities, medical assistance generally is concentrated in city or regional areas and thus Aboriginal people and their families need to visit these centres to obtain health care. [More…]
Thus, in order to take up job opportunities, single Aboriginal people and Aboriginal families must often make such a move and since, under the circumstances, it often takes some time to find suitable accommodation, these Aboriginal people require opportunities to take up suitable forms of temporary accommodation at reasonable cost, in locations where such employment opportunities from time to time become available. [More…]
To continue, it often happens that aged Aboriginal people, just like aged people in almost any country cannot always be cared for by their families. [More…]
Or, again, just like anyone else, don’t like to feel that they are a burden on their families. [More…]
If I may just repeat these points, temporary accommodation is needed to enable Aboriginal individuals and families to move to new areas to take up opportunities in education, employment, rehabilitation and medical treatment or to travel for personal purposes while maintaining a decent standard of living at a price they can afford. [More…]
As well, emergency temporary accommodation is also necessary for families in crisis or transit until permanent housing can be found. [More…]
Transient Hostels cater for families as well as individuals in transit, homeless or seeking employment or medical help and are of larger sizes depending upon the demand and the properties available at the time of acquisition. [More…]
The Government’s decision to introduce a new system of family allowances paid to wives will provide a substantial increase in income for many Aboriginal families and reduce the demands on some programs that were necessary for Aborigines in the past. [More…]
We want to see that accurate information is given to the public throughout Australia so as to enable people to make a choice as to what health insurance they require for themselves and their families. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security advise the Senate whether family allowances are in some cases payable to Australian citizens who, together with their families, are temporarily overseas? [More…]
How many Aboriginal families have been housed in these dwellings for each of the past ten years. [More…]
Low income earners with families who through no fault of their own will not be able to afford to pay into a private fund will not be deprived under the present Government’s arrangements; they will be looked after. [More…]
I hope that I will not be imposing on your leniency, Mr President, by saying that since the introduction of the family allowances I have had the opportunity of seeing the difference this has meant to many families throughout my State of Queensland. [More…]
I realise that the hour is late but I think the community has some interest in this issue because it will affect the income, the real take home pay, of every wage earner in the land and will impose a considerable burden on many families in respect of the choice they will have to make. [More…]
This was an extremely efficient procedure and it was extremely popular with the public and extremely welcome to low income earners or families with a lot of children who had difficulties making on the spot cash payments which many private doctors demand these days and which, no doubt, they will demand even more now that they know every person will be insured and will be able to obtain a refund. [More…]
It will not now necessarily be a uniform cover because people will have different needs and will exercise their right to choose what they consider best suits them and their families. [More…]
I should like to draw the attention of the Senate to the Press release of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) dated 16 September, in which the position as it will exist for those 2-income families was clearly stated. [More…]
Our Government has seen fit to limit the levy’s upper limit to protect 2-income families. [More…]
As you know, Mr President, it is often the families who are battlers who have two people working and who will be most appreciative of the levy ceiling which will ensure that from the combined income no more than $300 will have to be paid by way of health insurance levy if they wish to stay with Medibank. [More…]
The improved system of family allowance started from 1 July to benefit people with families. [More…]
I refer to the problem being experienced by Timorese corning to Australia, in many cases to be reunited with their families in the eastern States of Australia, and also in Darwin, Northern Territory, where several hundred refugees are living. [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 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…]
The Rumley and Stockwell families still control Nema and there is no truth in any suggestion that Nema has obtained State Works Department Contracts in the way the rumours suggest. [More…]
The Rumley and Stockwell families do not operate that way. [More…]
1 wonder how many families earning less than $8,200 a year could live on that income. [More…]
In the case of the secondary allowance scheme to assist families to keep children at high school the maximum allowance has been increased by only $100 whilst the maximum family income to attract the full allowance has been increased from $4,300 to only $5, 1 50. [More…]
For 2 families in every 100 the state of affairs is disastrous because the breadwinner is not able to earn the weekly income needed to sustain the family. [More…]
On the Australian Broadcasting Commission program Lateline- or the ‘Marxist halfhour’ as it is colloquially known- recently there was a statement by a radical feminist to the effect that there should be 2 -income families and that the husband should go to work for 4 hours a day and the wife should go to work for 4 hours a day. [More…]
The report of the Presbyterian Church expressed its deep concern for these families which evidence the pressures, privations and severe anxieties occasioned by the present crisis in rural industry and, in particular, in the dairying and beef industries. [More…]
I recently read in an article published by one of the major newspapers that there are still more people in Australia with 2 jobs than there are with none and 20 per cent to 25 per cent of these represent 3 job families. [More…]
In such cases the benefit becomes an indirect subsidy sometimes to the families involved. [More…]
These questions referred to numbers of handicapped peoples in various families and the types of handicaps they had. [More…]
The new arrangements for assisting families were introduced by the Government in order to direct more support to families in most need. [More…]
The abolition of the income tax rebates for dependent children and the substitution of higher child endowment has removed the inequity arising from the inability of low income families to take full advantage of the taxation rebates for children. [More…]
There were estimated to be some 300 000 such families with 800 000 children. [More…]
In view of that statement, can the Minister explain to the Senate and to the student community who are very interested in this matter why he has introduced a new category- ‘dependent student away from home’- with a maximum allowance of $38, or $5 a week less than the new ‘independent student’ maximum allowance of $43, when the families of students qualifying for the maximum ‘dependent away from home’ allowance will already have been means tested quite rigidly? [More…]
I refer to the low income families who are unlikely to be able to assist students in this category. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that this new discrepancy between independent students and dependent students from poor families living away from home may force poorer students to delay their studies for 2 years while they acquire eligibility for the independent student’s allowance, either by working full time for 2 years or- as is more likely in the present circumstancesby spending 2 years on the dole? [More…]
So a second substantial increase has been granted to help the poor and the under-privileged families who are maintaining students away from home. [More…]
The State Government is to be asked to provide caravan park facilities for up to 20 unhoused Aboriginal families at a camp in the bush at Lockridge. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that some residents of Bairnsdale in Victoria took up a petition to have 2 Aboriginal families removed from a street in that town? [More…]
If the position with regard to Aboriginal families in Bairnsdale is as the honourable senator states it, it is a matter that could be dealt with by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
It relates to the grant to FILEF- the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families- under the welfare rights program which the Minister has decided to terminate at the end of the year. [More…]
The economic problems facing the beef industry are generating grave social problems for the families of beef producers and their employees . [More…]
The associated industries and community services in small towns suffer also, so that not only the farmers and their families are affected but also thousands of small businesses in rural towns. [More…]
and (2) The exact number of motherless families living in Australia is not known. [More…]
A survey of families conducted in May 1975 showed that there were about 19 300 one-parent families in Australia with a male head and one or more children aged 1 7 years or less. [More…]
In Europe and Africa the disease is spread by 3 different tick families. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the concern of families in Australia, who have relatives in the United Kingdom and other countries and who are from time to time the recipients of small gift parcels from relatives and friends, about what appears to be a hardening attitude and an insistence upon the collection of duty on these gifts? [More…]
May I say that this appears to be a departure from the previous position where a sympathetic and realistic approach was taken in respect of the exchange of small personal gifts between families. [More…]
In view of the desirability of preserving and fostering contacts between families overseas and their relatives here, some of whom they have never seen, such as young people born in this country, could there not be a relaxation of this requirement, which adds considerably to the costs of these presents and is damaging to the preservation of family contacts which are so important to these people? [More…]
I refer to reports that payments made to the victims of the drug thalidomide will pay taxation on the compensation they have finally been able to extract from the drug companies responsible for the misery and suffering caused to them and their families. [More…]
The point that I was making- I am not the first to make it- was that some reparation ought to be made to the families who were shattered by the unfortunate and tragic death of these 5 journalists, who were caught in a circumstance which perhaps arose from the political limbo in which we found ourselves at the time. [More…]
Regrettably, since the Indonesians are not prepared to accept that they were in the area at the time, there appears to be no way in which justice can be sought and achieved for the families of these people. [More…]
If it is not possible to achieve this end- that is, reparation for the families concerned- perhaps the Government should take some steps to give special aid to these families. [More…]
Perhaps the correct thing to do would be to establish some amount of money which these families should receive in reparation, accept that the Indonesians were responsible and then tell them that we will deduct from the amount of aid that we give to Indonesia an amount of money which we consider necessary to be paid to the families of this group. [More…]
Let me press the point that some assistance should be given to the families beyond the ordinary compensation which has been paid. [More…]
The men were caught in a situation and apparently we cannot pin the blame where it belongs and seek justice for the families of these men. [More…]
That is what I am asking for here- some expression of humanity on the part of the Government in supporting the families of these journalists. [More…]
That in 39.4 per cent of married couple families, both parents work and of these 39 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
Many of the farmers living there are second, third or even fourth generation in their respective families. [More…]
For example, they prevent the break-up of families and the subsequent institutionalisation of families which is, as the Minister and other honourable senators are aware, a very expensive process. [More…]
In many cases they provide short term assistance which enables women and their families to continue a normal existence afterwards. [More…]
I submit to the Senate that the provision of normal welfare type services, normal welfare type housing for families in distress, homes for children and so on is a much more expensive operation than the subsidisation of women’s refuges for a few thousand dollars a year to enable them to provide the sort of assistance that they do provide. [More…]
Two families have agreed on compensation but no payment has been made, The valuations were taken of the properties 2 years ago and the owners told no additional money would be paid if improvements were made by them. [More…]
These 2 families have been placed in a situation by Darra Explorations that should not be tolerated in our democratic society. [More…]
These people appreciate and enjoy the family life, the country living and this is not possible in the towns where families are split up each day for work reasons. [More…]
They never gave a chance to see our families or get any of our things together. [More…]
The reason why we left was because my family were kicked off in 1957 after we had some trouble there and a few other families were also put off the Island. [More…]
Many reports, including the Henderson Report on Poverty, have pointed out that families with children dependent on benefits and pensions are at a considerable disadvantage. [More…]
There are women in Melbourne who will never have families because they cannot afford to stop working. [More…]
As I have said, we were the first government to introduce child endowment and to help the poor families with children and again we are the first government to introduce major reforms aimed primarily to benefit the lower income families. [More…]
While the payment also goes to the working mother, at least it is a recognition that the mother needs some money of her own to spend on the priorities as she sees them and not only as the husband dictates as has often happened in many families in the past. [More…]
I sincerely hope that there are a lot of wage earners and very poor students from very poor families who get the living allowance because if they are earning less than $1,600 a year they are entitled to the allowance. [More…]
The people who will benefit most from this system are the single parents, those sole parent families- widows and supporting mothers- many of whom have not been able to take advantage of the tax rebates. [More…]
Nevertheless the Opposition does not believe that this is a good Bill, although it will benefit those sole parent families, and that is something I find very hard to understand. [More…]
The article is headed Death risk “higher” for working-class families’. [More…]
Of course it is higher because working class families cannot afford all the amenities and all the decent living standards that people in the higher echelons in this country can afford. [More…]
On the issue of those families which find themselves in need of financial assistance, the Minister for the Capital Territory and the Treasurer have made provision for special assistance in these cases. [More…]
Families which find themselves in financial difficulties can make application to the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Capital Territory for assistance. [More…]
It did not come to grips with the future of farm families deeply mired in asset-rich poverty. [More…]
This hospital services the people who are operating the defence and space communications station, the people on the pastoral properties in the area, the people in the village, the families of the staff operating the defence facility, Commonwealth railways personnel and anyone travelling through the district. [More…]
The urgent and immediate need for Governments to act to preserve the human and economic investment- built up over generations- in Queenstown and adjacent areas of Tasmania’s West Coast, all of which is now threatened by the severe curtailment of the Mt Lyell copper mine operations, the retrenchment of over 400 workers and the consequent dislocation of their families.’ [More…]
The urgent and immediate need for Governments to act to preserve the human and economic investment- built up over generations- in Queenstown and adjacent areas of Tasmania’s West Coast, all of which is now threatened by the severe curtailment of the Mount Lyell copper mine operations, the retrenchment of over 400 workers and the consequent dislocation of their families. [More…]
We see that the axe has fallen and some of these workers will need to uproot their families and move out of the area in which they have lived for many years. [More…]
The only alternative is to relocate and readjust the 400 workers, their families and their dependants somewhere else in Tasmania or elsewhere. [More…]
The position is that the workers who are bound to go from Mount Lyell will find it very difficult to get a job and the Government will have to sustain them and their families by paying the unemployment benefit and adjustment assistance. [More…]
In short, the workers and their families, instead of being strong contributors to the economy, will become a burden on the economy. [More…]
The Government does understand the problems associated with the possible retrenchment of more than 400 people and the consequent dislocation of their families. [More…]
I learnt the qualities of the people who seemed to gravitate to the mining areas and who found enjoyment, happiness and contentment in the sort of conditions that obtained there and who brought up their families in those areas. [More…]
If 40 per cent of the employees of the mine are dismissed and have to go elsewhere the impact will be not only on those 400 people but also on their families. [More…]
I am talking about people with families and communities of people who have learned to live and work together. [More…]
One deals with it by considering factors which are designed to get money for the men who have to keep their families. [More…]
The Mount Larcom incident concerned almost half a hundred farmers and their families, who have been deprived of a living because of collusion between the Government of Queensland and a certain mining company which I have nominated previously. [More…]
In the meantime the welfare and the livelihood of almost 50 families are at stake. [More…]
The matters that startle me and which indicate that things are not what they should be must be investigated immediately by this Government before dozens of families are wrongfully evicted from their land. [More…]
Maybe 50 farmers and their families do not particularly concern the Government. [More…]
That in 39.4 per cent of married couple families, both parents work and of these 59 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That would allow us to examine the matter without any question in the back of our minds that immediately, and even before the committee goes into action, 400 workers, their families and other sections of the community will be affected. [More…]
There has been a decline in the number of houses allocated to families in distress and a tightening up of guidelines which has meant that many families in distress and seeking emergency housing have not been able to qualify for this housing. [More…]
I suggest that the increase in revenue is not compensated for by the hardship caused to families who, without much prior warning, and certainly with no prior warning by the coalition parties before the last general election, have to face these vast increases. [More…]
Similarly with interest rates there has been a drastic increase for a number of families. [More…]
There would have been an increase for more families if the Department had not backed down with respect to some mortgage agreements because the Public Service union- the Adminis.tative and Clerical Officers Association- threatened to take legal action on the grounds that the increase in certain mortgage agreements was illegal. [More…]
Again, I would relate this to the Government’s general attitude to rental of housing and to interest rates which have been so high as to prohibit a number of families who intended to build this year from being able to proceed with their intentions. [More…]
For instance, Senator Ryan said that families in distress have not been able to qualify for housing. [More…]
In discussing the matter with the families concerned, I put forward the view that perhaps it is due to the fact that new concepts are held by the medical staffs who currently argue that such people, as far as possible, ought to be accommodated in community environments and conditions. [More…]
This table is available throughout Australia with Medibank Private and most other private hospital benefit organisations at a cost of $2.60 a week for families and $ 1 .30 a week for persons without dependants. [More…]
Yet I know that there are a large number of ordinary Rhodesians with families who are gravely apprehensive of the future and who are in no way racist in character. [More…]
If we take young people from their families, a great cost to their race, and separate them from their families, if we teach them to read and write and do not give them any means of living by those skills but send them back to a society in which those skills are not used but are forgotten we have somehow or other failed those people educationally. [More…]
When we look at these types of families and see the nomadic life that many of them live, we realise that one of the problems that we face is that we are trying through building edifices to make those people fit into a physical structure which is quite foreign to them. [More…]
Some colleges take Aboriginal children from their families and train them to a certain level of ability in literacy and numeracy and they train some of those children to achieve a certain ability in subjects such as manual crafts, hygiene, child care and nutrition. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government review as a matter of urgency those decisions which have resulted in making mail delivery services financially prohibitive for families in remote areas. [More…]
For my part, for some 20 years, I have sought to see that all Australian students, from whatever families, from whatever socio-economic or religious grouping, should have the highest education that Australia can afford. [More…]
That in 39.4 per cent of married couple families, both parents work and of these 59 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
Will the Government consider the recommendations of Professor Henderson and the alleged recommendations of Professor Fitzgerald to avoid the discrimination against poor families which have school leavers which occurs under the present Government’s policy? [More…]
They upset people’s timetables in which to get to accommodation and run them into large amounts of money that they did not bargain for, especially when travelling with their families. [More…]
The Government has taken a number of initiatives to assist home buyers and to promote home building: an improved Home Savings Grant scheme has been introduced to operate from 1 January 1977; an experiment is to be conducted with housing allowance vouchers to find out the best way of assisting low income renters in the private market; approximately 1500 families are to be assisted in each of three cities- Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney, and this will ease the waiting list for Housing Commission homes; a revised housing loan interest deductibility scheme was introduced to give maximum assistance to first home buyers in the first five years of ownership; the level of welfare housing advances to the States was maintained in 1976-77 despite severe budgetary constraints. [More…]
To examine the welfare needs of families and individual persons affected by the cyclone known as ‘Tracy’ and to give an indication of where these needs exist to the relevant authorities; [More…]
To support and supplement existing government and voluntary agencies in meeting the needs of families and individual persons affected by cyclone Tracy; and [More…]
It believes that refugees, who in some senses may have the same problems as many migrants, come here in most dramatic circumstances, confused and separated from their families with little or no possessions. [More…]
Many of them will be a burden on their families and the taxpayers of this country until they pass on. [More…]
The Australian Government believes that any interference with the submarine would cause great distress to the families of its crew in Japan and could harm the friendly relations existing between the Australian and Japanese people’. [More…]
Certainly those in the rural communities who see families leaving districts and who see families leaving a particular industry must be concerned with the effects that that decline has upon the hopes and aspirations of the people within that particular region. [More…]
I refer to those on lower incomes, pensioners, large families and others who are not able to buy the quantity of fruit that otherwise would be available. [More…]
I remember, when returning from a visit to some of the fruit growing areas during the last winter recess, drawing my family’s attention to the fact that farmers were not even bothering to remove the fruit from the trees when families were paying 10c, 12c or 14c each for apples and pears. [More…]
Area Redevelopment Authorities be established in designated areas to co-ordinate and guide the changes taking place and to influence the rate at which they occur, for specified fruit or for horticultural production generally in areas subject to Area Redevelopment Authorities: a fruitgrowing adjustment counselling service be established to work intensively with individual farmers and their families: concessional adjustment finance be provided to help farmers redevelop within agriculture or, where appropriate, to establish themselves outside it, on the following terms and conditions: finance from commercial sources is unavailable but the loan could be serviced; for the first three years of a concessional loan the rate of interest be 50 per cent of the long term bond rate; during these three years there will be capitalisation of interest at the concessional rate and a repayment holiday for at least that period; the upper limit for concessional loans be $20,000; and the viability of adjustment be demonstrable given those loan terms; assistance be provided for the removal of trees and vines which, if not properly maintained, could harbour diseases and pests. [More…]
The strategy also includes an adjustment counselling service to help growers anticipate and deal with the adjustment problems they face before they are ‘forced’ to do so and to ensure that they and their families have access to generally available assistance measures. [More…]
The economic problems facing the beef industry are generating grave social problems for the families of beef producers and their employees. [More…]
I shall deal firstly with the families who live on the stations. [More…]
Many of them were born and grew up on the stations and are second generation families. [More…]
The economic problems facing the beef industry are generating grave social problems for the families of beef producers and their employees. [More…]
It was designed to assist low income families to purchase homes. [More…]
The aims of the Corporation in general were to help one income, one parent families, poor families, those establishing first homes on a limited budget. [More…]
Housing is the major expenditure of families. [More…]
1 ) and (2) State and community organisations operating pre-schools have, for the most part, accepted the objectives of maximising the use of pre-school facilities, of extending the services offered and of operating in a way that links preschool services with other services directed to the care and development of children and the support of families. [More…]
The consequent dislocation and hardship on the community of Queenstown, associated companies and workmen’s families was very severe. [More…]
People are inclined to forget that families in the outback of the Northern Territory, who do not work for the Government or for an employer who pays their fares, are in a most difficult position when leaving the Territory on holidays. [More…]
Other reasons for the failure of businesses include drastic and unnotified increases in rates of all kinds; very drastic increases in interest rates from 4% per cent to 9V4 per cent applying to people buying houses from the Government; the Medibank levy, which, of course, is nothing but a huge increase in personal taxation and is recognised now to be so by the electorate; the very rapid increase in bus fares and the introduction of school bus fares to school children in the Australian Capital Territory which, again, has taken a toll on the real disposable income of families with several children in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Under the previous Act the Government had the constitutional power to pay the grant to married people because it had constitutional rights to give benefits to families. [More…]
It dealt with corporations and provisions for groups of people, mostly families; but there was nothing about the homes savings grant for single people. [More…]
It lists 13 families which are living in grossly sub-standard accommodation or camping on a river bank or whose children have been placed in orphanages. [More…]
The action of your Government will create and perpetuate overcrowding of families in sub-standard conditions. [More…]
This community conformed with minister’s instruction to maintain employment as at 30 June and now faces mass unemployment plus restricted earnings for favoured few as heads of families being employed. [More…]
Many of our people are not receiving any form of income, which means families have to go without food. [More…]
After all, we believe that it is vital to reunite families. [More…]
The Government had to make provision for this type of Aboriginal if it was going to house all Aboriginal families. [More…]
That is important in order to improve the health of Aboriginal families. [More…]
The Aboriginal people themselves got together and agreed that they would require certain pieces of land on which they could separate into their own clans, families and so on and live in peace in the Alice Springs area. [More…]
They were showing their appreciation to the families of the men who died in the Second World War, to the families of the journalists who died 14 months ago and to the families of the East Timorese who are suffering now after the invasion by Indonesia. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security received a letter from the NOW Centre in Melbourne protesting about her withdrawal of the welfare rights officer grant from the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]
That sort of activity extends right through their families and particularly to their dependants. [More…]
Migrant families consume less butter and more cooking margarine than equivalent Australian-born families. [More…]
Families with more adolescents consume more cooking and table margarine than butter. [More…]
Can the Minister for Administrative Services give any information on the matter I raised yesterday concerning the intimidation and harassment of the Indian High Commissioner in Canberra, members of his staff at the High Commission and also the families of these people? [More…]
I do not think the department or the Minister have considered the social situation of the families concerned in asking them to make a decision of this social magnitude so quickly. [More…]
These reports, entitled ‘Fruitgrowing Part A’ and ‘Fruitgrowing Reconstruction and Fruitgrowing Part B: Apples and Pears’, have made very worthy suggestions to improve the well-being of fruitgrowers and their families. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party believes that alternative measures designed to facilitate adjustment could provide more help to fruitgrowers, to their families and to the communities which depend on them, at much less cost to the nation. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission report was concerned that adequate counselling services be provided to inform farm families of the various provisions of the scheme, and that is an integral part of any readjustment scheme. [More…]
The report also referred to the need to extend the counselling services available to applicants who receive assistance under the scheme to include management advice, and for those assessed as non-viable in agriculture, adequate counselling to alert those farm families to the options available to them outside the sector. [More…]
During my visit to Indonesia, President Suharto and I agreed that Australian and Indonesian officials should meet to resolve the problems of the refugees who had come to Australia from East Timor without their families. [More…]
There was spoiling of the food of families, losses for food distributors and retailers and a breakdown in communication and industry, and 2 schools were forced to close for health reasons. [More…]
It is not unusual for families to find when they arrive at Derby that there is room on the aircraft, which is under charier to the company, for the husband but not for the wife and family. [More…]
Families are being broken up because young people have to go away even to attend high school. [More…]
It is a mobile school play activity group aimed at catering for children whose families for many reasons, as those who know that area of Sydney will understand, are in need of advice and help and who are lacking facilities to broaden the kids’ experience, to teach the children and to help the children develop fully in the proper sense. [More…]
While dealing with the problems of isolated families and isolated children, I thought it was pertinent to point out to the Senate that there were matters relating to the major purpose of education. [More…]
It is only when one is compelled to travel distances to the various remote areas of Australia that one can come to understand what are the grave disadvantages to the families in these areas, not only to the children but also to the parents because the parents of isolated children have 2 major roles, one as educators or local teacher and the other in incurring considerable expense. [More…]
I have been motivated to rise by articles in the Melbourne Herald yesterday and the Melbourne Age today wherein it is claimed that Mr Jim Dunn, after visiting Portugal, released a report containing some rather frightening allegations, including allegations that Indonesian troops in East Timor at the time of the initial occupation and thereafter rounded up young girls in trucks and raped them, shot 1 50 men in a south coast town because they tried to stop troops interfering with their women, shot entire families which lived in houses which displayed Fretilin flags, killed as many as 500 Chinese in the first days after the invasion, dug up graves and removed valuables, and used cigarettes and electrical instruments to torture women in a special interrogation unit in the top floor of the Tropical Hotel in Dili. [More…]
Large migrant families face problems. [More…]
As I have pointed out to the Senate on several occasion, the members of the Chinese community in Timor had direct affiliations with and the support of the families of the Taiwanese sections of China. [More…]
The relevance of all this to the nationals who are in Australia is that since the Khmer Rouge took over they have been completely unable to obtain any information whether their families are alive or dead and whether they can return to [More…]
The situation is that they can choose to face what they have been told is possible death on their return to try to get information or they can stay here not knowing whether their families are alive or dead. [More…]
They and their families are working long hours for an inadequate return. [More…]
They need to be assured that they and their families have a future and that they can plan for that future on the land. [More…]
A straw sample of parents, which bears no relationship to the number of children a family, shows that in a number of working families no arrangements were made for the care of 43 700 children; 53 200 children were left in the care of friends and relatives while other arrangements were made for 13 500 children. [More…]
Also I suggest that the Government should consider paying some allowance to such women in lower income families. [More…]
This should alert the Government to contrast the increasing costs in this area with its financial commitment to those fortunate children and parents who have the advantage of a contented and happy family background, which fortunately is still the case in the majority of families in Australia, and who do not cost the Government one cent apart from the universal family allowance payment. [More…]
I acknowledge the great step forward by our Government in providing the family allowance which help families in the lower income group who previously, because their incomes were so low and families so large, did not get the benefit of taxation deductions. [More…]
I was interested to hear the speech that has just been given by Senator Tehan and particularly the earlier pan of his speech in which he discussed the problems that exist for many tens of thousands of Australian children as a result of broken homes and other disabilities which are caused through the economic circumstances of families. [More…]
It is an experiment which provides $70m over the next 3 years for only 1 500 families in 3 capital cities- Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart. [More…]
He wanted to reply to Senator Lewis’s statement- surely a true statement- that farmers and their families wanted an assurance that they have some future in this country and that that is one of the major things which this Government is setting out to do. [More…]
Perhaps my final comment should be that one of the big difficulties has been that in Aboriginal families, including the extended family, there is no study orientation to impel the child from the home to school. [More…]
We are undertaking a considerable number of reforms in Aboriginal education, including the recruitment of Aboriginal teacher aides and the upgrading by in-service training of Aboriginal teachers and teacher aides, so that there will be a more direct link between the school and the families. [More…]
If one listened last night to Senator Grimes unfortunately I think one heard that unintentionally he was confusing the people of Australia when he said that the scheme is an experiment which will provide $70m over the next 3 years for only 1500 families in 3 capital cities- Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart. [More…]
He may not have intended it but he did give the impression that only 1500 families were affected, not 4560 in all. [More…]
The Government has threatened that this month it will evict from their settlements 8 families who have spent 20 years building up their farms. [More…]
Their families faced the hardship of isolation and all the problems of a farmer trying to succeed. [More…]
They and their families suffered hardship in the development of their settlements. [More…]
The Government provides those people who are indebted with a living allowance of $2,000 a year for the maintenance of themselves and their families. [More…]
That is the sum on which these farmers are trying to raise families, to educate children, and to send them to the Adelaide University or to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
From this, many voluntary organisations sprang up to provide homes for orphans and abandoned children and relief in the form of food and clothing for widows, old people, families, and the unemployed. [More…]
This benefit was increased to realistic proportions only last year by this Government with the introduction of the family allowance scheme which was designed particularly to help low income families, large families and the families of the unemployed. [More…]
From the beginning of their working lives people had a responsibility to their families. [More…]
Breadwinners liked to leave their families well catered for if anything happened to them. [More…]
If we divide the $1,000 into $75,000 we find that this so called magnificent scheme which is referred to in the address from the Throne will assist 75 families only. [More…]
It will assist 75 families only. [More…]
It is a measure of the kind of government we have today that this proposal which was suitable for meeting the needs of many families in poverty was rapidly initiated, rapidly introduced and rapidly passed by the Fraser Government. [More…]
It was possible to discuss such matters as the amount of relaxation, the amount of exercise, the amount of smoking and drinking, the amount of time the executives managed to spend with their families and the number of holidays- all things which might be a little threatening if we as politicians tried to examine our own performance in those areas. [More…]
Our families also deserve something better. [More…]
That situation does not apply only to politics but it does exist for the families of those in politics. [More…]
Inter-related issues arising from smaller families, higher female workforce participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the stress within employment markets on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, changing life-styles etc., are impacting on youth in complex ways that deserve more careful attention than they appear to have been receiving in the past. [More…]
KIMBERLEY FAMILIES ‘SAVAGELY DEPRIVED’ [More…]
Sir, The combined efforts of the Department for Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Social Security to allegedly beat the ‘dole bludger’ are savagely depriving some of the community’s most defenceless families of their right to social security. [More…]
Among the most vulnerable are many Kimberley families who have a high ratio of illiterate persons among their wage earners. [More…]
The first assault on families dependent on unemployment benefits occurred when DSS officers were required to visit each of the Kimberley towns and have each applicant report at a given point. [More…]
There are strikes by small groups of people- strikes which put our way of life in jeopardy and bring hardship to families and hardship to urban and rural people alike. [More…]
The figures do not tell either of the hardships suffered by the families of those who are out of work. [More…]
The Rosslyn Private Hospital has a nominal capital of $ 10,000 and an issued capital of $14 in fourteen $1 shares, all of which are held by 2 families- John and Kathleen Carmody, who is also the secretary, who live at the hospital, and Dr Barry and Rita Landa, who live at Bondi. [More…]
The number of working couples has increased from between 250 000 and 300 000 in 4 years, on the best method of deduction that I could come up with on the working figures, until now over 50 per cent of families in Australia are 2-income families. [More…]
On the last figures that I have been able to obtain, there were approximately 3 800 000 working family units in Australia and over 2 million of them were 2-income families. [More…]
He believes that we should tax 2-income families sufficiently to support the non-income families. [More…]
I did a quick calculation, and on the basis of 2 million 2-income families and 350 000 unemployed, that solution would represent a tax of approximately 11 lA per cent on the 2-income families. [More…]
The reports of the Henderson Inquiry into Poverty stated that 17 1/2 per cent of sole male parent families were living well below poverty level. [More…]
-It is very bad for our families. [More…]
That only goes to show that whoever wrote that speech has not the faintest idea of how the majority of families operate. [More…]
The Henderson report showed that there were 131 700 fatherless families in Australia- families where the woman brings in the money. [More…]
Women are as susceptible to that sort of pressure as anybody else, and they are under pressure to go out to work to provide those things for their families. [More…]
Again may I say that it is a woman’s decision whether or not she has an abortion, and I will be damned if the women of Australia are going to put themselves and their families at risk to provide this vast number of Australians who are going to people this country, including the far north. [More…]
When they make a decision to have a child, it is up to people like Senator Harradine, rather than going on witch hunts, to make sure that they have the support services necessary to keep those children, to make sure that those children are brought up in exactly the same position as children who come from the best homes and the best families in this country. [More…]
Fourthly, entire families were murdered if the Indonesian Army found Fretilin flags in their homes. [More…]
I have no statistics which would show how many children were children of one parent families. [More…]
They may have a very primitive type of agriculture by our standards, but at least those people are providing food for themselves and their families and are contributing towards national goals. [More…]
As to whether we will amend the Act in line with the family allowance scheme, there is no real comparison between the family allowance scheme, which is a universal, non-taxable benefit to families and all Australian children, and the organisations which conduct services under the Child Care Act. [More…]
In essence, the Government has not recognised Indonesia’s incorporation of East Timor but for quite practical reasons, such as the provision of humanitarian aid and the reuniting of families, the Government has to accept certain realities. [More…]
Because of the fiddling in which the Government has engaged which has prevented people from qualifying to collect unemployment benefits, kids and families are hungry. [More…]
It is easy to point to increased income in the hands of Aborigines as the cause, yet I believe that many thoughtful people recognise that sometimes increased spending power simply leads to increasing the money that can be used for the abuse of alcohol to the detriment of Aborigines and their families. [More…]
The houses which are being bought for Aboriginal families are not big enough. [More…]
But these people do not like having their families divided up. [More…]
Money could have been spent on building houses big enough for the families instead of spending it on the houses that were built. [More…]
There is no sewerage, no power and the water comes from the river, or three or four families are jammed into a small house which was built for one small family. [More…]
During this period the families which are waiting for a social security benefit often have no income at all and the problems of nutrition are greatly aggravated. [More…]
Long term assistance including the payment of benefits, counselling, information, interpreting and welfare services, has been provided by my Department to isolated children and single parent families from Timor who have been separated from their families or bread winner parents as a result of the disorder in that area in 1975. [More…]
hosting refugees with Australian families; familiarization programmes, e.g. [More…]
In addition the Government has not recognised Indonesia’s incorporation of East Timor although for practical reasons we have accepted some of the realities and the practical reasons are these: We believe it important that the suffering of the people of Timor be relieved; we believe it important that effective humanitarian aid and assistance be given; we believe that families separated by the Timor troubles should be reunited. [More…]
Would it ask us to prevent the reunion of families? [More…]
To this end, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) reached agreement with President Soeharto in Jakarta in October last year that Australian and Indonesian officials should meet to resolve the problems of the East Timorese refugees who came to Australia without their families. [More…]
Discussions with the Indonesians about arrangements for the reunion of separated families have so far made good progress and the Indonesian authorities have been co-operative and forthcoming. [More…]
The Senate cannot even set up a committee to inquire into matters like Australian assistance to the East Timorese people, Australian policy concerning refugees, the reuniting of families from East Timor and the disappearance of Australian journalists in East Timor. [More…]
In essence, the Government has not recognised Indonesia’s incorporation of East Timor but for quite practical reasons, such as the provision of humanitarian aid and the reuniting of families, the Government has to accept certain realities. [More…]
Families are divided, children are separated from their parents and husbands from wives. [More…]
Australian policy concerning refugees and the reuniting of families from East Timor; and [More…]
Would not the families dependent upon an industry like that make a much better community by working than by queuing for the dole week by week? [More…]
As long as there are large numbers of families living in camps and makeshift accommodation, as long as families are trying to live in housing without adequate sanitary or ablution facilities, and as long as they are living in overcrowded homesfor so long will there be large numbers of children unable to cope with the demands of the school curriculum. [More…]
Does she consider that such a decision by the Government is in accord with tire recommendations of the third main report 6f the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty which strongly pointed out that one of the problems associated with low income families with chronic illness was the necessity to have cash ready to obtain health care? [More…]
The real heroes of industry in some migrant families are the women who do slushy work as domestics in motels and other places. [More…]
In families in Sydney and Melbourne there are women who are doing unpleasant work because it needs no linguistic skills. [More…]
These families and clans are gradually breaking away from the settlements and going to live once again in family or clan groups on what are called outstations. [More…]
The fact is that when there is this fragmentation of families and clans who go into the bush with their children, there are problems associated with bringing health and education to them. [More…]
One can say that if almost 10 per cent of those students are in a high school and their families are receiving payment as an incentive to keep them there a great opportunity exists to deliver education of a practical nature to those students. [More…]
Government support the call by those Government backbenchers for a reduction in unemployment benefit at a time when an ever increasing number of Australians are forced through no fault of their own to depend on unemployment benefit to sustain themselves and their families? [More…]
b ) Australian policy concerning refugees and the reuniting of families from East Timor; and [More…]
And what makes it more tragic is that the families- even their wives- are not allowed to visit their husbands in the hospital. [More…]
It is important that the Government has been negotiating with Indonesia for the reunification of families from East Timor. [More…]
According to some reports there has been agreement in principle that this reunification of families will go ahead and the Indonesian Government has indicated its agreement. [More…]
I think we have to note that any further strain in relations or perhaps a break in relations with Indonesia could end those negotiations and end hope of reunification of those families. [More…]
Australia’s capacity to provide aid to East Timor, to assist refugees from East Timor and to reunite families from East Timor unfortunately are not matters entirely under our control. [More…]
We ought to be working to finalise plans for assistance to refugees and the re-uniting of families from East Timor. [More…]
I cannot support the proposal for a select committee or a reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence at this stage because I do not believe either would achieve certain things which I think are desirable- a proper act of self-determination, Australian aid to East Timor, assistance to refugees and the re-uniting of families. [More…]
They are of particular concern to the families of those journalists and their colleagues in this country. [More…]
Many of the families are split up. [More…]
Many families have been smashed and they wish to be reunited. [More…]
Similarly, the insecurity caused by the dispute has forced many families to take private insurance that they cannot really afford. [More…]
Certainly it is not imposed on those with families in settled areas. [More…]
No more than 10 per cent of children from what are called working class families in this country get to universities, which I think is an indictment of the inequalities that remain within our education system. [More…]
The children from working class and lower class income families do not get to universities but usually they get to, or wish to get to, technical and further education institutions. [More…]
That project is being undertaken by a very dedicated and able group of Australians with their families. [More…]
Honourable senators might recall feelings of being separated, might consider how it feels to have their families in enemy occupied territory, and sense the anguish which these people might have. [More…]
It would be able to seek out information and make a recommendation regarding the death of the 6 journalists and to undertake an inquiry as to the position of the families of the 6 journalists and whether they have been suitably compensated for the loss of their men in East Timor. [More…]
There has been correspondence between the Alice Springs Emergency Home Help Association pointing out that the method of funding was to provide a basic amount of $2,500 for normal expenses and, in addition, a fee for services would be paid to the Association in the case of families who were unable to meet the cost of the home help from their own resources. [More…]
There are families with four to eight adults living in these pens’. [More…]
As these Polish exservicemen, for the most part, have been living in Australia for some 3 decades now, during which time many of them have raised families and have worked in this community, does not Australia have some moral responsibility to provide benefits to these persons, most of whom are now Australian citizens, who served in the allied cause and whose case was under consideration by the Labor Government before its dismissal from office? [More…]
The Henderson inquiry into poverty noted that there was a tendency for elderly people, particularly elderly poor people, to be confined to inappropriate and restricted geographic areas out of contact with their friends and their families. [More…]
Case after case comes in of the elderly surviving member of a marriage being asked to leave the home in which he or she has lived for years because the housing commission wants the accommodation for other families. [More…]
If somebody had lived at Katherine, Cloncurry or Port Hedland- that had been their lifestyle for much of the period of their lives; probably they had brought up their families there- they would not want to retire to the capital cities. [More…]
There is a demand for money from the Federal Government to provide homes for aged persons when perhaps families ought to be taking more care of those for whom they basically have some responsibility. [More…]
Community workers and the families of these aged persons could visit them in their flats and then meet them in a communal room and have discussions with them and with other aged persons whose relatives or friends may not be visiting them at that time. [More…]
I am sure that Senator Melzer will agree with me that there is an obligation on the community to see that these people are visited if their families are in another State. [More…]
There are 20 unemployed young boys and girls on the Island and, in addition to this problem, 12 families in that area are in desperate need of homes. [More…]
Members of the Government have mentioned in speeches in this House their disappointment at the inaction of the Government in accepting its responsibility towards the East Timorese people; the families of the 5 Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor; people like Jim Dunn and other people who have travelled to Portugal to get evidence from East Timorese who left their country, their homes and their families behind to live in some sort of freedom rather than live under the oppression of an Indonesian tyranny which has taken over their country, and virtually stripped it of all the good and supplanted it with all the evil. [More…]
That in 39.4 per cent of married couple families, both parents work and of these 59 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that President Carter of the United States of America intends to grant substantial tax relief to families and businesses that install solar energy equipment? [More…]
Will the Minister recommend to the Treasurer that a similar proposal be considered as an incentive to Australian families and businesses to help to conserve our energy resouces? [More…]
Honourable senators, of course, will be aware that the higher interest rates which Labor brought in when in power had the definite effect of making it very difficult for younger people to afford the cost burden of providing homes for themselves as they develop into families. [More…]
Has the Minister seen in that report reference to Australian agreement on an Indonesian team being sent to Australia to meet with Timorese refugees and to assess whether they wish to return to East Timor to be reunited with their families? [More…]
The statement also reported that the Australian Government had agreed in principle to a visit to Australia by an Indonesian team to consider applications by any Timorese who wished to be reunited in East Timor with their families. [More…]
This extremely high rate of participation by migrant women in the work force exists because of the need for migrant families to become established in Australia. [More…]
It imposed a means test on eligibility for Commissioner for Housing Loans and rental of Government housing which was so strict as to exclude very many medium and in some cases low income families from this form of housing. [More…]
So many young families in Canberra cannot rent or buy nouses. [More…]
The effect on the housing industry has caused distress and disappointment on families anxious to get their own home. [More…]
It could bring home purchase within the reach of many families and it could give much needed stimulation to the building and construction industry. [More…]
I am aware that some low income families are seriously disadvantaged by the additional expenses which they incur because they have a child who has a disability but who is not handicapped to the extent necessary to qualify for handicapped child’s allowance . [More…]
When they are established an allowance is paid to families which are caring for handicapped people in the categories laid down. [More…]
I hold the view that there are people who may not qualify on the strict medical criteria but who belong to families in the lower income group with continuing expenses related to their handicap. [More…]
Obviously in correspondence I have stated that I believe there is a difficulty for these families which we should attempt to overcome. [More…]
In terms of Government policy, particularly at a time of consideration of a Budget, I do not have the luxury of being able to speculate on Budget decisions or discussions, but I state again that I hold the view that there is a difficulty for low income families which sustain considerable expense in caring for handicapped children who may not meet the strict medical criteria. [More…]
I hope that in some way we are able to deal with the problem, which is a continuing one for families in these circumstances. [More…]
It is a genuine fact- some people are capable of understanding it; some are not- that Australian families were better off at the end of 1976, both in terms of real incomes and the levels of their real spendings, than they were at the beginning of the year. [More…]
I think, again from memory, that we did have some breakdown on how many farmers that encompasses but one can appreciate in these times of inflation that $18,941 spread across the Commonwealth will not keep many people in the farming community and their families alive for very long. [More…]
I know what would happen particularly in the colder areas where white families who have paling fences to keep the wind out to protect their shrubs and gardens were told that the fences would be pulled down and rough, sharp-topped wire fences built in their place. [More…]
Some homes are desperately in need of maintenance because large families have been living in them. [More…]
The loss of people to their families and to the community, particularly to such inter-related communities as are found in the north of Australia, is very real. [More…]
I would like to know how many other unemployed persons who are genuinely seeking employment and who have obtained employment do not have the finance to transport their families and belongings to the location of that employment? [More…]
Why does the Government not admit that it was wrong, and why is it not prepared to pay out the $5m or $6m that it should be paying out to these people and their families? [More…]
During this period we have seen the trebling of the number of 2-income families. [More…]
I mention in passing that the Department makes about 2 million family allowance payments and about 325 000 student endowment payments to families at either 4-weekly or quarterly intervals. [More…]
Consistent with that and consistent with the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission, the councils and the Schools Commission, desirably there should be discussions between the Commonwealth and the States to see how, in the spending of perhaps some $6,000m of taxpayers money, the Commonwealth and the States together can deliver a better system of education which will enable the clients- the students and the families- to receive a better quality of education and which, at the same time, will allow us in that journey to remove whatever administrative conflicts, overlaps, duplications or wastages may occur. [More…]
If what I suggest were adopted this Parliament could be restored to the supremacy that people think it should have and we would have an ordered community which would conduce to the justice and prosperity of trade unionists and employers and their families. [More…]
All of us, as individuals and as we move about in our various ways of life- in families, groups and organisations- are subject to the law and subject to the consequences of breaking the law. [More…]
I do not agree with any proposition which will give support to any limitation upon the trade union movement to take responsible action in protection of its own conditions, the conditions of families and the conditions of future generations. [More…]
They are the people who will spend every penny that we give to them to maintain themselves and their families. [More…]
It is quite legitimate that the families should want to have the advantage of the capital of that company and be able to obtain it through a merger situation. [More…]
Construction of the houses by Eidsvold Sawmill would have taken approximately 4 months and the Society did not wish to wait that long as approximately 25 families had been without homes for some years. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware of the need for food orders and blankets for pensioners and needy Aboriginal families in the Cummeragunja area in New South Wales. [More…]
Will the Minister consider funding the Cummeragunja Co-operative Society Ltd so that they can purchase these materials and distribute them to the needy families. [More…]
Other action taken includes: provision of a recreation area at the rear of the Hostel as an incentive to minimise play outside Hostel grounds, discussions with residents of the neighbouring Warratah Lodge and a subsequent meeting between these residents and representatives of Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, families with three or more children to be found alternative accommodation, accommodation at Elan Hostel to be restricted to small families with pre-school aged children, rather than those having children of school age, parents being encouraged to exercise greater control of their children. [More…]
Established to cater for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families living in Brisbane who cannot obtain or afford houses for rent on the open market. [More…]
What initiatives have been taken by the Australian Government to involve (a) the International Red Cross, and (b) the United Nations Commission on Refugees, in the supervision of the evacuation of the families of Timorese refugees from Timor. [More…]
Why do families looking for a home on the Island have to submit a tender. [More…]
It is intended that the hostel will cater for adults and families transient between areas such as Woorabinda, Duaringa and Rockhampton. [More…]
The following tables show, for certain postcode districts, the number of unemployment benefit recipients (Table1 ) and the number of widow and age pensioners and families in receipt of family allowance (Table 2). [More…]
When announcing the measures to replace tax rebates for children and students with increased family allowances in his comprehensive economic statement on 20 May 1976, the Treasurer said that one effect of the new system would be to bring about some redistribution of income within families. [More…]
He said this would mean that the takehome pay of many fathers would be reduced as a result of the withdrawal of the tax rebates, but that there would be no great effect on the overall position of families who had been able to take full advantage of the rebates. [More…]
The measures would, on the other hand, greatly improve the position in respect of some 800 000 children in about 300 000 low income families paying little or no income tax. [More…]
The General Social Survey conducted in May 1975 showed that there were about 19,300 one parent families in Australia with a male head and one or more children aged 17 or less. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the deaths of the Honourable Hattil Spencer Foll, a senator for the State of Queensland from 19 17 to 1947 and a Minister of the Crown form 1937 to 1941; Theophilus Martin Nicholls, a senator for the State of South Australia from 1944 to 1968, and Chairman of Committees and Deputy President of the Senate from 1946 to 1951; and Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, C.M.G., a former member of the House of Representatives, for the division of Boothby, South Australia, from 1941 to 1943, places on record its appreciation of their long and merritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to their families in their bereavement [More…]
On behalf of the Government senators I extend our deepest sympathy to the families of former Senator Foll, former Senator Nicholls, and Sir Grenfell Price. [More…]
I quote as an example the activities of the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families, which has been attracting a deal of public attention. [More…]
I must take up the point that Senator Mulvihill made in regard to children and orphans in the northern part of Thailand who are ready for adoption by Australian families. [More…]
Twelve per cent of Australians will be affected by unemployment in a single year; that is 700 000 families in Australia will be touched by the tragedy of unemployment. [More…]
Some will be used to accommodate Aboriginal families. [More…]
Is it a fact that under the new Budget arrangements families with two or more children and incomes between $140 and $200 a week will have a lower disposable income than they would have had if the previous indexed rebates for children had been retained? [More…]
The new taxation arrangements and the new exempt income level that applies to families are of assistance to those in lower income brackets. [More…]
When I was on Macquarie Island recently I took a special interest in the problems that arise through separation of families. [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 of a severely handicapped child. [More…]
The Government hopes that the widening of the criteria will be of assistance to low income families who have continuing expenditure for a substantially handicapped child. [More…]
Salmon, Resources for Poor Families: An Experimental Income Supplement Scheme (AGPS, Canberra, 1974). [More…]
Poverty among Aboriginal Families in Adelaide (AGPS, Canberra, 1 975 ). [More…]
H. K. Payne and F. W. Clements, ‘Some Low Income Families in Sydney’; J. Pritchard and M. Burn, ‘Some Students in Melbourne’: in Food Consumption Patterns (AGPS, Canberra, 1975). [More…]
Australian Red Cross Society, Victorian Division, ‘A Study of Thirty Country Families’; Australian Red Cross Society, New South Wales Division. [More…]
‘A Study of Thirty City Families’: in Chronic Poverty: City and Country Families (AGPS, Canberra, 1975). [More…]
Western, S. Payne and L. Doube, ‘Consumer Behaviour of Low and Middle Income Families’; R. L. Cribb, H. J. Cunnington and R. C. Gates, ‘Consumer Protection and the Incidence of Consumer Problems ‘; in Consumer Protection and Poverty- Not yet received by Government. [More…]
The second element recommended by the Ranger Inquiry was the development of specific arrangements to protect the natural and historic features of the Alligator Rivers environment, to protect the Aboriginal people who have lived there for centuries and to protect the mine workers and their families who will take up residence there. [More…]
The Trust was able to house 136 families in the houses built last year and the year before. [More…]
3) last May I raised the matter of money which had been allocated to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs for housing being used to build carports for Aboriginal families in Victoria who do not have cars or driving licences. [More…]
It must be realised that Whyalla is a totally integrated city which has many foreign and migrant peoples and families that are sustained by the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
On that occasion I pointed out how the restrictions in respect of those organisations are such that today they cannot do what they could do previously and how in South Australia it is possible to erect only some 47 homes under the Government allocation this year, whereas in the metropolitan district of Adelaide there are more than 520 applicant Aboriginal families for homes. [More…]
The position is that although they are not completely handicapped they face a great deal of hardship and so do the families which have children who have the disease. [More…]
As I announced in August, the Government has decided to extend the eligibility for the handicapped child’s allowance to low income families who have the care, custody and control of the substantially handicapped child. [More…]
Look into the situation of hardship caused by the cost to pensioners and their families who have to meet the difference between fees charged by some nursing homes and the pensions and subsidies available to offset these. [More…]
This causes overcrowding; these families are in turn evicted. [More…]
The Archbishop said he was unperturbed about the court hearing because it had highlighted the plight of the Aboriginal families. [More…]
Some four families are travelling. [More…]
In those areas where population is growing rapidly and where the pressure of new patterns of population- particularly of young families- is felt most strongly, certainly one ought to be thankful that the non-government schools sector wants to move in and thereby to assist in relieving some of that pressure. [More…]
It is a well known phenomenon of education that those children who get the most out of traditional methods of education are those children who come from the most advantaged families. [More…]
It is the intention of the Department for Community Welfare and the State Housing Commission to seek accommodation for the Aboriginal families now living at Lockridge and, providing the families concerned are willing, to place them in urban housing in the metropolitan area. [More…]
Every attempt is being made to resolve the situation but it does require the co-operation of the Aboriginal people themselves and I can see no gain in attracting whole families across the width of Australia in an attempt to force my hand over matters of which I have little or no control. [More…]
Despite the apprehensions of a small number of Aboriginals in regard to leaving a communal lifestyle for normal housing, hundreds of families have expressed the wish to leave the unsanitary conditions of reserve life for a home of their own. [More…]
As a result, by the end of this year 30 families should be occupying new homes. [More…]
Look into the situation of hardship caused by the cost of pensioners and their families who have to meet the difference between fees charged by some nursing homes and the pensions and subsidies available to offset these. [More…]
The patients and their families are facing bigger and bigger gaps between their incomes and the fees that are charged. [More…]
Added to that, the nursing home lobby is ever-willing to use emotional arguments, to use their patients and the feelings of insecurity of their patients’ families, to pressure this and all other governments, including the previous Labor Government, to provide support for their enterprises. [More…]
In this legislation the Government is making an attempt through the new Medibank system to close the gap for patients and their families, and I do not decry that effort. [More…]
Every member of this Parliament receives representations during every year, when fees go up and the burden on patients and their families increases, to do something about this gap that arises between the fees and the subsidies and in the future, I suggest, between the fees and the benefits that will be payable. [More…]
Obviously, the people who opt for hospital only insurance and the families which pay the Medibank levy plus $135 a year payment for hospital only insurance are subsidised, we are told, by about $50 a year. [More…]
They quite miss the point that the people who provide that sort of service are doing so on a voluntary basis and at the weekends go home to look after their own families. [More…]
That has to be viewed against the background that alcohol has played considerable havoc within many Aboriginal families. [More…]
As the Minister has now widened eligibility for the handicapped children’s allowance to assist low income families, does she envisage this extending to families like the Dremmel family which has children with heart troubles, asthma and other physical problems? [More…]
Are there any situations where such a family in which the father is working can receive special benefit under the discretion available to the Director-General of Social Services, or is special benefit merely restricted in all cases to families which have almost no income? [More…]
Evidence from both lone fathers and children’s homes indicates that the lack of options open to lone fathers can mean that these families break up. [More…]
Mr Wilson said that the shelters were inundated with requests at weekends which seem to be a time of crisis for many families. [More…]
This means that families in economic hardship have the choice of either paying very high rents for the rest of their lives on houses they will never own or seeking to buy the houses they live in. [More…]
With interest rates so high and the mortgage repayment rates required by the Department of the Capital Territory under the Minister’s policy so high many families find themselves caught between two stools. [More…]
These families, if they have the opportunity, are leaving the Territory. [More…]
We will not use the earnings of Australian families to finance Gold Coast holidays for those who do not want to work. [More…]
They are concerned about the problems of families and family relationships; the problems of living in big cities; the problems of crime and, more particularly, the problems of drugs. [More…]
They are problems which cause stress to families. [More…]
I saw the families which broke up. [More…]
Much was said during that debate about unemployment amongst youth, about unemployment generally and about the plight of families who have had their livelihood taken from them because of the ineptness, the prejudices and the failures of the Fraser Government and the Lynch economic strategies. [More…]
Yet, if we look at what has happened to women in our community who have exercised the choice to be part of the work force, who have shown the incentive to go out to work for the improvement of their families or for thenself fulfilment, who have had the motivation to be constructive and energetic about their community and about their families, we find that the Government has totally ignored what has happened to them when they face unemployment. [More…]
What happened in the meantime was that many of these families, particularly migrant families who came to Australia to establish themselves, to get themselves a home- which perhaps was one of their main objectives in leaving the country of their birth- during the period of the 1950s and 1960s committed themselves to large mortgage repayments and to education expenses for their children and so forth. [More…]
It seems to me that the plight of unemployed married women, whose families are dependent on their incomes, is at least as serious as the plight of unemployed school leavers and for that group of unemployed no schemes have been proffered. [More…]
Their families have suffered disastrously. [More…]
The humanitarian purpose which we all support of reuniting divided families might unwittingly be put in jeopardy by seeking to include political representations in the proposed team. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security seen the figures on the poverty line which were released yesterday, I understand, by Professor Henderson, and in particular the claim that many large families are now falling even further below the poverty line, although the breadwinner is an income earner, and also that large families with children are badly affected? [More…]
If the figures are factual, will the Government consider making supplementary payments under the special benefits scheme for the few families experiencing this difficulty, even though the breadwinner is earning an income? [More…]
With regard to supplementary payments, the special benefit has never been used as an income supplement for wage earning families but I will give consideration to the matter that has been raised after any investigation of Professor Henderson’s figures has been undertaken. [More…]
They are using the families of Australia to destroy our way of life and try to put on our society their own version of how we should be living. [More…]
There has been an extension of the terms of eligibility for the handicapped child’s allowance to allow further assistance to low income families with the custody, care and control of substantially handicapped children. [More…]
The very way in which this Government has reduced this Budget deficit has brought great hardship and suffering upon the children of working class families. [More…]
A Liberal-National Country Party has never provided the necessary money for working class families to have an education. [More…]
When one considers what this Government has been doing in its period in office in increasing family allowances, in helping people with large families, in helping people who are really in need and in helping people to pay rent and provide them with housing and so forth, one realises the enormous increases. [More…]
We know darn well that there are people, the second wage earners in families, who could well be filling jobs. [More…]
That Committee examined the option of taxing families on what it called a unit basis. [More…]
We are aware that many single-income families will not be fully compensated. [More…]
I do not believe families, including children, will be happy if women who have skills and expertise are discriminated against in the work force as used to be the case in the 1950s and 1960s before we had equal pay. [More…]
It continues the tactics which were started in this Government’s first Budget of neglecting the unemployed as people, of using the unemployed as pawns in an economic chess game and not being concerned about the effects of unemployment on these people and their families. [More…]
A comparison of the after tax income of families with two to five children and incomes between $120 and $200 a week was produced by the statistical service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
Potentially it will throw the 67 per cent of unemployed who have cash savings of less than $50 on to the already overworked voluntary welfare agencies, or on to their friends or families. [More…]
1 ) To the best of my knowledge, the number of Category B detainees- denned by the Indonesian authorities as those who are difficult or impossible to bring to trial due to insufficient evidence-on Bum Island is slightly under 12,000 and that some have been joined by members of their families. [More…]
It certainly caused much distress to many families in this country and to families in IndoChina and were certainly at wide variance with most other countries in the Western World with which we were normally associated. [More…]
Now many families and individuals renting accommodation from the Government in the Australian Capital Territory are faced with serious financial hardship. [More…]
The rental rebate scheme, which is meant to operate to assist low income families, is simply not operating. [More…]
The amount of $3m allocated to the rent rebate scheme for low income families is hopelessly inadequate. [More…]
A number of very severe social problems arise out of this situation because families, individuals or single parents are being charged rents they simply cannot afford to pay. [More…]
As a representative in that tier of government I feel obliged to raise the matter tonight, in the hope- I am not terribly optimistic judging from some of the comments which have been made as I have been speaking- that supporters of the Government and Senator Webster, who represents the Minister for the Capital Territory, will pay some attention to what is happening to families and individuals because of this iniquitous system. [More…]
The Department in Victoria is expediting to the maximum extent, the payment of unemployment benefit to avoid any hardship that may occur to the thousands of families who are left without income because of the strikes which have taken place in the Latrobe Valley and which have flowed on very widely in Victoria. [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…]
Meanwhile, it is conservatively estimated that across Australia 100,000 families are presently waiting for welfare housing. [More…]
In New South Wales, the State about which I have spoken, some 30,000 families are on the waiting list. [More…]
While this situation prevails and while the Fraser Government takes no steps to rectify it, the demand for housing will continue to slacken with the further result of pushing more builders out of the industry while fewer families attain the goal of home ownership. [More…]
Fewer families are able to attain the goal of home ownership. [More…]
this Bill provides a plan for housing and rehousing families of the lower income group . [More…]
The sort of sociological changes I refer to include the very high incidence of two income families, smaller family units, the greater mobility of people generally, the fact that the aged are cared for far less at home than they were in 1945 and thereafter, and the fact that a lot of units accommodate young people who would never previously have been away from home. [More…]
There can be absolutely no justification for the subsidising of the multiple income families or the higher income families as we now have it. [More…]
He might be told that there are 10 families in Ipswich who need to be housed. [More…]
There are fewer families in the Australian Capital Territory on the poverty line as Henderson indicated. [More…]
There are not many part coloured families in the Northern Territory who have difficulty in adapting. [More…]
There is an obvious disregard in this Budget for the special problems in the Northern Territory- the low income families that I have mentioned, the part Aboriginal families that I have mentioned and the families without support because there is a higher percentage of families without support in the Northern Territory than elsewhere. [More…]
Even those families that are nuclear families with mother, father and children do not have the support usually of uncles, aunts and grandparents in times of stress. [More…]
There are many more single parent families in the Northern Territory yet we have this ludicrous allocation of $190,000 for the Australian Capital Territory compared with $ 1 5,000 for the Northern Territory. [More…]
21 ex-sand miners are still unemployed in Maryborough-Hervey Bay alone, plus a further number in Tin Can Bay and Gympie, and many husbands have left their families behind to obtain work elsewhere. [More…]
They have to be separated from their families. [More…]
They are apparently in favour on racial grounds of the separation of families, of people having to carry passes, of people not being able to have their families living with them, of people having to produce their passes while they work miles away from where they are supposed to have their homes. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security confirm that the Salvation Army and other voluntary organisations in Victoria which have been providing emergency aid to families of people out of work because of the power strike have now depleted their funds? [More…]
I am aware of the difficulties of the voluntary agencies in Victoria which have been providing emergency relief to families suffering as a result of strikes and other matters. [More…]
Three years ago on this settlement there had been murder, manslaughter, maiming of people, drunkenness, broken families, children neglected and the Appatula housing association was in pieces. [More…]
After the end of the Second World War large numbers of Jews from Europepeople whose families had been largely exterminated and who were uprooted from their own homes- settled in great numbers in what was then Palestine. [More…]
But here we have a situation in which some 2,000 people care not at all about throwing 500,000 of their fellow workers out of work, with all the enormous inconvenience, distress and everything else that this causes to the families of those workers. [More…]
Whether the leadership is communist, militant or reactionary, the men involved who make sacrifices, who deprive themselves and their families of income and the necessities of life, of their savings and of the goods they have on time payment, do not make these sacrifices at somebody else’s persuasion unless a just cause is involved. [More…]
What have they said about the families- the wives and childrenwhose lives are being disrupted at the present time? [More…]
Aboriginal families on stations are generally housed more hygienically and have a better and more nourishing diet than when out of work and living in local towns. [More…]
It is a most worthy advance introduced by the Government in the Budget of 1976 and it has led to greater benefits for families generally and particularly for the wives in families throughout the community. [More…]
The answer to that proposition is that the new arrangements for assisting families were introduced by the Government in order to direct more support to families in most need, namely those with insufficient taxable income and therefore insufficient gross tax liabilities to take full advantage ofthe former tax rebates for dependants. [More…]
It is estimated that 300,000 families were in this situation and benefited from the change. [More…]
The net cost to the 1976-77 Budget ofthe new arrangements was $100m and all this additional expenditure has been directed to the benefit of those families in most need. [More…]
Families as well as other taxpayers will benefit from this tax reduction. [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 a 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…]
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 that are available to supporting mothers. [More…]
If we do not, it could mean the disruption of the lives of the people on the west coast of Tasmania, people whose life savings are invested in their homes and properties, in an area in which many generations of their families have grown up, an area in which they find comfort and in which they are happy to be. [More…]
We should have regard also to the fact that if the company closes down it will result in the disruption of whole families, communities of families and the many business operations which depend on the people being in that community for their future. [More…]
But, following the report of Professor Henderson’s Committee it became obvious that many supporting fathers, or motherless families in the community, also were suffering considerable difficulties. [More…]
We welcome the fact that it is aimed at low income families who are in financial difficulties as well has having a handicapped child. [More…]
We believe it is discriminatory against low income families, those who can least afford to be discriminated against. [More…]
I refer to a couple of instances in our legislation, such as the family allowance, which have assisted the low income families, large families. [More…]
During the current year, emphasis will be paid to the acceptance of greater numbers of disabled housewives, especially those from families of low socio-economic status who would otherwise be unlikely to undertake necessary rehabilitation on a paying basis even if this were offered at reduced charges. [More…]
It will mean a tremendous amount to families to have their mother or wife rehabilitated and performing her role. [More…]
As Senator Grimes has said, it was originally designed by the Australian Labor Party to assist those families whose mother and father have decided to care for the handicapped child at home rather than send him to an institution. [More…]
But this is a great financial burden to the lower income families. [More…]
I believe that this benefit will be a great asset to these low income families. [More…]
Has it considered what will happen to those low income families which have a lot of children to support- perhaps there is sickness in the family- and which need to send their teenagers out into the work force. [More…]
What will be the social cost of depriving those families of the assistance which they reasonably might have expected from their teenage children? [More…]
However, it seems that whatever time of the year students leave school they will be forced to take the sui week’s vacation before they will be eligible to receive the unemployment benefit even if their specific reason for leaving school before the end of the year was to give financial support to their families or because their families could no longer support them. [More…]
With the withdrawal of this benefit, low income families, such as migrant families where both partners have to go out to work, will be hit very hard indeed. [More…]
It seems to me that the Government is going to save very little by this new provision- perhaps half a million dollars; it is hard to assess- but thousands of families might be reduced to poverty as a result of the loss of eligibility, particularly in the case where working wives of sick husbands have to give up work. [More…]
I sometimes wonder what Government senators know about working families and their incomes. [More…]
Of course, not all those wage earners had families to support; some of the them were part time workers and so forth. [More…]
The situation being created by the new provisions being introduced by the Fraser Government will affect most low income families. [More…]
As I said before, it comes as no surprise to me that these figures are a novelty to him because I do not think he or any of his colleagues interest themselves in what happens to low income families in our community. [More…]
So approximately 1,000,000 women would represent dual income families. [More…]
However, I was pleased to have the opportunity to draw the attention of some honourable senators at least to the very difficult circumstances facing low income families in our communitydifficult circumstances which the new provision with regard to sickness benefit will do nothing whatsoever to alleviate and in future cases will do a great deal to worsen. [More…]
These people are born of working families which have had no opportunity to provide them with a higher education to fit them for a job which would bring in a high income. [More…]
There is an emergency proposal which cannot be regarded as anything other than an effort to keep unemployed families fed ‘, Mr Payne said last night. [More…]
Otherwise, it will be a very bleak Christmas indeed for many hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, because parents do not have a fulltime job and cannot provide for their families the most meagre Christmas. [More…]
Again, the special benefit provision can be used by people who are in necessitous circumstances, although it must be understood that the special benefit is not an alternative to another Commonwealth benefit but one that is used as an emergency payment to people who have no other resources for themselves and their families. [More…]
The allowance was to be paid to families who cared for handicapped children in their own homes as an alternative to institutional care. [More…]
The expenditure which is occasioned by families is something which should have some support. [More…]
When their children leave school they frequently need to get a job to help support themselves and their families but they cannot get jobs under the present circumstances although they are available for work. [More…]
Notwithstanding that, we are placing a further burden on low income families in rural areas by introducing a provision such as this. [More…]
It is a fact that primarily the reason for this trend was the incapacity of the non-government sector to meet the ordinary demands of the families concerned, particularly in new growth areas. [More…]
Over recent years members of the general public have decided, by their own decision-making, that universities are not necessarily preferable to either colleges or technical and further education institutions for the students in their families. [More…]
There has been some alteration of the priorities of preference of families and therefore a voluntary reduction in the number of applications to universities. [More…]
Before the family allowance was introduced the husband in well regulated families used to budget and allocate so much out of his pay packet to the wife and mother on which she had to run the household. [More…]
The main reason for abolishing tax rebates and introducing family allowances for dependent children and students was a redirect assistance towards families most in need, namely those with insufficient taxable income, and therefore insufficient gross tax liabilities, to take full advantage of the former tax rebates. [More…]
The benefits under the new arrangements for large families with low incomes are substantial and such families are better off in 1977-78 than they would have been under the previous system. [More…]
Finally, I wish all honourable senators and their families a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. [More…]
As explained in my answer to Senator Grimes in the Senate on 6 October 1977, special benefit has never been used as an income supplement for wage earning families. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister: How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men, two employees of the Sydney City Council and members of the Municipal Employees Union, and a member of the New South Wales Police Force, killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive? [More…]
Further, will the Minister explain the apparent contradiction whereby shopkeepers who lost trade as a direct result of the security arrangements for the conference will be paid full indemnity while three families who lost providers will not be compensated for loss of future income or the emotional stress caused by the violent deaths of the men concerned? [More…]
The Department of Social Security has had to employ field officers to check on the recipients of the unemployment benefit because many receiving the unemployment benefit would like to abuse the system- a system set up just 32 years ago to protect the unemployed and their families. [More…]
Surely those gentlemen and the groups who support them and who are so concerned about the people on whom ASIO have files, should spare a little thought for the three men who were killed- for their rights and for their families. [More…]
Emotional stress is imposed on families when there is not enough income to employ a son whose property the farm would ultimately become. [More…]
It has literally broken families and forced them away from their holdings and their properties. [More…]
They could be members of our own families. [More…]
I believe that the Government will continue to press for proper decisions in regard to the reunion of Timorese families in this country, and there are many of them, and that would be seen as an improvement. [More…]
Where are the united families which were used by several honourable senators last year as an excuse for voting against the proposal to hold an inquiry into East Timor? [More…]
Yes, he did get into trouble with his family trust, but he does not have as much financial trouble as have many of these families in Mannum who have been existing on benefits provided under the State Unemployment Relief scheme instituted by the Dunstan Labor Government. [More…]
The reality is that the women who work have to work so that their families may survive. [More…]
To maintain the economic and social needs of Australian families, families need two incomes and one of those income earners is a female. [More…]
At that time 323,300 unmarried women- women who had never married, were widowed, divorced or permanently separated- were heads of families. [More…]
That figure did not include the women who had sick or alcoholic husbands and spent their lives maintaining their husbands and families. [More…]
The figures at that time showed that in Australia 36 per cent of families had one income while 42 per cent of families had two incomes. [More…]
It will look to alleviate the difficulties families endure when the wife loses her job. [More…]
It is good economy and essential for effective social services to have families fully involved and for a family to be regarded as the basic unit of society. [More…]
But the argument I am putting is that if we were to support women in the home this situation might not arise- families might stay together. [More…]
Most are working to improve the quality of life of their families. [More…]
Thus it is not long before those families feel the full financial blow of unemployment, and quite often the children suffer because of it. [More…]
Even if no more people were unemployed, some of those 445,300 have families to support. [More…]
There are more than 29 families involved who are working in the beef industry in this developing area of Queensland. [More…]
There is a small school at Abercorn and the risk of losing those families is that the school will have to close and the children from that school will have to travel by bus to Mulgildie, which is rather further than they have to travel to Abercorn. [More…]
The families in the beef-raising areas of Queensland, certainly parents in this area who have a fairly young family, cannot afford to send their children to boarding school. [More…]
I expressed my concern that the rural areas are the hardest hit but in some cases it is necessary for men, with families grown up and in need of employment, to determine whether it is of more benefit to them to leave their homes, their friends, and their work in the hope that their children may get employment in a larger town or in the city. [More…]
There is a great strain on the families of shift workers and a high breakdown of marriages, in contrast to families of workers who work from nine to five, five days a week. [More…]
Their families are off their hands. [More…]
They would pass on their shares and investments to their families. [More…]
In the meantime, there is the effect that this will have on the families of the hundreds of thousands of Australians who will be unemployed and on probably thousands of small businesses which will go out of business. [More…]
It may even be the firm for which they or their families work that we are trying to save. [More…]
Adelaide also had the highest home ownership among working families earning less than $200 a week in 1974-75, with 70.8 per cent of such families in Adelaide either owning outright or purchasing their dwellings. [More…]
One need only look at, for example, the pressure on mothers to go out to work, and the discrimination felt by single income families in relation to taxation, et cetera. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested; rather, the solution lies in Government financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker, contribution to family support programs and thus reverse the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
If the answer is yes, does it mean that the pleas of many Latin American families here whose relatives are subject to the dictates of military juntas in Latin America have been forgotten? [More…]
The sorts of situations which exist are simply these: Many of these families have husbands and fathers in Timor. [More…]
the Government’s intention to send a party of departmental officials to Timor to interview people who desired to come to Australia to rejoin their families. [More…]
Some six weeks ago, in announcing the de facto recognition of the Indonesian regime in Timor, Mr Peacock, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, again raised this question of the possibility of speeding up the reunification of Timorese refugee families in Australia with their husbands, fathers and so on. [More…]
It is particularly concerned about the change in criteria which will not allow many people to come from East Timor to be reunited with their families. [More…]
ACFOA believes that the continual lack of action regarding the reuniting of families from East Timor, separated since the latter part of 1975, is causing emotional hardship and possible long term psychological damage both to those who are already here and those separated from them. [More…]
Special assistance K required for Timorese refugees as the bread-winners of the majority of families stayed in East Timor. [More…]
Many Timorese refugee families in Australia, therefore, are suffering by having rip head of family. [More…]
They belong to broken families in many respects. [More…]
They are people who see no way clear to repair the damage to families which they are suffering at present. [More…]
But at the same time they realise that they have grave social problems, terrible problems, because of the failure to achieve any reunion of families in Australia. [More…]
In Timor among our close relations, we find our husbands, sons, parents, brothers, and other families still suffering the anguish and horrors of a cruel war that has sown death and destruction among our people, respecting neither age, nor sex, family ties, nor friendships. [More…]
Consequently we desire that our families joint us. [More…]
As I said, the real problem is the reunion of families and that is what is worrying the people more than anything. [More…]
They are concentrating therefore on getting their husbands and other members of their families back with them as soon as possible. [More…]
They see a drift, a lack of action on the part of the Australian Government that has not yet achieved any substantial reunification of their families. [More…]
‘families’ should be widely interpreted in the terms of the culture and background of the refugees concerned rather than according to the normal criteria of Australian immigration procedures- this would involve the acceptance, appropriate to each particular ethnic group, of degrees of what we might describe as extended families ‘; [More…]
at the beginning of a refugee movement to Australia every effort should be made to keep families together wherever possible; [More…]
We were told of places where the Department has been unhelpful, where it has had to make inquiries overseas in Hong Kong and other places and it has told people overseas to give information about the residents who are here so that they could reunite families. [More…]
We may well feel that sufficient pressure has not been applied by the Australian Government to ensure that in the name of humanity something is done about these broken families. [More…]
I believe that the Government will continue to press for proper decisions in regard to the reunion of Timorese families in this country, and there are many of them, and that would be seen as an improvement. [More…]
Our responsibility as I see it is, firstly, urgent and effective pressure from Australia for the acceptance by Indonesia of an Australian immigration team in Timor and the achievement of early reunion of families from there; secondly, for a more compassionate re-examination of the Portugal refugee program and the bringing from Portugal of many more of the people who are there at the moment and who want to come to Australia; thirdly, pressure for International Red Cross to get back into Timor and also for us to supply aid to these families in Timor; and lastly, support for the Timorese leadership financially in Australia in the way that has been referred to by both Senator Button and me so that we will help the people who are here. [More…]
The Australian Government also agreed in principle to a visit to Australia by an Indonesian team to consider applications by any Timorese persons who wished to be reunited in East Timor with their families. [More…]
The Government had very much in mind the distress occasioned by separation of families. [More…]
If so, how have they been changed and how many families will be affected by these changes? [More…]
People are again able to bring back discipline into their families where there have been slight problems. [More…]
There is a lack of information about levels of, use of and expenditures on, health services among families with different characteristics. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a report entitled ‘Families and Social Services in Australia’. [More…]
This report devotes much of its content to an examination of the characteristics of families in Australia, noting the demographic statistics and trends, the high proportion of one-parent families and the high proportion also of Australian families who come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. [More…]
Aspects of the report discuss the needs of families for assistance during the phases of family development through to the point at which children leave home and the family comprises adult members only. [More…]
The report concludes by making some recommendations about possible changes in approaches to providing services for families, both in respect of Commonwealth activities and in respect of the serviceproviders at State and community level. [More…]
I believe this is an important report, not least because of its attention to the needs of families in Australia today and to the extent to which government and community agencies can assist in meeting those needs. [More…]
Ministers agreed that they would sponsor regular national conferences on families and social welfare services in Australia, and the first of these is now in planning. [More…]
This has meant that families and individuals in need of emergency housing must wait for three weeks before they can obtain an interview, let alone a house. [More…]
It is a way of providing houses, for example, to families who have been evicted from their previous accommodation. [More…]
There is a 3-year funding program through the Office of Child Care to provide funds for voluntary community organisations which are engaged in activities of support to families such as family counselling, financial counselling, advisory services, and services relating to ethnic groups, Aborigines and lone parents. [More…]
As members of parliament we should be prepared to take that risk in the interests of freedom of access into this place for ourselves, our families and our constituents. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the mental anguish, known locally as ‘millipediosis’, caused to families, and particularly to housewives, each morning when they face a clean-up operation involving collecting buckets full of black insects which are found on walls, ceilings, floors and furniture, wardrobes, curtains and linen stores as well as in babies’ ears and nappies? [More…]
I must say that the Indonesian Government has agreed, following the presidential election, that an immigration team should go to East Timor to obtain the reunification of families. [More…]
Australia made representations to Indonesia and endeavoured for humanitarian reasons to reunite the 2600 Timorese in this country with their families. [More…]
They would rather bring their relations and families to Australia to be reunited. [More…]
I have not heard a word from Opposition senators about reuniting families. [More…]
Now, following the presidential elections that took place a little while ago, Indonesia says that it is ready to renegotiate an arrangement concerning the reuniting of these families. [More…]
We have tried and to some extent have succeeded in having aid sent to the East Timorese and we have sought above all the reunification of East Timorese families. [More…]
It has been suggested that almost the same number of people want to come to Australia to be reunited with their families. [More…]
Families have been broken up; they wish to be re-united. [More…]
It can be well imagined what a break in relations with Indonesia might mean to Australia and to the East Timorese people who are in this country now and who want to be reunified with their families. [More…]
Only today there have been Press reports stating that the Indonesian Government, because the Australian Government has accorded de facto recognition to its control of East Timor, is prepared to re-open negotiations on the reunification of East Timorese families. [More…]
We were hoping that by continuing pressure we might be able to have the Indonesian Government concede something in relation to the reunification of families. [More…]
We now find that because of the action we have taken it has agreed to open negotiations on the reunification of families. [More…]
Because we have shown to the Indonesians that we accept a fact- it is nothing more than the acceptance of an indisputable fact- the Indonesian Government is now prepared to reopen the way to the reunification of families and the ending of their distress. [More…]
There were 2,000-odd Timorese refugees in Australia and some 1,500 other people in East Timor and in Portugal who wanted to come to Australia for the purpose of reuniting with their families. [More…]
It has been reiterated that the Government will arrange a visit to East Timor in connection with this question of the reunion of Timorese families, but nothing has happened. [More…]
Several families who have tribal relationships to the land are living at Peret, Ti-Tree and on the north and south banks of the Kendall River. [More…]
One advantage that can be seen by some of these families of living out on their own land is that inter-family tensions at Aurukun seem to be much reduced. [More…]
It is now almost one and a half years after Cyclone Ted yet whole families are still living in tattered tents and in make-shift humpies. [More…]
It has found that its families have become divided. [More…]
Perhaps they are families. [More…]
But we had a situation in which large families of Aborigines camped on station properties. [More…]
They could no longer afford to pay some of the wages to some of the men and tucker the families at the same time. [More…]
They were not told who their fathers were and who their mothers were, not told where they came from and were denied all knowledge of their forebears and their families. [More…]
If it had not been for the care and love of their Aboriginal families who made sure that they knew where they came from and what they were, they would have had no beginnings. [More…]
Following the answer given to Senator Melzer yesterday on the transfer of Public Service staff to Canberra, can the Minister advise, or would he have the Minister whom he represents ascertain, whether the National Capital Development Commission or the Department of the Capital Territory have estimated the total population increase likely in the Australian Capital Territory in 1978-79 as a result of the 500 transfers mentioned, and based on normal projections for the transferees, their immediate families and the normal ancillary back-up provisions? [More…]
The number of students involved, plus the staff, their families and all the ancillary services, will lift the economy of the area and the fares, accommodation and general funding will be of some significance. [More…]
In February 1977 322,300 unmarried women were heads of families. [More…]
They are working to keep their families’ heads above water. [More…]
But what has Senator Harradine done to make sure that in the first place women do not have to go to work to keep their families above the bread line? [More…]
Government’s election proposals for removing the burden of expense on the families of handicapped students. [More…]
The improvements were not only for the benefit of low income families but they took into account also the depressed area of rural incomes. [More…]
Is she further aware that State welfare departments and voluntary agencies are reluctant to help such single people, preferring to allocate their meagre funds to families? [More…]
It is believed that many young people under the age of 1 8 are living at home and have the support of their families in their transitional stage between school and employment and it has not been thought fit to increase that rate. [More…]
The Smith Family, the St Vincent de Paul Society and other groups have had to render assistance to people who are suffering hardship and to destitute families. [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…]
Will he consider allowing tax rebates to single parent families for the cost of putting children in child care centres during the hours of the parents’ employment? [More…]
He bore the name of one of our great pioneering families and, as a Minister, played a significant and continuing role in the economic development of this nation. [More…]
Over recent weeks we have seen newspaper reports of families of miners whose only involvement in the mining of asbestos was to accompany the husband or father to the mining towns. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and/or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and refers to the proposals put up by the Australian Government to Indonesia in respect of reuniting East Timorese families following the occupation of that country. [More…]
As I understand the situation, the negotiations that have been conducted by our Foreign Affairs people in Jakarta towards the implementation of reunions of East Timorese families are proceeding smoothly. [More…]
In view of this move, has the Minister any further information regarding the present situation of Timor refugees in Australia being permitted to reunite with their families still in Timor? [More…]
It must be doubly hard for the families of the great, and of public figures, to suffer sorrow, because the one they have lost becomes such public property and almost seems to be taken away from them and their grief. [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 crews. [More…]
The membership of this Sub-Committee allows an input into an extensive community network and includes representatives who have an understanding of the service requirements of high need families in the Australian Capital Territory including migrant families, families with handicapped children or parents, and single parent families. [More…]
In correspondence to the States, the Commonwealth indicated that it wished to give greater emphasis in the future to the provision of child care for the children of needy families and that it would be necessary to renegotiate the funding base in relation to pre-school funding. [More…]
Before I do so, I ask: What action would this Government or any other government take to secure an industry that engaged 700 employees directly or 7,000 employees directly and indirectly and supported their families, and an industry that would utilise an asset of $2,000m and produce overseas funds estimated to amount to nearly $ 1 billion? [More…]
This is not just direct employees but families as well. [More…]
All of those countries, in one permutation or combination of death duties or a capital gains tax or a net wealth tax, make some provision whereby capital cannot accumulate into the hands of families at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]
Because, as he put it in his policy speech, estate duty has caused distress and hardship to thousands of Australian families, to small businesses and to farmers. [More…]
Within only a few generations we would find examples in Australia of the situation that exists in some European countries where some families have a massive accumulation of wealth and a multitude of families have very little. [More…]
For example, in Melbourne in the 1890s vast fortunes were acquired by defrauding depositors in so-called land banks established by, among others, the Baillieu and Fraser families. [More…]
The Labor Party is opposed to people owning their homes, getting together a bit of capital and then- this is a crime in the eyes of the Oppositionpassing it on to their families. [More…]
They have to meet airline schedules, they have to travel in Commonwealth cars and they have to be away from their families, just as members of this Parliament. [More…]
The other thing that concerns me about the CHOGRM conference, considering the very generous compensation payments that were made to businesses affected by the Hilton bombing incident, was the fact that no ex-gratia payments were made to the families of the bomb victims. [More…]
1 ) How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men- two employees of the Sydney City Council who were members of the Municipal Employees ‘ Union, and a member of the New South Wales police force- killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive? [More…]
Will the Minister explain the apparent contradiction whereby shopkeepers who lost trade as a direct result of the security arrangements for the Conference will be paid full indemnity while three families who lost providers will not be compensated for the loss of future income nor for the emotional stress caused by the violent deaths of the men concerned? [More…]
I was told that State workers compensation legislation applies to the families involved and that the Government was setting up a trust” fund for the education of the children. [More…]
-Nothing could more graphically illustrate how out of touch Senator Ryan and the Australian Labor Party are with the overwhelming volume of students and their families in Australia than the question that has just been asked. [More…]
However, this is an innovation and, in defence of it, it should be said that there is a tendency now for younger people to enter parliamentary life and because they are younger they have younger families and more direct family responsibilities than do older members. [More…]
I conclude the remarks for the Government on the second reading debate by saying that it is believed that this superannuation scheme will give protection to the families of those who serve in the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
It was said by Senator Wright that the provisions give a great privilege to families of those who serve in the Parliament. [More…]
As a contrast to that, many sacrifices are made by familiessometimes ultimate sacrifice- because of the burden of the responsibilities that are accepted which results in long absences from home and pre-occupation with matters that are regarded as national responsiblities. [More…]
I believe that if weight is given to the sacrifices that are made by families no one would argue that any privileges or benefits are out of balance. [More…]
I believe that government should encourage the arts and should encourage the giving of gifts so that substantial gifts held by families can be made available for public viewing. [More…]
I have suggested to them previously that they ought to look at the possibility of allowing families to be taxed on the basis of a family partnership. [More…]
In my view, if the Government allowed families to average their income the nonsense about the creation of family partnerships, family trusts and family companies, which all are designed to spread income among husband, wife and children, would no longer continue. [More…]
Family trusts are designed to keep the families assets together, yes. [More…]
It may be so in large capital enterprises, carried on by companies such as Amatil, or large families that have amassed fortunes, millions; but the idea of creating family trusts, for whom trustees carry on the business and profits flow to the beneficiaries, has gone into the metropolis and has corroded and corrupted. [More…]
Very few primary producers are making a cent in taxable income, but what few are doing so are trying to rear their families at an exiguous income of about $5,000. [More…]
The livelihood of approximately 40 farmers and their families is at stake. [More…]
The Minister for Health has decided that to avoid hardship to low income families, Aboriginal and ethnic families, Aboriginal medical services and community health centres, bulk billing will remain until satisfactory alternative administrative arrangements are made to replace bulk billing for all but pensioner patients and their dependants. [More…]
Students permitted to receive benefits on their own behalf in previous years included orphans, a few married students, and students who could provide the evidence that (a) they were living apart from their families as a result of a permanent breakdown in family relationships, or (b) they had been supporting themselves over a period of at least 1 8 months. [More…]
Senator Wood has drawn attention to the housing loans that may be made available to assist Aborigines to house themselves and their families. [More…]
Will the Minister join with the Minister for Health in considering the effect that this type of situation will have on some families and in investigating the feasibility of reducing to $1 the charge for a prescription for a child? [More…]
It is the one way that Australian families can become ‘little capitalists’ and can accrue some property. [More…]
The fundamental point is that if we are to provide a home ownership scheme which is available to all families two things must follow: The first is that interest rates and the inflation rate must decline. [More…]
It is widely recognised that governments, like individuals, families and business organisations, cannot operate effectively without a certain amount of privacy. [More…]
This results in lower income families being charged rents much lower than 85 per cent of the market rate. [More…]
Clearly the increase will have a bad effect on low income earners, people who are chronically ill, large families with two or three children who are ill at the one time and in need of items from the pharmaceutical benefits list. [More…]
For each extra dollar spent, we are getting less in the way of extra benefit for ourselves, our families and our friends. [More…]
When I said that the cheque generally would be sent to the patient, the Government has under consideration whether it would need to adopt some procedure to assist low income families or special groups of people who may need to have the cheque sent to the doctor in full settlement of the account so they would not be harrassed When I said that in general the cheque would be forwarded to the patient, that is what I had in mind. [More…]
We are opposed to this clause because of the hardship it will impose on low income families and individuals. [More…]
I include of course, those many low income families who are not beneficiaries but are in employment, or have one member of the household in employment but who are suffering severe economic hardship and will be very detrimentally affected. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and/or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and refers to the proposals put up by the Australian Government to Indonesia in respect of reuniting East Timorese families following the occupation of that country. [More…]
In view of this move, has the Minister any further information regarding the present situation of Timor refugees in Australia being permitted to reunite with their families still in Timor? [More…]
Assimilation patterns among Eastern European parents and children and their families. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Health give an indication of the amount of the very considerable savings to families resulting from the changes to the health insurance arrangements announced in the Budget last night which will greatly offset cost increases? [More…]
Any suggestion that the changes were made so that the Government could look at the lower income level families is incorrect. [More…]
I indicated that income of such a nature earned by a child would reduce or eliminate the amount of the family allowance that would be paid to the families involved. [More…]
Happily, virtually all Australian families are automotive vehicle owners, and from time to time buy new cars. [More…]
When senators or members bring their wives, families or guests here they are not allowed to take them into the refreshment rooms if they are wearing a pass that is stamped ‘Will not admit to the Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms’. [More…]
Is it possible to means test these people without discouraging enterprising children, many of whom are from low income families? [More…]
There are a number of individuals and families who would wish to get rid of their former Yugoslav citizenship should this be made possible. [More…]
Because of the nature of the marketing the product particularly in Australia there has never been the ability to accrue capital to the families involved. [More…]
Retain Child Endownment at its present level so that families are able to maintain their present purchasing power. [More…]
As I said earlier today and last week, some children are in receipt of a trust income, and income-splitting devices are used within families. [More…]
Another situation about which I have received many personal complaints occurs when married women are laid off, thus being deprived of the income upon which their families were dependent, either solely or partly, for the maintenance of their standard of living. [More…]
-When did the Minister for Social Security first realise that the tax to be imposed on a child’s income in excess of $312, which was announced in the Budget last week, would affect families other than those whose children’s incomes are derived from family trusts, partnerships, et cetera? [More…]
The waiting lists for State housing commission homes exceed 100,000 families and are now growing at the rate of 50,000 a year. [More…]
With tens of thousands of families on the waiting list for housing commission homes and with the shortage of fundsand there is evidence that the amount of lending by the building authorities is only keeping up with the rate of inflation- it is evident that the problem is not one merely of lack of nominal demand, at least not in the housing sector. [More…]
But who wants young people or single people with families- this is a situation which is growing now- as Australian citizens to pay for the sins of the last few years when inflation got out of control to such an extent that it was one of the highest rates in the developed countries. [More…]
With this economic stability we will find that home buyers, whether they be single persons, families, or pensioners, will be in a much better situation to get a house. [More…]
There was increased mobility and small families. [More…]
On 23 February this year the Australian Financial Review simply reported that the nuclear power plant in the Philippines was being built close to an active volcano, close to a potential hot mud flow, possibly near a fault line and close to the Subic Bay naval base where more than 5000 American families live. [More…]
It also means that families cannot borrow on hire purchase for their cars as cheaply as they might otherwise do. [More…]
Consequently, this is a major factor in the decision-making process of families as to whether or not they spend more money on white goods, household appliances, furniture, housing, or whatever. [More…]
It is a very significant figure in assessing the possible ability of families to increase their personal expenditure. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested but rather by implementing the Government’s financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker and contribute to family support programs, thus reversing the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
The Minister would also be aware of the concern of a large number of members of the Parliament about the pressures that are currently on families in today’s modern society. [More…]
I refer to the announcement made by the Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Ellicott, on 27 July 1978 that the Indonesian and Australian governments had made arrangements for the reunion of Timorese families. [More…]
Was this arrangement intended to cover Timorese families being reunited in Australia as well as in East Timor? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the newsletters, numbered 14/78 and 16/78, printed in June-July 1978 by the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra- copies of which I have supplied to the Minister- which discuss the reunion of families only in the context of repatriating the Timorese currently living in Australia and in other countries back to Timor? [More…]
Is the Minister concerned that the Indonesian Government appears to be refusing to give public recognition to the possibility of Timorese leaving East Timor to be reunited with their families in Australia? [More…]
Will the Minister take action to ensure that the initial agreement of the two-way reunion of families is honoured by the Indonesian Government? [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that the agreement reached in Jakarta during the talks between Australian and Indonesian officials provided for an exchange of immigration teams to reunite families in either Australia or Timor. [More…]
It is expected that families from Timor will join their relatives in Australia by Christmas time. [More…]
The Minister asked that I give the assurance that the outcome of the Jakarta talks as reflected in the agreed statement and in the agreed record of the meeting indicates the degree of co-operation given by the Indonesian authorities in seeking to reunite Timorese families whether in Australia or Timor, depending upon the wishes of the people themselves. [More…]
In view of these reports, does the Government intend to take action to bring immediate relief for these people by providing much needed medical supplies, by assisting in the rehabilitation of East Timor and by the reuniting of so many Timorese families which have been fragmented by the Indonesian intrusion? [More…]
Australian and Indonesian officials met in Jakarta on 25 and 26 July to make arrangements for the reunion of East Timorese families in East Timor and Australia. [More…]
Is it a fact that even though such a surplus exists the South Australian Housing Trust is still having difficulties in obtaining suitable rental housing for low income families and that it contemplates the possibility of erecting more houses in this category? [More…]
Would it be to the advantage of the State, the builders, as well as the consumers, for the South Australian Housing Trust to consider the lease of existing apartments or housing for rental to low income families on a subsidised basis rather than to invest more capital in new building? [More…]
The project has involved a series of studies and surveys directed towards understanding and documenting families that are at risk. [More…]
Information from that survey has now become available to the family research unit and it will publish ‘Families in Australia- A Profile’ in November of this year. [More…]
Two further volumes on Families in Australia ‘ which will provide a fuller analysis of the survey data and include the implications of the findings of the study for social policy purposes will be published in 1979. [More…]
The new health insurance arrangements will assist families in meeting the extra costs which arise from the impact of this type of increase. [More…]
We are the families and relatives of political detainees in Singapore, many of whom have been detained without trial for 10 to IS years. [More…]
In 1977, 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 food stuff 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 respects worse that 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…]
-Is the Minister for Education not concerned at implications to Australian research programs of provisions in the 1978 Budget which would reduce payments to Commonwealth research grant scholars with families to little more than what a man with similar family responsibilities would receive on the dole? [More…]
The social implications of the unemployment that we have now are frightening, not only for young people who have been preparing to enter the work force for many years only to find that they cannot obtain work but also for the people who have families to support. [More…]
As I have observed it, the Liberal Party’s grass roots support comes from hardworking, cheerful and enterprising people, both in the cities and in the country, who have in their families and in their work place set themselves goals and worked hard to go on towards reaching them. [More…]
The low income families so dependent on them have suffered a loss in real income and those pensioners with children and pensioners with rented accommodation who have not had their children’s allowances or rent allowances increased since 1975 are now well below the poverty line, as pointed out by Professor Henderson who conducted the poverty inquiry and by almost every welfare agency in this country. [More…]
It showed that families with children which had one bread winner earning an income on or below average weekly earnings were up to $ 1 1 a week worse off as a result of the present Government’s tax policies and family allowance changes. [More…]
There is a totally unexpected attackonthemostseverelydisadvantaged people in our community through the decision to cut back the indexation of age pensions from a six-month to a 12-month frequency; by imposing new tax burdens on other recipients of social security pensions; by taxing family allowances through the mechanism of taxing children’s incomes; by abolishing the maternity allowance, which was a very minor form of assistance to families; by imposing a totally inequitable form of increased taxation through indirect taxes which, of course, fall more heavily on the poor than on the rich; and by failing entirely to raise new and proper sources of revenue from the very rich and fruitful enterprises which are carried out in the minerals and energy sector of the country. [More…]
How many hundreds and thousands of women and children who have got into difficulties through the problems associated with nuclear families in this country, who have become split away from the nuclear family, and who have had nowhere to go, have been helped by women’s shelters in the various States. [More…]
At present there is no way that families of brain injured children can get any assistance from the Government. [More…]
That expenditure is just not possible for most of the families who have children who need this kind of attention. [More…]
I suggest that the Government have a look at this matter and under the health scheme or in some other way provide financial assistance for families with children who suffer these problems. [More…]
Something like 300 people- boxers, their trainers and their families- had come from everywhere. [More…]
Perhaps we can do something to assist financially the families of children who have brain damage and who are seeking treatment. [More…]
for tourists and families to visit. [More…]
Families of employees have been left in extreme hardship because, as I said, that payment to the Crown of group tax has absorbed all available moneys. [More…]
They have the aged, the ill, the handicapped, the single parent families and all sorts of groups in their areas. [More…]
They point out that old people want to stay at home, in their neighbourhoods, surrounded by their own possessions and within reach of their families and friends. [More…]
These pressures are not always just to do with the available support services in the community; they are pressures which are rooted as well in families, which form views as to where their aged should be nursed or cared for. [More…]
As promised in the 1977 policy speech, an additional $ 100 per child is payable in 1978 to families living in tax zones A and B whose children are eligible for the basic boarding allowance. [More…]
It has been described as a dishonest and unfair Budget- unfair because its restraints are directed at those who are least capable of bearing them; unfair because its whole strategy has been directed against the poor, the sick, the elderly and the great majority of Australian families. [More…]
I believe that I have already given enough instances of where the Budget is unfair and discriminatory against the poor, the sick, the elderly and the great majority of our families. [More…]
About two million families receive family allowances and in order to apply a means or income test it will be necessary to ask all of them to return information to the department. [More…]
At present we have no record of the income of children or of families because of the universal nature of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
I am unable to give any indication as to how many families or children would be affected by the decision because, as I say, we have no knowledge of their income, but I am advised by the Treasury that on the basis of its knowledge of the income of children, from income tax returns, it estimates the savings which I reported yesterday. [More…]
My department has no information on these lines concerning income of families or of children. [More…]
Secondly, is she saying that two million Australian families will now be under continual scrutiny by this Government as to how much any child in a family may earn? [More…]
May I advise that there will be an annual requirement for families to advise the income that was received in the previous year? [More…]
Will the Government be informing all families affected by this new provision of the appeal provisions which are available to them under various Acts? [More…]
Does the Minister refute this statement and confirm that the Cabinet has the closest concern for ordinary people and that the Budget is an honest Budget building a very real increase in the prosperity of families and the people of Australia? [More…]
There is a tendency now for breakups to occur among families whose breadwinner is insecure because he does not know from one day to the next whether his livelihood is in jeopardy or whether he has a job. [More…]
I predict that, because of the excise that has been imposed and because the growers in the Riverland area cannot sell their grapes, there will be great pressures on families there and family breakups will occur. [More…]
The child endowment and tax rebate schemes which previously existed were both a recognition of the fact that to rear a child costs money and that families with children, whether they are rich or poor families, had expenses associated with child rearing. [More…]
The first and most obvious fault in the new proposals is that they will penalise poor families the most, as do so many of this Government ‘s actions. [More…]
There may not even be a large number of poor families affected but individually they will be affected and those who will be affected the most will be the poorest. [More…]
In some families, particularly those on benefits or on minimum wages, the children earn their own pocket money, sometimes to the extent of $20 or $30 a week, and sometimes even $40 a week, by delivering newspapers, selling newspapers, working in shops and in part time jobs in factories, and doing various other jobs in the community. [More…]
Children of rich families do not need to work but they frequently do. [More…]
Such families will not notice the drop in income which may result from this provision. [More…]
But the very poor families- and there are very poor families- will notice it. [More…]
Are poor migrant families or poor families of any group in the community who through no fault of their own do not get their income statements in on time to be arbitrarily deprived of family allowances for which they are presently eligible? [More…]
But this proposal will cause distress to some very poor families in the community. [More…]
If these women or poor families are to be deprived of these payments in part or whole by this proposal it is an unjust measure. [More…]
Senator Grimes has done a lot of worthwhile work on how this decision will affect individual families and what the realities of income reduction will be, but I suggest with the greatest of respect to him that he would make a more worthwhile contribution to the debate, and certainly one which would have more relevance to the women of Australia, if he recognised that the mother’s allowance is to be penalised because of the child ‘s income. [More…]
Is it possible to means test these people without discouraging enterprising children, many of whom are from low income families? [More…]
As I said earlier today and last week, some children are in receipt of a trust income, and income-splitting devices are used within families. [More…]
Personal exertion on the part of children in order to support their families in difficult circumstances is in some way to limit the family allowance. [More…]
The South Australian Housing Trust is still continuing to build units for low income families. [More…]
It seems to me that there has been a misuse of resources in that if 900 apartments or other forms of low cost housing are available the Housing Trust could enter into arrangements with private developers to take over for a limited term or a definite lease period some of these properties for leasing at subsidised rentals to low income families. [More…]
In other words, it could provide this accommodation to low income families on the same basis as it would otherwise build houses. [More…]
In view of the administrative complexities and the inequities which could arise between families with regard to the means testing of family allowances, it has been decided that the present arrangement for family allowances will continue. [More…]
As a locally elected senator- a representative of this community- I am very much aware of the long delays in attending to very urgent matters, such as processing housing applications, processing applications for emergency housing for homeless families, processing applications for emergency welfare assistance from women who have been deserted or from homeless youth or any other person in urgent need of assistance. [More…]
It would be quite evident to honourable senators present that there would be many families whose combined income might be slightly in excess of $232 a week but who would in no way be able to qualify for private housing finance. [More…]
The Government has refused to increase the staff of the Legal Aid Office and in order to save approximately $100,000 the Government has refused to adjust Commonwealth Government employees’ compensation pensions and has thus ensured deprivation for the widows and families of public servants killed in the line of duty and for those invalided out of their work. [More…]
More importantly, from my point of view, we have a critical situation in terms of the future of the hundreds of thousands of families who live and work in the Territory, whose children have been borne here and who would have hoped a few years ago to have their futures here. [More…]
He said that to do that the Government would persist in its endeavours to have full personal tax indexation, that it would make improvements in its assistance to families, and that it would retain Medibank. [More…]
I commend to the Government for its consideration the problems and stresses of families with children. [More…]
Additional amounts have been provided for the Northern Territory and, as promised in the 1977 policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), an additional $ 100 per child is payable under the isolated children’s program to families living in certain tax zones whose children are eligible for basic boarding allowances. [More…]
While Senator Ryan is fighting hard for the minority of women, the majority of women (and not only those in her electorate) are hoping for a better deal for single-income families so that they will not have to leave their families and seek work outside the home for economic reasons. [More…]
Senator Ryan replied no to our question: ‘Do you support removing the present economic discrimination against single-income families by (1) indexation of family allowances?’ [More…]
There is no doubt that there are married women in the work force because they need the money for various reasons, such as to bring up their families and so on. [More…]
I suggest that the people in the union system who wish to create more employment opportunities should at least consider their mates and not take part in wild cat, rat baggery strikes that give no benefit to them or to their families. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a report in the Sunday Sun newspaper of 24 September 1978 wherein it was reported that 100 local residents on Bribie Island, Queensland, have signed a petition to be presented to the honourable C. R. Porter, M.L.A., the Queensland Minister for Aborigines and Islanders Advancement, opposing the construction by his Department of a holiday home on that Island to be used by selected families from the Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission on the grounds that such a home and its intended inhabitants would have a detrimental effect on surrounding land values? [More…]
I would like to know how many applicants for the job had the physique necessary to fill the requirements, as well as the other essential qualifications, and how many of the people who had competing claims for the job were married men with families. [More…]
Had the sum been greater than that it could have been something of a deterrent for families with four or five children travelling overseas in a group. [More…]
Such families could have been rather seriously affected by a charge running up to $ 100 or $200. [More…]
In general terms, I believe we can expect higher unemployment among women, decreased spending power, especially among lower income families, reduced services, and hardship arising from the decision to index pensions only once yearly. [More…]
The imposition of a means test on a child’s income, which has now been withdrawn, showed among other things an appalling lack of awareness and sensitivity on the part of the Government of how lower income families live. [More…]
I believe that the other address was unsatisfactory only because the building was not big enough to cater for all of the families that needed the support of a women’s refuge. [More…]
There are three Aboriginal families who have been resident there for quite some time. [More…]
There is no doubt that there are married women in the work force because they need money for various reasons, such as to bring up their families and so on. [More…]
I was confused, for instance, about the means test which was to apply to the family allowances of families where the children receive an income. [More…]
I believe that the Budget is disgraceful because it attacks those people who are least capable, those who are already disadvantaged- the pensioners, the young families, the children, the workers, the sick and the unemployed. [More…]
Evidence was received that in families where alcohol was an accepted substance and marihuana was a taboo substance there was an extraordinary attitude to the actions of children. [More…]
We are particularly concerned about the development of sub-cultures associated with the use of alcohol and drugs that seem to lead to alienation from families and the general life of the community. [More…]
Will the Australian Government at the present session put forward specific and positive proposals that are consistent with its publicly stated policies on East Timor in an attempt to overcome the conflict and suffering in the territory and to secure early reunion of Timorese families? [More…]
On the matter of reunion of Timorese families, Australia and Indonesia reached agreement last July for an exchange of immigration teams to facilitate reunions both in Australia and in Timor. [More…]
It may perhaps be desirable to levy a heavier burden on the smoker and the drinker than on other people but if so, it has to be remembered that the real sacrifice will be borne by the families of those on whom it is intended to lay the real impost. [More…]
This sort of action in my view will cause untold hardship to many migrant families with relatives and particularly close relatives living overseas. [More…]
Many of our beef producers have had to go out and take often quite menial and not particularly highly paid jobs and have had to leave their wives and families on their properties. [More…]
The wives and families are running the properties so that they can maintain them. [More…]
The question of achieving equality of opportunity inside education lies not only with fees or allowances: It lies also, of course, with our moving Australian families as far as we can up the socio-economic scale in terms of standards of living so that their conditions are conducive to further study for the young. [More…]
Do any provisions exist which allow for relief in cases of hardship arising amongst families which rely on the mails for educating outback children? [More…]
I am not aware of any specific measures that are available to provide assistance to those families which are particularly reliant on the mails for providing education for their children. [More…]
A national park offering protection of land and work for Aboriginal families [More…]
It was intended to introduce an administratively difficult and unjust means test on family allowances which would partly have the effect of penalising poor families whose children helped out by earning small amounts. [More…]
A further reason can be seen from the manner in which this legislation and the manner in which this Government, since it has been in power, have failed to recognise- it has frequently taken steps to disadvantage them- families with children, particularly families of those in receipt of various social security benefits. [More…]
We need a greater explanation of the reasons for these changes and we need an explanation of the effects of the changes, the effects on some of the migrant communities, the migrant families, and the effects on the Government purse, before we will agree willingly to what may or may not be reasonable changes. [More…]
Will those families be disadvantaged by this measure, and to what extent? [More…]
It has also failed completely in many cases to give us any details of the effects on the families who will be so badly affected. [More…]
The family allowance was introduced and this, despite what the Opposition could possibly say, was the biggest boon to the very low income families that it was possible for any government to introduce. [More…]
The family allowance was not of any greater assistance than the previous arrangements to higher income families. [More…]
This is aimed particularly at assisting families in need. [More…]
Although the family allowance is to be paid monthly now, it is my belief that families in receipt of an allowance will receive exactly the same amount in any one year as they would have received previously. [More…]
That is totally unjust to the large numbers of families who are receiving the family allowance. [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, with a reminder that since 1974 a total of $95,000 has been allocated by the Federal Government to the Australian Council of Trade Unions for research into the needs of trade unionists and their families. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the results of this research have been published and whether in fact the research has provided the basis for any decision which may have been taken in regard to trade unionists and their families? [More…]
I confirm that grants totalling $95,000 have been allocated to the ACTU since 1974 to establish and support a social welfare research unit for research into the needs of trade unionists and their families. [More…]
They include: ‘Welfare in Industry: Changing Perspective’, reports; Worker Participation in Management: The Australian Context’; a submission to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on migrants in the work force: ‘Social Policy and Problems of the Work Force’, volumes 1 and 2; ‘Adequacy of Income Derived from Work for Low Income Families in the Williamstown- Altona areas’; Development of a Working Women’s Charter’, submission to the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health; a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare concerning the inquiry into the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services; and ‘The Collection and Dissemination of Information on Social Welfare Programs and the Role of Trade Unions in the Direct Provision of Welfare Services’. [More…]
For example a migrant couple from country Z- it does not matter what country it is- comes to Australia, having been attracted here, as families were until recently, by our immigration policies. [More…]
They are the people who have contributed throughout their whole lifetimes to this country through working, many of them through raising families, through taxes and through their labours in the various areas. [More…]
The abolition of this benefit, combined with the failure to increase the allowances for pensioners’ children and other beneficiaries’ children and the failure to index the family allowances will contribute to the difficulties of low income families. [More…]
The family research project was established in 1 972 because of growing concern about the growing numbers of oneparent families in Australia and about the social and other implications of this trend. [More…]
The second worry concerns the low income families who can afford neither to pay the insurance premiums nor to pay their 60 per cent share of the cost of treatment; the Government of course pays 40 per cent. [More…]
Perhaps it may save a few unnecessary consultations for low income families. [More…]
It is equally likely, perhaps more likely, to deter such families from seeking medical assistance when they really should do so, which may involve the community in much greater costs in the long run. [More…]
Outpatients’ departments are frequently very inconvenient for patients, with intolerably long waits for parents with large families. [More…]
This Government was against the levy proposed by the Australian Labor Party, which was a levy without any ceiling, a levy that disadvantaged the two-income families, a levy that did not make allowance for the two-income families who were earning low incomes. [More…]
Families in receipt of a weekly income of $ 1 75 will find themselves particularly hard hit because their share of the new taxation increases will be 7.3 per cent of their salary. [More…]
As we sat on the little sand spot families were coming home late in the afternoon bearing game they had captured or killed during the day, but they still came along to that meeting and gave it a very respectable attendance indeed under those circumstances. [More…]
Secondly, it involves whether there is sufficient counselling or direction within the families or schools to enable the students to find careers of their choice and their aptitude. [More…]
Finally, what is currently the status of the proposal to introduce a voucher system of education funding to individual families which would have advantages by way of greater accountability in schools, freedom of choice and greater incentive for schools to achieve basic educational standards? [More…]
One would have thought that today, following a steady reduction in interest rates, there would have been an acknowledgement by the Labor Party that here is a progressive policy, a means of helping the primary producers and the ordinary families of Australia. [More…]
We are very proud of our ties with Australia, a country where we have settled since the second world war, raised our families, and worked hard for the benefit of all Australians. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Victorian Government has declined to make available to the Victorian Parliament a copy of the O’Connor report dealing with the misuse of about $3m involved in loans to 123 low income families, in view of the fact that this is yet another scandal involving the Victorian Housing Commission, and in view of the fact that almost all of this money was provided by the Federal Government, I ask the Minister: Firstly, will the Government be seeking a copy of the report from the Victorian Government? [More…]
To me it is a recognition that in this day and age, instead of our living in the unenlightened society that has prevailed in this country and many other Western countries for centuries, the veil is lifting and people will see reason and will be able to assist those who want to plan their lives and be able to plan their families so that they will support the children that they can afford to rear and the ones that they feel that they are capable of seeing through their early childhood on to maturity, and in that way fulfil their proper destiny. [More…]
I also know that some women who need abortions will not be able to afford the fares to travel or that some women, having no one to leave their families with for a couple of days, will be forced to go through with a pregnancy that will damage their health and the welfare of their families. [More…]
Australia has an obligation under an international convention to permit entry of and grant exemption from Customs duties and taxes on motor vehicles for the official use of foreign embassies, and the personal use of foreign diplomats or members of their families forming part of their households. [More…]
They involve two or three families at most. [More…]
Major concerns included the vast distance between Darwin and Arnhem Land communities, which limited contact between students and their families, and the large number of tribal groups at Kormilda which are seen as undesirable by some Aboriginal communities. [More…]
I refer to recent Press reports which in effect state that the Indonesian Government is unhappy with the whole idea of Timorese families being reunited with family’ members living here in Australia. [More…]
If copper prices recover significantly and the miners and their families are able to be employed temporarily in adjacent areas of the State, re-activating full scale mining operations would not be difficult. [More…]
Social workers would also point out however that there was a serious unemployment situation in Whyalla and that people moving there might be separating themselves from contact with families and friends. [More…]
It would be unrealistic to expect either DCW or the Housing Trust to discriminate actively against such people as deserted wives, widows and unemployed families and say: Oh, there’s low rental housing available at Whyalla but you can’t go there because there’s too many of your type of people there already’. [More…]
Social workers would also point out however that there was a serious unemployment situation in Whyalla and that people moving there might be separating themselves from contact with families and friends. [More…]
It would be unrealistic to expect either the Department of Community Welfare or the Housing Trust to discriminate actively against such people as deserted wives, widows and unemployed families and say: ‘Oh, there’s low rental housing available at Whyalla, but you can’t go there because there ‘s too many of your type of people there already ‘. [More…]
I can only say to other senators in this chamber that if they regard this issue as being a very peripheral one they should take a little time out, meet these people and see the circumstances in which some Timorese families are living in Melbourne, and then come back to this place. [More…]
I do not know what validity there is in threats and so on; but a number of Timorese women in Melbourne have said that if they are not reunited with their families by Christmas this year they will go on a hunger strike until they are. [More…]
Accordingly, if the Indonesian Government says ‘No, we cannot accommodate you’ - the Australian Government- in terms of some humanitarian exercise in relation to these people and the reunification of families, the Australian Government says ‘Manana’- or whatever- ‘we have tried and there is nothing more that can be done about it’. [More…]
Would the Minister contemplate establishing a judicial inquiry to report on the activities of these cults in Australia ensuring, firstly, that no intrusion into or harrassment of genuine and non-harmful groups by the inquiry is permitted and that true freedom to worship is not impaired in any way and, secondly, that the criteria of such an inquiry includes the following: Whether the sect requires from members compulsory financial contributions to the cult or its ‘spiritual’ leader; whether physical or mental damage is exerted or threatened to cult members or their families; whether undue influence is placed on family structures to induce family breakups; and any other associated matters which the Government in its wisdom considers appropriate? [More…]
I refer to the undertakings given by the Government some 18 months ago in relation to the question of reunification of Timorese refugees with their families in Timor, particularly the fathers of families in Timor. [More…]
At this stage I am unable to add to anything I have said earlier and that is that it is the Government’s stated intention that it will facilitate and pursue the reunification of Timorese families. [More…]
Can it be assumed, as perhaps some Government supporters would wish to assume, that all school leavers have families to support them; that they somehow have a lesser need for unemployment benefit than other unemployed persons? [More…]
It is simply not the case that all school leavers have comfortable, affluent families to support them through their first few months of unemployment. [More…]
The simple fact which Government supporters seem to forget is that there are still many poor families in this country and most of those teenagers who are leaving school at 1 5 or 16 years of age without completing the high school are leaving precisely because their parents are poor and cannot afford to keep them at school and college. [More…]
But the majority of young people who leave school at the age of IS or 16 do so because their families cannot support them. [More…]
For many poorer families in our community the small payment of $36, which is the payment for the youth unemployed, makes a significant difference to the family income. [More…]
In regional centres, country towns and places where there has been a collapse of manufacturing industry there are whole families who are unemployed. [More…]
It is often the case that the school leavers who are about to become unemployed persons come from families who have already been the victims of unemployment. [More…]
Then there are the school leavers who have to leave their families at this time of the year in order to travel to find work. [More…]
They cannot stay and be a burden on their families. [More…]
Unemployment in this country and in other countries frequently runs in families and is perpetuated in families. [More…]
The Bill also demonstrates bad faith toward families. [More…]
We have heard so much from the Fraser Government about its concern for families and its concern to support the family unit. [More…]
They are young men with young families who moved to Canberra to work for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
These families do not have grandmothers, mothers-in-law, fathersinlaw, aunts, uncles or other helpful people to come and assist them on the occasion of the birth of a new baby. [More…]
We believe that families should have assistance on the occasion of the birth of a child and there are many ways in which such assistance can be provided. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition and, I believe, all Commonwealth employees and many other people in the community who consider that paternity leave was an important way of assisting young families, I strongly oppose the abolition of paternity leave. [More…]
We introduced paternity leave because we believed that it was an important assistance to families and we will continue to urge the case for it. [More…]
Maternity leave cost S6.1m last year, making a total provision of some $7m for public servants which would have assisted greatly in gaining equality of opportunity for women public servants and assisted greatly in supporting the families of Commonwealth employees. [More…]
I note that the Government, which is so fond of talking abouts rights for women and support for families, has not supported the ACTU case. [More…]
Senator Ryan has said that the alterations to this Act demonstrate bad faith on the part of the Government- bad faith to families, bad faith to women and bad faith to public servants. [More…]
With the striking exception of the family allowance scheme of this Government, very little has been done in a financial sense to encourage families to raise children. [More…]
Basically, their solutions involved variants of taxing families as units. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs been advised of concern being felt and expressed by the Timorese refugees in Australia, particularly those in Darwin and Victoria, relating to the delay in the processing of applications for the reuniting of families in Australia and to the discrimination practised by the Government of Indonesia against Timorese people who wish to come to Australia to be reunited with their families? [More…]
The public opinion polls indicated that an overwhelming number of students on campus, and their families, regarded the payment of compulsory fees to student organisations, particularly supra-campus organisations, as an anathema. [More…]
I know that in several of the countries the churches have found themselves in conflict with right wing governments because the churches have attempted to provide food and clothing for the families of people- mainly trade unionists- who are in concentration camps. [More…]
For over 100 years the families of those who pioneered the development of South Australia have developed this industry. [More…]
As I have said, families have been engaged in this industry for over a century. [More…]
I mention these factors because common to both cases of assistance is the serious question of adjustment and the relocation of the miners and their families in the event of the mine closing. [More…]
I express the wish that they and their families, at Christmas and New Year, will have full enjoyment of that period. [More…]
May I wish each of you and your families the very best for the coming season. [More…]
What action is proposed by the Government to ensure a reasonable living standard for families affected by future redundancy. [More…]
Are reports to this effect of concern to those Timorese people in Australia who have made application to have their families reunited with them in Australia. [More…]
The Commission remains confident that in spite of the fact that most pastoral properties after purchase become residential locations for Aboriginal families not involved directly in the pastoral enterprise, Aboriginal management requires only guidance and assistance, management training and some help in book-keeping. [More…]
Lena Gustin (New South Wales)- Italian migrated 1956: radio announcer (manager of the Italian program on Radio 2KY); President, NSW Branch of National Association of Families of Migrants; honorary member, Apia Club; President, Sorella Radio Welfare Fund; member, Australian Institute of Welfare Officers, State Ethnic Broadcasting Committee, N.S.W. [More…]
This card enables recipients and their children to receive free medical care, pharmaceutical benefits and optometrical benefits which are a vital necessity to the well-being of these families. [More…]
Families with children have been affected, as has been suggested many times in this Parliament. [More…]
Although I would agree with Senator Grimes when he says that pensioners, the people who are aged, invalid and sick, are the most vulnerable, I also need to recognise the needs of families- the single income family with several small children, the family with commitments to purchasing a house to give security to the family and the family with a woman who is unable to work and who has commitments at home to her own children and a desire to be at home with them. [More…]
Families with young children make up a great part of our pensioner population today. [More…]
Everybody knows that families have high expenses in this area and everybody knows that many pensioners are now left with the burden of covering the gap between the standard health benefit that they can claim and the actual fees that doctors charge. [More…]
People and families have to have a roof over their heads, and whilst every little ratty room in Australia has its rent increased every time there is a pension rise, there is no increase in the amount of decent and cheap accommodation into which pensioners can go. [More…]
There is no good, cheap accommodation available in Australia for people living on their own or for families living in difficult circumstances. [More…]
We have families on different types of pensions. [More…]
Some women bringing up families on their own have health care available to them and some of them have no health care; some of them are helped with prescriptions at the chemist and some of them are not; some are assisted with fares and some get no assistance whatsoever; some have assistance with rates or telephones and some have none at all. [More…]
I declare that both my parents are age pensioners, and they are typical of most age pensioners who scraped and saved to raise families through the economically difficult Depression, war and post-war years. [More…]
We have seen a gradual reduction in benefits payable, and we have seen that people can no longer afford to provide their families with the positive things that they need. [More…]
Do any provisions exist which allow for relief in cases of hardship arising amongst families which rely on the mails for educating outback children? [More…]
Whilst no provisions exist under postal legislation which would provide relief for outback families where children are being educated by correspondence, the Government does provide correspondence allowances under the Assistance for Isolated Children scheme. [More…]
I got the impression that they felt that there could not possibly be the kind of world in which this could happen and that for some reason or other, although it is possible for other groups in the community such as families, organisations and business boards to agree on things- even school children have mock parliaments at times- this Parliament is different, that it is immune to such rationality. [More…]
It was the natural forces in the market place that eventually placed vast areas of Chinese property- virtually all Chinese property- in the hands of two related families, the Chiangs and the Soongs, and created the strains that led to the success of the communist revolution late in 1949. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to the plight of one parent families, and in particular, to the differences which exist in the benefits paid to children who are under the auspices of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and those cared for by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
These are children from unemployed families where unemployment is becoming a way of life for several generations who live in the same street, the same house and the same suburb. [More…]
Women today have a far higher expectation for their families than did women in the past. [More…]
The organisation and formulation of government policies- I make this comment irrespective of party lines- which bear on the family situation are very much structured towards encouraging the continuance of the nuclear family and against the possibility of encouraging wider and more supportive relationships in families which involve more than just a husband, a wife and two children. [More…]
Counselling is provided for a variety of reasons, but I think it is true to say that it is mainly to ease the problem of human relationships for all the members of the families involved. [More…]
Our data indicate that in an overwhelming majority of families, the children control the use of the television set through early evening. [More…]
I turn from the political response to the humanitarian response to the claims of the displaced families of Eritrea, the 1,200,000 persons who have been made homeless, of whom, in this International Year of the Child, 400,000 are thought to be children under 12 years of age. [More…]
I should like strongly to reiterate that concern and to express the Government’s deep sympathy for the families of those people killed in the crash. [More…]
The Premier, however, then went on to deny that he had any financial links with the Beggs or Fraser families and, in his own words, ‘links of any kind with the Beggs family’, with whom he claimed not to be even acquainted. [More…]
This was followed by the prolonged game of yes no, yes no, daisy petal plucking, from the Victorian Premier over his business links with the Fraser and Beggs families. [More…]
The honourable senator today attempted to denigrate one of the fine families of Victoria. [More…]
Or do its members still wish to come into the Senate and to attempt to denigrate one of the most respected families in Victoria? [More…]
The arrangement was for the Commonwealth to collect this tax, to pool it and to distribute the funds to the needy- the families. [More…]
No doubt Senator Carrick will be familiar with the Prime Minister’s frequently stated beliefs that a household budget is just like a national Budget; that deficits have to be paid back; that nations, like families, must live in hardship while deficits are being paid back; and that deficits incurred under Labor condemned the nation to prolonged poverty, and so on and so forth. [More…]
In the light of those figures are present social security benefits for single parent families sufficient for the majority not to live in an impoverished state? [More…]
Will the Government review the present levels of social security benefits for single parent families? [More…]
Will the Government review the case for a special education allowance for the children of single parent families? [More…]
I am aware of public statements that have been made recently with regard to the income of single parent families and the difficulties which they have in sustaining the family on this income. [More…]
I think that what has been established and quoted as the poverty line is something which may have doubtful validity because of its origin and the fact that it is based on relativities between expenditures of different families in New York in 1954. [More…]
If you listened, you would know that I was saying that the poverty line established by the expert commission- it was the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty which came down with that poverty linewas based on relativities between expenditures of different families in New York in 1954. [More…]
The 1974 survey confirmed earlier findings that over 50 per cent of university students in Australia are drawn from families where the father has a professional occupation. [More…]
The purpose of TEAS is seen as providing a subsidy to those students and their families who are unable or whom it would be unreasonable to expect to provide all of the costs normally expected to come from sources other than the public purse. [More…]
I want to assess that statement of what I believe to be still the Government’s position in relation to student allowances in the light of a number of points made in the statement itself, and also in the light of the 1974 survey finding that some 50 per cent of the Australian student population in universities came from families with professional backgrounds. [More…]
The second purpose of TEAS stated in the comment to which I referred was that it was intended to subsidise those students of families who are unable to provide all of the costs normally expected to come from sources other than the public purse. [More…]
I put it to the Senate quite seriously that this affects students and particularly those students or prospective students who are still dependent upon their parents and who come from low income families. [More…]
Another area of anomaly relates to the assumed capacity of middle income families to contribute to their children’s tertiary education. [More…]
In many respects, some middle income earners are worse off than families on low incomes in relation to their capacity to support a student. [More…]
I support that view by making the point that usually students who come from low income families receive the full TEAS allowance. [More…]
Students from the middle income bracket families are often means tested out of an allowance altogether. [More…]
If we get no assistance in this area, surely the poorer families are going to be at an extreme disadvantage. [More…]
A change in Australian migration policy includes a relaxation of conditions for re-uniting families, the Australian High Commission said in a statement issued by it in Suva yesterday. [More…]
If that office is transferred to Adelaide we will find that in the town of Murray Bridge, which is a thriving country town at present, 12 families either will have to find other work in Murray Bridge, which is very difficult at present because of the Government’s fiscal policy, or will have to shift to Adelaide. [More…]
Ginsburg said that the aim of the fund was to help political prisoners and their families. [More…]
But I wish on their behalf to respond to that challenge in the hope that everyone concerned will use his or her influence to ensure that these people- and I emphasise that some of them were granted letters of authority by the previous Government- can rejoin their families. [More…]
I have detailed knowledge of at least two of those families. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to the way in which lump sum payments to the bereaved families of workers who have lost their lives in the Commonwealth Public Service have dropped in value since 1976. [More…]
Some families, because some members of the family are working, can support people through delays like this. [More…]
March 21, 1 978- Assistant Health Minister Mr Jona dissociates himself from Mr Houghton’s view, reported in The Age, that families in the Yarram area were blaming herbicides for the birth abnormalities, because they felt guilty. [More…]
Is he aware of allegations by a former Adelaide gynaecologist, Mrs Stuart-Kregor, that her stepson has been so brainwashed by this sect that he now refuses to associate with his family because families are considered by the sect to be the work of Satan? [More…]
Our data indicate that in an overwhelming majority of families the children control the use of the television set through early evening. [More…]
Private rental companies have been buying Housing Commission houses from families who bought them from the Commission. [More…]
The Commission used that money to provide carports to all Aboriginal families who lived in Commission houses. [More…]
These Aboriginal families were just given a carport. [More…]
These applications were made by between 130,000 and 145,000 clients, who represented, conservatively, between 78,000 and 87,000 families. [More…]
These groups include single parent families, separated persons, social security payment recipients who represent some seven or eight times their normal percentage in the population, the unemployed and those not living in houses. [More…]
Of course, this has an intimidatory effect which prevents many of our citizens doing what anyone would wish to doreturn to our former homeland or village, our families and our relatives, to see the scenes of our youth and childhood. [More…]
There is not the slightest doubt that the release of such information would endanger these officers and their families and would put ASIO in a situation in which it would be very difficult for it to continue to act. [More…]
There would not be the slightest doubt that their lives and the lives of their families would be endangered if in any way it became possible for them to be identified. [More…]
If it had not been for the Municipal and Shire Council Employees Union, the union that represented those people who were killed and which raised $90,000 through an appeal in Sydney, the families of the people who were the subject of that bombing outrage would be in a much more difficult situation today. [More…]
The working party was established by us to offer assistance to the Kindergarten Union because of the level of fees that it was concerned it would need to charge low income families for pre-school education. [More…]
By 197S, there were just six Aboriginal families in a town of several thousand whites. [More…]
My understanding is that the Gimbat pastoral lease was held by one of the Gunn families. [More…]
If the information is not available in the Department, will the Minister require that information be kept in the future, in order to assess the effect that such a drastic ruling ofthe Director-General of Social Security, issued for the first time in 1 977, has on the starvation levels of Australian families over the holiday period. [More…]
The need to exempt social security recipients and low income families from the Government’s punitive economic measures’. [More…]
The need to exempt social security recipients and low income families from the Government’s punitive economic measures’. [More…]
The need to exempt social security recipients and low income families from the Government’s punitive economic measures. [More…]
In view of what Senator Grimes said about the need to index the family allowance and to maintain the benefit for the universal family allowance scheme, I think that some clarification of the paper circulated by him, which may change by $1 a week the family allowance paid to families on high incomes, is needed. [More…]
The honourable senator may perhaps clarify what he has in mind with regard to poorer families. [More…]
Inflation is of great concern to the lowest income families in Australia, including all of those who are receiving almost all of their income from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The need to exempt social security recipients and low income families from the Government’s punitive economic measures. [More…]
The Minister’s defence, admirable as it was, does not dissipate the anxiety felt throughout the community and by senators in this chamber about the Government’s intentions with regard to social security and low income families in the next Budget. [More…]
The poor, the pensioners, the unemployed and their families slip further behind in their ability to maintain a reasonable standard of living for themselves and their families, while big business and others in a position to exploit the economic circumstances make profits. [More…]
The need to exempt social security recipients and low inconic families from the Government’s punitive economic measures. [More…]
The motion states that the Government has somehow introduced punitive economic measures against the recipients of social security benefits and low income families. [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…]
If belts must be tightened- this is debatable- social security recipients and low income families should be the last to be considered as targets for the Government’s austerity measures. [More…]
We and our families are exposed daily to the agents, called carcinogens, which cause cancer, often unknowingly while we breathe, eat, drink and sleep. [More…]
My Department collects, as a by-product of its administrative processes, a range of statistics in respect of families in receipt of family allowances. [More…]
Four-weekly statistics of families by number of children/students in family; family allowances paid to institutions; grants terminations and rejections of family allowances. [More…]
Quarterly statistics of families by number of children/students in family and children/students by age in postcode districts and Social Security regions. [More…]
The end result will be that most Australians, particularly those with families, will have to pay more than they can afford for health care. [More…]
He referred to a national income survey taken in 1975 which showed that 7.3 per cent of families had incomes below the poverty line. [More…]
The words of Cardinal Freeman are very pertinent to what I am saying today because the tax and health measures of the mini-Budget will force more Australian families than the 7.3 per cent who are already in poverty into poverty and into the concomitant distress of living in poverty. [More…]
As well as its attacks on the well-being of families, the mini-Budget is a scandalous document because of what it has omitted. [More…]
There has been no indexing of family allowances since they were increased and no attempt to compensate families for the loss of income which resulted from the abolition of the rebate scheme. [More…]
I simply draw the attention of the Senate again to figures which show that as at the end of the last financial year the following losses have been incurred by families as a result of the failure of the Government to index or increase the family allowance payment: For a family with one child the loss has been $3.50 a week, for a family with two children, $8.50 a week; for a family with three children, $ 14.50; for a family with three children with one student child, $14.50; and for a family with three children with two student children, $ 14.50. [More…]
It is quite clear that by the changeover to the family allowance system, which initially was of benefit to families, this has now become another area in which families are failing to keep up with inflation. [More…]
The mini-Budget which was presented last week contained no relief for taxpayers, families or pensioners. [More…]
With all the social problems that are rife in the community at the moment- in particular the drug problem but also the problems of violence, sexual violence and so on- families are not happy with the situation where 16 and 17-year- old girls and boys will be forced to leave home to travel to other cities or to country towns in search of work. [More…]
One of the worst effects was the terrible disruption to families caused by the breadwinner and young people leaving home to search for work. [More…]
That is the appropriate response to the level of youth unemployment, not these veiled threats and accusations of being dole bludgers; not these insinuations that we are to have work tests that will create even more pressure and strain on families. [More…]
I acknowledge that there has been no increase in the rates that have been given to family allowance payments, but $ 1,000m is spent on family allowances in this country and a factor that is not recognised is that in the 1976 Budget this Government replaced the Hayden tax rebates for children and child endowment with family allowances, and this initiative brought greatly increased assistance to some 300,000 families with 800,000 children who did not benefit from the Hayden scheme of tax rebates. [More…]
That additional number of the lowest income people who were not able to have the advantage of tax rebates-300,000 families and 800,000 children- are now receiving substantial family allowances, whereas they were unable to take advantage of the tax rebates because of the level of their income in previous years. [More…]
Therefore, we have 100,000 or more people in low income families who have been bulk billed by doctors and have been treated in the way the Government expected. [More…]
People will need to understand what their responsibilities are in relation to health care for themselves and their families. [More…]
I think that it is much more important to keep workers healthy and to be able to provide for their families. [More…]
What am I to say to these fair and just requests for Federal Government action to alleviate their distress, when the Leader of the Government in this chamber so strenuously and heatedly defends and encourages the continuing raids on our national Treasury by one of the wealthiest families in Europe? [More…]
A national family survey conducted by the University of New South Wales has shown that nearly 320,000 children live in one-parent families, which families make up over 9 per cent of the nation’s families and a great majority of these children are dependent on parents who receive social security pensions. [More…]
There are still 1,000 Aboriginal families on the waiting list of the Housing Commission of Western Australia list, 800 of which to my personal knowledge have been there for the last three years. [More…]
There is outright discrimination by real estate agents who prefer to rent to ‘families’ rather than single women with children. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) himself admitted that an increased cost of at least $ 12 a week will be usual for families. [More…]
We know that doctors’ fees will increase and families will be faced with the terrible situation of not knowing how they are to pay for the health care of their families. [More…]
This involved assistance to one parent families, handicapped people and veterans and their dependants. [More…]
I think that the Minister for Health was drawing attention to the health of the Australian community, the need for preventive medicine in many ways and programs to alert people to their own responsibilities with regard to their health care and the health care of members of their families. [More…]
There are also many Asians in Darwin who would like to bring their families to Australia. [More…]
There were things like red lists that prevented people from returning home to their families and relatives during Christmas and Easter for traditional holiday celebrations. [More…]
It seems to me outrageous that the honourable senator would support a proposition that we spend $ 1 m a year in order to support 100 Torres Strait Islanders and their families. [More…]
As far as I am concerned millions of dollars can be given to the hundred Torres Strait Island families but it should not be syphoned off in a variety of directions. [More…]
We cannot extricate ourselves from this project because a hundred Torres Strait Island families depend on the moneys. [More…]
We are trapped because we have to assist 100 families in the Torres Strait. [More…]
At the moment 1 think one of the 707s is transporting troops and their families to Butterworth. [More…]
I want to know whether in actual fact he raised the problems that Australian members of parliament have raised in this place in respect of East Timor; whether he raised the subject of what has happened, for instance, to those Fretilin leaders who have surrendered; whether he raised the problem of the reunification of families program on which the Indonesian Government has renegued. [More…]
The extension and development of statistical data, as I have outlined, will provide a mechanism for collecting information on the population as a whole, including the families of workers such as those to whom the honourable senator referred. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and draw her attention to claims made by a Mrs English who is a senior nutritionist with the Department of Health, that the widespread habit of families living on what she called ‘fast foods and takeaway meals’ was having serious consequences. [More…]
He was highly critical of the attitude of the people at Lake Nash and he accused the Swift company of wanting to remove ‘all Aborigines not actually working on the property, or their immediate families’. [More…]
and Army personnel and their families from Butterworth. [More…]
It it 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…]
Single parents and unemployed people with families are worst off. [More…]
Outcomes of such schemes include improved self-confidence, motivation, social participation and support from families and other sectors of the community. [More…]
Twenty-four per cent of families in Australia are living near or below the poverty line and some of them already are paying for health cover that they cannot afford. [More…]
The Minister for Health himself has said that there will be increases of between $1.50 and $2.50 a week for families, that it is inevitable. [More…]
People are confused, people are frightened, people do not know what to do and they are now back to the stage of being terrified that they or their families will become ill. [More…]
Even the Australian Medical Association was reported as saying that people should keep on private health insurance because large families could face crippling costs is a result of having to pay the whole $20. [More…]
Doctor Repin should come down to earth too because so many families will face crippling costs if they try to keep on private health insurance. [More…]
Families in some areas are faced with paying $12 a week more or over $600 a year more than they have been paying for basic health insurance. [More…]
Senator John Button, said yesterday university fees would prevent many enthusiastic and talented students from low-income families from taking courses. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate that in reaching taxation decisions in the forthcoming Budget the impact of these decisions on families, especially single income families with dependent children, will fully be taken into account? [More…]
Senator Teague canvasses possible taxation reforms which would in themselves give better recognition to families, and in particular to single income families where the mother or one spouse, for whatever reason, stays home. [More…]
There is no doubt in the world that there is a desirable need to achieve reforms which do aid families. [More…]
Abour 30 per cent of the workers are men with families in other centres. [More…]
It seems to me that redeploying married women in the Public Service can cause insurmountable problems for their families and for them in relation to their personal relationships. [More…]
It is true that both State and Federal public servants are continuously appealing against promotions- that has been the case for many years- but these provisions for appeal against sacking add a whole new element of undesirable competition whereby in order to save their careers and the incomes of their families, public servants will be trying to ‘put-in’ their work mates. [More…]
We oppose them on the ground of the cost that will be inflicted on individuals and families, particularly on low income earners such as the elderly and unemployed. [More…]
As many people will find it too expensive to continue insuring themselves and their families, they will take risks in the hope that they will stay healthy and will not need insurance. [More…]
Families will face payments of up to $ 1 2 to $ 1 3 a week in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and only slightly less in other States. [More…]
Senator Ryan has blandly said that families will pay $ 12 a week for their health care. [More…]
It may suit her politically to make those statements, but to blandly say that families will have to pay $12 a week for their health care shows that she has no human compassion at all. [More…]
But let us refer to the families whom Senator Ryan said will have to pay $12 a week for health care. [More…]
I believe that Senator Ryan has deliberately misled the public in her statement that families will have to pay $12. [More…]
I therefore submit that most families in this area are precluded from benefit under this scheme because of the Geelong link or tieup and ask that consideration be given to an amendment to allow the physical and actual situation as it appears, to be the criteria, rather than non factual criteria. [More…]
The legislation that is before us is a further blow to families, particularly to the single low income family. [More…]
These families and families as a whole have been reeling from the lack of attention given to them and from the failure of the Government to restore the value of family allowances which, as a result of cost increases, have been eroded by 32 per cent since they were introduced in 1976. [More…]
The Prime Minister at that stage said, in his memory, those allowances were the greatest policy initiatives ever taken on behalf of families. [More…]
Amongst other things, the high cost of housing for families is continuing. [More…]
Of course medical and hospital insurance fees will skyrocket, and this will be a further blow to families. [More…]
Cabinet leaks have indicated that there will be income splitting for the purposes of taxation and that possible action will be taken to help families. [More…]
All these things have raised expectations amongst the families of Australia. [More…]
The Government would be well advised to heed these cries from the families who are being disaffected and take remedial action. [More…]
I listened carefully to the last speaker, Senator Harradine, and I assure him that many of his colleagues in the Senate understand and share his concern for the family, for its place, and for the stresses under which families are operating more and more in Australia. [More…]
Those issues of horizontal equity include the capacity of families to enjoy the same standard of living as that enjoyed by single income earners with no responsibilities. [More…]
-If Senator Georges will wait I will give the credit to the migrant children and to the excellent stimuli of the migrant families and motivation of their children. [More…]
Some of what they earn is sent abroad to maintain families and relatives overseas. [More…]
Recently the Federal Government allowed 1 8 American families to enter Australia to establish a multimillion dollar jewellery manufacturing business in Perth, but the decision may have been coloured by the fact that a significant investment was involved. [More…]
However, not much effort is made to see to it that we attract doctors from multi-cultural backgrounds who may be able to assist the migrant families in Australia. [More…]
The only way that these people will be able to have reunions with their families is by going home to Greece. [More…]
If they do not they will lose contact with their families and the areas from which they came. [More…]
It has called on them to show greater compassion, to take a greater proportion of refugees and to allow more families to be reunited. [More…]
I want to speak briefly about an issue that is causing a great deal of concern to a large number of trade unionists and their families. [More…]
Our very good wishes and thanks go also to Mrs Odgers who has served with her husband during the period of his work in the Senate, with all the strain on her patience and understanding which the sitting hours of this place impose upon wives and families. [More…]
A further anomaly that occurs to one as a result of the absence of any pro rata provision is the extraordinary one that judges may feel themselves placed by this legislation in a position where it is financially advantageous to them, or at least I suppose I should say to their families, for them to die on the job, to continue working when they are manifestly ill, rather than retiring, because if they are in a situation where they have not yet accumulated their basic 10 years’ service they will get no cash return in lieu of long service leave forgone. [More…]
It has given to our veterans and their families the security of knowing that their pensions are not eroded by inflation. [More…]
What criteria are employed by the Government to assess the suitability of Timorese applicants seeking reunion with their families in Australia. [More…]
At what stage of processing are arrangements for the remaining Timorese nominees selected for reunion with their families in Australia and when will these be completed. [More…]
What action is the Government taking to ensure that the initial agreement between Australia and Indonesia relating to the two-way reunion of Timorese families is honoured by the Indonesian Government. [More…]
I am aware of recent comments made by a Departmental nutritionist in regard to excessive use of ‘fast’ foods and ‘take away’ meals by some families in the community. [More…]
I seek an opportunity on the adjournment debate to raise a few comments on the topic of the reunification of Timorese families. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), you, Mr President, and honourable senators would know that the interim measure adopted in these cases- what might be almost a stop-gap measure- is for Australian members of a family to send money to their families, whether it be to Timor, Malaysia or elsewhere. [More…]
This created misery for their families. [More…]
Mr Hayden described this Budget as representing an attack on the families of Australia. [More…]
If he were to look at what had been achieved by the Government through the use of the funds of the Australian people he would see that in four years we have increased our assistance to families from $34 1 m under the last Hayden Budget to $ 1,053m in this Budget. [More…]
Whatever people may say about that scheme I would think that the Australian Labor Party would have accorded recognition to the fact that it has brought to 300,000 families assistance that they have not previously enjoyed. [More…]
The fact that the Family Allowances are paid at the same level to the most wealthy and poor families has been the subject of question and debate since they were introduced. [More…]
The need to increase the level of payments has been obvious in the case of low income families. [More…]
I think that that is considerable recognition of the needs of families. [More…]
It represents a considerable measure of support to the families who will now be introduced to this benefit. [More…]
Mr Hayden did not choose to mention that the children’s services program is playing an essential role in the support of low income families. [More…]
The direction of this program has been to assist those low income families and those with special needs. [More…]
It has doubled the assistance given to those families where children’s services are vital and where family support services are required for the strength of the family. [More…]
The Government has considered a national superannuation scheme, which was suggested in the Hancock report, and it has rejected the introduction of that scheme because it has recognised that it may place a very heavy burden on the lower and middle income families where the responsibility of raising children already imposes heavy costs. [More…]
Mr Hayden might not know why but most families in Australia do. [More…]
People with young families need health care because of the things that can happen to kiddies. [More…]
They are in extreme desperation bringing up families on that sort of money. [More…]
They want to keep their families in their own way. [More…]
Although operating on 1979 prices, families have been left with the level of assistance that was deemed reasonable in 1976. [More…]
I shall quote to the Senate some interesting figures which show the distribution of incomes among families in this country. [More…]
I wish also to refer to the carriage of Ministers ‘ families on aircraft. [More…]
It will also affect the low income family, particularly the single income family and the large families with children who frequently get ill and who frequently need prescriptions. [More…]
The basis of any civilised system of health care throughout the world should be that those who need assistance with health care should get it, so that the poor, the disadvantaged, the chronically ill or the large families do not suffer from lack of access to our health care system. [More…]
We ask it to withdraw this Bill, redraft it and, after consultation with its experts, provide a means whereby the unemployed, the large families, the people on supporting parents benefits in the first six months, the low income families and, particularly, families with children can be identified in an equitable fashion as being disadvantaged so that they can receive the same sort of treatment as far as pharmaceutical benefits are concerned as the pensioners and single parents, after the first six months, get at present. [More…]
Families will face payments of up to $12 to $13 a week in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory . [More…]
She was talking about what most families will have to pay. [More…]
For the small amount of $2.68 a week, people can have full cover for their families for hospital treatment and 75 per cent of the schedule fee for doctors fees. [More…]
These people, if they are not able to receive medication without charge, or at a reduced charge, will be disadvantaged next Saturday morning as will the unemployed, especially the unemployed with large families who cannot receive a pensioner health benefit card. [More…]
I say that perhaps they would, because there are many families, especially those in which in recent years a working wife has lost her job, in which that additional cost would have to be met by doing without some item of food or clothing, which those of us in this chamber would regard as absolutely essential and would normally take for granted. [More…]
If these sums seem trifling to honourable senators on the Government side, perhaps it is because they do not understand that the economy of many families is now literally balanced on a knife edge and as costs rise steadily, is deteriorating, not improving. [More…]
It has centred around the large families, the poor, the disadvantaged and the people for whom the payment of costs may be difficult. [More…]
I was disappointed when I heard my colleague Senator Grimes advancing what are really hypothetical cases- large families with all the kids sick, with this happening and that happening. [More…]
It was difficult enough for families to afford health insurance when they were paying out $400 or $500 a year for cover. [More…]
Now, families are faced with going without any medical cover whatsoever and wondering what will happen to them or paying out $700 a year for health insurance. [More…]
In Deer Park, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, there were no medical services in the area, which has a growing number of young families. [More…]
It will be seen in this report, for instance, that some attention is given to a particular example involving a matter of the law as it relates to families in which a judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court was able to draw attention to the fact that the operation of the law as it was, and even the operation of the law as it had been updated by the passage of the Family Law Act, nevertheless had brought about a situation which, from the community’s point of view, was entirely unsatisfactory. [More…]
They suddenly find themselves away from their families. [More…]
Too many families nowadays are overanxious to put their close relatives, or even their own mothers and fathers, into homes for the aged. [More…]
However, if practices are being employed which affect or endanger people’s health and extort large sums of money from converts and their families, I believe it is time that the governments of Australia had a look at them. [More…]
In many cases, great concern is expressed about the methods used to recruit people, especially as they relate to the recruitment of children and the impact of such measures on families. [More…]
The honourable senator will be aware of the great pleasure accorded many families which have built up a stock of such fish over many years. [More…]
Yet instead of these people being shown compassion, they are stigmatised and criticised and, in many cases, even driven from the homes of their families because they are unable to find work. [More…]
Senate that the Fraser Government is a government which promised to govern for all Australians and which has presided in the intervening years over a declining standard of living for most Australians, a fall in the value of disposable income for most families, increased health costs, higher interest rates and increased petrol prices. [More…]
We have brought in family allowances, an heroic change in concept, in order to transfer wealth to the mothers of the lowest income families and the largest families. [More…]
The bottom 10 per cent of families receive only 2.2 per cent of aggregate income while the top 10 per cent gain 23 per cent of all income. [More…]
Similarly, Senator Button said that interest rates had risen since the Fraser Government came to power and that this was somehow reducing the real incomes of families. [More…]
All this is completely consistent with the Fraser social value judgments and with the style of the lord of Nareen, who tells the ordinary wage earners, people and families on middle incomes that they have to accept a drop in their real standard of living while he swans around the world in tandem Boeing 707s at a cost to the taxpayer of $20m. [More…]
When the single parent is subsidised, families are undermined. [More…]
If we look at the distribution of family income in Australia, we find that the bottom 10 per cent of income earning families receive only 2.2 per cent of income. [More…]
The top 10 per cent of income earning families earns 23 per cent of income- almost exactly 10 times as much per family as those families in the low income group. [More…]
These families have very little to live on. [More…]
Recently I have seen unionists, in an attempt to keep money flowing to their families, obliged to draw on their holiday pay- to bring into the house a few scant dollars so that food can be bought for the children. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Howard) has had to admit that the present tax system disadvantages single income families. [More…]
Those people include families which rely on the breadwinner for their income, but the breadwinner is unemployed. [More…]
It is only now that there is a higher level of industrial disputes because in spite of the high unemployment the standard of living of the families of this country has been so eroded by this Government’s policies that unions have increasingly resorted in more recent months to industrial disputation and involvement in industrial disputation. [More…]
Payment of state and other assistance toward the maintenance of children of large families is desirable. [More…]
Case loads are so extensive that social workers have not got the time which is emerging as the essence of the healing process in those families which are fractured and where the child is at risk. [More…]
We need to ensure that funds from governments support those voluntary organisations which are prepared to tap that tremendous resource in the community and make it available for these families at risk. [More…]
One can think- perhaps we have been blessed in our families- that this is not applicable to an affluent and easy going society like Australia and that those rights do not need to be fought for and secured on behalf of our children; but, in fact, they do. [More…]
What I am trying to say is that at the moment, given the fact that the law does not provide for compensation for children injured while within the womb, we have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of literally born losers coming into our community without receiving the financial compensation which might make their growing into maturity somewhat easier on their parents and families, who have to support them with their deformity or injury. [More…]
We have understandably not prepared ourselves for any fees, and they will constitute a burden beyond the capacity of our families. [More…]
Honourable senators will get telegrams and letters from university student representative councils and student bodies saying that the average income of these families is of the order of $9,000. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government agree with the Treasurer’s recent admission in Brisbane that single income families were disadvantaged in the Budget? [More…]
It is true that the traditional tax scales, tax deductions and tax rebate systems which have evolved over the years and which both the Whitlam and Fraser governments have adopted in various modifications, tend to disadvantage single income families. [More…]
the recruitment of their members, especially as this relates to children and the impact on families; [More…]
-The public listening to the broadcast of this debate and members of the public in the gallery would have been shocked to have heard the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) say that the Labor Party is wasting the time of the Senate in bringing to the public’s attention the well known fact that as young families seek to raise money in order to buy a home and furnish it, to clothe themselves and to buy a motor vehicle, they are faced with crippling interest rates. [More…]
They need to borrow, to buy credit and to commit themselves and their families to repay principal and interest. [More…]
There is a massive insecurity and unease in the Australian community, a community that should be, given our wealth producing capacity, able to provide goods, services, homes, motor vehicles, clothing and furniture to all Australian families without their having to seek loans. [More…]
They have to seek loans because ofthe Government’s policy to reduce disposable real wages and other support for persons and families. [More…]
I certainly agree that this is a satisfactory situation, but the inference that might have been drawn from the comments made earlier was that some families might be existing on $80 a week. [More…]
The children were crying- I asked if we could first go home and join our families. [More…]
They have used threats by way of unsigned and signed circulars, unsigned and threatening telephone calls and letters and in certain instances violence was perpetrated, though people were and are still afraid to witness because of threats to them or their families. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs which relates to the fact that many Aboriginal communities are fragmenting to quite a degree, w-h many tribal families and clans returning to their tribal homelands under what has been termed the outstation movement. [More…]
It is positive in the sense that the movement usually occurs away from centres where groups of Aboriginal people from different tribes, families and so on have been gathered together and where there has been a growth of tension and a social dislocation resulting in antisocial behaviour and often excessive drinking and things of that sort. [More…]
However, it is a matter of historical record that Simon Fraser was one of the people involved in floating land banks in Melbourne in the 1 880s and 1 890s and that the fortunes of that family were partially established at the expense of the depositors who lost their money in those banks; that that was not the only fortune in Melbourne that was established that way; and that Mr Fraser is not the only descendant of families which established their fortunes in that way who currently sits in this Parliament representing the Liberal Party. [More…]
Australia’s refugee resettlement policy is designed to ensure, as far as possible, that families are kept together. [More…]
There is a point of principle involved in deciding what constitutes a close relationship and whether brothers and sisters of mature age, and perhaps having their own families, should be included in the concessional arrangements for refugees, possibly at the expense of reuniting immediate families within Australia’s annual refugee program limitation of 14,000. [More…]
Is it not clear from the statements made that in future the families of those persons who may be trained and who are presently maintained by unemployment benefit would have that responsibility transferred to them? [More…]
Families are losing their investments and so forth. [More…]
That is now reflected in the tremendous price which young people have to pay these days for land in order to build a home for themselves and their families. [More…]
Therefore the Senate has a responsibility to the families of Australia not to adopt this controversial Report and its Recommendations. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that some families in Adelaide have decided to collect food, such as sugar, milk powder and other supplies, to assist the relief effort in Kampuchea and that they are doing so because they feel that actual cartons of food collected here are more physically visible than money contributions? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that, having collected quantities of food, these families now have no way of getting it to Kampuchea and have been unable to get advice on where to go with their cartons of food? [More…]
Finally, I am aware from this morning’s newspapers that in the past week or two $350,000 has been given by Australian families to a Kampuchean aid committee’s fund target of $2m authorised by the highly reputable Australian Council for the Overseas Aid. [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…]
Ordinary working families will suffer noise and disturbance during ordinary sleeping hours from the noise created by these unacceptably large domestic units [More…]
For despite the Government’s substantial contraction of the original proposal to construct and convert dwellings to meet the special needs of extended Aboriginal families the rancour has spread and intensified. [More…]
These houses were constructed many years ago by the welfare authorities as emergency accommodation for families in crisis. [More…]
But they are still on the training wage trying to bring up families of eight to 10 kids. [More…]
If one goes to Yarrabah one finds that the houses are falling down around the heads of the families who live in them because they are riddled with white ants. [More…]
I repeat my question: For those young people who fall outside such transitional training schemes, can the Minister give a categorical denial that they will be forced back on their families for support once they leave school? [More…]
The Department receives regular reports on the activities of officers at our posts on behalf of these persons and advice is conveyed to families in Australia where this is agreed to by the person detained. [More…]
Very needy families may also qualify for a special supplementary allowance of up to $550 per annum, the maximum of which is payable at an adjusted family income level of $5,800 per annum. [More…]
They had been out on strike for seven weeks and were being supported totally by their wives and families. [More…]
How does the Government expect members of the trade union movement and their families to live when inflation is on the rise when it will not even grant them the equivalent of the CPI? [More…]
It deals with families using a sort of conscripted labour. [More…]
All of them formed part of that great company of people who survived the journey across the South China Sea and were placed on the island of Bidong, where they were being looked after in an administrative capacity by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and agencies in Malyasia and Kuala Lumpur, such as the Red Crescent organisation, which was carrying out the distribution of food and medical supplies and, indeed, was carrying out an enormous amount’ of detailed work in relation to correspondence and the distribution of the refugees to enable families to stay together if at all possible. [More…]
A further point I would like to bring up is that it seems to discriminate against families, unless there is a family rate rather than the individual rate that is listed in the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
These people are alienated from their families with little hope of a job. [More…]
If we try to analyse the program, perhaps it emerges like this: Many of the homeless are young; they are alienated from their families; they did not do especially well at school; and they cannot find work or they are so demoralised they have given up trying. [More…]
One of its main messages is that there is an urgent need for Australians of all backgrounds to draw together in a common endeavour to support our way of life- to give ourselves- individually, our families and our nation a better chance in a changing world. [More…]
The proposals will add to reforms which have already benefited low income families generally. [More…]
Honourable senators 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…]
We can recall the day when fathers of families lined up at soup kitchens. [More…]
They remain at the level of $36 a week that they were given in 1975, despite escalating costs, despite a great increase in their numbers and particularly despite the fact that, as was noted by all speakers on the legislation dealing with the homeless persons assistance program, they are increasingly joining the ranks of the homeless in the community because of their own unemployment and because of family stress caused by adult unemployment in their families and homes. [More…]
The proposals will add to reforms which have already benefited low income families generally. [More…]
I wish to examine this statement and look at the low income families to see how they have been treated by the Government. [More…]
In doing so, I wish to draw attention to an area of need not considered by the Government, and question seriously the priorities that this Government has in dealing with the so-called low income families. [More…]
The first is a comparison of poverty lines and the disposable incomes of various low income families in the community, produced by the Statistical Service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
All those single income families with the head of the family working are below the poverty line. [More…]
The second list of low income families shows that the pensioner or the unemployed person with more than one child is always below the poverty line if he has no income other than his pension. [More…]
These are the lowest of the low income families in the community. [More…]
We may ask how the Government, which expresses such concern for low income families, has treated them under the social services provisions of our legislation in general. [More…]
Since the initial benefit given to low income families by the introduction of family allowances in 1976, a family with three children is $20 a month worse off and a family with five children is $39 a month worse off in real terms. [More…]
So much for assistance to the really low income families in this community. [More…]
I would like to point out that the low income families who increase rapidly in numbers and who, of all the families shown on these tables, are worse off are the families of the unemployed. [More…]
The poor families and the single unemployed will suffer. [More…]
The conservative journal the Melbourne Herald stated: it would be outrageous to deny sustenance to stood - down unionists and their families not involved in the dispute. [More…]
I believe that by far the majority of those under 1 8 years of age are still supported partially by their families. [More…]
Their families still provide a roof over their heads. [More…]
I believe that the majority of families are still anxious to support their children, both emotionally and in a material sense, at least until they are 18 years of age. [More…]
My suggestion-I make no bones about it- is that increases in the amount of money spent on family allowances should, if possible, be distributed more to those in need, the low income families which I spoke about and whose position was demonstrated in the tables which were incorporated in Hansard, and less to families on high incomes. [More…]
The difficulty that we have- as I pointed out at the second reading stage and in the tables which reviewed the people on low incomes and in poverty in this community- is that the unemployed group, particularly the unemployed families, stay in their poverty track because of their low income entitlement, the low allowable income they can earn and the harshness of the means test which is applied to them. [More…]
In October 1979 the Australian reported of scuffles which broke out at the Salvation Army offices at Clayton as 500 men and women lined up for vouchers worth some $30 to buy groceries and other items to feed their families because at that time they were not able to get the unemployment benefit as a result of a deliberate policy of the Government to delay payment of the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Why should the Government penalise them and their families when they are already well and truly penalised by having been stood down? [More…]
Senator McLaren raised the matter of support for the families of people who are on strike. [More…]
Families of pensioners are hit particularly hard because the extra allowance granted for each dependant has not increased since 1975. [More…]
Families of unemployed people with three or four children and families of single parents with three or four children are now almost $30 below the poverty line. [More…]
But now we have people, families, $30 below the poverty line. [More…]
In my own State, the Sunshine Christian Community Services reports a 460 per cent increase in families seeking relief. [More…]
They have been brought up in good homes, so to speak, in good families, reasonably affluent families, in which a fairly strong line of discipline has been exercised. [More…]
I believe that in addition to compensating families for the erosion of family allowances that has taken place the allowances should be taken out of politics and indexed every six months to avoid the difficulties that are being experienced. [More…]
I repeat that the Government is going to be in trouble if it does not do anything about the economic difficulties and pressures on families in this day and age. [More…]
If there had been indexation of the previous scheme there would have been a substantial improvement in the financial lot of families. [More…]
Many of the problems in the areas of social welfare and health stem from the fact that families are under economic pressure. [More…]
If the family allowance to higher income families was limited, and a family income supplement was paid to lower income and larger families on the basis of family size and income, the distribution of such funds would be directed to those in need, and therefore do most good. [More…]
No one would argue with that proposition but it may be serious news to those who are receiving the present family allowances that those allowances will be limited for some people and that there may be a family income supplement on a means tested basis for other families. [More…]
I think that the putting down of an amendment provides a good opportunity to express to the Australian people what the policy is, how this compensation for erosion by inflation would be interpreted, and whether it would be interpreted to cover all families and all children at a cost of $330m in a year. [More…]
I say to Senator Harradine that whilst it may provide some compensation to families to receive more in the way of family allowances, if as a result of those increased allowances a higher level of taxation is imposed on those families who are struggling to support themselves, this may be counter-productive and not the best way in which to assist them. [More…]
If we are to support in our society the concept of extensive home ownership we need to see that the taxation of people’s incomes is not at such a level that it is made extremely difficult for people to buy homes for themselves and their families. [More…]
Whilst it is said that family allowances have not been increased, in social security matters we still draw attention to the fact that family allowances go to the lowest income families who did not benefit from the previous scheme of tax rebates. [More…]
Whilst it might be an argument to talk about giving an additional benefit to the lowest income families, I think there would be general alarm if this were done at the expense of other families who have received family allowances for some years now. [More…]
The tables which were incorporated in Hansard by Senator Grimes show the disposable incomes of various types of low income families and compare them with the Henderson poverty line figures. [More…]
My main objective would be to see what, in present day terms and conditions, ought to be the line by which we would judge families in need in this country. [More…]
I have acknowledged that there are difficulties for many families with a number of dependent children, who have an income either from social security or from one wage earner. [More…]
Senator Chipp drew attention to some families which are almost $30 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
He referred to the economic pressure on families. [More…]
I think we all acknowledge that that exists, particularly if we look at the level of taxation which we impose on the families concerned. [More…]
However, in their case, pan of the cost of their education at tertiary level comes from Consolidated Revenue contributed in pan 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…]
But most of them appear to come from Asian middle-class families. [More…]
Most of the 8,300 private overseas students have come from middle-class families who sacrifice about a third of their incomes to send their children to university. [More…]
Australian students do not pay fees, but funds for their education come from our Consolidated Revenue, which comes from the tax paid by their families. [More…]
No such contribution is made by overseas students or their families. [More…]
1 am of the view that those charges will not deter overseas students who are able to pay and whose families are able to pay those charges from undertaking studies in Australia. [More…]
Let us perpetuate privilege for certain families and ethnic groups in those developing countries’. [More…]
It must be the effect of charging an extra $1,500 to $2,000 a year for undergraduate courses and $2,500 for postgraduate courses on top of the $3,500 to $4,000 a year which families and community groups in [More…]
These families are already finding some $3,000 or $4,000 at least to sustain a son or daughter who is receiving tertiary education in this country. [More…]
To find an extra $1,500 to $2,500 will put education beyond the limits of certain families and community groups. [More…]
Of course, not only will this Bill put education beyond the reach of the helping sustenance of families and groups in the communities that the students come from but also it will put certain Australian community aid groups in a position where they cannot offer as much assistance and as much help as they did previously. [More…]
The Bill will prevent able and talented young people from merely moderate or poor families in Asia and in the Pacific, from coming to this country to further their studies in the tertiary field. [More…]
Make no mistake, they want to return to their families and their home countries. [More…]
In order to obtain $5m or $6m in revenue this legislation proposes to deny us the possibility of aiding the moderately wealthy families of the Pacific and South East Asia from sending their youth to Australia who upon their return will be in positions of influence in the decision-making processes in commerce, industry and public life in their home country. [More…]
Reference has been made in this debate to whether the private overseas students are coming from elite families in Asia or other areas. [More…]
After all, their families do not contribute to the taxes of this country. [More…]
Just concentrating on the programs and services for families and children, the Committee could have asked: Why do we not know who is receiving the benefits from the Children’s Services Program or from family allowances? [More…]
1 understand that assistance is needed in reuniting families, which is not going along as well as it might. [More…]
I am told that families in Australia want their relatives to come out from East Timor. [More…]
This is another area in which I urge the Government to do something more constructive and more concrete to help to reunite families in Australia. [More…]
The fact is that there are people there who want to be reunited with their families in Australia. [More…]
They are sad because most of them have fragmented families. [More…]
All they wish for is to be reunited with their families. [More…]
Of course, as we well know, there are arrangements for some 600 Timorese to come to Australia to be reunited with their families. [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…]
They raised their family in much the same way as many Australian families are raised- to respect law and authority and all those things that most Australians hold dear. [More…]
The fact is that all governments have based the TEAS allowance on the concept that it is not to provide total support at all but is to be supplemented either by families- the normal way- and/or by incomes derived elsewhere by students. [More…]
We have heard repeated stories of obstruction of families leaving East Timor to rejoin their families in Australia. [More…]
We have heard repeated stories of families having to pay large sums of money to get out of East Timor despite the willingness of this country to accept them. [More…]
We learnt that contrary to the Helsinki Accords, to which the Soviet Union is a party, there is not freedom of religion, there is not freedom of speech, there is not freedom of assembly and there is not freedom of migration, even when it is a case of the reuniting of families. [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…]
The Treasurer is very sympathetic to the difficulties faced by single income families under the present taxation arrangements. [More…]
However, the proposals provide not merely that families may split their income for tax purposes while leaving everything else in the existing tax system unaltered. [More…]
Without identifying precisely the various elements of a proposal it is not possible to say how much particular families would benefit or what the cost to revenue might be. [More…]
Nor would it benefit low income families which are not able, because of the level of their income, to take full advantage of the rebate at its higher level. [More…]
I particularly ask concerning the reuniting of Vietnamese families when a member of the family is already in Australia. [More…]
My experience as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has already brought home to me the enormous range of problems facing Australia’s 800 or more Aboriginal communities- and those numerous families who live in urban areas but cannot be identified as members of a particular community. [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 absurd to suggest that that situation would be abused because I know that they are both family men who want to spend as much time as conceivable with their wives and families in their own homes. [More…]
This Budget will bring more hardship, more unemployment and more suffering to the great majority or Australian families. [More…]
The purchasing power of families has been reduced sharply, resulting in a tightening of demand for goods and services. [More…]
When the family allowance scheme was introduced in 1976, the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, promoted it as a great breakthrough for the families. [More…]
I found that families broke up because they could not afford holidays. [More…]
1 found that deliquency and social ills arose out of families not being able to afford an annual holiday. [More…]
reduces the real living standards of Australian families; [More…]
The decline in real living standards of Australian families will be seen as a factor in the upsurge in the demand for a change in the stupid, wasteful boom and bust system- the on and off, give and take away promises and hedge system. [More…]
The Government policy which is making it so much harder for Australian families to maintain their living standards on their present wages is that which brought about the added cost of health insurance. [More…]
Timorese on the mainland of Australia are greatly concerned because of the fragmentation of families. [More…]
As I was saying, there is concern amongst the Timorese people because families have been fragmented. [More…]
For many years the RAAF has chartered Qantas aircraft on a regular basis to repatriate RAAF and Army personnel and their families from Butterworth. [More…]
The use of the aircraft, for the movement of personnel and families to and from Butterworth, in lieu of commercial chaner, is estimated to reduce Defence outlay in travel by approximately $0.800m a year. [More…]
It may be good enough for the Government to keep the Parliament sitting after 10.30 p.m., but I do not think it is good enough to keep all these officers away from their families until late at night. [More…]
If so, will he assure the Senate that the Government will take whatever action is possible to prevent the introduction of market rents and escalating interest rates within the Commission so as to ensure the maintenance of low cost Commission housing for those families and individuals on low and moderate incomes? [More…]
Can the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) advise the Committee where in these estimates money is provided for the type of in-depth survey which would indicate the structure of the work force and provide the opinions of a proper sampling of the work force in the categories I have mentioned, upon which information certain fiscal policies could be based which would overcome a significant part of the present unemployment problem and which also would provide necessary relief from economic pressures on families in this day and age? [More…]
One group which was mentioned earlier tonight comprises those families in the community who, because they rely on social security benefits or are in the low income bracket, remain well below the poverty line. [More…]
The simple facts of the matter are that in this country large families relying on unemployment or other social security benefits or receiving low incomes remain below the poverty level. [More…]
The only means we have in this country of redistributing income to those families under the current legislation is through the family allowance scheme. [More…]
This scheme was introduced in 1976 to replace the previous tax rebates for families and the previous child endowment scheme which had become so eroded by inflation as to be almost meaningless. [More…]
An alternative method of assisting these families could be through the taxation system, but we have a taxation system which is so complex and so difficult to amend that in the short term I believe that reform in this area to achieve significant benefits for poor people, particularly low income families, would be impossible. [More…]
Any proposal for income splitting- this is obvious to anyone who looks at it- will benefit most those on high incomes and least those single parent families who have no one to split their income with. [More…]
It will benefit the low income families very little because their income is so low that they are paying very little tax now and will pay very little less tax with such an income splitting proposal. [More…]
We have the family allowance scheme which I believe we can reform quickly and reasonably to redirect funds to low income families. [More…]
But even if they had been indexed under the present system across the board through all income levels, the increase in family allowances to the high income families would be meaningless because of their incomes and the increase in income to the low income families would have been inadequate to raise their income sufficiently to get them anywhere near the poverty line. [More…]
If we are to use the family allowances scheme we must look, I believe, at methods of redirecting some of the increased payments under that scheme to the low income families. [More…]
I believe that the bulk of that money should be directed to low income families whether or not they are on benefits. [More…]
We cannot do it by simple across the board indexation to all families with children in the community whether or not they are in need. [More…]
I ask the Minister how she can justify introducing a scheme like that in 1976 with such a fanfare and with such claims of assistance to low income families in the community and then leave payments at the same level they had been at since 1 976 and allow them to be eroded by 36 per cent or 40 per cent inflation without any justification. [More…]
If a family income support scheme cannot be introduced which directs funds to low income families, certainly we should at least introduce indexation. [More…]
I believe that some families, particularly one-income families, are beginning to wake up to the fact that they are receiving very little incentive or encouragement from governments. [More…]
Those families have noted the disappearance of the maternity allowance, the 35 per cent erosion in the real value of family allowance payments, and the way in which they are regularly catapulted into higher taxation brackets. [More…]
It seems to me that unless a serious look is taken at the manner in which we are supporting low income families in the community generally and avoid the sort of bland reply that we got from the Minister we will get nowhere. [More…]
I urge the Government to look at the problem seriously because low income families, particularly those with a working parent, are in fact becoming those who are left out of our social security and our general system of income support in this country. [More…]
Means tests are applied to two of the allowances available to boarding students- the Additional Boarding Allowance and the Special Supplementary Allowance, which is designed for families suffering particular financial hardship. [More…]
We should facilitate the reuniting of families and not hide behind bureaucratic devices, as we have done up to the present. [More…]
These people had no money to support their families and children. [More…]
Are administrative procedures in the Department delaying the handing over of houses and flats to Asian refugees to the extent that: (a) community groups frequently are denied advice of when houses and flats will become available until the last moment; and (b) the Department is reluctant to hand over the keys to government houses and flats so that responsible community groups can put the dwellings in order before refugee families arrive in Canberra. [More…]
The Department makes every effort to provide suitable houses up to a week before refugee families are due to take up occupancy. [More…]
There are 75,000 families 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 stress that the real problem facing single income families earning up to 1 35 per cent of average weekly earnings whether they live in Sydney or Melbourne is that they are the victims of an almost impossible system when it comes to acquiring a home. [More…]
I do not wish to go over a lot of historical information, but suffice to say that since 1964 about 130,000 families have been assisted and about $100m has been provided for the scheme. [More…]
This expenditure covers a range of services designed to support children and their families, including centre and family based day care, pre-schools, toy libraries, children’s services field staff and playgroup support services. [More…]
The honourable Senator will be also aware of the two innovative programs that this Government has introduced under the Children ‘s Services Program: the Family Support Services Program, aimed at encouraging and assisting the development of a range of services to SUPport families in their responsibilities in the rearing and development of children; and the Youth Services Program, which provides support for emergency accommodation and ancillary services such as housing referral and counselling, in recognition of the problems of youth, including increasing disruption to family relationships and increasing homelessness problems. [More…]