family - hofreps - 1970

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

The weekly family contribution rates have 1st January 1952 for maximum insurance by the major funds were: [More…]
I am here, Mr Speaker, for one reason and that is that I believe in the people who have pioneered the countryside and I believe in the family enterprises which are at present in peril. [More…]
I believe in the family enterprises which, incidentally, many people say have reached the stage of expandability. [More…]
If it means that under this legislation a family, after 5 generations on the land, will survive that is fine; but if not, the legislation falls to the ground. [More…]
The value of the prescribed issues of food, clothing, other issues and accommodation for a worker unaccompanied by his family, is estimated at $181 per annum. [More…]
What is the ‘Family Needs Allowance’ now paid to New Guinean public servants employed by the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in each part of the Territory in which a different rate applies in respect of family units of fa) man and wife, (b) man and wife and one child, (c) man and wife and two children, (d) man and wife and three children and (e) man and wife and more than three children. [More…]
The family needs allowance payable to a married local public servant in Papua and New Guinea is such amount as may be necessary to rise his basic salary to the prescribed minimum pay applicableto thelocalityof which he is stationed. [More…]
The following table sets out the scales of ‘prescribed minimum pay’ from which family needs allowance is calculated in respect of family units of (a) man and wife, (b) man and wife and one child, (c) man and wife and two children and (d) man and wife and three children. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that, among many persons in LiberalCountry Party governments in Australia, the Treasurer of Queensland, Mr Chalk, with his family, is showing a profit on new shareholding in Comalco, which shares were traded on the official market yesterday, of nearly one half of the amount that this country is giving the victims of the earthquake disaster in Peru? [More…]
The weekly family contribution rates as at 1 July 1953 for the major funds operating in each State were - [More…]
The increases in contributions foreshadowed were 15 cents a week for family contributors and 7 cents a week for single contributors to the highest table in New South Wales and amounts not exceeding 10 cents a week for family contributors and S cents a week for single contributors to the highest tables in the other States. [More…]
While the financial situation of the Zarb family was a matter considered in connection with Zarb;. [More…]
The weekly family contribution charged by the major registered medical benefits organisations in each State is: [More…]
What is the weekly family contribution charged by the major registered medical benefits organisations in each State. [More…]
Eligibility is confined to married couples and family groups able to demonstrate a change in the conditions which prompted their departure from Australia. [More…]
Persons selected are required to undertake to refund the assistance given them should they leave Australia within five years (for first assistance the undertaking expires after 2 years), and the passage contribution of $180 payable by adult family members is considerably more than that payable under other assistance schemes. [More…]
Of the total of 1,898 arrivals, 492 were family members who had not previously received assistance to travel to Australia. [More…]
A further 134 family members travelled under separate schemes, so that of the more than 2,000 persons who have settled in Australia as a direct result of the scheme, 626 (30.8 per cent) had not been previously assisted. [More…]
What is the present cost to revenue of income tax deductions allowed on account of (a) family allowances and (b) that part of the family allowance attributable to children. [More…]
I have brought before him cases of migrants who have come to this country on the sponsorship of their children who have migrated here in earlier years and who have married and assumed responsibilities as family men. [More…]
These included duplicates and cases where more than one member of a family unit submitted separate applications. [More…]
What is the total effect on payments received from his Department when the only child or eldest child turns 16 and becomes eligible for a student allowance, rather than child endowment, in the case of a family with (a) 1 child, (b) 2 children, (c) 3 children, (d) 4 children, (e) 5 children, (f) 6 children, (g) 7 children and (h) 8 children. [More…]
Has the Bureau of Census and Statistics abandoned a proposed survey of family incomes and family expenditure because of the Government’s economy drive. [More…]
Class A - gross weekly family income does not exceed $46.50 or, if the applicant is of pensionable age, means as assessed do not exceed S2418. [More…]
Class B - gross weekly family income does not exceed $49.50 or, if the applicant is of pensionable age, means as assessed do not exceed $2574. [More…]
Class C - gross weekly family income does not exceed $52.50 or, if the applicant is of pensionable age, means as assessed do not exceed $2730. [More…]
As some 20,000,000 refugees and dis placed persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation nutrition and child family problems ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way [More…]
Will he consider taking urgent action to prevent takeovers of family enterprises by overseas based or financed groups. [More…]
Is it a fact that Austrama Television Pty Ltd (ATVO), in its original application for a television licence, staled that the two major objectives of the station would be to provide an overall programme pattern to foster national sentiment and pride in Australia and Australian achievements and to make Channel O the family station whose programmes may be viewed by all members of the family. [More…]
What is the family contribution rate to this fund in each State covering medical benefits and hospital insurance sufficient to cover treatment in [More…]
weekly family contribution charged by the major registered medical benefits organisation in each State is as follows: [More…]
What is the weekly family contribution charged by the major registered medical benefits organisation in each State. [More…]
That the rates of Social Service benefits be based on factors such as family responsibility and need, irrespective of causes of need and be as follows: [More…]
The Award also covers the family needs of an employee in such matters. [More…]
What is the average family of children under (a) 14 years of age and (b)15 years of age, compared with the year occurring at the beginning of each decade prior to 1970. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I could not make a personal explanation after question time because of absence on a family matter which I have mentioned to you. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TEN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation nutrition and child family problems ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Zealand, did he study the system of capitalising a family’s child endowment as a grant towards the cost of a house? [More…]
a member of the family of the employer unless the employer discloses personal particulars of the member at the time when the employment commences and whenever the insurance is renewed. [More…]
These figures refer to the total number of unassisted settlers in - 1970, plus estimated numbers of beads of family groups (as .well as single persons travelling alone) amongst assisted settler arrivals for the same period. [More…]
Column (2) of the table gives similar estimates for heads of family groups only amongst both assisted and unassisted settler arrivals. [More…]
This concession ceases if the dependants du not join the head of the family within 5 years of his arrival here. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedentedscale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
I must emphasise that it is inherent in the Board’s pro’ gramme standards that parents will supervise the viewing of their children after the close of evening family and children’s viewing time at 7.30 p.m. [More…]
According to a report by Mr Wallace Brown in the ‘Courier Mail’ of 25th June, it also decided to adopt as policy, free family planning clinics, free contraception, legal advertising of contraceptives, free child care centres and a public investigation to determine the best way to encourage small families. [More…]
What was the cost of weekly family subscription to (a) the lowest rate medical benefit funds and (b) hospital funds at (i) public and (ii) inter- [More…]
At the time the voluntary health insurance scheme was introduced, the weekly contribution rates (family) for public and intermediate ward hospital insurance operated by the Hospitals Contribution Fund of New South Wales were as follows: - [More…]
The dates on which subsequent alterations to the family contribution rates were made, and the new weekly contribution rates following each such alteration were as follows: - [More…]
This number excludes additional applications from individuals or members of the same family unit. [More…]
The purposes of the National Welfare Fund are the making of such payments as are directed by any law of the Commonwealth to be made from the Fund, in relation to health services, unemployment or sickness benefits, family allowances or other welfare or social service. [More…]
This booklet is intended to alert the family doctor to the problem in the community of diseases which have a genetic basis. [More…]
Mr Ellis informed me of the circumstances surrounding one of Australia’s representatives at the Munich Olympic Games, Mr John Kinsela, who is a member of a big family and also has a wife and child to support, and said that when he went to the Games the family became destitute. [More…]
I should certainly like something in writing because in my own opinion I do not think that a request has ever been made by any other member for assistance for the wife and child and also family of any person who has been selected to go to the Olympic Games’. [More…]
in so many respects, justified the opportunities which came to him as a member of the Royal Family. [More…]
Initially the intention was to include this report, because it was a somewhat technical document, as an appendix to a background document being prepared in my Department to assist the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs in its consideration of the subject of the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters. [More…]
I have said, which is a matter of quite demonstrable fact from the statistics which the Government publishes, namely, that more taxpayers would be better off in Australia if family allowances were doubled and all other deductions were eliminated. [More…]
On every occasion I have made it clear that the Opposition favours a national quota, a 2-pool system, and a basic quota for family farms to ensure their viability, and not to give grace and favour to corporations as is the case at present. [More…]
102 - Social Security (Minimum Standards), 1952 prescribe minimum standards of benefit for 9 branches of social security, namely, medical care, sickness, unemployment, old age, employment injury, family, maternity, invalidity and survivors’ benefits. [More…]
I extend my deepest sympathy to Mrs Mortimer and her family. [More…]
My hope is that all who come will be embraced in the Australian family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]
Will he confirm the Australian Labor Party’s election undertaking that the maximum contribution for any family under the scheme will be limited to$1 35? [More…]
I have certainly become convinced of their importance, for instance, for the Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory and feel that in that area there needs to be total family education if a child is to be benefited. [More…]
The Government’s policy of non-discrimination and of placing emphasis on family reunion, sponsorship, and a sincere desire to settle in Australia and become a member of the national family will be reflected in decisions on appeals as well as in the handling of new applications. [More…]
and (3) As I have announced, the future emphasis of immigration programmes will be on the re-union of immediate family members and sponsorship will also be given priority. [More…]
Is he aware that the family of one of the Australians executed in Yugoslavia, Mr Vlasnovic, claims that he entered Yugoslavia quite legally for the purpose of visiting his mother and that he had never engaged in any illegal activities against the Yugoslav Government? [More…]
How many of these were (a) houses, (b) family flats and (c) bachelor flats. [More…]
(a) 8,425 houses; (b) 965 family flats; (c) 1,057 bachelor flats. [More…]
the reunion of direct family members, i.e. [More…]
What would be the maximum weekly contribution to the Government’s health insurance scheme (a) by an individual and (b) by a family where both husband and wife are working, based on current average weekly earnings and calculated in accordance with his answer of 14th March 1973 (Hansard, page 541). [More…]
Prior to last Christmas, by administrative methods, the Government did all that it could by way of education and facilities as regards family planning. [More…]
When did Mr Chan’s parents and other members of his family migrate to Australia. [More…]
Which migration officer handled the recommendations which enabled the family to migrate. [More…]
It is true that urgent problems in inner city areas are confronting, in particular, people who have come to our country to join us, join the work force and join the family. [More…]
How many family planning clinics are there in each State and Territory. [More…]
When we heard the ghastly news of his tragic death we were very moved and felt indeed sorry for his family. [More…]
In this period of sad bereavement for his widow and family I should like to express our deepest sympathy. [More…]
The waiting lists maintained are for family dwelling units and bachelor flats. [More…]
Family dwellings - 7,616 [More…]
Apart from sponsored dependent family members, for whom the only criteria are health and character, each case is assessed on review on the basis of: economic viability personal qualities which would enable them to fit into the Australian community medical fitness character, and their sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia and becoming an Australian citizen. [More…]
Has the Minister for Social Security noted in the Press recently reports that Aborigines in Western Australia were alleged to be spending their money on taxis, liquor and in other ways rather’ than on family welfare? [More…]
<3) If the position is as stated, is the lessee of the property regarded as a trespasser and are these actions deliberately designed to frighten the Mccormack family off Tuggeranong. [More…]
by leaveOn behalf of the Opposition parties I express deep sympathy to the family and friends of the members of the crew of the vessel ‘Blythe Star’ who did not survive this disaster. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to advertisements by the honourable member for Riverina during the campaign for the 1972 general elections for the House of Representatives stating that a Labor Government would change the probate law so that the death of a member of the family of a family business or farm would not diminish assets of the family. [More…]
If the position is as stated, is the lessee of the property regarded as a trespasser and are these actions deliberately designed to frighten the McCormack family off Tuggeranong. [More…]
I should like to take this opportunity of paying my tribute to him and passing on my sympathy to his family. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable members will pray that his family will be strengthened to bear their grief and that they will be comforted by the many happy memories they may have of him. [More…]
It is always regrettable when any constriction is placed upon family members wishing to come together for visits and reunions. [More…]
For the average worker to shift with his family and his furniture can involve him in a cost ranging from $300 to $500 depending on how far he must travel, how large is his family and how much furniture he takes with him. [More…]
He was by nature a soldier, having chosen that career, and he devoted himself to that career in a way which is not normally associated with soldierly duties by a member of the Royal Family. [More…]
He had his own aeroplane, which was called ‘The Endeavour’ after Cook’s ship, which is a touching selection of name by a Governor-General of the Royal Family. [More…]
Of these, who have been (a) his family, ( b ) Ministerial staff, (c) ABC representatives, (d) other media representatives and (e) departmental officers. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that answers to questions on notice from my friend and colleague, the honourable member for Gwydir, have disclosed that since the Australian Labor Party came into Government the average delay for people wanting houses, family flats, and one-bedroom flats in the Australian Capital Territory has increased; that, compared to the year before, in 1973-74 the number of blocks available for town houses detached houses and flats decreased; and that compared to the year before - [More…]
I and my family much appreciate their sympathy. [More…]
In the first year he will spend $130m on family day care programs, day centres, preschools, outside of school care, emergency and occasional care. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General intend to alter the family law legislation to take account of views expressed by State Ministers for Child Welfare that children continue to be supervised and advised by State welfare officers. [More…]
It is all the more hurtful to all concerned when it involves the family of the person concerned. [More…]
If it is any satisfaction to those ..concerned, they may take comfort from the fact that they have caused considerable distress to the Treasurer and his family by their indefensible, thoughtless and harmful action. [More…]
All States except South Australia administer a formal rental rebate scheme based largely on the formula laid down in the 1943 Housing Agreement which relates the family income of the tenant to the basic wage of the State concerned, the amount of rebate being the difference between the economic rent of the dwelling and the maximum rent payable in accordance with the formula. [More…]
) His strong family links in Australia. [More…]
To assist honourable members I point out that if honourable members want the Family Law Bill to be discussed at the next sitting they will vote for the ayes; if they want it discussed on 1 1 February next they will vote no. [More…]
While it is true that there are many useful products of the opium family, in every case there are alternatives. [More…]
So even if there were an absolute shortage of opium derived drugs and doctors were not able from time to time to obtain the supplies that they prescribe, the situation could not be seen as a major tragedy because there are effective alternatives such as the pethidine family. [More…]
As the House is aware, we have before us a Bill entitled the Family Law BUI. [More…]
The serious contempt to which I refer is that draft regulations under the Family Law BUI have been circulated to people other than members of this House. [More…]
It is particularly heinous, if I may say so, because the Family Law BUI, in the terms in which it has been drafted, leaves so many things open. [More…]
The Family Law BUI is currently under consideration by this House. [More…]
An allowance, depending on family circumstances, is payable towards additional expenses incurred in being based in Canberra. [More…]
It asks for an expression of opinion of this House on family matters and on divorce. [More…]
It is not my intention, nor the intention of any of those who believe that the family is the basic unit of any country, to prevent this Bill from entering the Committee stage. [More…]
In the ‘Australian’ newspaper this morning I was listed, among the members who were categorised as having voted against the second reading of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I wish to make it clear that I did not vote against the second reading of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I voted in favour of the amendment to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The changes occasioned by Monday sittings are due to the Family Law Bill and I suggest to honourable members that they hold themselves in readiness to sit for a 5-day week from the commencement of the new sessional period until the end of the legislative program. [More…]
The benefit received by a family is not as great as that received by a single person making the same interest payments. [More…]
This is because the percentage of interest deductible is not affected by family size, it being based on actual income before personal deductions; but the effective marginal tax rate and hence the tax saving of a family is in some cases lower since it has more personal deductions. [More…]
I support the concept of a family court. [More…]
I think that if a family court is able to deal with the problems of marriage and of family life that is sufficient reason to establish such a court. [More…]
That is why I support the establishment of the Family Court. [More…]
The clause, in its present form, gives a discretion to the appointor in regard to the appointees to the Family Law Council. [More…]
Following the passing of the Family Law Bill by the Parliament, I and many other honourable members have received numerous inquiries regarding the future operation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Can the AttorneyGeneral inform the House of the progress to date in introducing the Family Court of Australia and the likely date of commencement of the Family Law Act? [More…]
-I should mention to the House that it has been drawn to my attention that the honourable member’s family slogan is, Virtue is the path of life. [More…]
The honourable member directs my attention to the effect of the dismantling of the offices on family law matters and on the Family Law Act. [More…]
In the Family Law Act, which has not yet been proclaimed, there is specific recognition of the Australian Legal Aid Office as the agency for dispensing legal aid in Australia. [More…]
-I ask the Attorney-General: What would be the effect of the abolition of the Australian Legal Aid Office on the provisions of the Family Law Act? [More…]
Where would the 4000 who seek help every month from the ALAO in family law matters get that help? [More…]
In my own electorate I have had case after case where somebody has not been allowed to bring out a brother or a sister to join the family. [More…]
The omission of the word ‘guidance’ as is proposed by the other amendment simply brings about compliance with the dimensions of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Did he or the AIDC ascertain the price paid for the Companies from the Lowe family; if so, what was the figure; if not, why not. [More…]
That this House records its sincere regret at the death of Chou En-lai, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and expresses to the people of China profound regret and to his family tenders sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to the petty and childish criticism directed to the Family Law Act by certain State judges? [More…]
Does the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in its use of the $5.5 million grant for 1975-76 for the Family Medicine Program include any instruction on the early intervention of rehabilitation with respect to alcohol or other drug addicts and the handicapped. [More…]
They were employed in a pilot project, initiated by my Department which aimed to assess the need for family planning services for women in outback areas. [More…]
What has been the result of a pilot study carried out for 3 months from May 1975 by family planning advisers who were attached to the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Broken Hill, Mt Isa and Kalgoorlie. [More…]
Are blind children under 16 years of age eligible for (a) handicapped child’s benefit when living away from home or (b) handicapped child’s allowance when living in the family home. [More…]
It will do this by substantially increasing family allowances for families. [More…]
Has he received any reports from any source on the behaviour of certain judges in the Family Law Court? [More…]
Is he satisfied that the custody, counselling and reconciliation provisions of the Family Law Act are being utilised as intended? [More…]
If he knows nothing of these complaints, will he institute an immediate inquiry into the operations of the Family Law Court to ascertain the truth or falsity of the allegations? [More…]
The Bill merely puts into legislative effect the decisions of the Remuneration Tribunal in respect of judges of the Family Court who at this stage are being paid at a lower rate than they should be. [More…]
For example, the family allowances should be enough for people to see through these false claims by members of the Opposition. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen) who said that these amendments to the Family Law Act are necessary. [More…]
I believe that as the Family Court of Australia has been operating only since January this year it is much too soon to judge the operations of the Court or of the Family Law Act, but the figures do seem to indicate that the divorce rate is rising under the liberal conditions of this Act. [More…]
I intend to keep a fairly close surveillance over the operations of the Family Law Act and the Family Court. [More…]
It was only last Thursday that I asked a question of the Attorney-General about the behaviour of some Family Court Judges. [More…]
Again I say that the Family Law Act and the Family Court have been in operation for too short a period for anybody to judge whether the counselling, reconciliation and other provisions of the Act are operating in the way that was expected by members of this Parliament when the Bill passed through the House last year. [More…]
Family Allowances (Question No. [More…]
As he lived in the electorate of Holt, on behalf of the people of that electorate I would like to express to Lady Casey and her family our sense of loss and our respect for one of Australia’s finest and most famous men and certainly a world diplomat. [More…]
b ) by inserting in sub-section ( 1 ), after the definition of Consul’, the following definition: “Family Court of a State “ means a Family Court of a State that has jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 by virtue of a Proclamation under section 41 of that Act;’; and [More…]
a Judge of the Family Court of Australia who is appointed by the Attorney-General to be a person authorized to exercise that power or function; [More…]
One way of dealing with this, as honourable members will be aware, is for State family courts to be established. [More…]
If State family courts were set up they could deal with all law relevant to the family. [More…]
I have in recent months again approached the States of New South Wales and Victoria with the view to ascertaining whether they will consider setting up State family courts I have had no recent reply, but if these courts were set up it would enable all relevant law to be dealt with in the one set of courts. [More…]
As the family planning associations run out of funds for the operation of their clinics on 30 September - [More…]
-The Family Law Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
To amend the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
I want to deal with some aspects of the operations of the Family Court since it commenced early in 1976. [More…]
Has he received any reports from any source on the behaviour of certain judges of the Family Law Court? [More…]
1 ) Total hotel accommodation expenses and per diem allowance for the Holland family from 1 September 1974, when they arrived in Dublin, to 24 September 1975, when they moved into a house, amounted to$A26,547. [More…]
During the period in excess of Mr Holland ‘s approved settling in period, and before, the Embassy, acting upon instructions from the Department of Foreign Affairs, sought suitable alternative short-term accommodation for the Holland family. [More…]
I join with the Prime Minister and other honourable members in extending my sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
1 ) Was approximately $26,000 spent by the Australian Government because it took the Overseas Property Bureau more than a year to find a suitable residence for a Foreign Affairs officer and his family. [More…]
Housing for Holland Family in Dublin (Question No. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety that the Advisory Committee on Safety in Vehicle Design be asked to undertake research with a view to designing vehicles, particularly family type vehicles, to enable the fitting of approved child restraints. [More…]
I am informed by my Department that the Australian Legal Aid Office has given assistance to approximately 34 500 applicants under section 1 17 (4) of the Family Law Act 1975 since the Act came into operation on 5 January 1976. [More…]
Statistics of the types of family law proceedings and of applications refused are not available. [More…]
To how many applicants, and in what types of proceedings has assistance under section 117(4) of the Family Law Act 1975 (a) been given and (b) been refused by the Australian Legal Aid Office since that Act came into operation. [More…]
-On 6 September 1936 a bouncing baby boy was born into a well-established Victorian family with a name prominent and well known in that State. [More…]
As a result the contribution rates charged by Medibank (Private Insurance) and most private insurance funds are $1.30 per week for single coverage and $2.60 per week for family coverage. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that there is no constitutional barrier against any Australian Government abolishing (a) the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, ( b) the Australian Industrial Court, (c) the Federal Court of Bankruptcy, (d) the Family Court of Australia and (e) the Supreme Courts of the Territories. [More…]
Does the Government propose to introduce legislation to rationalise the old maintenance and married women’s property legislation in force in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, and to consolidate it in the Family Law An. [More…]
What direct or indirect pecuniary interests did (a) he or (b) members of his family have in a business carried on in Australia or in a body corporate carrying on such a business at that date. [More…]
The Sirhan family in Cessnock, which is a responsible, hard working family, has been working to have a cousin migrate to Australia. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that if this were done, firstly many more family reunions could be accomplished and, secondly, job opportunities could be created far in excess of those which would be sought by the new settlers arriving? [More…]
I am sure that I express the sympathy of many honourable members who knew him to those members of bis family who mourn his loss. [More…]
The Government has had a migration officer in Portugal for some weeks now and has decided that the following groups of evacuees in Portugal can be accepted in future: First, those immediate family members of Australian residents, that is, the parents, spouses, dependent children and fiances; secondly, brothers and sisters of Australian residents, and in considering brothers and sisters occupational criteria will not be applied; and, thirdly, all those other evacuees who are able to meet the normal occupational criteria. [More…]
These measures are designed to overcome many of the disturbed family situations which at present exist in Australia. [More…]
I ask whether he is aware that there is now a very long delay in the hearing of cases in the Family Court- a matter which has been made the subject of remarks by His Honour, Mr Justice Emery, and a number of members of the profession who are concerned about the delay? [More…]
1 ) Can a taxpayer whose taxable income includes income from say property, shares and the like, transfer such assets to a trustee company specially set up by the taxpayer for the purpose of distributing the income from such assets to nontaxable members of his own family. [More…]
1 ) Residential restrictions on the use of health centres in the Australian Capital Territory are imposed by some health centre committees but only in relation to continuing family medicine type practice. [More…]
Where a ‘drop in’ patient is diagnosed as having some ailment requiring continuing care the person is advised that it is in this own interest to obtain a family doctor in his own area. [More…]
Phillip Health Centre takes patients for continuing family medical care from all areas except those served by another health centre but there is no after hours service available from this Centre. [More…]
8) the Family Planning Program. [More…]
The Agreement with Western Australia on the State Family Court, which was signed on 26 May 1976, and the Agreement that is at present being negotiated with the State for the provision of legal aid by a State Legal Aid Commission are examples. [More…]
the Australian Industrial Court, (c) the Federal Court of Bankruptcy, (d) the Family Court of Australia and (e) the Supreme Courts of the Territories, the Government is under an obligation to honour the original commission of the Judges until such time as they die, resign or reach retirement age. [More…]
How many clerical staff were employed at the Parramatta Family Court when it had (a) 2, (b) 3, and (c) 4 Judges. [More…]
What about the family allowance? [More…]
It said that it would replace the tax concession for children so that all wives could receive this great family allowance. [More…]
Every other tax concession has been indexed but the family allowance has not. [More…]
That there have been numerous complaints regarding the working of the Family Law Act, including allegations of delay, inability of magistrates to deal with certain matters, complexity of defended litigation and the inability of the Act to protect the weaker party to marriages, and [More…]
Let me turn to one little item- family allowances. [More…]
Why did it not index family allowances? [More…]
Nobody can claim his children as a tax deduction now because he gets a family allowance payment for them. [More…]
The Government indexed taxation but did not index family allowances. [More…]
This amendment will allow the Government to acquire the land that it wants without impairing the rights of appeal of the Clunies Ross family. [More…]
Will he confirm that Grosvenor Nominees Pty Ltd is a company which is owned and/or controlled by him and/or his family, as was stated in evidence given a week ago before the commission inquiring into Victorian Housing Commission land purchases? [More…]
If so, will he also confirm that this family company financed the purchase by Mr Peter Leake of about 60 allotments at Balnarring from Stumpy Gully Estates? [More…]
That is why the Opposition stated so clearly earlier in this debate,in its amendment to the motion for the second reading, that this Bill fails to take measures to alleviate the increase in family tax burdens which has arisen as a result of the Government’s failure to index family allowances. [More…]
So this is not the way to achieve what we in Opposition want to achieve, namely greater benefits for the family. [More…]
There are no friends of the family on either side of this House and it is time people realised it. [More…]
Pursuant to section 115(9) of the Family Law Act 1975, I present the first annual report 1977, of the Family Law Council. [More…]
When does the Government intend to introduce legislation to prevent tax evasion through the use of family trusts. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that on 18 November of last year the then Treasurer promised the Australian public that he would release the full details of his family business interests? [More…]
I leave aside some of the contentious recommendations and ask the Prime Minister: What action does the Government propose to take on some of the recommendations which would be deemed to be worthwhile and non-contentious, such as those concerning child abuse, discrimination against women, migrants, the handicapped, adoption and a national family policy? [More…]
Does the Government propose to initiate a national family policy, as urged by members of this House and many concerned members of the public and as now recommended by the Royal Commission on Human Relationships? [More…]
Will the Government use the concept of family impact statements as a means of assessing the effect of government decisions on the family? [More…]
I ask him, in the light of that most noble remark, why he refused to release the full details made available to him by the ex-Treasurer regarding the ex-Treasurer’s family interests? [More…]
The Family Law Act 1975 and the Family Law Regulations enable custody orders originating in New Zealand and in Papua New Guinea to be registered in Australian courts and thereby to acquire the same force and effect as if they were custody orders of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
As no free travel was undertaken by members of the family no declaration was required. [More…]
Minister for Transport: Overseas Travel by Members of Family (Question No. [More…]
1 ) What was the value of free overseas travel provided to members of his family by the Blue Star Shipping Line in association with the launching of a Blue Star ship in Europe on 25 January 1978. [More…]
What action has he taken to declare the value of the free travel provided under the guidelines of the Government’s policy on the acceptance of gifts by a Minister and his family. [More…]
Minister for Transport: Overseas Travel by Members of Family (Question No. [More…]
Yes- in a Press release dated 23 September 1977 I proposed that a parliamentary committee should review the Family Law Act in 1978 to determine whether any changes to the broad principles of the Act should be made. [More…]
No-in a Press release dated 20 February 1978, I repeated my hope that a parliamentary committee would be established later this year to review the Family Law Act. [More…]
1 ) Did the Attorney-General state in a Press statement 5 months ago that he proposed that possibly this year a party committee should review the Family Law Act to determine whether any changes to the broad principles of the Act should be made. [More…]
Did the Governor-General’s Opening Speech outlining the Government’s program for the new Parliament mention amendments to the Family Law Act or the appointment of any committee to review the Act. [More…]
I am further informed that the Attorney-General ‘s Department is proceeding with the preparation of regulations under Section 111 of the Family Law Act 1975 to enable performance of the Convention’s obligations in the event of Australian accession. [More…]
When did the consultations conclude between his Department and the Department of the Attorney-General on the regulations which must be made under Section 1 1 1 of the Family Law Act 1 975 to enable performance of Australia ‘s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance signed on 20 June 1956 (Hansard, 22 March 1977, page 470). [More…]
-Does the Treasurer recall that on 23 November last year the Prime Minister agreed in answer to a question that he made use of family trusts to lower the rate of tax he paid? [More…]
I ask him whether at any time in the month preceding the election of 10 December 1977 he personally or a member of his family, either directly or by means of a family trust, nominee company or other legal device, was involved in the sale or purchase of land in Victoria? [More…]
I join with others in sending condolences and prayers to Dame Pattie and her family at a time when they must be proud of the one whom they loved and who served this country. [More…]
I express my deep regret at the death of Sir Robert Menzies and convey my condolences to Dame Pattie and her family. [More…]
16,1 18 person; for family reunion. [More…]
How many of the intake of migrants during 1977-78 came to Australia (a) for family reunion, (b) as refugees, (c) as specially approved cases, showing the general nature of these cases (d) from New Zealand and (e) as skilled workers required to overcome specific skilled worker bottlenecks. [More…]
In addition to special benefit, permanent migrants with children become entitled to family allowances from the pay day after their arrival. [More…]
On behalf of this side of the House I express to his family our sincere sympathy. [More…]
The change in medical benefits is expected to lead to a reduction of 46c a week, family rate, in medical insurance contributions, reducing the average rate to $4.54 a week. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Attorney-General advise the House how far the Government has progressed towards effecting a review of the Family Law Act and the operations of the Family Court? [More…]
My Department will make certain that Medibank Private, indeed any health insurance fund, confers upon the contributor the benefit from what the Department has calculated to be on average a 46c per week family reduction in the health insurance premium rate. [More…]
In view of the urgent need to review the Family Law Act when will the Attorney-General recommend to the Government the establishment of a Parliamentary Committee to review the Family Law Act (Question No. [More…]
Will he consult with his colleagues about the use of violent scenes from adult classified films in commercials, shown during family viewing programs. [More…]
-Mr Speaker has received a message from the Senate transmitting a resolution concerning the proposed appointment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report on the provisions and the operation of the Family Law Act 1975 and requesting that the House of Representatives concur and take action accordingly. [More…]
Has the attention of the Treasurer been directed to criticism of the Budget decision to means-test payment of the family allowance, on the basis of” the child’s income? [More…]
How many persons who entered Australia under the circumstances referred to in part ( 1 ) have applied to have other members of the family admitted to Australia as migrants. [More…]
How many family members are involved in these applications. [More…]
5 ) and ( 6 ) Separate records are not kept for refugees who nominate relatives under the family re-union category. [More…]
I take this opportunity to express the hope that when appointments to this committee are made high office bearers such as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and others will adopt an attitude which recognises that over the last three or four years Australia has accepted the vast changes that were made in relation to family law and we will not have the type of committee which would return us to the pre-Family Law Act days. [More…]
Does the Government intend to proceed with the income means testing of family allowances based on the income of the child? [More…]
-In view of the admissions by the Prime Minister that he has a family trust - [More…]
How many persons have been gaoled under the provisions of the Family Law Act since its enactment. [More…]
-I have received a message from the Senate concurring with the modifications made by the House of Representatives to the resolution of the Senate relating to the appointment of a Joint Select Committee to inquire into and report upon the provisions and the operation of the Family Law Act 1 975. [More…]
Such organisations include family planning associations. [More…]
At the present time the family planning associations charge privately insured patients, who then receive benefits from their funds. [More…]
To enable the Commonwealth and the fund benefits to be paid for the charges made by family planning associations and other health program grant organisations where applicable, it is necessary to amend section 17 of the Act. [More…]
1 ) Has he asked each of his Ministers (a) to declare his or her pecuniary interests and (b) whether or not he or she has a family trust. [More…]
If the answer to part (1 ) (b) is in the affirmative, will he advise which of his Ministers have a family trust. [More…]
I would not seek to add any sense of aggravation to that family’s distress on this occasion but I will make inquiries for my honourable friend and inform him. [More…]
The honourable gentleman might be interested to know that at the last meeting of the directors of the companies, a meeting at which representatives of all the shareholders were present, including representatives of the Walsh family, a resolution was reconfirmed appointing the solicitor, whose advice I quoted yesterday, to represent all the shareholders. [More…]
The Sinclair Pastoral Co.- it and my family interests- owns ten houses and has a mortgage on another home. [More…]
Pursuant to section 115 of the Family Law Act 1975 I present the report of the Family Law Council for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]
and (2) The decision by the Government to subject family allowances to an income test based on the child’s net income has been rescinded, as the honourable member is aware. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry would be better advised sorting out his family company’s affairs rather than jumping up and down in this House moving the gag. [More…]
In view of the statements of the Prime Minister over the last few days concerning his personal financial affairs, will the Treasurer introduce legislation to prevent tax avoidance by the artifice of income splitting through the use of family trusts and other forms of trusts [More…]
The legislation has in fact helped both large and small family farmers to maintain the viability of their operations. [More…]
1 ) Which of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships contained in its Final Report, Volume 4-Part V. The family and Volume 5-Part VI. [More…]
It is true that pensioners who contributed at the family scale to the ‘Extracover’ Table operated by the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Limited prior to I November 1978 are required to pay $5.63 per month more under Table ‘PZ’ operated since 1 November 1978. [More…]
2805 (Hansard, 20 February 1979, page 1 14), is it a fact that pensioners contributing to the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia, as a result of the 1 November 1978 health insurance changes, are now required to pay approximately $5 more (at the medical benefits fund monthly family rate) for 100 per cent cover for the scheduled fee plus extra cover. [More…]
I extend my condolences to his widow and family. [More…]
It was estimated that it would take 12.6 years for a single income family and approximately two to three years for a dual income family to save enough for the deposit. [More…]
The deposit gap has increased beyond the means of the average family on less than average weekly earnings. [More…]
It is much more difficult for the average family to achieve that goal in the State of Victoria than it is in most other States. [More…]
-I have received advice from the Opposition Whip that he has nominated Dr Blewett to be a member of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act in place of the Hon. [More…]
1 ) On what dates did he and/or members of his family stay (a) at Kirribilli House and (b) elsewhere on visits to Sydney since April 1977. [More…]
I understood that the honourable member said that the Deputy Prime Minister was engaged in tax avoidance through family trusts. [More…]
1 ) Can he say whether the Vestey family company rents a million acres of land at Gordon Downs and other stations totalling 20,000 square miles, from the Western Australian Government for less than $ 1 ,000 a year. [More…]
I instance family allowances, which for the very first time gave low income families an opportunity to take advantage of money that would go to mothers to assist in the support of their children. [More…]
On how many sitting days did each Justice of the (a) High Court, (b) Federal Court of Australia, (c) Supreme Courts of (i) the Australian Capital Territory and (ii) the Northern Territory and (d) Family Court of Australia sit during (A) 1976 and (B) 1977. [More…]
The spiralling and inequitable costs of health care for the average family, caused by the Government’s erratic and illconsidered policies. [More…]
The proposals include indexing by 9 per cent the exemption level of taxable income and indexing the family allowance. [More…]
The decline in family standards of disposable income, security, food, housing and living quality since December 1975. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Health: Does basic Medibank medical insurance in New South Wales cost $130 for a single person and $260 for a family in a year, allowing for the necessary 25 per cent patient contribution? [More…]
Is it a fact that if average utilisation and cost rates, supplied by the Minister’s Department, for New South Wales for medical services were applied, the average single uninsured person would pay $104 and the average family $208 for medical services in the course of this year? [More…]
Would this fall to $69 for the single rate and $ 138 for the family rate if allowance were made for a taxation rebate of health service costs? [More…]
Persons recorded as approved for migration in family reunion categories represented 24.3 per cent of migrant arrivals during the six months to 3 1 May 1979. [More…]
This figure does not include those persons approved in refugee or other general categories, many of whom also have family members in Australia. [More…]
(It should be noted that arrivals in the early months of 1979 do not reflect the operation of the new eligibility categories or the NUMAS selection system introduced on 1 January 1 979, one objective of which is to give emphasis to family reunion. [More…]
Since the introduction of the new immigration policy and NUMAS, substantial numbers of non-immediate relatives have been assisted in meeting the general immigration criteria by concessions in NUMAS for persons who are nominated or otherwise assisted by family members resident in Australia. [More…]
These are not included in the family reunion category for statistical purposes. [More…]
Persons selected under family reunion criteria represented 26.3 per cent of the 73,622 migrant arrivals in the period 1 December 1978. [More…]
What percentage of this total has arrived under the family reunion program? [More…]
How does the family reunion intake of the previous six months compare with that of the previous twelve months? [More…]
Ian Robinson) - I have received a message from the Senate acquainting the House that the Senate concurs in the resolution of the House varying the resolution of the appointment of the Joint Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
In relation to women’s health centres specifically, an exception may also be made for clients who, because of the nature of their private domestic arrangements, might experience problems if the consultation were made known to other members of the family. [More…]
Has he investigated claims that an Aboriginal Liaison Officer and his family were exposed to radiation in excess of internationally acceptable limits and in excess of the maximum whole body dose permitted to a member of the public under his Department ‘s Code of Practice on Radiation. [More…]
What are the current rates of (a) unemployment benefits and (b) family allowances for (i) a single adult and (ii) a married adult with 2 children. [More…]
What does a married adult with 2 dependent children receive by way of, (a) unemployment benefits and (b) family allowances expressed as a percentage of average weekly earnings. [More…]
3 ) Would this move greatly reduce the risk not only to the health standards of workers but also to family and community health standards. [More…]
He said that the family was not informed. [More…]
The family was informed. [More…]
He said that he would be happy if the whole family were deported. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Attorney-General relating to the appointment of the first director of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
It gives no assistance in this Budget to the single income earning family. [More…]
Pursuant to section 115 of the Family Law Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Family Law Council 1 979. [More…]
Under the Government’s proposals a family man earning $42.50 a week and supporting a wife will receive full protection under the health insurance scheme. [More…]
He has to meet debts at an estimated rate of $65.40 a week, excluding Commonwealth benefits, for public ward treatment in New South Wales; a minimum of $10.10 for a stringent food diet for his family - none of us would like to try to live on that sort of diet; rent of $12 a week, if he is lucky; and other charges including fares, clothing and hire purchase of $6. [More…]
Income tax statistics indicate that there are probably twelve times more family units on about $2,000 a year than there are on $10,000 a year. [More…]
1 have in mind the family that has a problem in the matrimonial area, maybe a problem also in the juvenile court area, a problem in handling a hire purchase commitment and a problem with school truancy. [More…]
The Bill contains provisions under which estates of primary producers whose business activities had been conducted through a family company may qualify for the reliefs. [More…]
Where a deceased person had carried on his business through a family proprietary company, income received by him from the company in the form of dividends, salary or wages, bonuses or director’s fees in each of the 5 years before death may be regarded as income from a primary production business carried on by him. [More…]
The purpose of the provisions I have just mentioned is to ensure that an estate that is comprised principally of rural property will not be excluded from the reliefs because the primary production income of the deceased person was derived through the medium of a proprietary family company or a trust estate. [More…]
It also contains provisions under which an election made by an administrator to have shares in a proprietary family company included in the rural property in the estate may be withdrawn, if, for example, their inclusion at an ‘assets-backing’ value would, even with the allowance of the rebate, result in an overall increase in the duty payable by the estate. [More…]
It will facilitate family reunion, as in the past for financial reasons some Yugoslavs preceded their families here, lt will avoid the social consequences of separated families in future migration and, by easing the financial strain of migration, strengthen and speed successful settlement in Australia. [More…]
It appears that the average Aboriginal family has approximately 6 children to a white family’s 3 children. [More…]
The essence of the Labor scheme is that every Australian shall be automatically a beneficiary, and that his contribution shall be determined only by his ability to pay, and his treatment shall be determined only by his need; we determine his ability to pay by the best available means - his family’s taxable income, and we determine his needs and those of his family by the judgment of the doctor of his own choice. [More…]
Their main objective is to live in happy family communities and to grow sufficient food to survive. [More…]
In any discussion of the industry problems today, any attempt to deal with this problem in an across the board manner without making any differentiation between the methods that have to be adopted to take care of the traditional family growers, as distinct from the speculator, can be full of disaster not only for the family grower but also far all the people in the rural towns who are dependent on these people to sustain them and the businesses and services that they provide for the farming industry. [More…]
Increasingly, lower standards are related not solely to family incomes but to the availability and quality of government services. [More…]
Why did I leave my young family for this semi-monastic part time existence? [More…]
It is more true to say that Rorovana was deliberately stirred into revolt by unscrupulous individuals ?o that there was no readiness to negotiate and so obtain greater benefits such as were obtained at Panguna or Lonsiro not far from there, where, I remind the House, one native landholding family concluded an arrangement with the Administration under which it was paid $5,600 for a 42 year lease of 49 acres of land long before the Rorovana flare-up or its happier issue. [More…]
Certainly, no recent happening in the industrial field has been more detrimental to the family man on the average wage or the lower wage. [More…]
The problems of the large family are still very real, and the Government is preparing to tackle them. [More…]
Whilst we spend - and must spend - large sums of money on immigration there is an even more urgent need to assist the large family that is already here. [More…]
Many men and women in the community break the law not because they are promiscuous and irresponsible but because they are married, over stressed and desperately seek abortions as the only way out in a perfectly respectable family situation where an unexpected pregnancy threatens the health or welfare of the mother and her whole family. [More…]
To women abortion is not a crime but just another phase of family planning to be utilised rarely but if all other measures have failed. [More…]
No doubt he spoke with great eloquence and sincerity, but the thought ran through my mind, as he gave statistics, whether, if a question were asked of the various people who admit to being victims of abortion, they would have carried the child had there been an adequate family income, had there been a suitable home, and had there been some sense of social security. [More…]
With inflation of land prices and building costs, young couples have the stark choice of either saving to acquire a home or having a family - they cannot do both. [More…]
Not only has he done that but he has, so help me, fired a vicious, malicious and .horrifying torpedo into the morale and the courage of the wives and the children of every family in the civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The same thing, of course, applies in respect of invalid pensioners - people invalided at a time in life when they have responsibilities of bringing up and educating their family. [More…]
I would like to express my deep thanks to my helpers in the campaign and particularly to my family who so ably assisted me, especially my wife who has tolerated my absence from home in public life for many years and really worked on this occasion to sec that I obtained a position that would take me away from home even more. [More…]
This is responsible for the working wife becoming a must so as to live and educate the family, rather than something of choice. [More…]
In fact, to quote one family from Scotland, they are still waiting with their seven children and paying $27 a week in rent from a normal wage. [More…]
I have taken it on myself to take a very keen interest in, to the extent of almost looking after, one family which lost its breadwinner because he took a boat to sea. [More…]
It is a very sad business because the mother of the family is a Tahitian who can hardly speak English and she has four little children to look after. [More…]
It goes to the low income earner with a large family; it goes into certain migrant groups and reaches into homes where the head of the family is a female on low income. [More…]
In time of family crisis, faced with the worry of sudden illness or injury, they face the added burden of knowing that they must encounter a long trip to a city hospital. [More…]
One of the first criteria examined by the lending institutions is the income of the family. [More…]
This is done to ensure that the family can afford the instalment repayments. [More…]
One family might have an income of $15,000 a year while the other has an income of only $3,000 a year. [More…]
It does not assess the capacity of each family to pay. [More…]
The authority should determine the requirements of an average family. [More…]
It should inquire into an average family’s needs in respect of clothing, food, recreation, entertainment, housing and health. [More…]
It is bad enough for the working man to be dragged away from his home at night when he should be with his wife and family but it is even worse when he has to send his wife out to work in order to make ends meet. [More…]
Family life is the very basis of our nationhood. [More…]
Will he also say on what days Her Majesty and her family will be in Canberra? [More…]
This is not the same concept as that of Sir Robert Menzies - not that I wish to appear to be an apostle of Sir Robert Menzies - who stated that the scholarships were created to ‘benefit those who might otherwise miss, through family circumstances, the final 2 school years’. [More…]
If we are setting out to give everybody an equal opportunity in life, we should bear in mind that, if we give a child from an underprivileged family the same education as a child who has an adequate home environment, the child from the underprivileged family will make less of that same education. [More…]
I must take this opportunity to refer to the incorrect, ungenerous and most unfair remarks he made about the former honourable members for Sturt, Sir Keith Wilson and his son, because the Wilson family has made a tremendous contribution towards providing homes for the aged in South Australia. [More…]
The efforts of this family and other people have been so successful that they have received on behalf of South Australia about 30% of the entire Commonwealth contribution for homes for the aged which, as honourable members will know, is provided on a basis of $2 for $1. [More…]
It strikes me that the Army has a positive genius for disrupting family life and preventing soldiers from becoming too closely tied to a local community. [More…]
They stated that they are well and truly covered by a comprehensive insurance scheme and that when one of them has his brains blown out his family is well cared for. [More…]
The entire family goes away together. [More…]
But this Government says that the grandparents, the pensioner members of the family, have to take off early. [More…]
The aged people have to go unaccompanied to the holiday resort, or their particular destination, and the rest of the family has to tag along later. [More…]
The time to travel and to see their families is, in the main, when the entire family can travel together, such as at holiday weekends or during school holidays. [More…]
Let them travel as a family unit. [More…]
Social activities, holidays and often employment, as well as ordinary domestic living,, frequently have to be adjusted to meet the needs of the son or daughter who cannot become part of the normal family group. [More…]
Our sympathy goes to his wife, his son and his family, including his brother, the honourable member for Eden-Monaro. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at me death on 1st April 1970 of James Reay Fraser, a member of the House for the Australian Capital Territory, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
To Mrs Fraser, his son Andrew, his brother Allan and other members of the family I express my deepest and sincerest sympathy. [More…]
I join with other honourable members in extending sympathy to Mrs Fraser and Andrew, to Allan and to the rest of the family in their great loss. [More…]
I would like to extend to his widow, his son, his brother and the other members of his family my very deep sympathy. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the extent of the respect and affection shown for my brother and the honour accorded to him in death is deeply appreciated by all his family. [More…]
Does he know that the Australian Broadcasting Commission and other news sources are referring to the visit of the Royal family as ‘the Royal tour of Australia’? [More…]
As the Royal family is spending about 5 weeks in Australia, mainly in New South Wales and Victoria, would he even at this late stage try to get the Royal family to go to Western Australia even for a short visit? [More…]
I think the honourable member and the House generally will understand the calls that are made upon the Royal family on a tour of this kind and that, though they may well like to attend every part of Australia, it is in the time they are able to make available impossible for them to do so, and their wishes and the requirements of the Royal tour director must be taken into account in this respect. [More…]
I think I should point out that the Royal family is visiting, not only New South Wales and Victoria, but also Queensland and Tasmania. [More…]
Local officers may qualify for a family needs allowance depending upon salary, location and family size, e.g. [More…]
a local officer employed in Port Moresby who maintains a family of four and whose salary is less than $930 per annum would receive an allowance to raise his salary to that amount ($17.83 per week). [More…]
Such grants are made by way of rations in subsistence farming areas and by cash, not exceeding Five dollars per family per week, in urban areas. [More…]
However, such grants are required only in a few cases, as relatives in need are usually supported by kinsmen under traditional arrangements which are a feature of the family relationship of Papuans and New Guineans. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 13th April 1970 of the Honourable Gerald Colin McKellar, a senator for the State of New South Wales from 1958 and a Minister of the Crown from 1964 to 1969, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
their 3 sons and other members of the late senator s family. [More…]
The proper foundation for government is a universal law of right and wrong self-evident to the intuitive commonsense of every man; that freedom is a power of personal self-direction which no man can delegate to another; that the purpose of society is not the protection of property but fulfilment of the needs of living human beings; that good citizens have the right and duty, not only to overthrow incurably oppresive governments, but before that point is reached to break particular oppressive laws; and that we owe our ultimate allegiance, not to this or that nation, but to the whole family of man. [More…]
Will anybody here say that there is anything worse than the use of napalm on a family? [More…]
I hope that his interjection was as flippant as other interjections of his sometimes are, because without protection from a worthwhile, respectable, sincere and decent police force for the honourable member and his family he would be in a pretty odd situation from time to time after some of his more provocative speeches. [More…]
However, the Minister for Social Services speaks in line with a very fine tradition which has been strongly enforced in his family, even to the extent that third and fourth generations of the family use the same christian names as well as the same surname. [More…]
Timber Industries Ltd is 43% owned by the Cotton family. [More…]
We have an Australian company with a distinguished legislator and his family as a major force in it. [More…]
He said to the people of South Australia: ‘Look, vote for the Liberal Administration in South Australia and we will all be one big happy family’. [More…]
That happened with a bodgie vote and all I can say is that it has been somewhat in the family way ever since. [More…]
As soon as the children have turned 14 years of age they have been taken away from schools and they have been forced to carry on with the family farm. [More…]
They would be staffed by family doctors in private group practice. [More…]
It is the kind of iniquitous proposition that would remove from the Australian scene the family doctor approach - the patientdoctor relationship which is so much a part of the Australian way of life. [More…]
Without proper housing, the process of marriage and family formation which are the very essence of Australia’s future must be seriously impaired. [More…]
middle incomes and a family man; and limit the number of houses which need to be built. [More…]
Without proper housing, the process of marriage and family formation which are the very essence of Australia’s future must be seriously impaired. [More…]
In that statement the Minister said the family group was the very essence, the backbone of the nation. [More…]
I ask the Government - or is it unreasonable to ask - as the Master Builders Association asked and as every young married couple seeking a block of land so as to build a home and raise a family asks: What does the Government intend to do about the level of residential land prices which is a serious national problem? [More…]
Without proper housing, the process of marriage and family formation which are the very essence of Australia’s future must be seriously impaired. [More…]
They are also a major burden for people on middle incomes and for the family man. [More…]
They will look forward to being married one day, setting up a home of their own and rearing their own family, because this is the only way they can find real happiness in life. [More…]
Apart from that young people who are planning for a family should be encouraged to buy or build as good a house as their future capacity to pay will enable them to build. [More…]
The only alternative will be for the breadwinner to leave his family in Kalgoorlie and go elsewhere to obtain employment. [More…]
For most this will mean a distance of several hundred miles between their home and family and their place of employment. [More…]
Like other honourable members, I am involved in family life. [More…]
For instance, if a person own a 2 bedroom home, there is an addition to the family and he wants to add another bedroom for the children, loans are available from the credit unions. [More…]
AH the arrangements that are made involving Her Majesty and the Royal Family are made after consulting the Queen and with her approval, lt is approved by Her Majesty that she should attend the reception given by the Government and the Parliament on Thursday evening in this pl’ace. [More…]
There is also provision to ensure that estates of primary producers whose business has been conducted by family companies will qualify for the relief. [More…]
There have been many cases where family farms have been broken up because of heavy estate and State probate duties upon the death of the owner. [More…]
The Bill brings to fruition some years of agitation by rural producers and their organisations for relief from the shattering and fragmenting effect of estate duty on the family farm unit. [More…]
Their effect on the family farm unit is destructive. [More…]
Why should the family of a man - or a woman - who throughout his life made his contribution to the development and progress of a country and who has paid income taxes, rates, levies and duties throughout his lifetime, have the savings or the residue from the taxed earnings subjected to a further tax upon death? [More…]
The death of a shareholder does not necessarily mean that the company suffers directly or that the company has to dispose of the estate to pay the estate duty of the shareholder’s family. [More…]
This does not mean a change of hands from father to son or changes within a family, but a sale to another person. [More…]
This means that within this section of primary industry, where the turnover of land is infrequent, considerable death duties are collected from the family concerned. [More…]
If a wheat farm changes hands completely only once in 52 years, the family is penalised because of the application of probate and estate duties when in the meantime it passes from father to son or sons. [More…]
Too often we see a highly efficient property that has been built up by family labour and is using its resources efficiently in terms of either physical or economic criteria and then because of probate or death duty there is a break up in the partnership which causes the property to be sold or often to be split up. [More…]
They are family farms in the main and they are quite different structurally. [More…]
But his net income is simply not big enough, after his costs have been taken into account, to allow for replacement of capital or for him to give his family a decent living. [More…]
The purpose of the proposed reliefs is to provide assistance to discourage the breaking up of economic rural holdings, particularly family holdings, because of the need to pay estate duty. [More…]
A long standing principle in death duty law is that greater relief in death duties be given to beneficiaries who are members of the family. [More…]
The leaving of estates to persons other than members of a family means that those in receipt of assets from an estate are worse off because, firstly, they pay higher duties. [More…]
A ‘family company’ - I think that we could define it in this way - means a company all the shares in which at the date of a relevant person’s death are beneficially owned by that person or him and his family. [More…]
In respect of that matter, I wish to request the Government to give consideration to allowing this relief of duty to an estate which is left to a family company, defined as may be necessary and with appropriate provisions. [More…]
I. believe that this suggestion is consistent with the recognition by the Government that family companies need not be treated with disadvantage as against individuals. [More…]
If we allow shares in family companies with rural assets, included in estates, to qualify as primary producers, we should allow such family class of companies, properly defined, to be given the same advantage as relatives when named as beneficiaries of such estates. [More…]
Family heritage is one thing; tax avoidance is another. [More…]
The hardship confronting primary producers at the present time, particularly the family enterprise, in relation to this duty, land tax. [More…]
Then we have a situation of crisis in which the same hot money is standing by to buy up properties of family enterprises which, as has been conceded by honourable members on both sides of the House today, have the record of being the most effective and efficient in absolute terms. [More…]
It concerns a family which has been farming in Australia for 5 generations. [More…]
Because of a sudden death in the family they face, after 5 generations, extinction. [More…]
It seemed that he had covered himself, his family and their future adequately; but what has happened? [More…]
Whether or not he tried to adjust his insurance policies, the fact remains that he could not do so because the financial position of his family was such that he could not afford the higher premiums that would have been applicable to his age. [More…]
So the widow, in a plea related to these new valuations, said: This now places an intolerable burden on the property and every member of the family.’ [More…]
This family has displayed what has happened following the drought. [More…]
I want to go on record in this debate as saying that if the Government is going to wipe out the whole of the family enterprises in the countryside of Australia and to replace them with overseas corporations that will strive to follow the pattern, which has been established elsewhere, of controlling the whole of the food industries of the nation from the paddock right through to the housewife, then the honourable member will1 find in his electorate of Evans that he will have no recourse to this Parliament. [More…]
This is the summation of what I have said tonight: That the family enterprise has been demonstrated to be both efficient and effective and is the backbone of the rural development of the nation; that the current crisis is a product of policies or the absence of policies; that imposts, such as estate duty, must be totally reconstructed; that this small measure should be only a prelude to this being done as a matter of urgency; and that the vote on the amendment that has been put forward should be a vote of conscience. [More…]
On the other hand my colleagues and I have recognised for a very long time that the rapid increase in valuations is an imposition on the farming community, and that is the reason for this measure, lt is a measure designed to relieve the rural industries of a very substantial cost factor in terms of the maintenance of rural properties so that they might be able to continue not in perpetuity precisely but to continue as the interest of a family or a descendant in a particular way. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina went on to illustrate the position of a family enterprise which as a result of this crisis - and 1 presume he is talking about the crisis we have heard him to be so vocal about in recent times - sees the end of an occupancy of a farm after 5 generations of, I presume, ownership. [More…]
This man asked that in view of the special and difficult circumstances in which he found himself an exception be made in his case and that the undertaking given to him and his family should be honoured. [More…]
Where more than1 child from a family attend a school, the total fee payable is $1 at primary and S3 at secondary schools, [More…]
It might interest honourable members to know that it is on record in the current copy of ‘Box Office’, which is the periodical that is circulated to most film exhibitors throughout the world, that almost 90% of the top box office attractions are the wholesome family type film. [More…]
But we can say this: We can examine the films which have been successful and we will find that in most cases they have been the type of film, as I said before, that appeals to a family. [More…]
1 admit one of them shocked me, but only because the rapist was Frankenstein, whom I had always associated with clean family monsters. [More…]
She finds it extremely offensive that the family should be regarded in this particular way. [More…]
The fact that a number of migrants do not make application for Australian citizenship results, I believe, from a fusion of factors which would include indecision at to longterm permanent residence in Australia; the fact that they may be waiting for other members of the family to become eligible before themselves making application; unawareness of the importance of citizenship; or being aware, the fact that they have not come to the point of making application or would prefer to become further established in the Australian community before playing a complete and meaningful part. [More…]
Our scheme seeks to preserve the family doctor. [More…]
But on the other hand, the general practitioner, as the family doctor, has a most important role in the community - a role that is most rewarding to those who are motivated in this way. [More…]
He is the only one who can provide family medical counselling, preventative treatment and early recognition of the presence of disease. [More…]
We must supplement these financial provisions with initiatives aimed at ensuring that the general practitioner remains, as the family doctor, the keystone of the health system. [More…]
Those of us who have had any experience at all know the tremendous valueof a general practitioner, the old family doctor. [More…]
That doctor is a very important person to the family not only in providing medical care but also in providing assistance to the family in many other ways. [More…]
As I said, those of us who have had any experience of this relationship realise the tremendous value of the family doctor to family life. [More…]
Statistically, most of the medical expenses in this community are incurred by patients visiting their family doctors. [More…]
Such a view overlooks the regard that the public still has and will continue to have for the family doctor and the natural desire on the patient’s part to have one doctor treat him for all conditions for which he is competent to treat him. [More…]
Secondly he does not want the overwhelming cost of such care to threaten the whole economic basis of his life and his family’s life. [More…]
These are the fairly constant recurring factors in his income and they provide the basic bread and butter for him and his family. [More…]
I have here a pamphlet circulated by general practitioners that suggests that where the family doctor could not be paid he received bunches of flowers, baskets of fruit, and onions and potatoes instead of the fee. [More…]
but I often received gifts in addition to the fee in gratitude for the treatment that a family doctor can give. [More…]
The plantations, or farms, in these areas are worked as family projects by family groups and there are no contracts as such. [More…]
In accordance with the practices ordinarily followed within the medical profession, the referring doctor will usually be the patient’s family doctor, lt is the Government’s objective that this proposal, which has been developed in the interests of patients, will be operated in such a way that it docs not have an adverse effect on general practice, or needlessly inflate the cost of the national health service. [More…]
No family scenes of father and/or mother smoking cigarettes in front of children may be shown. [More…]
Family Needs Allowance is an allowance paid to a married indigenous public servant if the salary he receives is less than assessed minimum living needs. [More…]
The allowance is based on the costs in different parts of the Territory of a regimen of minimum living needs for family units of [More…]
What would be the position of his family if he complained about it? [More…]
I am concerned about the ultimate effect this may have on the general patient - the person in the country, in an outlying area or in an outer suburban area who, in the event of an emergency, whether he be a person involved in a car accident at the corner, a son falling off a table, somebody cutting his foot or who suffers from any of the 100,000 things that can happen in a family, requires medical attention. [More…]
It is the general practitioner who knows the circumstances of a family and the background of the children’s health, and who has treated that family for years and knows the ailments from which members of that family suffer. [More…]
He would know more about a member of that family than would the specialist to whom that member was referred. [More…]
Taking myself as an example, I believe that the general practitioner is important to the family. [More…]
Another method that was suggested in the Labor Party’s health proposals at the time of the last election was that the scheme should be financed by a flat levy of 14% of the taxable income of a family up to a maximum of $100 per family. [More…]
Of course, this is an excessive imposition on a person with a low income or a person with a large family. [More…]
It is for the individual to make up his own mind whether to insure himself and his family. [More…]
But the basis of medical care in Australia is the family doctor, the general practitioner. [More…]
I believe that this can be done and that some effort should be made to do it, because I think that the family doctor must be preserved. [More…]
This, of course, means that any medical or hospital expenses for myself or my family must be paid out of my own resources. [More…]
So free insurance would go to each lower income earner with a wife and family of 2 children and on a wage of $45 gross per week. [More…]
Our system took into account the fact that the lower income earner has a family, and I will show later that the Government’s proposition does not. [More…]
This would mean that a family with 6 children could have a gross income of $57 and still get free insurance. [More…]
The Nimmo Committee was giving consideration to the size of the family. [More…]
For example, it takes no account of the size of the family. [More…]
For instance, if you have an income of $42.50 a week the Government very generously offers to pay the whole cost of your insurance but again it takes no acount of the size of your family. [More…]
The thing to bear in mind is that the Government’s scheme ignores the concept of family and is nowhere near as good as Labor’s proposal or the Nimmo Committee’s proposals. [More…]
He will still have to meet his family’s day to day bills as well as the cost of his stay in hospital. [More…]
The mother and the family look to the general practitioner and expect him to look after the welfare of the family. [More…]
Not only does the health of a nation reflect within the family unit and the individual; it reflects also right throughout the economy of the nation. [More…]
No provision is made in the Government scheme for the number of dependants that a family or a breadwinner may have. [More…]
But, on the other hand, a family man with a wife and, say, 5 children - maybe even more - receiving $50 a week will be required to pay the whole amount of medical insurance. [More…]
It recommended that adjustments ought to be made on the basis of the number of dependants in a family. [More…]
The family doctor has disappeared. [More…]
He said that all family units comprising at least 2 persons, except for those of pensionable age, would qualify for assistance. [More…]
The Nimmo report, upon which this Bill is based to some extent, shows quite clearly that if the Government had been properly sympathetic, properly aware and considerate of the needs of the people, particularly the family man, and had it accepted and implemented our proposals - or, better still, had the Labor Party had the opportunity of putting its proposals into practice - a very substantial proportion of our population would have been saved a lot of worry and a lot of expense. [More…]
This complete insurance is very important and most valuable in family groups, particularly in large family groups. [More…]
Although I think he lives in the east of Victoria now, his family comes from the west of Victoria and there would seem to be, in that area, great athletic ability among Aboriginals. [More…]
The aim of the stabilisation scheme that has been rejected by the Government was to do 2 things: to prov.de stability for the family farmer and cheaper and better quality eggs for the Australian housewife. [More…]
If the situation :s, as Government spokesmen claim, that there are no market outlets, that future prospects are grim, that Australia’s troubles arc only part of the world’s troubles, how can they explain that every time a family is banished from a particular plot of dirt because of the costprice squeeze there is always an overseas corporation waiting in line to take it up? [More…]
The first responsibility in this industry, as in other industries, must l e with the Government to determine firstly, whether it wants to have an Australian egg industry; and secondly, whether it wants to see Australian family units as the mainstay of the industry - whether this is Government policy; thirdly, whether it will provide the guidelines necessary for the production required at home and abroad. [More…]
This will abdicate control of the family’s breakfast egg to board rooms in Montreal and London. [More…]
There have been some minor adjustments to family concessions, but if they are related to price increases they are not worth as much now as they were originally. [More…]
If inbuilt devices in the progressive tax scale are to be relied on to control inflation, a great deal of injustice will be done to people in the lower income groups, and particularly the family taxpayer. [More…]
Also, the scheme should take into consideration the number of children in family units. [More…]
The legislation sets a family unit as being at least 2 persons and no consideration has been allowed for the large family even though the expenses incurred by large families are quite considerable. [More…]
I was informed by the Collie division of the miner’s union in Western Australia that some of its members are single pensioners, widowers and widows, who are in just as tight a financial situation as are family units where there are 2 persons who can benefit under this scheme. [More…]
I believe that the allowance ought to be given also to other persons included in the family unit. [More…]
I refer to the general practitioner, the family doctor, who is often the recipient of many confidences. [More…]
Minor and marginal problems in health are major tragedies and disasters for the family who is afflicted with them. [More…]
The average working class man who arrives in Australia with his family is struck by the inordinate costs of social welfare in Australia both in the field of education and in the field of health, lt would pay honourable members to make a study of the advantages and disadvantages of the British medical service. [More…]
Under the present scheme a contributor may get cover for his family against hospital charges of $18 a day for $1.30 a week. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Immigration been drawn to a report of the plight of an English migrant family in Pascoe Vale, Victoria, which it is claimed has been refused accommodation in a hostel by the Commonwealth Department of Immigration? [More…]
Is there any truth in the report and, if so, will the Minister see what can be done by the Department to assist this family? [More…]
I might say that the article was expansive in relation to the problems faced by the Thomas family but not in relation to the efforts made by officers of my Department and of the Department of Labour and National Service to solve these problems. [More…]
The family was initially accommodated at a Commonwealth hostel in Sydney and subsequently made its own arrangements to move to Melbourne in order to take up accommodation with relatives in that city. [More…]
In so doing the family placed itself outside the normal regulations governing the readmission of migrant families to Commonwealth hostels. [More…]
The Melbourne accommodation to which it had moved proved to be unsatisfactory, and officers of my Department made arrangements for the family to move into alternative accommodation at a moderate cost. [More…]
Efforts to find suitable employment for the husband are continuing, but at this stage the family’s financial difficulties have not yet been solved. [More…]
In view of this, arrangements have been made to admit the family, as a special case, to a Commonwealth hostel in cither Melbourne or Sydney to enable it to make better provision for its move into the general community. [More…]
1 might acid that my Department does everything possible to assist migrants in relation to the provision of suitable accommodation for them, and our efforts to assist the Thomas family will continue. [More…]
Let us consider the position of a family that unfortunately has a child with a squint. [More…]
That family is not entitled to a rebate. [More…]
If there are 4 in the family it is 4 times as wrong. [More…]
She should not have to show that she was contributing to the fund at the family rate for 10 months before giving birth to a child. [More…]
A doctor goes into a pensioner’s home and looks at somebody else in the family and gets the pensioner to sign a little chit. [More…]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and ot his family, and the right to security in the event of old age and other circumstances beyond his control. [More…]
This was an answer that I did not appreciate because it does not take much thought to realise that there would be very few people who would employ a woman in her late fifties even if she were capable of working after devoting most of her life to rearing a family. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister’s family is one of the 300 prominent families in South Australia. [More…]
For all we know each family may have one 20c share in the Association which enables it not just to control the share capital in the Association but also to control the whole of the contributors’ funds. [More…]
If he has to pay on top of that rent at $16 a week, which is extremely cheap rent in relation to the market standards at the present time, and a food bill of $22 a week, which is a rather Spartan diet for a large family, he will be paying $39 a week out of his weekly income of $46. [More…]
It is quite unreasonable of the Government to expect that a person in these circumstances will be able to surrender this extra $1.26 a week to try to cover himself and his family with health insurance when he knows very well that in any event he will still have to meet some of the expense. [More…]
This to me is not a reasonable proposition at all and in no meaningful way ameliorates the problem of people on low incomes relative to the size of the family. [More…]
He is dedicated to every member of a family from shortly after conception to the grave. [More…]
I am talking about the family doctor who can guide people in their medical needs. [More…]
The objectives of the Commonwealth scheme are twofold: To enable low income dairy farmers who voluntarily wish to do so, to leave the industry and to receive a fair price for their land and improvements; and, after the writing-off of redundant assets, to make the land and useful improvements available to other farmers so as to build up their properties to a viable family farm level and, where possible, diversifying the pattern of land use. [More…]
Above all, this scheme will add strength to the family farms that are the backbone of the dairy industry. [More…]
The policy of the Government to continue to deny a pension to the wife of the breadwinner in the family demonstrates its stupidity and lack of understanding and commonsense. [More…]
It is so absurd that no Minister could run his department on such a basis, no person could look after a family on such a basis, and no person could have relations with others in a community on such a basis. [More…]
For example, these ordinances include: An ordinance providing for the interpretation of Territory ordinances and statutory instruments: a juries ordinance providing for all aspects of jury service and, in particular, for women to serve on juries; an ordinance making comprehensive provision with respect to maintenance of wives, husbands and children; a new Wills Ordinance; ordinances enabling married persons to sue each other in tort; a number of amendments to the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance; an ordinance facilitating the transfer of marketable securities; a new Family Provision Ordinance - to ensure that the family of a deceased person receive adequate provision out of his estate; an ordinance enabling a person between the ages of 18 and 21 years to borrow on the security of a mortgage of his home; amendments to the Administration and Probate Ordinance; and amendments to the Real Property Ordinance. [More…]
For the migrant, in Commonwealth hostels, the allowance has been such that the normal hostel tariff has been deducted leaving the migrant if single a living allowance of $8.44 per week and, if married with a dependent wife, $11.03 per week with increases according to the number of dependent children in the family. [More…]
With the co-operation of the Department of Customs and Excise an examination of passengers baggage is made for quarantine prohibited items and the passenger is obliged to declare whether he or any of his family accompanying him have had contact with farm animals or animal products in the last 3 months. [More…]
It is always regrettable when a man comes to the town to work but cannot bring his wife and family with him due to lack of housing. [More…]
To finance a home for a worker and his family is not inflationary. [More…]
Indeed, most honourable members when they first come into the House are but as circumstances change and as you perhaps gain more responsibilities in respect of a young family or whatever it may be, you find that you cannot do it. [More…]
This itself reflects the character of the area which is underprivileged in terms of average family income. [More…]
Nowadays many mothers are being urged to go back to work and in many cases the economic situation of their family demands that they do so. [More…]
In my experience technical education in this country has been very much the poor relation of our education family. [More…]
When child endowment was introduced on 1st July 1941 the rate for the second and each subsequent eligible child under 16 in a family was 50 cents per week. [More…]
Today the first eligible child under 16 in a family attracts endowment of 50 cents per week, the second SI. [More…]
Endowment of $1.50 per week is payable in respect of each eligible student child between his 16th and 21st birthdays in a family. [More…]
He was very well respected in the Ballaarat community as a devoted family man and as a leader of the Anglican church. [More…]
I extend on behalf of the Government our deepest sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
] would like to associate the Australian Labor Party with the expression of sympathy to the widow and family of the late Mr Joshua. [More…]
I would like to associate my colleagues of the Australian Country Party with the references which have been made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to the late Mr Joshua and to join in extending the sympathy of my Country Party colleagues to his widow and to the members of the family. [More…]
The prime objective has been to encourage regional development of social services throughout the State so that services for handicapped children are located where the children’s families are living or to assist within the immediate region so that family involvement can be maintained with the needs of the children. [More…]
When speaking of handicapped children I mean children with physical as well as mental handicaps, lt is not possible to divorce the needs of the handicapped child from the needs of the family. [More…]
The needs of the family are the most urgent in the early years of the child’s life. [More…]
This Bill does nothing to assist the family or the child during this period. [More…]
Many parents, given assistance at this stage of the child’s life, could later cope with many of the problems which drive them to seek hospital placement as the only means of preventing a complete family breakdown. [More…]
A family with a handicapped child is a handicapped family. [More…]
There is no justice in a policy that asks not less of this family but more because of a misfortune to which it has in no way contributed. [More…]
Such community services could include visiting social workers, physiotherapists, teacher and speech therapist services, financial assistance to the family whose child’s condition requires this, a home help service - especially with trained personnel - and a visiting nursing service for the very young and for the bedridden or almost totally dependent child. [More…]
There should also be compulsory medical examinations under the national health service for all 4-year-olds to enable earlier assessment of children with special needs due to a disability and hostel accommodation for the aged, orphans, and others unable to live at home for any reason, such as illness, age of parent, distance from a facility, condition of handicapped person in relation to other members of the family, size of family, etc. [More…]
Another form of aid would be the introduction of taxation rebates as a form of social assistance where additional expense is incurred in caring for a handicapped member of a family. [More…]
In making provision for this assistance, we must guard against not seeing him within the context of a family unit. [More…]
In its report this panel of experts saw mental retardation as a national health, social and economic problem affecting in that country 51 million adults and children and involving from 15 million to 20 million family members. [More…]
Apart from the effect on the lives of the other members in the family it seems absolutely certain that the secret of success is the commencement of the skilled training and education as a child. [More…]
I know he had a personal family affinity with this problem. [More…]
He ranks with the Aboriginal, the migrant child and the child of the working class family in the inner suburban areas. [More…]
At the time when our doctors told us that for the future of the rest of our family we must place our child in a home, we made inquiries throughout Queensland and in other States as to suitable institutions. [More…]
Acting on a brochure we received from the Sub-Normal Children’s Welfare Association, we inspected The Chalet, and were immediately taken with the ‘family’ type atmosphere, and the progressive outlook of the director . [More…]
I can tell you, the decision to move our child from the family circle was not an easy one, and we fully examined alt aspects of his future well-being. [More…]
It is also very difficult to raise funds for family counselling services using professional social workers because you can’t show touching pictures of children before and after service, or pictures of huge buildings which are monuments to the money that has been raised. [More…]
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the ordinary family - group to meet its responsibilities to those children who are not physically handicapped. [More…]
We must recognise that in marginal areas there are very large tracts of land that with known technology and within the known economics of dairy production simply will not be able to yield the required productivity per acre or per milking cow to provide a family with a reasonable living. [More…]
But if a dairy farmer voluntarily sells his farm, unless he is heavily in debt, he and his family walk out with a substantial amount of money. [More…]
To enable low income dairy farmers who voluntarily wish to do so, to leave the industry and to receive a fair price for their land and improvements: and, after the writing off of redundant assets, to make the land and useful improvements available lo other farmers so as to build up their properties to a viable family farm level and, where possible, diversifying the pattern of land use. [More…]
I believe that that is a laudable aim - and, after the writing-off of redundant assets, to make the land and useful improvements available to other farmers so as to build up their properties to a viable family farm level and, where possible, diversifying the pattern of land use. [More…]
They provide the means of sustaining the average dairy farmer, in particular the owner-operator who, with his family, is really the basis or the foundation of a very great industry which has spread across the continent but which is to be found in particular in the northern section of New South Wales, in southern Queensland, in Victoria, in parts of Tasmania and in South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]
Dairy farming over the years has been mainly a family effort. [More…]
That is, each member of the family takes his place in the cowshed. [More…]
I suppose the days are gone when children had to milk cows before they went off to school but in many dairy farms it is still a family effort that gets them by. [More…]
We give them the right to produce children and to accept the responsibilities of family maintenance. [More…]
Young people are associated with charitable groups such as the Smith Family which engage in collecting food and clothes for needy people at Christmas time and on other occasions. [More…]
The burden of additional costs has been borne by the low income earner - that is, the family which eats bread and eggs - instead of the Australian taxpayer making up any difference that is needed out of Consolidated Revenue. [More…]
Labor’s policy, as always, is designed to protect the family farmer and the small farmers - those who depend entirely on wheat for their income. [More…]
The difference between the Government and the Opposition is basically this: The Government believes that the burden of the subsidy element should fall on the low income group, on the man with the big family whose children eat the bread and the eggs. [More…]
If the Government is to subsidise the wheat producer under stabilisation, the Federal Treasury or the taxpayer should be the one paying the subsidy and not the low income family man. [More…]
For my part let me conclude by stating now in the clearest and most categorical terms that 1 am not prepared to sacrifice one traditional family farm or farmer to make a Roman holiday for a person who speculates in wheat growing during this time of over production. [More…]
A family’s standard of living will be determined much more by where they live than by what they earn. [More…]
Honourable members may say that that is fair enough but of course he may well have a wife and family who are entitled to some kind of protection. [More…]
The figures I have just given are by way of illustration and are based on a family of husband and wife and would vary if the family included one or more dependent children, or consisted of one parent and a child A further relevant provision is in section 82u (1.) [More…]
(b) of the National Health Act which excludes pensioners enrolled in the pensioner medical service from low income family assistance. [More…]
It follows, if honourable members have been able to trace these provisions through, that the amendment would affect only a very small number of applicants whose means as assessed are equivalent to between $47 a week, which is the eligibility ceiling for the pensioner medical service, and $48.50 a week which is the eligibility ceiling for low income family assistance under the Bill. [More…]
Family A is of pension age and receives a pension. [More…]
Family B is of pension age but is not entitled to any pension (e.g., because residential qualifications under the Social Services Act are not satisfied). [More…]
Family C is under pensionable age. [More…]
In-patient hospitalisation and attention where family income is less than $4,000 a year - $3.60 a day including professional attendance, drugs and dressings, and services such as X-ray. [More…]
Where family income is $4,000 a year or more hospitalisation rate is $8.40 a day. [More…]
After 7 weeks in New Guinea there were family consultations about the boy surrendering and trying to get back on a proper keel in the Services. [More…]
In Vietnam there emerged a terrible armed struggle between the peoples of one race - father against son, brother against brother, each fighting desperately for principles I no longer understand, but it was a family struggle, which in the final event will only be resolved between the people of Vietnam. [More…]
As has been pointed out in this House time and again, it does not matter how efficient a farmer might be in terms of productivity per acre, per manhour or net income per acre or whatever it might be, unless he has sufficient gross income which is directly correlated to the size of his farm he will be unable to support his family at a reasonable standard of living and amortise his assets in the farm. [More…]
In addition, in all cases in which normal family relationships existed, the wife and children would travel to the hospital and back again each day and would have to pay the cost of fares. [More…]
This loss of earnings could be a tremendous loss for the family unit, particularly for the young married man who has commitments for furniture and maybe the purchase of a home. [More…]
The Government not only has the basic responsibility to protect workers against industrial hazards but it also has the responsibility to ensure that when a worker is injured he and his family are justly compensated. [More…]
The weekly rates provided for in the amending legislation are inadequate to meet the average family needs. [More…]
I have to point out in view of the allegation - and it is understandable if a family is concerned about a national serviceman who is wearing glasses - that this person could not see more than 4 feet in front of him- [More…]
The victims of this kind of system are the people least able to bear it, particularly those on what are called lower and middle incomes - and the term middle’ is perhaps a little wide - and especially where the family is a married unit with children and where the wife is unable or unwilling to work. [More…]
Surely this is according to the size of the family unit. [More…]
What was the weekly family contribution charged at that time for maximum insurance by the major registered hospital benefits organisations in each State and Territory. [More…]
What was the weekly family contribution charged at that time for maximum insurance by the major registered medical benefits organisations in each State and Territory. [More…]
Arbitrary standards based on family income, which may automatically exclude persons who do not meet those standards, have not been laid down. [More…]
In assessing the applicant’s ability to satisfy his own housing need a Committee has regard to the availability and price level of accommodation, for both rental and purchase, in the private sector and relates this information to the family income, assets and liabilities of members of the family and any outer special factors considered relevant. [More…]
Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes, K..B.E., M.V.O., M.C., E.D., a member of this House for the division of Chisholm from 1949 to 1970 and a Minister of the Crown from 195 1 to 1956, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
I join in expressing the deepest sympathy of my colleagues of the Austraiian Country Party to Lady Kent Hughes and to the family. [More…]
When I attended the funeral of Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes with so many others 1 sat in the church and looked at the noble gathering that attended and I thought much of the man whom I had known over many years through family friendship and through my experience in this House. [More…]
1 should like to extend my sympathy to Lady Kent Hughes and all members of the family. [More…]
Lady Kent Hughes, and his family. [More…]
We extend our sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
In Tasmania, however, the amount required to be insured in respect of any one claim of any one person in the case of passengers in the insured’s vehicle or members of the insured’s family living with him is only $4,000. [More…]
I know that the economic size family farms in Australia will out-perform, in animal production at least and often in grain production, any large scale company farm. [More…]
Now, there is a realisation that population pressures must be controlled by family planning and birth control measures, and that if family planning is successful, the pressures on migration will become less and the Australian immigration programme, looking at it from our point of view, will be more widely understood. [More…]
It is interesting to see what great achievements are being made already in places like Barbados, India and Fiji with family planning. [More…]
I am not going to fall for the argument that we are all going to stay here as a happy family over the weekend and do committee work. [More…]
Some of these factors are: nutritional deficiencies, insanitary living conditions, overcrowding due to frequent pregnancies and the congregation of many members of a family into 1 residence. [More…]
How many immigrant families, consisting of man and wife or man, wife and family, arrived in Australia during each oft he past five years; [More…]
How many family units are expected to arrive each year for the next 5 years. [More…]
Figures for immigrant families arriving in Australia (a family being defined as a man and wife, or man, wife and children) do not take account of those cases in which the husband and wife migrate separately. [More…]
I ask whether all avenues have been explored to discover the whereabouts of Mr Francis James and to restore him if possible to his family and his country. [More…]
But it is increasingly difficult for him to see his family lagging badly behind his civilian counterparts in living standards and educational opportunities. [More…]
Over a whole range of areas the career soldier sees his conditions of service and entitlements deteriorating and his family suffering penalties and inequities. [More…]
The time is appropriate for a comprehensive inquiry not only into the DFRB but into the whole range of conditions of service which are under lire at the moment - into pay, moves and re-posting, re-settlement and re-establishment in civilian life, family separation and disruption, housing, education, in short into the whole social environment of the serviceman and his family. [More…]
A serviceman of any rank is always at a considerable disadvantage compared to his civilian counterpart where his family is concerned. [More…]
Whatever compensations are given, the nature of the employment and duty of the soldier will always impose considerable strain on family life. [More…]
However, his wife and family are not in any way dedicated or obligated to the system. [More…]
Mrs Curtin still lives with her family in Cottesloe. [More…]
As you will appreciate, the amount of Social Service payments received by the Medlyn family during the period which was subsequently covered by Repatriation benefits, had to be deducted from the gross arrears. [More…]
This amount tas been paid to the Medlyn family by a series of cheques. [More…]
I place on record tonight my personal appreciation and that of the Medlyn family for the justice - no doubt delayed justice - which has been received by the suffering Medlyn family because of war injuries sustained by this man. [More…]
I am sure that Mr Medlyn and his family greatly appreciate the honourable member’s persistence and determination in pressing their case. [More…]
A few of the aspects are, firstly, the interest burden on the young married couple seeking a home - also the family group, which is continuously having its interest burden increased; secondly, the cost of a home and land and the inadequate loans that are available; thirdly, spiralling land costs; fourthly, the inadequacy of the low cost housing provided by State Government authorities; and, fifthly, the fact that it is almost impossible because of finance difficulty for a young couple seeking to construct or purchase a dwelling to do so. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government at that time agreed to meet three-fifths of the cost of rent rebates, which was designed to ensure that no low income family would be required to pay more than one-fifth of its income for a government home. [More…]
On the other hand, the subsidy could be extended to help the family groups who 5 or 10 years ago entered into housing agreements and who now find their interest burden, with the encouragement of the Government, continuing to rise. [More…]
I think the emphasis from now on will have to be to ensure that the low wage earner - especially the low wage earner with a family - and the young married couple will be given the precedence to enable him to purchase his own home. [More…]
I would think there was not a man on this side of the House who would not dissociate himself, as I dissociate myself, from any intrusion into a man’s private home and any intimidation of his family. [More…]
Anybody who has a young family, as I have, and who realises how much time his children spend with their eyes and minds glued to the television apparatus must be aware of the tremendous influence this thing exercises. [More…]
The benefit for family men on comparable incomes is lower. [More…]
The average family man with a wife and 2 children with a taxable income of $3,000 receives a benefit of $32. [More…]
In all this there is not the slightest pretence of equity, not the slightest attempt to distribute benefits according to need, nol the slightest effort to protect the family man and the genuine middle income earner against the raids which the rest of the Budget makes on his standard of living. [More…]
Naturally, the table involves a number of assumptions, even guesses, about probable family spending on the items taxed in the Budget. [More…]
But the conclusion is clear and it is this: Seventy per cent of Australian families are worse off because of the direct and immediate consequences of this Budget, and the poorer a family is, the worse it is affected. [More…]
Cb) Expenditure by income grade of survey items 23, 34, 35. lc) Assumption that average family includes dependant wife and two children. [More…]
I would have made adjustments in the family allowance for married taxpayers. [More…]
Maybe a young couple with no children can put up with the noise, but when they become established and begin to have a family they may find that the problem has completely changed for them. [More…]
However, no increase would have been of any real or lasting benefit to the pensioner, to the lower income group or to the large family unless the Government was prepared to take strong measures to control the strike-happy, power-drunk Mr Hawke and the militant left wing union leadership who are the real enemies of the pensioner, the superannuitant, the lower income group and particularly the primary producer. [More…]
While 1 believe that the Government has done its best to bring down a Budget that overall is in the interests of the nation and that less emphasis should have been given to lower taxation and more emphasis placed on assistance to the pensioner and the man with a large family, I maintain that economic measures are not enough. [More…]
Unless irresponsible, power drunk, strike happy disruptionists are controlled and unless the control of unions is restored to the hands of the decent rank and file members then the purchasing power of the pensioner, the superannuitant, the lower wage earner and the man with a large family, together with the exporter of primary products and manufactured goods, will continue to deteriorate at an ever increasing rate. [More…]
There is good reason for dismay and consternation over the Budget, particularly in the case of the family man and those persons on fixed and low incomes. [More…]
I cannot recall when a family man and those struggling to make ends meet were subjected to the type of confidence trick perpetrated by the Government in this Budget. [More…]
The ones most adversely affected will be those least able to pay - the family man, people on fixed or low incomes and pensioners. [More…]
Therefore every person and every family in receipt of social services today will be worse off. [More…]
These are some of the areas of taxation where the Government could assist the low income earner, the family man and those people resident in country or remote areas. [More…]
For a person whose income is the equivalent or approximately equivalent to that of an invalid pensioner with a wife and 4 dependant children, the increase in the cost structure which is caused through the increases in sales tax and other duties which the Government has introduced is $27.90 a year based on estimates of family spending. [More…]
The final matter with which I wish to deal specifically is the reduced amount of income available to most family men. [More…]
The family man suffers most, as tax allowances for dependants have not kept pace with inflation. [More…]
This applies even more to the family man in the lower and middle income groups. [More…]
That is the case of Mr Semo-Tordjman and his family. [More…]
This case has been carefully considered by senior officers within my Department who have made very close contact with the family, who have done so over the period since that family has been here, and who are continuing to do so. [More…]
The advice tendered to me by these senior officers, who have had considerable experience in the handling of social welfare cases, is that at this stage the facts do not justify the repatriation of that family at Commonwealth expense. [More…]
So far as the reasons for that recommendation are concerned, I am sure that the House would agree that it would not be appropriate to disclose the personal affairs of the family. [More…]
The family farm concept in Australia has tremendous merit. [More…]
These duties strike at the very viability of the economic structure of the family farm unit. [More…]
I pity the mother with a big family who is compelled to remain at home, unable to go out and get a job, and who tries with all her might and main, to send her children off to school as tidily dressed and as well cared for as are children from other homes. [More…]
1 plead with the Government to take a realistic view of the problems facing the family, because the families are the future of this country. [More…]
Unless he is in State housing accommodation his rent alone will mean that he cannot support his family on anything approaching a decent standard. [More…]
Such a budget would have reacted more savagely against the people whom that Party purports to represent - the worker, the family man and the low income earner. [More…]
I am sure that the amount of labour involved has a very direct bearing on this optimum size because it is one of our greatest problems in the country, ft would be hard to find, in my estimation, a more efficient working group than the single family unit. [More…]
The Australian Government - whichever government it is - should be warned against any precipitate move which would make it harder for the family unit to continue as the traditional, efficient labour unit in the pastoral and agricultural industries. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party’s opposition to taxation in almost any form except way up the scales is often based, in terms of the specific example, on the low wage large family complex, as it were. [More…]
These young people who because of high home costs and shortage of housing must have a working wife and put off having our most valuable migrants, a family born here, are going to pay more for their family planning. [More…]
A similar thing has occurred to a family in Collie. [More…]
He may be permanently injured, but while his condition is not considered to be permanent his wife and family can receive the sickness benefit. [More…]
Of course, the members of his family are deeply distressed. [More…]
The fact is that we say that family members are entitled to hold their own political views. [More…]
I have proof of this in my own family. [More…]
that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family greater than if the pregnancy were terminated (and in determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such a risk of injury to health, account may be taken of the pregnant woman’s actual or reasonably foreseeable environment); or [More…]
The rights of the head of a family to decide what his child shall eat. [More…]
There is a need for the community at large to be more concerned about the rights within the family group without trespassing on the sovereignty of the family. [More…]
One of these cases can be dealt with now by bringing in laws to provide for the taking over of the economy of a family when the person in charge is irresponsible. [More…]
This is a cause of much hardship, suffering, sickness and social disabilities of all kinds where for example a breadwinner in a family is an alcoholic thereby causing extreme suffering to his dependents. [More…]
This has largely been corrected in Holland by the appointment of a trustee to safeguard the income and assets of such a family to see that they are properly applied. [More…]
1 am particularly concerned to see the end of inflation and the end to the use of the present blunt instruments being applied in vain to cure it - and this is not only because of the general effect on pensioners, on those on fixed income, on the lower income groups, and particularly on the young, newly married where there are the expenses of buying a home and of raising a family with only one income coming into the household. [More…]
May I, while we are discussing the question of raising a family, bring to the attention of the House the fact that item No. [More…]
If the crisis in the countryside goes unresolved and if the family farm is abandoned, and with it many rural communities, we will create a vacuum in the countryside. [More…]
It is against the best interests of the nation to abandon the daily bread of the family to foreign control and to leave the housewife at the mercy of foreign faceless corporations. [More…]
This man, very often a family man with children to keep at school, a wife to maintain and a house to rent or pay off, will face increases in sales tax and in the cost of a telephone - it will be $7 a year for him - which the Budget imposes. [More…]
During his speech the Leader of the Opposition made great play about a table which he said was a table which disclosed ‘Budget impact on family income and spending’. [More…]
Naturally, the table involves a number of assumptions, even guesses, about probable family spending. [More…]
It is not the Government of the Australian people who have a long tradition of commendable personal values of fair play, of giving a man a go, of look ing after the battler whether the battler is the young married couple trying to build a home for the future, the wage and salary earner struggling to raise and educate a family, or the pensioner trying to establish security and human dignity - his right - in retirement. [More…]
Of course I refer to the population of this nation by the propagation of our own Australian family growth. [More…]
The Treasurer has not provided one single measure aimed at encouraging families living in this country to bear the unjust taxation burden that grows progressively as the family increases in size. [More…]
This Budget clearly serves notice that this heartless Government is anti-family. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party’s opposition to taxation in almost any form except way up the scales is often based in terms of the specific example, on the low wage large family complex. [More…]
The attitude they reveal is positive proof that the family man, the wage earner, just does not rate in this Government’s estimation. [More…]
This Government is an anti-family bunch of bunglers masquerading as a democratic government. [More…]
Where in this Budget can it be claimed that the Government has shown even a hint of concern for the family man. [More…]
We should consider how costs of the family man have increased since then. [More…]
Child endowment payments have also been shamefully neglected in this anti-family Budget. [More…]
The promised reform that resulted in the illogical general 10 per cent tax cut on incomes under $10,000 is patchwork confusion tragically directed against the family man. [More…]
In dealing with the matter to which I was referring last evening, the neglect in the Budget of families, it is fitting to mention the widower and the grave plight that he faces in his endeavour to educate and care for his family without the help of his marriage partner. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [More…]
The Budget provided for no increase in deductions for the family man. [More…]
Let me indicate the only changes that have been made since 1954 in the maximum deductions for dependent members of the family. [More…]
Over the last 16 years there has been very little increase in the amount of deduction that can be claimed for dependent members of the family. [More…]
There has been a regrettable weakening of family ties. [More…]
That includes the first child, the student child and other children of a family. [More…]
It has been correctly said - and it bears repeating - that when a man marries and has a family he has given hostages to fortune. [More…]
These women have gone out to work to boost the family budget because the alternative is starvation and financial trouble for themselves and for their families. [More…]
The ordinary people who are battling to rear and educate a family and who comprise 60 per cent of the community or the more fortunate people who are doing quite well despite the tax scale? [More…]
I am going to work as never before to get my colleagues to accept this programme: First, we must have an end to the policies which still discourage savings and thrift and which make a breadline pension inevitable for numbers of Australians; secondly, we must have an end to the position where some people can bludge on the community, spend all their income on non-essentials and know that they will be just about as well off as a man who struggles to educate his family and who saves only a few thousand dollars before retiring or whose superannuation is little if any better and is doomed to decline to the breadline; thirdly, we must face the fact that the vast majority of Australians do not want old people to suffer real poverty, no matter why they are in that position. [More…]
The second of six children, he is the son of a father who disappeared for a time at the birth of each new baby and who finally deserted the family permanently when Gregory was a small boy, leaving his wife and children destitute. [More…]
He had engaged the assistance of a Mr Wilson in the Department of the Navy who extended himself at that hour of the night to try to make arrangements for this lad to have his leave extended for a few days so that he could look after the affairs of his family, be with his mother and attend his fathers funeral. [More…]
Then he would have had to drive 125 miles back that night and have one more day with the family. [More…]
What I am appealing for is for officers to be given latitude to use their initiative over these Treasury regulations, to be allowed to give a day or a couple of days grace especially where it involves a funeral or the death of a member of the family. [More…]
Whenever a member of one’s family dies it is a matter of hurt. [More…]
1 can understand the sailor’s sense of grief and I can understand his family’s sense of resentment, but in this instance it could well have meant that some person would have had to be posted to the ship in order to take the sailor’s place. [More…]
Additional pension for children: Pensioners receive an extra $2.50 per week for the first child under 16 (or between 16 and 21 if a student) in the family, and an extra $3.50 for each subsequent such child. [More…]
Queensland: Supplementary benefit may be payable by the Department of Children’s Services to one-parent families receiving age pension, on the basis of $2.50 per week for each dependent child, subject, however, to a ceiling total income (child endowment being excluded) equal to the basic wage adjusted to take account of family size. [More…]
Western Australia: An additional allowance may be payable to age pensioners with children at the rate of $2.00 per week (in a one-child family) or $2.50 (where there is more than one dependent child). [More…]
The amount of assistance payable is the difference between assessed means and the appropriate required minimum living income determined according to size of family. [More…]
To the amounts mentioned in this table will be added the normal family endowment plus, where there is a child under 6 years of age or an invalid, a further $2. [More…]
Quite apart from medical and allied costs, however, a person with dependants will invariably have continuing family and domestic expenses; accordingly, the fact he is in hospital will not affect for him the introduction of the higher rate of benefit in such cases. [More…]
He also complained that his distinguished nephew, the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), the black sheep of the family, had not spoken in this debate. [More…]
I have no doubt he will supply some of the answers to the rural problems of this country and maybe show some of the progressive ways in which at least one member of the family can solve these problems. [More…]
The family group with lower incomes and wilh children to rear has been treated even worse mainly because of the great burden placed on them by this Budget through indirect taxation. [More…]
With a family relationship, we are like so many families - fiercely independent. [More…]
It is however a family size vegetable plot rather than a market garden, and it is the work of one family only. [More…]
Those honourable members who have no family obligations and who are therefore in a position to do this ought to do so. [More…]
A young person with a family has to wait 3 years for a 2, 3 or 4-bedroom house. [More…]
income or with a large family. [More…]
If one went around to every household in Australia and counted the amount of drugs in family medicine chests in those homes, one would find that there were more drugs there than in all the pharmacies in Australia. [More…]
The subsidy system, which in general is designed to help the small, traditional family farmer, has been a failure because the biggest share of the federal subsidy payments is going to the powerful manufacturing interests on the one hand and to a very small number of large and affluent primary producers on the other. [More…]
I do not believe that in the event of children being born into my family I should get the same amount of money by way of maternity allowance or even child endowment as the railway fettler who is on $40 a week or the factory worker who is probably on $50 or $60 a week. [More…]
Quite clearly, if the Minister believes the indices he presented in the House are of such monumental importance he should explain why - because of his failure to adjust these payment rates according to those indices - he is cheating a family of 3 of $2.50 a week in child endowment to which it would otherwise be entitled. [More…]
This means that a family of 4 has only $11.50 a week or $2.80 each week to live on. [More…]
How much longer will we tolerate a situation in which the female head of a family of children is treated in this way? [More…]
They have to get out to work early to earn income so that they can somehow prop up the family’s standard of living because there may be other children in the home. [More…]
This family is worse off in these circumstances than it would be if the wife was widowed. [More…]
She would receive $4.50 a week more for her family than she would if the husband was alive and was collecting unemployment and sickness benefits. [More…]
Even with the long term benefits the male head of a family with a wife and 2 children receives only $1 a week more than his wife would receive if she was widowed and was supporting the same number of children. [More…]
The United States of America is currently proposing this for families as part of a family assistance plan. [More…]
The level of guaranteed income will be struck after a careful analysis of family consumption patterns and need. [More…]
Subsequently they were forced to move in with a married daughter with a family and reside in a home which had inadequate space for them. [More…]
I support the raising of child endowment firstly because it has not been raised for a long while and secondly because it would appear to be the one area foi which substantial help could be given to the man in the lower income group who has a large family. [More…]
They are now necessities; every family needs them, including the aged, the invalid and the widows. [More…]
A man with the same family on the minimum wage now pays $2.55 a week or $132.60 a year. [More…]
But the important point is that he pays more income tax in a week than the 1949 family in similar circumstances paid in a year. [More…]
In 1949 child endowment paid to a family of 3 children represented an amount of 11.3 per cent of the average male earnings. [More…]
A man, his wife and 3 children is close to the size of the average family. [More…]
The family with 3 children now gets S3 child endowment. [More…]
In 1948 with a minimum wage of $11.60 a family of 5 children received $4 a week in child endowment. [More…]
The same size family now gets $6.75 although the minimum wage now is $42.60. [More…]
To retain the same relationship the child endowment should now be over $12 for a family of 5. [More…]
The recent Budget was not a family budget. [More…]
The calculation of requirements is based on different amounts for single people and family groups (for blind people there are special higher amounts) with, in each case, an addition for rent. [More…]
Available resources include certain income and capital; the main national insurance and industrial injury benefits, family allowances and maintenance payments from a husband on the father of the claimant’s children are taken into account in full but some part of all other resources is disregarded. [More…]
Often in such circumstances a family is visited by people from all kinds of agencies. [More…]
Many of these women have raised a family and cared for a home for years. [More…]
Recently I had drawn to my attention the problem of a migrant of 65 years of age who was receiving nothing from the Government because his family was working. [More…]
One aspect with which I wish to deal specifically is the Government’s refusal to give any worthwhile assistance to the family within the framework of social services Child endowment is one of the best ways in which to assist the family because it is paid irrespective of the income earned by that family. [More…]
This is indicative of how the family has been completely forgotten. [More…]
The Government apparently thinks that child endowment and the family today are old hat, and yet the family is the very basis of our community and these are the people whom we should be looking after. [More…]
Nothing is worse than for a woman with a young family to be suddenly deprived of her husband, lt is a dreadful thing emotionally and economically. [More…]
She has to bring up the family, and she no longer has her partner to assist her. [More…]
I believe that this should never at any stage be used as an excuse to refuse or to forget to look after those sections of the community which have not been able, because of the various economic, social and family circumstances involved, to look after themselves. [More…]
It is almost certain that the husband is either an invalid or unemployable, otherwise he would not be prepared to sit back and allow his family to suffer because of the meagre allowances that this Government provides under the Social Services Act. [More…]
With full employment and with inflation running at 3 per cent to 4 per cent a year our concern should now be for the low wage earner, especially the low wage earner with a family of 3 or 4 children. [More…]
In the case of a married couple without children or with children able to look after themselves or with a relative nearby to assist the children and look after them on their return from school the wife can accept employment and thus supplement the family income, but the low wage earner with a wife and children is not in this position and thus is worse off than his neighbour whose wife has been able to supplement the family income. [More…]
In its place a family allowance should be implemented. [More…]
Additional pension for children: Pensioners receive an extra $2.50 per week for the first child under 16 (or between 16 and 21 if a student) in the family, and an extra $3.50 for each subsequent such child. [More…]
He is reported to have said that the Government should use taxation and endowment to correct the unfairness of the wages paid to the family man. [More…]
Australia had for many years been paying insufficient attention to the needs of the family as opposed to the needs of the individual’, he said. [More…]
An unduly high proportion from the wages fund is given to the individual without family responsibilities’, he said. [More…]
No provision has been made for the family in the revision of the taxation scale. [More…]
In my experience, having youngsters of this age in my family, they eat a lot more than I do and it costs a lot more to clothe them. [More…]
One property which has been farmed by the family for more than a half century has never had, in that time, a more serious loss. [More…]
But then, as the time for them to be up comes nearer, there is a disaster looming for the family. [More…]
We are dealing also with members of his family who at this stage probably have families of their own. [More…]
Anybody earning under $70 or $80 per week these days and with a wife and family is doing poorly. [More…]
It is ALP policy that war pensions, including the general and special rate, and family allowances, shall not be taken into consideration as income for the payment of service pensions or corresponding social service pensions. [More…]
It was agreed he should be transferred to the Bexley Nursing Home which was close to his family. [More…]
The weight of the aircraft at take-off was considerably below the structural weight limit for this aircraft type but the aircraft was overloaded for the particular runway, under the ambient conditions, through an error in the computation of fuel load arising from the use by Pan American Airways of a family hydrometer. [More…]
We must ensure that quotas as they are presently being allocated are not just propping the speculators,thesyndicatesandthecom- panies and by that process are allowing the individual grower and the family grower to fall by the wayside. [More…]
They were entitled to come to me, just as they go to many other persons whom they expect to give advice - members of the clergy, family friends and so on - and as a member of Parliament I am not going to spurn anybody who seeks my advice in a matter concerning Federal laws or Federal administration. [More…]
John Kaputin, the other Mataungan leader, comes from a respected Tolai family and received bis secondary education in Australia. [More…]
He wants shoes for his children and a bedroom for each member of his family. [More…]
We assert positively, and a careful analysis of our scheme demonstrates the correctness of our claims, that the role of the personal physician, the family doctor, is essential to its operation. [More…]
This leaves a residue of some $30 to $60 to be found by the patient’s family. [More…]
But there is always a substantial subsidy to be paid by the family. [More…]
For the benefit of the House and the nation I take the opportunity to give a brief history of him and his family. [More…]
Besides his family life and his public life in Australia, the Leader of the Opposition has also been personally acquainted with more heads of state and heads of government in our region, and indeed the world, than any other member of this Parliament and by his conduct, integrity and capacity he enjoys their confidence. [More…]
His reputation, his family and his personal conduct is above reproach, but that does not prevent the members of the Government from stooping to this vile attack upon his loyalty to Australia. [More…]
He or his family have never been involved in diplomatic incidents or murky court cases. [More…]
1 recall that it was not long ago that the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Fulton) stood up in this House and, as a member from the far north of Queensland, took the earliest opportunity to commend the treatment which had brought very great relief to a member of his own family who had been an asthma sufferer for many years. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration whether he has seen the Hobart newspaper report which says that an Australian citizen, Con Patiniotis, on holiday with his family in Greece was inducted into the Greek Army despite assurances from the Greek authorities that he would not have to serve. [More…]
The Commonwealth must acknowledge, without reservation, its responsibility for ensuring that every Australian has a proper home in which to raise his family at a cost which does not impair his capacity to meet his family’s needs. [More…]
This was designed to ensure that no low income family would be required to pay more than one-fifth of its income for a government home. [More…]
What sort of a life is it for a family with young children to live in a flat in a building of possibly 2 or 3 storeys? [More…]
The home buyer, who is a most valuable asset to this country, is invariably rearing a young family. [More…]
Gone is the Australian tradition by which every man has a home or his own block of land in which he has a garden and there is the opportunity for his family to play and to grow in dignity. [More…]
1 note that there are applicants for most of these sites but I believe that only one of them is from a Gurindji family. [More…]
One family, the husband of whom was previously an accountant with an American firm in Ankara, spoke fluent English. [More…]
He is an Australian of the very best type with a very fine Australian family. [More…]
Often the members of the base family will settle better and he happier and more productive in their endeavours if the complete family unit is with them. [More…]
It seems that while it might involve greater social service and health expenditure it may increase the economic productivity of the family unit in a way that more than compensates for this. [More…]
Their old church, family and locality ties have been broken. [More…]
Concentrations of persons of the same nationality initially offer to the migrant and his family an opportunity to be with compatriots. [More…]
These include indecision as to permanent stay in Australia; a desire to defer lodging an application until all family members become eligible; failure to appreciate the significance of Australian citizenship; or a preference to defer making an application until more fully established in Australia. [More…]
To test this, he could put to the man a hypothetical question on the folowing lines: ‘Would your beliefs prevent you from bearing arms if at some future time Australia is invaded and your family is directly threatened?’ [More…]
He said that a young man applying for exemption on the grounds of conscientious objection would have the question put to him: ‘Would your belief prevent you bearing arms if there was an invasion and your family was threatened?’ [More…]
This in turn will mean that persons with small incomes or with large families will be hit much harder than those with large incomes or with no family at all. [More…]
Government will continue to gather a substantial amount of this tax is that in which the breadwinner is trying to provide for and raise a family on a fairly low income. [More…]
The person with a taxable income of $500 cannot avoid paying sales tax because it is imposed on such articles as shaving necessities, hair oil, face powders, body powders, which include baby powders, many toilet preparations, wireless sets, television sets, motor cars and all articles which any man, wife and family would normally use - even toys. [More…]
It places a greater burden on the large family than it does where there is no family at all. [More…]
The Government proposes to encourage us in our home drinking by allowing a family to consume 400 gallons of its home-produced wine. [More…]
We are going to cut that back in the commercial sphere but we are going to encourage each and every family to drink 400 gallons of wine a year.’ [More…]
Something which is rather contradictory and which has been built into the income tax structure is that the allowance made for family and other concessions runs counter to the logic of social welfare payments. [More…]
Each family receives $3 per week in child endowment irrespective of the income of the family. [More…]
But if the father of one family has an actual income of $3,000 and the other father has an actual income of 810,000 the tax concession to the first family, the lower income family, is worth $2.56 a week but to the second family, the higher income family, it is $5.17 a week which is almost double the first amount. [More…]
If he splits that up amongst his family, including himself, each member of the family will have an extra 4c a week, which is not enough to buy anything - not even an icecream. [More…]
If the taxable income were $1,500 the reductions to be granted would give each member of the family an extra 6c a week. [More…]
If the taxable income were $2,000, each member of the family would receive an extra 10c a week. [More…]
If the taxable income were $2,500, which would mean that the man was earning more than $60 a week, the proposed tax reductions would give each member of his family the colossal increased spending power of 16c a week or. [More…]
The nominal concessional deduction for that man and his family is $676. [More…]
What we really need is a reverse tapered concessional deduction for a man with a wife and family. [More…]
I dare say that other honourable members have had experiences similar to mine where people, because of handicaps and a lack of family relations or close friends in a convenient situation, have found themselves facing a difficult problem about accommodation. [More…]
He acted out of motives of pure loyalty lo his family, his neighbours and his colleagues. [More…]
I think it was a miserable action to try to label and to denegrate a man who gave his time and his dedication only for his family and his neighbours in the countryside. [More…]
Her 19-year-old lad was about to matriculate, but abandoned his education to serve as a counter jumper in a departmental store in Adelaide in order to supplement the family income. [More…]
A second member of the family similarly cut short her education. [More…]
Five children of the family are attending school and another child is due to commence in the coming school year. [More…]
The waiting list is growing ali the time and each one of those cases on the waiting list represents a disadvantaged family. [More…]
Is it any wonder that Dr Cunningham Dax fled Victoria to a quieter existence dealing with family medical problems in Tasmania. [More…]
I refer to the need for the removal of social isolation, the dulling of family and public fears, the improvement of home conditions and day treatment, and the provision of employment for these persons. [More…]
I have been told that at this time at least one family in 6 would have a member who would require psychiatric treatment of one sort or another during his lifetime. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the plight of the small poultry farmer - the family unit - who has a flock of up to 10,000 birds? [More…]
Yet a further matter which is under close and active consideration is the effects of frequent reposting of servicemen in the form of family disruption and interruption to children’s education. [More…]
What we had in mind was a comprehensive inquiry into the whole social enviroment of the serviceman and his family; into pay; moves and reposting, re-settlement and reestablishment in civil life, family separation and disruption, housing and education. [More…]
There has been a lack of understanding of what it means to be an officer, an NCO or a serviceman who has to move from State to State and from theatre to theatre, with consequent disruption of family life. [More…]
Again, justified and long standing complaints on pay, housing, transfers, retirement and family benefits have impaired many career servicemen’s assessment of their chosen profession. [More…]
I refer to family and children’s programmes on the one hand, and to the Australian content in television programmes on the other hand. [More…]
By far the greatest proportion of programmes in family viewing time consisted of general entertainment from overseas. [More…]
Although many of these programmes attract the young audience it is clear that in family viewing time there are unused opportunities for developing a wider range of Australian programmes of both an entertaining and informative character to interest children and adolescents. [More…]
It is classified as restricted but members of the forces are encouraged to discuss it with, in the words of the handbook, ‘your family and friends’. [More…]
I preface my question, which is addressed to the Prime Minister, by citing the case of a family in my electorate which has already had one son undergo his national service training and is now faced with the prospect of the next 2 sons - twins - having been called up for national service. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he and the Government consider it to be just and equitable that one family should be compelled, under the lottery system of selecting national servicemen, to supply 3 sons for the Army while thousands of families are never expected to provide even one son. [More…]
Is there any provision in the National Service Act or any other Commonwealth statute or regulation which could be used to relieve the burden on this family? [More…]
In order for a family to have a reasonable standard of living nowadays, the husband has to have either 2 jobs or work a considerable amount of overtime, in addition to which his wife has to work. [More…]
This is the only way in which a family can get a reasonable income in these times. [More…]
This scheme was designed to ensure that no low income family would be required to pay more than one-fifth of its income on a government home. [More…]
To get a family of 6 from Green Valley to the beach or the zoo and back takes most of a day, including half, a day’s travel by car or perhaps 2 days’ wages in’ fares and expenses … 60 per cent of Green Valley’s families have no car and 29 per cent have no wages. [More…]
We must keep in mind that both husband and wife have to do this in these areas because, under the economic set-up of this Government, there have to be two breadwinners instead of one in a family. [More…]
He wanted to know not only because of his own interests but that of his family and his school-age children. [More…]
Victoria moved right out of the field of family assistance as from 30th September 1970. [More…]
I believe that they have some responsibility, particularly in the family assistance field, for the provision of supplementary assistance because of the variation of expenses and variation of the facilities that are available. [More…]
It is indeed unfortunate if they have a young family of school age and they wish to travel interstate with them. [More…]
Family counselling is required to show the people how they can overcome the pressures and the problems. [More…]
But there are things such as housing for pensioners, more money per week for the lone property owner, the payment to surviving members of family units, such as mother and daughter, or two sisters etc. [More…]
They should be encouraged to give of their wisdom and of the benefits that they have derived from a family involvement and from all the lessons of life. [More…]
In places where the Aboriginals have been placed on the edge of the town in a block of houses on their own, almost invariably the housing has gradually decayed and the family life has sunk to the lowest level. [More…]
So we believe that it will only be when the Commonwealth is prepared to approach this problem in a personal way that every Aboriginal family in Australia will have available to it the kind of personal services that are available to, say, repatriation beneficiaries. [More…]
We should be able to set up some system under which the agencies of the Commonwealth or the State are directed in such a way that every Aboriginal family is able to take advantage of it. [More…]
With my family I drove to Jay Creek outside the Standley Chasm which is a famous tourist resort and saw there some appalling living conditions. [More…]
He stays at school longer; he improves his educational status in the interests of peronal security; he may take out life assurance; he saves his money to secure his family, and so on. [More…]
But she would never be accepted as one of their family in the sense of marrying into the sort of community in which their daughter moved. [More…]
Not only are they human problems, they are tangled human problems, and I, for one, do not feel that we do right by our Aboriginal people by breaking up their family units. [More…]
I believe we have to treat them as family units. [More…]
He subsequently left Australia with bis legal family and returned to the United States of America. [More…]
Even though the matter was reported to all appropriate authorities, including the Registrar, the Commonwealth Police and the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, the final solution came from the representatives of another country after 10 months of mental anguish to this young lady and her family. [More…]
Married people trying to buy a home in the cities or the country and to rear a family are the cruel victims of the Government’s apathy regarding uncontrolled price increases. [More…]
The right of easy access to places of beauty and tranquility where every family can find recreation and serenity - and the duty to preserve such places clean and unspoiled. [More…]
In our country there are strong and powerful forces at work to extirpate the family wool grower - to end the family enterprise. [More…]
These forces are firmly of the opinion that the day of the family enterprise is over. [More…]
There is a complete tie-up, not in the interests of the Australian economy or the Australian family but in the interests of the exploitive forces which are enshrined in the auction system. [More…]
I say again that 1 would put the economic size family farm, particularly the one concentrating on animal production, against any corporation farm in terms of efficiency of production. [More…]
I live in a farming community and my family has done so for the last 100 years. [More…]
The next poster gives details of woollen family garments. [More…]
We have to support his family at additional cost. [More…]
ls the flow-back through the family that gets advantage out of that, whether the family is rich or poor, enough to warrant it? [More…]
We are also a little disappointed that in this statement there is no reference to a further adjustment in the marginal adjusted family income - the means test which applies to the income of parents of students. [More…]
NUAUS congratulates the Commonwealth on the increase in the Marginal Adjusted Family Income (MAFI) and its decision to keep this under review in the light of variations in the Commonwealth Statistician’s index Weighted Average Minimum Weekly Wage. [More…]
That is, the marginal adjusted family income - the living at home MAFI and the living away from home MAFI. [More…]
For a student living away from home and his family there are two cost burdens. [More…]
The second cost which is a hidden cost is that students who have to live away from home, the vast majority being country students, come from home situations which usually include lower family incomes and higher living costs. [More…]
This means that the percentage of income spent on sending a child to university is higher than it is for a city family on the same income. [More…]
In all probability they have a family, have launched upon a career and have started to become important social units. [More…]
So not only are we disrupting the man’s personal life, we are affecting his family, the work he does, his career and the society in which he is starting to play an active part. [More…]
I made the observation that as a person becomes older it becomes increasingly difficult for him to fit into the Army system; it becomes increasingly hard upon his family, his career, his employer and upon the society in which he is taking an increasingly important part if he has to spend 2 years in the national service system. [More…]
on behalf of the Australian Government and people I extend our sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 14th December 1970 of FieldMarshal Viscount Slim, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., a former Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia from 1953 to 1960, and tenders its profound sympathy to Viscountess Slim and family in their bereavement. [More…]
To his widow and family I express the sympathy of my Country Party colleagues. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 30th November 1970 of James Patrick Ormonde, a senator for the State of New South Wales since 19SS, and places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement.. [More…]
Sir, on behalf of the Government I extend our sympathy to his widow and to his family in support of the motion that 1 have proposed in which this House expresses its regret at his passing. [More…]
We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the members of his family who were so devoted to him and to whom he was so devoted. [More…]
But I do wish to say to his widow and to his family that we extend to them our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement and wish them well in the future. [More…]
He belonged to a tightly knit family in which unfortunately 3 brothers have passed away in the last 3 years. [More…]
I join in extending sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
We extend our sympathy to her family. [More…]
I express my deepest sympathy to her family and her distinguished scientist sons, and I hope that this House will at some future date foster the membership here of more representatives of her sex. [More…]
I would like to tender the sympathy of my colleagues to her family. [More…]
Included in the adults are married women, many of whom do not go to work because of family circumstances. [More…]
Women said that they were too busy at home or had family responsibility. [More…]
1 am glad to be able to inform the honourable gentleman that the Government has decided to increase the eligibility limits for family income in the subsidised medical scheme by $4 as a consequence of the decision to increase the minimum wage. [More…]
This will mean that a family with an income of up to $46.50 a week will receive a full subsidy from the Government for its health insurance; those with an income of between $46.50 and $49.50 will receive a two-thirds subsidy; and those with an income of between $49.50 and $52.50 will receive a one-third subsidy. [More…]
Will he also probe complaints against the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and senior officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission who are said to have engaged in a conspiracy against the Dalton family? [More…]
One cannot help but have the greatest admiration for a migrant family who uproot themselves from the country of their birth and travel halfway around the world in search of a new and better life. [More…]
Three sections of the migrant family are affected by this communication barrier: The breadwinner, the housewife and the children. [More…]
He, of necessity, is probably the first in the family to understand and speak the English language. [More…]
The unfortunate thing is that when the family comes home to the mother at night probably they all take the easy course of conversing in their own tongue. [More…]
It is important to realise that the disadvantaged migrant family in Australia has a distrust of schools and a lack of knowledge about the aims and methods of teaching employed by teachers at schools which their children attend. [More…]
The factors which are considered are the circumstances of the particular offence for which the person was charged, the person’s antecedents which include his age, state of health, personal and family history and any circumstances which may have any special bearing on the commission of this particular offence, past offences or the possibility of his committing further offences. [More…]
While he was a child his mother, along with the rest of his family, suffered the anguish of worrying whether he would be able to leave hospital to lead a normal life after suffering the adverse effects of one of these drugs. [More…]
Fortunately, with medical care and the close attachment of his family he has been reared to young manhood only to be conscripted in this time of peace to lie sent overseas. [More…]
It is bad enough for the Army to interfere with the best years of this young man’s life and to cause anxiety to his mother and family, but to deliberately rua the risk of placing his life in further medical danger is callous and inexcusable. [More…]
We have the primary, secondary and tertiary stages in the wool family, if I may call it that. [More…]
Tt did not deal as thoroughly as one would expect with the problems of the man on the land - the areas of aggregation, what can happen to family groups, and so on. [More…]
This Commonwealth Government secret report states that the best single form of adjustment is for farmers to leave, for properties to get bigger, for companies to replace family enterprise and the encouragement of farmers to sell their properties and to move to the cities. [More…]
The postmaster pointed out that all his life he had struggled for an adequate wage on which to maintain his family. [More…]
The fact is that the South Australian Government already is running at a deficit as a result of the actions of the Federal Government and the Federal Treasurer but has seen fit, because of the urgency of the situation and in the interests of preserving human life and preventing family suffering, to recognise that it cannot continue to permit the Eyre Highway to take such a tragic toll of life. [More…]
I cannot understand why trade union leaders, housewives, family doctors in small practices, accountants and average people in the community who have made contributions in terms of economic growth, which in turn gives us the wealth that we have to distribute in the community, should not be included. [More…]
Here is a family where two sons have already served in the Army and a third son has been selected out of the ballot, has now reported and has passed his medical examination to become a national service trainee. [More…]
family there can be no question of exemption for men because a brother has already been called up to render service. [More…]
Here is a family with 3 sons, all of whom have registered and have evidently become liable for national service. [More…]
lt is amazing that at this stage when the Americans are pulling out thousands from Vietnam, when President Nixon has said that all Americans will be out within a ve’ry short time, 3 sons from this ohe family ‘in Australia have been called up to serve in the armed forces and possibly to serve in Vietnam. [More…]
The principle of equality of sacrifice is involved and I believe that a family with 2 sons in the forces already has made a major contribution. [More…]
I bring this matter publicly to the Ministers attention and ask him to intervene in this case in order to protect this family and others who may be involved. [More…]
Subsequently they were forced to move in with a married daughter and her family and reside in a home which had inadequate living space for them. [More…]
Those who suffer most from the erosion of purchasing power are the superannuitants, pensioners and people on small wages, particularly the family man. [More…]
In an interview with the Department, the person concerned claimed that the fact that it was Christmas, that he had no money and that the family was poverty stricken caused him to make this false declaration. [More…]
This man and his family are decent citizens in the community. [More…]
For the rapists, the data suggest very repressive family backgrounds regarding sexuality. [More…]
With all these films and books that we have been talking about, parents have never lived in a. more difficult age in trying to bring up a family because of all the temptations that are thrown at children when they leave school and often while they are at school. [More…]
What may not affect me could affect someone else, and that someone else could be a member of my family or a relative - someone very close. [More…]
I have noticed in our own family differences in attitudes between two of our sons, with an age difference of 4 or 5 years. [More…]
On the question of what people shall see and what people shall not see, I have my own belief that things, such as posters, which impinge upon my visual environment and which are, in my view, obscene or offensive to me, to my family or to the public, ought not to be permitted. [More…]
The steady movement of Maltese migrants to this country’ has created strong links of family relationship and of friendship between the 2 countries. [More…]
They want to present wholesome family entertainment. [More…]
The Minister did not have the decency or the courage to place the matter before his Cabinet colleagues on compassionate grounds so that Cabinet could look at this particular case on its merits and see the effect the call-up would have on this widow and her family. [More…]
The worker knows that the future of himself and his family is invariably tied up with the company for which he works. [More…]
Yet it is well known that if a man wants to keep his family in a reasonable state and wants to sec his children educated the best contribution he can make is to send his wife out to work, and that is what is happening across the nation at the present lime. [More…]
It is a common impression among the public in general - and this has in some cases been engendered by sections of the Press - that every time they see a Commonwealth car it is some politician or his family going for a joy ride at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]
A man in my electorate whose home has been seized and whose livelihood has been destroyed seems to me to.be, with his wife and young family, the victim of monstrous official oppression. [More…]
Without warning men employed by the New South Wales Government rapped on his door, handed him a document, told him that his home had been resumed by the New South Wales Government and that from that moment he was no longer the owner but a tenant and that within 3 weeks he and his family must be out with all their possessions. [More…]
His home is, or was, a quiet holiday guest house and he was further notified that from that day onwards he must have no more guests nor even any visitors to see him or his family. [More…]
Thus Mr Home and his family have since been permitted - as an act of grace, mark you - but subject to extraordinary prohibitions on his rights as a citizen, restrictions which cannot be linked by any stretch of the imagination with legitimate forestry purposes, to stay in the home until the end of this month. [More…]
The second point is that Mr Home’s prosperous business has been destroyed overnight and he is without means now of providing for his family except by selling his furniture. [More…]
For Mr and Mrs Home and their family nothing whatever of this kind has happened. [More…]
It is now 3 months since the Home family suddenly lost the ownership of their home at Edrom’ and since Mr Home lost his business and his livelihood. [More…]
and 1 will not ascribe the motives animating those who ordered this extraordinary treatment of a citizen and his family. [More…]
It may be thought that the non-payment of a benefit for one child for a few weeks would not mean much of a loss to a family if sickness is not retcurring. [More…]
but with the extension of the school leaving age it is not impossible for two or more children over 16 years of age in one family to be receiving full-time education, yet if sickness overtakes that family such students are not taken into account in determining the amount of benefit the family should receive. [More…]
They eat as much as adults and it costs as much to clothe them as adults, but they are not recognised as dependants and this imposes a double penalty on the family because in calculating the amount of benefit payable in respect of children, those children’ above .16 years of age are not considered. [More…]
I understand that some States of the United States of America have made certain benefits conditional upon the recipients adopting foolproof means of family limitation. [More…]
I would oppose such conditions if they were to increase the hardship to the existing members of the family. [More…]
I would oppose any penalty which would deprive of urgent needs those who now exist miserably on the scandalously inadequate services provided under the unfeeling policies of the Ministers own department for such persons, but I would advocate certain conditions for the receipt of certain other benefits which could not in fact be so beneficial if- the family- -continued to enlarge - for example, priorities for certain classes of public housing. [More…]
In fact most heroin addicts are multiple drugusers and have the emotionally impoverished family back-ground not infrequently found in other delinquent groups, such as high incidence of broken homes, poor school record, police record, unemployment and work-shyness. [More…]
It is no secret that children, irrespective of their age, faith or family income, encounter in pre-school centres, primary schools, high schools and technical schools unnecessary barriers and avoidable handicaps. [More…]
For instance, when wheat is produced in Australia and goes into the custody of the Wheat Board, an advance payment is made which enables the grower to buy the goods and services that he wants for next year’s crop and to maintain his family and so on. [More…]
We want the wheat industry to be put as soon as possible on a basis where it can show profitable returns and maintain the family unit on the land. [More…]
The family unit in management generally gets most success. [More…]
He took his wife and family with him and during the rime he was there he purchased a motor car, which was the obvious thing to do. [More…]
On behalf of the House,I have forwarded a message of sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
If the industry is allowed to crash it will be the responsibility not only of the Minister but also of the Government and the people who support it and who have no interest in the survival of the family enterprise but look for the day when the corporation will be able to handle wool at both ends, that is, the growing and producing end, the handling and even- [More…]
Take a young man who may be 19 or 20 years of age who has been brought up in an environment in which his family has given him every access to a motor car and wealth. [More…]
In undertaking this avenue of research our criminologists, I think, should cooperate closely with our sociologists in order to restore the family unit both in congested areas and in the affluent suburban areas of this country. [More…]
We see the beginnings of the deterioration of the family, and this could well explain many of the ills of our society for here, perhaps, is the primary tragedy of the 20th century. [More…]
Fifty students last year were getting special financial assistance from the Victorian Education Department, on the basis of a means test on a weekly income of $38.55 for a family with 2 children. [More…]
Equally revealing are the family circumstances of the children at this school. [More…]
It is very difficult for anybody who has a black skin, such as a Pakistani engineer I know, to bring his family to live in this country. [More…]
I know of a family comprising8 children and a widowed mother living at the rear of a city house under an iron lean-to 8 feet by 5 feet with a dirty chaff floor and one bed for the lot of them. [More…]
Having found a vacant cottage some few miles from the city I approached the owner’s wife and family who I understood had some share in the premises. [More…]
My disgust can be imagined when I received a telephone call that evening from the gentleman of the family which owned the property. [More…]
After much discussion it became obvious that he did not want an Aboriginal family to occupy the premises. [More…]
The result is that this unfortunate family still live in their lean-to and the country cottage still stands vacant. [More…]
But this type of attitude is not an unusual one, for in the case of a widowed mother who left a country reserve because her family was growing up and faced no prospect of employment, the departmental attitude was: She had accommodation on the reserve so why did she leave? [More…]
No thought was given to the family’s future or to the disgraceful conditions on many reserves - just a departmental worry that someone had dared to disturb the status quo. [More…]
Consistent wilh this there has always been an understanding between the British and Australian Governments that a broad cross-section of the community, including aged persons personally nominated by family members resident in Australia, would be included in the assisted passage programme. [More…]
Imagine this hanging over the head of a dried vine fruits producer who has a family to maintain and whose children are going to school. [More…]
For example, an inspector may find something wrong and this would be hanging over the head of the producer and his family; they would be waiting for the Commonwealth to make up its mind to prosecute. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) said that for 5 years a charge could be hanging over the heads of the grower and his family who would be wondering whether he was to be charged. [More…]
The point I make is that the honourable member for Dawson, by nodding his head, indicated he agreed with me when I said that he said a grower’s family could have a charge hanging over its head and it would be wondering whether the grower was to be charged. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot did ask a question relating to the family of a deceased fruit grower who, in some way, may have commited one of these offences. [More…]
There are pensioners, mainly the single ones without a family, living in rooms or rented premises who are in real need. [More…]
family men, are dying younger. [More…]
This applies particularly to the family man in the lower income group and to the exporter, be’ he in the primary or the secondary field; If we price our primary and secondary exporting industries out of business there can be no other result but rising unemployment. [More…]
It said that 90 per cent of aged people in this country live better than a family dependent on a minimum award wage, taking into account that the basic needs and debts of the aged are of course less than those of a young family, lt goes on to say that only 2 per cent of the aged live in chronic economic need. [More…]
If a family is provident, especially in the early stages of married life, the husband will take out an insurance policy on his life. [More…]
There are many forms of insurance, especially for those who are in receipt of a low wage, by which provision can be made for a family in the event of a tragic happening. [More…]
Does he not understand that it is economic necessity alone that forces a wage or salary earner to allow the mother of his children to go to work while his family is still in need of her at home? [More…]
No father and no mother does this except for the reason that present day costs of living, of housing, and of health and education render it impossible for the average family to live on the wage which the average worker receives. [More…]
But in many cases these people do not have a family, and the consequent decay of the homes is indeed a waste. [More…]
What he cares about and what we should care about is whether he can buy enough food, enough shelter, enough clothing, enough enjoyment of life and, in the case of invalid, widow and deserted wives’ pensions and unemployment benefits, whether it is possible for the children of the family to expect a decent education. [More…]
To be eligible for a pension under that Act one must have lived in New South Wales for 25 years, have not been in gaol for more than 5 years or 4 times, have not failed to maintain one’s wife or family, have not deserted one’s wife and, to crunch it all, have been ‘of good moral character and have led for 5 years immediately preceding the application a sober and reputable life’. [More…]
1 refer to such people as widows, particularly the widow with a family who has little chance of earning an independent income. [More…]
She cannot find a home for herself and her family because the family’s record of payment of rent is poor. [More…]
None of the real estate people in the area will accept the family for a home. [More…]
They came to me because they did not know where to turn to find help for the family. [More…]
The Housing Commission people would not give the family a home because they found on visiting them that they did not meet the standards required by the Commission. [More…]
Every aspect of their lives should be examined, together with their individual and family needs. [More…]
He should be able to say to the Department: ‘Here is the case of an individual or a family. [More…]
The wife has probably reared a family and when she reaches the age of 57 or even 50 the family leaves home. [More…]
It seems to me that the present legislation is a little bit unfair to the woman who has finished rearing her family at the age of, say, 50 or 54. [More…]
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care, and necessary social services and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, and other lack of livelihood beyond his control. [More…]
But money alone will not allay the loneliness of the old, reform the criminal, cure the sick mind, nurse the ill, mend the broken family or encourage the invalid back to work. [More…]
The needlessly expensive consequences of inadequate social welfare provision can be well illustrated by considering the immediate cost of the breakdown of a single large family. [More…]
If the father in a family of 7 is gaoled and the children are placed in institutions the cost to the Stale within 6 months will be S200 a week, and this is without accounting for lost production. [More…]
The competing needs, for instance those of the young family, have to be taken into consideration. [More…]
I believe this constituent and his family deserve the utmost sympathy and consideration. [More…]
His father, an ex-serviceman, is deeply distressed by the terrible tragedy that has befallen the family. [More…]
Is there so little regard for the son of an ex-serviceman who is following a family history of service to this country? [More…]
Sergeant Smith’s brother has sunk into a coma and the family waits for the final blow. [More…]
We are not even sure whether Sergeant Smith has been fully informed of his brother’s condition because we have had to rely completely on Army signals to him and there has been a lack of confirmation by the family that the signals have been received. [More…]
He planned to see his family then. [More…]
However, one would be less than humane and less than human if one were not cognisant of the strains thai would be imposed on the family, in view of the circumstances put forward by the honourable member for Swan in regard to the other members of the family apart from the soldiers wife. [More…]
Such a system, of course, would go against the grain of every Australian who wants to build his family home on a block of land of his own choice, in a suburb of his own choice. [More…]
Land rent had been a dominant part of the total outgoings of a leaseholder and general rates had been held at artificially low levels because land rent had to be recognised as part of the family budget. [More…]
Does he agree with the analysis sent to all Housing Ministers, Commonwealth and State, 3 weeks ago by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre that $88 is the minimum weekly income required by a family to pay rent at this level without sacrificing other essentials? [More…]
In terms of history it seems only the other day that people’s work, family and government were all inextricably bound up, when a man in a real sense ‘did his own thing’. [More…]
It cost his family a total of at least $354 in trying to defend him. [More…]
The Ministry of Social Welfare in Vietnam has indicated that it is not completely correct to speak of ‘destitute orphans’: those not being cared for by the Government are, for the most part, cared for in family groups. [More…]
Recently an expert in Australia when commenting on this subject said that one in every family of 4 young people will be a victim of a road accident, statistically speaking, during his lifetime; that 90 per cent of serious accidents in Australia are caused by human error of some kind; that 50 per cent of the fatalities are on straight roads - that is straight roads which are outside city and suburban limits; and that the cause of 30 per cent of all deaths in the 17 to 29 age group is road accidents. [More…]
His wife and family possibly would then have the onerous task of appearing in court to defend the deceased man who had committed an offence. [More…]
I am very proud when members of my family take part in peaceful demonstrations against the conscription laws which this Government introduced so defiantly of public opinion. [More…]
I am sure you were grateful at a time of extreme stress for yourself and your family of the Opposition’s impartiality. [More…]
Some men do not attend on the date set down for their call-up because, for example, of illness, family death or other unavoidable causes. [More…]
Mindful of the effects on Sunday employment and anxious to preserve the concept of Sunday as a family day when worship and recreation can go hand-in-hand, we have sought to have legislation enacted to protect employees from being forced to work on Sundays. [More…]
If a grazier or some member of his family has a chronic medical complaint the afflicted person has to travel from areas hundreds of miles north of Tibooburra and Bourke to Sydney and Adelaide for specialist treatment. [More…]
Because of this illogical anomaly in the Social Services Act the children are being deprived of the benefits which would accrue to the family if the mother were granted a deserted wife’s pension. [More…]
But this is of no real help tothe beneficiaries of an estate or to those people who would be affected by a death in the family because, of course, they would be disadvantaged by this particular problem. [More…]
I suppose nearly every day every member of this Parliament gets a telephone call from members of a family who have elderly parents and who find that there are not sufficient care institutions in the community for those aged parents to be adequately looked after. [More…]
They go into hospitals whose fees cannot be paid out of their pension and the rest of the family has to kick in to pay the difference. [More…]
In listening to the comments and in accepting the broadness of the subjects mentioned at this time of the parliamentary year, I would like to say that with all the talk about the needy in the community perhaps there is no more needy and no more critical area in our social situation than that of the young widow with a small family. [More…]
The United States is prepared to see the People’s Republic of China play a constructive role in the family of nations. [More…]
Your country is a part of the Asian family.’ [More…]
A Labor victory then would have meant that we would not have given support to those countries upon which perhaps some day in the future we will be depending - countries with which we belong in a family and with which we work to secure peace. [More…]
They were: That large numbers of Australian farmers should be helped off their farms; that company ownership would tend to replace family enterprises; that a farm mortgage loan insurance scheme should be introduced; that there should be higher interest rates to ensure that any loans that are made are not made at an uneconomic level - I think that was the term - and that land values should not rise; that there should be support for rural reconstruction boards; and that the so-called hopeless cases should be helped to sell their properties at what the Government’s report called normal market values’. [More…]
My family has been farming the same property for about 100 years. [More…]
It is essentially important that the family farm unit be sustained. [More…]
the family budget - ‘Your total food bill must cost less’. [More…]
There is no doubt that the family of this boy was extremely upset. [More…]
To those who watched television this evening it was quite clear that the family is most embittered. [More…]
I want to say only this in conclusion: It is to be hoped that we will not have to wait too long before having an inquiry because, as the Minister well knows, not only is the Navy involved in this, not only is the boy involved in this, but also the family is involved. [More…]
It stands primarily for’ the Australian worker and his family. [More…]
I have been associated with it in one way or another for some 30 years and I have great respect for the pioneering family of Hay Brothers who owned, managed and operated the limestone quarries at Ida Bay for many years before selling them to Australian Commonwealth Carbide Co. Ltd. [More…]
Another group is the deserted wives, widows and unmarried mothers, all of whom often have to find sources of employment to be able to provide for their children and keep the family together. [More…]
The child from a family of low income, low education and low occupational status by comparison with the middle class Australian child will not have reached the same level of development of his basic skills of language and reasoning. [More…]
In housing matters we are dealing with old and young people and family people. [More…]
Similar distances and (without weekly concession tickets) even higher fares separate them from most friends and relations they’d like to visit, and from the pleasures and services of the city centre which is more than an hour each way and more than a dollar return … To get a family of 6 from Green Valley to the beach or the zoo and back takes most of a day, including half a day’s travel by car or perhaps 2 day’s wages in fares and expenses . [More…]
In fact, Hugh Stretton at page 162 of his book states that there are no regular family doctors and some people cannot afford or cannot understand medical insurance. [More…]
After all, every young family is entitled to a home without suffering economic hardship. [More…]
Loneliness, boredom, lack of identity, a feeling of insignificance and being a tiny fish in a massive pool leads to psychiatric disorders, juvenile delinquency, family disintegration and alcohol and drugs, and in some instances to crime. [More…]
They thus hoped to obtain a good family home. [More…]
I hope that the Treasurer has it in his heart to try and get interest rates a little lower than they are because in a few years he will be facing the problem that is facing my family now. [More…]
Between 1953-54 and 1966-67 the after tax cost of hospital insurance for a family earning 75 per cent of the average weekly wage rose in terms of family income by 700 per cent but the cost for a family earning 4 times the average wage rose by only 14 per cent. [More…]
Similarly, Labor will see that hospitals are compensated in full for all their patients including pensioners and compensation cases under Labor’s alternative national programme of family health care. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: the Bill bc withdrawn in order that the Agreement between the Commonwealth and the States be amended to make provision for more detailed criteria on eligibility and to ensure that every bona fide producer, within an acceptable means test, is eligible to receive assistance which will enable persons (a) to remain in primary production where it is considered, on technical and economic evidence available, that financial viability can be achieved within a reasonable time, (b) to move out of primary production where it is considered, on technical and economic evidence available, that financial viability cannot be achieved within a reasonable time and (c) to participate, with their family, in a fully co-ordinated rehabilitation programme including technical college education or at least its equivalent’. [More…]
But all the Government will offer him is a loan of $1,000 to rehabilitate himself and his family. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) stressed that the amendment seeks to cover all Australian family enterprises although it will not be covering the new absentee landlords of New York, London and Tokyo who have already moved into the countryside and the nation so widely. [More…]
the following points: Firstly, large numbers of Australian farmers are to be helped off their farms; secondly, company ownership will tend to replace the family enterprise; thirdly, higher rates of interest will ensure that loans are not made to uneconomic farmers and that land values will not rise; fourthly, the socalled hopeless cases are to be helped to sell their properties at what are called normal market values. [More…]
I ask the Minister what will happen to a widow who is left a property, who has no working sons but who has a young family to maintain? [More…]
I say to my far sighted friends in the metropolis: Sad will be the day when the countryside is deserted and sold, when the money lenders’ auctioneers have disposed of it around the world and Mrs City relies on the decisions of the board rooms of New York, London, Tokyo and other capitals for the daily bread of the family. [More…]
At the same time the low income farmer can do little about the low income problem other than leave the industry, wilh a significant capital loss and often illequipped to earn income to house and provide for his family. [More…]
The Broken Hill mine workers have a clause in their agreement which provides for $100 a year after the first year of service, up to a maximum of $2,500, plus fares for the family to a new area and other assistance should they be unable to sell their homes. [More…]
I believe that the long term survival of the family farm in Aus-, tralia is dependent to a large extent on its ability in the future to obtain and manage capital. [More…]
What is the (a) highest and (b) lowest contribution rate charged in each State by medical benefits organisations for (i) single and (ii) family cover. [More…]
The highest and lowest contribution rates charged in each State by registered medical benefits organisations for single and family cover are shown in the following table: [More…]
A loan of $1,000 may be made for an unspecified time to enable a farmer and his family to carry on. [More…]
I think it is important to remember that in many cases not only a farmer is involved but also members of his family who have grown up and are being helped by him. [More…]
The position today is reverting to that of pre-war days when in many instances members of a farmer’s family were forced to work on the property for low wages, or no wages whatsoever, to maintain its viability. [More…]
He does not know where he will take his family. [More…]
When we think of the Kormilda College and of the Yirara College at Alice Springs, which is the subject of the present motion, we ought to have regard to the fact that, in contrast to the conditions that prevail in the rest of Australia, the preponderance of young Aboriginal people will be taken away from their family if they desire to undergo higher education, that is, education beyond the age of 12 years. [More…]
I suppose that, if one deliberately set about a policy of assimilation, one could not go about it more effectively than by arranging to take the children away from their family at a certain age, to take them away from their tribal customs, to take them some hundreds of miles and for some years put them in a place in isolation from their parents. [More…]
I might add that my children, too, had to travel 300 miles into Alice Springs and that they were separated from their family. [More…]
He is in business to survive with his property and his family. [More…]
The new code increases weekly rates of compensation for an employee to $35, for a dependant female to $8.50 and for a child to $5, making a total of S48.50 for a family unit of that size. [More…]
The Government not only has the basic responsibility to protect the worker against industrial safety hazards, but it also has the responsibility to ensure that when a worker becomes injured he and his family are justly compensated. [More…]
Even though they are an improvement they do not go to the extent that they should to meet average family needs. [More…]
The wife of an injured worker who is able to care for himself very often can go out and supplement the family income or perhaps, more to the point, may continue to work as she did prior to her husband’s accident. [More…]
Initially, eligible schemes will be those in the Commonwealth family as their rules are amended to provide for preservation and incorporate the safeguards mentioned. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Bureau of Census and Statistics has been forced to abandon a proposed survey of family incomes and expenditures because of the economy measures forced on the Bureau by his Department [More…]
Many countries conducted official surveys of family or household incomes and expenditure, and it is understood that the results of such surveys are useful in connection with welfare policy and administration. [More…]
Having rescued his family and his ancestors from the insults of his colleague, I want to thank him for what I am sure was his kindly if confused reference to the interests of myself and the electorate of Riverina in the wine excise. [More…]
However, the attitudes of the Aborigines themselves to normal concepts of hygiene, the implications of the life style which most Aborigines choose to follow and the absence of family planning leading to the inadequate spacing of children are significant contributing factors to the Infant Mortality Rate. [More…]
This will force him off the land and force his family out of wool production forever. [More…]
There should be a moratorium on debts for at least 2 years so that when a wool grower and his family get their hands on this money, it is not immediately taken up by a court order instructing them to pay it over to Dalgety’s or some other company or the private banks. [More…]
It should remain in his hands so that he can help his family and help himself to reconstruct his property. [More…]
He could, for example, order that the prisoner not associate with any other person, even a member of that person’s family. [More…]
From my discussions at the General Assembly with delegates from various countries, if I remember correctly, there was not one who did not agree that here was the first case in history where a country set down its own conditions for admittance to the United Nations by saying: ‘I will become a member of this great family of nations provided you meet my requirements’. [More…]
The thought that is occupying the minds of those who are looking for a compromise is that Taiwan may have its own seat in the United Nations, not specifically for its own islands but that it may build up a small family of islands under the control of the Nationalist Chinese Government. [More…]
It has lost much of its relevance because so many of its members have so little in common, except in some instances a desire to use meetings arranged pursuant to the elaborate fiction that they are family gatherings as occasions for vituperative recrimination against other members. [More…]
By and large, our discourse in the international field will be better conducted if we discard the shibboleth that all members of the Commonwealth have meaningful family ties. [More…]
These same peaceful protesters may have saved us from being cast out of the Olympic family; I believe we are after all to be invited to participate in the next Olympic Games. [More…]
If the only way we can bring the People’s Republic of China, mainland China, into the family of nations is to recognise only the government of that country - and this is not to say that we are going to recognise any forceful takeover of Taiwan - then we must make this difficult choice. [More…]
I have absolutely and unqualified sympathy for any honourable member who needs to go and do something for his family life or his family affairs, but no other consideration should prevent our being in our place in this House. [More…]
If an honourable member wants a hotel room for himself or a house for himself and his family, it should be there for him. [More…]
I believe it is a serious reflection on Australian national life that in the 40odd years the Parliament has been in Canberra no serious consideration has been given to the family life of honourable members. [More…]
They have families to go to and it is only human to see that their family affairs are attended to. [More…]
I have I day at home with my family and that is usually on Saturday because the children play football. [More…]
I do not agree very fully as a rule with the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) but on this occasion he made a sensible point when he said that the civil service and our own secretaries and other people involved do not work on Saturday or Sunday and, therefore, if an honourable member tried to go home for a short weekend, as is the case under this system, he would not have a great deal of success in pursuing his electoral business apart from catching up with his family or public engagements. [More…]
Yet it was this Government which sabotaged the Statistician’s proposed family expenditure surveys which could improve this index. [More…]
It reflects not a justifiable concern for the welfare of family farms impoverished through no fault of their owners, but the servitude of the Minister for Trade and Industry to large scale and corporate farming interests and the servitude of the Prime Minister to the banks. [More…]
Great pastoral properties often owned not by individuals but by companies will receive assistance they do not need while family farms are denied assistance without which they cannot survive. [More…]
The former Prime Minister acknowledged at least one of the most pressing problems of the family farmer. [More…]
The former Prime Minister knew, perhaps from his own experience, that family farms cannot survive without proper access to long term, fair interest finance, and he promised therefore in his opening speech in the Senate election campaign that the Government would establish a rural finance insurance corporation. [More…]
We can preserve the family farm for those who value it by providing alternative sources of income within easy reach. [More…]
The attitudes to family welfare, almost not mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition, in view of his adoption of a new, strange family code at Launceston, are well understood. [More…]
But the attitudes to family welfare are also real in this Budget. [More…]
Having regard to family code policies enunciated at Launceston, according to which the natural addition to the Australian work force following some second-rate left wing overseas intellectual proposition is to be reduced, he desires to increase immigration from non-European sources. [More…]
They have produced instead a scheme which will help the rich get richer and the struggling family wool grower will receive practically no benefit at all. [More…]
This means that in low rainfall western areas the Minister is giving the family wool grower the kiss of death. [More…]
The family wool grower may receive a few hundred dollars while the pastoral finance companies to whom he is in debt will receive, in some cases, $100,000 direct from the Government for sheep they own, and they may decide that the family grower on their books will receive none of the money due to him personally; they may decide to retain it and apply it with the rest of their profits to buying up ice cream firms in the city. [More…]
There is no guarantee that the family producer will receive very much at all from the subsidy payment. [More…]
Many of them, young people particularly, have the problem of bringing up a family at the same time as they are buying a house on terms. [More…]
So the purchasing power of the people in the community - the pensioner, the superannuitant, the man with a large family - is decreased. [More…]
A nation-wide network of clinics to provide free advice by experts on family planning, including contraception to anyone who so requests. [More…]
These are proposals of the once great Labor Party on family planning and family life. [More…]
This to me is a shocking thing when it is realised that a woman who has raised a family cared for a home for many years and is getting on in years, suddenly finds herself in a position of having to look around for some work to augment the family income. [More…]
The steepness of this increase certainly strikes at the whole community, and in particular the lower paid family man. [More…]
To those families with fewer than 2 children it is not just another increased charge but a 100 per cent increase in a charge, an increase that the Government is asking the lower paid family man to bear. [More…]
I am sure that every family will appreciate the rise in the rate of child endowment for the third and subsequent children that this Budget provides. [More…]
A family of 4 children now receives $5.75 a week in child endowment, and it may be as well to remember that child endowment itself is one of the many innovations in the field of social services that was made originally by a Liberal government. [More…]
An estate agent related that a migrant family came to inquire about the purchase of a house. [More…]
The family appeared reluctant to answer the agent’s inquiry as to how much the family earned. [More…]
So, he said, with reasonable tact: ‘You would need a weekly income of about $80 to buy a house’, to which the head of the family questioned: ‘Does anyone in Australia earn $80 a week? [More…]
Honourable members opposite will have no difficulty in answering the question of the head of that family. [More…]
The rate of child endowment for the third and each subsequent child under 16 years in a family is to be increased by 50c per week. [More…]
I now come to the provisions of the Bill which are specifically oriented towards the family and the welfare of children. [More…]
At present child endowment is payable at the rate of 50c a week for the first child under 16 years in a family, $1 a week for the second child, $1.50 for the third child, with cumulative increases of 25c a week for each subsequent child. [More…]
Child endowment is now an accepted feature of family income and for some time the Government has been concerned that the larger family has been more adversely affected by wage and price increases than the smaller family with, say, one or two children. [More…]
Wage increases which have to be spread over a greater number of dependants reduce the relative improvement in the position of the whole family. [More…]
This Government believes that at the present time an effective way of providing real benefits to the larger family is by way of increased child endowment payments. [More…]
Accordingly, the proposal in the Bill before the House is to increase endowment for the third and each subsequent child in a family by 50c a week. [More…]
This will mean that the rate of endowment in respect of the third child in a family will become $2 a week, in respect of the fourth child $2.25 a week and so on, increasing by 25c for each additional child. [More…]
Assistance is given to families via the National Health Act where the family insurance rates for a family with children - however many children - are pegged at the rate applicable to a married couple without children; special assistance is also provided for handicapped children and children of pensioners, the last a matter which I shall deal with more fully in a moment. [More…]
On the other hand, a TPI pensioner with a wife and 2 children, who also receives a service pension, but with no other means, will receive a total family increase of $5.12 a week. [More…]
Members now travel by plane and we can get home to our electorates each weekend not only for family reasons - and they are very important reasons - but in order to look after other matters. [More…]
It was considered in view of other pressing demands on government construction funds, especially for houses to provide family accommodation, that available resources should be directed more towards meeting the pressing needs of families. [More…]
There is pressure for increased welfare benefits, social service benefits, repatriation benefits, assistance to the family man and assistance to the States. [More…]
In other words, the average family man who would suffer about a $90 a year increase as a result of the impact of this Budget if he is unlucky enough to be going into a Housing Commission home today, with an average cost of the house and land of about $10,000, will be paying another $100 a year in interest or a total of $190 a year as a result of this Budget. [More…]
In addition, we have increased child endowment by 50c a week for each child under the age of 16 in excess of 2 in a family. [More…]
It is to be hoped that this mysterious and reluctant document will be resurrected and presented to this Parliament with the same degree of alacrity with which the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was restored to the family of Cabinet. [More…]
One sees the drift of population from country towns and the closing down of family stores that for many decades had been the sheet anchor of the rural community. [More…]
Back in 1845 the explorer Eyre discovered that it was unusual to find an Aboriginal family with more than 2 children. [More…]
In those days an Aboriginal family with 4 children was rare. [More…]
Today it is not uncommon to find an Aboriginal family with 6 or 7 children. [More…]
These families are desperately in need of health and hygiene education and education on family planning, ft has been reported that 50 per cent of Aboriginal children are under the age of 15 years. [More…]
Presumably, deductions are allowed to the family man to ensure that his tax burden in relation to that of a single man is not too onerous. [More…]
If the deductions are adequate then the family man’s tax burden over a period of time will not be increasing at a faster rate than the rest of the community’s. [More…]
In fact it aggravated the difference in treatment between the single man and the family man. [More…]
This year the 21 per cent increase in personal tax once again adversely burdens the family man. [More…]
The family man continues to be burdened in an unfair manner. [More…]
But only the most distorted analysis of these increases could suggest that they actually benefit the family by providing more than totally inadequate cost of living adjustments in endowment payments. [More…]
May I pay some tribute to the people who work day and night, who give up their family life and go out arranging meetings to form Party branches. [More…]
We can produce a new motor car for every family in Australia probably every 2 years. [More…]
It takes no account of what is required to keep a family going. [More…]
That family group would be very lucky as it would qualify for assistance. [More…]
The figure for the family group of a husband, wife and 2 children was given as $49.91 a week. [More…]
That family group would qualify, but it would not qualify for the full assistance. [More…]
The family group of a husband, wife and 3 children would need to have an income of $52.56 a week to be on a very stringent poverty line. [More…]
Of course, a family group earning that income, which it must earn to be just above the poverty line, would be immediately placed beyond eligibility for this subsidised health insurance scheme. [More…]
The family group in Victoria of a husband, wife and 4 children would need $59.86 a week. [More…]
The family group of a husband, wife and 5 children on $67.44 would have no hope of qualifying under this scheme, nor would the family group of a husband, wife and 6 children on $74.97 a week. [More…]
It can be seen that any family group in Victoria of a husband, wife and 3 or more children would be receiving such income that they would not be eligible for assistance under this subsidised medical scheme. [More…]
A family could then be allowed to earn $4 a week for every child after the second child. [More…]
Whilst the dropping out of employment of married women would not show up in the figures of the recipients of benefits it would very seriously affect the economy of the area and of the families concerned because the income of these women has become a part of the normal income of the family and the spending rates and standards of living have been geared accordingly. [More…]
These include low income, lack of aspiration and motivation, which is a generational sort of thing and will continue within those family groups pretty much unless we do something to improve opportunities for these people, and also retention rates for secondary schools. [More…]
As honourable members well know there are fairly generous concessional deductions allowable for a family such as medical, hospital and education expenses as well as life assurance payments but what the taxpayers do not generally realise is the way that these falls result in a massive transfer from low and moderate income earners to high income earners. [More…]
In the financial year 1968-69 $805m was allowed as deductible claims for family purposes involving medical, hospital and educational expenses. [More…]
In the case of the child deductibility allowance, where there is a family of a man, his wife and 3 children, and he receives a salary of $2,700 a year, he will gain a tax saving of about $99; whereas the man with a salary of $16,000 a year will gain a saving of $406 on his tax payment. [More…]
The Government has given high priority to the one-parent family. [More…]
One can never assess the importance of having a mother at home to look after her young family when they arrive home from school and I do feel this is perhaps the most important aspect of this legislation. [More…]
I might mention that this is not the position in the Asian countries where it is a family’s responsibility to care for the parents and other relatives, and to me they appear to be much happier for the experience. [More…]
However, they were happy to share what they had with the other members of the family. [More…]
He was prepared to share his house and what he had with other members of his family and was held in respect and, no doubt, loved for it. [More…]
Even if the Government had the revenue to provide our elderly citizens with everything they need and accepted full responsibility for them, they would be missing something vital - that is that warm, human, personal and friendly touch that only members of a family can provide. [More…]
A more happy and satisfactory life for our senior citizens, invalids, TPIs and so on can come about only as a partnership where members of a family must accept a greater responsibility along with the Government. [More…]
To put it bluntly, tax rates for family taxpayers are so low at that point that the individual tax saving is negligible. [More…]
That appeared to me to be a very old fashioned and anachronistic sort of attitude, and it is not just distressing, it is absolutely appalling to find that that is still the situation today, except for pensioners with children in the family. [More…]
As to the suggestions that we should abolish or reduce some of the taxation concessions I wonder whether the honourable member for Perth realises that most of these concessions were introduced to assist the family man, particularly the man with a large family who is on a low income. [More…]
Child endowment is designed to help the family - to encourage Australians to have larger families and to populate our country with the best migrants we can have. [More…]
Child endowment, a measure first introduced by the Liberal-Country Party Government as was generously recognised by the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope), has been increased for third and subsequent children, so that a family with 3 children receives a total income supplement of $2.50 a week while a family with 4 children receives $5.75. [More…]
When wage increases have to be spread ‘ over a greater number of dependants the relative improvement of the whole family is reduced. [More…]
Fifthly, the rate of child endowment for the third and each subsequent child under 16 years of age in a family is to be increased by 50c per week. [More…]
I was impressed with the matter brought forward by the honourable member for Holt (Mr Reid), who spoke about the need for members of a family to look after and care for aged parents. [More…]
If an allowance were given, these people could be looked after in their own home under normal family conditions and in a more satisfactory and happy atmosphere. [More…]
As the honourable member for Holt said, in many instances eastern countries can show us family care and respect for aged people which many of us would benefit by copying. [More…]
Health insurance rates for a family with children - however many children - are pegged at the rate applicable for a married couple without children. [More…]
As the increase in child endowment this time applies only in cases where there are more than 2 children in a family and as the amount is only 50c, at a time when the Government places emphasis on children’s needs, it must be pretty obvious that any increase daring the next 4 years or so will be very small indeed, if there is any increase at all. [More…]
It is clear that parents with large families are not being assisted to the extent that they should be and that in turn the whole family is suffering in the areas of health and education. [More…]
Every family - including the aged, invalids and widows - needs them. [More…]
A man with the same family, who is on the minimum wage now, pays $2.85 per week or $148.20 a year in income tax. [More…]
In 1949 child endowment paid to a family with 3 children - which is close to the number of children in the average family - represented 11.3 per cent of the average male earnings. [More…]
Under this Budget, a family with 3 children will receive $3.50 a week in child endowment. [More…]
In 1948 when the minimum wage was $11.60 a week, a family with 5 children received $4 a week in child endowment. [More…]
The same sized family now receives $8.25 a week, but the minimum wage is now $46.30 a week. [More…]
To retain the same relationship child endowment now should be over $11 for a family with 5 children. [More…]
The recent Budget was not a family budget by any stretch of the imagination. [More…]
lt is interesting to analyse how the family income shrinks as extra children come along. [More…]
This reduces the family income to $42.15, or $21.08 a week each. [More…]
The couple receive 50c a week child endowment, which gives the family $43.40 a week, or $14.47 each. [More…]
The family income is now $44.95 a week, or $11.24 each. [More…]
With the third child, tax paid weekly is $2.40 and child endowment is $3.50 a week, leaving the family income at $47.40, or $9.48 for each unit. [More…]
With the fourth child taxation is reduced to $1.95 each week and child endowment is $5.75 a week, making the family income $50.10, or $8.35 for each unit. [More…]
This shows that the bigger the family the less each family unit has to live on. [More…]
The effect on the family budget when the first child reaches the age of 16 years is most noticeable. [More…]
This is a big drop in income for a family. [More…]
Of course, 1 have an interjection from the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Health based on his own family code policies. [More…]
I regret very much that, as the very basis for the determination of a social welfare policy, the Opposition has adopted policies with respect to Australian family codes and immigration, which is itself an addition to the work force, which run counter to every tradition that we have had in Australia. [More…]
If we look at the family endowment and mothers allowance together, for the first child there is an extra payment of $9 and if there is more than one child it is about $7 per child. [More…]
We have had some cognisance of family responsibilities and this is a measure of the improvement which we have made. [More…]
That means that in a 5-year period, a family of 5 Australians sharing one family car would be paying about $1,000 towards the expense of injury producing car smashes. [More…]
It also showed that after taking into consideration the accommodation costs of the persons concerned, their assets and the family help they received, only one in fifty was in poverty and in need. [More…]
For the purposes of the survey, which was carried out in the June Quarter 1966, the poverty line for a standard family comprising husband, wife and two dependent children was arbitrarily set at $33 per week, that being equivalent to the then Victorian basic wage of $30.70 per week plus child endowment for two children plus a loading of 80 cents. [More…]
The updated poverty line for a standard family as calculated from Victorian average weekly earnings for the June Quarter 1971, would accordingly be $49.18. [More…]
However, if the June 1966 base is updated according to increases in the Consumer Price Index for Melbourne to June 1971, the poverty line for the standard family would be $38.63. [More…]
Is it a fact that this family was ordered out of Honolulu by the Hawaiian Government and has refused repatriation back to the United States? [More…]
Furthermore, as Mr O’Leary and his family now appear to be illegal immigrants will the Minister state the full facts of the case and what action, if any, is being taken by his Department in relation to this remarkable one-man unassisted mass migration programme? [More…]
The first is in relation to the willingness of die United States authorities to repatriate the family and the second is in relation to whether it is correct that the American authorities paid the fares of the family to come here. [More…]
Of course the problem here is that each flat, being occupied by one family or person, would be regarded the same as a house and so naturally the tenant of each flat al one address would be obliged to have a licence. [More…]
I wish now to deal with the increase in prescription costs under the pharmaceutical benefits scheme from 50c to $1 as this is another strike at the family - the very section of our community whom we should be helping and not hindering. [More…]
As I said, this is another assault upon the family which will particularly affect my electorate which, as I mentioned earlier, probably has the youngest average population in Australia and has more couples bringing up the future generation of this country than most other areas, and I submit that a part of this Budget surplus should be used to reduce the cost of prescriptions to the patient. [More…]
Finally, I wish to make a particular appeal for the invalid and widow pensioner with a family. [More…]
I think most people will appreciate that any person who is bringing up a family in circumstances where, for example, in the case of a widow pensioner the husband has died possibly at an early age because of a heart attack or something of that nature, the widow is placed in a most invidious and difficult position. [More…]
Yet under the social service framework instituted by this Government the woman is almost invariably forced to go out to work to keep her family at a time when her responsibilities within the home and her need to be in the home are greater than they ever were before. [More…]
I think the time has come when, in the interests of humanity and in the interests of those young children who have to be brought up with the attendant requirements of education and the rest, the pension for a civilian widow with a family should be immediately reviewed by the Government. [More…]
This is equally applicable to the invalid pensioner who has a family to bring up. [More…]
It applies also to the age pensioner and the widow who does not have a family but it applies particularly to the civilian widow with a family and the invalid pensioner with a family. [More…]
During the period I was in South Africa I received no mail from my family because the Australian Postal Workers Union refused to handle mail to South Africa. [More…]
Throughout the time I was away I had no idea of how my wife was coping with our young family. [More…]
We know full well that no family can live on that and the Commission, I would say. [More…]
Government given any consideration to the family man with a chronically ill child. [More…]
Public ward coverage for a family will cost 82c a week or $42.72 a year; intermediate ward coverage will cost $1.28 a week or $67.72 a year; and private ward coverage will cost $1.52 a week or $79.20 a year. [More…]
The Commonwealth Bank should enter the field of hire purchase finance for approved types of investment in open and free competition with the private finance houses and with the trading banks but charging half the rate of interest that is now charged under hire purchase for essential goods such as household effects and the family car. [More…]
In fact, this Budget is contributing as much as any other factor to the aggravation of the difference between income and expenditure of the average family. [More…]
It has attacked the average family in every way. [More…]
It has increased taxation, fares, postage, telephone charges, the cost of a television licence, the cost of cigarettes, hospital charges and many more areas that are expenses to the family. [More…]
60,000 acres have no-one outside the family left working on them, while others of more than 100,000 acres in extent have perhaps one man only. [More…]
In many cases the family roots of generations are embedded in their town. [More…]
Even the Faulkiner family of the famous Boonooke merino stud are wanting out. [More…]
It will decide also the level of security to be enjoyed or otherwise by every family in Australia. [More…]
In trying <o understand this Budget, we in opposition are convinced that in endeavouring to deflate the economy, which seems to be the only alternative that this Government has in mind to combat inflation, the wage earner and the family are the real victims. [More…]
We can imagine the struggle facing young people who wish to acquire a piece of land on which to build a home in which to rear a family. [More…]
As with expatriate officers, the extent to which indigenous officers can maintain a standard of living depends not only upon their income but also upon their personal and family circumstances. [More…]
I instance for example the Jewish Family Welfare organisation in Melbourne, which has been interesting itself in this field, but lately this matter has taken on a new dimension by reason of the pioneering work done by Alderman Joan Pilone and the City Council in Sydney in the establishment of the Beehive Industries. [More…]
The scheme will also assist members of the family of an eligible farmer who have been working full-time on farming other than domestic responsibilities, and who have been primarily dependent on the income of the farm. [More…]
We have the situation of family men having to evacuate like refugees moving to the city because of the rural situation created by decisions of this Government. [More…]
At one time a man’s wage would keep his family in reasonable comfort. [More…]
Now a family cannot exist on the minimum wage of about $46.30 a week. [More…]
Not only do farmers and graziers have to carry this extra burden with vehicles, implements and equipment which are operating almost continuously, but the family man, the worker, the garage proprietor and contractors also have to drive long distances over bad roads for normal travelling and overland on vacation. [More…]
a family at war under the benevolent parternity of the father of the year, or in more colloquial terms the daddy of ‘em all. [More…]
I suppose we could number the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) and his colleagues among the black sheep of the family. [More…]
I wonder whether the father of the year is regarded as a father figure, popularly welcomed by the family at the start of each sitting day to the tune of ‘Oh my papa’. [More…]
I just ask in passing: Does this help the housewife or the family which wants milk? [More…]
Class A - gross weekly family income not exceeding $46.50 or, if the applicant is of pensionable age means as assessed not exceeding $2,418; [More…]
Class B - gross weekly family income not exceeding $49.50 or, if the applicant is of pensionable age, means as assessed not exceeding $2,574; [More…]
Class C - gross weekly family income not exceeding $52.50 or, if the applicant is of pensionable age, means as assessed not exceeding $2,730. [More…]
Finally, as the means test at present victimises large families who need a larger income to be above the poverty line than the means test allows, will he broaden the means test to take account of differing incomes needed for differing family sizes? [More…]
Why is it in a land such as ours that young people are unable to acquire a block of land at a price within their economic means, to build a house and to raise a family? [More…]
This demand for land arises from the basic human need for the family to have a decent place in which to live. [More…]
These prices do not include the high interest charges which are fixed by this Government and which are inevitably forced on the average land buyer because his income is not enough to enable him to -accumulate enough capital to have a house of his own in which to rear his family. [More…]
In the circumstances of a withdrawal from Vietnam - that means a great reduction in the Australian commitment overseas - and in the realisation that the people in time of peace will be more reluctant to accept sacrifices in their own personal lives, in their association with other members of the family, and in their business interests and the like, than they would be in time of war, the Government has decided to reduce the term of national service from 2 years to IS months and is proposing to make certain other adjustments to the National Service Act. [More…]
It is also a matter of housing allowances for the dislocation of a family because people are travelling from place to place or may be sent interstate or overseas to South East Asia. [More…]
However he cannot insure only his wife and children for medical benefits but must pay for the family benefit. [More…]
The Government has taken all reasonable steps to reduce disruption to the careers of national servicemen by deferring call-up until completion of studies or on family hardship grounds, and by guaranteeing restoration in civil employment on completion of service. [More…]
It does not matter to the Government that conscription destroys a young man’s future; it does not matter that quite often it deprives a young man of early family . [More…]
I made strong representations on behalf of this distressed woman who was losing the eldest child of her family under the National Service Act. [More…]
It concerned a family made up of a mother and her 3 sons. [More…]
The mother, who was bringing the family up on her own. [More…]
.family on compassionate grounds? [More…]
They have to determine whether he is likely to offend again, whether there is a job for him outside, what the effect of his detention is having on his family, what the effect of his detention is having on his future career, on his scholarship ambitions or his ambitions of any sort. [More…]
With the possible exception of a very small number of non-European dependent family members of European family heads who have not been recorded statistically as such, all the 307 assisted settlers from South Africa in 1969-70 were European. [More…]
(a) With the possible exception of a very small number of non-European dependent family members of European family heads who have not been recorded statistically as such all the 3,891 assisted settlers who came from unstated British Commonwealth countries in 1970 were of European descent. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the children of the same family are being given different surnames. [More…]
If so, are the parents of these children highly disturbed at this attempt to eliminate their own family or clan names of which they are justly proud. [More…]
The subsection name is different for husband, wife, sons and daughters and does not identify the family in the way a European surname does. [More…]
If a senior member of an Aboriginal family or the eldest child chooses a European name as a surname, junior members of the family are encouraged to use that name. [More…]
In particular, since the Commonwealth Government provides 50 trees and shrubs for every family it brings to Canberra, why is similar provision not made for families which it transfers to Army bases? [More…]
The problems will not easily be overcome, for they require the improvement of living conditions and the extension of medical and health knowledge and understanding amongst Aboriginal parents including increased voluntary use of family planning techniques. [More…]
As Dr Callaghan said in Cootamundra quite recently, you can do what you like about birth control and you can do what you like about family planning but there will be many more millions of people in the world in the next 20 years and at our present rate of food production we will not be able to supply them with food. [More…]
I would appreciate you - obtaining from the appropriate Minister an explanation why my family and I had to experience the two disturbances? [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems- ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale- the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Lastly, as I have mentioned, the newspaper article is headed ‘Labor Favors 2-Child Family’. [More…]
What we are finding is that many males’ in Australia simply could not afford to lead a family on the means test involved in this system. [More…]
If a family income is below $52.51 a week, the plan gives special help in paying health expenses. [More…]
There are 3 categories of assistance: Firstly, where a family income is $46.50 or less, free medical benefits and public ward hospital cover are available; secondly, where a family income is above $46.50 but does not exceed $49.50, medical benefits and public ward hospital cover are available for only one-third of the normal cost of health insurance contributions; and thirdly, where a family income is above $49.50 but does not exceed $52.50 medical benefits and public ward hospital cover are available for two-thirds of the normal cost of health insurance contributions. [More…]
Therefore, any family with at least one dependant with a taxable income below $1,730 would be automatically exempted from contributing but would have full access for free public or standard ward hospital treatment and for medical services from a private doctor of the patient’s choosing, Importantly, those most luckless of all Australians - the Aborigines - would be fully covered. [More…]
A matter which is a worry to many people in Australia, especially the family man, is the cost of health services. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a need to provide special finance for family units so that families can extend their homes by the building of self-contained in-law units. [More…]
By this means there may be a tendency in our community to get back to the extended family unit. [More…]
One of the sad facts of our society has been, firstly, the breakdown of the extended family unit and, secondly, as can be seen today, the breakdown of the nuclear family unit. [More…]
This has grave implications for us, but by providing special finance the family unit can be maintained. [More…]
1 have some knowledge of the fruit industry, having been associated with a fourth generation fruit growing family for over 30 years. [More…]
- lt does not give me great pleasure to go to industry after industry, group after group and family after family to find them asking questions to which we are not given answers in the national Parliament. [More…]
When imputed costs, that is, depreciation, owner-operator’s labour, family labour, interest on land, and other interest items, are taken into account the total costs in many cases exceed the gross return in recent years. [More…]
I have representations in my hand from a very important family planning association. [More…]
The Volkswagen was initially a product of the revolt against the Detroit monsters and was sold to the public as an economic runabout and a second car for the family. [More…]
A basic aim of a scheme to control egg production recently considered at a meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, is the protection of the family egg producing unit. [More…]
This occurs, firstly, because society encourages marriage in the ‘typical’ family. [More…]
In a general review we might well look at the question whether taxes should be levied on the individual or on the family unit. [More…]
Unquestionably it could be argued and debated in this place that we may not be heading in the right direction nationally by exacting the dues that we do through death duties from small family enterprises. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students has completed an analysis of costs which revealed this startling fact: A family earning the average Australian income of $4,200 per annum will have to spend in 1972 30 per cent of its income to maintain one student at a university. [More…]
The best way to ensure that this happens is to see that every child, irrespective of background or the financial standing of the family, is assured of the opportunity to be educated to the capacity of his intellect. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
What should happen is that be should at that stage, probably half way through the period of hospitalisation, be transferred to a convalescent bed in one of the satellite hospitals where he is nearer his own family and nearer his own general practitioner so he can get back to the care of his general practitioner where he ought to be. [More…]
This woman came from a very high income family. [More…]
At the present time members are making a contribution of 5c a week for a family and this enables them to get their prescriptions at a saving of 40c. [More…]
That money must be paid by that person before he or she can spend any money on his or her immediate family. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which sets out the minimum weekly family contributions to medical funds and family hospital contributions compared with the Commonwealth basic wage and the minimum wage. [More…]
I understand that the child had gastric trouble and was admitted on the basis of the letter and on the advice of the family’s medical practitioner. [More…]
Let me reiterate that the only means of including every citizen within a single insurance scheme is to have a single compulsory, universal insurance scheme that levies charges on the pay packet according to the ability to pay and with generous exemptions according to family size. [More…]
the means test should take account of family sizes to cover 250,000 low income families or 1 million people. [More…]
Health of a Metropolis’, said that their survey of Prahran in the last few years showed that cultural factors were a massive influence alongside the family’s low income status in preventing these migrants from protecting themselves. [More…]
Similarly, even supposing every low income family eligible for Government assistance was involved in the Government subsidised scheme, the fundamental questions would still remain: What sort of care do such families require, and are these needs being met? [More…]
Indeed, if we assumed that every family registered with a private benefits fund as at 30th June this year was led by a mother, we would see that only a fraction of all the uninsured deserted wives in Victoria are covered in the scheme. [More…]
What are we doing about the situation where the low income family is either prevented from attending a doctor because the father has fallen behind with his bills or because of a shortage of doctors in his district? [More…]
For those who have no family or who do not wish or are no longer able to live alone, it is necessary to provide home or hostel accommodation. [More…]
A system of comprehensive community health services .will be set up with the family doctor as one of the team, with nurses, physiotherapists, medical specialists, social workers, dieticians and so on. [More…]
People usually experience more family problems in the latter part of their life than in the earlier part of their life. [More…]
We should set a target of providing every Aboriginal family in this nation with decent housing within a perid of 10 or 15 years. [More…]
The Minister for the Army has assured me and, through me, assures the House that all our planning is directed towards ensuring that every member of the Australian forces in Vietnam who is due to come out with the main withdrawal will be able to be with his family by Christmas. [More…]
If so, what assurances were received and what inquiries were made regarding the application lodged by Mr James Edward O’Leary and his family for a 2-day visitors’ visa. [More…]
The 0’Lear family had arrived in Fiji from Hawaii by air with tickets for onward movement to Australia. [More…]
Neither the American Vice Consul nor the Australian High Commission had prior knowledge of the family. [More…]
Some risktaking is inevitable and cases such as that of the O’Lear family are too infrequent to warrant the difficulties for travellers generally which would result from drastic changes in procedures. [More…]
Carriers and visa issuing officers have been warned that the O’Lear family will not be admitted to Australia again. [More…]
Deportation and Repatriation: Mr J. Q. O’Lear and Family (Question No. [More…]
What was the full cost to the Commonwealth for the deportation of Mr James Edward O’Leary and his family. [More…]
Has it yet been ascertained whether the State of Hawaii paid the family’s fares to Australia knowing they were not en route to Guam as stated. [More…]
Will the State of Hawaii or the Government of the United States of America be requested to reimburse the cost of the deportation of this family; if not, why not. [More…]
The cost to the Commonwealth for returning Mr James Edward 0’Lear (alias 0’Leary) and his family to Hawaii amounted to $5,176.93. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
I will be pleased to see the matter dealt with because I can imagine the relief that it will bring to the family when there is some finality. [More…]
On the other hand, it is a perfect means of promoting and advancing those children who already are fortunate because of family circumstances. [More…]
What is the weekly family contribution charged by the major hospital benefits organisation in each State. [More…]
The weekly family contribution rates charged by the major hospital benefits organisation in each State as a 1st September 1971 are as follows: [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
I am not for one moment reflecting on the intentions of these people but, in many cases they smash the things that are most sacred to the Aboriginals - his family life and family unit. [More…]
As long as I am a member of this House I will protect the right of the Aboriginal to maintain his own dignity, to preserve his own family unit and his desires to blend in and to enjoy progress and not to be pressed into it. [More…]
The whole family plus a number of dogs per person plus hundreds of thousands of flies live there. [More…]
I should think he would borrow because if he had a family to support, the miserly amount paid to him as a domestic would be quite inadequate. [More…]
But the other side of the ledger shows that the process of bringing forward to European standards of education, or the beginnings thereof, produces considerable conflict and gives rise to a considerable social problem as between the offspring of a particular family and their tribal parents. [More…]
These scholarships, which are tenable in the institutions to which the Honourable Member refers, cover the cost of all compulsory fees and in addition students may receive, subject to a family means test, the benefit of a living allowance of up to $700 p.a. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen 2 publications, one named ‘Family Issue of Tharunka’, the journal of the University of New South Wales Students Union, with a printed copy of an alleged letter of congratulations from Professor Myers, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, and the other a booklet ‘Sex’ with the imprint U.N.S.W. [More…]
It says that if people shop around for their credit terms the average family - and it suggests that the average family when its consumer credit financing is taken into account is indebted for something like $700 in the aggregate on which it could pay anything like $140 or 20 per cent in service charges - should be able to get money at about half the price. [More…]
I would suggest to the Government, which claims to be really concerned about inflation but seems only to see it when wage increases are being sought, that here is a very good place to begin to do something which would affect the average family by $70 a year or near enough to $1.50 a week in excess exploitation by way of credit charges. [More…]
It would get that money because of a family relationship through the board of directors and in no other way. [More…]
You ask: ‘How many did you lose in your family?’ [More…]
The base price will be adjusted for each season according to movements in cash costs, including family labour, as assessed by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics; [More…]
He is very much a family man, and a person in this situation has a necessity for housing at its best. [More…]
There are the side effects from the fact that the family is financially overcommitted, and of course this is when the Government has to do something about social welfare, social services, health or in some other field. [More…]
He wants a smaller Australian family - not his own, of course, but for others. [More…]
He wants a smaller Australian family - not his own, of course, but for others. [More…]
The members of one family alone run into excess of 500 people. [More…]
Firstly, family reunion has always been given the highest priority in Australia’s immigration programme. [More…]
A couple of years back we let our house to an Indian family. [More…]
2, As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
It is supposed to be progressive in its application, to be levied according to people’s capacity to pay and takes into account certain circumstancial differences between taxpayers by reason of family commitments and other sorts of allowances that have from time to time been introduced. [More…]
It also means that when a man does increase his earnings by individual effort he is able to keep for himself and his family a fairly big proportion of this increase without the state taking an undue proportion of it away from him. [More…]
To be effective in assisting families this concession should be given in the form of a fixed rebate of total taxation for all family people and not be specifically designed to give a concession which increases with the wealth of the individual recipient. [More…]
For those reasons I am not at all happy with the present method of offering family assistance or concession and am of the opinion that a straight forward allowance of direct taxation deduction irrespective of income would be a much more equitable and acceptable system, but even this would not help those people who, because of their circumstances, pay next to nothing in tax in any case and yet who at the same time are the very people who require assistance for the education of their children or to ensure their good health. [More…]
Of course when there are 2 children in each family, or 3 or 4, then the man with a higher income gets an even greater advantage. [More…]
There should be a fixed amount of deduction for a wife and a family, for education, for medical expenses and the like, because it is not fair that the person on a low income should not receive the same benefit as a person on a higher income. [More…]
It is estimated that the Budget has added more than $2 weekly to the average family man’s cost of living. [More…]
For a family nowadays to have a reasonable standard of living the husband has either to have 2 jobs or to work considerable overtime. [More…]
Everyone has a lot of sympathy for a mother of 2 or 3 school age children if the husband does not work overtime and the family depends only on his wage rate for the family income. [More…]
It has been one of direct criticism and direct provocation of the working man - the family man. [More…]
With this Government’s constant rattling of the war drums in its determination to confront the trade union movement, to force strikes upon the family man who can ill afford them, it is in an atmosphere of extreme despair that some of the building workers in Western Australia are considering a strike meeting next week in an attempt to determine what action they can take, such as the banning of overtime or voluntary short time. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
The landholder and his family are holding on often alone. [More…]
When we have the situation of a family man being thrown out of employment that is bad enough. [More…]
If you have 2 children of school leaving age who are not going to work the whole family is affected. [More…]
They must be affected because these children are economic factors within the family unit. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced person are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced person are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
In addition, the constant rotation of officers’ duties involves frequent new postings and transfers with all of the consequent disruption of family life, the schooling of children and so on. [More…]
In 1949 families with 3 children received endowment of 11.5 per cent of average male earnings but a family with 3 children now receives 5 per cent. [More…]
Surely it is indicative that this situation applies not only to the pensioners but also to the average family grouping, the most important grouping in our society and the basis for the future generations of this country. [More…]
These people will be vitally affected and are being vitally affected by the refusal of this Government to give justice to the young family groupings. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems- ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death oh an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
That is that no Australian or no Australian family should have to pay for a trunk call to telephone the nearest doctor, dentist, chemist or even policeman. [More…]
I do not want to quarrel with that overall figure at the present time but I want to ask the Minister at this stage whether he will reinvestigate the first stage of my proposal - the 50-mile zone - with a view to ensuring that every family can make a local telephone call to the basic services. [More…]
At least one-third of all rural families live below a poverty line of 100 rupees, or $12, a month for a family of 5. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
This year is probably an historic year and we have to use it to move forward and to try to bring some sanity to the world, to try to bring the major nations together so that we can start to talk about some progressive ideas to solve the problems of the family of nations living together on this planet. [More…]
First of all I used the Family Planning Association’s submission to the Select Committee of Pharmaceutical Benefits, of which I am a member. [More…]
This organisation is able to provide to people who go to family planning clinics a month’s supply of contraceptive pills at about $1.10. [More…]
In other words, a family on the basic wage at that time was required to pay 1.03 per cent of its income for medical and hospital insurance. [More…]
This is a fantastically high proportion of the income that is received by a family which is something close to the minimum wage. [More…]
When it went to the hospital fund to which the family concerned contributed, an entitlement for the baby was refused. [More…]
The benefit fund to which the family subscribed referred the matter to its legal advisers who adjudged that the child was not entitled to the payment of a benefit. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by TCN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by HSV consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by ATN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by Station GTV consist of drama, light entertainment, sport, news, children’s, family activities, current affairs, religious matter and education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station QTQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station BTQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station NWS consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
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ment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVT consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
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As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition- and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
The motor car, for purposes of family transport and weekend pleasure, is an acknowledged part of our way of life. [More…]
I believe that the value of a human life in terms of the loss to the economy and the loss of a breadwinner to a family could be calculated at about $50,000. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition .ind child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Now 1 turn to the effect the closure of the goldmines would have on the cities of Kalgoorlie and Boulder where at present there is a population of well over 20,000 people, lt would be very difficult to arrive at a reasonably reliable estimate of what the population drop could be unless one had access to what were the family responsibilities of the men and women working for the goldmining industry and elsewhere in those towns. [More…]
The study dealt with family incomes and incomes of male heads of families. [More…]
In the figures on family incomes, the greatest concentration was in the $51 to $60 a week bracket. [More…]
What sort of life is it for a family with young children having to live in a flat? [More…]
I feel that no-one is more qualified to understand the human requirements of the ordinary every-day Australian when it comes to matters of housing because no-one has had to provide housing for a greater number of people in a family unit than has the Minister himself. [More…]
The demand is for much greater variation to meet the demands of the various members of the family, even though families have decreased in size. [More…]
We do not want a situation wherein the whole family has to go to work to pay for a house. [More…]
But worse, this Bill and the Minister’s second reading speech make explicit the Government’s failure to recognise the enormity of the problem that confronts a low income family. [More…]
While I would not like to see the rule applied very rigidly, and would agree that a slightly ambiguous wording does give room for negotiation, I would like lo know precisely what is meant by ‘low income family’, because in my own State a person who docs not earn considerably above the minimum wage is not considered as a purchaser, as he cannot afford under the prevailing conditions to make the purchase repayments. [More…]
It is generally accepted that one-fifth of the earnings of a low wage earner is the maximum that he can spend on housing and still provide adequately for his family. [More…]
These homes are what one would regard as family homes. [More…]
It is not good enough to create a situation where the interest rates are such that it is impossible for a family on a relatively good income to meet the repayments without serious difficulty or without having to depend on a 2-wage economy, and that is how most people are buying their homes al the moment. [More…]
In the area which 1 represent one in every 5 houses rented by the Victorian Mousing Commission is occupied by a one-parent family, most of them deserted wives. [More…]
In this respect he touched upon some of the quaint household and family policies which were adopted by the Opposition at its Launceston conference and in the days before the Launceston conference. [More…]
We know that the honourable member for Bennelong could not buy a home unit in which to raise a family in his electorate for $17,500. [More…]
When that day comes perhaps the quality of the wine will deteriorate because no longer will the family wineries that we have in the industry today be there to maintain the recognised standards of wine making. [More…]
Pirramimma is one in South Australia of which I know that is owned by one family, lt is one winery which uses the very best methods for producing wine, irrespective of the profit motive that might otherwise compel it to use less scientific means. [More…]
These little family industries will not be able to continue much longer if the impost that there is now on wine is allowed to remain. [More…]
In particular the anguish of those young men who will be dented satisfying professional or family lives because of Vietnam must be given special consideration. [More…]
I instance the average family home with 3 bedrooms which is between 12 squares and 15 squares in area. [More…]
I have compared the cost of building an average 3 bedroom family home in the Northern Territory with the cost of building the same home in the south where the determination is made as to what the size of a housing loan or grant shall be. [More…]
I have dealt with many cases, as other honourable members have, in which people have to sell their present war service home for such very valid reasons as health or transfer in employment or because their family has multiplied and the home they are living in is no longer adequate. [More…]
It is logical that if a person has to move because of his employment, for health reasons or because his home is no longer adequate for his family he should not be placed in a position of having to renounce his war service loan and borrow at very much greater rates. [More…]
According to a survey made by Australian university students an average family with an income of about $4,400 a year pays almost 46 per cent of that income to send one member of that family :o a university. [More…]
This, of course, changed the whole social attitude to university education and families such as mine could see that not only people such as the odd one who managed to make the distance for some reason or other - the person who became a teacher and then for professional reasons managed to get into university - received a university education but that a university education became a natural social objective for the whole family. [More…]
In recent years 1 have noticed that people are prepared for some of the family not to bother to become university students. [More…]
I know of one family - a working class family, I suppose one could say, with a skilled tradesman as a parent - of which one son has finished university, one is in university and 2 others are coming up. [More…]
The fee for the average family on an ordinary wage in Australia is an almost impossible burden for the family to carry. [More…]
For the purposes of determining the eligibility of low income families, ‘income’ includes the income of the claimant and members of his family, other than child endowment and certain allowances specified in regulation 20A of the National Health Regulations. [More…]
The determination of the farm size was based on an area which would allow a man, his wife and family to live comfortably once the development period was over and took into account his ability to meet his repayments. [More…]
It was essential that one knew what these characteristics were because the brigalow tree is a member of the acacia family. [More…]
As I said before, the gamble is there, lt will hurt more than anyone else the battler or settler - whatever one might like to call him - who with his family goes on to the land when he does not have sufficient funds and is battling right from the word go, endures 2 years of drought and gets further and further behind. [More…]
C. B. M. Fenton, a member of a pioneering farming family in Circular Head, Tasmania, with properties in the Smithton district and at Temma on the west coast, and a person well versed in the problems of war service land settlement, because the main problem areas of Preolenna, Mawbanna, Togari and King Island are within his electorate, as indeed they are mine. [More…]
Inflation imposes great social burdens on the family man, the low income earner and those on fixed incomes while our rural producers and our manufacturing exporters selling on world markets know the economic problems of inflation. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Medical disqualifications are weighed against family reunion and other humanitation considerations. [More…]
This affords opportunity to reinforce immunity by appropriate methods in members of a sponsoring family, where this is considered necessary. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and dis placed persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutritionand child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to (heir assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
We have found families sleeping on the floor, the man of the family without employment or money for fares to go and look for a position. [More…]
Western Australia, who wishes to sponsor his brother-in-law, wife and family so that they may come to Australia wilh guaranteed accommodation and employment. [More…]
This businessman is denied family assistance in his business, the child is denied a happier future in Western Australia, and the slow learning children’s group in Western Australia, which has made excellent steps forward in educating these people, misses the opportunity of giving this child an education which would be perhaps better than it could receive in the country where it is now. [More…]
This lonely man who has worked to bring tip a family here and whose wife is- deceased must suffer . [More…]
Some families have had to be permanently separated because one section of the family has nol been accepted here and has been accepted by such countries as Canada. [More…]
The document lists such responsibilities as family casework, family counselling, day care centres, home help services, care of the aged, low cost meals or meals on wheels as they are called in some areas, community centres, citizens advice bureaux, clubs for children, young people and the aged, and day camps and other holiday camps as well. [More…]
In pastoral areas of Queensland, many children including white children leave school before the minimum permissible leaving age because they intend to work on their family’s pastoral properties. [More…]
Not only must we look at matters which have been raised by the honourable member for Fremantle; we must look also at the possible need for family planning so that Aboriginal mothers will be able to space their children in a way that is available to European mothers in Australia. [More…]
Clause 2 of the Bill stales that the average price will be adjusted for each season according to movements in cash costs, including family labour, as assessed by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Will anyone deny that the real causes of current industrial unrest are rising prices and the intolerable rate of taxation that falls upon the family man? [More…]
I challenge the Prime Minister to draw up a household budget showing how he would meet the basic needs of living in today’s so-called affluent society or bringing up a family to have decent opportunities in that society, on the present average weekly earnings of $89.70. [More…]
The last quarter’s average weekly wage of $89 would not pay for the last dinner that the Prime Minister had at Chequers’, much less pay for the food, clothing, school books, fares, medical expenses, house rent and hire purchase payments that the average family man has to find every day of the week, each week of the year. [More…]
The grocer, the baker, the butcher and the milkman must be paid; and, unless payment is forthcoming, there will be no food for the employee’s family. [More…]
“The family’s needs do not diminish just because the breadwinner is on strike. [More…]
A fair division demands that labour receive something more than a living wage that is merely enough to enable a man to maintain a wife and family. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
I think that his reference was to the ‘lichen spread of the suburbs and the inability of people to communicate with one another in the family group’. [More…]
The alcoholic squanders his resources to obtain his beverage, his productivity declines, and his family may bo neglected to the extent that it has to be supported by society. [More…]
Without the threat of prosecution, it would be much easier for family or friends to coax drug dependent individuals to seek treatment. [More…]
But listen to this: Hie Commissioner reported that an entire family was murdered by a youthful marihuana addict in Florida. [More…]
.He seemed to dislike his family. [More…]
He or she frequently comes from some privileged family and has never known bad times. [More…]
In other words he was just as confused as the alcoholic who goes home drunk and murders his family with a hatchet. [More…]
The main reason behind such a consistently high wastage rate is believed to be that the CMF members’ tenure of service has become more generally sensitive to factors related to their personal affairs, such as marriage, increased family responsibilities, business or educational commitments and transfers in civil employment. [More…]
Some notable improvements in the CMF equipment fields include the provision of the Ml 13 family of light armoured fighting vehicles to Armoured Corps CMF units; the issue of modern radio sets; and the issue of combat jackets to infantry, armoured, artillery and signal units, and university regiments and officer cadet training units will also receive the latest pattern web equipment, and adequate stocks of lightweight sleeping equipment are now becoming available. [More…]
Such interests as sporting and social activities, post graduate studies, and family pressures, to name some of the more obvious, are all competing to some degree for the spare time of the sort of young man we wish to attract. [More…]
To be unemployed is one of the most distressing things that can happen to a man, especially if he has a family. [More…]
I am sure that the right honourable gentleman will have a pleasant Christmas at home with his family, though he is only temporarily employed. [More…]
The very fine family of Killen has said that in no circumstances should this ban be lifted. [More…]
I wish you a very well earned retirement and a happy and holy Christmas for yourself, your wife and family. [More…]
The Government has no right to stand up in this place and fix salaries as high as $29,000 a year for certain statutory officers and certain other people employed by the Commonwealth who are indicated in this Bill, with increases ranging as high as $6,000 a year or $120 a week, and then have the check to tell the Arbitral on Commission that the ordinary family man has to try to maintain a wife and family on a miserable $47 a week. [More…]
That is an average arrived at by lumping together the salary thai lnc Prime Minister himself gets, about 88UU a week, plus the salaries of the people he is now proposing to increase to $29,000 a year with the salaries of the poor de.. ls who have to try to maintain a family on $50 or $60 a week. [More…]
I he Government has no right to come into mis place and talk about restraint on the part of the poor devil getting $50 or St.O a week with a family to maintain, educate, feed and clothe while in the same breath it has the hide to come into this place and ask us to approve of salaries as high as $29,000 a year for other people. [More…]
How can I when there are people on $50 or $60 a week trying to maintain a family while this man is on $800 a week and telling others to restrain themselves and keep down their wage demands, lt is an absolute disgrace. [More…]
Family life was disrupted, children neglected, ther was an emotional vacuum and many of the adults were well on their way to becoming alcoholics. [More…]
The Board of the Methodist Mission has been informed that the Government is prepared to subsidise the salary of a social worker whose duties would include education programmes on drinking and family counselling in particular cases. [More…]
Family, life for many was disrupted and social and moral problems began lo increase. [More…]
The new form may be completed and signed by a person other than the applicant, for example, the applicant’s family doctor. [More…]
What arrangements exist for making financial provision for (a) capital expenditure and (b) current expenditure on (i) baby health centres, (ii) pre-schools and (iii) family stores at Australian Army bases where these facilities are not available in nearby civilian communities. [More…]
Family Stores. [More…]
(i), (ii) No authority exists for expenditure on maintenance for Baby Health Centres and Pre-School Centres, (iii) Financial provision for expenditure on maintenance of approved Family Stores is made in the normal Repairs and Maintenance Programme procedure. [More…]
The cost of capitalising a family’s child endowment would vary with the size of the family, the rates of endowment and the ages of the children. [More…]
In addition, in New Zealand the amounts advanced when family benefits are capitalised are influenced by family circumstances, the discount rates applicable and expected mortality rates. [More…]
It is therefore impracticable to give a precise answer to the honourable member’s question unless appropriate details of the size of family, the ages of the children and the interest rate and other factors are taken into account. [More…]
At the time the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Scheme was established, the stated criterion was that the scholarships would be awarded on merit, lt was also the intention that the scheme might help students who could otherwise miss the final two years of secondary schooling through family circumstances. [More…]
This Government has absolutely no conception of what it is like to try to keep a family on $70 a week. [More…]
I challenge the Minister for Labour and National Service and the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to demonstrate how any employee who receives $70 a week can budget for food, clothing, rent, education, fares, entertainment and everything else that goes with maintaining a wife and family. [More…]
The increase is particularly striking where children are concerned, and this illustrates our special concern for the family unit, which was so scandalously neglected under the Labor Government. [More…]
He should have discussed the loss of self respect, especially for a male head of a family when he is thrown into unemployment. [More…]
J quote from The Family in a Money World’ by Feldman, a well known social welfare worker, on the subject of money. [More…]
Blackburn and Lobsenz in the work ‘The First Ten Years of Marriage: A Guide to Successful Family Living’ made the following relevant point: . [More…]
The National Health and Medical Research Council in July 1968 prepared a sort of minimum budget for the food intake - the protein and calorie intake - of a man, his wife and 2 children where the male head of the family was involved in fairly demanding physical work, such as a skilled labourer. [More…]
A food budget of $18.50 to $19 a week would leave about $16 to $16.50 a week from the proposed unemployment benefits for a family of husband, wife and 2 children. [More…]
We must develop immediately a national personal and family emergency assistance scheme so that people will not be crippled and thrown into personal bankruptcy, a scheme to keep them in times of persona] financial crisis of the nature caused by relative poverty and unemployment. [More…]
There should have been a substantial increase for the dependent children of the family. [More…]
Unemployment is a tragedy in any circumstances, particularly for the man who is out of work and more particularly, I suggest, for the family man who has a wife and little kiddies. [More…]
Does it not cause every listener, every proud family man and worker in this country to wince at the fact that there are people who prevail at the level of Government in Australia today who dare to countenance the idea that this is uplifting or dignifying to Australian manhood? [More…]
I believe that the annual report indicates that dependent children average three to a family. [More…]
Any person who suggests that a man with 2 children can live for a long period on $34 a week without that family suffering severe hardship and deprivation and without destruction of a man’s confidence in himself and his will is a fool. [More…]
It is not only the person who becomes unemployed; it is the person’s family - his children. [More…]
Morris Family Wineries, [More…]
This table points out that there were 5,672 Aborigines removed and in a note at the bottom of the table it indicates that this figure does not convey the true number of people that were removed, because sometimes it represented the head of a family, when his family was removed with him. [More…]
I wish him, his wife and family many long years of happiness and good health together, but I am not wishing him a long political life. [More…]
Will he discuss with the Minister for the Interior the urgent necessity of changing liquor laws which have destroyed the social and family security of the Yirrkala people (Question No. [More…]
before the increase proposed in this Bill, the same family group receives as unemployment benefit 20 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
At present that family group receives 25 per cent of average weekly earnings, and when the increase is granted it will receive 32.8 per cent of average weekly earnings, a percentage lower than that applicable in 1947. [More…]
There is nothing more demoralising than to see a man with a wife and family who is unemployed and looking for work. [More…]
One of the reasons why the present unemployment situation has arisen is because companies, like Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd which makes huge profits of $68m per annum, are increasing their prices to such an extent that it is impossible for people to work and to maintain their family at a decent standard of living. [More…]
This is happening in a community that calls itself a Christian community which is supposed to believe in the blessings of family life and so on. [More…]
Will anybody on the other side of the House say that 4 people living together in a “family unit in Australia can do so decently on less than $50 a week? [More…]
It means that a family with 3 school age children has had its bus fares for those 3 children increased from 60c a week to $1.50 a week. [More…]
If the family has 6 school age children - and I know of one which has 8 - the bus fares increase by $1.80 a week to $3 a week. [More…]
How anyone supports a family on that I do not know. [More…]
Any increase, whether it is an increase in the cost of food or electricity or an increase in bus fares, to such a family means great hardship. [More…]
On those figures it probably never gets to the stage where the officer has to investigate and decide whether the family spends too much on its electricity, its hire purchase payments or any other such considered luxuries. [More…]
For the wage earner who tries to support himself and his family on $55 or $60 a week, it is an impossible task to have added to that burden an extra $1, $1.30 or $1.50 a week. [More…]
to cater for the Hunt family - is carried free. [More…]
It appears to be in line with the Postal Department’s general policy of centralisation in this field but the savings are not being passed on to the public licence holder, in particular the pensioner or the widow who has the misfortune to have to care for a growing family who are reaching their teens and who go out to work and who, because of the miserable income these children bring in, is charged a full radio and television fee. [More…]
Every instinct that my honourable and learned friend, the Leader of the Opposition, possesses by his background, his family tradition and his training should have predisposed him not to take the attitude he has taken towards the obligations imposed by the National Service Act. [More…]
As far as Australia is concerned, the wage standard is fixed to give the wage earner and his family a good or a reasonable living. [More…]
I personally put the safety- of myself and my family above a little bit of patriotism in that particular motor car. [More…]
As for supplementing their family income by their wives going out to employment, that employment does not exist except in the textile field. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party stands primarily foi the Australian worker and his family. [More…]
I challenge the Australian politicians responsible for the 310 miles of unsealed hell to forsake the comfort of their supersonic jet aircraft and simply drive an average Australian family car over this so-called road both ways during summer. [More…]
I believe that this is typical of a number of other social attitudes that they adopt in which they suggest that the State can replace family responsibilities. [More…]
This would lead to what could become a breakdown in traditional family values. [More…]
Government activity cannot replace family responsibility. [More…]
family size [More…]
It lists as examples of the first: ‘overcrowding of houses, family size above the average, high incidence of supplements in cash or kind from the State, high incidence of truancy or poor attendance, a rapid turnover of teachers or difficulty in attracting them to the district’. [More…]
Similarly, it should be noted that the measure of family size was in fact a measure of large households which contained children. [More…]
They propose all kinds of incredible family proposals at all levels but the only area in which they would make divisions and in which they promote division is in the rights of children at all schools within Australia. [More…]
He referred to family homes from which education derived. [More…]
The Press emphasised the consideration that was being given to an apparent change in the income tax laws whereby individual income earners in a family would have their incomes combined for tax purposes so that they would be taxed on a family unit basis. [More…]
But his family budget was predicated on an income of tradesman’s wages. [More…]
I understand that it is a family business. [More…]
A decision to leave the business of farming is not just like a decision to choose another job because, in many cases, it is a decision which will affect the whole family and, in most cases the whole way of life to which it has been accustomed. [More…]
One of the major obstacles preventing a desperate farmer from applying for retraining is the responsibility of educating his family. [More…]
Although it can be argued that federally the Commonwealth has no direct interest in farm quotas nevertheless indirectly farm quotas have raised some important national problems because the economic problems of the family farm enterprise in Australian agriculture can be expected to be given greater political priority now that farm quotas have spread to the wheat industry on virtually a permanent basis. [More…]
The family-owned farm has been the backbone of Australian agriculture throughout its development, and it is. [More…]
Unless constructive policies are implemented by the Government to counter the forces of inflation, the traditional small family farm, that is the farm that is governed by a fixed quota on wheat, sugar or whatever is produced, will eventually disappear. [More…]
As far as honourable members on this side of the House and 1 are concerned, the traditional family farmer who is efficient in the use of his resources is entitled to full protection against the forces of inflation. [More…]
We have the situation now where (he traditional wheat growers have in some cases quotas so absurdly small that they would hardly sustain the family hens. [More…]
When the survival of the family - I say this very sincerely - and the survival of the farm are at stake and the bank manager is saying: ‘You had better sell or sign up’ the wheatgrower has to look at his home first, particularly when he knows that the Government is wrong and will not admit it. [More…]
If we are to protect farms of an economic size surely we must admit - if honourable members do not know this they ought to - that an economic family farm in today’s conditions will always beat the corporate farm because it has a great many advantages. [More…]
In conclusion let me point out also, that there is not much incentive to the Australian worker to pay extra taxes from long hours of overtime in order to exclude himself and family from benefits for which they have toiled. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minis ter whether it is a fact that he revealed on Tuesday night that he had not been consulted on the speech in which the Treasurer speculated about a family unit tax. [More…]
In directing my question to the Treasurer I refer to his address to the Federated Taxpayers Association in which he implied that a family unit scheme of taxation was a possible course of action, although he later withdrew it. [More…]
In view of some of the comments which I shall make later criticising this Government very strongly I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on standing firm on the question of a family unit tax and putting the blame completely on the Treasurer (Mr Snedden). [More…]
The third incident concerns the issue of family unit tax which was raised by the honourable member for Prospect. [More…]
I think it ought to be pointed out for the record that the Wilson family is associated with the Aged Cottage Homes Inc. in South Australia. [More…]
We ought to be encouraging families to hold together the extended family unit. [More…]
I am afraid that I have moved away from the position which I once held about the individuality of groups in society and the less desirable features of the extended family unit. [More…]
I believe that the problems and tensions we are moving into today in our society demand that we take steps to hold the extended family unit together, more especially with mothers working at the high rate at which they do today as a result of Government policy. [More…]
In this situation we ought to be providing money on very easy terms so that self-contained inlaw units can be built onto homes so that the extended family relationship can be maintained. [More…]
The quality of the education a child receives is determined not by his own capacity to learn by by his family’s capacity to earn. [More…]
We believe the Commonwealth should now see that pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary eduction of not less than an agreed standard is provided for every young Australian irrespective of the income his family receives, the church they attend or the locality they inhabit. [More…]
If one wants to compensate a child from a poor family to provide an equal opportunity in life, one must discriminate in his favour. [More…]
I believe that this is typical of a number of other social attitudes that they adopt in which they suggest that the State can replace family responsibilities. [More…]
Ths would lead to what could become a breakdown in traditional family values. [More…]
The average rural family is larger than its urban counterpart and this again places a heavier burden on the isolated parent who must find finance for boarding children in order to give them access to school. [More…]
That$400 per annum per family be allowed for a supervisor for children doing school at home. [More…]
A child from a culturally under-privileged family has less starting opportunity than have normal children and therefore requires greater encouragement. [More…]
So we have a situation where a child of 16, 17 or 18 years who is starting to become a very expensive luxury for any family is trying to cope with an adolescent life with the normal costs of living at that age and obtaining an education on a basic income available to his family of something less than $40 a week and, quite often, something substantially less than $30 a week. [More…]
It is a government which expects the big white ship to come in here indefinitely with bigger and bigger amounts of foreign currency to be invested in this country - in other words for the family farm to be. [More…]
One of the great weaknesses of the public services of Australia and many of the large private commercial concerns such as banks has been the arbitrary and capricious way in which people are shunted off around the country, family life and everything else notwithstanding. [More…]
Members of this Commonwealth Teaching Service will serve under quite a diversity of conditions not only environmentally but in terms of family provisions that are available in different areas and a number of other factors as well. [More…]
There is a big difference in the attitude of the average family man of the 1960s and 1970s compared with that of 30 or 40 years ago. [More…]
Four months ago I asked the honourable gentleman whether he had studied the New Zealand system of capitalising a family’s child endowment as a grant towards the cost of a house and whether he had calculated the annual cost of making a similar provision in Australia. [More…]
We attach great importance to family migration because it helps assimilation in the new country. [More…]
In total this represents one of the greatest long-term social welfare and rehabilitation problems in history, lt involves millions of people and affects just about every family in South Vietnam. [More…]
When it comes to social legislation dealing with contraceptives, abortion and other matters, the same honourable members applaud the virtues of family life in the. [More…]
I believe that his family should bring a charge against the secretary of the union which caused this dispute in Victoria. [More…]
He is not interested in the small wool grower, the bona fide traditional family man who is growing wool. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference does not democratically represent the views of the wool industry throughout Australia, particularly the small family traditional wool producer. [More…]
But quite apart from that, the rams which would be bought for overseas interests would certainly not be the flock rams required by the traditional family wool grower about whom the honourable member for Dawson was talking. [More…]
I (4) In the case of migrants lt is necessary to take into consideration that the total figures for migrant settlers do not represent the number of persons entitled to be enrolled in the Subsidised Health Benefits Flan because in the case of families, enrolment by the head of the family provides Subsidised Health Benefits entitlements for the whole of the family. [More…]
The numbers of single persons and of family groups of particular sizes are available for assisted migrants but in the case of unassisted migrants the figures used in this answer represent an estimate recently made by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the Family Expenditure Survey carried out in Great Britain on an annual sample of 10,000 households since 1957. [More…]
<4) With regard to a Family (or Household) Expenditure Survey, I have been advised by the Commonwealth Statistician that the Bureau of Census and Statistics completed early in 1971 a feasibility study which showed that successful surveys of household income and expenditure could be carried out in Australia. [More…]
Family problems are the main reason submitted for seeking a discharge. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is the minimum figure agreed upon by the Australian Agricultural Council, which represents all of the States as well as the Commonwealth as being the number of hives which will provide a reasonable living for a producer and his family. [More…]
Does this mean that a person, say, 10 years of age is entitled to a vote when he is a legitimate partner in a family partnership? [More…]
In my own view their worst mistake was to get rid of the Emperor Diem who was a member of a royal family in that country. [More…]
Each of us likes to increase his quantitative share, but sometimes 2 motor cars to a family instead of one can add to the social cost and it is hardly worth having what is supposed to be the advantage of the second car. [More…]
As k ponder on what has happened I cannot help thinking, with great sadness, that the Father of the Year must be a troubled man at this stage because at home the family is arriving and in Canberra the family is leaving. [More…]
Other aspects of Aboriginal health, including family nutrition, ear disease and deafness and dental health are also being examined. [More…]
(i) Low Income Families - When the subsidy arrangements were introduced on 1 January 1970 there was one category of low income family, namely families with incomes of $39 per week or less. [More…]
Full Subsidy - Weekly family incomes not exceeding $46.50. [More…]
Two-thirds Subsidy - Weekly family incomes exceeding $46.50 but not exceeding $49.50. [More…]
One-third Subsidy - Weekly family incomes exceeding $49.50 but not exceeding $52.50. [More…]
Full Subsidy - Weekly family income not exceeding $47.03. [More…]
Two-thirds Subsidy - Weekly family income exceeding $47.03 but not exceeding $50.03. [More…]
One-third Subsidy- Weekly family income exceeding $50.03, but not exceeding $53.03. [More…]
Full Subsidy - Weekly family income not exceeding $51.26. [More…]
Two-thirds Subsidy- Weekly family income exceeding $51.26 but not exceeding $54.26. [More…]
One-third Subsidy - Weekly family income exceeding $54.26 but not exceeding $57.26. [More…]
Contraceptives are provided free by the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration to Aboriginal women where contraceptives are required on medical advice or where a woman wishes to plan her family and would otherwise be unable to do so for economic reasons. [More…]
This arrangement would also apply if a property had passed to the family of a deceased settler. [More…]
On that occasion he was speaking to a United States House of Representatives committee and said that he did not allow his own family to eat hamburger meat or precooked meat that was likely to have come from meats imported from Australia. [More…]
He has to uproot completely all his family connections and settle down in a different area. [More…]
It was never expected that large numbers of widows would seek training under the scheme for a variety of reasons including family commitments, slate of health, age, availability of suitable training or the fact that the widow may prefer to use a previously acquired skill when this is permitted by her domestic situation. [More…]
Have you or any member of your family ever had a chest clinic investigation, suffered from epilepsy, cancer, tuberculosis or nervous disorders such as anxiety or depressive state of a disability? [More…]
Details of any mental illness, other serious illness, or physical disability (for any member of the family or dependants). [More…]
Has any member of your family or any relative (state relationship) ever had: [More…]
Have you, or has any member of your family ever suffered from a nervous or mental disorder, fits or epilepsy, or been treated in an institution for any kind of these disorders? [More…]
A migrant who has a pension right after having been here for 10 years and who draws on the pension for 5 years and then goes home for sound family reasons - perhaps there is some crisis back home and he has to go and see his close relations, which could happen with the southern Europeans in particular - will lose his pension unless some arrangement is negotiated. [More…]
Those who do not will stand condemned for their disregard of their own health, their own length of life, their own family and dependants and the welfare of this country. [More…]
This man is a moderate wage earner with a family and dependants. [More…]
On the following Friday I wrote to Travel House of Australia’ informing them of this plus the fact that my two teenage sons were causing me family problems, and also as my young daughter had just been involved in a road accident, I did not feel inclined to leave them. [More…]
The eighth bomb exploded on 6th April 1972 at a housing commission flat occuped by Mr Marian Jurevic and his family, to whom the first bomb had been sent through the post but which exploded in the General Post Office in Melbourne. [More…]
The bodies of a man, Ms wife and family lay where they had been burned to death. [More…]
The overall objective must be to adjust farm production to the level of demand, both domestically and internationally, which will bring to the producer a reasonable price and a reasonable income which will support him and his family. [More…]
At a time when the low income farmer can do little other than leave the industry with a significant capital loss and illequipped to earn other income to house and provide for his family, this is an injustice. [More…]
The family farm and the family farmer. [More…]
I should like to say a few words in respect of that matter, but first let me say that it is an extremely evil thing to apply vicious death duties on the estate of a farmer whose son, daughter, wife and the other members of the family have worked and slaved to make the farm an economic proposition. [More…]
She is not in a position to go to the supermarket, select a range of products for her family table, take them along to the friendly neighbourhood research chemist and ay Give me a rundown on the actual content of what I am supposed to have brought’. [More…]
The fact is that the Government should have taken steps long ago to ensure that synthetic meat or imitation meat - call it what you like - would not be an attractive commodity to the Australian housewife and her family or consumers of meat in Australia generally. [More…]
I would be very surprised if any housewife or mother would even consider offering synthetic or imitation meat to her family while she was in a position financially to purchase and serve real meat. [More…]
The question as to whether the daughter is qualified for special benefit would be determined in the light of the adequacy of the son-in-law’s income to provide for the reasonable maintenance of himself and his family. [More…]
I do not believe that he has the right to start up an industry in his back yard, but I do believe that he has the right to brew a reasonable quantity for his own family’s consumption. [More…]
I am referring to the ordinary railwayman who found that the extra loading was not there any more and that there was no overtime for him when he and his family had taken on hire purchase and other commitments. [More…]
If they are efficient and run a family farm they should be allowed to stay in the industry. [More…]
If so, will be launch a eugenic foundation In conjunction with the John Curtin Institute - the Family Planning Association. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House of the social service benefits available to such a family? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noted statements by spokesmen, including the shadow Minister in this Parliament responsible for industrial affairs the honourable member for Hindmarsh, and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that it is impossible for a family of a man, wife and 2 children to live at a decent level on the new Federal minimum wage of $51.10? [More…]
It so happens that my family live in Melbourne and it so happens that I have a base in Canberra. [More…]
I think this simply typifies the sorts of things that the Government has brushed off in this Parliament - the degrees of real poverty facing every family, on a low income level. [More…]
By reason of the Government’s failure to look at the tax structure over the years, the same family is getting now, in real terms, only 40 per cent of the child endowment which it received in 1949. [More…]
Some of them are at the end of a long family line of primary producers and some of them probably would not know what it is like to have an overdraft. [More…]
I ask: Following the recent discussion on immigration, can the Minister assure the House that there will be no change in the Government’s policy of facilitating the reunion of families through sponsored immigration, while at the same time continuing the policy of Commonwealth sponsorship of migrants from countries from which there is no tradition of family sponsorship? [More…]
We propose to continue sponsored immigration as long as there is an immigration programme, particularly as it affects family reunion. [More…]
He attempted to help the family by taking a paper run (SIO) all of which went to his mother. [More…]
Although his family has left home he still has to support his wife who is very confused and depressed. [More…]
Her husband is continually out of work and makes no effort to support his family. [More…]
Audrey sought help continually from church social workers and finally broke down and confessed that she felt she should leave her husband and return to her family in the country where her mother would look after the children and she could find work. [More…]
The children were placed in Church of England homes because of poverty - their father was not able to cope with a large family on a small wage. [More…]
In 1948 the Australian Commonwealth basic wage was $11.60 and a family with 5 children received in child endowment $4.00. [More…]
In order to preserve that ratio a family of similar size would need to receive $17.60 but receives in fact $8.25. [More…]
In one of the homes was a family comprising 10 children, a husband and wife who were paying $25 a week rent. [More…]
The Opposition could not claim that it is not partly to blame for the increase in costs which always hits the pensioner, the superannuitant and the man on a low wage, particularly if he has a large family. [More…]
Back in 1949 a widowed pensioner with 2 children who was renting the family home and was entirely dependent on the pension received a total payment of $5.15 a week. [More…]
Today the maximum payment for the same family is about $35.25. [More…]
The ACTU claim for a $70 a week minimum wage was not an excessive figure for the maintenance of a man and his family. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt might be interested to know that in my family background I had a grandfather who was a miner at Broken Hill and a schoolteacher father and I have done one or two other things myself. [More…]
I close by commenting that it is remarkable that this royal family that the honourable member speaks of has as its main supporter in the world at present the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
People do not have much chance of getting a Housing Commission house unless they have quite large family commitments in terms of numbers of children and the age of children. [More…]
His family was insulted, and so on. [More…]
The misery caused by strikes is something we just cannot contemplate: The problems of the housewife, of the family, problems with debts piling up, with unemployment, loss of overseas markets attributable to unemployment - and that is what is happening in the Illawarra area at the moment with the closure of South Clifton and North Bulli coalmines - and other human misery that goes with industrial warfare and turbulence. [More…]
He knows that if anybody wants to attain an acceptable standard of living and a decent quality of life, disregarding the monetary factor for the moment and the number of persons in a family who have become earners or working units, the only way in which young people in a community can afford to overcome the 1,000 per cent increase in the cost of land in many of our cities and suburbs throughout the nation is for both of them to contract to work. [More…]
We all know that the old concept of the Australian home with the wife always there to rear the family in dignity and comfort on the one adequate wage is a thing of the past. [More…]
By wage freezing and hours freezing, which are the intent of this legislation, the situation will be perpetuated - so much so that until some governmental action is taken to make the family unit what it was, what people fought and died for in 2 world wars - the fundamental bastion of our society - the family will become embroiled in some of the most bitter industrial disputes just to obtain enough income to suffice in our modern community. [More…]
Even in a man’s unemployment benefit the family unit is means tested on the earnings of the wife. [More…]
The United States of America ‘Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971’ limits the amount a candidate or his immediate family may contribute to his own campaign to $50,000 for President or Vice President, $35,000 for Senator and $25,000 for Representative. [More…]
On his death, his working papers and the manuscripts of his book became the property of his family. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article in the ‘Weekend News’ of Perth, Western Australia, dated 16th October 1971, in which it was announced that an Anglo-Burmese (Eurasian) family, consisting of a father and mother and 10 children, had arrived in Western Australia shortly before that date. [More…]
If so, is this family one of a number of big families of homeless, jobless and almost penniless Eurasians who are arriving in Western Australia owing hundreds of dollars to airline companies that brought them here. [More…]
Is it a fact that an Indian family of four, consisting of a father, mother and two adult daughters, arrived with only $7 each. [More…]
This is an interesting question relating to the problem of trying to maintain the family environment in the Aboriginal community and at the same time increasing education standards. [More…]
I do not believe that the public will suddenly believe that the Liberal Party is one happy family on the question of the territorial sea or the continental shelf, if this Bill is further shelved. [More…]
The first is ‘.hat lung cancer in particular is a very nasty death, and the second is that a lot of smoking induced deaths come at the breadwinning stage, in the age bracket 45 to 65, which imposes a loss on community output and severe hardship on the family. [More…]
In this day and age where great pressures on the community are being exposed everywhere - one does not have to be a follower of Ehrlich to accept that the population explosion is causing untold misery in the world - the Government persists in banning the advertising of family planning services and persists in banning the advertising of contraceptives or contraceptive devices, the pill and all the rest of them. [More…]
Anyone who has had the experience of sitting in this Parliament over the last 12 months or so knows that petitions are presented almost every day demanding that these bans on the advertising of these products and on family planning services be taken off the statute book. [More…]
It bans the advertising of ideas, probably the most exciting and stimulating thing a community can have; and in the area 6f family planning it also bans the propagation of ideas. [More…]
My family has for more than 300 years been watching the English and honourable members know that if one watches the English for a long period of time one becomes supple in these appreciations. [More…]
What was the estimated average payment per family by his Department for (a) the provision of drugs and dressings, (b) local medical officer and private medical services and (c) hospital and ancillary, including prosethetic, services, to (i) repatriation patients and (ii) other patients in the latest year for which figures are available. [More…]
The whole of my family in those days worked and voted for Mr James senior. [More…]
The privileges enjoyed by these posts and their staffs as well as members of the family of some of them, are presently to be found in the Acts concerned with income tax, sales tax, customs, excise and so on. [More…]
We attach great importance to family migration because it helps assimilation in the new country. [More…]
The Government has tended to take a man from the bosom of his family and encourage him to come and work here. [More…]
But it was 20 years before the Government recognised the basic humanity of facilitating family reunions. [More…]
Even today, those of us who have been concerned with migrant welfare and have achieved some assistance for family reunions, find that there is discrimination continuing in the matter of the issue of visas. [More…]
If a mother or a grandmother of a migrant wants to come and visit her family, in some cases it can take anything up to 6 months to clear her through all the long drawn out procedures. [More…]
If a man settles in the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada or the United States of America and he has to maintain the members of his family in his country of birth, he can do this and claim income tax deductions. [More…]
There is a facility to help members of his family. [More…]
Very often they come to join the younger members of the family who are here. [More…]
It is an act reflecting the affection that we in this house hold for the Royal Family - and for the Duke whom we will remember always as a person of warmth, humanity and vitality. [More…]
He was one of a family with the normal relationships of family. [More…]
We are al) touched by the obvious affection that members of the royal family extend to one another. [More…]
On behalf of your people throughout the Commonwealth of Australia we express deep sympathy to Your Majesty and to members of the royal family in the loss that y,ou have sustained.’ [More…]
In 1936 morganatic marriage was known to King Edward’s mother’s family, but not to his father’s. [More…]
At this time we think of the whole of the Royal family. [More…]
We in this House are passing now a resolution that I believe will give comfort to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Windsor, to the other members of the Royal family and to all those who remember the services that the greatest Prince of Wales rendered to his father’s subjects. [More…]
In this respect I am able to refer to 2 companies in my electorate, one a saw milling operation, a family concern, and the other, a builder of sand mining equipment - a small, family unit specialised in magnetic separation of materials. [More…]
When he goes home to sleep, eat, work, talk and enjoy his family life at his home in Bellevue Hill they give him $42 a day to sit there. [More…]
But this is a Government that is not prepared in any way, shape or form, to recognise that there is a human element to technological change in industry and that readjustments and rationalisation in industry have affected in one fell swoop some 600 men each of whom has an average family of 3 or perhaps 4 persons. [More…]
Today no worker and his family can live on the base wage. [More…]
Can he say what members of Prince Sihanouk’s family have been put on trial, and with what result [More…]
I understand that she sees members of her family and can move freely about Phnom Penh. [More…]
Since the deposition of Prince Sihanouk on 18th March 1970, members of his family have been tried as follows: [More…]
4162 (Hansard, 7th December 1971, page 4254) which show that only about 3,100 or 0.2 per cent of the nation’s adult male wage earners were earning in May 1971 the weekly income which qualifies a family for free health insuance under the subsidised Health benefits scheme. [More…]
illness among other members of the family; and costs of treatment; and [More…]
What was the estimated average payment per family by the Commonwealth for (a) drugs for (i) social service pensioners, (ii) persons paying a reduced fee for National Health Service prescriptions and (iii) other persons on National Health Service prescriptions, (b) hospital costs including dispensing for (i) standard bed patients and (ii) sub-intermediate, intermediate and private bed patients and (c) private medical fees for (i) social service pensioners and (ii) others in the latest year for which figures are available. [More…]
The Department of Health does not record these details on a family unit basis, and I am therefore unable to provide the information requested. [More…]
We salute his memory and we send our deepest sympathy to his family. [More…]
We extend our sympathy to his family in their loss. [More…]
I have retained my associations with the family. [More…]
We honour him for the work he did, and on behalf of my Party I extend sympathy to his family. [More…]
John, a part Aborigine, is one of a big family that he helps to support and also has a wife and 9-weeks old baby living with his mother and family, but owing to John’s being in Munich his wife, child, mother and younger members of the family are now in straitened circumstances. [More…]
I have explained in my Budget Speech that these increases in dependants allowances, together with the reductions in income tax proposed by the Bill I have already introduced, are directed to easing the tax burdens of the family man and the single income family in particular. [More…]
I regard the Asian Development Bank, which falls somewhere within the family of various international banking arrangements, as one of the better of those organisations, at least in the sense that it provides loans on soft terms. [More…]
I am talking particularly about that section of families which is supposed to qualify for free health insurance when the family income is below $51.50 per week. [More…]
I am talking specifically about these low income family groups earning $51.50 a week. [More…]
In my electorate a man with an income of $65 a week, with 7 children, the eldest of whom is 10, is in debt for over $1,000 through just keeping his family surviving. [More…]
He has a large family. [More…]
Under the scheme he is punished because he is trying to raise a large family on a low income. [More…]
In the eyes of the Federal Government he should be able to live and try to raise a family of 7 children on $65 a week. [More…]
ls he able to say whether migrants settled in the United States of America, Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany are entitled to income tax concessions every year, if they support one or more members of their family in the country of origin. [More…]
In addition a further grant of up to $250 per annum will be payable subject to family income. [More…]
At present the maximum living allowances are paid when the adjusted family income does not exceed $3,100 a year. [More…]
In the calculation of the family income a deduction of $450 for each dependent child other than the scholar will be allowed. [More…]
In this whole system there is no conception of assisting the child facing disaster because the breadwinner of the family is dead, or ill, or has deserted the family, or is an alcoholic or the family is large or disadvantaged for any reason. [More…]
The adjusted family income level from $3,100 to $4,200 is also not much more than an as you were’ increase offset by inflation. [More…]
As I say, my own family has been a major beneficiary under that system and I realise all of its advantages. [More…]
Any reader of that speech would be led to the conclusion - as I believe .the audience was led to the conclusion - that all deductions for income tax purposes except family concessions would be taken away by a Labor government. [More…]
I suppose this applies particularly to those children in a one-child family - the only child or the first child. [More…]
As I said before, I think these early mothering moments, if I may put it that way, when emotional ties are established and when the early development of the child in its social setting in relation to the family is taking place, are very important indeed. [More…]
The Treasurer’s typical family man - the average wage earner with a wife and 2 children - pays a higher proportion of his income in tax under the McMahon Government than under any government in Australia’s history. [More…]
The Treasurer said that his standard of reference was what he called the typical family man. [More…]
He had nothing to say, one notes, about the typical family woman. [More…]
He is a citizen who must buy land, build a house or rent one, raise a family, keep them and himself in health, travel to work, pay State charges, pay municipal charges, pay insurance charges. [More…]
The typical Australian today is, I profoundly believe, a man or woman who wants to believe that he or she lives in a society which is committed to achieving justice and equity and opportunity for all, not just for himself and his immediate family but for all his fellow citizens, and who believes that he can and does contribute to achieving such a society. [More…]
Increasingly, he and his family depend on local government to provide a whole new range of basic services in health, welfare, sport, culture and recreation. [More…]
The result of that sort of limited involvement is that a family man with a taxable income of $3,000 pays in New South Wales $1.24 a week for public ward cover, a man on $5,000 pays $1.06, while a man on $20,000 pays 5 lc. [More…]
This was the time to put purchasing power in the hands of Australian families by restoring the value of child endowment or introducing family endowment. [More…]
Whether a family includes one young child or 4 young children, it is still a one-income family. [More…]
This was the time to drop the frantic search for exploitable migrant labour, and being a programme of migrant family reunion. [More…]
Not only would the Australian Labor Party increase direct personal income tax, but it would also take away all deductions except the family allowances. [More…]
In other words, more tax concessions are given to fewer than onethird of the number - that is, those taxpayers earning over $4,000 a year - in respect of life insurance and superannuation than are given for all of the family claims of taxpayers earning under $4,000. [More…]
Therefore these reductions will be a stimulus to the economy and of great assistance to the family man and others. [More…]
Last year they declined to 22 per cent, so there again there was no benefit we could sec for the small family man whom the present Budget purports to be able to help. [More…]
The average family man says: ‘If the Government offers me a bribe of $2 a week it will take $4 back from me because no increase is worth anything today unless there is price control.’ [More…]
Let me touch briefly on the family swindle. [More…]
The average endowed family represents 2.18 children. [More…]
In 1949, the average amount of child endowment paid to a family was $90; today it is $104. [More…]
I think it stands to reason - it is almost commonsense - that the majority of family men on $10,000 a year are not going to rush out and spend it. [More…]
No, I am talking about a family man on $10,000 a year. [More…]
For example, there has been the fear of inadequate security for retirement, illness, the education of a family and the provision of a home. [More…]
A family of 5 - that is, with 3 children - have, in addition to the benefits and entitlements of all Australian citizens, an average expenditure on them of $1,850. [More…]
Like all other groups within our widening society, we welcome their participation and their political aspirations as part of a family, not as aliens holding the nation to ransom. [More…]
We are told that it will wipe out all taxation deductions other than for family allowances - that is, all education allowances, insurance allowances, medical allowances and expenses in earning income. [More…]
A family man with a wife and 2 children, receiving $5,000 a year, is to receive a tax reduction of $141 a year, yet he is alleged to be getting a princely benefit of a 17.6 per cent reduction - 2i times the percentage but only one-third of the amount. [More…]
I understand that there were hopes of getting something going but it is a matter of time and there is family hardship where the banks have decided to close down by saying that there would be no more money and where cheques have been dishonoured despite the fact that the growers concerned are owed large sums of money for fruit which they produced, harvested and delivered and which has been put in cans. [More…]
What is the position of a working man and his family? [More…]
They have not denied the Minister’s charge that the Labor Party would wipe out all taxation deductions other than family allowances. [More…]
Income tax at present rates has been placing too heavy a burden on the family man, but under this Budget the family man will benefit very considerably in a variety of ways. [More…]
Today a family of the same size receives in child endowment a sum which is less than 4 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
In 1948 the basic wage was $11.60 and a family with 5 children received in child endowment $4 a week. [More…]
In order to receive the same monetary value in purchasing power today a family of that size should receive $17.60, but it receives only $8.25. [More…]
Under the revised scale of tax deductions issued with the Budget papers a man on the minimum wage of $51, with a family of the same number, will pay $2.36 a week or $132.98 per annum. [More…]
He will pay more income tax in a week than a family of comparable size paid in a year in 1949. [More…]
The bigger the family, the more sales tax is paid. [More…]
During the past 3 months the cost of living has jumped by nearly $1 for a family living on ! [More…]
Inadequate, almost nonexistent urban planning by free enterprise governments, whose sympathies lie more with the developers than with those they are supposed to serve, has led to a chaotic urban bungle that is slowly destroying the fabric of family and social life within our society. [More…]
On the contrary, the very nature of retirement to a new area entails leaving family ties and life-long friendships. [More…]
Estate duty has broken up many a family property which has been run efficiently for generations to the great advantage of the nation, the district and the people in it. [More…]
Another thing that has benefited the primary producer tremendously, particularly the primary producer who wants to hand over to his family property that he has gained and built up Over the years by sheer hard work - incidentally, he paid taxes on any income earned - and who then has found that he is unable to provide for his family, has been the relaxation of gift duty. [More…]
What will it mean to the average family? [More…]
Thus, although the Treasurer is correct in asserting that the percentage reductions in the amount of income tax payable are significant to the family man on a low income, once again the greatest beneficiaries are those on higher incomes. [More…]
But in practice it is most difficult to tell a man that he and his family must sell their house and get out of one area and go to another area. [More…]
In these days of intense living one never knows when a husband may be struck down at a comparatively early age, leaving his wife with a great economic problem and with more than twice the responsibility - I say deliberately, more than twice the responsibility - for bringing up her family than she had before her husband’s death. [More…]
No woman could be expected to stay at home, where she should be with her added responsibilities of parenthood - I stress the words ‘added responsibilities’ - and bring up her family on that amount. [More…]
The Budget also does nothing to help the family by way of increases in child endowment. [More…]
How can Government supporters then say that this is a family Budget? [More…]
Is it that the Government wishes to perpetuate the socially wrong concept that each family must have 2 incomes and not one to survive? [More…]
Dependants’ allowances are a means we use to make more equitable the tax burden as between persons on the same income but in different family circumstances. [More…]
We believe that the increase in dependants’ allowances will be widely welcomed and will help particularly the single income family with children. [More…]
Ever since I can remember, which is quite a few years now, the family man and the taxpayer in the poorest circumstances have, upon a measurement of the financial circumstances, made the greatest contribution to the revenue of this country, have carried the greatest burden and have been treated most unfairly in relation to taxation, both direct and indirect. [More…]
As I said earlier, the method which the Government has decided to use on this occasion in relation to alterations in the taxation scale has further aggravated and further reduced the living standard of the family man and the man on the lower income as measured against those without families or in comfortable or wealthy circumstances. [More…]
Certainly the reduction in percentage is greater, but in actual money, which means actual relief - it is actual money that buys food and clothing, not percentages - It is the low income groups and the family man who get the worst deal and who in fact have been treated very shabbily in this Budget compared with those on very high incomes. [More…]
But it amounts to only $67 a year or 21c a week per person of the family. [More…]
That taxpayer will enjoy a tax reduction of 9.1 per cent, which in actual money amounts to $646 a year, or $2.07 a week per person of the family. [More…]
It is the family man who suffers most from increases in the cost of living, and the larger his family the more he suffers - not only financially but also in a general way, because it is a great strain and worry to him if he is unable to provide his children with the start in life to which every child should be entitled. [More…]
This Government is too lazy, too unconcerned or too incompetent to trouble itself about working out a system or formula for giving the family man a fair go. [More…]
There are a number of ways by which the family man could and should be assisted. [More…]
This could be spent towards the welfare of his family. [More…]
This also would be real assistance in a financial way and could remove much of the worry and burden which family taxpayers carry at the moment. [More…]
It would be far better to stop immigration immediately, except to those people who have guaranteed employment or who are family dependents and do not affect in any way those persons who are in employment already, who are reuniting a family, or who are seeking employment in a restricted market. [More…]
Above all, I reiterate that it should look at a further curtailment of migration except for family reunification. [More…]
Mr Speaker, this is the second time in a few months that I have asked the House to express its condolence to Her Majesty the Queen following the death of a member of the Royal family. [More…]
So the association of the late Prince’s family with Australia has been a close one. [More…]
On behalf of your people throughout the Commonwealth of Australia we express deep sympathy to Your Majesty, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and to other members of the Royal family, in the loss which you have sustained’. [More…]
A home for old people is certainly no substitute for the love aud care of one’s family and every effort should be made by young people to accept a greater responsibility for their aged parents. [More…]
I believe that this is a remarkable and very valuable step forward in the concepts which have been introduced by this Government over recent years and it will have a profound effect upon the environment of the average family in our community. [More…]
Amenities will be needed for them and the 400,000 family members they will take with them. [More…]
In summary, the Government’s record is of rising costs and prices; a sluggish economy; excessive taxes; declining family purchasing power; serious inflationary trends; declining business confidence and the highest rate of unemployment for a decade, with some 100,000 Australians out of work. [More…]
I have family members on the land and I have been connected with the land myself. [More…]
In the latest report of the Director-General of Social Services we find that the average number of children in each family receiving child endowment is 2.18. [More…]
But the report of the Commonwealth’s Director-General of Social Services says that the number of children per family endowed is 2.18. and in only one out of 12 families is money coming from the Commonwealth for the third child. [More…]
On page 78 of the same document we find that the average annua) amount paid per family in 1949 was $90.79, and in 1971, 22 years later, it was $105.13. [More…]
6m for a tree pull scheme which will again help towards the maintenance of a viable rural horticultural industry and which will help towards the maintenance of the family farmer who in the past has contributed so much to the development of our rural industries. [More…]
The same people who told us 18 months ago that immigration must stop because it costs up to $50,000 per migrant family to establish them by building houses, roads, schools, hospitals, etc., and that it was uneconomic to bring them in because they were really a manpower loss, tell us that we must stop immigration because they take all the jobs. [More…]
They argue that surely it is preferable to allow in an English speaking, Christian Hong Kong graduate than, horror of honors, a non-English speaking unskilled, yes even peasant origin, family from one of the Mediterranean countries. [More…]
The Government, in its study of the care of sick elderly people, was aware of the social and medical advantages which apply when aged people needing only light nursing care are able to be maintained within their own family circle. [More…]
There are obviously many cases where patients would lead happier and fuller lives if their family financial situation enabled them to remain in their homes and to receive an appropriate level of nursing care. [More…]
In many cases, nursing and medical care form only part of these needs with the remainder able to be adequately provided by the family, relatives or friends. [More…]
It is also a fact of modern day living that the evolution of the so-called nuclear family tends to exclude, often through necessity rather than choice, the care of parents or grandparents in the same home as their children or other relatives. [More…]
But it is also true that there are many families who feel deeply a sense of family totality and who make considerable sacrifices to keep elderly relatives within the home even when they may require constant nursing. [More…]
If genuine concern had been felt, immediate taxation relief by way of tax deduction for money expended on child minding in day care and family care centres would have been provided; These mothers’ efforts to maintain themselves and their families should be rewarded. [More…]
With the lesser amount of money to be distributed between so many, what chance is there for the children of either family to go on to higher education and to enjoy future prosperity. [More…]
This news has been greeted with enthusiasm and will help the family man and assist in improving the economy. [More…]
The working man in Australia would now have his greatest opportunity to provide the necessities of life for himself and his family if it were not for strikes engineered in the main by communistcontrolled unions. [More…]
After spending a lifetime building up a worthwhile asset, and just when everything is going along nicely, the head of the family might die unexpectedly, leaving the family in the impossible position of having to dispose of their hard earned assets just to satisfy the Treasury. [More…]
The position has been reached in which a family could be in a sound financial position one day and could be virtually insolvent the next day as a result of the death of the father. [More…]
This will be an added incentive for young men to stay on the land, as they will now have a more reasonable chance of carrying on the family property after the death of the father. [More…]
The size of the tax deductibility which has been set to favour the family man and to assist oneincome families is not only popular; it is proper, just and immediate. [More…]
What would the Opposition have done for the pensioners now;, what would the Opposition have done for; returned servicemen now; what would the alternative Government that sits on the Opposition benches have done for the family man now; what would the Opposition have done for the disabled now?. [More…]
I refer to the reduction of income tax by 10 per cent, the increase in the allowance for family dependants as an income tax deduction by $52. [More…]
The Budget contains other very advantageous increments to the provisions for housing, health, education, child care and, not the least important, death duty which will benefit the interests of family people both in the primary industry sector and otherwise to a very remarkable extent. [More…]
The cost of reducing tax for the family man, as announced in the Budget, is S480m a year. [More…]
If we were to agree that some of the Labor Party proposals could be financed there would be an increase in taxation on the family man by 10 per cent or 15 per cent. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know as well as I do that the poor little Prime Minister with family worries and everything else walks in fear and trepidation of political annihilation by the very member amongst others on the other side of the Parliament- [More…]
He misses out not only on child endowment increases to assist him in maintaining his wife and family at a decent standard but also on taxation remissions. [More…]
Not only will this stimulate consumer demand; it will be of great assistance to the family man who is endeavouring to pay off a home and provide for all the needs of a growing family. [More…]
The alarming situation is that the principals of the company, through family relationships, are back in business - it is alleged - at the same address with a different company name. [More…]
In particular it fails the family. [More…]
The family is neglected, abandoned and unwanted by this Government which gives practical aid to the zero population advocates. [More…]
Those opposed to the family concept would certainly find comfort in what the Government has done in ignoring the wants of the family - the people who have built and who are maintaining our country; those who are upholding the standards upon which this nation has been built. [More…]
In this year of handouts there is nothing for the family, which is the base of the development of our nation. [More…]
There has been no increase in family endowment. [More…]
As I have said, the Government has ignored the needs of the family, lt has disregarded the people who are playing a most important part in building this country. [More…]
Again the families - the people who are responsible for maintaining this country - are the ones who are suffering most because of the blindness and hardhearted attitude of this Government which through the years has shown scant respect for the family. [More…]
When family endowment was first introduced in Australia in 1927 - it came into operation on 22nd July 1927 under the Lang administration in New South Wales - that legislation was bitterly opposed in a most cruel and nasty fashion by the Henleys and the Ness’ and others who sat on the LiberalConservative side of the Parliament. [More…]
The other major step taken was to increase dependants allowances in order to help the family man. [More…]
These proposals will put an extra $565m into the pockets of the taxpayer each year and will particularly help the family man earning an average income. [More…]
Increasingly, he and his family depend on local government to provide a whole new range of basic services in health, welfare, sport, culture and recreation. [More…]
by leave - It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Commonwealth Department of Social Services with the full support and cooperation of the State departments concerned with social and child welfare has commissioned a family research project. [More…]
The areas to be included in the study will include the incidence, causes and consequence of family breakdown; the emerging new family patterns and structures; and community services available to the Australian family. [More…]
Advertisements for staff for the family research project will appear within the next 2 weeks in the national Press. [More…]
Family Research Project - Ministerial Statement, 3 lst. [More…]
More recently we have been setting the pace on ways to help fulfil the needs of the family. [More…]
We had been indicating that there is a case to provide, for instance, a mothers allowance so that mothers who wish to stay at home with their family will be able to do so or so that other mothers who work will at least have the opportunity of meeting the cost of providing adequate care for their children while they are at work. [More…]
Why not inquire into the broad aspect of social welfare in the community into which the needs of the family dovetail very neatly although representing only one section of a vast range of high priority needs in the community. [More…]
For instance, if we are concerned about social costs - believe me, I appreciate that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is not only aware of them but is genuinely concerned - arising in our community because of the destruction of the nuclear family unit, we also should be concerned about the tremendous social and economic cost of the single unattached male in our community and of his particular problem. [More…]
Merely to restrict the inquiry to the problems of the family is to set up an inquiry that is too narrowly based. [More…]
It’ is the same family, although its members’, spell their names a little differently! ‘ [More…]
In particular it is a budget for the family man. [More…]
All these are measures which are directed quite specifically at the average family person within the Australian community. [More…]
In addition to this, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) has said that tax deductions will not be allowed, except for family purposes. [More…]
As things currently stand, most people, and particularly those with families on lower income levels, would be advantaged if family concessions were liberalised and all other deductions eliminated, and the revenue yield would go up as well. [More…]
I refer to young married couples setting up a home and raising and educating a family. [More…]
These , young men and women, totally preoccupied with working, building a home and establishing a family, have not the opportunity to organise themselves into yet another pressure group to petition, demonstrate or lobby. [More…]
It has offered nothing, despite the claim by the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) in his Budget Speech that in framing the Budget he was concerned with the needs of the family man. [More…]
Earlier today the honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Luchetti) devoted a certain portion of his speech to family allowances and child endowment. [More…]
Honourable members can take it from me that the Labor Party as a government will certainly see that family allowances are increased substantially. [More…]
The aggregate of what was allowed for life insurance was the same as all the family deductions for taxpayers who had incomes less than $70 a week in Australia. [More…]
These were supposed to have been introduced in the interests of the family man on low income. [More…]
He floated this concept of family taxation. [More…]
They mean that as from tomorrow all taxpayers will pay lower income tax and higher family deductions will be available. [More…]
In the first place, they are designed to benefit the family man and, in particular, the one-income family. [More…]
Of all taxpayers in the community, in my view the one in most trouble is the oneincome taxpayer with a family to support. [More…]
I do not know of anyone who can accurately determine the statistical evidence in this respect but I am confident that most of those with high savings bank deposits are young people who are perhaps not yet married and are saving up to buy a home, 2 income families and persons in the middle age group whose family is off their hands. [More…]
I suppose if we deal in approximations and take an average across the board figure of 10 per cent, we could say that a 10 per cent rise or fall in taxation at the family level is worth about $500m. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports indicated that the family man - the man on $90 a week or thereabouts - would be the person who would be paying the tax. [More…]
I do not want to labour the point about family deductions that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports made in his interview. [More…]
I believe that he is an honourable man and that he was sincere when he talked about doubling family deductions. [More…]
Similarly, I suppose, we all remember the Treasurer having his fingers burned earlier this year when he flew a kite about taxing families rather than individual units within a family. [More…]
I think that the family area is the most critical area of need. [More…]
But I venture to guess that even after these changes are made the family man with dependants will still not receive the same benefit from his dependants’ allowances as he did in earlier days. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) emphasised in the Budget Speech that in the Government’s view personal income tax was too high as it existed last year, and that the average family man in particular was being hit too hard. [More…]
In particular the single income family, the typical suburban family, had been hard hit. [More…]
It works out at about $200 each, or about $800 for an average family. [More…]
The production manager and the employees interviewed on the programme all testified to the fact that they were getting more family life and more time at home. [More…]
The estate comprises the matrimonial home and furnishings - this is the sort of thing which happens every day - the family car, life assurance, small amounts of cash and other investments. [More…]
With regard to migrants, it is necessary to take into consideration that the total figures for migrant settlers do not represent the number of persons entitled to be enrolled in the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan because, in the case of families, enrolment by the head of the family provides Subsidised Health Benefits entitlements for the whole of the family. [More…]
The numbers of single persons and of family groups of particular sizes are available for assisted migrants but, in the case of unassisted migrants, the figures used in this answer represent an estimate made by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
These related to the need for child care facilities at a cost to parents which would not impose hardship; vacation centres for the care of children of working mothers; the provision of a much extended system of occupational training for women whose employment has been interrupted by the raising of a family; the provision of incentives to private employers able and willing to employ women on a part time and/ or tandem basis. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in The Review, 27th May-2nd June 1972, (a) that the present manager of the Foundation has abolished the Foundation’s welfare program and cancelled such things as providing amenities for showering and shaving or a free meal for welfare cases who needed help to get back their self-respect and dignity before looking for a job or housing and (b) that the second floor of the building used by the Foundation, once used as emergency accommodation for Aboriginals in need, has been converted into a comfortable apartment for the present manager and his family at an alleged cost of $7,900; if so, will he investigate these allegations. [More…]
Very often the survivor is left in a family home which is far too commodious and which, because of its size, creates difficulty with which the aged person cannot cope. [More…]
He went to various food producing services and when he returned to Australia he found that a good number of aged people, especially, as I stated, where only one person remained in the family home, did not go to the trouble of preparing a well balanced meal. [More…]
A fully effective programme should both keep up with the growth rate in family formation, which is roughly estimated to be of the order of 1,200 new families a year, and overcome at the same time the very substantial backlog. [More…]
I estimate that for the first time the allocation for 1972-73, taken along with what the States are doing with funds from their own resources, should provide enough houses to keep pace with the rate of family formation amongst those families wishing to occupy houses provided by governments. [More…]
In the light of experience we are moving increasingly towards smaller family-type hostels as being more attractive to Aboriginal students and workers. [More…]
The West provides to the Commonwealth immense funds through its exports of raw materials and through its royalties, but little is being rechanneled to assist the unemployed and those in family businesses or to establish labour intensive works and industry. [More…]
I asked the Minister a question about restricting migration to Western Australia to family reunion only. [More…]
Migration must be further curtailed to family reunion only. [More…]
Those soldiers who entered the scheme in the early and middle 1950s have had major financial problems, particularly in relation to the size of properties and the inability to get sufficient productivity to get a sufficient cash income to pay the rent based on the valuation and to support their family. [More…]
I know of one firstclass South Australian family which had some experience in clearing land, even in Queensland. [More…]
That family would have taken over vast sections of the brigalow country if it had been given any private encouragement. [More…]
This arrangement would also apply if a property had passed to the family of a deceased settler. [More…]
If so, will the Minister give urgent consideration to restricting migration to family re-unions and special cases until the unemployment situation is overcome? [More…]
As I have said in this House before, since we have had in this country a level of unemployment which is higher than the Government would desire, instructions have been issued to posts overseas that overseas workers, as opposed to family re-union cases, are to be brought to Australia only in categories for which, on the advice of the Department of Labour and National Service, there is still a demand. [More…]
The family unit is of crucial importance to our future as a nation. [More…]
Young people should aspire to the objective of family life and owning a home. [More…]
This scheme preserves the sanctity of family life which is the basis, as 1 see it, of a great nation. [More…]
In other words, that family will be fined because the wife had a baby. [More…]
The age barrier should be removed, because if a family has never had a home, why should it not have that entitlement? [More…]
An article states that the Department of Immigration deservedly has a red face about the case which hit the headlines recently when lorfino was unable to support his family. [More…]
It goes on to say that the publishers are willing to bet that the Iorfino family and the Department of Immigration officials dealing with the case were of a certain religious faith and that this may have involved circumvention. [More…]
to his speech that we should remember that a Senate inquiry on constitutional and legal affairs is proceeding and the committee of inquiry is taking evidence on the question of family law reform. [More…]
It follows a newly-arrived British migrant family who drive about in a late model station wagon viewing the better parts of Sydney. [More…]
Always smiling and enthusiastic, the family is shown settling into home, school and job. [More…]
I would like to emphasise that it would be tragic for any British family to migrate to Australia unless the breadwinner could be guaranteed continuity of employment. [More…]
He is not a bad child, but because of the difficulties the family is having he is now in Mittagong boys home. [More…]
Surely this woman, who already has a family, who is a mother, a housewife and a deserted wife to boot, should not be penalised in such a way on the basis that the child was not of the legal marriage. [More…]
For those sorts of people to be on the unemployment benefit is not only unreasonable, discriminating and repressive for them but is terribly unfair for their children who have never done anything wrong in society except perhaps to be born into a lower socio-economic family and accordingly attract the sort of penalty from the conservative Government of which I speak. [More…]
The rates of benefit are $17 a week for an adult or married minor, $8 for a spouse, $4.50 for each child under 16 years, and so they go on through the range of social service benefits affecting the family. [More…]
ls it any wonder that more and more wives and mothers are forced to join the work force in order to help the family to make ends meet? [More…]
The farming people have a real problem as regards the transfer of the family farm from one generation to the next. [More…]
It will be remembered that in June 1966 Professor Henderson set down a poverty line of $33 which he applied to what he called the standard family, which was a man, wife and 2 children paying rent. [More…]
Families of various compositions represent various proportions of the standard family. [More…]
The family has been neglected. [More…]
But for the general family, no family allowance has been altered. [More…]
It is true that the soldiers’ children’s education scheme is one of the most effective and continuous forms of social service operating in this country, but the fact is that the deprivation of the family because of the loss of a serviceman, or the total or partial incapacity of a serviceman, is totally immeasurable. [More…]
When the children’s pensions and education allowances are added, the family income will be $102.28 a week. [More…]
Because the family is in the unfortunate position of having a 10-year old son - a healthy looking lad in photographs - who is slightly retarded mentally. [More…]
One can hardly imagine the bitterness and despair which must be felt by this fine family. [More…]
The irony of the situation is that had they, as a young couple, migrated to Australia without a child and subsequently had a slow learning child, no thought would now be given to deporting the family. [More…]
To put such a barrier to reuniting a family is incredibly harsh. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) to reconsider the situation and to see what can be done to admit the family. [More…]
But, of course, in many cases a farm cannot be sold because it provides a living to a family - a comfortable enough living perhaps but not a living that is consonant with the capital value of the property. [More…]
I cannot accept that a family with a primary production estate, even though it is carrying a burden of debt, can be reasonably viable one day and virtually insolvent the next day as a result of the imposition of death duties. [More…]
If we increase benefits I hope that they will continue to be channelled into the hands of the immediate family of the deceased. [More…]
It has caused great personal hardship particularly throughout the countryside, led to the destruction of family farms and even to the break-up of families themselves in tragic circumstances, trying to meet an impossible tax conceived 2 generations ago and allowed to grow into a mindless, inflexible Frankenstein monster which has devoured and destroyed. [More…]
But the legislation leaves the tax with all its inequality and the fact that it applies only to the little man - to the family enterprise whether it is a farm or a business. [More…]
The family enterprise in most cases has not. [More…]
Once he was required to sell the property to meet probate he faced bankruptcy and the destruction of the family enterprise. [More…]
Apart from a now inadequate share of the family home, she realises she is just a chattel who must prove ownership of every single item or pay duty, plus the heavy legal expenses involved, on everything. [More…]
Paying out of capital, her future livelihood is reduced; indeed, in some cases, a widow finds she is forced upon the charity of her family or even becomes an added burden on the State, And this at the most traumatic moment of her life; when she may be quite old and forced to face a contingency she and her husband made heavy sacrifices to avoid. [More…]
The countryside and the nation generally will certainly, in contrast, warmly welcome the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition at Cowra in New South Wales where he proclaimed the Opposition policy that the assets of a family enterprise, whether a farming enterprise or a business enterprise in the town, should not be diminished by the death of one of the members of the family. [More…]
This commitment and this policy will certainly answer the plea of the widows and family numbers who have to face the hardships created by a tax which is shot full of anomalies. [More…]
He said that the asset of a family enterprise, whether a farming enterprise or a business enterprise, should not be diminished by the death of one of the members of the family. [More…]
Today we accept what is before us in this measure but we serve notice that the alternative government of this country is pledged to end a system that attacks the very survival of family enterprise. [More…]
They must be paid at a time when a family is having considerable, trouble and has enough to worry about. [More…]
He suggested that the rate of new family formation was about 1,100 or 1,200 Aboriginal families a year. [More…]
We are told that the average number in an Aboriginal family unit is about seven. [More…]
We are, told that the rate of new family formation is 1,100 or 1,200 a year. [More…]
In fact very shortly I will be going out into one of these areas by aeroplane and surface vehicle to try to appraise whether it will be suitable for an old Aborigine who considers he can live on it with his family. [More…]
A lot of Aborigines in this area have the determination and ability to run some places on their own, but the point is that the Aboriginal philosophy is such that if one man and his family get onto a block and get a few head of cattle and some water they are obliged to see that their relatives, if they arrive on the verandah or outside the homestead, are watered, fed and cared for. [More…]
The children who go to the greater public schools come from the more affluent sections of the community - from the professional sections of the community and from favourable family backgrounds. [More…]
We run on the formulation of the Australian Council for Educational Research an examination which picks up those children who are most advantaged in the cognitive use of languages, which means, of course, the children from the sort of family background of the professional groups in the community. [More…]
A person can turn up to a non-state school with his family and knock on the door and say: ‘I have just come from Turkey, Greece or Britain. [More…]
Of the children who attend state secondary high schools and technical schools, one in every 15 is from a family which earns less than the minimum wage. [More…]
It will not make a scrap of difference to the child in the country school, the child from the working class family, the child from the migrant family and all those whom we regard as being in the low income section of the community. [More…]
It will not make a scrap of difference because the means test is applied through this scheme itself which has been convincingly proved over and over again to be discriminatory against a child who happens to be born into a lower income family. [More…]
So long as this policy of ignoring need continues there will be children whose abilities cannot be utilised to the maximum simply because they are victims of the family income situations into which they happen to be born. [More…]
They have endeavoured to escape from the Scylla of cramming - it is not an examination in the ordinary sense - but they have not escaped the Charybdis of the sociological and family condition of a child. [More…]
A child with verbal manipulative skills, with a family background of developed conversation, approaches an examination which diagnoses those verbal skills with a great advantage. [More…]
Where both mother and infant require expensive in-patient treatment this can be a crippling cost burden for the family. [More…]
In other words, under the present scheme a family with an income of $51.50, which is equivalent to $2,678 per annum, but n>i exceeding $54.50- [More…]
No longer when you ring after hours can you get the family doctor with whom you are supposed to hold this so sacred doctor-patient relationship. [More…]
Recently an example of this type of discrimination was brought to my attention by the Family Planning Association of South Australia, which runs a clinic in an Adelaide suburb. [More…]
I understand that the South Australian medical benefits organisations have recommended that they do not pay amounts of fund benefit because the charges are raised by the Family Planning Association and not by medical practitioners in private practice. [More…]
Then there was some weeping concerning the family doctor. [More…]
What does the Labor Party say about the relationship of the family doctor with the Trojan horse of its own salaried service? [More…]
What doctors have not come to terms with yet is that the concept of the ‘folksy’ old family doctor is largely dead and gone. [More…]
Let there be no doubt in anybody’s mind that the philosophy and the intention of the Opposition concerning the general practitioner in Australia - that old folksy family doctor - is perfectly clear. [More…]
There is no question whatsoever that the Government believes that the general practitioner - the family doctor, if you like - is absolutely fundamental to the proper operation of any medical system. [More…]
Many factors have been mentioned, one of which is the family basis of migration. [More…]
One sees whole family units migrating from their native country. [More…]
One problem is that often in these family units there exists a disabled member. [More…]
A member of the family may be either mentally affected or physically affected. [More…]
I have in my own electorate a particularly sad case of a very large family unit. [More…]
Yet the rest of his family is in Australia and from time to time is faced with the expense of going to see him. [More…]
Where there is a large productive migrant unit we should be able to allow the underprivileged member of that family to enjoy the care that only his family can provide. [More…]
To make family relationship the main selection criterion must reduce the worker component of our intake. [More…]
1 should point out that successful achievement in this respect was built on the basis of chain migration and family reunions. [More…]
I do not want to do the honourable member for Henty (Mr Fox) an injustice, but 1 think he tended to imply that a system of migration that was based on chain migration and family reunions would result in us being inclined to get labour that was somewhat less desirable than would be obtained in a mass recruited migrant system. [More…]
The criteria that has applied to chain migration and family reunions in the area I happen to represent have been tougher in practically every respect than the criteria that have been applied to mass recruitment migrants. [More…]
The work, social services and friendship of the new arrivals are all taken care of within the family and by the family, or the extended family, which of course could include 200 or 300 people. [More…]
He arrives without his family. [More…]
The family has outstanding qualifications. [More…]
The brother-in-law of the person for whom the family is applying is the head chemist with one of the oil companies in this country. [More…]
It is an outstanding family. [More…]
He must have arrived in Beirut at the age of 17 years, lt is hard to understand just what kind of a work record a person aged 17 years, who is living in a country where apparently he or his family is being persecuted for their religious beliefs, is supposed to have. [More…]
However, we must always respect personal relationships and family groups. [More…]
The poor cannot find extra money when they have the enormous costs of rearing a family and trying to pay for all the necessities of life. [More…]
The truth is that nowadays even the richest man cannot educate his family . [More…]
He, a man with a wife and 2 children had to se” the family refrigerator to a neighbour for less than S30 so that they could pay a week’s board in advance at Springsure. [More…]
One of the great problems not so long ago was that if a person wanted a tertiary education he, and his family also, would have to go to Melbourne, Sydney or one of the other capital cities. [More…]
This is work which will not cause them to compete with our unemployed family unit workers who are currently in a distressed situation. [More…]
benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
But how many gatherings of the people and marches have we had in this country that are organised to declare an individual’s responsibility to his country, his family and perhaps his fellow citizens? [More…]
It is important to acknowledge that this initiative comprehends assistance at 3 levels - that of the child, of the family, and of the community. [More…]
Family circumstances, particularly in the more needy section of the community, are subject to considerable fluctuations. [More…]
For this reason the level of fees charged a family at each point in time must be left to the judgment of supervisors of centres. [More…]
Persons in charge of centres will be required to seek the co-operation of family counselling and other local social welfare agencies including those operated by local governing authorities, especially in cases of family disruption and where parents or guardians are seeking to place very young children in centres; [More…]
One practical application of this proposition will be studies to review how the scheme provided for in this legislation is meeting the needs of the child, the family and the community, and to identify inadequacies, if any. [More…]
One area that will inevitably attract investigation is alternative forms of child day care such as family day care centres. [More…]
For example, in this regard what is the persuasive influence of appropriate family counselling on mothers of young children? [More…]
Child care centres have to be seen in their proper perspective; they are supportive of the family unit and in extreme cases are the alternative to placing children in residential institutions. [More…]
The United Nations has a development programme and has formed a body called the United Nations Fund for Population Activities which is designed to finance and subsidise family planning groups in underdeveloped countries. [More…]
In view of the shortages and continued growth of the black market will he initiate urgent action to suspend quotas for this year at least and increase the first advance to safeguard orderly marketing and the long term interests of family farmers? [More…]
He then also moves to the city and when there is a redistribution a little later he and his family of voting age are taken into consideration. [More…]
1972-73 Estimates- 796 houses and 104 family flats- Total cost $9,500,000 - Producing a house waiting time of 36 to 40 months (depending on changes in policy affecting sales conditions) - The supply of serviced building blocks would not permit of a greater construction programme of Government homes without lowering the supply (and increasing the price) of private residential blocks. [More…]
Noone can suggest to me that the Adelaide Advertiser’ or the Bonython family are going to the wall or are on the rocks. [More…]
All of a sudden the chief provider, the eldest son or the second son, is taken away from the family to do national service. [More…]
Is a family without a deposit a delinquent family? [More…]
There are processes by which the loan can be periodically recalculated and readjusted according to the earning capacity of the family. [More…]
They prepared a budget for a family of 5, comprising a husband, wife and 3 children on the minimum wage paid in Queensland - the lowest wage would be $46.80 - and this budget showed that at the end of the week, if they did not run into expenses, the family could have 50c left for luxuries. [More…]
This situation would apply only if such a family were buying a housing commission home on which the weekly repayments were $11.62 or less and if neither adult smoked, drank or gambled. [More…]
The family must not run a car. [More…]
These nurses, who work mainly in maternal and child welfare clinics, said that their survey showed that it was not practical for a family to try to live on one low income. [More…]
The mother of the family would have to work part time or full time for the family to survive. [More…]
The editorial in that newspaper states quite clearly that a family of 5 living on the minimum wage of $55.16 in Queensland would have 50c a week left over. [More…]
We are a young family. [More…]
It was suggested that because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and because he came from an affluent family and is particularly well to do he does not understand the problems of those who desire to purchase homes as cheaply as possible or homes in relation to which the costs have been reduced as much as possible. [More…]
As a matter of fact my family has had a long connection with the wool industry in Australia. [More…]
If so, why did it have to go cap in hand begging the McLachlan family in South Australia, who went under the neck of the Commonwealth Government after it had written a cheque for the amount involved in the acquisition of this property, and plead with the family to allow the Commonwealth to purchase it. [More…]
I refer to the McLachlan family. [More…]
A land acquisition by the South Australian Government some few years ago was transacted with this family. [More…]
The family has a long history of bad treatment of the Aborigines. [More…]
The Brins company was dominated by Barton family interests and was eventually taken over late in 1971 by Murumba Minerals. [More…]
I will terminate on that point, but perhaps I should add that Murumba Minerals was also controlled by the Barton family. [More…]
It is like so many of the matters which have been transacted by the Barton family over the years. [More…]
The balance of 7 applications covering 25 persons had been approved on the basis of family sponsorship. [More…]
When the first teenager in the family brings in about S25 a week, away goes the concession. [More…]
As a member of an old pastoral family, I know that the old pastoral companies from the United Kingdom have been in Australia from the very beginning of white settlement. [More…]
In that type of community which existed and which still exists in some parts of Australia, the work of the head of the house was generally seen to be crucial to the survival of the family. [More…]
What the father did mattered to the family and the family and the community hung together. [More…]
Thus, taking the example of a family of 5 members with the married man getting $17 a week, the dependent spouse $8 a week, and 3 children under 16 getting $13.50 a week, the total income of that family in this day and age would be $38.50 a week. [More…]
That weekly income has to keep that family in food and clothing and provide all of those other things which each one of us who has a wife and family to keep has to provide. [More…]
The fact is that if a child of one of these unfortunate families in these circumstances turns 16, and if the child has ability and his family and the community generally want that child to stay at school and perhaps go forward to university, the allowance payable for that child ceases immedi ately. [More…]
In New Zealand the recipients of family benefits, as they are called there, who wish to capitalise child endowment have to pay a penalty for doing so. [More…]
This would mean that a family with 6 children whose ages ranged from below 12 months to 5 years would pay a penalty of about $438. [More…]
This would mean that the family of whom I have just spoken, with children whose ages ranged from under 12 months to 5 years, would’ forfeit over $2,000 for the term of these children’s entitlement to child endowment by capitalising at this early stage of which 1 have already spoken. [More…]
For instance, if a mother and children leave the father in occupancy of the family home - the reason does not matter - and the house has been purchased with a deposit funded by capitalised child endowment the mother and children will forfeit their equity in the home. [More…]
Again, the entitlement is based on family size rather than on demonstrated needs. [More…]
A recent New Zealand royal commission into social security at paragraph 21/92 stated: we note -the view expressed to us by the representative of the State Advances Corporation that while the amount of capitalised family benefit has been invaluable as a deposit, it has had a very limited effect in reducing outgoings on a house. [More…]
Mr Mauger and his family have been known to me for some years. [More…]
I have on numerous occasions known of the breadwinner passing on and leaving a wife and children behind and then the friends and neighbours taking up a collection or holding a raffle to assist in paying the funeral expenses and also to provide some cash to help the family carry on. [More…]
I mean reasonably’ in the sense that it is accepted as a responsibility of the community to see that this provision is not abused and to see that certificates are not handed out to unjustifiable cases merely because the patient or the patient’s family happens to be a good friend of the doctor. [More…]
Firstly, the Opposition regrets the unavoidable absence of the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) who is unable to be present because of a bereavement in the family. [More…]
Thirdly, for the community as a whole there will be an extension and upgrading of an invaluable community service supportive of the family and the community generally. [More…]
It is repeated in many other advanced countries and I believe that the proportion of working mothers will continue to rise as women see their role in life as embracing more than just being married and raising a family. [More…]
The Government is providing a basic community service concerned with the proper care of children and the needs of the family and the community generally. [More…]
I understand that only about 3 per cent of the student body in Australian universities come from families with a gross income of from $50 to $60 a week, which one might say was the basic wage for a family today. [More…]
Canada- The Farm Credit Corporation makes long term mortgage loans up to a maximum period of 30 years to farmers to restructure family farms into viable units. [More…]
Aside from this, it is considered that the current Australian position is in compliance with the parts of the Convention dealing with unemployment, old-age, family and invalidity benefits. [More…]
Let me take a low income family which sends a child to a government secondary school. [More…]
If we take the cost of education in that school as about $530 a year and add the very modest tax deduction allowance which all parents claim - as I am talking about a low income family let us say the amount is $40 - and if we add the full value of the Commonwealth secondary scholarship of $400, we get to a figure of $970 for that student from a low income family who is attending a government school. [More…]
The levy will be imposed on everybody in the community, not only on each family but but where there are 2 people working in a family it will be imposed on each member of the family who is working. [More…]
It would seem that a family by the name of Barnes has control. [More…]
The criteria depend partly on the family circumstances and partly on the availability of work and it is not possible to lay down hard and fast rules in regard to them. [More…]
The view is generally taken that where a man has family commitments he should not be asked to take work in another area before a reasonable time has elapsed. [More…]
This is generally regarded very liberally by my Department in accordance with the family circumstances. [More…]
It is a family affection. [More…]
Tho total responsibility that we have to our electorates, to the Parliament, to committees and what have you, does not leave much time for family life. [More…]
The workers who are trying to live on $51.80 a week have nothing to thank the Prime Minister and his Government for, because that was the amount, which members of the Government actually opposed as being too much while they put their posteriors on the back seats of black limousines and drove around in receipt of ministerial salaries and earning almost as much in one day from away from home expenses as some people are expected to live on and to keep their family for a whole week. [More…]
I thank the Leader of the Country Party for his references to my family relationship with his family. [More…]
Has he received an application from Vladimir Andreyevich Kolesnik and his family, formerly of Kiev, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and now of Vienna, Austria, to enter Australia as permanent immigrants. [More…]
to (7) The promissory system of marriage is important in traditional Aboriginal society as a means of ensuring continuation of family and clan groupings and of preserving and developing group affinities through inter-marriage. [More…]
It is part of the traditional custom of Aboriginal people that the clan or family group support its own members and the need for a mother to seek maintenance orders does not arise in these circumstances. [More…]
(a) What is the adjusted family income on which maximum living allowances are payable, (b) what is the maximum living allowance (i) at home and (ii) away and (c) how many full-time scholars are receiving (i) maximum and (ii) part living allowances. [More…]
What was the annual family contribution rate approved for the largest organisation in each State “when the Scheme commenced and on what dates and to which rates were increases later approved. [More…]
He came from an exceptionally distinguished Queensland Labor family. [More…]
I believe that Mr Bill Riordan was the last male in the family. [More…]
Members of his family were connected with politics and, as the Prime Minister said, served the public. [More…]
As always the main loss from his death falls upon his widow and his family. [More…]
I am sure that I speak for many residents of Perth when I express my own respects and sympathy to his family. [More…]
I support the remarks that have been made and extend my particular condolence to Bill’s sisters, the 2 remaining members of his family, especially to Nancy Riordan who I understand now will be living in Junee with her sister. [More…]
He was a lifelong friend of my family and I just cannot remember when I did not know him. [More…]
He certainly gave years of splendid service to the electorate of Kennedy; in fact the Riordan family became a tradition which commanded a great deal of honour and respect in Queensland. [More…]
At that time we shared the great pride that his family took in him and 1 endorse all that has been said about him. [More…]
I would like to extend to his wife Madeleine Burke and the family my own deep sympathy. [More…]
In conclusion I woud like to express on behalf of the people of Grey condolences to Mrs Jack Mortimer and her family for the loss of her husband and their father. [More…]
I should like to have my sympathy extended to her and her family in their sad loss. [More…]
The adjusted family income at which the means test commences to operate is $4,200 a year, but that rises by $450 a year for every other dependent child. [More…]
The action of the Government in making the repeal of these discriminatory provisions one of its first legislative acts is a token of our determination to banish racial discrimination within our community and is also a step towards building on equal terms the family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]
To have a balanced community and a virile country town business it is essential that we base our farms on the family farm unit. [More…]
The economic advantages of a family farm group too often revolve around the idea that the sons and daughters of farmers are expected to follow in their parents’ footsteps, and they are conscripted to a life that they may not enjoy. [More…]
The States are wanting to know what will happen after June because they need to be able to make forward commitments, but there has been no word of any rural reconstruction proposals to assist the small family farmers who are in need of assistance from this Government. [More…]
It is the sight on television of Australian communists and unionists kissing and embracing communist North Vietnamese union leaders in Australia that the soldier who fought in Vietnam and the family of the soldier who suffered injury or loss of life see as a display of an appalling lack of sensitivity - in fact, almost treachery. [More…]
It shows little understanding of family life and the difficulties that a Minister of State has. [More…]
Our senior citizens, many of whom have had family commitments and are on low wages, have not had the opportunity to save, but they have played their part in developing the national wealth. [More…]
We need to ensure that we get equality of opportunity, that we look after the employees and also that we do not forget the girls at home - those who look after the family and suffer the difficulty today of low wages and high prices. [More…]
A reduction in the real purchasing power of money is a problem suffered by the employee and his family - by the little girl who tries to buy the meat that the children need to give them sustenance. [More…]
He referred also to the family unit, isolation and a few other things. [More…]
A telephone is necessary for them to conduct their business as well as to look after the family when the husband is away from home. [More…]
But I would have thought that a responsible government able to provide millions of dollars for espen >diture in other fields would have been able to think of the poor unfortunate family in the outback and to give it some special consideration. [More…]
I am pleased to advise the honourable members that these rules have been changed and where there is a desire for a visit by a member of the family, particularly parents and grandparents who want to come to see their children or their grandchildren in Australia, the application will be dealt with not in 6 months or 9 months but in a matter of delays - I mean in a matter of days. [More…]
The V ice-Chancellor informed me that with the rise in fees in New South Wales universities of 16j per cent, in conjunction with a severe effect on family incomes in his region of New South Wales of the western New South Wales drought, a good many of his students were in considerable distress and he feared that some students would not be able to continue at the university. [More…]
Therefore, it seems to me quite logical that, once the President of the United States felt that relations between Peking and Moscow were so bad and that the Government in Peking wanted to seek what is called the normalisation of relations with the United States in order to return to the family of nations throughout the world, he should encourage the Government in Peking to do so. [More…]
We have, under the umbrella of our powerful friends, been able to create a society which has developed at an enormous rate - a society which has been prosperous and within which the welfare of the average family is as well developed as can be found in any country on this earth. [More…]
For someone whose family background was predominantly apolitical and who had been nurtured within the confines of the privileged private school system, I determined that people with such scant regard for their fellow Australians were no longer fit to rule this country - not now or ever. [More…]
This House can make a significant contribution to rights for women by, among other things, passing legislation to provide much better adult education facilities, to establish equal pay for work of equal value, to provide for family planning clinics, to build child care centres and to reform those laws which discriminate against women both socially and financially. [More…]
In the course of human history we have progressed from the family unit to the tribe, to the village, to the city state, to the nation state and now to the amalgamation of nations into various defence and economic arrangements. [More…]
The cultivation and expression of our own special ethos within the family of nations will result, I believe, not in our loss but in our ultimate and lasting gain. [More…]
For instance, a man with a dependent wife and 2 children who was out of work for more than 6 weeks because he could not get a job currently receives $34 a week, but a man with the same sized family who was out of work because he was sick for that period of time receives $37 that is, S3 more. [More…]
I should add that the actual benefit set out in the Bill for the unemployed and sick will provide a family of 4 with $46.50 a week which is a very considerable increase over the levels of $34 and $37 that previously applied. [More…]
Of course, a government which is concerned to eliminate poverty must do more than provide adequate social services, lt must also endeavour to ensure that the lowest wage is such that no man can work for a full week and then take home an income that would leave an average family living in poverty. [More…]
In 1966 the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission introduced the minimum wage concept for adult males and although it was initially above the poverty line as set by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic Research it later fell below that level for a family of 4 and is still below that level. [More…]
The national compensation scheme will prevent an injury at work or leisure from dragging a family into penury, as will the scheme for universal health insurance which will guarantee all citizens freedom from fear of mammoth hospital bills and other medical expenses. [More…]
We have on the Downs a family company producing heavy duty trucks. [More…]
The butter industry on the Downs is in serious difficulty - due to harsh seasons, Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and the increases in the margarine quota, and a price received completely unrelated to the cost of production as it does not take into account the value of unpaid family labour - and, I emphasise, the Australian ethos has been built on the family unit. [More…]
Under these amendments, a widow will not have to prove dependency if she was living with the employee on a bona fide domestic basis at the date of his death and, for this purpose, she will qualify if she was only temporarily living apart from him, perhaps because he was in hospital or she was merely temporarily away from the family home. [More…]
They are now approaching retirement and usually have no family to whom they may turn for a home. [More…]
Under the previous Government, workers who suffered injuries at work faced not only the impossibility of living on workers compensation payments but also the cruelty of not knowing for sure that they would get any benefit; workers were never sure when they would be facing up to the counter of a Commonwealth Employment Office week after week, having to wait 7 days to accept unemployment benefits which were only a fraction of the real cost of living; workers faced periods of sickness knowing that Commonwealth social security sickness benefits would barely keep a family from starvation; workers could never be sure they would not receive an injury at home which left them unemployable, and facing a lifetime on an inadequate invalid pension. [More…]
As a member of the new Australian Labor Government I am pleased to have the opportunity of cementing the first brick in the foundation of a social security structure which will put the welfare of the community on a rational, socially-just basis and, for the first time since the last Labor government, offer some hope to the working man and his family. [More…]
A further division in our society will be encouraged to occur when an Australian who is willing and able to do a good days work sees consistently a family of 5, all unemployed, receiving over $100 a week for doing nothing. [More…]
Undoubtedly it will continue to be an increasing challenge, for we have seen the decline of the large family. [More…]
Those who have jobs find that the whole family makes a valiant effort to try to make their conditions a lot better. [More…]
Even though this assistance was given, a distinction was still being made between members of a family. [More…]
The whole family was being penalised. [More…]
Obviously this amount will not cover this young man, who has a family, for the rest of his life. [More…]
This man, and his family, should receive some sort of compensation. [More…]
A young man with a family has very little chance of raising this amount of money when he is anticipating building. [More…]
Increasingly, a citizen’s real standard of living, his health and that of his family, his children’s opportunities for education and self-improvement, his access to employment opportunities, his ability to enjoy the nation’s resources for recreation and culture and his ability to participate in the decisions and actions of the community are determined not by his income or by the hours he works but by where he lives. [More…]
The history of the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party on the south coast of New South Wales is a history of the Bate family. [More…]
There was a lot of personal satisfaction involved in winning the election after all the sacrifices which my wife and family cheerfully put up with during the campaign. [More…]
They had no family worries or responsibilities and they had no difficulty in saving enough money to qualify for the maximum home savings grant. [More…]
Nobody can convince me that the young couple who deprived themselves of some of the better things in life so that they might rear a family did not make a contribution to our society at least equal to that of those who both continued in employment. [More…]
I cannot agree with the honourable member for Burke in insisting that the voting age should be reduced progressively down to 17, 16 - I do not know how young his family is - 15, 14, 13 or 10 years. [More…]
In most cases it can have fundamental consequences on the person’s family and social relationships. [More…]
Are these statements correct and is he justified in suggesting that a change in the circumstances surrounding the operation of the proposed scheme will result in the maximum cost per family being higher than his estimate of $135 a year? [More…]
Some return because of unforeseen events in the country of origin, such as illness in the family. [More…]
I fully support these remarks and emphasise that only when we have fully accepted all migrants into the Australian family, as citizens with equal ranking in all respects, will this desirable goal be achieved. [More…]
The former Government combined 2 processes in its immigration program - sponsorship programs designed to encourage family reunion and actively seeking migrants under government sponsorsip to fulfil those needs not met by family sponsorship. [More…]
It will be a matter for each university to determine who should receive, assistance but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
The objective of family planning is the enrichment of human life, not its restriction. [More…]
This would be the time when most women are looking after a young family and when most men are supporting one. [More…]
Ninety per cent of Australia’s married women of child-bearing age practise family planning but only 63 per cent of those who do so use reliable methods such as oral contraceptives and intra-uterine devices, or exercise an informed preference for the ovulation method associated with the Catholic faith. [More…]
One per cent of the married women who practise family planning rely upon douching, which has a failure rate of 31 per cent; 2 per cent upon spermicides, with a failure rate of 20 per cent; 5 per cent upon diaphragms, with a failure rate of 12 per cent; 9 per cent upon condoms, with a failure rate of 14 per cent; and 19 per cent upon withdrawal, with a failure rate of 18 per cent. [More…]
Whereas only 7 per cent of married women with 13 or more years of formal education have never practised family planning, 11 per cent of those with 10 to 12 years of education, 13 per cent of those with 7 to 9 years of education, 19 per cent of those with 1 to 6 years of education and 22 per cent of those who are devoid of formal education - they are a significant group within our community - have never done so. [More…]
Less educated women are more likely to use unreliable family planning methods and to adopt them without the guidance of doctors. [More…]
Only half a sample of women who were interviewed recently at the Royal Brisbane Hospital had ever consulted a doctor about family planning, although 85 per cent of them thought family planning was a good idea. [More…]
Ignorance of family planning and failures of family planning, often arising from the economic circumstance with which this Bill in part deals, have created a situation in which doctors estimate that up to half the pregnancies which occur in Australia each year are unwanted. [More…]
Cost benefit studies which were carried out in 1972 by Political and Economic Planning for the British Family Planning Association established that averting the birth of an unwanted child saved in public health and welfare services alone $1,350 in the case of a child born fourth in its family, $1,510 in the case of a child born fifth in its family and $8,728 in the case of the illegitimate child. [More…]
It is a mark of our backwardness in matters of family planning that comparable studies on the cost of unwanted children to Australia do not exist. [More…]
Our former Government increased enormously the likelihood of unwanted pregnancies, abortions and unloved children by refusing to promote sex education in schools or to assist the States, local government bodies and voluntary agencies such as churches in the establishment of family planning clinics through which information on birth control techniques, Including for those who prefer it the ovulation method, could be disseminated effectively. [More…]
It hampered family planning by prohibiting the advertising of contraceptives, imposing tariff duties and a ‘luxury’ sales tax of 271 per cent on contraceptives and by excluding prescribed oral contraceptives from the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]
Whereas the former Government subsidised family planning for Aborigines but not for other Australians, the present Government has already made available $300,000 for the development of family planning in all sections of our community, including those whose interest is restricted to the ovulation method. [More…]
We must provide women who choose to practise family planning with reliable means of doing so at a price they can afford to pay. [More…]
The contribution towards extending choice in family planning for low income families is a proper social consideration and I believe that the removal of sales tax from contraceptives is justified. [More…]
This affects the wives directly but it affects the entire family indirectly. [More…]
The boredom and frustration of some housewives give rise to a whole range of other pressures and problems which are not easily identified in relation to family life and general community fulfilment. [More…]
These people, I believe, under professional supervision by the professional social welfare workers and a local professionally qualified medical practitioner should involve themselves with advice on family planning. [More…]
It was open to her to go to the Royal Women’s Hospital where there was a family planning clinic. [More…]
The cost of the fare to Melbourne was a drain upon the family resources but she went. [More…]
The single mother is taking the risk that she and the children she bears and keeps will be a less privileged family. [More…]
It creates a dilemma as to whether it is proper to encourage the natural mother to keep the child or whether the child should be adopted by another family. [More…]
Making use of that capacity does not in any way mean an attack on the family. [More…]
The family is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
It is an institution which must remain, and I do not believe that any member of my Party - and I think I can speak for the Australian Country Party - would want to see the institution that the family, and all that means for cohesiveness and good in our community, in any way weakened. [More…]
I will try to be more relevant than speakers from the other side of the House who in my opinion used their contributions to this debate to rationalise their inactivity in the area of family planning or at least in the role that the Federal Government should play in the field of family planning. [More…]
These social problems not only lead to misery for the individual and the family but also increase enormously the cost of community services - social, medical and legal. [More…]
Most of this group cannot afford to see a doctor, the usual source of family planning advice, so that poverty and ignorance are often found together. [More…]
In 1971 a preliminary study was carried out to determine the factors influencing the use of family planning by women from a lower social group in Melbourne. [More…]
Women should have a right to plan a family and space their children. [More…]
Unless this matter is seen in the whole context it is seen in isolation and a role cannot be forged for the Federal Government in family planning. [More…]
To retain the sales tax on contraceptives is an unjustified discrimination and penalty against Australian women wishing to practice responsible methods of family planning. [More…]
Even the President of the United States of America has said that in his opinion widespread distribution of contraceptives would ‘do nothing to preserve and strengthen close family relations’. [More…]
The contraceptive can both stabilise marriage, if the Leader of the Opposition is so concerned for the family unit, by removing fear of unwanted pregnancies or it could encourage infidelity for the same reason. [More…]
We must realise that removing sales tax from contraceptives is only portion of the whole question of family planning; it is the part that can be played by this Government in providing such a service. [More…]
Removing that sales tax, luxury tax or entertainment tax, as I have sometimes heard it called, from contraceptives is only one approach that the Labor Party, this Government, is committed to introducing in its overall program to support family planning as the right for all. [More…]
We are committed to setting up family planning clinics which could provide facilities in the 3 areas in which we need to improve our family planning services, namely, advice, education and free supplies of contraceptives for those who need them. [More…]
The former Liberal-Country Party Government consistently refused to take a realistic view of family planning techniques and their availability. [More…]
To add to the nonsense and counter-productive effect of prohibiting advertising of contraceptives, most States are prevented by law from even advertising the activities and services of government supported family planning clinics. [More…]
Advertising of contraceptives and family planning clinics are, in general, outside the sphere of this House: They are predominantly State matters. [More…]
It is in the Territories that the Commonwealth oan sponsor a whole range of family planning initiatives, but Australia-wide we can make a significant contribution to family planning by removing the sales tax on contraceptives. [More…]
In the current debate, on abortion law reform the subject of family planning and the role of family planning in this is often overlooked. [More…]
It also recommended that the Commonwealth provide substantial subsidies for the expansion of family planning clinics. [More…]
I pose this question to the Treasurer: Would not the cost involved in placing the pill on the pharmaceutical benefits list have better served the community, particularly that section of the community which is being discussed in this House today, if the money had been spent on more family planning clinics and child care centres? [More…]
There is a need for education in this field - and I accept this point - and for family planning clinics. [More…]
I believe that the contribution made by this Bill in removing the sales tax from contraceptives, thus making them generally more easily available, will improve the quality of family life. [More…]
Parents should be assisted with the free choice, which they have in theory, to regulate the size of their family. [More…]
Family planning clinics should be available much more readily. [More…]
In the municipality of Diamond Valley, of which I am still a councillor, the Council recently established a family planning clinic. [More…]
Family planning clinics should give advice not only on contraceptive techniques but also on the proper spacing of children, how to manage a budget - especially in the case of young parents where the wife can no longer work - and family organisational problems. [More…]
The matter is a complex one which I do not wish to go into in detail at this time, but 1 believe that the measure to remove the sales tax on contraceptives, as proposed in the Bill, is only one of a wide variety of family support, counselling, education and other social welfare programs which this Parliament should consider and support. [More…]
The emphasisin future immigration programs will be on sponsorship, and family reunion will be given a high priority. [More…]
So, on the one hand, the Australian Labor Party wishes to control the natural increase of Australian born children while on the other hand allowing the uncontrolled immigration of people into Australia, irrespective of their country of origin and including nonEuropeans, merely on a family basis. [More…]
The Commonwealth provides substantial subsidies for the expansion of Family Planning Clinics. [More…]
In addition to these amounts of money, the new Government is allocating over $250,000 to family planning agencies. [More…]
I am opposed to the pill being on the free list and I would prefer to see these funds of $5m, or S8m from next year, allocated to family planning agencies rather than the present system of subsidising the use of the pill and other devices - and they are being subsidised - because family planning agencies provide counselling and advice across the whole range of family welfare problems. [More…]
We would get value from expenditure on family planning, counselling advice and child minding centres. [More…]
It was pointed out to me in conversations with senior members of the staff at this mental hospital that there are 2 or 3 sisters and 2 or 3 brothers who are inmates of the institution who probably would not have been there had their parents received family planning advice or been able to obtain contraceptives at a reasonable price. [More…]
I believe that whilst this measure will be of great benefit at this time in our history I certainly would not like to see a decline in the family unit in Australia because I believe that the family unit, with devoted parents showing proper and true affection to the number of children that they want, is the richest asset any country can possess. [More…]
I do not think this measure will have the effect of reducing the family unit in Australia. [More…]
One of the things that has happened m the structural changes in the proprietary companies is that there has been a great deal of finance invested in companies which previously were to a considerable degree locked in because families were involved over a successive number of generations and as a result of the death of one or another of the early members of the family it was not possible to apply large amounts of capital to develop or to change the basic operation of the former family based company. [More…]
In other words, merchandising and marketing techniques from outside were being applied to an industry which in the past had been largely family orientated. [More…]
It is true, as was said by the honourable member for New England, that in the early times of grape growing in Australia - and in the Hunter Valley - mainly family combinations followed the profession. [More…]
Frequently Hunter Valley wines receive patronage when a member of the royal family is entertained in Canberra by the Parliament. [More…]
I do not intend to dwell much longer on the subject, apart from mentioning some of the long established family names in the wine industry in the Hunter Valley. [More…]
The principals of the company registering in Queensland were of the same name and the same family as those I mentioned as principals in the Western Australian firm. [More…]
The young married man to whom I referred has a young family. [More…]
I think he was given $10 to buy a Christmas present for his family, or to buy a ham. [More…]
The privilege of owning his home is a large part of a man’s heritage, and I completely agree with the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) that more avenues should be made available for a man to obtain finance to rear his family in their own home. [More…]
Psychologically it is a great benefit for a family to have their own home because they are inclined to be much more community conscious, which leads, as we know, to a great deal of desirable parochial pride. [More…]
The system now seeks people who can go out and find out what needs to be done, and then not merely make a speech about it, send a telegram to a member of Parliament or call a public meeting, but put in writng the aims, aspirations and needs of a particular community or a particular family and convey them to the Minister or to the Department in order that the problems might be looked at and, if possible, solved. [More…]
But there is not one family, there is not one person, living on an island in the Torres Straits who has a title to the land on which he lives. [More…]
I agree that there must be an association in the mind of a young child with the family situation and the transition which all children have to undertake from a purely family situation to one of the wider community. [More…]
This is not always so foreign to Aboriginal thinking as might be first believed, because very often the husband and wife in an Aboriginal family speak different languages. [More…]
The best estimate that I have been able to obtain of the consequences of the 35-hour week would be that it would add $800 a year to the costs of an average family. [More…]
It is the poor who must struggle to keep up and fight the never ending battle of stretching shrinking dollars to cover family needs* Perhaps, as one political analyst put it, it is true to say that the poor, by and large, are locked into safe Labor electorates or otherwise - I am thinking particularly of pensioners - they are to be found in the so-called widow belts of seats held by honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]
If he is thinking of nationalisation, and he could well be doing that, he should look at the lesson which history has taught us and particularly at what we once regarded as the European family, the family from which we have been emotionally expelled and will very soon be effectively expelled because we are becoming more and more regarded as a member of the communist bloc. [More…]
If the whole family goes to the unemployment office and says, in effect, that the members of the family do not want to work and that they are unemployable - it is easy to find a way of proving such a claim - they can draw $102 a week in unemployment benefits. [More…]
That family can receive over $5,000 a year for doing nothing. [More…]
I ask the House: What will the conscientious, hardworking person, whether he be Australian born or a migrant, on $65 a week, with a wife and 3 or 4 children say about working for that wage when he can go to the unemployment office with his family and draw in excess of $102 a week without doing a tap of work. [More…]
That is, 1.5 million adult males in Australia were earning less than what it is possible for such a person and his family to draw in unemployment benefits. [More…]
I would, strongly support any move to make generous unemployment benefits available to, for example, someone who is redundant, someone whose firm has been taken over and which does not have a vacancy for him or a sick wage earner such as the head of a family who has children. [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…]
A family of 3 children with the eldest a spastic child receives only $18 per quarter instead of $36, which is the normal amount. [More…]
Recommendation 40: (that) the Commonwealth provide substantial subsidies for the expansion of Family Planning Clinics.’ [More…]
The Government has announced that it will give financial support to family planning services. [More…]
It will provide $200,000 a year to the Family Planning Association of Australia and $100,000 a year to a national body representing Catholic family planning centres. [More…]
In addition, the Government will ask these organisations to develop services for the provision of family planning advice for Aboriginals, including training of suitable personnel to provide for an expansion of such services. [More…]
Additional grants, up to a total of $30,000, will be available to other voluntary organisations actively involved in the provision of family planning services. [More…]
We have established an engineering business in Cairns and expanded it from 3 employees to 350 in 20 years which is financially controlled by the Fry family (Cairns) and claim thatwe know something of business and finance in engineering and shipping. [More…]
Under these procedures, one of the five basic requirements to be met by migrants is that they should have a sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia, and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]
If a child comes from a migrant family it may have bad only 2, 3 or 4 years of schooling in its own language. [More…]
There are, I believe, difficulties and divisions within the family which the school alone will find it very difficult to tackle. [More…]
It is one that will require a total approach - not just as to what happens in the school but maintaining an adequate link between the school and the family. [More…]
All work by its very nature is hazardous because it takes a man away from the things he would wish to do or the things he would probably normally do, and in order to satisfy the economic needs of his family he engages in activities that are not necessarily familiar to him. [More…]
This was due to the fact that the more valuable the farm the more likely it was that the family would seek professional advice in order legally to avoid the burden of death duties. [More…]
family farm. [More…]
But we in the Country Party are conscious of the great personal hardship caused to those ordinary families where the farms, the businesses or the homes have all been established by unrelenting application to work and self-sacrifice by the whole family over a period of years. [More…]
In an unselfish manner and often for a minimum of wages, with no 35-hour week and no 4 weeks’ annual leave, these people have contributed to the establishment and continuation of a family heritage. [More…]
It is a tragedy, a veritable disaster, because the business has to be disposed of, the family farm or home has to be sold to meet the estate duty of Commonwealth and State governments. [More…]
We stand for and uphold not only the dignity of labour but also the right of private property so that the family farm, business and home can be handed down for the future use of the family generations to follow. [More…]
It was a blank wall to me, yet it was a terrible tragedy for the family concerned. [More…]
That concept does not lie very easily with the concept of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) of the family of the nation. [More…]
Some of the most important proposals that will change the previous situation rather dramatically are, firstly, that an employee’s compensation on a pro rata basis will not be limited to 26 weeks but will be available for the rest of his life and, secondly, that a widow no longer will receive a lump sum but will be paid according to her family situation and according to her late husband’s pay, with regular incremental increases being taken into consideration. [More…]
The guiding principle for the Government in the vitally important matter of the grant of Australian citizenship is that there should not be discrimination between different groups of settlers seeking to join the family of the nation. [More…]
At these ceremonies, so well known to honourable members, the community in which the new citizens live will welcome them into the community and the family of the nation. [More…]
There are many people - in fact I would go so far as to say there are honourable members in this house - who have never been able to take advantage of a war service homes loan because of cost and family commitments which in many instances dictate the opportunity for a member to take advantage of the loan. [More…]
The Government has stated on many occasions that it desires to help the man with a young family, and if it means what it says here is an opportunity to help the serviceman with a young family. [More…]
It is absolutely fair, of course, that a person who has contributed by taxation or in other ways to the Australian revenue throughout his working life, or by his working life has contributed to the Australian economy, whether by actually working himself, or in the case of a woman by helping to raise a family or in other domestic work - if they have actually been contributing throughout their 20 years of working life after the age of 16 years - it is fair and reasonable for them to take their pensions overseas. [More…]
I was informed by a lady from Holland who had settled here but had decided to go back to her home country for family reasons that she would be deprived of a pension because she had been here only 191 years. [More…]
How can a man keep a family on $66 a week? [More…]
These are the sorts of problems with which small businesses such as small companies and family firms are saddled. [More…]
The main source of finance to proprietary companies is usually made in one form or another by proprietors, members of their family and shareholders and consequently they are generally undercapitalised. [More…]
Death duties cause special problems in family firms and even if they can be overcome frequently there are difficulties in ensuring adequate succession of competent ownership and control. [More…]
Possibly the greatest single problem that faces any Australian family is the attainment of a home. [More…]
Some years before the family had applied for consideration from the New South Wales Housing Commission. [More…]
If a person in Sydney loses his house by fire or some other misadventure, there is nothing that the Housing Commissioner can do to accommodate him and his family. [More…]
The Minister for Housing who is sitting at the table telephoned me on Boxing Day last year, to have a family whose house had been de-roofed in a violent gale accommodated in a council house which, fortunately, we were able to provide. [More…]
We were the only people who could provide that family with some accommodation. [More…]
It places on record its appreciation of his long and distinguished public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
Our sympathy for Sir Arthur Fadden’s family at its loss is heightened by our awareness of the great loss to each of us and to our nation. [More…]
We do tender our sympathy to his widow and his family. [More…]
Australia is the poorer for his passing and I should like to extend my personal sympathy to Lady Fadden and the other members of bis family. [More…]
He served his country nobly and well and on behalf of his former constituents in the seat of Darling Downs I extend the sympathy of all to his widow and the other members of his family. [More…]
Sir Arthur Fadden and his family spent a very large proportion of their early days in the electorate of Dawson, particularly in the town and district of Walkerston - commonly known in that area as ‘Scrubby’. [More…]
When one reads the history of the Australian sugar industry in general and particularly the development of the Mackay and Pioneer Valley areas of north Queensland, one finds that the name of the Fadden family is written throughout that development. [More…]
The Government’s objective is that every Australian family should be able to obtain land and housing at reasonable prices and that local government should have the finan cial resources to provide the necessary amenities. [More…]
Just imagine getting your family settled in a home and finding that your job pays better than anticipated; you would be forced to look for other accommodation. [More…]
What a blow this would be to the ambitious man who wants to build a nice home for his family. [More…]
Even the lowest income earner who is conscientious should be able to commence to build himself a home which will be an asset and which will provide security for his family and for himself in his old age. [More…]
Young married couples who have been accustomed perhaps to 2 incomes in the family find that this state of affairs will not or at any rate should not continue following the birth of the first child. [More…]
I hope very shortly to introduce into this House a Bill aimed at this problem of helping the young married couples particularly in respect of housing difficulties which they must face on the birth of the first child which prevents the continuance of the earning of 2 incomes in the family. [More…]
I understand that the allowance cuts out when the annual family income, after concessions for dependent children, reaches $2,800. [More…]
A student from a family earning a fair income who suddenly feels compelled to leave home is often faced with enormous psychological problems as well as financial hardship because pride will prevent the acceptance’ of any allowance from home. [More…]
I said that it will be a matter for each university to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside thencontrol such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary income; the annihilation of family income in flood, drough or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason and so on. [More…]
I think it is somewhat symptomatic of the development of our society and the way in which family units are being increasingly fragmented that this need is developing. [More…]
The dismantling of family income by exceptional misfortunes such as floods, droughts and/or bushfires is covered by clauses contained in the proposed legislation. [More…]
A government should be condemned also for failing to provide the facilities for the training and equipment of professional task forces to combat the attacks of family maladjustment, social disintegration, emotional disorder and urban pressure. [More…]
This is hoped to relieve some of the emotional strain placed on the family when a child has these difficulties. [More…]
It might be said that they should take this into account as one of the risks of coming to live in Australia either because they personally wish to come here or because they are drawn here to join relatives and family living permanently in this country. [More…]
Has he had any discussion with the Minister about amending the way in which migrants are selected to come to Australia, that is, has he discussed whether the Government will recommence recruiting migrants to Australia according to their skills for work in the work force and not rely solely upon family reunions to answer the need of Australia’s development and the shortage of workers in, for instance, the important building industry? [More…]
This also means that the family income is not totally dependent on one wage or salary. [More…]
I am not in a position to challenge him as to whether that is right or wrong, but I would point out to the right honourable gentleman that whatever was achieved was achieved at very great cost to the 130,000 Australian families which at that time found that a member of the family was unemployed. [More…]
To whom can his wife and family turn? [More…]
Within all Awards and Determinations there must be a basic or foundational wage element which must provide for the reasonable needs of a married wage earner and bis family. [More…]
It is a means, at great sacrific to his pay packet and to the proper support of his family, to achieve social and industrial justice. [More…]
At these ceremonies, so well known to honourable members, the community in which the new citizens live will welcome them into the community and the family of the nation. [More…]
He coins emotive phrases such as ‘the family of the nation’, whatever that means, and ‘absence of discrimination’, with which people in a vague sort of way can identify themselves, but which mean very little unless their consequences are spelled out. [More…]
I believe that the amendments proposed to the Act will assist materially in making those persons who were not born here and who want to avail themselves of Australian citizenship more readily and more strongly able to feel that they are going to become members of the Austraiian family and that they are able to identify with all other Australians. [More…]
The Government is saying to them all: ‘Join the family of the Australian nation through citizenship based on one cri terion, one oath and one ceremony with all discriminations banished’. [More…]
In making assessments of applicants, account will be taken in all cases of the size of the family and the age of children, the presence of relatives in Australia and the assistance expected from relatives and friendsin this country. [More…]
The latter follows from the United States Supreme Court acknowledgment of a right of privacy or liberty in matters related to marriage, family and sex. [More…]
They know that single and married women are at times so threatened by the thought of bearing a child that their own welfare - possibly the welfare of a family- is seriously threatened. [More…]
Family planning facilities must not only be readily available but also be known to be available. [More…]
Governments which deny their responsibility by failing to provide efficient family planning programs and then prohibit abortion on request can only be described as architects of double standards. [More…]
But total abortions will not drop until reform is linked with an adequate and coherent family planning policy. [More…]
Family planning by way of contraceptive advice is part of this proposed legislation. [More…]
There is a severe shortage of family planning clinics in local communities. [More…]
But to confine one’s thinking to this single absolutist principle is to ignore the many other rights inherent in the situation, such as the rights to health and welfare of the mother and her existing family, the rights to choose whether to bear children or not and the right of the child to be wanted. [More…]
It provides a unique advice clause that ensures that every woman who requests an abortion is made fully aware of all the private and government family support programs available to her during and after her pregnancy, and of adoption facilities. [More…]
Under the pretence of being a humane solution to genuine human problems it seeks the law’s seal on the systematic discrimination against one group of the human family, the innocent and defenceless. [More…]
Faced personally or through family associations with a situation in which a decision must be made, I think most of Ug could find ways of justifying in our own minds that an abortion should be performed. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a real question to be dealt with here - whether the right to life of the unborn child can be subordinated to the quality of life of the existing family or the community. [More…]
Is it right to see abortion as the answer to quality of life problems instead of the greater acceptance of responsibility for providing for the needs of a family and the community? [More…]
J cannot help seeing this trend as one which raises a serious threat to the continued existence of the basis of our society - the family. [More…]
To me, these trends must result in a weakening of those institutions - marriage and the family - which provide the best environment for the upbringing of our children. [More…]
Should we not be moving more quickly to the establishment of family planning clinics? [More…]
Whether this Bill is passed or not, might it not be worth while to consider the establishment, perhaps in the Australian Capital Territory for a start, of special clinics to deal not only with family planning, .education and similar matters but also with abortion legally performed under the existing law? [More…]
(5)In what ways can the incidence of abortion be reduced by improving services and facilities such as sex education in schools, family planning clinics, supply of contraceptives, pregnancy support agencies, adoption agencies and social security payments. [More…]
That situation has been created not by permissive abortion laws or by abortion law reformers, but by the apathy which keeps us from facing up squarely to the challenge of family planning or taking seriously the breakdown in fertility control and other social policies to which I have already referred. [More…]
Variations between countries in the incidence of abortion - and they have been clearly documented - demonstrate conclusively that the ratio of abortions to live births depends not upon the flexibility or rigidity of the laws by which abortion is governed, but upon the initiative which governments show in providing proper sex education and family planning services and the support that is given by public opinion to governments in the provision of these services and their use by the community. [More…]
In Britain where abortion laws are relatively permissive and in Sweden where abortion laws are relatively strict, widespread use of family planning keeps the rate at which women are aborted to between 12 and 15 abortions for every 100 live births. [More…]
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, where abortion is permitted and family planning is neglected, have between 30 and 35 abortions for every 100 live births. [More…]
France, which endeavoured until recently to suppress both abortion and family planning, has 50 abortions for every 100 live births, and Italy where both abortions and family planning are still suppressed has abortions and live births in equal numbers. [More…]
We will not begin to reduce the frequency with which women are aborted until we establish clearly in the public mind that there is a connection between abortion and the inadequacy of arrangements under which sex education is provided in our schools; between abortion and our shortage of family planning clinics, pregnancy support agencies and adoption agencies; and between abortion and our tradition of treating as outcasts from society the unmarried mother and her child. [More…]
For example, a thoroughly healthy woman with a small family and more or less unlimited financial resources would not dream of seeking an abortion simply because she would prefer to have, say, a Mercedes car. [More…]
“Fifthly, in what ways can the incidence of abortion be reduced by improving services and facilities, such as sex education in schools, family planning clinics, supply of contraceptives, pregnancy support agencies, adoption agencies and social security payments? [More…]
The poor woman who is not so well informed and who does not have the money, cannot do any of these things and worries herself sick as does the man who is involved with her, and her parents and her family. [More…]
For example, I believe that even the churches could give greater opportunity to young people to learn what is available and allowable within the teaching of the church to which individuals belong as far as family planning is concerned. [More…]
Even if the parents do not want them, there are thousands of childless couples crying out to adopt children in the hope of building a family. [More…]
Our own country of origin is something which reflects on our own ethnic background, our cultural traditions, our family and so on. [More…]
Secondly, will he accept my assurance - I am sure that I speak for all honourable members who, out of a strong conviction on the basic principles involved, voted against the Bill and the amendment - that the House will co-operate to the fullest possible extent in helping the Government expedite the development of measures such as family planning clinics, child care centres and education programs which will make an important and constructive contribution to the solving of the serious personal problems which abortion raises for many people? [More…]
If this were translated into increased savings for the average family man, intent upon providing the security of a home for his family, it would mean that he would have to increase his earnings by $48 a week which, when one considers the average wage of about $95 to $98, would make it an impossible task to clothe, feed and house his family. [More…]
When the increase in housing costs is added to that, the amount translated into increased savings is almost an incredible $80 a week to enable the family man to purchase land and establish a home in these outer eastern suburbs. [More…]
A Royal Commission would point out ins social and personal needs for women in the community - marriage counselling, family planning and sex education. [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with our advances will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main bread-winner - exclusive of any overtime and child endowment payments - does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as defined in the Agreement. [More…]
Where the family includes more than 2 children, this will be increased by $2 per week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
The Agreement also provides that each State will ensure that the number of family dwellings allocated by its housing authority to families who satisfy the needs test shall not be less than the total number of family dwellings built with our advances and become available during the year for allocation for the first time, and 25 per cent of the number of family dwellings constructed by the States with financial assistance under this and. [More…]
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…]
As I have said before, a matter which at some time or other impacts itself upon every family in this nation was allowed 3i hoars of debate. [More…]
I will sponsor a move, if someone does not pre-empt me as I believe someone may to put a motion before this House for some inquiry to be made into these agonising questions on a matter which impacts itself on every family throughout this nation at one time or another. [More…]
This will have an effect upon that country and upon the economies she influences similar to that which it would have in any family group. [More…]
College students generally come from poorer family backgrounds than do university students, and are less able to afford to buy the books required for their course reading. [More…]
Has the Australian Government taken any action to protest against (a) the judicial murder of a family of 5 Iraqi Jews in Baghdad and the previous public hanging of Jews in that city; (b) the detention and murder of Pakistani prisoners-of-war in Indian POW camps; and (c) the judicial murder of Asian and Ugandan citizens in Uganda. [More…]
In what ways can the incidence of abortion be reduced by improving services and facilities such as sex education in schools, family planning clinics, supply of contraceptives, pregnancy support agencies, adoption agencies and social security payments. [More…]
We can only end by saying that this is not because we think parents should never discourage their children’s marriages but because this is not the way to do it; not because we think well of marriages made in defiance of parents but because we think the law now contributes to the defiance, not because the family is too weak to use this weapon but because it is strong enough to do without it. [More…]
I should perhaps say, because I believe there are some in the community who will regard this Bill perhaps as loosening some family or parental influences which they consider should be maintained, that the Latey Commission gave very careful consideration to these matters. [More…]
We all firmly believe in the importance of the family and the last thing we would want to do is to pull the rug from under it; but after much thought we have come to the conclusion that this argument does not stand up. [More…]
We believe that in this field at least the law is useless as a strengthener of family ties, and indeed by the friction it causes between the generations may well help to wear them through. [More…]
They have seen the family strain which occurs when there is parental opposition and children have to go before a magistrate to get consent to marry in defiance of their parent’s wishes. [More…]
Finally, I wish to make it clear that although the Opposition is not opposed to this Bill its main concern is with the normal 2-parent family and especially the young family. [More…]
The Opposition, while supporting this legislation, puts as its first priority the needs of the young family who face many difficulties and who have accepted their heavy responsibilities. [More…]
Like other honourable members, I have had widowed constituents coming along to me with their problems and showing quite clearly the difficulties they encounter in caring for a large family. [More…]
Already the legislation of the Commonwealth, through broadening for social security purposes the definition of the term ‘widow’, provides for families other than those where the family is fatherless as a consequence of the death of the father. [More…]
They try to anticipate the burdens that will be placed upon them when they undertake the rearing of a family. [More…]
Whilst I support this legislation for what it will do for the children of fatherless families, I do urge the Government to look into the establishment of a far more comprehensive family benefits scheme whereby young mothers with very young children can, in effect, be paid to be at home providing the care that they wish to give to their children so that, instead of the community having to pay for substitute mothers, the natural mother of the child can provide care at home, certainly during the infant and pre-school days. [More…]
We will find that by tackling in a piecemeal fashion the problems concerning the provision of benefits for children we will impose great pressures on the normal family in the community and that by putting those pressures on that family we will cause greater difficulties in the future because of the inability of the normal family to face the financial burdens that are imposed upon it when the first and second children come along and the mother chooses to stay at home and care for those children. [More…]
This discrimination between the different family groupings within the community is likely to cause severe difficulty for the future generations of the community. [More…]
I think we need to look at them in a more sensible fashion and to adjust the benefits at levels according to the needs of the families to enable them to spread their earning capacity in a way which permits them to provide their children with a reasonable standard of living at all stages of the family’s development. [More…]
The honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) and the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) have both, T think very rightly, drawn attention to the need to look after the normal family to a greater extent and particularly to the need to look after the married couple at the birth of their first and second children. [More…]
One should also recall that the previous Government commissioned a family research project through the Commonwealth Department of Social Services with the full support and co-operation of the State departments. [More…]
It was realised that the family research project would have great significance in developing in Australia a social services system which was fully balanced, efficient and humane. [More…]
However, the redistribution can contribute to social and welfare progress in municipal areas in terms of halls, libraries, swimming pools, community welfare centres, the community nurse nursing service, the family planning centre and so on. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [More…]
I have had a complaint from a migrant family which I believe should be conveyed to the House in order to draw attention to a highly undesirable practice. [More…]
Only today I received a complaint of an unsolicited visit to a private home by a canvasser who, in the absence of the parents, questioned a 14- year old daughter of the family on her parents’ work and income. [More…]
I would not be surprised if when that report is issued it is found that among the people who are suffering most there are many of these young couples whom we would consider to be almost in a normal situation but who have family responsibilities which they find difficult to maintain. [More…]
In its efforts to help such groups, the Labor Government’s social welfare program, as revealed to us so far, is getting to a stage where it is placing impossible burdens on the traditional base of society, the single income family unit. [More…]
It is suggested that women work from the time they complete their formal education until the commencement of the family formation period. [More…]
It can so easily create the impression that the position today for the average family is entirely satisfactory. [More…]
There is increasing evidence to suggest that a significant proportion of poverty arises from our failure to effectively relate family income to family size. [More…]
For a time the wage differential between rates of pay for men and women doing the same job was justified on the ground that the wage system was thus made sensitive to family size. [More…]
If the wage system is insensitive to family size, how then do we equalise the burden of child rearing? [More…]
Clearly there is an overwhelming case against tackling the problem by efforts to make the wage system sensitive to family size. [More…]
The task is to resolve how best to enable men and women to spread their income over their lives so as to give them the means of keeping the family when they need it. [More…]
It is important also that we take steps to ensure that the standard of a living of a 2 parent family where, the mother, iu the interests of her children, stays at home to care for them, compares favourably with such a family where the mother, due to the age of her children, feels that she can go out to work without prejudice to their welfare. [More…]
Yet to take that job would enable her to ease the economic pressure on the family to meet the commitments on the first and second mortgage on the house and other loans in respect of a refrigerator, a television set and a secondhand car that she and her husband had. [More…]
She also justified her decision to take full time employment on the ground that when the child was going to school the child would have greater opportunities available to it because of the economic resources then available to the family. [More…]
The incomes coming into the family were the incomes that both of them brought in. [More…]
Whilst her friend staying at home was constantly under pressure in meeting the family commitments, she saw her friend relieved of those pressures. [More…]
As more and more young mothers feel that the economic pressures upon them are such that against their better judgment they must go out to work even when their young children need them at home, more and more young mothers will do so because the contrasts between the 2 alternatives of being a 2 income family and a single income one will be so marked. [More…]
We need to ask ourselves whether extended family allowances by way of substantially increased benefits should be made available at certain periods in a family’s growth. [More…]
We need also to look at important measures such as that introduced this morning by the honourable member for Mackellar, for this Bill is a measure to provide some alleviation of the financial burden that is imposed upon the young normal family and to relieve the young mother of some of the financial pressures that would otherwise be on that family. [More…]
It will give them a real incentive to provide for the future, lt will enable them to level out the peaks of affluence against the troughs of poverty which are experienced during the life span of any individual because the demands upon the resources of our earnings vary according to our family commitments. [More…]
This measure will go some distance in recognising the need to help in a big way a normal, young 2-parent single income family. [More…]
A young family can, say, cash sufficient to provide for a deposit on a house and, get long term finance for the balance of the purchase price. [More…]
Then a young family can work out for itself a planned program whereby it can cash a sufficient number each year in order to meet the mortgage payments on the house. [More…]
I believe the community as a whole accepts that it is in the best interests of the community, the children and the families who make up the community that the mother should be at home to care for her young family. [More…]
I therefore urge this House to enable this Bill to be studied in detail, in the total context of the need for us to make it easier for the normal young family to bring up Australian children. [More…]
Why not extend these conditions to enable a current borrower to obtain finance for additional accommodation for a growing family or aged parents or in some other similar circumstances? [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by the State Housing Authorities with our advances will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinners will not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as defined in the agreement and, where the family includes 2 or more children, this will be increased by $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
The Minister for Housing has estimated that each of the 93,000 applications on the waiting lists of the nation’s housing authorities represent a family of 4 or more. [More…]
Under the proposed Agreement up to 30 per cent of the family dwellings built by the housing authorities with our advances may be sold at a fair price to families who satisfy the needs test. [More…]
I believe that the States have a death benefit insurance scheme for persons purchasing their homes so that in the event of the decease of a breadwinner the purchase price outstanding is discharged and the family has no fear of losing the home. [More…]
Subject to sub-clause (2) of this clause, the Housing Authority of a State shall not sell more than 30 per centum of the family dwellings . [More…]
More recently, at my instigation, special emphasis has been placed on the need for all migrants to have the sincere intention of settling permanently in Australia and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]
If we were to engage in the practice of employing guest workers as it operates in, for example, some European countries we would be abandoning our traditional attitude to migration; that is thai we bring people to this country, welcome them and want them eventually to join the nation, to join the national family and be a part of us. [More…]
Certainly it would be a very unfortunate development if we were to have an alien bod) that would be continually alien in the national framework and within the national family. ] [More…]
When I speak of emergency housing I mean true emergency housing that could be made available at an instant’s notice when a crisis arose, whether it be flood, bush fire, some domestic dispute or something else that might cause a family to be immediately evicted and left without proper shelter. [More…]
Buying a house is compulsory saving, and if there is one thing in this community that a family should have it is security in some form. [More…]
Should the death of the breadwinner unfortunately happen, a death benefit insurance scheme provides security for the family of an eligible participant by providing payments for all outstanding loan money and this, of course, is a marvellous thing, because even a week after a tenant has decided to buy his home and the necessary documents have been finalised, should the breadwinner die then the wife and family become the owner of the home entirely unencumbered. [More…]
Why should the present Government push such a philosophy on a Liberal government which has seen a policy bloom into such remarkable success in Victoria where 33,832 home owners, all needy people, are at last assured of some security as far as their wives and family are concerned? [More…]
Home ownership surely is the goal of every Australian family and we as legislators must be aware of the problems that are being experienced in this field. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the legislation provides that no fewer than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with Commonwealth funds will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner does not exceed 85 per cent of the average weekly earnings per employed male unit. [More…]
Will he consider granting privileges to Councillors’ wives and family members so that they may travel more often with Council members. [More…]
All aspects of family planning even to the extent of providing responsible clinicsfor the purpose. [More…]
At least he was keeping a family tradition going. [More…]
It is the typical family and the poor who must struggle to keep up and fight the never-ending battle to stretch shrinking dollars to cover family needs. [More…]
Billings is a foundation Director and shareholder in the Dyason family company, Dyason Investments Pty Ltd, which is also in liquidation. [More…]
Kelson, Billings, Stevens and the Dyason family (including two family investment companies, Dyason Investments Pty Ltd and Kunyung Investments Pty Ltd) are shareholders in Increment Fund Incorporated, with total holdings direct and indirect of at least 262,000 shares. [More…]
So Mr Oldfield is also a liquidator of a company which is involved with the Dyason family’s attempts to avoid responsibility for the debts while reaping the results of the liquidator’s debt collection. [More…]
Family and other tax deductions are to be removed. [More…]
The Government has said that there will be a ceiling of $150 on each person, but it is each person in a family. [More…]
National laws or regulations may exempt from the application of this Convention undertakings in which only, members of the employer’s family, as defined by national laws or regulations, are employed. [More…]
That is, during the period when a woman has a young family it may be possible for employment to be provided on the basis of a 2 or 3-day working week. [More…]
The Opposition does not regard the question of maternity leave solely as an industrial benefit, because to consider the proposition in that way is to introduce an element of positive discrimination in favour of working women who raise a family. [More…]
It in fact left the family man to find his own feet and do the best he could. [More…]
In fact in this day and age, m spite of all the modern technology, we find that the average family needs to spend more time at work to provide for the needs of that family than did our grandfathers and great grandparents a hundred years ago. [More…]
It was necessary in those days for the breadwinner to work 60 hours a week to provide for the needs of the family unit. [More…]
Today we find that the male in the family unit is working a standard week of 40 hours and an average amount of overtime of 4.3 hours. [More…]
So it can be seen that on the average the working week of the family has been extended in order to provide for the basic needs of the family unit. [More…]
I believe that even a cursory glance at the available statistics will establish beyond any shadow of a doubt that the overwhelming majority of female employees who are married are continuing in employment to do no more than to supplement the family income and so to provide the basic needs. [More…]
So it ill behoves the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) or any other honourable member opposite, after the long period that they had in government and during which they refused to do anything to assist the family unit, now to criticise this Government which is in its early stages. [More…]
This illustrates that in this type of legislation we have not only concern for those who are part of a married family unit but also a growing concern for unmarried mothers in this community. [More…]
As the average marrying age has decreased from 25.5 years in 1948 to 21.4 in 1971, it can be seen from an examination of available statistics that the great majority of married women return to employment to supplement the family income. [More…]
But the undeniable fact is that one income is no longer sufficient to satisfy the needs of most family units. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Dr Gaha) suggested that, instead of augmenting the family income by the payment of child endowment, we should provide for the sale of houses at lower prices and that it should be possible to use the money now paid in child endowment to amortise the cost of such an undertaking. [More…]
The serviceman is separated from his family for long periods. [More…]
My sister’s family at Warragul are in a terrible state with the horrible skin disease. [More…]
What of the man who has a family to maintain and who needs transport for his work? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: In addition to his comprehensive program for social welfare will he give urgent consideration to the problems of families, and the need to provide increased family assistance so that mothers will not be compelled by economic circumstances to seek employment which would disadvantage her children? [More…]
We love to have visitors, but a visitor is not a permanent member of our family and at the end of his visit he is expected to go. [More…]
Then if the scrip was successful one found that members of the family and companies associated with the founders of the company were able to take up options once they had proved that the scrip had a certain market value. [More…]
This is because, for example, the particular sections dealing with the ‘more than 50 per cent’ test will be mandatory - unless of course the continuing business test is satisfied - and are not alleviated by any saving provision, such as there is in relation to the tests of public company status, which would authorise the loss to be allowed, notwithstanding failure to satisfy the continuity test, if, say, the excessive changes in ownership are explicable by ordinary business or family dealing and had no substantial fiscal motive. [More…]
Another anomaly could arise if we assume that there was a more than 50 per cent change, over the 7 year period in which a loss can be carried forward, in the beneficial ownership of a company’s shares due to family circumstances such as sons and sons-in-law coming into the business, trusts for infant children being created and so on. [More…]
This example is a case where one family bought the shares of their relatives who held just over 50 per cent of the shareholding. [More…]
In fact, if one wished to prolong the debate on this issue, one could say that, although family enterprises in Australia represent the most efficient sector of farming, in effect the operation of the Bill that the Treasurer has before the House today could hand this sector over to corporate farming and limit the value of this efficient sector of farming, that is, if we ignore the lower level which hardly pays taxation. [More…]
Changes could be exempted, it has been suggested to me, by ‘the explicable by ordinary business or family dealing clauses’. [More…]
I would like now to refer to something closer to my electorate; that is the activities of the Wollongong branch of the Smith Family. [More…]
This year the Smith Family will be looking after about 7,000 people in that area. [More…]
I will cite some of the figures illustrating the activities of the Smith Family in a period of 6 months from December 1972 to May 1973. [More…]
The composition of the cases in the area is as follows: Deserted wives 335; unemployed 193; people on sickness benefits 51; husbands in gaol 11; temporary crises 174; pensioners 302; unmarried mothers 64; advice only needed 273; referrals from other agencies 28; home visits by Smith Family welfare officers 111; migrants 870; food parcels as family hampers 206; food parcels as small hampers 98; clothing issued 694 families; furniture issued to 86 families; and food vouchers for perishables issued to the value of $146. [More…]
The Smith Family organisation meets crisis situations. [More…]
The Smith Family, which will look after something like 7,000 people this year, would give its back teeth to get its hands on even $5,000 in the present situation. [More…]
The Smith Family in Wollongong runs a white elephant auction every Saturday at which it sells off the goods people donate to it. [More…]
and (2) Approval was granted for the entry to Australia of a Pakistani man and his family on the basis of his re-union with immediate family relatives in this country and his ability to meet the criteria for migrant entry. [More…]
The idea is to build a united family not to have little bits and pieces and enclaves - totally unacceptable and the idea we need to import rural workers at the present time I find extraordinary because living in a rural area myself- 400 miles inland I know what the rural recession of the last 3 years has done to the countryside and the problem is then to get work for people blown off their properties by that recession. [More…]
People found eligible for consideration on these grounds have to show on assessment that they: will be economically viable in Australia; have the personal qualities that will enable them to fit into the Australian community; are medically fit; have a satisfactory character record; and have a sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]
Family planning advice or services are offered by a wide range of private and public organisations throughout Australia. [More…]
The two principal private organisations operating family planning clinics are the Family Planning Association of Australia and the Catholic Family Planning Centres. [More…]
Information is not available regarding the extent of State Government involvement in family planning activities, nor of the family planning clinics understood to be operated by some public hospitals. [More…]
The Family Planning Association of Australia has branches in each State and Territory. [More…]
The locations of the major Branch offices of the Family Planning Association are as follows: [More…]
Family Planning Association of Australia (Headquarters) and Family Planning Association of New South Wales,Caminer House, 92 City Road, Chippendale, New South Wales 2008. [More…]
Family Planning Association of Victoria, 500 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000. [More…]
Family Planning Association of Queensland, 230 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Queensland 4006. [More…]
Family Planning Association of South Australia, 74 Fairford Street, Unley, South Australia 5061. [More…]
Family Planning Association of Western Australia, P.O. [More…]
Family Planning Association of Tasmania, P.O. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 8 July1973 of Arthur Augustus Calwell, a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great, a member of this House for the division of Melbourne from 1940 to 1972, a Minister of the Crown from 1943 to 1949, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 195 1 to 1960 and Leader of the Opposition from 1960 to 1967, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement [More…]
Among the great influences in his life, one should not ignore his special sense of family. [More…]
Although he and I belonged to opposing parties, he remembered members of my family and would always make personal inquiries as to how they were. [More…]
He was a great family man, as the Prime Minister has said. [More…]
The members of his family were very attached to each other and worked together. [More…]
This was typical of Arthur Calwell ‘s determination and of the co-operation of his family. [More…]
The quality of life to Arthur Calwell was the quality of the family, of happy communities of people, and of the development of a strong nation. [More…]
I should like on this occasion to express publicly my deepest sympathy to Mrs Calwell, to her daughter Mary Elizabeth, to Arthur’s sisters and to other members of the family. [More…]
I join with other honourable members in expressing sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
I pay tribute to Mrs Calwell for the long and wonderful family life that they had together and for the many sacrifices which she made to enable Arthur to carry out his very difficult duties. [More…]
That, in itself, reveals his great qualities and it is something for which his family might justly be proud. [More…]
Having said so much, I join with others in expressing to his wife and family my deepest sympathy and my respect for a colleague I liked and respected in every way and whose absence I mourn with all other honourable members. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 20 June 1973 of Dugald Ranald Ross Munro a member of this House for the division of Eden-Monaro from 1966 to 1969, places on record its appreciation of his meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
The death of a young family man of promise must in any circumstances be deeply saddening and, in the appalling circumstances of Dugald Munro ‘s death, most sad, most horrible. [More…]
His family have a very special place in our sympathies as he has in our memories. [More…]
I express my sympathy, and I couple with this expression that of Allan Fraser ‘s, to his wife and family. [More…]
I would like briefly to pay a tribute to the late Dugald Munro and convey my sympathy to his wife and members of his family. [More…]
Although he served as a member representing Eden-Monaro, he was a member of a well-known family which pioneered the Moree district, which happens to be my home district. [More…]
I convey my sympathy to his wife and young family. [More…]
However, provision is made for a limited quantity of effects to be transported by air, in addition to the normal accompanied baggage entitlement, where the early return of the items would avoid the necessity for a member and his family who are returning by air to occupy motel/hotel accommodation on arrival in Australia. [More…]
Under this scheme any full-time Australian student enrolled in an approved course at either a university, college of advanced education, teachers college, technical college or agricultural college will be able to apply for a living allowance subject to a means test on family income. [More…]
The level of the adjusted family income at which these maximum allowances will be payable will be increased from $4,200 a year to $5,300 a year. [More…]
The child from such a family is now in an Australian school. [More…]
It was evident from the survey carried out for the previous Government in 1971 that the renunciation was accepted in the simple legal sense, to which there was no objection, but it seemed to be a renunciation of family ties, culture and background and therefore was totally unacceptable. [More…]
It was indicated in the 1971 survey that there was a need then to have a deliberate effort made by the Australian Government to invite people to take out citizenship and join the family of the nation in a more positive way. [More…]
Now it is suggested that the present Opposition should defy the expressed view of the majority of Australian citizens, ignore the distinguished representatives of so many organisations, including the Returned Services League, and take us back to the past and to a hurtful imposition which seems to be required by some either to deter people from joining the family of the nation because they do not want them or to impose hurt for hurt’s sake. [More…]
This could really push the small family winery into severe difficulties. [More…]
In addition to all the factors I have mentioned the family wineries will have to meet a far higher taxation bill in the future, following the increase in private company tax. [More…]
We all know that family companies in this industry have received the benefit of the private rate of income tax which is applicable to private companies. [More…]
He is a citizen who must buy land, build a house or rent one, raise a family, keep them and himself in health, travel to work, pay State charges, pay municipal charges, pay insurance charges. [More…]
What was the response of the Government of the day to each of the requests- relating to family planning itemised by him in his reply to me on 30 May 1973 (Hansard, page 2923). [More…]
Where direct financial commitment by the previous government was concerned, my understanding is that the granting of $10,000 to the Family Planning Association of Australia in 1972 to assist in sponsoring the First Medical and Scientific Congress of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (part of 1 (iii) to my reply on 30 May 1973 (Hansard, page 2923), was its only response. [More…]
Rather the present government took these initiatives on its own account knowing full well the considerable need that had been built up over a number of years for real and direct assistance to the development and provision of family planning services in Australia. [More…]
Family Planning Association of Australia $200,000 a year from 1 April 1973. [More…]
The Government has endeavoured to give every Australian the right to a full education, irrespective of social position or family income. [More…]
The family hunted possums, scrounged other food where they could and slept where they could find beds until the local policewoman became aware of their predicament and said they would have to be made wards of the State. [More…]
The cost for the average working man to educate his family bears upon him far more heavily than it bears upon anyone else in the community. [More…]
The Government intends to tear it down and restructure it in such a way that it will not discriminate against the low wage earner and the young family man as the present scheme does. [More…]
It will hurt the family man. [More…]
It will cost him more to go to his favourite sport or to take his family out. [More…]
All the rises that will occur in the prices of cigarettes, beer and spirits, will hit the family man more than anyone else. [More…]
You cannot (take your family away to a new environment during that period because your wife cannot get her holidays at the same time’. [More…]
They brought about an economic system which demands that a family unit have at least 2 incomes. [More…]
For example, the family in danger of disintegration does not need just marriage guidance counsel alone. [More…]
The family unit, the marriage unit and the religious structures are quite different from what they were just one generation ago. [More…]
The family unit as it exists today in the nuclear age is hardy recognisable from that unit which existed one generation ago. [More…]
My philosophy is that, if we want to maintain those standards, if we do believe that the family unit is something worth preserving in a country that wishes to have some sort of social stability, we must not lower the standards; but, for goodness sake, we must change our attitudes on how to cope with them and on how to maintain the family standard with all the erosions of it that are occurring all the time. [More…]
In family dialogue this has 2 results: The child feels superior and is therefore patronising and the parents feel inferior and are therefore aggressive. [More…]
The legislation, consequent upon this Budget, will grossly disadvantage the family farm. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party pays lip service to the family farm but legislates against it in a highly discriminatory way. [More…]
The Opposition is determined that the efficiently managed family farm will continue to be the basis of Australian agriculture. [More…]
The sort of premises that a policy of adjustment can be based on and should include are: That the cost-price squeeze will continue; that an increasing volume of total farm production is consistent with fewer farmers; that economic efficiency of farming is more important to Australia than the number of farmers; that neither the economy nor society needs every farmer as a farmer if over-production of unsaleable products is taking place and better marketing cannot help; that fewer farmers will not mean the end of family farming. [More…]
The best guarantee against corporate farming is viable family units. [More…]
I suggest that this Budget is a budget to hit the family man or the working man whom the Labor Party claims it represents. [More…]
A married couple with 2 children - they are the ones who I suggest comprise the family unit and the people against whom this Budget is directed - who seek non-public hospital accommodation after the Government has nationalised medicine, as it proposes to do on 1 July next will pay more than they do at present. [More…]
As more and more general practitioners join together in group practices and shield themselves from out-of-hours calls behind a barrier of recorded messages, emergency telephone numbers and mobile locum services the old feeling of security which arose from ready access to a family doctor is being lost. [More…]
This man’s family was woken at 1 a.m. when he first became ill and again at 3 a.m. when he was clearly very ill indeed. [More…]
The son - I will call him Mr Smith - rang the local clinic at which the family had been patients over the last 23 years and was told by a recorded voice the name and telephone number of a doctor who is not associated with the clinic but who was said to be available for emergency service. [More…]
If he wants to take his family for an outing on the weekend it will cost him more because of the increase in petrol tax. [More…]
I know of one family of 3 people, each member of which is between 25 and 35 years of age, each of whom paid a 10 per cent deposit on a block of land in addition to purchasing a home. [More…]
A supposed sign of universal affluence is that there is about one car for every 2 people in Australia, yet a Melbourne transportation survey discovered that 63.2 per cent of low income families did not own motor cars whereas 42.8 per cent of high income people owned at least two cars per family. [More…]
As a member of a voluntary health insurance organisation my family unit has a number. [More…]
It is stored away by the hospital benefits organisation which keeps on its records the number of claims I have made, the complaints that there have been in my family and the categories they come under. [More…]
For the average family man the increased tax slug of the Budget will be at least $3 a week before the end of the year. [More…]
It needs to be restructured to achieve social equity for the normal taxpayer and the normal family. [More…]
There is a case for paying child care allowances to mothers of young children as there is a case for restructuring the tax system in order to achieve equity for the normal family. [More…]
They, along with the family man on the middle or low income, are being made to pay the price for Labor’s inflationary policies. [More…]
Because of the way in which this Budget bears down upon the pensioner and the family man, I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) disapproving the Budget for the reasons outlined in that amendment. [More…]
An amount of $20,000 has been allocated to extend the activities of the Family Planning Association beyond the present 2 centres for advice in Beauchamp House and the Woden Plaza to Canberra’s 2 public hospitals, to the health centres and to Jervis Bay. [More…]
At present a pamphlet is being drafted for supply to chemists, family planning centres and others interested to give the average citizen a brief account of the methods of family planning available, their reliability and the precautions necessary for people who use them. [More…]
Add a few grey hairs to the serviceman caused by anxious weeks of waiting for approval and the pestering of the builder for his money - because he has to meet his commitments also - and it is no wonder the serviceman by-passes his opportunity to take advantage of the low interest loan to avoid the worry to himself and his family. [More…]
In a wild headlong lunge at multi-national organisations which possibly are best poised to absorb even a Labor government’s extermination program this Budget will have the opposite effect of damaging successful family businesses and companies. [More…]
All the major wine producers in my electorate of Mallee are family owned and controlled. [More…]
I refer to the ordinary man in the street and his family, with their legitimate aspirations for a better house, a better car and 2 or more of them, and enough money not to have to pinch and scrape to clothe the kids and so on. [More…]
House will be aware of the heavy financial impact that befalls the family man should one of his children require dental treatment under present conditions. [More…]
It is the family man who is hurt by this Budget and this has been amply demonstrated by speakers from the Opposition side. [More…]
If they were concerned perhaps they would have extended their attention to relieving the hardship of the remaining family or of the victim if close to death. [More…]
The Government considered that with the changing pattern of immigration into Australia and the Government’s own initiatives in immigration policy giving priority to family reunion and sponsored’ migration it should attain self-sufficiency in respect of movement of migrants and that it was no longer appropriate for Australia to remain a member of ICEM. [More…]
I move- (1) That in the opinion of this House, a Federal Judge should be appointed as sole Commissioner In accordance with the provisions of the Royal Commissions Act to inquire into the social, educational and legal aspects of sexual relationships with particular emphasis on the concepts of responsible sexuality, responsible parenthood and family life, such inquiry to investigate and evaluate the following matters in Australia and comparable countries and make recommendations for areas within the jurisdiction of the laws of the Australian Parliament: [More…]
the provision, adequacy and effectiveness of existing fertility control facilities, such as family planning clinics; educational and motivational information on fertility control; and methods of evaluation of all contraceptive techniques; [More…]
in the event of failed contraception and consequent unplanned, unwanted pregnancies, the social, psychological and medical results of termination and failure to terminate such pregnancies, and adequacy and effectiveness of existing medico-legal determinations in relation to termination of pregnancy, including the incidence of such terminations, the factors influencing their occurrence, the adequacy of medical training in, and evaluation of methods of termination and the consultative rights of the family and other parties to the pregnancy, and [More…]
We should be no less appalled by the social, economic, medical and social wefare problems which make of pregnancy not a human joy but an economic disaster for many families, mothers and mother-to-be and by the shortcomings in sex education and family planning services of which abortion is but one sympton. [More…]
Whereas 87 per cent of married couples of childbearing age practise family planning, only 40 per cent rely for protection upon effective techniques such as oral contraception or the use of an intra-uterine device. [More…]
We should acknowledge that by failing as a society to make proper arrangements for matters such as sex education and family planning, we have allowed ignorance and irresponsibility to make rich men of many abortionists, parents of many couples who have neither the inclination nor the temperament for parenthood and battered babies of many children of whom it can be said quite literally that they would have been better off if they had never been born. [More…]
It is in the same hope that I move today for an inquiry into the social, educational and legal aspects of sexual relationships with particular emphasis on the concept of responsible sexuality, responsible parenthood and family life. [More…]
Recently in Sweden, where sex education has been taught for 20 years and taught throughout the school system as an obligatory subject for 10 years, I talked to a distinguished family psychologist and sociologist, Mrs Birgitta Linner. [More…]
We do not have to settle for arrangements under which the responsibility for family planning services falls almost exclusively upon community organisations which until this year have been denied Australian Government support. [More…]
On 30 May this year the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) listed for me no fewer than 1 1 aspects of family planning over which approaches had been made repeatedly to the Australian Government. [More…]
What approaches on family planning have been made to the Government in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
The approaches made to the Government on family planning and the years in which they were made are listed below: [More…]
requests to allow gifts to family planning associations as income tax deductions - 1968 to 1973 inclusive; [More…]
requests for information on Government involvement in family planning - 1970, 1972; [More…]
requests for a Government initiative in the provision of family planning services - 1969, J972; [More…]
invitations to attend or send observers to conferences on family planning - 1970, 1971; [More…]
request to evaluate family planning services - 1972; [More…]
request to participate in a family planning education project - 1972; and [More…]
Where direct financial commitment by the previous Government was concerned, my understanding is that the granting of $10,000 to the Family Planning. [More…]
Since the present Government came into office on 2 December it has provided grants of $225,000 for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, $125,000 for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, $200,000 for the Family Planning Association of Australia and $100,000 for the National Catholic Welfare Committee of Australia which will be repeated as an annual commitment. [More…]
It has lifted sales tax from contraceptives, made oral contraceptives available as a pharmaceutical benefit and removed restrictions on the advertising and marketing of contraceptives and family planning services in the territories under its control. [More…]
What we need now is a national approach to the provision of family planning along the lines which were being developed in Britain by the public servants and officers of the Family Planning Association with whom I talked 2 months ago. [More…]
Faced with legitimate criticism of some of the consequences of the 1967 Abortion Act, the British Government has responded not by repealing or amending that Act but by setting up a committee of inquiry under Mrs Justice Lane to report upon those aspects of administration over which abuses have arisen and by upgrading family planning services in order to reduce the incidence of unplanned pregnancies. [More…]
The Secretary of State for Social Services, Sir Keith Joseph, outlined the expansion of family planning services to the House of Commons on 12 December last year in a very brief statement which I ask leave to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
On one hand the Secretary’s statement proposed that family planning consultation and advice should be provided without charge for everybody who chooses to take advantage of them, that general practitioners should be encouraged to undertake more family planning work and that hospitals should offer more family planning advice. [More…]
The upshot of this decision is that every municipality in Britain before long will be offering its own family planning services in cooperation with the Family Planning Association. [More…]
I hope to see a judicial inquiry take: note of the experience Of the city of Aberdeen where family planning services were taken oyer by local government from a voluntary agency in 1946, expanded greatly in the early 1960s and reorganised in 1967 so that advice and contraceptives could be provided without charge. [More…]
A recent report notes that in Aberdeen the benefits of free and energetic family planning ‘have included notable reductions in the birth rate, the fertility rate, high risk maternities, illegitimate birth rate and unwanted pregnancies, while Aberdeen has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world’. [More…]
The only reason we have tolerated our present inadequate family planning services so long is that we have been ignorant as a community of the great advantages conferred by services of a higher standard upon cities such as Aberdeen. [More…]
An inquiry is needed not only to sweep away that ignorance but also to test the assumptions upon which our present attitudes to family planning are based and to open our eyes to the process of innovation which is going on in countries comparable with our own. [More…]
A number of honourable members have expressed the view that the .terms of reference of which I gave notice originally gave insufficent emphasis to responsible parenthood and family life. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: in the opinion of this House Commissioners should be appointed to inquire into the family, social, education, legal and sexual aspects of male female relationships with particular emphasis on the concept of responsible parenthood, such enquiry to investigate and evaluate the following matters in Australia and overseas and make recommendations for areas within the jurisdiction of the laws of the Australian Parliament and further to indicate whether such recom mendations should be implemented through existing bodies or through government instrumentalities to be created: [More…]
The provision, adequacy and effectiveness of existing family planning facilities, and [More…]
Greater emphasis is required on a range of problems associated with personal development and family life. [More…]
Family life, which is essential to our social, religious and moral system, has only been recently mentioned in the much changed motion. [More…]
These take their first form in the family context. [More…]
The failure of the proposed inquiry to face the question of sexual responsibility in the necessary context of the family and of social and economic pressures and their influence on shaping attitudes of responsibility is an index, I believe, of the unrealism of the proposal. [More…]
A realistic approach to the question is to study precisely those pressures and problems that make it increasingly difficult for the family to perform that function. [More…]
It said that much evidence emphasised that the prevention of pregnancy in the unmarried teen-age girl is a much more complex problem than can be solved by a simple provision of contraception and that sex education should be provided not as a subject in isolation, but as part of health educational programs, and of education for responsible human relationships and family life. [More…]
Since the family is the basic social unit, such an inquiry should investigate those problems, their root causes and the aggravating factors that prevent the family from performing adequately its rightful function in developing human personality and responsibility in inter-personal relationships and towards parenthood. [More…]
In particular, the areas of inquiry should include the social, economic and psychological pressures on family life. [More…]
There certainly should be, as the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) said, more informative family planning techniques. [More…]
Let us accept this basic principle - we want to preserve the family unit. [More…]
What I would like to see is an inquiry into the circumstances which cause an abortion; the consequences of it; the action required to assist women in avoiding it; the action required to deter people from aiding and abetting it; the adequacy and effectiveness of family planning techniques; the action required to ensure that medical practitioners always act in the interests of the woman’s health; the action required to ensure that all services are available free of cost; the action required to establish the necessary supportive services; and, generally, the action required to ensure the preservation of the lives of the mother and her unborn child. [More…]
We are interested in the rights of children as well as the rights of women and the value and worth of the family unit, rather than the concept of sex without responsibility. [More…]
We also want to assist people who want children but whose circumstances are such that family planning, even family limitation, is not only desirable but also necessary. [More…]
No matter how impolitely the honourable member for Hotham may care to label me, I still value the institution df marriage, the trust between marriage partners and the role of the family unit and I see danger in the denigration of moral standards. [More…]
It makes me concerned to encourage, beginning at medical school as is stated in the amendment, the training of the medical profession in the important role of family planning and contraceptive counselling, as well as its acceptance of it, because so often it is the doctor lone who has the opportunity which is often denied to parents, friends or other advisers. [More…]
It makes me concerned to see that there is absolute adequacy in the provision of effective, active and fully trained family planning advisers, and facilities and clinics available and accessible to all. [More…]
The adequacy and availability of contraceptives, advice on contraceptive techniques and family planning facilities are most certainly fundamental and at the heart of the inquiry, but the motion itself makes this virtually the total scope of the inquiry. [More…]
It focuses completely on birth prevention, it ignores completely - despite the few words he added last night - the pressing needs of family life with its real and relevant problems. [More…]
There also should be provision for adequate family allowances, particularly the provision of appropriate child minding centres. [More…]
The adequacy and effectiveness of existing family planning techniques; (0 The action required to ensure medical practitioners will always act in the interest of safeguarding a woman’s health and well being when abortion is sought. [More…]
In our society today there seems to be what I believe to be an excessive concern for the murderer - the person who has committed the crime - with not very much concern being shown for the victim or the victim’s family; they are soon forgotten. [More…]
The simple fact is that we cannot make an extra privileged class way above all the other people who are starting off in life building a family and building a home and doing all the other things that have to be done by a young family - sending children to school, clothing them and the rest of it. [More…]
The honourable member seeks to justify this upon the basis that this remedy had to be taken in order to achieve equity between the pensioner and the young family man. [More…]
I think the way the problem should have been dealt with was for the tax threshold, as it applies to the young family man, to be lifted. [More…]
Yet if one looks at the report of the Coombs task force one sees that there is some suggestion that the Government is looking at the question of lowering the income at which young family men shall begin to pay tax. [More…]
If there is an inequity so far as the young family man is concerned, there are those of us on this side of the House who have urged for a long time that the tax threshold - the point at which tax first becomes payable - should be looked at across the broad spectrum of all taxpayers and not in the manner in which this legislation is proposed to operate. [More…]
Of course, he was consistently following the family tradition. [More…]
I believe that one of the more touching scenes in Adelaide was the annual pilgrimage to the family cherry orchard where tea and sympathy were copiously distributed amongst pensioners toy his father, but there was never a vote by him in support of amendments moved here in support of pension increases. [More…]
What this does point up is the fact that there is a serious defect in the argument that the conventional concept of the family doctor being available for such impossible hours will not stand up and weakens, of course, some of the case that some people are trying to make on behalf of the medical profession in this respect. [More…]
The main provisions in these treaties to which I refer are: Extradition is provided for in respect of extradition offences committed extra territorially; an offence against the law relating to genocide, referred to in the Genocide Convention Act 1949, as well as the taking of the life of a Head of State or a member of his or her family are not to be considered as crimes of a political character; a very important change has been made to the speciality rule so that an extradited person may be dealt with by the requesting country or be surrendered to a third state for offences other than those upon which the extradition was based where consent is given by the executive authority of the requested country; delivery at the time of surrender of any article that may be material evidence in proving an offence to which the requisition for the surrender of the fugitive relates; the custody of a fugitive who is in transit from one state to a third state; in the case of the United States of America, provision is made for the extradition for federal offences where there is an additional element in the extradi tion offence of such matters as the use of interstate facilities or use of mails or transporting across the borders of states. [More…]
But I am bound to tell him that I have the gravest of doubts, after seeing these Bills, whether his family motto could be described as ‘Patience and reason above all.’ [More…]
There is one little family enterprise that happens to be located at Pinaroo which is near my colleague’s electorate in Victoria. [More…]
But last night the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) told us on television that the Government was going to control every item that makes up the daily cost of living of the family. [More…]
I refer to the charging of rents below par for company owned houses in which they live; generous expense accounts which are made available; extravagant superannuation schemes which are for the privileged few; the business trips to Honolulu and elsewhere on which the family is taken along and which consists of one 10-minute interview - the total cost is on the house; the payment of school fees for children under company executive scholarship schemes; and the provision of motor cars and the payment of running costs. [More…]
At present, when the means test is applied, the point at which the scholarship begins to reduce is at $4,200 a year adjusted family income, and the point at which the minimum grant of $150 is made is at $5,375 adjusted family income. [More…]
The Minister has in fact subsequently informed me that he was not present at that meeting because he was attending a family funeral. [More…]
As I was saying before I was interrupted, we find a peculiar circumstance whereby the Australian family who buys meat on the home market is charged but the purchaser overseas - or the exporter - does not have to pay a service charge. [More…]
Every man and woman wants security for himself or herself and family, and want and expect a reasonable share of the affluence that Australia can offer. [More…]
I do not believe that the average Australian worker wants his family’s economic life disrupted by hardship caused through strikes, any more than he wants it caused by unemployment. [More…]
I certainly hope that he will because it is not in the best interests of anybody, much less the family man, to be out on strike. [More…]
I am personally grateful for the support and cooperation the United Nations and its family of organisations have received over the years from ICEM. [More…]
I want to make it very plain and I stress again that what we must do at all times is to invite people to join us - not to be the shock troops in this or that operation, but to invite people to join us as permanent settlers and members of the family of the nation. [More…]
The contract of eventual marriage was less between the boy and girl concerned than between their family groups. [More…]
If we seriously intend to allow them to follow their own rules in their domestic and family affairs, and to adapt their style of life in ways and at speeds of their own choice and not ours - a principle to which the previous Government pledged itself - we must open to them fully the path of their own wisdom. [More…]
On 8 September Nola was taken by a departmental social worker, with the foster parents’ consent to meet members of her family at the Bagot Reserve. [More…]
So, my indignation was absolute when I found that some people had intervened in a manner which seemed to constitute a breach of trust with the Brown family. [More…]
I offer the Brown family my sympathy in the situation in which they find themselves. [More…]
It represents a conflict between native family law and Australian law. [More…]
If to this charge is added the cost of giving basic support to the prisoner’s wife and family a total amount of approximately $7,000 a year in involved in putting a man in gaol. [More…]
It is a pity if, after an Aboriginal child grows up with a white family, its parents, for some reason or other, say that they want the child returned to them. [More…]
So there is a great need for these children, who may come from an illiterate family, whose mother and father have had no formal education, who possibly live in a humpy with earth floors and no water or electricity laid on to it, who are without the advantage of a television set, a radio or even a clock in the house, as is frequently the case, and who cannot take school books home because there is nowhere to put them where the smaller children will not get at them and destroy them, to be brought into a pre-school situation, as has been mentioned by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Ashley Brown). [More…]
Those of us who are over 16 years of age can take some comfort from the fact which I have just quoted from the New York Family Health Magazine of March 1970. [More…]
Such accommodation provides somewhere to go for people who have been displaced from the family home, and to ask them to contribute anything but a nominal amount would be asking them for something which was beyond their capacity to pay. [More…]
Let us consider the mother of a large family with a husband on the basic wage. [More…]
She becomes til and the family obviously has no money to pay for domestic help. [More…]
From them, by the opportunity they present for people to meet in suitable and peaceful surroundings, these people draw strength and renewed confidence and enthusiasm to resist the pressures that are thrust on them from economic, social, health and family worries. [More…]
What he has done for inflation has distressed every Australian family. [More…]
The Commonwealth has acted against the interests of every family and of every man, woman and child in the State of New South Wales and in Australia. [More…]
Every honourable member knows just how much his own family has to become involved in working in the electorate. [More…]
It should be understood that members of Parliament have no alternative dining facilities, unless they are affluent enough to go across to The Lobby Restaurant, which was supposed to be a restaurant built for the convenience of family groups visiting the Parliament. [More…]
As all the evidence to hand at the present time supports the contention that school administrators and educational experts, armed with vast resources, are unable to overcome the disadvantages of the family background, one step towards this end would be increased government assistance to the adult migrant education program, by sponsoring on television imported Italian, Greek, Spanish or Turkish variety programs, as well as adventure programs, that have met with success in terms of popularity overseas. [More…]
They say that the child educates himself with the help of the family, the peer group, the community at large. [More…]
Migrant children have first of all to bridge the gap between the beliefs and the duties of their own family and the quite different ways of thinking and behaving in the life they are experiencing in and out of school. [More…]
Social psychologists have quite often expressed some agreement that these children are better in the close family environment. [More…]
In some instances valiant journals - wonderful journals - produced by family groups - had been serving the people over a long period. [More…]
When we are considering our program, our integrated plan for the handicapped, surely with these figures and knowing about the family’s involvement we should be catering for them all. [More…]
We must be considering also their life with their handicapped family member. [More…]
That woman cannot find an institution - a bed - to take the pressure off heT family, not even so that she can take a 2weeks holiday after a year of strain. [More…]
The first category is: Most urgent - family in a state of crisis, immediate placement in an institution needed. [More…]
The second category is: Urgent - immediate placement desirable, but the family problems are not as grave. [More…]
It seems that the Minister is well aware of the definition which has been put forward of the ‘typical’ poor New York family. [More…]
When one looks at the functions of these voluntary bodies I think one comes to this conclusion: First, the Government, through its system of social services - age pensions, family endowment, widows’ pensions and the other payments that it makes - should be able to make certain that nobody in the Australian community is left below a certain level of poverty. [More…]
Whether it involves the age pension, the widow’s pension or family endowment, it is the citizen’s right; it is not charity. [More…]
Although time will not permit me to develop this point now, I believe that the most important major and massive social problem which lies before the Department of Social Security is providing help for the young and the forming family, especially in the lower income brackets. [More…]
We now are faced with the much more massive problem which goes right to the root of our social structure, namely, of help for the young and the forming family and, particularly, help for the young couple at the time of the birth of their first child or in the provision of the matrimonial home which is desirable at all times but becomes, I believe, necessary when the first child is born. [More…]
The honourable member has spoken about increases in excise and how those increases will affect the family man. [More…]
How does he think an extra $400m for education will affect the family man and his capacity to provide a decent education for his children. [More…]
When speaking about how certain action affects the family man, the honourable member must consider the totality of the situation and return to weigh the priorities. [More…]
The housewife has to make her dollars stretch each week to purchase the requirements of the family and the home and when housewives find that these costs are continually moving up, every day and every week, as they have been doing in more recent times, they will start to think about the policies which the Government is implementing. [More…]
We on this side of the Committee are concerned at the great problem that the payment of death duties causes to small families, particularly to women who unfortunately through a sudden death find themselves widowed and left to shoulder the burden of rearing a young family. [More…]
I cannot quote from previous speeches made by the Treasurer, but I can remember the Treasurer himself sitting at the table when he was in opposition and pointing to the very problem which I am raising tonight, that is, the future survival of the small businesses, the small family businesses and the small co-operatives throughout the length and breadth of the land. [More…]
White residents got together and signed a petition asking that a particular family be removed from an area in the town. [More…]
The ‘Lachlander’ is about 80 years old and has been operated as a family business by Mr and Mrs Ryder-Wood for the past 21 years - in fact, since 1952 when they purchased it from Mr M. J. Condon who had been its proprietor for 42 years. [More…]
The scheme that was introduced of allocating finance to a coloured family for every child that attended a secondary school offset this to some extent, but I know that in some instances the child only attends secondary school in order that the family gets the benefit of the finance, and not because of any desire to further his education. [More…]
We might be difficult and we might ignore our neighbours; but we would not go crook about a man and his wife and family unless they became too unhygienic or kicked up too much of a shindy in the middle of the night. [More…]
In a small way, although in a symbolic way, I must admit, one of our first moves was to make use of the facilities of the family planning people. [More…]
This ought to be sufficient for over 1,100 houses, which would roughly equal what we believe to be the annual rate of family formation. [More…]
This Government established a special study group of Commonwealth and State health authorities which recommended a co-ordinated program covering establishment of local health committees, delivery of health care - including much wider deployment of doctors and community health nurses - administrative re-organisation, education, family planning, research and other special programs. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member for Wannon and those who, like him, try to undermine the process by which these facts could regularly be brought under public scrutiny have any comprehension of the misery of the family and the child when defects of speech get steadily worse over a number of years while that child is waiting for treatment and none can be provided for him. [More…]
That is really beyond the power of the Schools Commission but certainly we can tackle the disadvantages of being born into an Aboriginal family rather than a white family. [More…]
It appears to me that the small investor, the pensioner, the widower or the widow with a large family and the youth who is just starting on the long journey through life should have had a much higher interest rate applied to their deposits which, because they are usually under $4,000, attract the very lowest rate of 3J per cent. [More…]
It is more appropriate and better for the future of the Australian ethos if a person on his initial entry into the home ownership field can buy a home that will be suitable for him and his family for the rest of his life. [More…]
We maintain that one of the greatest bulwarks of the maintenance of the Australian way of life is for each family unit to possess an individual home. [More…]
Some form of rental allowance could be considered in these circumstances whereby on the family income a low income family could rent good quality accommodation. [More…]
This enables the not-so-well-paid family to have the ability to obtain a home. [More…]
Where the family includes more than 2 children this limit can be increased by $2 a week for each child after the second child. [More…]
We realise that a contented family is one that has a home, whether rented or owned. [More…]
The Premiers and the State Ministers for Housing - Labor, Liberal and Country Party - really dug their toes in when the Minister proposed this course of action, which went against all the traditions, birthrights and ambitions of the average Australian family to own their own home. [More…]
At last some assistance is to be given to the low income earner who wants to provide shelter for his family. [More…]
The previous Government let the private financial institutions do what they liked and it regulated the economy by turning the screw on the low income earner who was trying to provide shelter for his family. [More…]
At the present time when a family buys a house, in the early years of home repayments the repayment forms an inordinately high percentage of that family’s income. [More…]
This would take some of the burden off the young family which has many other commitments in trying to pay off a house. [More…]
A whole family wa- wiped out. [More…]
If that price is upheld it will have to be passed on to every poor family which goes to live in Tuggeranong, the new satellite city being built to the south of Canberra. [More…]
Early diagnosis and treatment, social support and follow-up will be closer to the approach of the old village doctor, parish priest or other traditional family friends. [More…]
But at this stage I would also make a very special plea for extra grants for library books for external study centres of the university such as we have in Toowoomba where, through the generosity of the Boyce family and a group of supporters, a substantial external centre of the Queensland University will be established. [More…]
A struggling family on a much lower income than the honourable member for Casey may send their child to an independent school. [More…]
The mother of the second family may work to send that child to that school and the parents may make great sacrifices to do so. [More…]
This Government, ridden as it is with class hatred, applauds and assists the first family but berates the second family. [More…]
Their fees simply cover their costs and, with the wage increases and galloping inflation which have come about since the Labor Government came to power, the fees are fast becoming beyond the reach of the average family. [More…]
In our predominantly conformist, overtly masculine society, fixed on the 2-child nuclear family mushrooming in suburban wastelands, the homosexual is an unwelcome outsider. [More…]
I think that pretty soon we must come to the time when if, for any reason - technological change, alterations in tariff policies, mergers or any other reason - a worker is required to change his job he will require support to ensure that he does not lose anything in wages, he will require support in retraining and he may even require support in re-housing and moving himself and his family to a place more convenient to his employment. [More…]
A complete dislocation to the family and tribal tie-ups is occurring in some areas because of this money being made available. [More…]
My family has been farming the same country in South Australia for 100 years or more. [More…]
My third personal involvement is because of my great friendship, and my family’s friendship, with Sir John Crawford. [More…]
I ask those honourable members to think for themselves: How many of them could look after their wife and family on an advance for living at the rate of $2,200 a year? [More…]
But surely to goodness people in this House do not think that it is possible for a man and his wife and family to exist at that level, even for only food and clothing, for 12 months in this day and age. [More…]
If they had any comprehension of these problems they would do something effective to control inflation and something effective to protect the position of the average family person in Australia. [More…]
One of the things that comes to my mind when I listen to the class-conscious utterances of the Australian Labour Party is that thinking people recognise that in children who are being educated in our society differences in potential arise from biological inheritance, family background and aspirations, influence of school and church and wider influences of the media and society at large. [More…]
Every time an aircraft annoys you, whether walebing television, listening to the radio, dining with your family or in ordinary conversation, remind him of the broken promise. [More…]
This campaign is endeavouring to incite people to make a nuisance of themselves by ringing my home and upsetting my family life about something over which I have no control, something which is the responsibility of previous Liberal governments at the Federal level. [More…]
We hear so much about law and order, yet this leaflet is asking people to make a nuisance of themselves and upset my family. [More…]
I believe that we should take up the slack in times of stress but that we should not be making the pace and ensuring that other areas of administration - State parliaments and local governments - and individual families and the people themselves have less in materials, in time and certainly in money with which to carry out the work that they want carried out for their own personal and family benefit. [More…]
Since the Budget, in my own area, 4 new juicing plant projects have reached the stage of negotiating for finance, another family firm project is under way and another is in the process of formulation. [More…]
We also applaud moves to provide facilities not only for treatment but also for the rehabilitation of the patient and indeed the whole family. [More…]
We applaud this modern day approach to this problem of treating these people initially in their homes where no embarrassment is felt and where, through the participation of the whole of the family in the healthy environment that is created, the patient can probably readjust himself and overcome his problem, whether it be an inability to cope, a problem with drink or a problem with drugs. [More…]
Hopefully, we are now moving away from the prehistoric age concept where someone who was mentally ill or suffering from a disease or a sickness such as alcoholism or drug dependency had to be locked up away from the community, where a stigma was cast on the family if a member of that family was an alcoholic or mentally ill, whether that person acquired that mental illness or was bom with it. [More…]
Our understanding is that the Government is to provide living allowances on a different basis, that they will not be provided on any basis of scholarship but purely on the basis of family income. [More…]
I would have thought that on the basis of payment of living allowance to people in universities the matter to be assessed is really the basis of the family income - the nature of the means test - and therefore whether or not a particular student ought to be paid an allowance under the scheme. [More…]
Therefore, what place has academic progress in the payment of a living allowance based on family income? [More…]
Our method for scholarship holders, as the House knows, was to pay all fees and to pay the living allowance for those who came within a family quired for education, despite what this Government would argue that its proposal provides greater support. [More…]
For the students of low family incomes, the living allowance will still be the only funds available to them to get through university. [More…]
Under these arrangements, if the family income is sufficiently inadequate a student will qualify for the living allowance, again very much on the same basis as before. [More…]
Under this scheme any student is eligible for a living allowance, subject to a means test of family income. [More…]
Also the level of family income at which the maximum allowance can be paid will be lifted from $4,200 to $5,300 per annum. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in the Budget Speech it was outlined that the maximum allowance of $304 would be payable where the adjusted family income did not exceed $3,100 a year. [More…]
In 1971 the Australian Union of Students estimated that in 1972 a family on an average income of $4,200 would spend 30 per cent of this in sending one child to university. [More…]
The notion that social levels should reflect differences in innate ability rather than differences in family was part of the democratic revolution which accompanied industrialisation. [More…]
The benefit will be subject to a means test on family income. [More…]
The arrangement should facilitate family reunions. [More…]
So Australian business, Australian family enterprise, in the last quarter of a century has suffered from the lack of protection which is implicit in this legislation. [More…]
Against this background the need for protection of the Australian consumer, housewife and family is urgent. [More…]
On the contrary I believe that, as understood at the moment and without real qualifications and amendments, the Bill will, if enacted, do great harm to those who really matter, that is, the people of this country - the consumer, the family, mum and dad and the kids. [More…]
Here is the Government trying to do what it can to stabilize land prices so that the average family can purchase a home at reasonable cost and the Opposition parties are doing their best to sabotage the Government’s actions. [More…]
I would like to see the subsidised health benefits plan further expanded so that those on the lower scales of income could be phased into the voluntary funds at discounted premiums which would be related to such factors as family income and number of dependants. [More…]
So this family would pay more under Labor to join the scheme and, in addition, would pay $147 a week for every week in hospital. [More…]
For a family where the wife is working, the break-even point is in excess of $10,000 a year. [More…]
A person who is ill at present may like a particular doctor, but the family budget may not be going as well as it might be because of the inflation that we are all complaining about. [More…]
In the tragic case of those children who are totally dependent on their parents and the other members of their family, no amount of affection can ever overcome the despair which is generated by the totality of their demands. [More…]
But in her absolute and complete innocence, she is unable to communicate in any way at all, but she knows’ her own familiar things and, as a loved member of her family, is intended to remain in that circle of security. [More…]
I think it is not a good practice to continue these descriptions when people have joined the family of the nation; they are citizens and they should be regarded as such. [More…]
Not only is the effect of inflation to put up the cost of house building, but also it becomes very difficult for the lowincome family to secure suitable accommodation. [More…]
A motherless child’s allowance could also be paid in respect of children who are in the custody of their father either because their mother is dead or because she has deserted the family home and has left the children uncared for. [More…]
It is a terrible hardship for a man who has lost his wife - even by desertion and much worse if he has lost her by death - to find that he is placed in a financial position in which he has to break up his young family and perhaps lose contact with his dependent children. [More…]
If there is to be a breakup during the week days at least there should be provision whereby under such circumstances the family could be reunited at the weekend. [More…]
I reiterate what I said before and that is that the most massive problem that lies in front of us - not the most acute but the most massive - in the field of social services is, I think, help for the young couple with a forming family. [More…]
I refer to the position of a couple starting a marriage with 2 incomes coming into the family. [More…]
At that time, when their income diminishes, the needs of the family increase. [More…]
If our social structure is to become secure we must think not only of the young people but also primarily of the young people with a forming family. [More…]
But young people with a forming family are a class of people who are due for real assistance when the social security program is expanded, as I believe it will be. [More…]
A paper “The Deserted Father, A Study of his Problems’ by the Family Services Committee of the Victorian Council of Social Service, Melbourne, on this subject had this to say: [More…]
Successful rehabilitation of an incapacitated member can mean a lot to that member’s dignity and pride and could be the means of enabling him to become a useful member of the community and of greater assistance and value to his family. [More…]
I am of the opinion - and that is my problem - that where a member has a terminal disease, a problem of mental health, or some incapacity due to previous venereal disease infection, the reasons for his claim’s rejection as not being due to war service should be guarded, coded or clouded in some way - I do not care how it is done - in order to avoid embarrassment to his family. [More…]
A card for the children in a family will be given to their mother or guardian. [More…]
But the Minister went on to say that a comparable family on $400 a week pays $52 a year after tax. [More…]
In other words, there will not be a large section of the population at risk, so to speak, faced with the disaster of large hospital and medical costs if any member of the family falls ill. [More…]
If one adds all together one will find that every family that has more than one person working will pay substantially more under the first phase of this scheme. [More…]
I join with him in expressing our sincere regret at the tragic and untimely death of Mr Tier and in offering our deepest sympathy to his family and relatives. [More…]
This particular reference has had an unfortunate ending and I would join other honourable members in expressing my sympathy to the wife and family of Mr Tier. [More…]
Recently a member of my family was living in the United States for 12 months and he, as an Australian visitor, was expected to talk on and give a picture of what was happening in Australia. [More…]
It will help to keep people out of hospital and have them treated earlier, more effectively and with less disruption to their work and family ties. [More…]
The Cabinet, frankly, has not got round to considering this issue, although I am told that, in view of the testimonial by the Minister for Northern Development on his own behalf and going back 2 generations in his family, the consumption of sugar by members of this House has risen amazingly. [More…]
The focus should be an the child as a total person, living in a family and a community. [More…]
Twenty or thirty years ago those people were young married couples with a family. [More…]
With one exception, none of the powers proposed to be transferred by the referendum will benefit the people of this country in a personal way, as was done in 1946 in the amendment, by referendum, to section 51 (XXIII a) of the Constitution which conferred power on the Australian Parliament to make provision for such benefits as child endowment, unemployment, sickness and hospital benefits and family allowances. [More…]
Taken to extremes, has the Labor Party taken to heart Neville Shute’s views as expressed in his book ‘In the Wet’ that some people should have as many as 7 votes - a vote for himself, his marriage, his family, his property, his overseas travel, his war service, and his service to the Queen? [More…]
Today we expect local councils to provide facilities over a wide new field, such as infant welfare centres, pre-school centres, libraries, a multiplicity of sporting facilities, meals-on-wheels, family guidance clinics, open space, home-help services, social workers, welfare officers and youth workers. [More…]
Our individuality, our way of life, our family life, our standards of citizenship and even our Christian principles are in jeopardy. [More…]
It is really the basis of citizenship where domestic and family associations are nurtured and developed, where human contacts and friend ships and local participations are encouraged in people. [More…]
I believe that any policy designed to achieve this must establish land use priorities because in my opinion the great majority of that section of our wildlife population which is under threat - and this applies to and includes quite a number of species of the kangaroo family - is threatened not because of hunting but because of the spread of civilisation which has gradually encroached on and eroded its habitat. [More…]
They felt that they were being left out, that the ceremony was an important one and that they, as new members of the family of the Australian nation, ought to be able to participate in it. [More…]
It is interesting to note that possibly onethird of Australia’s total population is linked either directly by birth or less directly .by family or marriage to the history, language, culture and traditions of an overseas country. [More…]
This will facilitate family reunion and more successful settlement. [More…]
In my own electorate of La Trobe, $53,500 has been granted for an indoor family leisure centre at Carrington Park in the city of Knox and $46,250 for a sporting context at Kilsyth. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the pending auction sale by the Family Care organisation of Emerald Hill in South Melbourne? [More…]
Basically the information used for the purposes of that exercise comes from the Bureau of Census and Statistics pub lication ‘Family Income 1969’ which was published quite recently. [More…]
This is particularly true in the case of family companies many of which have taxable incomes of less than $10,000. [More…]
The increase in private company tax rates combined with an effective increase in personal taxation plus the enforced distribution of a significant part of trading profits, particularly for family companies, places strains on liquidity and inhibits the growth of this type of company. [More…]
If a contract of life assurance has superimposed upon its terms a set of tax rules entirely different from those existing when the contract was made, those most seriously affected would be the parties to or the beneficiaries under a contract providing for the payment of a sum of money upon a life assured attaining a certain age or upon prior death, i.e., upon those who have made provision for their own personal security or that of their family. [More…]
These reasons could include the resale of a residential property to acquire another property with different accommodation for reasons of personal illness, additional unexpected family responsibilities such as aged parents, multiple births and so on. [More…]
I ask him to look further at this provision because, in cases of this type, the proceeds from the sale of the family home are completely reinvested in a replacement property. [More…]
places inflexible rules on the sale of property which take no account nf reasons unconnected with profit motives such as illness and additional family responsibilities; ff) impedes the development of small businesses by increasing the rates of private company tax, and [More…]
It is a blatant attempt by these people who talk of a 35-hour week - which at the right and proper time I do not condemn - to reimpose on the primary producer long hours and the necessity for slave labour where the whole family has to return to an unprivileged status of yesteryear. [More…]
It is not overstating the position to say that it will almost certainly threaten some manufacturers, particularly some family companies that are hit by other sections of this Budget, with hardship and even threaten bankruptcy. [More…]
It is most unusual for a family to move house within a year, and to do it continually. [More…]
If a property is bought and sold within 15 months or 2 years, of course, the profit is not assessable for taxation purposes unless the Commissioner of Taxation decides in terms of section 26a of the income tax legislation that the profits are part of the general income earning performance of a family or an individual. [More…]
As the whole of the profits would have to be distributed the incorporated partnership concept is likely to be attractive only to the family or small scale enterprise and would be an alternative to partnership and not to public company status. [More…]
On that basis there is value in keeping the retention allowance, but of course where it is not applicable - and I believe it is unfortunate that it will be retained - is to the companies which are of a family company nature or of smaller companies with an income of less than $30,000 a year. [More…]
That the House expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 November 1973 of John Johnstone Dedman, a member of this House for the Division of Corio from 1940 to 1949 and a Minister of the Crown from 1941 to 1949, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
I support the motion moved by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and on behalf of the Opposition I offer my profound and sincere sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
On behalf of the Country Party I express our sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
I express my sympathy to John Dedman’s widow and family. [More…]
I pay my tribute and express my sympathy to Mrs Dedman and the family. [More…]
I offer my condolences to his wife and family. [More…]
I cannot confirm or deny the gastronomic delights enjoyed by Mr Barton and his family at present. [More…]
This legislation is also a severe blow to the small family and private company businesses as they have always been restricted because of a lack of availability of finance for expansion and development. [More…]
The major effect to the industry of repealing section 31a will be the dispossession of owners of private and family companies. [More…]
places inflexible rules on the sale of property which take no account of reasons unconnected with profit motives such as illness and additional family responsibilities; [More…]
He should tell them that clause 8 of this Bill, which drastically revalues the trading stock of wine makers, may force many small family wineries out of business due to the lack of the necessary liquidity in those operations. [More…]
This afternoon, however, I wish to deal with 3 of those items and they are those lettered (a) where we say that we are most unhappy because the Bill imposes unwarranted taxes on pensioners; (e) because it places inflexible rules on the sale of property which take no account of reasons unconnected with profit motives, such as illness or additional family responsibilities; and (g) because it places added cost burdens on Australia’s wine and brandy producers, especially the smaller producers of wine grapes. [More…]
The tax system, as it bears upon the young family man, is in grave and urgent need of reform. [More…]
At the general level, at the threshhold for the young family or the young income earner, we have this absurdly high rate of marginal tax payable which is destroying all incentive to work to gain an income above that level. [More…]
Think of the young family which comes to Australia from overseas and which wants to buy a house in its new country. [More…]
This Government will prevent that young family improving its situation in its new country by preventing it from buying a house in a community closer to the place of work. [More…]
This Government will tax the young family for the ‘profit’ which it makes on the sale. [More…]
I would have liked to be able to give some relief in the Budget to the lower income groups where there is only one income in the family - that of the married person who has dependants. [More…]
There must be greater recognition of the fact that the structure of the family in society is not only changing but is under challenge. [More…]
Demands and new approaches are being applied to the places occupied by each person in the family and society, and to the means by which each person is to be enabled and equipped to play his or her role. [More…]
Third, there is a small group who do so for social reasons, family associations or business connections. [More…]
I turn to the words of an old friend who told me that the common denominator of religious faiths was the belief in the brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind and that those professing religious affiliations cannot show a better attitude to others than by application of brotherly love in positive discrimination on a needs basis to children who must overcome financial, social and even family background problems, among their own, other religions and non-believers. [More…]
Other things include their attitude to work, to study and to the reading of books, whether the members of the family talk together at night and educate each other in this way. [More…]
Provision is also made for the provision of family centres at the same place. [More…]
This will facilitate family connections. [More…]
It is our belief that health is a family affair and a community affair and that communities must look beyond the person who is sick in bed or who is in need of medical attention. [More…]
Their tribal life is based on the family, which in some cases may total only 40, 50, 80 or 100 people. [More…]
I still see as one of the major problems facing agriculture in Australia the question of how the minimal living area for a man, his wife and his family is to be determined. [More…]
The second area is where a farm is on the small non-viable side and the owner seeks to expand for family and personal reasons. [More…]
It is estimated that 30 pigs can produce sufficient methane gas to provide daily cooking, lighting and refrigeration needs for a family of six. [More…]
The Petersen family has obtained, through another private company, around 1.8 per cent of the shares in Oilmin, formerly Exoil. [More…]
We will have effective decentralisation, we will guarantee the opportunity of the man on the land, the proprietor of the family farm, to stay where he is only through policies of concentrated development which scatter growth centres across this country on a systematic basis so that appropriate opportunities for recreation, for employment and for education are accessible to Australians wherever it is they may live. [More…]
We believe that there should be no unearned increment; the savings should be passed on to the person who purchased the land so that the cost of providing a house for his family will be lower. [More…]
So now, in pretending to have a policy on health insurance, they are proposing a $3 00m first aid job to patch up the low income family and pensioner sections of their scheme. [More…]
I would have thought that a Bill such as this which literally affects every family in Australia should be debated while the proceedings are being broadcast and that there should Be a maximum time allowed for debate so that honourable members on both sides of the House can exercise their right to speak on this proposition. [More…]
Clearly this service would provide an excellent basis upon which to build medical student training in community medicine and family practice. [More…]
Mr Speaker, there is need in Newcastle for a new medical school which should be developed at the University of Newcastle in association with the hospitals in the area and centred on the Royal Newcastle Hospital for the following reasons: The supply of potential teaching beds; the size of the existing medical schools in Sydney; the population distribution; the general desirability of decentralisation and the orientation towards social medicine and family practice. [More…]
There might be good family reasons or other reasons why it should not be made public, so I do not press the Minister to the point of agreeing that nothing shall be excluded, but rather I ask him to examine that aspect of the matter because I believe it to be an important point. [More…]
This device could have saved the lives of 3 young children of a family a week or two ago. [More…]
With reference to the case of Mrs King of Canberra and her efforts to adopt her foster child, Kelly, will the Minister investigate the situation with a view to maintaining what is now a happy family unit. [More…]
However, before any transfers are made, consideration is given to the position of each member including his family. [More…]
With private companies, because there was a limited number of shareholders who often were closely knit on a family basis, it was easy for the income of a private company to bear less tax than it would have borne if it had been earned by a partnership or by individual activity. [More…]
It is better than what is being suggested that where there is a declining area we should insist that a postmaster and his family should remain in that area when perhaps they do not want to remain there. [More…]
The British people love the Royal Family as their own and honour them for what they are - a wonderful example to each and every one - through war and peace. [More…]
Firstly, it is human nature for a person to conclude: ‘Well, if the Government is compulsorily adding to my taxes in order to provide me and my family with free hospitalisation then I will use it and get my money’s worth.’ [More…]
I have received estimates from various funds of what it will cost a family man in addition to the 1.35 per cent supertax he will be forced to pay on his taxable income to insure for his wife, family and himself for intermediate or private bed accommodation in a private hospital. [More…]
The estimates - it is impossible to get an accurate cost - range from $80 to $125 per annum extra in insurance costs to entitle him and his family to a bed in a private hospital. [More…]
Let us look at the young family man on a middle sized income. [More…]
That is an intolerable situation for any young family to find itself in. [More…]
Such a driver now pays $133 for private ward accommodation for himself and family. [More…]
In the technical area, of course, the consumer of health care is not able to know precisely the details of the specialist or technical treatment that he is receiving, and here his relationship with his family doctor is important because the family doctor is, if you like, his health broker who acts for him in the market place of health. [More…]
The Australian on an average, ordinary income, whose wife works, will immediately pay more to get the type and quality of health care which presently he and his family are receiving in this country. [More…]
I stress that the example I have given is the family right in the middle of the spectrum in Australia. [More…]
As I have said, the whole theme of the Government’s alternative proposal is to forget what has been done over so many years in the reform of the health care system in Australia, is to foist on Australia a philosophy which, as I have described, is part of the fag end of an old socialist era, is to be immediately more costly for the average family in Australia and is in the long term to lead to a rundown in total community resources devoted to health. [More…]
It is quite plain that it simply does not believe health care services are a right which should be enjoyed by everybody and that instead it wants to ensure that health services should be marketed as a commodity and be available according to the financial resources of each person and family. [More…]
A case brought to my notice recently concerned 2 members of the one family - one of whom is an aged person and both of whom have been receiving prolonged treatment from a specialist. [More…]
Any discussion on health must consider the following 5 areas: Firstly, the individual and his family responsibilities - I know that the Labor Government denies anyone individuality; it thinks people are mere cogs in a machine; secondly, the medical profession in its widest application; thirdly, hospitals - public, private, religious and charitable; fourthly, government responsibility; and fifthly, health insurance schemes. [More…]
The best judge of the necessary medical attention is the patient’s doctor - best of all the family doctor. [More…]
In fact the economy of Toowoomba - and of Queensland as my colleague the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) reminds me - depends to a large extent on this magnificent family partner ship. [More…]
My family for 3 generations has bought products from the Toowoomba Foundry. [More…]
This is a magnificent contribution by a magnificent company and a magnificent family to the economy of many rural areas. [More…]
He has seen fit to encourage the youth of this country to carry out apprenticeships with this family company to learn a trade. [More…]
Inflation will have immense economic and, more importantly perhaps, immense social consequences for the family unit and for the peace and happiness of the young family. [More…]
In most cases this State or territorial unit is a member of the international family of nations. [More…]
The scheme will also operate to the disadvantage of many single taxpayers who at present pay only half the rates that are paid by a married man with a family. [More…]
Under this scheme single taxpayers will pay the same rate as a married man with a family pays. [More…]
I personally find quite unacceptable a system whereby the man who drives my Commonwealth car in Sydney pays twice as much for the same family cover as I have, not despite the fact that my income is four or five times higher than his, but precisely because of my higher income. [More…]
They would still see a constant repetition of the example I quoted in my 1972 policy speech - the example of a car driver paying twice as much for the same family cover as a man whose income is four or five times higher than his. [More…]
Another point is that Queenslanders - and I know that this applies to the rest of Australia - at present enjoy a system in which if the husband works and belongs to a medical benefits fund his contribution covers the entire family. [More…]
Community interest and involvement in this area have increased our awareness of the need for a complex and imaginative program which, along with day care centres and pre-schools, might also include family day care programs, play-groups and neighbourhood ‘drop-in’ centres. [More…]
As an Opposition we agree with the philosophy of the Bill because what it does is establish community health centres - sometimes with salaried doctors or salaried paramedical personnel - in those areas where people are poor, where people cannot understand if they or members of their family become ill, where they can go for medical advice and medical service. [More…]
The situation with the Gardos family - the man, the wife and the son - is that they came to Australia in 1957. [More…]
One reason is that the Australian fishing industry traditionally has been a small business operation - very often a family business - with limited capital and resources. [More…]
I have seen in the year that is behind us many moves which could be interpreted in that way - moves which on the surface seem fair and reasonable and attractive enough but when they are put together into a pattern seem to move towards this funda mental Government objective of destroying the Australian States, destroying every other form of democratic government and centralising everything here in Canberra in one House of Parliament so that the man who obtained the Prime Ministership by some quirk or chance of fate will be able to perpetuate his power, be able to over-ride everything in the Constitution and have complete control of the whole Australian economy, social structure, family life and everything else that one can imagine. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to statements by spokesmen for the Yirrkala Aborigines suggesting (a) that the hotel at Nhulunbuy be closed and (b) that the tribal groups return from the missionfounded settlement to their own ancestral grounds around Arnhem Land to protect the culture, family life and tribal unity of the tribes. [More…]
If these evictions take place, will it (a) affect the schooling of the families of strikers and disrupt family life, (b) cause hardship by way of cost of transfer of household effects and (c) cause further industrial unrest. [More…]
(a) and (b) Had these evictions been enforced and the employees and their families been required to move elsewhere the education of the children, and the family life of the people involved, would obviously have been affected. [More…]
What was the comparative cost on the open market for a family home of 3 bedrooms in each of the State capital cities during each of the 5 calendar years prior to 1973. [More…]
What are the full details of the conditions which must be met prior to the granting of a Commissioner for Housing loan in the A.C.T., including price of dwelling, previous home ownership, and family income of the applicant. [More…]
However factors such as income, size of family and financial commitments are taken into account. [More…]
Who determines whether a wife or other member of the family is permitted to travel at public expense with (a) a Minister of State, (b) a Member of Parliament and (c) a Government employee. [More…]
The Family Law Bill will again be put before the Parliament. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 5 January 1974 of the Honourable Donald Alastair Cameron, O.B.E., a member of this House for the Division of Oxley from 1949 to 1961, and a Minister of the Crown from 1956 to 1961, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
His family has had strong ties with the medical profession. [More…]
I express the sympathy of members of the Australian Country Party, particularly those who knew his wife, and wish her and her family well in their bereavement. [More…]
His family is a distinguished one in Ipswich. [More…]
I trust that his family will accept my sincere condolences and the expression of sympathy which come from my family, from the good friends of his old electorate and especially of his home town of Ipswich and which of course will be endorsed by honourable members of this House. [More…]
The measures that have been introduced include grants of up to $3,000 per family for immediate relief and emergency house repairs, grants of up to $15,000 for major repair or rebuilding of private homes, loans to flood affected primary producers and business firms for whom needed finance is not available from normal commercial sources and grants to local authorities for restoration of their assets. [More…]
If so, will the Minister reconsider the suspension in view of the advantages of the system in facilitating family visits? [More…]
I hope that these provisions will encourage the States to refer to this Parliament powers such as family law, defamation and shipping and navigation which, in this context, have been raised at the Constitutional Convention. [More…]
Thirdly, I point to the voting figures in the division in question, which were 57 votes for the Government and 51 votes for the Opposition - indicating that in view of the fact that the Government had 67 members in attendance or, allowing for yourself Mr Speaker, 66 votes, 9 Government members missed the division hut only 3 Opposition members missed it, as we had 3 members away due to their own illness or illness in the family and our Leader, the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden), did not vote at any time today. [More…]
He sought reference by the 6 State parliaments with respect to 14 matters ranging from family allowances, air transport, uniformity of railway gauge, organised marketing of commodities, uniform company taxation, uniform company law - name it and it is virtually to be found there. [More…]
I am aware of the honourable member’s concern because the Weber family lives in his area. [More…]
How can one place some valuation on the grief experienced by the family whose home and all its contents were washed away? [More…]
On Monday of this week my attention was drawn to the case of a family who had been insured with the State Government Insurance Office, which is controlled by the Queensland Government of course. [More…]
I am sure that all Australians were pleased to welcome the Queen and Prince Philip, together with some of their family, to Australia and were particularly pleased that the Queen opened this session of the Parliament. [More…]
I believe that there is an enormous number of people, particularly young people, who are incapable of relating to the society or the social unit in which they find themselves - whether that be the family, the marriage or whatever. [More…]
The average wage earner is certainly being very badly hit as he tries to support his family. [More…]
It has made the means test so much harder to meet that it is almost impossible for a family in which the wife chooses to work to qualify because the family income is taken into consideration. [More…]
The Labor Government talks about an assessed, seasonal or adjusted family income, which allows for a deduction of $300 for every child undergoing full time primary or secondary education. [More…]
But it is a fairly shabby trick for somebody who professes to be a republican to try to hang on to the coat tails of the Royal Family. [More…]
I might say that the husband of the lady who wrote to me about this matter is not in good health and the family is concerned that the son should be allowed to come to Australia before anything of a fatal nature happens to the father. [More…]
If there is some reason - frankly, I could not appreciate why there would be a reason - why this lad and his wife and family are not able to come to Australia and if that reason could be given, further discussion and representation could take place. [More…]
I hope that the matter will be brought to fruition very quickly and that the man, his wife and family will be allowed to come out and join his parents in this country. [More…]
There is in fact a delay of about 6 months in the finallisation of many of the matters concerning people coming from overseas, whether they are individuals or family groups. [More…]
We were not able to communicate with the people concerned because the case involved a very close member of the family having a very unhappy and miserable disease which it was not our responsibility to advise or to make known. [More…]
Therefore it is very often necessary to try to go through a drill which will, in the first instance, safeguard the Australian community from susceptibility to the disease and, secondly, safeguard the members of the family themselves. [More…]
Then, of course, there was the willing response of the Federal Government in regard to the providing of immediate relief for families amounting to $3,000 a family and $15,000 a household in respect of major repairs. [More…]
The first point I should like to make in relation to Fiji is that we have some 4,000 residents from Fiji and a good percentage of them have settled so successfully and so well they have joined the family of the nation as Australian citizens. [More…]
We are proud of the Fijian settlers who have come through our front door and become part of the family of the nation. [More…]
They establish a bridgehead, they introduce their dupes and they keep them in bondage for years to pay for return fares they never had in the first place, for accommodation - up to 17 to a room - they were never consulted about, and for services rendered in beating Australia’s laws designed above all to prevent exploitation and to preserve standards for all people in the Australian family. [More…]
We are always delighted to have Her Majesty the Queen and any member of her family in this country. [More…]
It is more difficult today to buy a house for a family using finance from traditional sources because of the high interest charges. [More…]
The family on the average income has no chance of getting finance. [More…]
But we have no intention of rushing in with a heavy-handed approach and flattening out the economy with damaging recessionary policies which hit the family man hardest. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about the family man. [More…]
That hits the unskilled, the low income earner and the’ family man first. [More…]
Since the introduction on 1 December 1973 of the reforms in the acquisition of citizenship and a public campaign inviting settlers to become members of the national family by seeking Australian citizenship, applications are running at more than 20 per cent above the previous level. [More…]
On Tuesday night the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) mentioned the case of a nomination by parents at present resident in Australia of a son and his family remaining in an overseas country and a request they had made for assisted passage. [More…]
His second complaint was that this case was straightforward and should not have taken this length of time to determine, that the parents were in ill-health and that they wanted the son and family to join them, that this should not be delayed and the assisted passage should be granted. [More…]
The family has had 2 firm replies. [More…]
So he has done a service in raising it, as it would seem that there is a need to plug the gap in the system of advice so the member and the family are both advised and the member who initiates the matter is not overlooked. [More…]
In regard to the complaint about the intending migrant and the receipt by him of an assisted passage I must remind the House of my words the other night, that behind the bland reply to a family often lies a tale which is better left untold for their peace of mind. [More…]
The migrant family concerned lodged the nomination of their son and his family from a capital city. [More…]
She told the honourable member there was ill health in the family and of course this gave edge to his concern, and I acknowledge it, but the son said the parents were both in good health. [More…]
I feel that within the very generous criteria laid down the decision was sound not only in the interests of Australia but also in the interests of the parents and I might say in the interests of the family concerned. [More…]
Where he lives in the world there is no lack of employment at present and if he makes an effort and works for a change, stays out of gaol and pays attention to his family and applies again I will always be happy and I am sure any of my successors will always he happy to reconsider the decision, but on the present basis I am sorry the answer has to be no. [More…]
I would say that to burden ageing parents with such a family - a man, wife and 5 children would be too much, even if I had the authority to spend Australian taxpayers’ money on such a case. [More…]
He vividly remembers the incident because it obliged him to forgo an evening at home with his wife and family. [More…]
Apart from family reunion cases is the Government limiting the migrant intake from all countries to skilled tradesmen or higher qualifications or are unskilled people still coming into the country? [More…]
So there could be 3 brothers in the one family with different criteria applied to them. [More…]
It is only in this morning’s newspaper that the Treasurer tells the people of Australia that this scheme will work only on a family basis. [More…]
Is it true, as alleged at the weekend, that there is difficulty in breaking down the figures for family reunion migrants and those arriving under the national need category because the biggest group of migrants arriving in Australia is completely uncontrolled, unselected and indeed not even interviewed, that is, migrants from Britain, Canada and New Zealand? [More…]
These employees’ eligibility for assistance under the “low income family” provisions of the National Health Act was in no way affected by their direct participation in an industrial dispute. [More…]
Six were rejected; three because they were from single persons who did not comprise a family unit, and three because the combined family income exceeded the allowable limit. [More…]
Applicants whose family’s income does not exceed $69.50 a wek are eligible for assistance under the scheme. [More…]
Providing the criterion of low income is met, my Department is not required to concern itself with why the income is low, however, in determining the level of family income, acount is taken of the past income and the likely future income of the family. [More…]
To prove the substance I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which shows that the greatest benefit of this loan deductibility will be to the single man and not the man who has dependants or family responsibilities. [More…]
On the basically important question of population control, there has been steady progress but no noteworthy new breakthrough or assessment in the field of demography and family planning As the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reported in 1972: [More…]
There is increasing evidence that sufficiently widespread motivation for limiting family size cannot be produced without more families becoming aware that their standard of living is rising, including benefiting from a higher level of education, especially for women. [More…]
In India, for example, the population has grown by more than 100 million people in 10 years, during which time a fairly concentrated family planning program has been under way. [More…]
I have been asked by a number of people the income effects of Professor Henderson’s proposals relating to child endowment and the removal of tax concessions for various family income groups. [More…]
Perhaps it might be handy for purposes of the record if I indicate here the order of costs involved in increasing child endowment, for example by $1 a week for all children according to their place in the family. [More…]
A deep point of philosophy and even pragmatism is involved here because it can be well and truly argued that child endowment for the first child for different philosophical reasons should be higher than for, say, the second child because quite often the first child is far more costly to the family unit than the second child. [More…]
I believe that members of the Parliament and also the public should know exactly what is being spent and in which direction because there are so many hidden subsidies in the tax concessions system that the Parliament at no stage knows exactly by how much it is subsidising a family unit, the farmers or any other group in the community. [More…]
Around the same time, at the Tokyo conference the Minister for Foreign Affairs indicated that the Australian Government would be looking at ways in which some of its current aid effort, especially in areas of population, family planning, transport and communications, might be linked with the work of some of the regional projects sponsored by that Conference. [More…]
Since taking office the Government has broken much new ground in the aid field, such as accepting a commitment to the United Nations target of devoting 0.7 per cent of our gross national product to foreign aid and contributing to international activities in the field of family planning. [More…]
Not only did the unfortunate family lose their youngest child but also they lost all their furniture and household effects and in fact now have to start off again from scratch. [More…]
Justice and Family Law Division - positions numbered 8, 17 and 26. [More…]
Justice and Family Law Division - positions numbered 14, 16 and 19. [More…]
It gets to the point where, at a meeting I had last Monday, a young woman with young children told me that the burden of taxes and prices on her family was such that though she did not want to do it - she wanted to remain home with her young children - in order to preserve her family’s standard of living she was going to be forced to take employment. [More…]
The average Australian family has not been advantaged by this Government. [More…]
Patients will be perfectly free, just as at present, to choose their own family doctor. [More…]
During the height of the floods my own family shared the concern of many of the people in the caravan park at Walgett. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that my family and I certainly shared some of the fear and some of the financial loss, but not to the extent that we would consider making a claim under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
I want to put this to the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) who is at the table: Let us take a family company that has a capital of $100,000 - that is not very much when one considers family companies in Australia today - and a stock level of $80,000. [More…]
Here is a man with a family who is just one of many people who built up a substantial property - not a great and privileged company but a little man who eventually got together a fairly substantial property - and who has come to the Minister asking if he can obtain relief or a pension. [More…]
He is one of the Jones family. [More…]
The benefits of the scheme are now available to single people as well as married couples and family groups with children. [More…]
There are no separate lists for houses and family flats. [More…]
Houses and family flats 5,693. [More…]
26 months for a family flat. [More…]
24 months for a family flat. [More…]
12 months for a family flat. [More…]
(a) 7,409 Houses; (b) 1,041 Family Flats and; (c) 1,151 Bachelor Flats. [More…]
The Family Law Bill will be re-submitted. [More…]
The House of Representatives has passed motions of condolence in 1942 on the death of Prince George, who had been designated as GovernorGeneral and whose wife, elder son and daughter have since made memorable visits to Australia; in 1953 on the death of King George VI, who had opened this Parliament House; in 1965 on the death of the Princess Royal, whose elder son contributes so much to the style and fortunes of the Australian Opera; and in 1972 on the death of the eldest member of the family, King Edward VIII, the most charismatic British prince since Bonny Prince Charlie. [More…]
In 1955 he became the fifteenth and latest member of the British Royal Family to be appointed a field-marshal. [More…]
He represented his family at the fiftieth anniversary of Anzac. [More…]
The encouragement and example he gave in these and other public duties in which your Australian subjects share, have become part of the noble tradition of the Royal Family in Australia.’ [More…]
On behalf of your people throughout Australia we express deep sympathy to your Majesty and to members of the Royal Family in the loss which you have sustained. [More…]
We shared many happy times together and the Duchess of Gloucester has graciously befriended my family on more than one occasion. [More…]
I wish to express my sincere condolence to her and her family. [More…]
The provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, ‘Unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services (but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
That the House expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 April 1974 of the Honourable Nicholas Edward McKenna a former senator for the State of Tasmania from 1944 to 1968, a Minister of the Crown from 1946 to 1949, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1949 to 195 1 and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1951 to 1966, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorous public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
I tender the sympathy of my party to his family. [More…]
I think that if there are surviving members of his family all members of this House would want .to join in expressing sympathy to them. [More…]
I extend my sympathy to any members of Nick McKenna’s family who remain. [More…]
That the House expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 April 1974 of Joseph Clement Sexton, a member of this House for the Division of Adelaide from 1958 to 1966, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
We very readily join in the motion and express our condolences to his family. [More…]
His family can be very proud of the job that he did as a member of the Labor Party and as a member of this Parliament. [More…]
I express the sympathy of the Australian Country Party to his family in their time of bereavement. [More…]
His large and devoted family already know of my sympathy. [More…]
Many of Joe Sexton’s family live in Mannum in my electorate. [More…]
To them and to the rest of his family I express my great sympathy at his passing. [More…]
I am accused by my family of making noises in my sleep at night. [More…]
The first reason is that it is human nature for a person to conclude: ‘Well, if the Government is adding to my taxes to provide me and my family with free hospitalisation I may as well use it and get my money’s worth.’ [More…]
The scheme will introduce a new era of total, family health care - with easier, quicker access to the profession. [More…]
In contrast to the Government’s policies the thrust of our housing policy is designed to help those who need it most - young couples and single people seeking their first home and new home owners in the first years of paying off their loans when the financial burdens are heaviest on the family budget. [More…]
Bankruptcy is a case in point; so too are taxation, trade practices, family law, industrial property and a wide range of matters arising out of laws made by this Parliament. [More…]
The taking over of family law jurisdiction now exercised by the State Supreme Courts under the federal legislation should not of itself increase the total number of judges required to administer that jurisdiction. [More…]
I would emphasise that the placing of the family law jurisdiction in a special division of the Superior Court will permit the appointment as judges of that division of lawyers who are particularly qualified to exercise jurisdiction in family law matters. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member for Wentworth and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry will be able to ease my mind as to whether this legislation would break down if Barton were to be brought into court in Brazil in relation to his extradition to Australia, with his skilled and wise lawyer, Mr Gruzman, Q.C., who recently flew to Brazil to interview him, and if Barton were to say: ‘I have Margaret Abertito in the family way’. [More…]
I think that puts in proper perspective what 1 have been contending, namely, that the $250 rebate will be not for every one of the one million families but for the average family. [More…]
This shows how higher taxation is hitting right at the heart of the average family in Australia. [More…]
If the Government is not prepared to do that, it will be the average Australian worker, the Australian family and the Australian housewife who suffer as - I am sure the Minister understands this - unemployment begins to loom. [More…]
There is a need for the national Government to involve itself, not by directly overseeing urban development projects and becoming a giant landlord and developer, but by providing additional funds to local government for capital works programs such as day and child care centres, recreational and care centres for children both after school and during holiday periods; parks, gardens and flora and fauna reserves; family and community counselling facilities, particularly among migrant communities; library and recreational facilities; health and welfare centres, including family planning and infant health centres; sewerage and drainage schemes; and road, street and bridge works. [More…]
One of the arguments put forward by the employer opponents of equal pay in the 1969 equal pay case was, by implication, that equal pay should not be granted because it would jeopardise the status of the male in the family unit. [More…]
Not one single extra family or living unit will move to this property as a result of this Bill being passed and this development proceeding. [More…]
It is prejudicing the very survival of the family farmer that some of the Government members purport to represent. [More…]
If we combine all those figures we see that in the electorate of Holt almost every day of the year there is a person or a family in desperate need of emergency accommodation. [More…]
Virtually every night of the year there is one person or family who is in need of emergency accommodation. [More…]
Despite existing New South Wales legislation, various adaptations of pyramid selling were still operating in my electorate as recently as a few months ago, when an instance was brought to my notice of despair in a family, where the parents were divided over propositions put to them for pyramid selling schemes. [More…]
The divisions are: Administration, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Commercial, Family, General Division and Industrial Division. [More…]
when a man and his wife are thrown out of employment for any reason whatsoever, this community can then abandon the family, their house payments and their whole way of living and give them a sustenance on which to live. [More…]
He loses his wife, either by death or desertion; he has young children and he finds that in addition to the loss of his wife he may now be faced with the loss and dispersion of his family which he cannot maintain. [More…]
I want finally to mention what I think is the most important thing; that is, that the Government is as yet doing nothing effective for the young and the forming family. [More…]
In the last two or three years the need to help the young and forming family has been very much accentuated. [More…]
I see every reason why, if she so chooses, a married woman who has no family responsibilities should take outside employment. [More…]
However, I see every reason why a married woman who has family responsibilities should not be compelled by economic exigencies to take outside work against her will. [More…]
Part of the solution to the financial distress suffered by pensioners and all low income earners, particularly those with a family to support, is to make incomes on 25 per cent of average weekly earnings and below tax free. [More…]
If tax relief were given at this end of the scale much would be done to relieve the pressure on the low income family and others in the community to demand higher wages, which only continues the inflation spiral. [More…]
According to Professor Henderson’s survey, every fifth family in Australia is very poor or poor. [More…]
Tonight I submit to the Special Minister of State and to the House that should the Government free the surf life saving clubs from the financial burden of meeting telephone bills it would probably be singularly the most welcome expression of gratitude the community as a whole could make, and it would cost each Australian family only about lc a year. [More…]
Behind the others there is a tremendous extended family backing which makes an immense difference to the child. [More…]
Again, the results of the Government’s emphasis on sponsored immigration and family reunion are unclear. [More…]
I should like to point out at this stage that it was the previous Liberal-Country Party Government which initiated the emphasis on family reunion. [More…]
I should also like to make it quite clear that when we once again win government we will continue to support such a policy of family reunion. [More…]
However, the expansion of the definition of what constitutes family reunion has led to a remarkable increase in the number of sponsored migrants and a corresponding increase in those falling into the unskilled category. [More…]
The labour is usually that of the owner and his family and it, along with the little capital employed, could earn more if moved to other uses. [More…]
To a family in which there is a working wife it will represent double taxation. [More…]
If a member of a family is entitled to complete repatriation health care this will entitle the remainder of the family to a one-half reduction in the amount of levy to be assessed. [More…]
We are moving away from the notion of the family contribution to a system where all taxpayers who have certain incomes will have to pay 1.35 per cent of their taxable income for health care insurance. [More…]
One can conceive of the average taxpayer in this country - the average family man with 2 children - on a conservative estimate being up for something like $100 extra, or probably more, over and above the insurance levy which he has already paid to the Government fund by way of an insurance levy. [More…]
They will also provide the figure which represents the number of contributors, both family contributors and single contributors. [More…]
I will give to the House an example of the variations in the combined hospital and medical insurance weekly contributions per family as at 31 July 1974 to distinguish between the position in Queensland from that which exists in other States. [More…]
I want to tell the House that under this proposal the following people will be forced to pay more for an inferior service: Single taxpayers in all but the lowest income groups, family units where both the husband and wife are taxpayers, residents of that great State of Queensland, persons earning taxable income at the middle level or higher, persons requiring intermediate or private ward hospital accommodation, persons unable to obtain standard ward accommodation in public hospitals, and persons who now choose not to insure or have no need to insure for health fund benefits. [More…]
The program will develop a variety of services including the development of family day care programs, day centres, pre-schools, play groups, outside of school care, emergency and occasional sitter care, toddlers groups and baby-sitting pools. [More…]
If honourable members wish to know my philosophy on this matter - it relates to the expensiveness of staff, perhaps, or at least the time taken to get the staff - it is this: It is unfortunate that some of the justifiable agitation for child care centres and pre-school institutions assumes the eclipse of the family. [More…]
Our program will develop a variety of services including the development of family day care programs, day centres, pre-schools, play groups, outside of school care, emergency and occasional care, toddlers groups and baby-sitting pools. [More…]
The Australian public at large is concerned about industrial disputes, about unrest which pushes up costs, which adds to inflation and which destroys the household planning of the average family. [More…]
Firstly, there is no allowance under the proposal for a son to buy out his father and thus retain the family dairy farm. [More…]
Provision should have been made in the scheme so that sons could take over the family farm and retain it. [More…]
Of course, we know that the socialists opposite have a deliberate policy of destroying the concept of the family farm and socialising that means of production. [More…]
The Country Party maintains that the family farm is surely the heart and pulse of the nation. [More…]
I think the House should be grateful for the practical wisdom of the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) and the insight of the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) who see the desirability of maintaining the family farm as part of the whole structure of the Australian rural economy and, indeed, of Australian society. [More…]
The Foley family subsequently took up dairy farming on a bigger scale on the North Coast. [More…]
People grouped together in order to pool their resources and to average the crippling financial risks and burdens that are imposed upon a family in the event of illness or accident striking and resulting in the need for high medical expenses or hospital care. [More…]
However, in pursuance of section 73b (c) of the National Health Act 1953-1973, the Minister has directed that you shall cause alterations to be made to your organisation’s Queensland hospital fund rules to provide for the weekly contribution rate for -all members to the Private Table to be 63c (single) and $1.25 (family). [More…]
The Medical Benefits Fund applied for increases to take the rates up to $1.50 a week for family cover and 75c a week for single people. [More…]
I wish him health and happiness with his family in his premature retirement. [More…]
There we see that 399,000 family units are very poor, that is, below the poverty line. [More…]
It is bad for a husband to be deserted and for his family to be left without a mother. [More…]
When a husband receives this emotional shock why should we make it almost impossible for him to proceed to hold his family together? [More…]
the added grief of the family being broken up because he cannot meet the financial commitment of keeping it together. [More…]
Let us listen to what the family newspaper had to say about a speech by the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) in Murwillumbah on 15 June 1964. [More…]
Take the position of a man with a wife and 2 children in New South Wales who wishes to cover himself and his family for intermediate hospital and medical cover. [More…]
All of us can talk academically about health schemes, doctors and hospitals until we or one of our family need one. [More…]
So there will be double taxation in a family. [More…]
Estimates of private insurance over and above the tax range from $100 to $200 a family. [More…]
The Bill says, in effect, that no Australian should be placed in a position where his health or that of his family can be jeopardised by his lack of money or where his health or that of his children can be further jeopardised by worry over his ability to pay. [More…]
Under the Labor scheme, if it had started on 1 July of this year, a family man with a taxable income of $2,500- that is a man who earns only a little more than $50 a week- would have to pay a special taxation levy of 1.35 per cent. [More…]
Under the present subsidised health benefits plan- imperfect though it is- with the recent alterations, a family man can earn up to $3,500 and be completely covered for hospital and medical benefits with the Government paying his contributions and he still does not have to pay any special tax levy. [More…]
It gives the example of an average family, comprising a husband, a wife who works, and 2 children. [More…]
The newspaper report states quite clearly that the health bill for the average family man will increase by 82 per cent. [More…]
The very basis of the program submitted here by my Party is to make sure that the hard-working family man is not plunged into poverty through his inability to afford health insurance. [More…]
If the breadwinner falls ill and has no coverage, he and his family can be plunged into poverty in trying to cope with doctors and hospital bills. [More…]
Not only one in the family but every income earner, every taxpayer, in the family will have to pay the compulsory levy. [More…]
I instance the case of a working family which has to pay out an increasing amount for insurance cover; has to remember to go to the chemist regularly to pay for that cover; has to remember, if the contributor changes jobs and the boss has been making deductions from his pay, to make other arrangements to have the payments made or else when the wife has a baby in 3 months’ time or when Johnny has appendicitis there is no money; and which has to wait for repayments to arrive. [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…]
-There is nothing like a debate on a down-to-earth topic such as health to expose the gulf that separates the Liberal Party from the problems of an average Australian family. [More…]
Every calamity which they predicted as a result of the health scheme which we are debating this afternoon is already part and parcel of health care arrangements for which the Opposition is responsible and with which every ordinary Australian family becomes involved in times of sickness or injury. [More…]
Until 2 December 1972 the capital investment in bauxite, alumina and aluminium- the alumina family, if you like- was $ 1,297m; the investment in coal- one commodity-was $207m; the investment in copper, lead and zinc was $603m; the investment in iron ore was $ 1,472m; and the investment in nickel was $390m. [More…]
That this House expresses its profound sorrow at the death on 9 September 1974 of Her Excellency Lady Kerr, wife of the Governor-General, and places on record its appreciation of her meritorious public service and conveys its deepest sympathy to the members of her family. [More…]
She was the devoted and capable mother of a talented family. [More…]
All Australians regret the tragedy that has befallen the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and his family. [More…]
Australians will extend personal sympathy to him and his family. [More…]
On behalf of all members of the Liberal Party I extend sympathy to Sir John and his family in the loss of a distinguished woman. [More…]
In particular, she was very concerned with the preservation and the strengthening of the family as the foundation of our society. [More…]
That the House records its sincere regret at the death on 3 1 August 1974 of the Right Honourable Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand from December 1972, and expresses to the people of New Zealand profound regret and to his family tender sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
I wish to express the sympathy of the Liberal Party to the family of Mr Kirk in the loss of their kinsman who had reached such stature, of whom they must have been proud and with whom they hoped for a long association in the years to come. [More…]
The sympathy of the Country Party is extended to the New Zealand nation and to the Kirk family. [More…]
I had had the good fortune to have ar< family association with him from 1928. [More…]
I remember that sometimes he used to depart from this place saying that he was going to look up His Holiness ‘s telephone number, which meant Vat 69, or was going to pay his respects to the British Royal Family, which meant King George IV. [More…]
I understand it is a tropical plant of the hibiscus family with woody stalks ranging from 6 feet to 12 feet in height and one inch to 2 inches in diameter. [More…]
I should explain that I am a trustee for some friends and for my family- I think it is five hundred or six hundred shares in Kathleen Investments. [More…]
In local government, where at times there have been members who have not quite shown that desire to serve their community, the tendency has been to shift assets and to have them appear under other names and only investigations of the direct or indirect family have shown them up. [More…]
If pursued it will lead ultimately to the enforcement of the disclosure of private and personal assets and liabilities of a private member, of his wife, of his family. [More…]
No such amendment of the Family Law Bill is necessary. [More…]
Even if the Australian farmer gave the Australian family the flour content of a 900 gram loaf of bread for nothing, the loaf would still cost 29c in Sydney and if the price of wheaten content doubled the increase would be only 60 per cent of the increase over the period to which I have referred. [More…]
Yesterday the Family Welfare Bureau in New South Wales had its annual meeting and closed its doors. [More…]
The Family Welfare Bureau in fact did receive grants from numbers of Government departments. [More…]
Now that this organisation has closed it has assets remaining of $13,000 cash That money will be handed to the Smith Family to enable it to continue with its work. [More…]
I know from my own involvement in the Provisional Committee in Parramatta that the social worker from the Family Welfare Bureau was endeavouring to assist in the promotion of that plan in the Parramatta district with a view to participation in it. [More…]
Although the late Mrs Henry, who I understand was one of the senior officers in the department in Sydney, discussed these matters at length with the senior officers of the Family Welfare Bureau, no means could be found whereby money could be made available for social workers to be maintained in their present positions and for this valuable organisation to be able to continue to exist. [More…]
It is true that there are some people within the primary sector who are still able to make money But when it came into office this Government said: ‘We believe in the family farmer. [More…]
He would know the degree to which Tasmania has existed on the basis of the family farmer. [More…]
Yet he and his few colleagues from country electorates on the other side of this chamber are parties to policies deliberately designed to destroy that family farmer. [More…]
Yet the Government suggests that it is trying to preserve a system of agriculture in which the family farmer has a chance to maintain a viable operation. [More…]
Indeed, the economic policies of the Labor Government have been designed towards the aggregation of holdings, designed to build up the number of corporate farmers, designed to build the size of individual operations to the point where the family farmer himself is less and less able to retain any sort of viability. [More…]
We have heard the rhetoric about the family farms and we have heard the rhetoric about the bogey of the corporations, when it was the Leader of the Country Party some years back who said about the smaller farmers that 30,000 must go. [More…]
That is the Government’s objective because the independent operator, working for himself and his family, is the greatest obstacle this Government faces in achieving its socialist objectives. [More…]
In fact, the State member for the area, Mr Jack Skidmore, drew my attention to one family whose carport and general area was flooded by refuse and who had to suffer the resultant stench. [More…]
There is no more certain way to impoverish a man and his family than by taking away his job. [More…]
At a time when responsible family managers are finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet the proposed additional Government expenditure when most people are taking in their belts and starting to realise that they have to look after their jobs, the Government has announced that the reply to such a climate is ‘More of the same’. [More…]
One of the most dangerous aspects of this Government’s action towards private business, whether urban or rural, is that it is running directly opposite to the direct expressed views that it would support family businesses and farms. [More…]
I ask the Government to reconsider its position before 3 1 December and to reintroduce this assistance before further erosion occurs in the profitability of those rural industries which have as their basis the family farm. [More…]
The former Government made no attempts to increase child endowment payments to give encouragement and support to our basic unit- the family. [More…]
Family life today is under challenge. [More…]
Raising a family today is not easy. [More…]
It includes general medical practice and aspects of geriatric and rehabilitation services, counselling programs concerned with drugs, alcohol and family welfare, community mental health and maternal and child health services, again outside of hospitals. [More…]
Mr John White, Chief Executive Officer of the New South Wales Graziers’ Association, has forecast that the capital gains tax appears to mean the end of the family farm in a couple of generations. [More…]
How ironic that a party which so viciously peddled lies about the attitude of other parties to the family farm has now taken a step which is predicted to lead to the destruction of the family farm as the basic unit of Australian agriculture. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 26 September 1974 of the Right Honourable Sir Eric Harrison, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Wentworth from 193 1 to 1956, and during this time a Minister of the Crown, Acting Prime Minister, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Resident Minister in London and then from 1956 to 1964 High Commissioner for Australia in London; and that it places on record its appreciation of his long and distinguished public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
I express my sympathy to his widow and family and to all those who have had high regard for him. [More…]
His family, in thenbereavement, and especially his wife, Lady Harrison, can feel that this House understands the contribution he made and will forever honour him for it. [More…]
The Country Party joins with the Acting Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in expressing the deepest sympathy to Lady Harrison and her family. [More…]
I sincerely hope that Lyn and his family will ease their burden by remembering him as a great man. [More…]
I extend to his wife and family my deepest sympathy. [More…]
-May I as the present member for Wentworth and on behalf of my people extend to Lady Harrison and her family our deep sympathy on the passing of Sir Eric. [More…]
-I would like to be associated with this tribute to Sir Eric Harrison and to extend sympathy to his family. [More…]
The fact is that the average Australian family man has been deliberately programmed to accept a reduction in his real income this year. [More…]
Traditionally student housing, other than family housing, has been the colleges and halls of residence. [More…]
A man with a family is obviously not able to take one or two years off to go back to university. [More…]
That is fine for the 17 or 18-year-old who has just left school and who has no administrative and family responsibilities. [More…]
It is not satisfactory for the man who has to make his way in the world, who already has family responsibilities, who is probably already a partner in one institution or another and who must make the effort in his own time to re-educate himself to keep up with the tremendous strides in knowledge that are taking place today. [More…]
Let us face the fact that what we know and describe as beef roads could have been called defence roads, tourist roads or classified as the ordinary sort of road which permits a man and his family to get into their motor vehicle and drive, for instance, from Mount Isa to Brisbane, on bitumen all the way. [More…]
Because death is deemed as a disposal, within 2 generations I believe that it will mean the end of the family farm. [More…]
The Prime Minister himself by his own tax planning in sending his wife out to work has demonstrated quite clearly that the only lurk left is to have 2 income earners in the family and to have an income division. [More…]
The national family planning program- something that was lacking under tory administration- is to get $425,000. [More…]
I take this course today only because I feel that an experience my own family had recently is one which many thousands of Australians have previously suffered and will go on suffering until something is done about firms such as Melbourne’s quite notorious Milleradio. [More…]
I wanted to make reference to the capital gains tax and the serious effect it will have on family farms, small businesses and the general economy in the private sector. [More…]
On behalf of my family and myself, I wish to convey sincerely out heartfelt thanks for the comfort given to us from both sides of the House, from the House staff and from not only the Riverina but all over Australia since the tragic loss of my eldest son. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I assure you that my family and I will never forget. [More…]
I would also like to express the sympathy of myself and my colleagues for the recent bereavement in his family. [More…]
-At the outset I would like to congratulate the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Sullivan) on his maiden speech this evening and also to extend my sympathy to him and his family on their sad loss. [More…]
All of us express to the honourable member, to Mrs Sullivan and to their family our profound grief in their bereavement. [More…]
The Green Paper saw no threat to the family farmer, if there was adequate flexibility in the supply and availability of rural credit. [More…]
In effect, this Government has acted conversely and, by tightening credit through monetary restrictions, by increasing interest rates, by lessening the amount allocated for rural reconstruction and, in this Budget, by introducing a capital gains tax, has gravely weakened the position of the family farmer. [More…]
The capital gains tax is another vulture, joining the vultures of death and probate duties at the death of the family fanner. [More…]
Lack of action on promises to provide means of stabilising rural incomes to counteract seasonal fluctuations places the family farmer at a further disadvantage. [More…]
A family can receive $350 a year under the isolated children scheme. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon believes that the Government cannot increase its expenditure by one-third as outlined in the Budget while expecting the average Australian to provide the things he needs for his family and his home. [More…]
These are the basic needs of any family. [More…]
He will fight for his family’s freedom and independence. [More…]
What was the cost of weekly family subscription to (a) the lowest rate medical benefit funds and (b) hospital funds at (i) public and (ii) intermediate rate, as a percentage of the basic wage and later the minimum weekly wage in New South Wales in (a) 1946, (b) 1949, (c) 1955, (d) 1960, (e) 1965, (0 1970, (g) as at 30 June, 1972 and what is it at present. [More…]
Is it a fact that a young professional man from an eastern European communist country employed by his embassy in a third country recently travelled to an independent state and sought political asylum in Australia for himself, his wife and young family through Australia’s representatives in that state? [More…]
This allowance will be payable at the rate of $10 a week to parents or guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children who are cared for in a family environment. [More…]
The rate of the allowance will be $10 a week and it will be paid where, because of the nature and severity of the handicap, the child requires constant care and attention in the family home. [More…]
In the few cases where a rehabilitee would be better off by remaining on his pension or benefit during training, that is a married man with a large family, or for other reasons would prefer to do so, provision has been made for him to elect to have his pension or benefit continued during the training period. [More…]
Family life has to be sacrificed. [More…]
Whilst it might give some cheap goods to some people in this country, it is giving many families great concern because their breadwinner has been put out of employment and the family unit is going to suffer. [More…]
He now may have to face up to the breakup of his family. [More…]
He is then faced with the same possibility that his family will be broken up because there is no financial means to support it. [More…]
There are differences in earning capacities and family practices, but still there is some logical basis for introducing this benefit as an interim measure. [More…]
It has its defects, particularly by reason of the operation of the present means test which would reduce the capacity of a family getting pension relief to receive additional income. [More…]
For a one child family it is $100 a week; 2 children $110; for 3 children $120; 4 children $130; and 5 children $140. [More…]
I do not think that anybody would really say that a 5 child family on $140 a week is doing very well indeed. [More…]
Let us look at this from a human point of view and remember that a man who has lost his wife should not be subject to the additional strain of having his young family broken up. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [More…]
We do not have family income provisions, for instance. [More…]
When one looks at the range of very significant legislation that is brought before this Parliament one sees Bills which are currently before it, such as the National Compensation Bill, the Family Law Bill and the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Bill. [More…]
There is a great and growing concern in the community that child care should, firstly, be made available to those people who have a real need but ought to be available also to any woman and to any family wishing to have facilities for minding their children if those people wish to be employed or wish to exercise some freedom of choice in regard to working or undertaking other activities. [More…]
The creation of another commission outside existing departments will further fragment social policy making and the administration of child care and family welfare programs. [More…]
The trend should be to integrate and not fragment family and child care programs. [More…]
I must say that one of the examples which has commended itself most to me is the program being implemented by the City of Knox on a project basis- family day care. [More…]
I recall when in New York last year that there was one thing the family with which I was staying wanted to show me, and it was that work of art. [More…]
The fact is that the little run-about that the former Prime Minister had, a Bentley Type S- as honourable members all know that is a little family run-around- was sold for $11,200. [More…]
The Government and society has found that the problems of children who have difficulty in the fixation of a family way of life are really great indeed. [More…]
It operated under a policy which encouraged the most independent and self-sufficient Aboriginal people on the reserve to get off it, to go out and make their own way in the community outside as normal working people and as normal family groups. [More…]
In many ways single people moving to Canberra give up more than residents who come as a family. [More…]
They lose the benefits of having immediate family relatives and friends with whom they have grown up. [More…]
The occupants of the home were a decent Melbourne family who went there recently. [More…]
Will a woman whose husband continues to provide adequately for the family and who is able to undertake training on her own behalf, be given the same opportunity to take advantage of the retraining scheme as for example a woman with dependent children. [More…]
Let us take the case of a family consisting of a husband, a wife and 2 children, on a mere $100 a week wage and whose income just keeps pace with inflation. [More…]
This tax, combined with probate duties, will have the effect of diminishing the family estate within 3 successive deaths. [More…]
What is my future and the future of my family? [More…]
What security will I have and what security will my family have?’ [More…]
So in addition to normal taxation commitments the industry was put in a position of having to repay gigantic sums to the Treasury and some medium sized family companies, for instance, are in the position of having to find up to $ lm to meet this provision in addition to normal taxation and the huge increase in costs which have been brought about primarily by poor economic management by this Government. [More…]
In the past 12 months the Public Solicitor’s Office conducted over 15,000 interviews and it handled well over 500 divorce cases and other cases in connection with family law. [More…]
Honourable members may wish to call it family law. [More…]
The Family Law Bill has now been introduced in the Senate. [More…]
He was talking about a man who was smitten by his boss, worried by his family situation and beset by the problems of the urban environment. [More…]
The Bureau’s Dried Vine Fruit Index is designed to measure the annual changes which have occurred in cash costs (including family labour but not the operator’s labour) in the dried vine fruit industry. [More…]
For instance, there may be an ex-serviceman who wishes to keep from his family the nature of a particular disease from which he is suffering. [More…]
Information about his disease could reach his family through the correspondence that would come from the Tribunal to him explaining the reason for the decision being taken. [More…]
I do not know why the Government is resisting our move because it is bad enough for a child to lose a father, it is bad enough to have the breadwinner leave the family, but when the child is deprived of the mother surely the area of need is as great as or even greater than is the case in the other circumstances. [More…]
This amount will be payable to the parents or guardians of a mentally or physically handicapped child cared for in a family environment and requiring constant attention. [More…]
But those of us who have had experience with such children know that a family with such a child quite often desperately needs the kind of assistance that is envisaged in this Bill. [More…]
The family suffers the loss of an income. [More…]
Particularly, of course, there is the position of the young and forming family. [More…]
I was interested to hear, I think it was the honourable member for Corio, talking about family endowment for the first child. [More…]
I am sure that the allowance which, as honourable members will be aware, is $10 a week to the parents of guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children who are cared for in the family environment, will meet with wide approval. [More…]
Somewhere along the line we will have to try to assess not only the handicap of the child- this is the starting point- but also the disability of the family, the alteration that a handicapped child makes to their way of life and the conduct of their household, and the effect it has not only on the mother and the father but also on the other children in the family. [More…]
If the family is to be able to maintain the handicapped child at home, there also has to be the faculty for them to have a break for a holiday, of no matter how short a duration. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [More…]
What would happen in the situation in which both spouses in a family are earning an income and whose combined income is less than, say, the income of the family next door in which only the male head of the family is earning income? [More…]
Is it to be applied on every mother in Australia or on every family in Australia, which is what the Liberals are saying? [More…]
It domonstrates that this man is not in fact sympathetic with the rights and opportunities of the family farmer. [More…]
If there are 40 men in an area and there are only enough projects to employ 20 of them, and if 20 of them are married with families and 20 of them are single and capable of doing work elsewhere, I believe that at a time when we need 1,400 able-bodied men in the steel industry we ought not to be using RED employment to employ single men who could get a job immediately in another industry, instead we ought to use our money to employ people who are tied to a family home and who cannot go away long distances to work. [More…]
I would not agree to a proposition that would take a man long distances from his wife and family to obtain work. [More…]
How does the average family man fare in this inflationary trend? [More…]
The increase in the rate of interest has forced every family buying a home to look at their budgets and to ask themselves whether they can afford to continue to pay for their home. [More…]
Now he must ask himself whether he can afford to continue to retain that home into which he and his wife and family put so much effort. [More…]
My concern is for every family in the country which is facing the prospect of rapidly rising costs of living and a high risk of increasing unemployment. [More…]
On the other hand, some conditions such as quadriplegia or a serious stroke require all the patient’s effort to adjust to the daily chores of existence alone without room for sufficient surplus energy to provide for the patient’s own support or the support of his family. [More…]
A widow with a young family needs more help than she receives at present. [More…]
I submit that it is at least as socially significant as the restrictive trade practices legislation which was introduced by the Menzies Government in the 1960s; that it is at least as socially significant as the uniform divorce law or the matrimonial causes law which was introduced in 1959; that it is at least as socially significant as the provisions of the Family Law Bill, which is now laying on the table of another place, and that it is at least as socially significant as the massive amendments to the conciliation and arbitration procedures of this country in the 1950s and the early 1970s. [More…]
But I do ask the Government to consider whether there ought not to be some type of option of capitalisation available to the victim of such an accident because one of the additional tragedies of a person who suffers such a permanent accident as that is that he is so often forced out of his own family environment. [More…]
Notwithstanding the desire of parents and relatives to care for them in a home environment and to give them some kind of emotional and personal support to alleviate much of the suffering they have, they are forced out of that family environment. [More…]
The value in those cases of lump sum awards is that it is possible for a family to alter a house to make provision for the needs of the quadruplegic. [More…]
Only through the expenditure of a large sum of money can effective care be provided for the victim of the accident by the members of the family. [More…]
I think that far more emphasis should be placed on making provision to assist people to care for relatives who are victims of accidents in their family environment. [More…]
He has acquired the title ‘the executioner of the family farm concept’. [More…]
The integration of all housing policies with urban, regional and social welfare policies in such a way as to ensure that every family can secure accommodation of its own choosing, appropriate to its own needs. [More…]
But that is all they are- words without action- and in the process of implementing Labor’s policies to restructure our society the first casualties have been the very people Labor claims to represent- the low to middle income earner, the family man struggling to maintain a wife and children and the frail aged. [More…]
It is simply not possible to buy an acceptable family dwelling in any urban area today for less than $20,000. [More…]
For instance, if a person’s weekly earnings are less than 85 per cent of the national average that person and his family are eligible for a public authority- a housing trust or housing commission- home at an interest rate of 4V* per cent. [More…]
If they have a house to sell or to vacate when occupying the unit we would be providing further accommodation for a family unit. [More…]
This amounts to providing accommodation for a family at the cost in money and resources of a home unit. [More…]
We submit that it is absolutely essential in the early days of a person’s married life to have repayments low and that these should be staggered and increased progressively later in life when family responsibilties are fewer and there is the fair chance that the income is higher. [More…]
To achieve this objective we have provided increased assistance for the child whose family lives in an isolated area far removed from normal school facilities. [More…]
In this year’s estimates I am pleased to note that the qualifying income of the family has been lifted quite considerably, as has been the special supplementary allowance. [More…]
I wonder whether, when he addresses himself to this taxation question which is so close to his heart, he reflects on the fact that in a situation of scarce resources, in a situation in which he and his colleagues regularly urge the Government to reduce Government spending, every $1 devoted to a school which is already superbly housed, staffed and equipped, every $1 devoted to taxation relief for a family which, as I have seen from a survey conducted recently by the Independent Schools Association in Victoria - [More…]
I applaud the honourable member for his noble outlook of trying to keep the family together. [More…]
He points out that he comes from a working class family, is not wealthy and that an independent school education for his children is resulting in considerable sacrifices for his family in other areas. [More…]
According to a recent survey the gross average family income of parents with children attending independent schools is between $10,000 and $12,000 per annum. [More…]
If they have 2 children attending such an independent school somewhere around 40 per cent of the net family income would be spent on the education of the 2 children. [More…]
How much cheaper and more logical to subsidise the fees parents pay at nongovernment schools, to help to keep these fees down to a reasonable sum, thus enabling the average family to send its children to one of these schools should it so choose. [More…]
But there is no doubt that the caring of elderly people within their own family environment is socially, and I think in the long run also economically, beneficial. [More…]
I know that in the past 20 years there has been a move away from what is commonly called the extended family. [More…]
Some people are able to have what are colloquially called granny flats, where it is possible for grandparents in the community to have some kind of privacy and separate life but still be under the same roof as their families and able to mix with the rest of the family in a way that is beneficial to both them and the other members of the family. [More…]
I do not, for my part, write off completely the concept of an extended family. [More…]
I think there has been too great a tendency to accept that a nuclear family is inevitable and that this is a process that cannot be reversed. [More…]
The whole philosophy behind the provision was to give a bit of assistance and incentive to those in the community who were prepared to undertake care of the elderly in their family, their close relatives, within their own home environment. [More…]
The lump sum payments would often make it possible for those persons to be cared for in their own family environment. [More…]
I would hope that perhaps as an interim measure the Government might give some consideration to the extension of the domiciliary allowance and the removal of the limit of 65 years or over where a person has been the victim of an accident and is being cared for in his or her own family environment by close relatives. [More…]
I think in a number of Scandinavian countries some financial incentives through the taxation mechanism are given to persons who are caring for the elderly within their own family environment and have had to make extensions to the home to care for these people. [More…]
If they want a day off or if the family wants a picnic and cannot take the handicapped child they have to pay baby sitters and it is costing a lot of extra money. [More…]
As it is, a handicapped child brings enough grief to the family without the added burden of very great extra expense. [More…]
If he is a family man with four or five children he can today draw social service benefits of approximately $70 a week. [More…]
In fact, it is my belief that the means test in relation to the widows pension, where that pension is paid to a widow with dependent children, should be abolished altogether and, if it cannot be abolished altogether, at least it should be abolished in relation to the widow’s earned income so that she can, as so many widows do today, seek part-time employment in order to improve the real position of her family. [More…]
There is general acceptance apparently in the communityit is certainly pushed by honourable members opposite- that the Government has this responsibility and duty to make up the payment, not only in cases where the rest of the family of the pensioner is poor but in all cases in the community. [More…]
I repeat that it is worth noting that if a husband and wife were both getting the full retraining allowance, a family would have to have an income of $15,500 a year, taxable in normal terms, to be as well off as it is under this scheme. [More…]
Let us compare those who might be working on a minimum wage and who have family obligations with those who get virtually $5,000 a year tax free under the rules introduced by the Minister. [More…]
We were told by the former Minister for Immigration that the future policy would be based on family reunions and that this would play a very important role in relation to incoming migrants. [More…]
Not only that, it has a very serious impact on social relationships of the individual with his family, brothers and sisters or parents, and with those people with whom he associates. [More…]
He does not see his family very much. [More…]
Did the Minister state on 13 August 1974 that de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R. would make it easier to offer any consular assistance to members of the Baltic communities in Australia to visit their family homeland. [More…]
If so, what are the present limitations for members of the Baltic countries in Australia to visit their family homeland. [More…]
I believe that the Association has played some part in bringing about the introduction of progressive legislation such as the Family Law Bill, which I feel rather happy about because it seeks to simplify the method of divorce and to obviate the public washing of dirty linen by marriage partners, which more or less brings about a situation in which the children of that marriage have to bear the stigma of that dirty linen being washed in public. [More…]
Surely this aspect of Family Matters should not be in the Legal System. [More…]
True most of those retrenched are the second wage earners in the family and even then their wages are being continued for 6 months by the Government but how few families can afford a sudden cut in income now or in 6 months and how many of the women retrenched are, in fact, supporting their families? [More…]
A family man with a taxable income of $150 a week will receive a similar boost to his income, for which he would otherwise have had to have an increase of 5% per cent in his wages. [More…]
In particular, is he aware of the fact that his family man who has been on $ 100 a week will not have a tax saving this year but will in fact pay $51.64 more in tax on the modest assumption that his income will rise by 25 per cent? [More…]
The Labor Party ‘s housing policy states: … the integration of all housing policies with urban, regional and social welfare policies in such a way to ensure that every family can secure accommodation of its own choosing appropriate to its own needs. [More…]
How does the Minister relate that to the Government’s housing policy, which claims to ensure that every family can secure accommodation of its own choosing that is appropriate to its own needs? [More…]
To relate the needs test to 95 per cent of average weekly earnings of the main income earner of a family forgets that the criterion for determining need used by the Henderson Commission and by every other inquiry into poverty or relative affluence in a community is a family income. [More…]
For example, does the Government suggest that in a time of rising unemployment a family which hitherto had 2 income earners and which now has only one income earner who receives say 85 per cent of average earnings and whose wife is unemployed, is not in a different position and that for all practical purposes the needs test applying to this family has not altered? [More…]
The status of that family has altered. [More…]
The income available to that family has altered. [More…]
An allowance of $2 per week is given for each child above two in a family. [More…]
This would be the level of a needs test for a family consisting of a man, his wife and 2 children. [More…]
Are we to say that if a family has 6 children and the needs test moves up to $ 108 a week that family is in exactly the same position as a family on $100 a week with 2 children? [More…]
People who try to impose a needs test like this make a very grave error and do not comprehend the essential measure of poverty which has to be available and disposable family income, according to circumstances. [More…]
It still seems that Hargreave’s Law applies with respect to the family situation and it still seems that families with more than the average number of children tend to be poorer families. [More…]
I ask the Minister to consider seriously the details of the needs test which he requires, the relation of that needs test in terms of growing unemployment in Australia and the essential criteria for determining the position of a family’s income. [More…]
Wage increases have gone well beyond the increase in productivity and have only resulted in rapidly increasing inflation, which in its turn is putting the price of a home beyond the reach of the family on the average income. [More…]
We have always been sympathetic, and I would like to see any honourable member in this House be prepared to deny the right of every Australian, regardless of his economic or social position, to live in a decent manner, to house his family. [More…]
Above all, in the family context it enables them to be a good parent and to give their children a better environment in which to grow up. [More…]
Of course, the cost of land and the inflationary situation are such that people are unable to afford the traditional house- the single family house. [More…]
There is a doubling of the number of people who are using transportable homes and the number of people who are using single family homes has been reduced by something like 60 per cent. [More…]
The first letter from which I quote is from a family in New South Wales. [More…]
The situation of the family that is cooped up in a small flat, with no play area for the children and no way in which the parents can have some privacy from the rest of the family, breeds a dangerous condition of frustration. [More…]
Those people who are at present opposing the Family Law Bill could well put some of their energy into looking into the housing problem because fewer marriages would be in danger of breaking down if more people had homes, if more people had room to move in their homes and if more people could rent a home at a price they could afford. [More…]
They are the person’s own family, a voluntary organisation or the State. [More…]
One of the sad things about the 20th century is the nuclear family and the decline of the extended family unit which has left the field of caring for the aged largely in the hands of voluntary organisations or the States. [More…]
But if the ages had been reversed the family would have been entitled to the benefit. [More…]
Yes, there IS a need for organised effective action to protect the family on the land. [More…]
This power is being exercised to assist eligible widows, seriously incapacitated applicants and other whose family obligations make it difficult for them to accumulate the normal minimum deposit, and to purchase a home on a minimal deposit. ‘ [More…]
The Henderson interim report on poverty makes it quite clear that the large family in Australia tends to be more likely to be in poverty than the smaller family. [More…]
It is precisely the large family which is hurt most by the reduction of the education allowance from $400 a year to $150 a year. [More…]
The failure of your Government to grant female teachers confinement leave on full pay and male teachers similar provisions to enable them to properly care for their family during the absence of the mother while awaiting and following the birth of an additional child. [More…]
The table is based on a family with the wife not working and three children all dependent and attending nongovernment schools. [More…]
How would the Minister like it if such powers were directed against him and his family? [More…]
Social Welfare Workers employed by the Department of the Capital Territory are involved in the following functions: General family casework; adoption, preventive and remedial work with juveniles, including services to the Children’s Court and supervision of probationers; adult probation and parole services; foster care; child care; and institutional services. [More…]
We have concerned ourselves with the need that society has for ensuring that the relationship between a man and a woman is stable and that the family life surrounding them is balanced. [More…]
The most recent initiative- and it has not been resolved yet- is the introduction into the Senate of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I take your point, Mr Speaker, but surely the emphasis has to be given because the Family Law Bill touches directly on the issue that was raised by the Leader of the Opposition and dealt with in a follow-up way by the honourable member for Hotham: It deals with children; it deals with custody; it deals with maintenance; it deals wirh access and other matters of that sort. [More…]
He had a family to support and he knocked on doors asking the lady of the home in any street in Australia whether they had any work for him. [More…]
In this respect the actions of the Barton family come readily to mind. [More…]
The other types of incidents to which I want to refer are those which seek to bring one’s family into certain political events. [More…]
I do not mind so far as my position is concerned but I resent it when my family is brought into it. [More…]
suggests a connection with the Royal Family, the Crown or the Government of Australia or of a State: [More…]
I turn to another clause wherein we see the monumental insincerity of the Government in relation to companies, because it has presided over the rape of the family company. [More…]
So do not tell me that the present Government is not committed to the destruction of private or family companies and do not tell me that it is concerned about the productivity they attain or the employment they provide. [More…]
This is the way in which the Treasurer’s own summary sets out the situation: Firstly, a confidence trick has been played in relation to the so-called cuts in income tax which return a minute portion of the inflationary bonanza; secondly, a disastrous super tax has been imposed on income from property- the demise of all incentive to productivity, to the management of our unemployment problem which is the sort of disastrous policy that directly contributes to unemployment; thirdly, a further reduction in the age rebate; and, fourthly, the rape of family companies. [More…]
Whilst we support the increases provided in the Budget for education, we believe that the decision to reduce the deduction does not take into account that the benefit was available in respect of expenses incurred by the family for the individual child. [More…]
The additional expenditure does not reduce the costs incurred by the family. [More…]
The family business and the family farm will be destroyed under such taxes as these. [More…]
Their responsibilities in terms of their day-to-day care of the family and of the home and their attitudes to a standard of life style certainly do not, or should not, place them in the category in which they should be regarded as being able to carry the load. [More…]
It will contribute nothing to the aspiration that every person who possibly can should own his own home and build a family unit in it. [More…]
Accordingly, a great deal of consideration needs to be given to this in an effective way, if we are to save the viability of country properties and if we are to protect those who are beneficiaries within the family circle and who deserve to be protected from bankruptcy, which will be inescapable unless effective action is taken. [More…]
This of course involves also an examination of the equity of the tax system insofar as it affects not only a taxpayer but also a tax paying family unit. [More…]
I reject out of hand the suggestion that there should be an aggregation of family incomes and the imposition of taxation on the aggregate income. [More…]
I urge that consideration be given to taxation of the family incomes upon the basis of a notional partnership between husband and wife. [More…]
The family man who is earning, say, $ 10,000 a year should not be as grossly disadvantaged as he is today when his family is compared with a family earning 2 incomes- say $6,000 a year by one person and $4,000 by the other. [More…]
There are many such families where the contribution in time at work taken on a family basis is not different. [More…]
The male breadwinner can have the same sort of job in each family, but one man may take all the overtime he can get and may be away from his family for several additional hours. [More…]
I will go home and look after my family whilst my wife takes a job’. [More…]
In other words the families could be in like circumstances yet the tax burden borne by those 2 families could vary significantly, to the extent that one family would be discriminated against. [More…]
As my colleague says, it is a scheme of penalties which imposes a harsh burden on the family which has a strong desire that the mother should stay home to look after young children. [More…]
I put to him the example of a family comprised of a man, his wife and perhaps 2 children which has a net income of $4,000. [More…]
Does the Government say to that family: ‘We are very generous with our taxation deductibility scheme. [More…]
There is the problem of aggregating family incomes. [More…]
Finally, will the Treasurer explain why it is that, for example, person A, who is buying a home which is an appreciating asset, can take home more pay than person B, who is paying rent, and who is disadvantaged all the way down the line, although both men perform the same amount and son of work, receive the same salary and have the same sized family? [More…]
It is to be hoped that this amount will obviate the situation in which the answer to falling patronage is to curtail services further and thus force people into a second family car category for purposes of convenience alone. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to assist eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
We all feel a lot of pride in our family’s achievements, and there is nothing different in the pride of parents of handicapped children, be they physically or mentally handicapped. [More…]
It also gives relief to the parents and the other members of the family for at least part of the day while these people are away and being cared for by professional and well meaning people. [More…]
Specific documented cases can be produced by local general practitioners, church organisations, community welfare groups, the Royal District Nursing Service and the East Bentleigh police concerning emotional difficulties, suicide, chronic illness, psychiatric disorders, mental retardation, alcoholism, drug abuse, marital disruption, one-parent families, physical handicap, school drop-outs, juvenile delinquency, preventable criminal behaviour and multiple psycho-social economic and family problems associated with many common physical ailments, whose needs are not being met by the existing general practitioner service or by the public or voluntary community agencies. [More…]
We will get 6 doctors on a feeforservice basis and they will share the functions of family counselling, emergency treatment, immunisation and infant welfare. [More…]
Patients who require certain services such as psychiatric services and family planning are stigmatised when they are forced to attend a separate facility from that which serves other members of the local community with other forms of health care. [More…]
It is the proposition that it can be run by a single family or not run by a single family. [More…]
If we address ourselves to this problem along those lines we realise that increasingly the capitalisation required to give a family a satisfactory income will become larger and larger as the years go by. [More…]
What we are faced with is the reality in this industry, as in many other agricultural industries, that the family farm unit is big business. [More…]
We are dealing with a pretty large enterprise, not that it gives occupations to a lot of people but simply that a large enterprise is needed to provide a sensible standard of living for a single family operating that enterprise. [More…]
We need to preserve family units in country areas. [More…]
This is the sociological justification that we present for this concern about family units rather than a purely economic one. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to replace the existing divorce law contained in the Matrimonial Causes Act with up-to-date provisions, to make uniform provision in areas of family law outside divorce that are at present the subject of State and Territory law, and to provide for the establishment of family courts to administer this jurisdiction. [More…]
The provisions to cover other areas of family law and to establish family courts to administer the law flowed from this original purpose. [More…]
The Family Law Bill was first introduced into the Senate almost a year ago, on 13 December 1 973. [More…]
Its introduction was preceded by a detailed consideration of the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, to which the topic was referred for consideration as long ago as December 1971. [More…]
The report contained some recommendations for amendment, notably the establishment of a separate Family Court, which have largely been incorporated in the Bill. [More…]
However, it was the experience and expertise in the areas of social welfare and family law possessed by the persons - and bodies that have expressed support for the proposed ground of divorce, as well as the strength of their numbers, that convinced the Attorney-General of the desirability of this reform. [More…]
That there has been apprehension about the possible effects of such a substantial change in an area that affects us all, namely the family, is understandable. [More…]
This brings me to the other most significant provision of the Family Law Bill, the establishment of Family Courts. [More…]
The essence of the Family Courts is that they will be helping courts. [More…]
These courts will therefore be very different from the courts that presently exercise family law jurisdiction. [More…]
The Family Court will, of course, determine legal rights, which it is bound to do as a court, but it will do much more than that Here will be a court, the expressly stated purpose of which is to provide help, encouragement and counselling to parties with marital problems, and to have regard to their human problems, not just their legal rights. [More…]
Judges appointed to the Family Court of Australia, which is established by the Bill, are required to be ‘suitable to deal with matters of family law by reason of training, experience and personality’. [More…]
Apart from the creation of a new Australian Family Court, the Bill also provides the opportunity for the States to establish their own Family Courts. [More…]
The only State that has so far established a Family Court is South Australia. [More…]
Subject to agreement with the States, the Australian Government will finance the establishment and administration of State Family Courts. [More…]
The counselling and welfare facilities of the Australian Family Court would be available to State Family Courts thus created. [More…]
The Family Court of Australia will be a court of appeal for any State Family Court that is set up, and it will exercise original jurisdiction in the Territories and in the States in association with the State Family Courts. [More…]
Until a Family Court is set up in a State or part of a State, jurisdiction under the Bill will continue to be exercised by the State Supreme Court and by courts of summary jurisdiction. [More…]
He or she will merely file a notice in the Family Court, which will bring in the director of counselling and welfare. [More…]
I would like to turn now to the provisions of the Bill concerning the welfare and custody of children who, as I said before, are the real victims in family disputes. [More…]
Disputes over custody of children are undoubtedly the saddest of all family disputes, and it is hoped that this provision will induce parents to get together and agree on custody arrangements in more cases than they do now. [More…]
I shall make only passing mention of the more technical matters that are traditionally associated with the exercise of jurisdiction in the family law area. [More…]
Finally, I should like to make special mention of 2 provisions that have been inserted in the Bill to create a Family Law Council and an Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
The former body is to consist of a judge of the family court, and such other judges, officers of the Australian and State Public Services, representatives of counselling organisations and other persons as are appointed by the Attorney-General. [More…]
The Council will make recommendations to the Attorney-General concerning the working of the Bill, family law generally and the working of legal aid in family law proceedings, and will furnish an annual report for tabling in Parliament. [More…]
The Institute of Family Studies is to conduct research into factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia, with the object of promoting and protecting the family in Australia. [More…]
Environmental aspects of Service life including pay, benefits, working conditions, housing, effects of military life upon family relationships, leave, superannuation, etc. [More…]
Society, especially Hindu society, has been based for thousands of years on the premise that sons are not only gifts from heaven but also the economic basis upon which a family can exist. [More…]
It is simply not sufficient to say to a mother that she must therefore practise birth control merely to limit her family, as this concept at this stage of their development means so little. [More…]
They include not only the men one sees in the disused Army greatcoats lounging around parks and gardens or in the depressed areas of the city, but also the young homosexual who is cast out by his family because they do not understand that some people are sexually deviant without any blame cast upon themselves. [More…]
They include the discarded daughter of a family who will not meet the strict moral requirements of that family. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to assist the eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
Few people could disagree with the statements of the Minister in his second reading speech when he refers to the virtues of legislation of this type, as distinct from this Bill, and its clauses, and one could be very much inclined to accept the view that to speak about the environment and environmental consequences when we are looking at important developments, is almost the same as speaking 10 years ago about the virtues of the family and family life. [More…]
They are the same sort of values that I regard as important when I think about the family and family life. [More…]
Fundamentally, I am worried about the opportunities of those many Australians who have played such a tremendous role in developing this country- the small individual family farmers. [More…]
They come to a strange city without the benefit of close friends, relatives or family. [More…]
It has been traditional in Australia that a young mother having a baby has her family doctor consult her during her confinement. [More…]
It is another proposition to have it all in one giant computer brain: How many times you have been to a psychiatrist, how many times somebody in the family has had an abortion, how many times a venereal disease or some other social stigma has been attached to somebody in a family, all available from one computer bank by the pressing of a button. [More…]
They are: Greater share of cost sharing for pensioner medical bed days- pensioners are an accepted Commonwealth reponsibility and it is right that we should not be loading the States at great cost to themselves with the cost of pensioners who are hospital patients; an improved subsidised health benefits scheme which would provide an automatic form of cover for low income people plus a greater degree of flexibility for family size; medical cover for outpatients; discussions on psychiatric patients and ambulance costs, etc. [More…]
The ordinary working family will be taxed twice if both husband and wife work; so the average family with both husband and wife working will also be harmed. [More…]
Furthermore, everywhere in Australia- a man, a husband, the head of the family unit - [More…]
The contribution now to a private health fund of a husband who is working covers the entire family. [More…]
No government has done more for those most in need, for the working man and his family, for women and children. [More…]
To him and his family I extend our best wishes for a continued term in the highest position in Australia. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government acceded to the requests of organisations, such as the Family Planning Associations and the Nursing Mother’s Association of Australia, for the provision of a progesterone only oral contraceptive; if not, why not. [More…]
Yes- where the girls form part of a family group which has been sponsored and which qualifies. [More…]
In general, except for children in family groups, they will be adults or near adults. [More…]
Among the Bills which he introduced and which are still before the Parliament are such significant and major pieces of legislation as the Corporation and Securities Industry Bill, the Family Law Bill, the Racial Discrimination Bill and the Superior Court of Australia Bill. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence and no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family or home. [More…]
He suggested that at this stage he has established the fact that Australia is not deserting our British family relationship but has maintained it in a more adult way. [More…]
For instance, we have on the stocks the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It is true that on matters such as the Family Law Bill, where there is a conscience vote and such marked division within the Labor Party, there will be adequate time for debate but I wish to goodness that the precedent the Leader of the House is setting on the debate on the Family Law Bill were to be followed in other matters of significance where those of us on this side of the House, representing as we do half the Australian electorate at least and I believe a good deal more than half at present, would be given an opportunity- not just the principal spokesman in our Parties but those who are on the back bench representing their electorates- to get up and canvass the views and matters which their constituents wish them to canvass. [More…]
I would like to thank voluntary aid organisations such as Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul, the Salvation Army, the Smith Family and the Australian Council of Social Service, which collected needed goods and arranged their despatching, cared for evacuees and are still caring for them; government personnel in every area of endeavour from social workers to government carpenters, from PMG telephonists to information officers, from hotel administrators to drivers; the medical and nursing profession who in the cities and towns to which evacuated people were brought worked unceasingly, as did their colleagues who went to Darwin, enhancing their already high reputation; the police forces who strove successfully to co-ordinate the movements of evacuees and in particular those members of the police forces who went to Darwin where they undertook hazardous tasks. [More…]
The Family Law Bill is one of the most discriminatory, ill-considered and badly drafted Bills ever to be introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
Many leaders in the community from the professions, among social workers and in the churches have pointed to the changes which will be introduced into the nature of marriage and threaten the stability of the family if this Bill is passed without amendment. [More…]
The Family Law Bill deals broadly with 3 aspects: The dissolution of the marriage tie; the resolution of ancillary matters between the parties either before or after the dissolution of the marriage; and the creation of a Federal Family Court. [More…]
These provisions are deceitful in their glib disguise of a fundamental change of the philosophy of marriage and the family. [More…]
The Family Law Bill turns marriage into a cheap, temporary union which may be dissolved on the unilateral decision of one party. [More…]
How ludicrous it is to have such a procedure as that contemplated by clause 15 (1), where a party to a marriage can file in the Family Court a notice stating that he or she intends to seek the assistance of the counselling facilities of the Family Court. [More…]
Part IV of the Bill deals with the formation and constitution of a Federal court to be known as the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
1 ) The Family Court has jurisdiction in- [More…]
Subject to such restrictions and conditions (if any) as are contained in the regulations, the jurisdiction of the Family Court may be exercised in relation to persons or things outside Australia and the Territories. [More…]
It will be impossible for judges of the Family Court to get around vast areas of the Australian countryside on circuit as the State Supreme Court judges do. [More…]
They will suffer the psychological damage of family collapse, the loss of security, torn affections and both emotional and material disturbance. [More…]
Socially, the community suffers directly as more of its individual components as recognised by the United Nations- the family- manifest partial or total collapse. [More…]
Indirectly, the community suffers as a family collapse contributes to an erosion of those values which buttress marriage and family. [More…]
Financially, the community is obliged to bear a substantial portion of the direct costs of family breakdown. [More…]
They are: Firstly, the maintenance of those parties and their children unable to support themselves without social security assistance; secondly, the administrative costs associated with increased demands upon either the existing legal system or the establishment of the Family Court of Australia; thirdly, the increased demands upon the Australian Legal Aid Office, as is provided for in clause 117(3) and (4); fourthly, the probable increased demand for child care centres; and, fifthly, the increased demand for services to deal with the psychological and physical ill-health of disadvantaged one-parent families. [More…]
Under clause 43 the judges of the Family Court are directed to have regard to a number of principles in exercising their jurisdiction. [More…]
that the family is the basic and stable unit of the Australian society; [More…]
This Bill deals primarily with divorce and other aspects of family law which impinge upon divorce. [More…]
It establishes a family law council which is to advise the Attorney-General on the workings of the Act and by that means and by general public comment the Act may well be extended over the years to cover other aspects of family law. [More…]
I believe that legislators and their constituents ought to consider the relationship of the state and the family most carefully when contemplating legislation which affects the family. [More…]
From Herodotus, the first historian, to current historians and anthropologists much has been said regarding the great diversity in the size and the structure of the family and of the laws which govern the conduct within and without the family. [More…]
Irrespective of these diversities, however, mankind has always placed enormous emphasis upon the family, however formed or governed. [More…]
The family has been the basis of other social groupings. [More…]
Aristotle believed that the originaal intention of the family was to supply man’s everyday needs whereas the state had a broader and less intimate role in establishing beneficial conditions within which the family could function. [More…]
The family unit produced stability for the overall society and the state helped to create circumstances in which families could prosper and be protected. [More…]
State interference with the family was, however, of a very limited nature. [More…]
Therefore we must ensure that the law governing the family enables its members to cope with their responsibilities to each other without the imposition by the state of a rigid set of moral imperatives which may be acceptable to many family members but which may be unacceptable in varying degrees to a great many others. [More…]
In laws governing families as single units the historic principle should be maintained and the state should interfere as little as possible with the freedom of action and responsibility within the family. [More…]
This principle has so far prevailed throughout Western society even though the family has gradually transferred some of its responsibilities to the state. [More…]
Industrialisation has diminished the economic significance to the state of both agriculture and the family. [More…]
However, many of the social responsibilities of the family remain, particularly the rearing of children, although even here educational and other state responsibilities impinge upon the role of the family. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the family law council, the family law court and social institutions will accelerate this movement towards complete equality of opportunity and responsibility between the sexes. [More…]
When the church was more dominant than it is today and was engaged in its own battles with the state it refused to allow the state to interfere with the family. [More…]
St Thomas Aquinas and other theologians believed that the family was more directly of divine origin than was the state and that the state would be exceeding its authority to interfere with the relationships between spouses and between parents and children. [More…]
That, however, is a matter for the family and not the state. [More…]
I have endeavoured to trace the history of family-state relationships and the past record of legislation of this type. [More…]
Concerning the tradition of minimal interference in the lives of the family, the Parliament has a public interest responsibility which takes 2 forms- that regarding the institution of marriage itself, an institution which is still most respected in our community, and that concerning the individual lives of the parties to the marriage. [More…]
Other matters relating to the family, such as those set out in the Liberal Party’s platform, must await later action. [More…]
It has been claimed by the supporters of this legislation that it will help buttress marriage and the family. [More…]
This legislation has been named by the Government as the ‘Family Law Bill’. [More…]
The effects of this Bill could be to transform and destroy the Christian values upon which our family life has been based in the past. [More…]
Once the accepted Christian principles of the family are eroded the end result must eventually be a lack of respect for the traditions of marriage with the resultant growth of fragmented and broken families and a consequent lack of parental control and a possible increase in anti-social behaviour. [More…]
Couple this Bill with the abortion on demand Bill which was introduced in the previous Parliament by 2 members of the Labor Party, the honourable member for Diamond Valley, Mr McKenzie, and the honourable member for La Trobe, Mr Lamb, a Bill which was voted for by a vast majority, although certainly not all, of the members of the Labor Party and we see emerging a pattern which makes one wonder what future Christian family life as we know it today has under a Labor socialist government. [More…]
When the Prime Minister introduced this legislation into the House he said that its purpose was to ‘reform the law of divorce and to provide for the establishment of family courts ‘. [More…]
It alters completely the system which most of us have grown to accept- that the husband is essentially the main wage earner and the wife’s role is that of bringing up the family, particularly in the early years. [More…]
It calls for a woman to pay her own costs, and a mother with a young family who has chosen to stay at home and care for the children will be liable to pay for costs of proceedings which may not have been initiated by herself and which she may not be able to afford. [More…]
The general majority of women cannot command an income capable of supporting a family, give them adequate housing and security, and then in addition face long hours of domestic work and supporting activities with their children out of school hours. [More…]
Women play a special role in marriage and special provision must be made by legislators to assist them to perform that function, not only for their own fulfilment but also for the good of their family and society. [More…]
Is she suddenly to be told, after all those years of loyalty in raising her family, that she can now go out to work and fend for herself? [More…]
I understand the great concern about the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We surely must all be aware of the squalid aspects which surround our present system; the excessive legalisms and costs; the considerable perjury in the courts; the provision of even greater opportunities in the present procedures for bitterness, acrimony and even hatred between family members which brings out the worst in people and lasts for years. [More…]
The very foundation of Australian society has been based on the existence of the family unit. [More…]
We in Australia generally accept the policy that a husband supports his wife and family, but the proposed Bill indicates a change of direction- in effect it goes off at a tangent. [More…]
After years of dedication and application rearing and caring for a family, with her early training now either forgotten, or time having passed her by, and working for years often with little or no pay, she will have to go to the court to argue her position and establish her need. [More…]
There is another comment I should like to make regarding the formation of family courts. [More…]
Following some recent public comment regarding the appointment of a certain judge, it would appear to me to be an eminently suitable argument to advance that the judges of the State family courts should be appointed subject to the approval of the various State Attorneys-General. [More…]
It is to be hoped that although the Commonwealth is supplying the finance for the establishment and administration of State family courts the States will be in control of their own affairs, lt is to be regretted that these family courts will be located in large and metropolitan areas to which people will have to go in order to obtain a divorce. [More…]
The Bill states that the family is the natural and fundamental unit of society. [More…]
The statement that the family is the natural and fundamental unit of society seems to me nothing more than a truism, and it is therefore necessary to examine what this sentence is supposed to convey. [More…]
Consent as the basis of marriage applies even when marriage is under stress, that is, when the partners decide that the benefits of retaining their family as one unit outweigh the benefits of family breakup. [More…]
Apart from the provision for counselling and the provision of facilities for counselling services attached to the family court, there is provision for assistance for voluntary marriage counselling organisations. [More…]
I believe that the family courts, less formal perhaps than the present courts, are still too formal. [More…]
I would like to see a family court whose decisions would not be without appeal against the respondent, a family court in which no lawyers appeared. [More…]
I think that in the initial family court the appearance of a lawyer is itself an offence. [More…]
I would like to see a family court where there was the maximum of informality and the maximum chance of reconciliation. [More…]
The contemporary crisis in family relationships results from a large variety of factors including changes in the social philosophy which are emphasising increasingly the freedom of the individual to develop his own philosophy of life and the freedom of the individual to acquire the tools for an analysis of problems. [More…]
A stress is being introduced into family relationships which was not a feature of society in which education did not achieve the same position. [More…]
Change in the economic status of the family in the modern urban society is also creating increasing stresses on relationships within marriage and without and this again is an area in which we need to adjust our approach to and our thinking on that marriage relationship- the fundamental cornerstone of families in the past. [More…]
This new found freedom of women- a freedom which allows them to develop their God-given intellect and talents in a way they have never been able to develop them beforemeans that we have to look very seriously at the whole structural relationships of our society, particularly the family structural relationship. [More…]
The children of the family are confronted with a dilemma in human relationships which needs understanding and sympathy but all it attracts from the community outside is harsh judgement. [More…]
The community- I am being interrupted by members of the Australian Country Party who cannot keep quiet even in a serious debate such as this- in 1985 will be even more in need of the types of reforms this Bill embodies, and even more in need of a sensitive examination of the relationships between people and in particular between individuals in a family bearing in mind the technical changes that will have taken place. [More…]
I believe there is common agreement across society that any law affecting marriage, divorce and the family should meet 2 fundamental standards: Firstly, it should strengthen, rather than weaken, the stability, integrity, and happiness of marriage and family life; and, secondly, where the misfortune of dissolution of marriage does occur, the law and its administration should ensure that divorce proceeds with justice to all parties, and with safeguards to the dignity and due privacy of all concerned. [More…]
I refer to the separation of Family Court matters from those courts which necessarily deal with criminal offences; the provision for divorce proceedings to be conducted in closed court; the emphasis on the paramountcy of the child’s welfare in custody proceedings; the attempts to improve counselling and reconciliation faculties; the proposals for a continuing study of matters affecting family stability, the working of divorce law and legal aid- provided, of course, this study is conducted in a genuinely representative way. [More…]
Yet the British Act does not make divorce as easily accessible as the Family Law Bill 1974 does. [More…]
They will educate people into a concept of marriage and family responsibilities that will be destructive to family life and may impose grave injustices on innocent parties. [More…]
I believe that on this relationship the very stability of family life rests and most particularly does the welfare of the children rest. [More…]
This Bill would radically change these fundamental relationships between husband and wife on which the cohesion and stability of family life rests. [More…]
But during, say, 10 years spent in carrying out her responsibilities of raising and caring for a family she has lost touch with the pre-marriage work in which she was employed. [More…]
There, in addition to the problems imposed on her by what she has suffered from her husband, she has now to bear the added burden of proving her need for maintence and paying her costs in endeavouring to do so.. She, the innocent party, who accepted her responsibilities to the marriage and the family, is to be further penalised by this legislation while the husband, whose misconduct has caused the harm and the break, is to be exonerated by the law from responsibility. [More…]
What will all this do to marriage and family life in general? [More…]
To do so would be to grant the law’s blessing on the guilty and the irresponsible, to impose harsh and unjust burdens on the innocent, and, ultimately, to undermine the stability and integrity of family life. [More…]
These principles must be incorporated as the essence of this legislation if Australia is to have a Family Law Bill which generally and genuinely buttresses the institution of marriage and protects the family unit. [More…]
I believe that the family is the basic and stable unit of Australian society. [More…]
On the other hand I am not completely convinced that the Family Law Bill of 1 974 does not already spell that out. [More…]
I have 2 areas of concern, namely, the future of children and the maintenance of the wife of a broken family. [More…]
The point has been made already today that a child or children living in an unhappy house- I use the word house’ carefully,” I do not use the word ‘home’can be tormented to a far greater degree than a child or children who live in a one-parent family. [More…]
If all honourable members in this chamber were honest, we would admit that we know many cases in which children have lived in circumstances such as I have described and their family life has been most unsatisfactory. [More…]
I believe that clause 75, contrary to many of the arguments put forward or the furphies spread in this place, sets out on a needs basis to provide for a woman and her family. [More…]
Contrary to the views expressed by some people, I do not believe that if the family of a married couple has grown up and only the husband and wife remain living together, and that couple then separates and is divorced and the wife is well provided for the husband should, for the rest of his life, be required to pay the penalty for having married that woman in the first place. [More…]
-With due respect to the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron), I rise to express in this debate not only a personal viewpoint but also the concern shown about the Family Law Bill by the people of my electorate. [More…]
I speak for my family, for all families, for those people who are the very basis of this society. [More…]
I received on my desk a submission entitled The Family Law Bill- Its Laws and Principles’ from a Mr Ray Watson, Q.C. [More…]
The point I wish to make at the outset is that the backbone or the heart of this country is still the family- is still the father, mother and children who work hard at looking after each other- and is still that despite the everincreasing pressures being placed upon the family from every possible direction. [More…]
It will weaken the marriage contract, which in turn will lead to a weakening of the family as a basic unit of our society. [More…]
But there are other considerations, such as what a family means and what family life means. [More…]
The third section of the form requires that a taxpayer disclose to his employer details of income from investment, family estates and money gained from outside employment. [More…]
Despite the growth of financial institutions catering largely for the middle income earners, there has never been a Government policy directed at the housing needs of that energetic and deserving section of the Australian people- those above the level of direct need, but who yet require a marshalling of the resources of the community if they are to attain the high quality home which should be the heritage of every family. [More…]
We have some idea how to do this, but I also make an appeal to private enterprise to come forward with plans in this field which can be the subject of joint enterprise, where government money is allied with moderate profitseeking in the provision of high quality family homes. [More…]
We already have the Commonwealth family of banks, of whose work in housing we are justifiably proud. [More…]
In addition, so far as it can within its resources, the Corporation will make housing loans available to families, using the family allowance provisions in the Austraiian Constitution, and it will also make loans to those other specific categories of home-seekers for whom the Australian Government has a constitutional responsibility. [More…]
When one pulls on the Bonython family in Adelaide one runs into a fanbit of trouble. [More…]
On the back is a photo of a certain gentleman with his wife and family, a former member of this chamber, the honourable A. J. Grassby, who is now an appointed officer. [More…]
We do not employ his family, so why should we get cheap - [More…]
The effect of carrying the amendment to the Family Law Bill would be that the question for the second reading of the BUI would not be carried, but this would not necessarily prevent further progress of the Bill which I would assume would be a matter for Government consideration. [More…]
The business before the Chair is the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It gets rid of the legalism because it establishes family courts. [More…]
Is there to be a more civilised and more rational approach through family courts? [More…]
One of the major things which for practical purposes will be stopped under this Bill, if the amendment is carried, is the great advance that that has been written into the Bill to reduce this rigidity and legalism by substituting family court procedures. [More…]
The first question to be asked in respect of this Bill- it is so obvious that it cannot be ignored- is: What is its conception of the family? [More…]
The Bill concerns the Australian family. [More…]
Mr Watson and another architect of the Bill, Mr Turner, at the Sir Thomas More Society meeting in Sydney in late November 1974 were asked: ‘What does the Bill do with respect to the family?’ [More…]
So I was a little puzzled when the same gentleman, speaking on the radio program ‘PM’ the night before last, which in time is closer to the debate taking place on this Bill and when its contents are perused a little more closely, had this to say when asked what conception of family there was in the Bill: [More…]
There ‘s no philosophic change in the concept of the family which I would see as one of the building bricks of society. [More…]
I believe that the introduction of closed courts is a good move forward in the area of family relations. [More…]
If it does, it is to be hoped that complementary State legislation will be passed to enable the objective to be achieved satisfactorily and within a State family court system. [More…]
Similar considerations apply to jurisdiction over family matters. [More…]
There is no reason why the whole jurisdiction within a State should not be exercised by family courts controlled and established by State law and assisted by Federal money. [More…]
The Bill, however, does provide for the appointment of Federal family court judges, six in all and more if prescribed by regulation. [More…]
It will not be possible for constitutional reasons to appoint to the Federal family court the type of judge regarded as ideal for State family courts by section 41 of the Bill, namely, those who cannot hold office beyond the age of sixty-five. [More…]
In the States, until the State family courts are set up, the jurisdiction can be exercised by State judges. [More…]
It would be divisive, inefficient, confusing to the public and a waste of public funds to set up a Federal family court with all the trappings of courts and court officers alongside a State family court in the same city, established in accordance with section 41 of this Act. [More…]
It is suggested that the Federal family court judges will exercise appellate jurisdiction from State and Federal family courts. [More…]
Although there may be isolated instances of diversity between them in construing the present Act over 15 years, no case is made out which justifies the setting up of a special itinerant court at public expense to deal with family court appeals. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the Government will not proceed to appoint judges to the Family Court of Australia but will instead get on with the task of establishing State family courts under section 4 1 . [More…]
It would also give respect to the institution of the family to which clause 43 refers. [More…]
The Bill is thus proposing- I think the present Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) was very clear about this and what I say is not an attack on the Bill- an alternative philosophical basis of marriage and family while professing not to do so, because the theological part in clause 43 is a profession not to do so. [More…]
The Family Court is to be Federal. [More…]
The functions of the family law courts have not been fully thought out. [More…]
I believe that the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) who preceded me in this debate and who pleaded not to establish the federal courts because of certain disabilities they had but to vest State family courts with federal jurisdiction made points which every lawyer whom I have questioned upon the clause agrees are true. [More…]
A spokesman for the Family Law Court Registrar said this week: ‘Mr Justice Waddell and Mr Justice Yeldham each will hear about 200 divorce petitions a week. [More…]
Another 100 undefended petitions a week would be disposed of by other judges sitting in the Family Law division. [More…]
The Federal Government’s Family Law Bill looks like taking some time to get through Parliament. [More…]
Particularly may I draw attention to the fact that some of my amendments are directed to reducing the intervention of lawyers into the family courts to be set up under the Bill. [More…]
The statutes which are enacted here on matters of hire purchase, company law, criminal law, custody law and family law, if the Bill goes through in its present form, are legislative trends miles apart in many ways from the legislative trends in the United Kingdom. [More…]
This compares with the current charges of over $3 per week for the lowest family rate of the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd or the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia in New South Wales and about $4 per week for private hospital cover. [More…]
While the Government does not plan initially to regionalise operations- at least I have not heard of those plans- and to place people in areas so that basically they will get on to a particular doctor’s list and be able to go only to that doctor, there is no question but that ultimately the freedom of choice of family doctor will be affected. [More…]
If one has subsidised a member of one’s family who is a non-pensioner in a nursing home one will know exactly what this will mean. [More…]
If the family GP does not wish to be part of the Medibank scheme a person does not have to find a new doctor. [More…]
A family doctor does not have to be part of Medibank. [More…]
by leave- I desire to inform the House that it is proposed that the House sit on Friday week, 28 February 1975, at 9.30 a.m. for the sole purpose of debating the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I can remember my predecessor for Kennedy the late Bill Riordan, a man who served this Parliament for 30 years and a member of a family that attracted nothing but a grand reputation for integrity and service to this nation, warning us as members of the Cloncurry branch of the Australian Labor Party that there were certain pressures coming into the Party which were going to fragment and destroy the substance of the Party. [More…]
I do not want to get down to personalities, but the Prime Minister of this country had the great advantage of having been born into a fine family. [More…]
Another initiative has been to fund the family medicine plan which is a program of training administered, planned, designed and carried on by the College of General Practitioners. [More…]
In Mr Hynam ‘s case, we have expressed our concern that his immense personal and family gains from investments in Poseidon, and his close association with that company’s geologists and with Mr Shierlaw, may have led him to subordinate his official obligations. [More…]
The tenant with an assessed family income of $37.50 per week would, on this scale, pay a rental of $7.00 per week. [More…]
He wants only to remain here and make a new life and home for himself and his family. [More…]
Like those opposing the Family Law Bill, they want it withdrawn. [More…]
The present limitation reacts harshly on the young ratepayer who in all probability is struggling to secure a home for himself and his family. [More…]
They start as a couple, have a family and then gradually withdraw to the position again of one or two people living in the house. [More…]
If we are going to have the aim of providing one house for every Australian family it has to be a public undertaking over which the Government has significant control. [More…]
This means that often the direction in which a student might be going might be quite different from the pattern and life style of his own home and his own family. [More…]
This may mean in the interests of his education and development that he moves out of the family home and finds his own accommodation. [More…]
A government dedicated to avowed centralism could argue that housing could be provided to anyone as a form of family allowances and the result of this interpretation of section 51 (xxiiiA.) [More…]
It is to be hoped that what is really meant is that the operation is limited to some cash benefit associated with, and part of, family life. [More…]
The Commonwealth in the area of housing has to rely upon the provision of housing being incidental to its power to make laws with respect to: Family allowances; the Aboriginal people of Australia; immigrants, and Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Similarly, by the use of the family allowance provisions in the Australian Constitution, the Australian Government can provide financial assistance to families. [More…]
When voting on this Bill honourable members should remember that there is no other single problem in life today which threatens the family as much as inadequate housing. [More…]
I am attracted to the proposition that the family allowances power in the constitution will be utilised in order to help certain families and certain classes of families who presently are not eligilbe to obtain the finance that is available. [More…]
I am excepting, in that respect, the use of the family allowances provision. [More…]
Young couples who have commenced their family very early in life and are finding it difficult to provide money immediately would get great benefit from such a scheme. [More…]
I think that that is of particular relevance as this House is at present considering another Bill which deals with family matters. [More…]
The provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services (but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances: [More…]
It is under this family allowance part of section 5 1 of the Constitution that it is proposed to provide assistance to the people about whom I have been talking. [More…]
Under present arrangements to be eligible for a loan of Home Builders’ Account moneys, the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner of the family, exclusive of overtime and child endowment payments, during the 6 months immediately prior to applying for a loan must not have exceeded 95 per cent of the Commonwealth Statistician’s estimate of average weekly earnings during the preceding December quarter. [More…]
Here, insofar as Home Builders’ Account applicants are concerned, this variation in the method of computing the needs tests will have the effect of raising the limit at the present time for a family with up to 2 children from $117.80 to $136.80. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation could lend to a family in this situation at a subsidised rate of interest. [More…]
I think it should be endorsed as it has been by the Opposition What we question and with very good reason is whether this piece of legislation as formulated and as presented to this House is going to be capable of doing that or is it in fact simply going to be another means of separating the ordinary man and his wife and family from their dream, which is to be able to live in a decent house and preferably to be able to purchase that house. [More…]
A further benefit to home owners is the exemption of the family home from death duties. [More…]
This, of course, is of no benefit if one has no family home of one’s own. [More…]
by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances; [More…]
Within the philosophy of the Liberal Party we have always sought an underpinning of the widest distribution of wealth through an instrument of private ownership such as the family home. [More…]
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the House, unless otherwise ordered, giving precedence over all other business for that day to the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
I speak briefly on this matter to outline to honourable members that the purpose of this extra sitting day is to give those honourable members who are still to speak in the debate on the second reading of the Family Law Bill and the amendment moved thereto the time to do so. [More…]
I gave some forewarning of the possible need for additional days for such matters as the Family Law Bill when the days and hours of sitting were debated earlier in this session and also when I made a brief statement on this matter last Thursday. [More…]
The motion provides for the House to meet tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. and to deal solely with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Apparently tomorrow precedence is to be given to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Those double dissolution measures have been given priority above the Family Law Bill. [More…]
As a result we have to have a special day of sitting to consider the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Members of the Opposition are concerned about the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We on this side of the House, while seeking an adequate debate on the Family Law Bill, equally seek an adequate opportunity to debate all other matters of major legislation. [More…]
We believe that then, and only then, can the debate on the Family Law Bill continue. [More…]
‘The family negotiates and no solicitor is required’, is the usual spiel. [More…]
He needs reasonable finance to protect his family shelter. [More…]
These terms would have regard to the family circumstances as well as the income of the borrower. [More…]
The Family Law Bill as passed by the Senate contains major changes to the law relating to divorce and I believe would be more appropriately designated as the divorce law bill. [More…]
People who claim to have a wide experience in divorce proceedings, and I know they do have a wide experience, have completely differing views on the effect of this Bill on family life. [More…]
I contend that to preserve family life as the basic unit of society the marriage contract must not be treated as lightly as is proposed in this Bill. [More…]
The fundamental factor, however, in the consideraton of such a Bill as the Family Law Bill is how to preserve marriage. [More…]
I rise to support the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The first principle which the Minister wants the Bill to include is that the family is the basic and stable unit of Australian society. [More…]
The family is a natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and by the State. [More…]
The Human Rights Bill, which is to be considered by the Parliament as government legislation, explicitly recognises the right io many and found a family, and protects the family against unlawful or arbitrary interference. [More…]
The Family Law Bill now before us, does no more than seek to carry out our obligations under the United Nations Covenant. [More…]
There is no provision anywhere in this Bill, however it is construed, which would force a working class wife, with children under 18 years of age, to work in order to support herself or to live solely on the pension, provided her spouse is employed and earns sufficient income to enable him to contribute to the family’s support. [More…]
I am terribly fearful that if amendments that might be part of a scheme of amendments to improve the Bill are adopted in part we will end up with a hotch-potch of a Bill that will be quite unsatisfactory for the purposes for which we require a family law Bill to operate. [More…]
These tests are very difficult because one’s understanding of the nature of a family varies with each family situation. [More…]
I support strongly the formation of the family law council to advise on amendments to the law and to operate on a continuing basis. [More…]
I support strongly the establishment of an Institute of Family Studies, provided that it operates in a way which promotes a real study of how the family unit may be strengthened. [More…]
In regard to that Institute, I particularly note the views of the Family Life Movement of Australia which wrote to me and indicated very strongly the need for pre-marital education at various levels. [More…]
I hope that the Institute of Family Studies will closely examine this matter. [More…]
In its submission to the Senate Standing Committee the Family Life Movement made detailed recommendations on the importance of pre-marital education at various levels. [More…]
In contrast to the Family Law Bill’s single ground for dissolution- the irretrievable breakdown of marriage- the present Act lists 14 grounds for the dissolution of marriage, of which eleven are based upon fault or some element of fault. [More…]
Welfare and counselling services are attached to the family court created by the legislation under debate. [More…]
What the supporters of this Bill have often failed to point out is that most of these happy remarriages have occurred under the provisions of the Matrimonial Causes Act, which this Family Law Bill is not trying to amend but is trying to slash to pieces. [More…]
It deals with the family- the duties of a husband and wife to each other, their children and also their property rights. [More…]
It alters the meaning of marriage and the family- a meaning that has been formulated by the vast majority of Australians out of a long line of family associations, family example and family instruction. [More…]
I believe that the Senate proved it was well aware of this universal love and respect for marriage and the family, because it inserted a clause defining marriage and the family that endorses and supports the statements I have made. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
Clause 43 indicates that this meaning of marriage and the family is the foundation of our way of life. [More…]
It is in those clauses that the Bill changes the meaning of marriage and the family from a position where marriage can be dissolved only after valid, objective tests of irretrievable breakdown are applied by the court to a position in which it is mandatory on the court to dissolve a marriage if one of the marriage partners who is an applicant for divorce and who has been of sound mind says in evidence that neither of the parties wishes the marriage to continue. [More…]
While that may be so, I do not think it should give anyone the mandate to tear up the traditional meaning and importance of marriage and the family. [More…]
In the family a child learns at an early age to relate to other people. [More…]
If we take away the stability of family life in early childhood I believe that we reduce the opportunities for a child to enjoy a wholesome and gratifying childhood. [More…]
The family is the basic group of our society. [More…]
The family provides essential support for its members, particularly, but not only, the young members. [More…]
By reasserting the fact of the essential worth of the family I hope to dispose of that red herring. [More…]
Legislation should do what it can to positively support the family and it should, in seeking to be compassionate and just to those leaving the marriage, be very careful of the needs of all families and of other members of that family. [More…]
Positive assistance to a successful marriage will be afforded by the Family Court which will endeavour to provide an institution that has specialist knowledge of reconciliation procedures and opportunities. [More…]
The formation of an Institute of Family Studies will promote the identification and understanding of the factors affecting marital and family stability. [More…]
In several years time, when people have found, as I believe they will find, that the Family Law Bill is not only acceptable but also a positive aid to the family, I might favour a shorter period of separation; but in the meantime my approach is gradual and cautious. [More…]
The clearly intended two-fold thrust of this Bill is to support the family and to allow the humane and dignified dissolution of those marriages that have become a burden to the couple, to the children and, I suggest, to society. [More…]
They foresee difficulties that will prejudice the family and prejudice an injured party. [More…]
It has been argued that a woman who has raised a family and in the process has lost her ability to earn a respectable income can be told to get out and fend for herself. [More…]
Paragraphs (a) and (b) of clause 43 mention the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage and the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family. [More…]
Under the new Bill a divorce after 12 months may take place in a family court by simply establishing separation. [More…]
I hope that this Bill will be amended because it is not designed, as it appears to be, to encourage family dissolution. [More…]
The tenor of the debate indicates that honourable members on both sides of the House are desirous of ensuring that the best possible family law legislation is enacted, and enacted as soon as possible. [More…]
The reason why I consider the period of one year separation is acceptable is that the Bill provides for the establishment of a Family Court. [More…]
The provision of the Family Court will make a tremendous difference to all areas covered by the legislation, and the operation of this Family Court will mean that throughout the year of separation there will be a helping, ongoing court to which people can appeal and which can actually be involved in the problems surrounding the question of whether a reconciliation is possible. [More…]
But what a different situation could be created by an active, sympathetic family court operating during the 12 months period of separation. [More…]
This provision for more counselling service and the establishment of a Family Court will be a vast improvement and will give much greater support to family unity than the concept of blame and retribution inherent in the existing legislation. [More…]
One of the most distressing side effects arising out of the legal and psychological warfare associated with prolonged divorce proceedings is the bitterness and personal hatred which can split family and friends. [More…]
The change from the extended biological family we had in the past to the more fragile nuclear family, the increase in the breadth of education for women in our society and the changing rate of opportunities for women have all made marriage a more stressful situation. [More…]
Many lawyers with whom I have discussed the Family Law Bill are of the opinion that it is completely fair to women and amply protects their interests and those of the children [More…]
There has been a strong and sometimes vitriolic public attack on the Family Law Bill and there has been an emotional attack on it in this House itself. [More…]
It has reached the point where those who are genuinely concerned with the Family Law Bill question the motives of its opponents. [More…]
I say that those people who opposed abortion law reform 2 years ago and who now support the Family Law Bill have a right to be shocked at how their former colleagues in that earlier fight have debased this public debate. [More…]
For example, one suggestion was that a woman would allow, under the new Family Law Bill, her husband to flaunt his intimacy with his mistress - 1 suppose the same goes for a woman flaunting u. intimacy with her lover- for 12 months in the same house in front of her and the children and that still she would have no comeback. [More…]
It ignores the fact that the woman- or the man- and her family would be better off without the scoundrel or that she could apply for an injunction pending divorce proceedings. [More…]
They have completely ignored clause 114 which allows an appeal to a court before proceedings commence so that she may bring about an injunction for physical protection, mental protection or welfare protection for herself or the family. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependant children; [More…]
That letter stated, in part: …. that the Family Law Bill, as amended by the Senate, is soundly based on that principle. [More…]
I can only rely on those who are intimately concerned with the values, the construction and the strength of marriage as it contributes to the individuals in that family and to the nation as a whole. [More…]
Likewise, the welfare of the family depends on that relationship and not simply on the law. [More…]
It is generally accepted that a good family law should buttress, rather than undermine, the stability of marriage and that where a marriage has irretrievably broken down the legal shell should be destroyed with the maximum fairness and with the minimum bitterness, distress and humiliation. [More…]
This Bill provides for the establishment of a family law council and an institute of family studies which I hope will adopt some of the more progressive ideas and attitudes of, say, Canada where children, through a gradual increase in content of the preparation for marriage in their school syllabuses, in turn are able to assimilate a greater understanding of marriage, and to study the responsibilities- financial, moral and so on- that come with a marriage. [More…]
By creating a family court, reconciliation, discussion of the marriage situation and how it should be resolved or dissolved- peacefully, without bitterness or recrimination, fairly and equitably- is encouraged. [More…]
That this National Marriage Guidance Council of Australia, in relation to the Family Law Bill, August 1974, welcomes the removal of ‘fault’ and the introduction of ‘irretrievable breakdown’ as the sole ground for dissolution of marriage. [More…]
I am writing on behalf of the Tasmanian Marriage Guidance Council to express our support for the proposed Family Law Bill. [More…]
The new examination of fault is to evaluate the future welfare and concern of all members of the family. [More…]
This Bill outlines the principles of the family court- not the old court which was highly legalistic and argumentativebased on reasonableness, discussion and welfare principles, and takes into consideration the needs of each member of the family and their capacity to contribute to continuing welfare outside that existing marital relationship. [More…]
Therefore the new proceedings under the Family Court, which are based on determining the continuing contribution of the partners of the dismembered marriage should be continued on a basis of need. [More…]
It is only when we consider the needs of people rather than the legalistic rights of people, and base those rights on needs and contribution, that we can say we are preserving marriage, not as an outmoded institution but as a family unit of welfare which will lead to a better and stronger nation. [More…]
I commend the Family Law Bill to the House. [More…]
Let us have no illusions that this Bill, as it stands, produces the basis for an alternative philosophical approach to marriage and family. [More…]
It introduces a new concept of marriage, family and divorce. [More…]
If this Bill passes unamended our traditional approach to marriage and family will undergo dramatic change. [More…]
Under the guise of removing some of the unsatisfactory and inhuman provisions existent in our divorce laws, the Bill aids the erosion of the basic concept of marriage and the foundation of the family unit. [More…]
The introduction of closed courts is a humane action in the interest of family relations. [More…]
Having acknowledge these worthy provisions I now turn to the reasons I believe this Bill provides an alternative philosophical approach to marriage and family. [More…]
Marriage and the family life that generally flows from it are the basis on which our whole society has been built. [More…]
The Family Law Bill creates the temptation to married people to walk out at the drop of a hat and with little penalty. [More…]
As the Bill stands, it further threatens the nature of the marriage contract and thus, I believe, the foundation of our society which, after all, is the family unit. [More…]
The provision of family courts is an outstanding i j - - - * o one. [More…]
Secondly, the family court structure itself will be a helping, ongoing organisation to those who are faced with a breakdown of their marriage during that period of 12 months. [More…]
On the basis of my experience, on the basis of equity, on the basis of the family court structure itself, I support the 12-month period. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity to enter this debate on the Family Law Bill which must be one of the most significant pieces of social legislation presented to the Parliament. [More…]
Certainly 2 things can be said of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In respect of the last mentioned point let me say immediately that I welcomethis was the universal opinion within my electorate- the formation of family courts with marriage counselling and reconciliation assistance being made available through those family courts- a comprehensive administration both of the law and the efforts at marriage counselling and reconciliation. [More…]
It seems to me that they are these: Firstly, the need for reform in the law and its administration; secondly, the indignity of divorce by fault as it presently is found should be removed; thirdly, that irretrievable breakdown of marriage should be the test to relieve the parties of the legal ties of marriage; fourthly, that the wife and the children should be protected upon divorce; fifthly, that so far as possible, the financial affairs of the family should be settled once and for all upon divorce; and sixthly, that administration of divorce law should be as efficient and dignified as human hands can make it, and the courts and the protection of the law should be available to all who need it, irrespective of costs. [More…]
Clause 43 states that the Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction, have regard to such matters as the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
However, if your ruling on that point confirms the ruling of your predecessor that the Bill would have to be withdrawn and redrafted and resubmitted by a Minister, I would ask what is your view concerning the contingent notice of motion that has been moved by the Minister and read by the Clerk earlier this morning, namely, that so much of Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent a Minister moving that the second reading of the Family Law Bill 1974 be made an order for a later hour this day’. [More…]
-Although I had listed myself to speak on the Family Law Bill I had decided to withdraw. [More…]
Indeed, I regard it as a duty to seek to represent a concerned and informed strength of support within the Christian community for the humane proposals of the Bill, undergirded by the setting up of family courts, a family law council and an institute of family studies- aspects which have been conveniently ignored or brushed aside by the emotive claims of the ‘no fault’ argument. [More…]
In this debate opposing speakers have affirmed their belief that the family is the basic and stable unit of Australian society or that marriage should be buttressed or that full and proper recognition should be given to wives, mothers and children. [More…]
I believe that many of the amendments to the existing matrimonial causes law that have been foreshadowed in the Family Law Bill represent considerable advances on unsatisfactory situations. [More…]
Those of us who support the amendment that has been moved, and those in the community who oppose some aspects of the Family Law Bill, have been accused of sacrificing everything, so far as divorce law is concerned, on the alter of what the former Attorney-General of this Commonwealth described as ‘ecclesiastical garbage’. [More…]
I do not support the reintroduction into the Family Law Bill of the specific grounds of adultery and desertion. [More…]
I would prefer that insofar as any amendment to the Family Law Bill reintroduces the concept of fault, the concept of an objective test, it should be based on grave and weighty grounds. [More…]
I support any legislation- I think this is relevant to the Family Law Bill- which makes it possible for men and women in our society to exercise a complete choice as to the type of role they should adopt. [More…]
The first reservation I had about the Bill was that the Bill should also provide for immediate access to the Family Court in the special cases of adultery and cruelty. [More…]
I thought of the desirability of adding a fifth principle to clause 43 or of amending clause 48 to make it necessary for the Family Court to have regard to the behaviour of the parties before a decree nisi is granted. [More…]
I turn now to the principles to be applied by the Family Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction under clause 43 of the Bill. [More…]
Sub-clause (b) provides for the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
I am satisfied that, providing those supplementary principles are effectively administered in spirit and substance by the Family Court, the proposal deserves support. [More…]
This brings me to the next 2 fundamental provisions of the proposed legislation- Parts VII and VIII relating to the welfare and custody of children and to maintenance and property, which are the 2 areas where so much litigation now takes place and Part IV relating to family courts. [More…]
The passage of time and the Standing Orders for debate prevent me from expressing my opinions on each of these matters, but I do want to say something about the welfare and custody of children, the family court and the proposed amendment to Parts VII and VIII of the Bill which should be made. [More…]
In proceedings with respect to the custody or guardianship or access to a child of a marriage the Family Court shall, under clause 64, have regard to the welfare of the child as of paramount importance. [More…]
Liberal guidelines have been proposed in clause 75 to ensure that the Family Court has regard to those matters which must be taken into consideration in respect of maintenance of the parties. [More…]
In such cases, both as to custody and maintenance, the Family Courts will examine relevant matrimonial conduct but not the fault or degree of blame of either party. [More…]
Finally, 1 want to touch upon the concept of a separate Australian Family Court with supplementary services, which it is proposed will be established. [More…]
Clause 21 is a most significant new institutional concept and will deal solely with family matters. [More…]
The Family Court has the power under Part XIII of the Bill to enforce all decrees made under the proposed law. [More…]
My continuing worry in relation to the power and operation of the Family Court is to ensure that its decrees and orders, particularly with regard to welfare and custody of children and maintenance of property, are observed and that responsibility for compliance with and observation of the court’s decrees remain a function of the court itself, or one of its agencies. [More…]
I believe the law should make it clear that the Family Court or its agencies should have the direct and primary responsibility for payment of maintenance and, where practicable, compliance with other court orders, with the complementary responsibility to ensure that the party responsible for compliance with maintenance and other court orders pays the corresponding amount of maintenance, with costs, to the agency. [More…]
That can best be achieved by an agency of a Family Court rather than by an individual. [More…]
Marriage can be a many-splendoured thing and a family a source of fulfilment, happiness, joy and laughter. [More…]
But far from undermining one of the essential foundations of the family as the basic unit of society, I believe that these reforms can prevent its further decay, perhaps even strengthen the basic conditions in. [More…]
The Family Law Bill has been drafted to provide for easier, speedier divorce. [More…]
It is an attack upon marriage, the family, the woman, the homemaker, the mother. [More…]
This nation has been built on sound foundations of marriage and family. [More…]
The family is the firm foundation stone of our society. [More…]
In my estimation, this all forms part of a general campaign, which has gathered momentum in recent times, to attack marriage, the home and the family. [More…]
We should be directing our attention to the priceless place of a mother in the home and to assisting her to do the things that she should be doing as the queen of the household organising and ordering the family life. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
It is called the “Family Law Bill ‘. [More…]
It does not describe the position of the family. [More…]
The mother, concerned about her family, concerned about her position with the other-people in the community, knowing perhaps that her husband has not done the right thing by her, has continued to try to make a home. [More…]
We should be looking to see how we can build up the family; how we can build up homes; how we can strengthen the community. [More…]
I concede that the family court will need to be tried in practice. [More…]
No honourable member can fail to be moved by the deeply held beliefs of people in their own electorates who believe that the Bill is against the tenets of Christianity and family life. [More…]
I believe that this Bill does not interfere with the rights of practising Christians- the great majority of our population- nor does it interfere with family life. [More…]
When we are talking about the state of the family I think we are talking about a very special form of association. [More…]
A lot of comment has been made about the title of this Bill- the Family Law Bill. [More…]
AH these aspects of law as I understand it, are discussed under the general heading of ‘family law’. [More…]
The problem of the family is superficially somewhat different. [More…]
Nevertheless the state has built around the family an elaborate legal structure which prescribes a minimum age for marriage and forbids marriage between close relatives. [More…]
It regulates property relations between members while at the same time treating the family as a whole in some measure as a propertyowning unit. [More…]
It may even prescribe limiting conditions for the transmission of family property from one generation to the next, although it upholds in principle the freedom of testamentary disposition. [More…]
One reason for this close interest is that the procreation and rearing of children, which is the principal function of the family, is of interest to others besides the parents. [More…]
Precisely because children are automatically members of a family and can have no choice in the matter, and be- ….. they lIe subject try parental authority their - ——– j - - — ~j— j~ ——– ——- “j : - ~ - interests must be guaranteed by the state, as it must guarantee the rights of a member of any association which exercises effective power. [More…]
I believe that the Family Law Bill goes further than any other legislation in the past to allow this to happen. [More…]
Unlike my friend the honourable member for Macquarie, I believe that clause 43 sets out to break down the claim that the Bill will lead to the breakdown of family life. [More…]
It states that the Family Court, which I concede may need looking at from time to time, shall have regard to the need to protect the institution of marriage and family life generally, the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare, and the means available to assist parties to the marriage to consider reconciliation and the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
Herald’ recently stated that people concerned about the Family Law Bill providing quickie divorces assumed this because the Bill allows dissolution of marriage after 12 months separation. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
If the spirit of Part II, Part III and Part IV of the Bill- the latter relating to the Family Court- is carried through, the proposed law will represent a major advance in this area over the existing Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]
The concept of a Family Court performing this positive service and, where reconciliation fails, playing a major role in reducing the area of disharmony and bitterness and facilitating the settlement of custody, access and property disputes, is a major feature of the Bill. [More…]
But equally, I judge, a period of 12 months is too short to give respect to the institution of marriage and the family as the majority of the Australian people would require. [More…]
–I rise to support the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The Family Law Bill does not really introduce a new principle. [More…]
I could say much more about the Bill, particularly about the Family Court provisions. [More…]
I believe that the Family Court will be eventually reformed even more. [More…]
I strongly support the Family Law Bill and I will not be voting for the amendment. [More…]
It states: that the family is the basic and stable unit of the Australian society; [More…]
I welcome the establishment of family courts as distinct from other courts. [More…]
I have some concern that a judge of 80 years will be looking at the difficult and delicate problems of the family relationships of a young couple, and I would like to see other arrangements made in that regard. [More…]
The provisions in relation to the positive duty on both parents to maintain children under 18 years of age, attempts to improve counselling and reconciliation procedures and facilities are useful provisions in a difficult area of human and family relationships. [More…]
The proposal to establish a Family Law Council to review the working of this legislation and legal aid related to these matters again is a useful proposal. [More…]
The proposal to establish an Institute of Family Studies for research is a useful one. [More…]
Furthermore, I see no reason why the Government should not arrange for the banks, which it has power to do, to take family income into account when granting loans rather than male income only, which is the system under which banks and financial institutions operate at the moment. [More…]
by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances; [More…]
However the Corporation would be able to build dwellings for Commonwealth employees, migrants, students, those who are in receipt of family allowances for these purposes and those who are also in receipt of advances or loans from the Director of Defence Service Homes. [More…]
The kind of thing that we want to do under this legislation is to ensure that any family in Australia- not in certain constitutional limits as mentioned by the honourable member for Parramatta; we are not confining this to public servantsunder a certain income limit and which is paying an amount in excess of 25 per cent of average earnings for desirable and reasonably rented premises is assisted because that family is paying too much. [More…]
The sub-clause then states that the Corporation may perform its functions in a territory; for the purpose of the provision of housing for members and former members of the defence force; by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances- that is the matter about which the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) had a small altercation a moment ago- for the purpose of the provision of housing for the Aboriginal people of Australia, immigrants to Australia persons employed in or by departments or authorities of Australia and persons engaged in work for Australia or any authority of Australia. [More…]
The Minister has tried to imply that by the .use of this rather nebulous placitum of section 5 1 of the Constitution which deals with family allowances a remarkable extension of power is going to be achieved. [More…]
I am most sympathetic to the use of the family allowances power in respect of housing. [More…]
At least 25 per cent of families had no medical insurance although only one family answered that they used the subsidised medical service. [More…]
In S cases where the family had no medical insurance the household head was often sick. [More…]
There is the same allowance for a single man and for a family man who has family obligations and three or four dependants, although his need is much greater than that of the single man. [More…]
That assistance will be provided not only for the construction people but also for the citizens- the family men and women and their children. [More…]
Adelaide put $500,000 into the project because on the board of directors there was a member of the Holden family who wanted to be part of the project, but basically it was financed by the people of Australia through the Commonwealth Bank. [More…]
Similarly, for most people the purchase of their car is the second largest investment they make, second only to the purchase of the family home. [More…]
The reason I have asked for Government Business to be given precedence over General Business tomorrow and the co-operation of the Opposition is to enable the Family Law Bill to be brought on for debate for another period of time approximating 3 hours. [More…]
Thirty-nine speakers have already spoken on the Family Law Bill and 3 1 speakers are still listed to speak. [More…]
Although 3 1 speakers are still listed to speak, I think that it is possible that if time permitted everyone in the Parliament might well want to speak on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I wish to convey to the House the impression that this is for the very express purpose of discussing the Family Law Bill in relation to which I suppose it could be said that there is unprecedented interest in the community as every honorable member has been inundated with various points of view. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the Family Law Bill, which I think every member of this House regards as having a tremendous importance, should be so relegated that it cannot be debated in any priority to Government Business. [More…]
I am afraid that I cannot really understand why there is the necessity for the urgency of debate on them that there is on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I would like seriously to register the concern that we of the Opposition have that Government Business of a character which is not contributing to the wellbeing of the individual citizens of Australia should be accorded a higher priority than a Family Law Bill which is fundamental to the whole social structure of our society. [More…]
While we understand the concerns that the Leader of the House has for an early debate on the Family Law Bill and while we are quite prepared to debate that measure at any time, we do not believe that this is the way by which priority should be given to it. [More…]
Indeed, I suggest that it must have been with a good deal of reluctance that the Leader of the House and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) even accepted the deferral of perhaps an hour or so of the consideration of Government Business in order to permit the debate on the Family Law Bill to continue. [More…]
We are disappointed that the Government has not seen fit to set aside its business program to enable the debate on the Family Law Bill to continue. [More…]
1 think it would be worth while for honourable members to consider that by providing the opportunity tomorrow to debate the Family Law Bill they will be precluding debate in this House on the Government’s plans for northern Australian development. [More…]
However, given the necessity for debate on the Family Law Bill to continue and our desire to pursue that debate, we will not formally oppose the motion moved by the Leader of the House, although it is with some reluctance that we accept the motion. [More…]
I took it from what he said that tomorrow we will dispense with private members’ business and discuss the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I also took it that he implied that we would deal with the Family Law BDI for some 3 hours. [More…]
I would like to know what he means by that, because he went on to say that 3 1 members desired to speak on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We spent the whole of Friday of last week discussing the Family Law Bill and in actual fact 19 members took part in the debate. [More…]
I should like to have some assurance that we will discuss the Family Law Bill for 3 hours or 4 hours or that we will finish the debate because, after all, as I have said some members would like to speak on the subject and they do not know what priority they have. [More…]
As a matter of fact, if the people outside this Parliament were given the opportunity they would certainly give higher priority, firstly, to private members’ business and, secondly, to the Family Law Bill than to Government business. [More…]
in reply- I think that the only legislation that the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King) would not put off to enable the Family Law Bill to be debated would be legislation dealing with the price of wheat or wool or chaff or with other matters concerning primary industry. [More…]
The Government, as a government, has no intention of curtailing debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
At the conclusion of tomorrow’s debate on the Family Law Bill about 50 members will have spoken in the debate. [More…]
Instead of having a 3 weeks’ sitting period we might well have to continue sitting for a week or two and set that time aside exclusively to deal with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I am hopeful, too, that if any private members ‘ business remains to be discussed at the end of the session we will set aside a day to deal with it, like we did last Friday in regard to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Debate on all of these matters has been precluded because the Government wants to rush in and talk about the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We want to talk about the Family Law Bill, but we were told by the Leader of the House only yesterday that we may well have to resume for a Friday sitting, that it might not be possible for the Government to set aside its business program. [More…]
I thought that with the Opposition’s co-operation we would set aside this morning to discuss the important family law legislation. [More…]
Yet today we see a filibuster in the form of a stupid motion put forward under the guise that it relates to great national events to hold up the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I would like the Family Law Bill to be debated so I formally move: [More…]
-This Bill, as no doubt the whole of the Australian population realises now, relates to family law but I think really that is a bit of a misnomer because chiefly the Bill relates to divorce. [More…]
This Bill is principally about the family. [More…]
I believe that the family is still the basic unit of society despite the changes in the extent of its role and the nature of its role over the ages. [More…]
There is no doubt that the role of the family has changed quite significantly over the ages and I think that it would be unwise and unreal not to acknowledge this, but if one acknowledges as I do that the family is still the basic unit of society then it also follows that marriage is an essential part of the family relationship because marriage is a public avowal of the relationship between 2 people and the rights and obligations that they both assume. [More…]
If the family unit is still seen as the basic unit of society and marriage is basic to the establishment of that unit then it surely follows that the dissolution of marriage should not be countenanced lightly nor unnecessarily encouraged. [More…]
Taking into account these broad general rules which i believe should apply in the dissolution of a marriage, we then should look at this Family Law Bill to ascertain whether it fulfils these aims and I do not believe it does in its present form. [More…]
I mean that most Acts relating to family law throughout similar countries to Australia have more than one criterion for the dissolution of a marriage. [More…]
It is not surprising that new legislation on such fundamental concerns as marriage, family relations and divorce should be open to doubts and criticism. [More…]
The Bill would substantially improve upon the present unsatisfactory arrangements for settling and enforcing maintenance and custody, and thus more effective and fair consideration will be given to the wishes of children involved in a family breakdown. [More…]
Also, on the positive side, the Bill provides for the establishment of special family courts to take the whole gamut of family law out of the daunting atmosphere of the civil and criminal courts. [More…]
They have won formidable support from many Christian and other authorities intimately interested and experienced in matrimonial law, marriage guidance and family welfare. [More…]
The proposals of the Family Law Bill to provide for the grounds of irretrievable breakdown of marriage determined by a maximum of 12 months separation to be the sole ground for divorce will remove many of the cruel and bitter experiences suffered by both parties in such a situation. [More…]
I might add that in personal discussions with a number of people affected, and also with those who have passed through the present divorce proceedings, I have found that the quasi criminal type atmosphere created around what is in fact a very personal family matter has had severe emotional effects on many people concerned. [More…]
Also, it can be shown that the breakdown of the family and divorce proceedings have a traumatic effect on the children as well as the adults. [More…]
Members of Parliament have been under tremendous pressure to restrict the proposed changes to the minimum but I can assure honourable members that most of them who have contacted me by letter and those with whom I have discussions, all recognise the tremendous step forward that will follow the application of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
As the vote is on a personal and individual basis I put it to honourable members that they have a great responsibility for the future happiness and security of large numbers of people and families who can only benefit if the Family Law Bill is carried. [More…]
In short, our marriage was a failure, we tried to preserve it and our family circle. [More…]
Before you vote against the new Family Law Bill, please read these questions below that I have asked myself so many times. [More…]
-The Family Law Bill 1974 has been introduced to replace the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959-73 and with the attendant amendment has attracted attention which, if not unprecedented, is probably greater than that which would be attracted by the overwhelming proportion of legislation which enters this House. [More…]
It is argued and described in simple terms as a no fault family law Bill. [More…]
It is not a no fault family law Bill at all. [More…]
This concerns the general concept of the family. [More…]
The brunt of much of the argument against the Bill appears to evolve around the desire to protect the traditional concept of the family. [More…]
These arguments appear to begin from the premise that the traditional concept is sacred, in some way inviolate, unchanging and immutable and that any attitude towards the nature of the family which tends to deviate from this traditional concept is in someway wrong, is undesirable or is immoral and therefore must be resisted at any cost. [More…]
I do not accept this premise about the unchanging nature of the family or that any change should necessarily be resisted. [More…]
History would indicate that such a view is quite unreal and contrary to historical fact; and in fact, the history of the family is one of slow but constant change in the past and one of accelerating rate of change in contemporary society. [More…]
The changes in the nature of the family have many causes and have had many manifestations in the history of mankind. [More…]
The mere reduction in the physical size of the family from the extended family of the past which embraced a wide range of relatives, down to the nuclear family of today, must of necessity reduce the strands which tend to hold the family together. [More…]
Probably the most significant influence on the change in attitude towards family is concerned with the question of consciousness. [More…]
Probably the most conspicuous outward manifestation of this phenomena has been the emancipation of women which, on the part of the younger generation particularly, has led to a complete reassessment of their role in society as partners in marriage, as parents of the family and as individual people. [More…]
Society now has the physical means to plan rationally the size of the family. [More…]
We are not here to make judgments on whether changes which have taken place in the idea and the concept of the family are less desirable, less commendable or less moral, than the old traditional family concept. [More…]
If the motivation for survival of the family as an institution ceases to exist within the family itself it is absurd and in many cases inhuman to try to preserve the basis of the institution of marriage merely by legislation. [More…]
The greater the degree of intervention by the State, the greater the affront to the dignity of the family institution and to the individual. [More…]
I believe that the overwhelming majority of people certainly believe in the sancity and permanence of marriage to protect the actual future of the family unit. [More…]
The very basis of these features is linked to family life. [More…]
At the same time I think it is fairly common ground, though perhaps these days not universally agreed, that the best basis of our society is the family unit built around enduring marriage. [More…]
This is not the simple matter that many people suggest it is, and we must look at it with compassion as well as with concern for the importance of marriage and the family. [More…]
But we certainly should not in any way condone or support, even indirectly, any attack on the institutions of marriage and the familyinstitutions which I believe are the foundation of our society. [More…]
Wherever the family flourishes in a state of vigour and unity, there will be found a strong and sound society. [More…]
So, I think we have to accept that, if marriage and the family are the basic institutions of our society- and I am sure the vast majority of Australians hold to that view- individual members of that society must accept some discipline and some restraints in the interests of the society of which we are all part. [More…]
I have been impressed by a statement by the Family Life Movement of Australia which points out that the social problem is not so much divorce itself but the breakdown of marriage which precedes the divorce. [More…]
As the Family Life Movement again points out, we are bogged down in relief and mopping-up operations instead of paying a great deal more attention to preparation for marriage. [More…]
The proposal to establish family courts is a welcome one. [More…]
If this Bill made provision for a considerable upgrading of counselling services in preparation for marriage it would come much closer to meriting its title of the ‘Family Law Bill’. [More…]
I restate my own belief that we have a tremendous responsibility to see that whatever we do here today does nothing to weaken or reduce marriage and the family as the basic institutions of our society but that we make them stronger. [More…]
This is not a divorce Bill but a family law Bill. [More…]
It certainly concerns divorce but it also concerns marriage and the family. [More…]
It was referring to the amendment on which the Senate Committee intended to make recommendations to the Senate- relates to the incorporation in the Bill of provisions to establish a Family Court which, freed of the rigidity and formality of conventional courts, would be able to exercise jurisdiction over the whole range of ‘family’ matters with dignity, informality, expedition and comparative lack of expense. [More…]
I believe that, far from that being the truth, the opposite is the truth and that this Bill will in fact strengthen marriage and will make for better relationships between all the members of a family. [More…]
Much of the discussion on the provisions of the Family Law Bill seems to assume that laws relating to divorce can make marriages more satisfactory. [More…]
This leads me to believe that those who wish to perpetuate the present situation far from assisting the maintenance of stable family relationships succeed in promoting the direct opposite. [More…]
I cannot agree with the arguments of people who say that they stand for the stability of the family subjecting the children of the failed marriage to the mental cruelty which often exists at the moment. [More…]
One wonders whether they are really interested in the family or only their concept of it. [More…]
Because of this change in social attitudes there is a need to adjust laws to see that the best interests of marriages, the family and society generally are served. [More…]
There will probably be ample opportunity to do that at a later stage, but I would like to say that I believe that this Bill incorporates many advantages so far as custody, reconciliation, the operation of the Family Court and matters concerned with injunctions are concerned. [More…]
The members of this House can by their vote strengthen family life and give real happiness to many people who are now the victims of an unhappy relationship and at the same time lessen the most tragic effects on the lives of many thousands of children. [More…]
The people of Australia need a better law relating to family law and to divorce. [More…]
I support the objectives of this Bill which are to make uniform provisions in areas of family law outside divorce and to provide for the establishment of family courts. [More…]
Clause 43 (a) of the Bill provides that the family court in the exercise of its jurisdiction shall have regard to the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
The honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) has already expressed reservations concerning the establishment of a Federal family court in addition to the State family courts. [More…]
For this reason, amongst others, I would prefer to see greater use being made of the proposed State family courts where judges will retire at 65 years of age and that the proposal for Federal courts could be thus abandoned. [More…]
In this context I also question the costs of establishing a very considerable family court infrastructure, in view of the limited number of appropriately qualified persons from the bar, especially in the case of New South Wales, could cause a relative fall in the standard of the judiciary with the result that the very people- the litigants whom this Bill is supposed to help- will probably have to incur increased costs in their search for a satisfactory divorce settlement. [More…]
It should be quite sufficient for the State family courts to have full jurisdiction and for appeals to be directed to the High Court when necessary. [More…]
I respectfully submit that in the vast majority of marriages that is still not so and that most wives enter into marriage on the presumption that their husbands will be the main, but not necessarily the exclusive, provider for the family. [More…]
On the other hand, I applaud the acceptance in this Bill that a wife through her efforts in maintaining the home and the family has made a very real contribution towards the total family unit and that such contribution should be taken into account in determining any settlement. [More…]
-The atmosphere and the climate in which the Family Law Bill has been debated have, in some respects, been most unfortunate. [More…]
If we are looking at a Bill which is designed to be a family law Bill- it should be remembered that it has been called the Family Law Bill- and if we approach that Bill without having these principles established, woe betide us when we get the legislation that we are likely to get. [More…]
If we approach family life and divorce, unfortunate as it is, without considering the sorts of principles to which I have referred - principles that I believe we can accept and should acceptthen I think we are on faulty ground. [More…]
We have heard people espouse the Family Law Bill in its entirety. [More…]
I stand very strongly on the basis that the family unit is the strength of any nation and any society. [More…]
If one looks at the history of matrimonial causes or what is now deemed to be family law it is clear that there is much room for improvement. [More…]
It is the one way to guarantee family life. [More…]
It is the one way to guarantee that children will have a good family environment. [More…]
So what we have to do with this sort of legislation is to say: ‘Look, if you are going to make the family a worthwhile unit in society’- and so it should be- ‘guarantee there is no poverty, guarantee there is a good housing situation and a good atmosphere in which children can be brought up, guarantee an opportunity is given to stop drunkenness and cruelty’. [More…]
What about the compensation entitlement on a family wage concept in the sense that the husband might well have accumulated assets through her care of him and the children and she has accumulated none? [More…]
That same concept does not apply in the testator’s family maintenance provisions because under those no testator can deny the existence of his widow and children. [More…]
They can say: ‘ We are part of the family concept. [More…]
It is important that the entitlements of these members of the family be recognised in the sheer technology of the words used in the Bill- not the principles that everyone is so concerned about but the technology of the words. [More…]
It should guarantee that in regard to maintenance proper consideration will be given to the needs of the wife and the family. [More…]
They support the concept of the family as being fundamental to our society. [More…]
It is almost impossible to set down laws which will cater adequately for the enormous variations in differing family circumstances. [More…]
I believe in the maintenance of marriage and in the permanence of the family institution, yet I believe equally that the present matrimonial causes legislation is inadequate to meet the changing needs of our society and to meet the requirement that the family unit should be preserved to the maximum. [More…]
For example, clause 43 which I support, sets out principles which relate to the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage and the need to give the widest possible protection to the family, etc. [More…]
I have some sympathy for those who criticise the legislation simply because it is called a Family Law Bill. [More…]
For that reason I am of a mind that it would be far preferable if this legislation provided not only assistance for the family at the stage at which the marriage is to be dissolved but also an opportunity for dis- . [More…]
I am apprehensive that in the criticisms that seem to be levelled at the institution of marriage and the institution of the family, people will see this Bill from a perspective of being intended to sever rather than to preserve the whole family concept. [More…]
They are intent on trying to ensure what they see as the right way of preserving the family relationship, yet I rather doubt that in their expression of resistance to this change they will secure what they seek. [More…]
Having been involved as a lawyer in this jurisdiction on some occasions, I believe that the existing grounds of divorce rather tend to promote dissension within the family. [More…]
Marriage laws and family laws need to be there to preserve marriage, not to dissolve it. [More…]
Up your old family tree- [More…]
At its most acute, it is a dread of possible punishment or even execution for political, class or even family associations condemned by the new rulers.’ [More…]
When I first went to Vietnam in 1962-1963 I went into the hamlets and saw what was happening to those ordinary simple Vietnamese peasants who defended themselves with wooden guns because they had nothing better and whose only means of communication was to bang 2 sticks against each other so that the fellow a bit further down the road could be warned in time to try to defend himself and his family against the incursions of the Vietcong who would come in the night murdering, looting, plundering and stealing. [More…]
The case of a highly respected Aboriginal family which had found it almost impossible to obtain accommodation in the area was brought to attention. [More…]
There were 2 young children aged 1 and 3 years in the family. [More…]
The father of the family had come from Alice Springs, where he had been employed as a field officer with a legal service there, to Melbourne to further his studies with the intention of becoming a lawyer. [More…]
This young man and his family went to 20 real estate offices in search of accommodation and at each one it was a case of the vacancy mysteriously disappearing between the time of the father’s telephone call and his arrival in person at the offices. [More…]
Primitive man probably knew no social grouping larger than his family. [More…]
Because of the natural enemies of man, the family groupings enlarged into a tribe or tribes for selfpreservation. [More…]
I knew an Aboriginal family who brought all their relatives in and chopped up the furniture’. [More…]
I had such an experience with an Aboriginal family recently. [More…]
He visited every real estate agent near where his children were going to school in an attempt to find a modest family home. [More…]
This could be done by making part of the curriculum an overt attempt to eliminate racism- the sort of racism that unfortunately is carried on from the family dinner table, from father to son and so on through the various generations. [More…]
have contracted to buy or build, or have commenced to construct as an owner-builder, the person’s first matrimonial or family home, valued at not more than $22,500; [More…]
1 ) What were the weekly family contribution rates to the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia in New South Wales on (a) 1 May 1974 and (b) 1 December 1974, and what are the current rates, in respect of (i) medical plus public ward cover, (ii) medical plus intermediate ward cover, and (iii) medical plus private ward cover. [More…]
and (2) The weekly family contribution rates of the New South Wales Branch of the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia, on the relevant dates, are shown below together with details of average weekly earnings per employed male unit in New South Wales for the quarters ended June, September and December 1974. [More…]
It is true that there has been a regrettable delay which hinges, as I think honourable members generally will be aware, on the relationship between the Clunies Ross family and the inhabitants of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]
Before dealing with aspects of this Family Law Bill 1 974 in closer detail I must comment on approaches that have been taken by some speakers in this debate as well as representations from the Australian community at large. [More…]
No Bill that this Parliament produces will remove entirely the trauma and heartbreak of a family disruption. [More…]
The extension of counselling and reconciliation facilities is to be commended, as is the establishment of family courts where private proceedings can take place. [More…]
Once proceedings have reached this level of confrontation great damage occurs to the human relationship, huge cost and expenses occur and the fracturing of the family ties where children are involved is often irreparable. [More…]
If the spouse is capable of meeting his financial responsibilities to his partner or his family he should do so. [More…]
I rise to make my contribution to this debate on the very controversial Family Law Bill. [More…]
We call on all Labor members of the National Parliament to give their full support to the Family Law Bill so that it may be passed without further delay. [More…]
The Family Law Bill is enlightened legislation which would buttress marriage. [More…]
Catholics for the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I am sure no honourable member in this House, willingly or unwillingly, will commit an act which will violate the sanctity of marriage or destroy the value of the family unit unless under extreme inducement. [More…]
I suggest that he should not give quite so much detail in his speech on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I can see that the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) has read the Family Law Bill in some detail and that it has engendered strong feelings in his soul. [More…]
In fact, I think that there would not be a family in the country which has not been touched by this problem of divorce. [More…]
There is not a family in the country that can remain unaffected. [More…]
It spells out the principles and philosophies of the Family Court. [More…]
Clause 43 deals with family provisions, the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage, the need to give the widest possible protection and asistance to the family, the need to protect the rights of children and the means available for assisting parties to the marriage to consider reconciliation. [More…]
Clause 43 asserts the need to assist and preserve the family. [More…]
On the one hand, we have clause 43 asserting the need to assist and preserve the family and, on the other hand, we have clause 48 proposing that marriage should be brought to an end at the option of either party after a 12-months interval. [More…]
Women’s Electoral Lobby supports those who support the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In the situation of a young married couple it surely must not be uncommon for the young wife, having had a row with her husband, to tell her friends and her family that she believes she has been involved in a major row with her husband. [More…]
To take the worst example in this middle-aged area- I believe we have to admit to middleagelet us consider the case of a middle-aged family in which the husband and father commits incest upon his daughter. [More…]
Despite what has been said and written about it, the Family Law Bill does not concern divorce alone. [More…]
It is a comprehensive Bill, the most comprehensive Bill dealing with family law ever to be introduced in an Australian parliament. [More…]
As passed by the Senate, the major provisions of the Family Law Bill provide for the establishment of a family court in Australia for the first time; the establishment of State family courts for the first time; the ability to seek matrimonial relief in the family courts, the State supreme courts or the magistrates courts without first proceeding for divorce; the abolition of all fault grounds for divorce; joint custody of children and joint responsibility for their maintenance; widely increased use of welfare officers to help in custody disputes and in the ongoing relationship between parents; the financial responsibility of each party to a marriage and to maintain the other; criteria for the provision of maintenance for spouses and children based on the applicant’s need; the establishment of a family law council and an institute of family studies; and greatly increased counselling opportunities relating not merely to divorce and reconciliaton but also to the on-going problems of divorced persons, particularly in relation to their children. [More…]
If, as it does, the Family Law Bill seeks to dismantle some of these barriers, it is a good Bill. [More…]
It is not as though women are protected by the existing law concerning family relations. [More…]
The Family Court, with its novel charter clearly indicated in the Bill, to help people rather than to act as an inscrutable referee, should be most effective in doing whatever can be done to reconcile parties whose marriages have run into difficulty. [More…]
By introducing a sane, balanced law to deal with family disputes it is hoped that where marriages do break down, as they undoubtedly will continue to do under the stresses and strains of life, persons will be encouraged to adjust their transition from married life with the minimum of bitterness and animosity. [More…]
With regard to the question of maintenance, I believe there is a need to protect adequately a woman who leaves the workforce for marriage and a family. [More…]
I am fortunate enough to come from a family where divorce has never occurred. [More…]
I believe it would be incomprehensible so far as my family is concerned. [More…]
In arriving at those views, I have been very much influenced by the position that the family holds in the society in which we live and by the position that the family has held over the period m which our civilisation has existed. [More…]
To me, the family is the basic core unit of the society in which we have all grown up and which has existed for some centuries now. [More…]
It is important that legislators do what they can to preserve that family unit. [More…]
When one looks at legislation which will affect families and family life and which will have an effect on children, the relationship between parents and the interdependence of one individual on another if a relationship is to continue no longer, I believe that there must be- and it is very difficult to escape from- a situation where fault is taken into account. [More…]
Clause 43 of the BUI lists the principles which will be applied by family courts. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
that the family is the basic and stable unit of the Australian society; [More…]
Clause 48 of the Family Law Bill does not provide for that. [More…]
Children need a stable and secure family environment. [More…]
Clause 48 of this Bill deprives the family of security and permanence because it provides that one party to a marriage can, for whatever reason he or she thinks fit, terminate the marriage on 12 months notice. [More…]
This Bill does nothing to build up marriage and family life. [More…]
The Family Law Bill certainly will eliminate fault or the conduct of parties as a ground for divorce but it will not eliminate an open examination of the conduct of the parties in what are the most heartrending results of a divorce- the custody of the children of the marriage and access to them by either partner. [More…]
Clause 72, as presently contained in the Family Law Bill, can have this effect: A man and woman many. [More…]
In conclusion I would like to read an extract from one of the many letters which I have received in regard to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
But before I do that I want to say a word or two about the present position and give my interpretation of the general view of Australians in relation to existing laws that we now describe with the modern term of ‘ family law legislation ‘. [More…]
One could gain the impression that the average reader of these articles would get some satisfaction from reading about the discomfort and misery that was being suffered by a particular family. [More…]
It goes on to recite those principles, beginning with the principle that the family is the basic and stable unit of the Australian society; secondly, that marriage should be buttressed; thirdly, that marriage should be permanent and secure. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
One would hope that within the family court system as it is set out in this Bill this situation will be avoided in a substantial number of cases. [More…]
I rise to speak in the debate on the Family Law Bill and to state a view which I would have been able to express in the Committee stage, but mostly to give an expression of opinion because this is a matter of public controversy. [More…]
It is not espousing the interests of women today to say of a conscientious woman who is trying to preserve a marriage and is doing the right thing by her husband and family that because her husband does not want her companionship any longer and she is forced from the house she must go to the Government and receive social services. [More…]
Marriage is the very basis of the family and it has been the motivation of the bread winners in the families which has kept our society as we know it today going. [More…]
The basic element of our society is the family. [More…]
Then it says that ‘the family is the basic and stable unit of Australian society’. [More…]
I refer to the Senate’s insistence on mentioning the establishment of State family courts. [More…]
I see nothing but good in relation to the Government’s original ideas in this matter, namely, that there should be a Federal family court established in each State or at other places considered necessary. [More…]
I think that it is quite obvious to all honourable members that there is a much more valid reason for a divorce when 2 people, having brought up their children, they having left the family nest, then decide that they have struggled on for some years under difficulties and want a divorce. [More…]
I think that the House should try to distinguish between those people who have been married for 10 years and perhaps have a family of 5 children and the other cases that I have mentioned. [More…]
I think that governments should recognise that it is not desirable in the community of the family interests to make divorce in that case as easy as this Bill does. [More…]
There are 2 elements of the Family Law Bill that most interest me. [More…]
I do not want to go over all the things that have been said about the family being the bulwark of our nation. [More…]
I think every desperate attempt should be made to maintain the family unit. [More…]
It is strength of character, her almost third dimensional attitude towards sustaining the marriage that keeps the family operating as an identity. [More…]
The telegram was addressed to Les Stewart, a highly respected gentleman of the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg, a man who has done remarkably well for himself and for his family. [More…]
We could reach the situation where, because of some discrimination on a personal basis, an Aboriginal or Islander would not be allowed to rejoin his family or his friends in a reserve. [More…]
They take the view that all of us take of the piece of land that we own in our particular suburb and on which we build our home and raise our family. [More…]
In today’s issue of the ‘Australian’ is an article headed ‘How they voted on family bill’. [More…]
It goes on to say: ‘The following members of the House of Representatives yesterday voted in favour of the second reading of the Family Law Bill’. [More…]
But I cannot but feel that this is part of the program against some of us who wish to see certain sections of the Family Law Bill amended and that this is a deliberate campaign to distort our motives. [More…]
Through the Children’s Commission the Australian Government will provide assistance to a variety of organisations, groups and individuals for programs including full day care, family day care, pre-school education, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, playgroups and any other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
I think for too long there has been a tendency for governments to fail to appreciate the acceleration of change in technology, in the family structure, in marriage and divorce patterns, in mobility rates and the division of labour, in urbanisation, in ethnic and sub-culture conflict and above all in international relations. [More…]
For example, a child’s overall condition of upbringing would be as free of restriction owing to the circumstances of his family as public action through the school could make it. [More…]
Others in this family are the Schools Commission, mainly focusing on primary and secondary education; the Universities Commission, focusing on one section of tertiary education; and the Commission on Advanced Education, focusing on another sector of tertiary education. [More…]
It is partially an education commission and partially concerned with health and welfare and family care for children at the pre-school stage. [More…]
But I return to the family of education commissions which are purely educational. [More…]
Will the Government consider assisting his family, who I understand have to travel from Adelaide to see him in hospital? [More…]
My Department is looking at the matter at the moment to see whether there is any possible way of assisting Mr Sasche and his family. [More…]
If that were not bad enough, soldier settlers are probably the epitome of those who we, on this side of the House- and before the election many honourable members who are now in Government- asserted were the lifeblood of the rural sector for they are family farmers. [More…]
If there is one consequence of the application of rural policy by this Government which has affected a group more than any other it is that the complete failure of the rural policies of this Government has made it almost impossible for the family farmer to survive. [More…]
If it has made it impossible for the normal family farmer, how much worse it is for soldier settlers for they are constricted in ways that do not pertain to the rest of the community. [More…]
Even in the provisions of rural reconstruction the average family farmer is able to resort, in extremis, to rural reconstruction boards and to receive assistance for farm build-up. [More…]
Government supporters from the chamber demonstrates that this Government has no concern whatsoever for the plight of the family farmer, particularly the soldier settler who in the past has been assisted to establish himself on a block of land and who now fails not only because of market exigencies but significantly because of the degree to which, through changes in assistance schemes and tax concessions, the family farmer no longer is regarded as being a worthwhile unit of production in the Australian scene according to the laws of Whitlam. [More…]
The element that is different is that this Government has aggravated the circumstances of the family farmer to the point where costs have completely outstripped the prospect of reasonable economic return, and for many the future is extraordinarily bleak. [More…]
It is obviously important for a government which is concerned about poverty to have some idea of the way in which expenditure changes with increased income for a given family size. [More…]
The questionnaire even makes provision for it being a family loan. [More…]
Why should any citizen in this country have to name to some agent of a government a member of his family who is lending him money? [More…]
I do not reject the need for governments to obtain some information in order to plan for the future but I would like to know what good reason there is for requesting John Citizen to provide information about which member of his family lent him money. [More…]
I went, accidentally, to the home of one census collector a few short years ago and I was alarmed to see the stack of forms on the floor in the family living room. [More…]
I know that the Special Minister of State will say that the interviewers are sworn to secrecy, but why should that person have to divulge all the private details of his life and of the lives of members of his family just to satisfy a government requirement? [More…]
In the case which I cited earlier, and to which the Minister did not refer, people were asked to name the member of the family who had lent them the money to go for a holiday. [More…]
It will give them the opportunity to give and share their contributions to our human family. [More…]
This will not help John Citizen, his wife and family. [More…]
The houses are built so close together that it is difficult for a family to obtain much degree of privacy. [More…]
I use the phrase ‘private transport’ in the sense that every person who owns a motor car or other vehicle for personal or family transport will be subject to the Inter-State Commission. [More…]
The maximum allowance is $450, subject to a means test, and the full amount is payable when a family’s adjusted family income does not exeed $3,500 a year. [More…]
For each $5 by which the adjusted family income exceeds this amount the allowance paid is reduced by $1. [More…]
At $5,675 per annum of adjusted family income, the minimum allowance received is $15 per annum. [More…]
It might be said that as a result of that the family farmer is being prejudiced. [More…]
All are patterned according to the housewife’s requirements, the dietary needs of her family and her assessments of the nutritional balance that the family needs, but fundamentally according to her ability to pay for the products. [More…]
The price factor and other considerations result in pork being eaten by the ordinary family. [More…]
He was in charge of the Holy Family Orphange at Da Nang. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the conditions he announced yesterday in relation to family reunion of Vietnamese are narrower than those that apply under the normal immigration program? [More…]
My nation, my family, my beloved children are drowning . [More…]
He went on to say that his brother’s family, who left Da Nang in a boat, perished at sea from starvation and thirst. [More…]
Allow $35 for rent, a figure 1 know they pay, $30 for each of the 2 cars they run, and they have a ‘family’ income of $ 1 2 1 after housing and transport expenses are paid. [More…]
It must be great for the man who is out of work, who has a family and commitments and who may be listening to this debate, to be told that he is a bludger because he is collecting unemployment benefits because he cannot get a job. [More…]
Such an approach has the unfortunate consequence apparently deplored by the Minister for Education that it assumes the eclipse of the family. [More…]
The role of the family, and in particular the mother, must be clarified. [More…]
There is now a growing public recognition and expression of the view that there is no ideal substitute for home and family life for the young child. [More…]
We must endorse the trend to family orientation of child care by strengthening the capabilities of families with measures designed to improve their social and economic conditions. [More…]
As pointed out by the paper on family welfare published by the Social Welfare Commission, Australia lacks a coherent family policy. [More…]
In doing so we have often hindered rather than fostered the normal growth and development of the family as a nurturing unit. [More…]
Growing numbers of families find themselves unable to reconcile the financial difference between the childless, 2 -income situation of early married life with the single income family role that comes with parenthood. [More…]
In the case of mothers of infants and pre-school children the decision is often taken with misgivings- a sense of guilt on the part of the mother and feelings of inadequacy on the part of the father- often with resulting tensions and disruptions to normal family life. [More…]
The mother who is not employed at all, frequently because she believes it is in her family’s interest that it have her full time care, is disadvantaged and in fact often ignored. [More…]
Much legislation discriminates against the normal 2-parent family and, in addition, places 2 -income families in an advantaged position when compared with those families where the wife and mother stays at home to care for her children. [More…]
Pressure of opinion is building up in favour of measures designed not to prevent mothers who, for personal reasons, want to continue their careers, from doing so but aimed at helping those who, solely for economic reasons, feel obliged to leave their children in the care of others so that they can earn a second wage for the family. [More…]
In it the Union drew attention to the hardship caused to the single income family by excessive taxation. [More…]
This burden can be overcome in 2 ways: Either by the mother, irrespective of the ages of her children, going to work, or by significant tax reforms so that the current discrimination against the single income family is removed. [More…]
These and many other proposals, such as some form of family income maintenance or a mothers’ allowance, are deserving of detailed study and appraisal in an attempt to design a policy for the care and education of the pre-school child. [More…]
Equally important is the design of policies and programs which will enable the mother of young children, while giving primary importance to her role as a mother, to maintain her interests and social contacts in such a way that the combination gives her, taking life as a whole, adequate opportunity for self-realisation, both within and apart from the family. [More…]
Each family, if it wishes, should be able to find a type of support which has been described by Margaret Mead as the process of ‘re-surrounding the nuclear family’. [More…]
In designing tax and social security programs we have so often been wholly absorbed in achieving an equitable vertical redistribution of income between the wealthy and the needy that we have overlooked the importance of the longitudinal redistribution between the more affluent periods of our lifespan and those where the requirement and demand on family resources are great and, unless they are supplemented, place us in the category of the needy. [More…]
Though it is most desirable that family day care schemes should be expanded, this should occur only if subject to close supervision and regulation as to the standards of care to be made available in this way. [More…]
Family day care has its strengths and weaknesses, but care provided by those working in a substitute mother role through the family day care schemes needs to be evaluated. [More…]
Perhaps this would give a more family atmosphere. [More…]
The sad fact is that up till now preschooling originally intended by us as an important aid in removing or modifying inequalities of background, environment, family income and family nationality- had primarily benefited children whose mothers could afford to stay at home. [More…]
Such a program as the family day care scheme is an outstanding recognition of this fact. [More…]
Let it not throw that charge at the family day care scheme. [More…]
The single income family, which has become increasingly beset with difficulties, economic and social, has again been put aside as a problem which perhaps can resolve itself. [More…]
Many of these questions and proposals emanating from the Bill are attached directly to whether we continue to accept the one income family as the norm within Australia. [More…]
We are increasingly accepting a multiple income family as the pacesetter in our community. [More…]
Whilst we justify this as a measure to offset the impact of inflation, it may well be argued in some cases whether the multiple income family is indeed not contributing to inflation. [More…]
We tend here to denigrate the status of motherhood and the status of the family. [More…]
I do not invite argument as to what the status of the family actually may be in this context. [More…]
Some of these activities may become increasingly questionable if we transfer the critical responsibilities of the family to the State. [More…]
Again this denigrates the traditional family institution. [More…]
It is quite clear that, as a complement to this Commission in endeavouring to relieve the problems of our young, the Government and society as a whole must initiate an investigation and give the most serious thought to whether we have changed our social structure so much that the single income family now becomes an anachronism and whether we must make all those necessary adjustments to establish a new norm by which people may reasonably set their standards. [More…]
I refer to the second reading speech of the Special Minister of State in which he indicated that some of the other services which would be provided would include full day care, family day care, pre-school education of course, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, play groups and other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
After all, if the $75m which is proposed to be spent under this measure becomes a substitute for money that would otherwise be spent on family assistance available to parents of children in the home, are we to say that that represents a net improvement in respect of the care of children? [More…]
But at the same time one must bear in mind that the family assistance available to parents of children to spend in their homes for a family has declined from 1.7 per cent of the gross domestic product to .4 per cent of the gross domestic product. [More…]
After all, family assistance programs in Australia which have hitherto been carried out have abided by the principle of freedom of choice. [More…]
They are internal affairs- family affairs, if you like- and because of this they are fought with a ferocity and intensity far surpassing those of conventional wars between nation states. [More…]
Civil wars are family affairs; they are no concern of outsiders. [More…]
If one intervenes in a family quarrel one usually incurs the enmity of both sides either for what one has done or for what one has failed to do for one or the other party to the quarrel. [More…]
These sorts of things are the things that people of my own political beliefs love and promote- the world becoming one family. [More…]
I think it ill becomes the honourable member for Mackellar to get on to a theme of that sort at this time in the twentieth century when I can see the people of the world, despite the differences in political ideology, becoming one family. [More…]
Ultimately, when a government intrudes into intimate institutions such as the family and when it intrudes into the responsibilities of families with respect to children, the power of that government will play a very great role in determining ultimately the values of the community. [More…]
Some years ago family assistance for 2 children would have bought 18 loaves of bread in a week. [More…]
It is not enough for a government to say that, with the birth of every child a family can be driven into pauperism and then to say that that family, having been driven into pauperism by the government’s taxation policy, will have services made available to it outside the home under conditions that the government determines. [More…]
I am also pleased that money has been set aside for family care services in the Springvale municipality. [More…]
We must not ignore the use of homes for family day care where trained personnel could assist mothers of suitable temperament in this situation to look after their children. [More…]
This work ranges through full day care, family day care, pre-school education, emergency care, occasional care and before and after school care. [More…]
Obviously the family unit must reign supreme if we are to breed children with the desired qualities to maintain Australia as a great nation, keeping it abreast of the ever changing world and, indeed, if possible keeping it in the forefront with other great nations. [More…]
I want to sound a note of warning about family unit care that is being looked at by the Interim Commission and will no doubt be continued by the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Obviously rigid controls and frequent checks on families who conduct these family unit care centres will be required. [More…]
I understand that in Vancouver an Act to provide for family unit care came into effect in 1971 and was discontinued in 1973. [More…]
Surveys have shown that children in family or home groups do not receive the same benefit and stimulation as is available in larger group institutions. [More…]
I would say that the family unit care possibly could have some valuable application in small country centres or perhaps in remote areas. [More…]
It might well be asked: Why should a family with one breadwinner have to pay for the care of children of families who have 2 breadwinners? [More…]
That being so, why should such a family be penalised by having to pay through taxation for the care of children of families who are receiving that second pay packet? [More…]
If child care centres, for example, are paid for by the community what we are doing is taxing everybody to pay for the children of the 2-income family to be looked after. [More…]
The organisations include the St Paul’s Lutheran Child Care Centre, the Ardill Family Centre, the Church of Christ Child Care Centre at Mt Druitt, the Greystanes Child Care Centre and the Telopea Church of Christ Child Care Centre. [More…]
The submission mentions the problem of a number of children in a family in which there is only a mother and no father at home, and deals with the problem that that mother has in paying for child care in this institution out of the pension and other benefits that she receives. [More…]
I also indicate that there is a need in this same area for family day care. [More…]
I have drawn to the Minister’s attention a request for funds under the family day care scheme by the same people whom he met when he came out to open the Telopea Church of Christ Child Care Centre. [More…]
From that centre the family day care concept radiates out. [More…]
One family with 2 children may have both parents working. [More…]
Only one parent may be working in the family next door. [More…]
That family may have three or four children with the mother at home looking after those three or four sick children. [More…]
The intention of the Government to stamp its own philosophy upon all the institutions of Australia, including the most basic institution of the family, is regrettable and is completely indefensible. [More…]
Housing is vital to the welfare and happiness of the individual family. [More…]
It is essential to the process of marriage and family life. [More…]
For instance, the tax saving for a taxpayer and his wife, with 3 dependants, on $8,000 per annum is $338.40, compared with a saving for a taxpayer in the same family situation on $5,000 per annum-that is $3,000 less-of only $145.12. [More…]
This is less than half the amount received by the comparable family on $8,000 per annum. [More…]
The young people of Australia in future will be denied all the security, freedom of choice and expresson, and stable family life which are a direct product of home ownership, and which most Australians have grown to accept as of right. [More…]
The benefits of the scheme for a one income family receiving $6,000 a year with a $15,000 loan will be $7.40 a week if the interest on their mortgage is 9Vi per cent. [More…]
A family paying off a loan of the same amount at 12 per cent interest will gain a saving of $9.90 per week. [More…]
For example, the tax saving for the taxpayer with 3 dependants who receives $8,000 per annum is $338.40 compared with a saving for a taxpayer in the same family situation on $5,000 of only $145.12. [More…]
The benefit received by a family is not as great as that received by a single person making the same interest payments because the percentate of interest deductible is not affected by the family size, being based on actual income before personal deductions. [More…]
There could be a decision to marry and to obtain a home for a family. [More…]
It sounds the death knell to thousands of people- to young married couples and those intending to get married who want to settle down, raise a family and become decent citizens in this country in any one of thousands of suburbs, towns and settlements. [More…]
More overseas domination of an industry that has been traditionally a family one and part of the Australian rural scene for a long while. [More…]
At present there are 2997 applicants waiting for family rented accommodation in the A.C.T. [More…]
a) during the consideration of the Family Law Bill 1 974 in committee of the whole House- [More…]
until the Family Law Bill 1 974 is disposed of- [More…]
The Family Law Bill has crested great interest throughout the community and in both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
I believe this motion needs to be considered in the same way as the Family Law Bill itself. [More…]
The Opposition has no objection to paragraph ( 1 ) (a) (ii) which suggests that we should initiate debate on clause 48 of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Let me say to the House that we are completely in accord with the idea of initiating debate on the Family Law Bill at clause 48 which is, after all, the core in a consideration of the legislation and indicates the nature of the changes which the Family Law Bill itself proposes. [More…]
Not even half the members of this Parliament have had an opportunity to speak to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
There is no reason why that cannot happen in respect of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
This Leader of the House, this great advocate of democracy, proposes to suspend the opportunity for members of this chamber to talk on matters of public importance until the Family Law Bill has been disposed of. [More…]
But to deny the opportunity to raise a matter of public importance until the Family Law Bill has been disposed of is absolute nonsense. [More…]
We think it is important that there be adequate opportunities for debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
But to suggest that there should be no further discussion of matters of public importance until the Family Law Bill has been disposed of and to suggest that only 5 minutes be allowed for a member to discuss matters in the Committee stage is to deny members of this Parliament the opportunity adequately to exercise their responsibilities. [More…]
The other point that emerges from subparagraph (b) of the motion is that it is proposed that Government Business shall take precedence over General Business on each sitting day until the Family Law Bill has been disposed of. [More…]
So, not only will members of the Opposition be denied the opportunity to discuss matters of public importance, but the motion will mean that if the Family Law Bill is not disposed of by next Thursday there goes General Business day. [More…]
Until the Family Law Bill has been disposed of, Government Business is to take precedence on Thursday mornings. [More…]
I think it is quite important in respect of legislation on which 153 amendments have already been advised to the Parliament, which is of tremendous importance to this nation and which covers a matter of fundamental importance to the country- the whole concept of the Australian family- that there should be an adequate opportunity for debate on it. [More…]
Because there are so many matters of objectionparticularly the 5-minute constraint, the elimination of discussions of matters of public importance and the giving of precedence to Government Business until the Family Law Bill has been disposed of- the Opposition intends to vote against this motion. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I raise something which will concern your own administration of the House during the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It is trying to create in those who are in the industry the greatest fear of all- that of unemployment- without regard to the effect it has on the bread winners of the family or the dependants of the families employed in the industry. [More…]
It is not easy for a pensioner to make ends meet and to raise a family. [More…]
I also wish to advise honourable members that at the conclusion of consideration of clause 48 I intend to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the Committee to postpone consideration of clauses 1 to 20 until after consideration of clause 21 which deals with the creation of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The Bill in clause 43 recognises this and commits both Parliament and courts to the preservation of marriage and family. [More…]
The present clause therefore fails to achieve the fundamental object of the Bill, namely, to support the family. [More…]
In defended divorce cases the Family Law Bill will not eliminate humiliation, bitterness and embarrassment even if we accepted the quite unwarranted assumption that under the new dissolution proceedings no such feelings will be suffered by the party who is divorced against his or her will by a spouse whose action or conduct ended cohabitation. [More…]
It remains certain that if the Family Law Bill is enacted the type of bitter exchanges which evoke such feelings will be merely transferred from the dissolution proceedings to the custody and maintenance proceedings. [More…]
If one party decides to go to the Family Court to apply for the assistance of the counselling facilities of the Court there is no provision in Part III of the Bill, as I see it, which enables the Court to insist that counselling take place. [More…]
worrying about his health, finances, their family . [More…]
I implore you to work for more than the 92 amendments already made: Some of the above is happening to me and my family. [More…]
Whether or not these things can be examined in a family court, they cannot be brought forward as a reason for divorce, and therefore that is better. [More…]
We ought not to forget that what the Family Law Act will do, as the Matrimonial Causes Act which the Bill intends to replace already does, is establish the legal rights of parties to a marriage upon the dissolution of that marriage. [More…]
I am one of those, old fashioned if honourable members like, who still think that the perpetuation of the family unit is the bulwark of our society. [More…]
-In my speech during the second reading debate on the Family Law Bill I intimated that I would move an amendment to clause 48 which would seek to do a number of things. [More…]
I support clause 48 of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It is a wonder we try to pass the Family Law Bill at all if we are, in fact, going to reintroduce fault as a basis for the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
In that sense I opt for the judgment of 2 years and I believe I am putting my view responsibly to the Committee in saying that if there is doubt in a matter which concerns the family unit in such a fundamental way, in a matter which concerns the whole fabric of Australian society, this House has a direct and important responsibility to hasten slowly. [More…]
from the Supreme Courts down to the magistrates ‘ courts, is staffed or equipped to deal adequately and sympathetically with family law matters. [More…]
In that State a family law division has been set up and it has been working very well. [More…]
I suggest that if we find ourselves with another 6 Federal judges and perhaps 13 or 20 Family Court judges we will have a surplus of judges in Australia. [More…]
I wonder whether this Family Court will be used for that purpose. [More…]
Of all the daisy in the dell descriptions, surely this is it- a Family Court to deal with a matter that has absolutely nothing to do with the family at all, other than to disrupt it. [More…]
For the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) to come in here and to press upon the Committee of the House of Representatives the description of Family Court of Australia, almost as though it will be a court to deal with matters in some clinical, detached, dispassionate way, was one of the aching forms of separation. [More…]
Let me just deal with this Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The point about the Family Court of Australia was admirably made by my friend, the honourable member for Wentworth. [More…]
If there is to be any sense of realism regarding this matter, the Committee will come to grips with what is involved and, that is, that if there is to be a Family Court- I think this is a completely unnecessary proposal- there should be an effort to secure that those who sit upon it, if I may say so with infinite respect to age, should have a more gentle understanding of the problems of contemporary society than those swept into the state of octogenarianism. [More…]
The Attorney-General shows scant regard for the immense distances involved in this country when he says of a Family Court that it will, as a display in perambulation or as a peripatetic court, wander around the great State of Queensland in the same way as the Supreme Court does. [More…]
Does my friend the Attorney-General seriously suggest that judges of the Family Court will be able to turn in a comparable performance at least in terms of regularity? [More…]
I invite my friend to reflect earnestly upon the practical problem of members of the Family Court giving the same sense of service to people as do the present justices of the Supreme Courts of the States. [More…]
I am certain that this clause is one of the contributions which this Family Law Bill will make to matters associated with divorce and the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
I cannot understand the sneers which the 2 honourable gentlemen have hurled at this suggestion of a Family Court, at the people who may be appointed to it and at the probability of people who are appointed to the Federal jurisdiction being able to carry out their duties. [More…]
I hope that judges of the Family Court which is proposed in this Bill will give a lot more time than half an hour to each case in this involved and complex matter. [More…]
If those figures are correct I think there is every reason in the world for a family court to be established. [More…]
The Government Party some time ago decided to support the establishment of a Superior Court which, of course, incorporated the family court concept. [More…]
I believe that there are matters which the States can handle probably better than a central government but there are also matters that the central Government can handle far better than the States and, in respect of this uniform law which will affect all the States and all the people of Australia, I suggest it is to the advantage of the people who will have to come before this Family Court to have a uniform court with uniform ideals and with people who are working in the same direction and under the same direction. [More…]
It is no wonder they do not want to see the Family Court concept accepted. [More…]
If this Bill is to function in the way we hope it will, and if this law is to be the law we hope it will be, the Family Court has to be established in the way it is proposed in this Bill, otherwise the whole purpose of the Bill is lost. [More…]
I urge honourable members, and especially those on the Government side who made a conscious decision to support the Superior Court concept in Australia, to support the establishment of the Family Court because without it the proposed law is virtually useless. [More…]
If judges of the High Court are allowed to continue to sit as judges that should apply also to judges of the Family Court. [More…]
On the other hand, my very strong personal view is that all judges should retire at about 70 years of age regardless of whether th_ey.be judges of the Family Court, the High Court or any other court. [More…]
However, in South Australia a Family Court such as is proposed by this Bill is already, in existence and works well. [More…]
to adjudicate in the arena of family law. [More…]
Suddenly would be thrust upon them the job of adjudicating upon the questions which would be raised in a family court. [More…]
I suggest that a lot of the opposition to the establishment of a Family Court is nothing but sheer and utter humbug. [More…]
-The question of whether a Family Court should be established is a matter about which I am not entirely dogmatic. [More…]
I have been drawn into this debate by some of the extraordinary arguments that have been advanced during the course of it by the protagonists in favour of the establishment of a Family Court. [More…]
The Family Law Bill does not establish uniformity in divorce law. [More…]
The question of whether or not we should have a Family Court can be decided only on balance. [More…]
I must take the opposite view entirely from the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) because I think he has totally missed the concept of the Family Court. [More…]
The total concept, surely, in relation to many of the clauses contained in this Bill is that the Family Court concept should not be riddled with legality. [More…]
Let me turn to the South Australian Family Court about which I am not entirely lacking in knowledge. [More…]
The Family Court in South Australia is not set up as an Act of law. [More…]
Not only does the Family Court have to use the resources of the Supreme Court, most of which are either inadequate or not competent in this particular field- I back up my friend, the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron)- but they are also having to drag on the resources of local courts, marriage guidance counsellors and on all sorts of areas. [More…]
My understanding of the concept of this Bill is that the Family Court should be something quite different from the courts of law. [More…]
Running on from that argument, I accept that, in general, anything would be better than the current situation in Australia, and if State Family Courts can be set up throughout Australia operating in the image of the South Australian court, it will be a good thing. [More…]
Family Court of Australia, and those family courts that are to be established pursuant to clause 41, will operate. [More…]
The explanatory memorandum states that the Family Court of Australia has jurisdiction in any matrimonial cause instituted or continued under the Bill, any proceedings instituted or continued under the Marriage Act and so on, and other matters are mentioned. [More…]
It seems to me that the clauses do give to the Family Court of Australia the possibility that it will be hearing not just matters on appeal but matters of first instance. [More…]
I should like the Attorney-General to indicate how he envisages these clauses would operate before I would vote in favour of the establishment of a Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Generally speaking, I was in favour of a family court that would exercise an appellate jurisdiction and that would enable the various courts to be established under clause 41 to exercise jurisdiction in a similar way. [More…]
This was the view that I had when I saw the proposal for a family court. [More…]
It was my view that the Commonwealth, when it seeks under clause 41 of the Bill to institute agreements with the States, would be able to establish courts that would exercise jurisdiction in the same way in which he envisaged the Family Court of Australia would exercise jurisdictionin other words, that the judges would exercise their jurisdiction in the same humane way, taking cognisance of the same human factors, and that there would be appointed judges having the same variety of experience that he saw in judges appointed under the parts of this Bill dealing with the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
But surely there should be a place for a family court whose first objective must be to explore the possibility of reconciliation in a matrimonial matter and which would have the function of dealing with those matters where there is consent, where there is no contest in the court between 2 people. [More…]
The family court should be able to make an order without the apparatus of law if there is that kind of consent between the 2 parties, and in a matrimonial cause there are 2 parties. [More…]
If this is done and if there is a proper apparatus towards this objective, if we can have a family court which is not half informal- as this kind of hybrid court is- but an entirely informal court without the function of being able to judge between 2 people who are opposed to one another but with the function of registering an agreement which they have made in accordance with law and after the satisfaction of the criteria laid down by the Bill, I think we would have something sensible. [More…]
It seems to me that the family court which we create by this Bill should be quite different from the kind of family court which is envisaged by the Bill itself. [More…]
It is that sort of thinking that has led to the move to create a Family Court. [More…]
This proposition that there should be a Family Court of Australia finds opposition from people who either defend the law because it is the best of all possible worlds or take some kind of extreme [More…]
They will make it possible for divorce and family matters to be resolved in a simple way, an easy way, an informal way and a way that removes the cant, the hypocrisy and the terror that in the minds of some people are associated with the legal process. [More…]
The honourable member for Angas, speaking as a non-lawyer, knows of the success of the family court in South Australia where informality reigns, where people are able to go and have their family problems adjusted and assisted, and where divorces are given when they are required in a civilised and dignified way. [More…]
May I remind honourable members of some of the features of the Family Court set up by this Bill. [More…]
By reason of training, experience and personality, the judges of the Family Court have to be suitable persons to deal in matters of family law. [More…]
The idea that there should be a family court came as a non-party measure. [More…]
Those who are supporters of States rights, like the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), forget in their hysteria clause 41, which requires the government of the day to try to reach agreement with the States to have the States set up their family courts. [More…]
It would be only in the absence of agreement or something of that sort that the Family Court of Australia would function in this exclusive way. [More…]
If practising Roman Catholics do not feel that they can bring themselves to utilise the provisions of the Family Law Bill, under my proposal they could at least live apart from one another protected not merely by the injunctive provisions of the Bill but also by a recognition written into a variety of clauses in this Bill. [More…]
Indeed, wherever reference to ‘dissolution of marriage’ occurs the words ‘or judicial separation’ would be put, thereby providing for those who feel that they cannot utilise the very real benefits of the Family Law Bill by permitting them at least to be separated, to have the various custody, maintenance and other provisions applying and not to break their deep-seated religious faith. [More…]
I do not disguise my misgiving as to whether or not ‘proceeding in a court ‘ means a court which is involved in matrimonial affairs- that is to say a family court or one of the supreme courts of the States exercising jurisdiction under this Act. [More…]
Take the further case of a testator’s family maintenance proceeding. [More…]
A lot of people are suggesting that this whole Bill is not in the best interests of the family. [More…]
Yet, this Bill- the Family Law Bill, as it is so delightfully described- provides that a married person may leave Australia, go to a foreign country where customs are different, where the laws are different and where traditions are very much strange and foreign to our own, enter into a union with a spouse and return to Australia with another wife. [More…]
The learned gentleman talks about State laws- Testator’s Family Maintenance Acts, State workers compensation laws and a whole range of particular State laws that give an entitlement to a person if that person has a particular status. [More…]
That does not affect in any way the New South Wales Workers Compensation Act, the New South Wales Testator’s Family Maintenance Act or whatever may be the appropriate Queensland statutes that deal with the granting of some kind of relief. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act - in other words, for the purposes of family law and matrimonial causes- a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been - [More…]
Once this new principle or fact is accepted in the Family Law Bill we will have imported a very significant new practice and new recognition into this country. [More…]
Mr Gormly stated that clause 6 of the Family Law Bill 1974 would, if enacted, permit Australians to contract polygamous marriages abroad. [More…]
Clause 6 of the Family Law Bill, like section 6a of the present Matrimonial Causes Act 1959, is intended to overcome the ancient English decision of Hyde v. Hyde, in which it was held that English courts could not grant matrimonial relief to parties to a polygamous marriage, either to dissolve it if it was valid or to annul it if it was void. [More…]
(Mr Enderby)-In sub-clause (6) (a) after ‘Welfare’, insert’ of the Family Court’. [More…]
If the marriage has irretrievably broken down, it should be dissolved; but it should not be presumed that the breakdown is irretrievable, particularly where there are children, unless every effort has been made to restore communication so that the children can have the opportunity to live in a stable, happy, 2-parent family. [More…]
I recognise that it involves counselling a large number of families; but the price involved in providing that counselling for a large number of families, if it gives a happy family life in a 2-parent situation for a significant number of children, is worth paying. [More…]
Last evening it was suggested in a debate peripheral to this measure- this clause, indeed, and one or two others- that we have enough legalities and that those appointed to the Family Court- this was certainly one of the inferences to be drawnwould be people skilled in the understanding of the ways of humanity. [More…]
Are the people to be appointed to the Family Court to be people with legal qualifications or not? [More…]
Certainly until last night the whole provision in clause 21- the creation of the Family Court of Australia- was open to a considerable amount of uncertainty. [More…]
by reason of training, experience and personality, he is a suitable person to deal with matters of family law. [More…]
There is relatively little experience in family court work in Australia. [More…]
The only family court that has been in existence for any period of time- and indeed that court for only a short time- is the South Australian Family Court. [More…]
That court has been universally applauded as having been a very successful experiment, one which obviously influenced a number of members of the Senate, from which this Bill came, one which obviously influenced a number of honourable members in this chamber who now consider the Bill, and one which led last night to the rejection of the move against the family court provisions. [More…]
With the emphasis being placed on informality and on a new approach to solving the problems of the family a wide discretion is being given to the judges who make up the court to devise the writs and the orders that they will be able to use. [More…]
in the Family Court; or [More…]
Subject to this Part, the Supreme Court of each State is invested with federal jurisdiction, and jurisdiction is conferred on the Family Court and on the Supreme Court of each Territory, to hear and determine- [More…]
(Mr Ellicott)- In sub-clause (5), omit ‘on the Family Court and’. [More…]
Of course one has to accept the proposition that there will be a Family Court of Australia. [More…]
1 have in mind that even though a Family Court of Australia is to be established and even though there may be concurrent jurisdiction in supreme courts, I think the Attorney-General will be familiar with the problem of jurisdiction being exercised in country areas where perhaps the State supreme court does not sit or where there are not the funds or the opportunity for the Family Court to sit. [More…]
Of course, where the judges are members of the Family Court, they may so sit. [More…]
With a little indulgence, Mr Chairman, I wish to make the point that I am anxious, now that we are obviously going to pass this law, to be able to embark upon attempts to reach agreement with the States on the Family Court issue during the Parliamentary recess which is approaching. [More…]
The Family Law Bill contains provisions for the establishment of a Family Court of Australia. [More…]
which would ultimately exercise all the jurisdiction under the Family Law Bill. [More…]
As the Attorney-General is aware, the provisions of clause 21 of this Bill restrict the number of family court judges to six. [More…]
The history of that sub-clause is that it was included, as I understand it, in the Senate Committee stage of this Bill as a brake on the Attorney-General in his appointment of judges, as the Senate Committee of the whole felt that the requirements of clause 41 should be adhered to and felt rather strongly that these family courts, both for constitutional reasons and for other reasons, ought to be established in all States. [More…]
They alone, in other words, can provide an effective family court system under the present constitutional structure. [More…]
It is of tremendous importance, not only to the Senate but also to those of us who have some faith in the family court system as such, that this provision be adhered to. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
(Mr Ellicott)-Omit ‘The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any’, substitute ‘Any’. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, to the extent to which it is not contrary to this Act, have regard to - [More…]
It refers to ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage’, ‘the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’, the responsibility for the care and education of dependent children, ‘the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare’, and ‘the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage ‘. [More…]
(78a) clause 43 relates to the Family Court and to the matters to which it must have regard when exercising jurisdiction. [More…]
I think that if there is one thing that we would want to establish in this country- we should certainly establish it for the Family Court -it is that marriage is permanent. [More…]
I think that when the matter was debated in the Senate, this was one of the clauses which was amended to bring before the Family Court the prime reason for marriage; that is, that it is permanent. [More…]
I believe that having the clause as it is provides no difficulty for the Family Court, whatever the circumstances may be, because the court will take notice of them. [More…]
I believe that a family court should take into consideration circumstances which have been traditional and which still are present through much of our community, that a woman who gets married expects to be looked after by her husband and, even if the marriage breaks down, expects still to have some right to the protection of the law and some right to be looked after by the person she married at an earlier time. [More…]
Therefore I believe that this additional principle is one that ought to be taken into account when family courts come to make their decisions. [More…]
If the purpose of clause 43 is to state the broad principles which ought to be applied by the Family Court in exercising its jurisdiction, and if we are to include any principles in that, surely there ought to be room for the expression of the principle that there is a need to protect a woman within marriage who, in the exercise of choice, opts for the full time wife or mother role. [More…]
I would appreciate it if the Attorney-General could give an undertaking that the proposed Family Law [More…]
My only suggestion to the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) is that this is a reason why the amendment to the prohibited degrees ought to be a matter for the Marriage Act being amended, rather than the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I wonder why the list of prohibited relationships which are in the present Act are not included in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
If the Family Law Bill does not seek to alter completely what are prohibited relationships, there ought to be an answer to the question. [More…]
The aspect that troubles me is the one which was pointed out by the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) who said that there are categories listed in the Marriage Act which are not discussed as definitely in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It seems anomalous that certain marriages are debarred in the Marriage Act but permitted for divorce reasons in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Would the Attorney-General, as the principal law officer of the country, seriously contend that a judge should say to a woman who has been so utterly bereft of family and parental responsibility that merely because sheisthe mother she should not have custody of the children? [More…]
This is only the second time on which I have risen to speak on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Let us contemplate the situation where the husband has left the home and the mother is charged with the responsibility of maintaining the family and paying the debts that come her way. [More…]
The court will not look upon her as the woman, the mother, the wife, the bearer of children, the one responsible for the upbringing of the family; it will look upon her as just another person, another party. [More…]
But her offspring reach a stage when they no longer need protection from the family unit. [More…]
I rather hope that the majority of members of this Parliament are prepared to vote in favour of this amendment to ensure, if in fact there is some doubt about it, as I believe there is, the rights and the protection of women under this new Family Law Bill. [More…]
It suggests that if the parties have reached an agreement, that agreement shall be ratified in the Family Court unless there is good cause to the contrary. [More…]
The motive for doing this is to reduce the legalism in the Family Court and to reduce the opportunity for legal representation in that Court. [More…]
The Family Law Bill will be proceeded with immediately after that. [More…]
They should not hold up unduly consideration of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
1 , Government Business, further consideraton of the Family Law Bill 1974, being called on forthwith and having precedence until disposed of. [More…]
The Leader of the House (Mr Daly) has given his explanation that there are a number of matters of urgent Government business which he seeks to take as matters precedent to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The reason why I move this motion is that the very nature of the resolution passed by this House a few days ago, at the insistence of the Leader of the House, precludes us on this side of the chamber from canvassing any other matters whatsoever while the Family Law Bill remains unresolved. [More…]
A second reason why I move the motion is that the debate over the last 2 days has demonstrated a widespread concern in the Parliament that there should be an expeditious consideration and deliberation of each of the several measures contained within the proposals of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
There would be no opportunity for private member’s business to be introduced as the Standing Orders provide, until such time as the Family Law Bill is disposed of. [More…]
Regrettably he changed his mind on the third occasion and was not prepared to allow the Family Law Bill to continue until such time as it was finalised. [More…]
I have moved the motion for the suspension of standing orders so that honourable members on this side of the House and honourable members on the other side of the House can conclude those contributions which we believe need to be made to the Family Law Bill and so that we can canvass other matters of significant public concern. [More…]
They cannot be raised until we have disposed of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We think it is quite critical that we dispose of the Family Law Bill so that matters of national importance- in addition to the Family Law Bill- can adequately be canvassed in this place. [More…]
It is not sufficient for the Leader of the House to say that later on this day we will get on with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We are dealing with the suspension of Standing Orders to enable the Family Law Bill to be brought on. [More…]
We want to talk about the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We cannot talk about the Family Law Bill to the exclusion of all other matters in this chamber. [More…]
I am moving for the suspension of standing orders so that we can talk about the Family Law Bill and then talk about all these other matters about which the people of Australia are concerned. [More…]
We, on this side of the House, believe that for that reason it is far preferable to initiate this morning’s business by proceeding immediately with the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I think the debate on the Family Law Bill should continue until it is concluded and then we can proceed to the business as listed. [More…]
For those reasons I have moved the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders to enable the debate on the Family Law Bill to proceed. [More…]
If one turns to the question of priority- I am not being discourteous to my friend, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley)- I would submit to the House that a Bill relating to the Canberra College of Advanced Education should not claim priority over the conclusion of the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
What priority should that command over the Family Law Bill? [More…]
The main argument put to the House by the honourable member for New England this morning was: By dint of the manner in which the Government has contrived to arrange consideration of the Family Law Bill, this House is virtually gagged. [More…]
To think that matters of grave public importance cannot be discussed until such time as the Family Law Bill is debated in full is absolutely outrageous. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), who has just spoken, mentioned the need to speed up the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton was not prepared to conclude the debate on the Family Law Bill last night. [More…]
If the honourable member was fair dinkum last night he would have stayed all night but he wanted to go home at 10.35 p.m. Today, with all that pomposity that can come only from a small debts lawyer, he stands up in this Parliament and tells us that we have to proceed with the Family Law Bill without further delay. [More…]
It set out in some detail the arrangements which would be made to cover the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The continuation of the debate on the Family Law Bill could have waited until doomsday as long as the beef industry Bill was introduced. [More…]
The fact that we have to defend them against the actions of the Country Party indicates that it is using the debate on the Family Law Bill for political purposes. [More…]
The delay in the continuation of the debate on the Family Law Bill will not be very great by reason of the fact that a number of important Bills is to be introduced and that there are also to be debates on electoral redistributions in 2 States. [More…]
The debate on the Family Law Bill will then proceed. [More…]
It is of no use honourable members opposite, particularly the Deputy Leader of the Country Party and the honourable member for Moreton, grandstanding on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Family Law Bill is not supposed to be a lawyers’ paradise for argument in the Parliament. [More…]
It just seeks to give the impression that the Labor Government is holding up the passage of the Family Law Bill, which is not the case. [More…]
In addition, the insincerity of honourable members opposite has been proved by the fact that the honourable member who seconded the motion wanted to curtail the debate on the Family Law Bill at about 10.35 last night. [More…]
Therefore I suggest to honourable members opposite that they should accept the explanation that I have given and allow the Parliament to get on with all speed to the continuation of the debate on the Family Law Bill and to the consideration and finalisation of other business and not hold up the time of this Parliament unnecessarily for about 25 minutes on a motion on which they know that they have not much support. [More…]
Honourable members opposite should not forget that the debate on the Family Law Bill may well go on until this time next week. [More…]
I suggest to honourable members opposite that they should accept as such the importance of the legislation to which we have given priority, debate what is before them and then get on with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
One of the honourable members who will support the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders asked us to suspend everything half an hour ago to bring on the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Unfortunately, the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) even prior to the Commissioners being appointed said in his family newspaper the Advertiser’ that the Labor Party would try to win Sturt by hook or by crook. [More…]
(1) Except as provided in this section, it shall be an offence for any person to solicit or accept a fee for representing or appearing for a party in a Family Court or a court discharging the functions of a Family Court under this Act. [More…]
( 1 ) Where a party to a matter before a Family Court or a court discharging the functions of a Family Court so requests, the Director of Counselling and Welfare shall assign an adviser to him. [More…]
131 circulated in my name which is framed in such a way as to provide informality in the Family Court. [More…]
I believe that anybody aggrieved by any decision of the Family Court should have full access, on appeal, to another court and in that other court should have full access to legal opinion and legal advice. [More…]
But if we are to have a Family Court where there is the minimum of legality it would be a good thing if paid lawyers did not appear in that Family Court. [More…]
The Family Court is meant to be a court primarily of reconciliation. [More…]
But what I am concerned with is the first and preliminary hearing in the Family Court. [More…]
If the Family Court finds in a way which is satisfactory to both parties and which they would both consider fair- I believe in 95 per cent of the cases it would be like that- there is surely no reason for paid legal representation in that Family Court. [More…]
The Family Court or family counselling service or tribunal- call it what you like- primarily should be a body concerned with reconciliation. [More…]
I think it would be very good if in that Family Court we did not have paid lawyers representing the parties. [More…]
But I believe it would be very much in the spirit of this Bill if we were to say that in the Family Court there should not be legal representation and that parties should come forward and try to put their cases in a way which minimises bitternesses and which enables reconciliation to take place if it be at all possible. [More…]
If it be found that reconciliation is not possible let the judgment of the Family Court be given with the minimum of bitterness, the minimum of contention. [More…]
If persons not versed in the difficulties in the field of the settlement of property, as an example, were to appear in a family court in respect of such a dispute, whatever might be their role, I say with great respect that we would have no end of appeals going to the appellant court, which the honourable member proposes. [More…]
This question immediately arises: Who will have the responsibility of enforcing the decree or order of the Family Court? [More…]
The purpose of the amendment that I have just moved is to give jurisdiction by regulation to an officer of the court, or an authority or a person specified in the regulation to take proceedings to ensure the payment of those moneys on behalf of the person entitled to the moneys payable under the order; in other words, to relieve the person entitled to maintenance, under an order of the Family Court, of the obligation himself or herself to institute and to pursue to finality Family Court orders. [More…]
I hope that, when considering the relevant regulations, care will be taken to see that they are drafted in such a way as to ensure that the amount of maintenance is automatically paid to the party entitled, with recourse by the Family Court or its agency to the party actually responsible for payment. [More…]
The objective of my amendment, I repeat, is to relieve the person who has had the benefit of the Family Court order of the obligation to take the initiating action before the court or other agency. [More…]
I stress the fact, as I have done on numerous occasions and as some of those honourable members who have supported me on this Bill have done, that this Act as it stands still allows for conduct and behaviour to be taken into account by the family court. [More…]
It spells out, along with property rights and the protection of the person, a marital relationship and the family. [More…]
In other words, the injunction power can be used to protect and preserve the family. [More…]
1 ) The Attorney-General may establish a Family Law Council consisting of persons appointed by him in accordance with sub-section (2). [More…]
The Council shall consist of a Judge of the Family Court and such other judges, officers of the Public Service of Australia or of a State, representatives of marriage counselling organizations and other persons as the AttorneyGeneral thinks fit. [More…]
the working of this Act and other legislation relating to family law; [More…]
the working of legal aid in proceedings in family law; and [More…]
any other matters relating to family law. [More…]
(141) (Mr Ellicott)-In sub-clause (2), omit ‘a Judge of the Family Court and such other’, substitute ‘such’. [More…]
-Mr Chairman, I wish to move an amendment to clause 1 1 5 which concerns the Family Law Council and which is dealt with in this miscellaneous part of the Bill. [More…]
I will not read through the methods of appointment or what the Family Law Council aims to do, as set out in the Bill. [More…]
This is designed to correct the situation that could emerge with a newly appointed Family Law Council in regard to which there is no limitation as to the period of appointment. [More…]
What this amendment does, in effect- I have a hope that the Government will accept it- is to enable the Attorney-General to keep an eye on the Family Law Council with a view to graduating the age group of the Council and not letting the whole Council grow old or set in their ideas as one age group in terms of the time of their appointment. [More…]
This enables the Attorney-General purely to take action if he sees fit when a member of the Family Law Council becomes disinterested and does not carry out his work to the general satisfaction of the Government. [More…]
any statement or report that proceedings have been instituted in the Family Court or in another court exercising jurisdiction under this Act; or [More…]
any account of evidence in proceedings instituted in the Family Court or in another court having jurisdiction under this Act, or any other account or particulars of any such proceedings. [More…]
(145) (Mr Ellicott)- In sub-clause (1), paragraphs (a) and (b), omit ‘in the Family Court or in another’ (twice occurring), substitute ‘in any’. [More…]
I would like either the clause to be removed from the Bill or the AttorneyGeneral to give an assurance that, before producing a Bill to amend the Family Law Act- I believe that will be in the not too distant future- he will have a good look at this clause in order to ensure that some restraint is placed upon the capacity of the Attorney-General and that in all reasonable cases proceedings shall not be commenced without the approval of the Attorney-General himself. [More…]
During the course of the debate on the Family Law Bill a document, circulated not only within my electorate but in other areas, was put out by the Divorce Law Reform Association and was authorised by Mr W. Thompson. [More…]
The document is headed: ‘Family Law Bill in Grave Danger’. [More…]
There is grave danger that the Family Law Bill at present before Parliament will fail or be rendered ineffective by a small but powerful section of Church hierarchy aided by vested legal interests. [More…]
I think the Family Law Bill - which has just been agreed to by the Committee and in the second reading stages in this House- is a memorable Bill. [More…]
It is path-breaking in the sense that it introduces liberal principles into family law. [More…]
I also express my thanks to Mr Gordon Yuill, First Assistant-Secretary of the Family Law Division of the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
I thank Professor Finlay, the Assistant Professor of Family Law at Monash University too, for the help he has given. [More…]
Now that the Family Law Bill is about to pass through this House I should like to pay my respects to the Chairman of Committees (Mr Berinson) who did a remarkable job, and the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) who had to sit through the whole debate. [More…]
Just because an Australian family suffers a loss he says: ‘Let them bear it’. [More…]
This device prevented us debating matters like this during the currency of the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
But in those other industries there is not the predominance of individual family operations that there is in agriculture. [More…]
Those productive units represent not just an enterprise in which finance is involved; but there is an involvement of a family and an involvement of labour and capital. [More…]
However, in agriculture it is not only those general applications of policy which penalise the farmer but also those things which have been specifically introduced by the Labor Government and which make it almost impossible for the family farmer to survive. [More…]
How generous of this Government to provide $30m to try to offset the diabolical state in which the family farmer in Australia has been pressed because of direct Labor Government intervention. [More…]
That must be done if the family farmer is to survive. [More…]
Let us not hear this philosophy on the part of the National Country Party about how it protects the small family farmer as, under the former Administration, we saw the greatest exodus of small resident bona fide family farmers leaving primary industry. [More…]
Let me illustrate just how much inflation is damaging the Australian farmer, how much it is damaging his family and how much it is damaging the communities in which farmers live and work. [More…]
This not only affects those who are age pensioners; it also has a particular bearing on many families where the children of the family are supported by a widow. [More…]
Indeed, the Family Law Bill has an almost identical clause. [More…]
I regret any instance of distress caused to the family but, on the other hand, if the family had advised the child endowment section of the Department of Social Security of the change of name, prompt action could have been taken to change the records. [More…]
However, the vast majority of people whom I have contacted are very anxious to return to Darwin and to resume normal family life. [More…]
If people would get around some country towns more, instead of going home at the weekend to the family farm or estate or latifundio, they would find that the people in country towns are very grateful indeed for the RED employment. [More…]
Had it not been for those requirements, some changes to the Bill would have been made now to take account of the creation of the Family Court of Australia under the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In family law there will be the choice between establishing special procedures, with judges specially selected for their aptitude for and interest in this field of law, or of leaving the administration of the new family law to the vagaries of 8 different systems of courts, only some of which have begun to move towards specialised family law procedures. [More…]
Parliament has already recognised this by agreeing to the establishment of the Family Court under the Family Law Bill. [More…]
This zone is intended primarily to accommodate single family dwellings on individual allotments and semidetached dwelling houses, but certain parts of the zone may be considered for the erection of rows of houses or residential flat buildings of medium density. [More…]
The aim of a good superannuation scheme is to allow employees, after a full career, to maintain their personal and immediate family’s standard of living on retirement. [More…]
There are people who, because of financial commitments, illness in the family or for other factors beyond their control, cannot afford to take advantage of the scheme in its present form. [More…]
Family circumstances, young children, sport activities and livelihood, as with a farmer, for instance are the main determinants of these opinions. [More…]
What of the family? [More…]
We recognise the presence of problems with young house-bound mothers, with a lack of family activity and with the lowering age of death among our male population through heart disease- in many cases the result of overweight and stress. [More…]
These centres should cater for family activities. [More…]
Let us stop the decline of the family unit. [More…]
There was also the Nunawading City Family Day Care service. [More…]
We are concerned for the complete well-being of the child in the family context, in the child care centre and in the general care role as well as, importantly, in the area of that child ‘s education. [More…]
I started to say how concerned I was for the future of young people buying their own properties, buying their own homes, trying to establish a family and trying to establish their dream homes. [More…]
There are 3 family planning educators who will operate from Royal Flying Doctor bases on a trial basis for 3 months. [More…]
For instance, Medibank need not affect the existing relationship between you and your family doctor. [More…]
As the family rate for medical insurance is $1.96 per week, you can save eight or nine times $ 1 . [More…]
It means that they are trying to get $1.86 a week per family in the case of New South Wales and higher amounts in some other States. [More…]
It will be a contribution to the coffers of the funds and it will amount to nearly $2 per week per family. [More…]
It does not, of course, refer to the Family Law Act which has recently passed this Parliament. [More…]
It does not refer to the fact that a Family Law Court has been established. [More…]
That can be so in relation to family law. [More…]
Unfortunately, when a patient comes to a doctor who is hard pressed- there is a worldwide shortage particularly of family doctors at the moment- the doctor often gives in to the patient’s suggestion that he needs some chemical relief from his problems. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that separate cards are not being issued for each child in a family. [More…]
It was considered to be more convenient for parents for their children’s names and numbers to be on a single family card. [More…]
However, to achieve the objective of recommendation 2 of the Privacy Committee that each child in a family should have his or her own card, the Bill requires in clause 3 that the Commission issue a card to an eligible person upon the request of the person who, of course, may be a child. [More…]
We could amend the Constitution to enable justices, judges and magistrates to be appointed to a limited age, to enable specialist judges to be appointed, for instance for a family court, to a specific age. [More…]
Within this system there could be courts to deal with special matters- for instance, family law, patents and the like- which may require the activities of specialist judges, but all in a courts system which gets rid of this bedevilling situation of a division between State and Federal jurisdiction and between State and Federal courts. [More…]
If the only objections he has to this Bill are that it still refers to the Matrimonial Causes Act which will be replaced by the Family Law Act, or the fact that the salaries are now inadequate, appropriate amendments could be moved in the Senate which the Government would accept, but he is not wanting amendments to be made to the Bill. [More…]
The case for the Superior Court is now even further strengthened by the establishment of the Family Court of Australia under the Family Law Act. [More…]
It will bring together in the one court the Australian Industrial Court, the Federal Court of Bankruptcy, the Supreme Courts of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and, in due course, the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
These remarks apply to all businesses but particularly to small and medium sized ones and I have in mind the small family businesses which have been the very basis of the tourist industry in South Australia and the very basis of the production of quality wines emanating from that area. [More…]
A Bureau of Agricultural Economics occasional paper gives us an index of the money which is left to a beef producer to pay for his family to live, to service his debt, to replace capital equipment which is worn out and for any expansion. [More…]
It is an industry which has served the nation well, consisting to a far greater degree perhaps than other sectors of agriculture of the family farmers. [More…]
Even there the straits in which those dairy farmers find themselves through the removal of the stabilisation assistance and the difficulties which might have flowed from the possible breakdown of equalisation, all might well have prejudiced the survival of the family farmer. [More…]
The Coombs report was one of those reports which ignored the role of the family farmer and the capability of a man, such as a dairy farmer, who has for so long made a worthwhile contribution to export and a worthwhile contribution to regional settlement and regional development. [More…]
It is a family farm. [More…]
Firstly, the culprit on being convicted could be declared an outlaw and then become fair game for everybody or, secondly, a fine could be imposed on the culprit’s family to be paid to the victim’s family. [More…]
To prevent violence between the families a neutral person was needed to collect the fine from the culprit’s family and give it to the victim’s family This person became the ombudsman, meaning the person or the messenger collecting the fine. [More…]
Of course small family companies, firms and sole traders with limited credit lines face the greatest difficulties. [More…]
This will result in a large reduction in the number of family vintage wineries as they are presently known. [More…]
There must be an increase in the failure of wineries and there must be an increase in the takeover of our family owned enterprises. [More…]
It has been the small family owned firms and companies that have given the Australian wine industry a distinctive character and recognition. [More…]
The Prime Minister will be maintaining a fine family tradition when he journeys to Tasmania [More…]
He gave me a letter- I think on the Friday- and I passed a note to him during question time on Monday saying that the family upon whose behalf he had made representations are to be admitted. [More…]
One thinks of Lindeman Island, where the Nicholson family has conducted a tourist resort for some 50 years. [More…]
The Lindeman family is very very careful about environmental considerations, but in more recent times, in some of the other resorts, it has been obvious when one has looked at the area that not enough care has been given, and these are matters that are going to require considerable care and attention. [More…]
The Family Law Bill- a monument to the former AttorneyGeneral, now Mr Justice Murphy- has completely refurbished the marriage and divorce laws of Australia and done away with the medieval concepts of guilt and fault. [More…]
The Bill has established a Family Court of Australia which will explore methods of reconciliation and protect the rights of all parties in divorce proceedings in an atmosphere of dignity and humanity. [More…]
In addition to the increase in actual benefits the means test applicable to the Additional Boarding Allowance and Special Supplementary Allowance components of the Scheme have been progressively relaxed each year of the Scheme ‘s operation so that all or part of the benefits under these allowances are now available at much higher levels of family income than in the past. [More…]
The welfare program includes such activities as the reception and induction of new students; host family schemes; the arrangement of accommodation and hospitality; and the provision of counselling. [More…]
State of Queensland since 1 968, places on record its appreciation of his meritorious public service and extends its deepest sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
All of us, especially those, like myself, who counted him a personal and a family friend, were saddened by his death last week at the age of 63. [More…]
He came from a fine family and he leaves a fine family. [More…]
Honourable members will deplore that the occasion was marred by a display of loutishness and vulgarity by sections of the media that brought great distress to his family and friends and lasting discredit to those responsible. [More…]
The Senate and the Parliament have lost a gentlemanly person and the Opposition would want to express its warmest sympathy to his family. [More…]
I was not in the country but I have heard a lot of remarks similar to those that the Prime Minister made and I feel sorry for his family that there was such a coverage. [More…]
On behalf of my Party I would like to extend our deepest condolence to his wife and his family. [More…]
I wish to associate myself with this motion of condolence to Mrs Milliner and the Milliner family. [More…]
While the record of his public life and his political career has been placed before the House this afternoon, many of us will remember him principally as a family man. [More…]
He was very active in public affairs in that district, mainly in association with his family interests. [More…]
He was active, as indeed other members of bis family have been, for very many years in the Masonic Lodge. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members on both sides of the House will long remember Bert Milliner not only as a colleague, whether in Government or in Opposition, but also as a fine family man, a good citizen and a fine friend. [More…]
Mr Speaker, as one who knew our late colleague very well and who knows his family very well, may I be associated personally with this motion. [More…]
I have spent many very happy hours with him and with his family, arguing over a great variety of things; but right throughout such arguments 2 qualities always emerged- a powerful, unfailing sense of humanity and a quite unwavering sense of humour. [More…]
Bert Milliner leaves a very devoted and very dedicated family. [More…]
As one who was present and, I am sure, like the Prime Minister and so many others, particularly Senator Milliner’s family, I was disgusted to see how the filming of those events was used, particularly by Channel 2 in its television program that evening. [More…]
His death is more than just a loss to this parliament or to his family; it is a loss to the people he was serving in the capacity of Chairman of that Committee. [More…]
It would have increased the national debt by $1,000 for the average Australian family. [More…]
The family is well known for being wealthy. [More…]
The report was that the firm of Dalamal and Sons (Commodities) Ltd was owned through a dominating company registered in the Bahamas which was owned by the second wealthiest family in India. [More…]
When honourable members read the headline in the Australian newspaper referring to myself they should bear in mind that I have a family and children who go to school. [More…]
I have to uphold the integrity of my family. [More…]
To inquire into and report upon the family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of male and female relationships, so far as those matters are relevant to the powers and functions of the Australian Parliament and Government, including powers and functions in relation to the Territories: [More…]
the provision, adequacy and effectiveness of existing family planning facilities, educational and activational information on family planning, and methods of evaluation of all family planning techniques; [More…]
the adequacy and effectiveness of existing medicolegal determinations in relation to termination, of pregnancy, the incidence of such terminations, the factors influencing their occurrence, the adequacy of medical training in an evaluation of methods of termination, consultative rights of the family or other persons concerned and the adequacy and effectiveness of pregnancy support services; and (f) any other matters in relation to the family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of male and female relationships to which the attention of the Commission is directed by the Prime Minister in the course of the inquiry. [More…]
Every Tasmanian family is receiving from the present Government a subsidy of about $80 a year. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the passing of the Family Law Bill through this House. [More…]
There is a section in it, section 41, that requires me to confer with the various State Attorneys on the subject to give them the option of setting up family courts within the various States of the Federation. [More…]
The matter has been the subject of correspondence, and I can tell the House now that I have been informed by the Attorneys in each of the States, other than Western Australia, that they do not wish to set up a family court in their States. [More…]
New South Wales and Victoria were fairly early off the mark, but I was informed by the Minister for Justice in Queensland only a week or 10 days ago that Queensland does not wish to set up a family court in Queensland but would prefer the Family Court of Australia to operate there. [More…]
Mr McNeill in Western Australia has told me that he prefers to set up a family court of Western Australia, and no doubt that will be done in due course there. [More…]
However, I am happy to tell the House now that the date when we hope to have, or will have, the Family Law Act operating is 5 January 1976. [More…]
The Government stands firmly committed to the proposition of there being an Australian Legal Aid Office although the Government recognises that at this stage the Office has no legislative context or background, save for, I think, reference in some Acts, particularly the Family Law Act. [More…]
Can he say what the taxpayer in question, a family man, has gained as a result not only of current Budget measures but also of earlier tax cuts and the introduction of Medibank? [More…]
However, depending on the size of the family, that level is adjusted. [More…]
A single wage family with dependent children will overwhelmingly be much better off. [More…]
For instance, he could easily have pointed out that if a taxpayer has a working wife, between them they will be paying less tax on their aggregate income than a family with a single income of the same order, but they will be paying more tax than they would be paying under the present system. [More…]
It is a program that supports the family man. [More…]
Is it also a fact that other costs to come in almost immediately from the Budget, such as petrol, beer, cigarettes, postage and telephone charges, will in fact disadvantage the average family man that he keeps talking about? [More…]
I am therefore placed in the position of being forced to pay rates based on valuation of $44,000 (this year $953.75) or by default lose the property where my family was raised and which I have held for 28 years. [More…]
Report after report by professional people shows that it is absolutely essential to give the child an opportunity at school and to give them pre-school education and pre-school care for the assistance of the family and for the benefit of the child. [More…]
This Budget saves about $530 per annum for the 2-child family- over $10 a week relief. [More…]
A vehicle is sold to the owner, driven by members of his family and then driven by the following buyer and the handbook is not always passed on. [More…]
It involves a family which was travelling along a straight stretch of country road early one Sunday morning. [More…]
Fortunately, the family escaped with their lives, although 18 stitches had to be inserted in the gash in the little girl’s head. [More…]
The family was extremely lucky. [More…]
A tow truck driver who dived into the canal to rescue some of the family belongings said that he was unable to touch the bottom. [More…]
I thought it might be appropriate in those circumstances if I looked up the good book to find something of his family record. [More…]
Interestingly enough, it is essentially an English family. [More…]
I have looked at a different family tree from the one which my friend the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) has looked at. [More…]
It is envisaged that areas will be used for Defence Service housing, family housing and aged persons homes. [More…]
I compliment at this point the Minister for his attempt to increase the rate of graduation of general practitioners and their entry into that vital section of family medicine and family health. [More…]
The family man with a wife and 2 children on average earnings last year paid 12 per cent of his income in tax. [More…]
Under the Budget tax proposals which Mr Fraser condemns half a million taxpayers with incomes up to $2,520 in the case of single people and up to $5,229 in the case of the average family, will pay no tax whatsoever. [More…]
I take up the cause of the thousands of men and women who work for themselves in small businesses like the corner shop, the garage, the family farm and so on, and the people who work for and with them. [More…]
In other words, almost half of our nation’s work force is employed by small one-man and family business operations. [More…]
He beat the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, the leading Labor figure in the Tasmanian Labor Party from the leading Labor family for 40 years. [More…]
The basic human rights- to work, to establish a family and to enjoy the benefits of creative leisure- are not privileges for the few although there are those who think they are. [More…]
Family decisions are made daily, weekly, monthly and, in fact, continuously in relation to those 2 words. [More…]
The breadwinner ‘s pay packet goes to satisfying the family’s needs; or that is what should be done with it and, in most families in Australia, it is done. [More…]
Let us look at housing which is an individual need and is perhaps the most important need of all for the family in the present day society. [More…]
From my family background and from my acquaintance with the honourable member I know what a great piece of work was done on that occasion. [More…]
He referred to the single income family with children, especially a large number of children. [More…]
I point out that even the single income family with one or two children will be significantly better off as a result of this Budget. [More…]
a family of 7 receives 7 different envelopes. [More…]
Individual cards were printed from information on Electoral Rolls, whereas family cards were produced from child endowment files. [More…]
The cost of attempting to match by clerical methods the individual card sent to the mother in her own right with that sent to her as a family card would have far exceeded the cost of sending the cards out by high speed machine operation in different envelopes. [More…]
If he were in government there would be no government funding of poor schools in the western suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne to give the child of a poor family a go to get a decent education or to give him free university education. [More…]
In fact, it has been estimated that, on the average, each Australian family will pay in total tax $ 1 ,200 more in the coming year. [More…]
At the time the quorum was called I was detailing some examples of the tax savings which the average family man would receive under the tax reforms contained in the Hayden Budget. [More…]
At one stage the wife of a Commonwealth public servant could receive training and very substantial financial support while a man who had a family to support could be rejected for retraining- and many were rejected. [More…]
How many are earning a second family income? [More…]
How many are children employed part time- possibly in the family business? [More…]
Is it sense to exempt these single people from tax obligations at a time when the family breadwinner with a spouse and 2 children who is earning $135 a week which will be inflated to $ 1 63 by the end of the year which will result in an additional $490 tax payment- nearly doubling his tax- is being slugged? [More…]
How can it be a confidence trick for lower income earners and the family man who Will pay less tax? [More…]
These are the basic questions of equality and fairness and it is time that the burdens of tax policy were directed away from lower income earners and the family man, those who really need help in our community. [More…]
A tax rebate system has been introduced which will greatly favour the single income family with dependent children. [More…]
A similar sized family in receipt of an income of $12,000 a year will pay $817 less tax in 1975-76 than was paid on the income of that family in 1974-75. [More…]
With the economic conditions of today not many migrants are being permitted to enter Australia, even for family reunions. [More…]
However, in the north-east of Tasmania farming, except perhaps for two or three enterprises, is carried on by family units. [More…]
I do not exaggerate when I say that unless things change these family units in the north-east of Tasmania, perhaps in Tasmania, are in serious jeopardy. [More…]
I emphasise the problem in Launceston by telling the House that welfare agencies report that on average a family comes to them looking for emergency housing once a day. [More…]
I am talking of those armies of soldiers similar to our own who, at the request of the government of the day, offer themselves in combat to protect their country and its people from a foreign control- and that includes the protection of the honourable member and his family. [More…]
The new tax system substantially lowers the tax burden on the lower and middle income family man and exempts 500 000 current taxpayers from paying any tax at all because it will lift substantially minimum taxable income levels. [More…]
The increase in family allowances are far greater than in any previous Budget so that the average earner’s tax saving for a dependent wife is more than doubled and his saving for dependent children is increased by 50 per cent or more. [More…]
What I am saying- I honestly believe this- is that many working people dwell on receiving a taxation refund cheque to take the family away on their annual holidays, which are 4 weeks now. [More…]
I suppose that a family man would save about $5 a week. [More…]
Tax also has to be paid by the individual member of a small business while death duties cause special problems in family firms which are usually small businesses. [More…]
No single family unit can ever provide everything that is exactly necessary for the health and education of that family. [More…]
No single family can provide the equipment that is necessary for each member of that family. [More…]
Instead of defending this kind of subsidy the honourable member for Wimmera should be shedding a few tears for the poor farmers- and there are many of them- and those such as the family farmers who really need assistance. [More…]
The members of the Country Party in this House are distant from the farms and consequently have lost contact altogether with the poor farmer, the family farmer and the man who really needs assistance. [More…]
The honourable member should spend his time looking after the family farmer, the small farmer and the poor farmer, those to whom the superphosphate bounty should go. [More…]
My Government has appointed a woman as the Chief Judge of the new Family Court of Australia. [More…]
In my home State of South Australia a person who previously belonged to family rate table 7 will get a saving of $4.53 a week which in most cases would more than offset any increase in the consumer price index arising from increased taxes and charges. [More…]
Worse, many private family owned cattle stations and farms have gone to the wall all over Australia. [More…]
This will not be achieved by excessive increases in money wages at this timenot for the individual employee, not for his family. [More…]
They say that the plan provides great tax benefits to the family man with 3 children or more and that it is an invitation or acts as a direct inducement to parents with 2 children or more to go on and to ‘proliferate with a vengeance’ as they put it, with a third, fourth, fifth or sixth child and so on? [More…]
But we did consider the effect that it would have on people who have family responsibilities. [More…]
The following day the second daughter of the family became ill and was confined to bed. [More…]
But certainly the primary producer felt compelled to protect his family by taking out substantial life insurance policies for probate purposes. [More…]
That is, $5852 for each Aboriginal family. [More…]
The husbands and wives and the families to whom I have spoken seek the same things for their family groups as any one of us would seek for our families; that is, education, decent housing and health services, to name a few. [More…]
In the new suburbs there are young families with none of the ordinary family relationships that exist in other parts of Australia. [More…]
Not one house has been constructed, one family settled or one industry established. [More…]
In fact the superphosphate bounty has assisted the vast majority of producers in Australia who are organised as family farm units. [More…]
What family, except the very wealthy, can save $100 a week just to keep pace with the deposit gap. [More…]
I have seen family day care schemes operating in the United Kingdom. [More…]
As a matter of fact my own grandchild is looked after in family day care in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Members are aware that under the Family Law Act there is to be established the Family Court of Australia, the Family Law Council and the Institute of Family Studies! [More…]
Let me remind them of the Family Court of Australia and the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Again, the Convention unanimously recommended that matters relating to legitimacy, including family inheritance as it affects children legitimised by legislation of this Parliament, adoption and maintenance, other than in divorce proceedings, should be the subject of references of power by the States to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
It is absurd that fragments of the general powers to legislate with respect to what in essence is family law should be retained by the States while the substance of the subject matter is reposed in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
She is also concerned about these sorts of redistributions which will disadvantage her, her family and her friends even more than they are disadvantaged today. [More…]
The offices handle hundreds of problems daily in the fields of family law, hire purchase agreements, landlord and tenant disputes, motor vehicle accidents, criminal law and police offences. [More…]
Many of them are single entrepreneur businesses and have no real labour charges over and above the living costs of the family. [More…]
Small businesses operate by way of a private family company or some other partnership. [More…]
In respect of private family companies the profits earned go first to paying the primary company tax of 42lA per cent and secondly to pay dividends to shareholders equivalent to 50 per cent of the amount remaining of the original profits earned after payment of primary company tax. [More…]
He gave the example of a family of six travelling from Adelaide, through Melbourne, to Newcastle- to the home town of the Minister for Transport. [More…]
His estimation was that with the cost of petrol, accommodation and so on it would cost that family $90 for the trip. [More…]
To get a family to go to Tasmania we would have to persuade them that the trip is worth $350. [More…]
I say that, Dad, in a spirit of great family co-operation. [More…]
He is a member of the Jennings building and land development family. [More…]
Even if a person does own property as an asset we should remember that the asset that the primary producer owns or the small businessman owns is not only his means of income for the rest of his life, and perhaps the life of his family, but it is also the means whereby this nation is able to provide benefit to other people. [More…]
There is one sin of omission to which I want to draw particular attention and that is the failure to do anything for the motherless family, for the man who has to support and look after his children because his wife has died or because his wife has deserted him. [More…]
In addition, there is some advertising of services available such as the opening of community health centres, family planning services and publicising immunisation clinics and public meetings in the A.C.T. [More…]
Profile of Vietnamese admitted for temporary residence- 46- family reunion including spouses and children of Vietnamese students in Australia. [More…]
But the Labor Government is considering restoring full death duties on the family home by abolishing the current concessions implemented by the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
We have decided to double the migrant contribution towards assisted passage costs to an amount of $ ISO per family or single person. [More…]
How is this a justifiable proposition from a government purporting to be concerned with family reunions and with the welfare and successful integration of migrant people? [More…]
We believe that the assisted passage element of family reunion is vital to the well-being of the migrant in the community. [More…]
That disregard goes as far as to jeopardise family relations and happiness in the home. [More…]
Family reunion still had the highest priority . [More…]
Every time a migrant family enters Australia, we must make sure that there is accommodation available immediately for it. [More…]
It assumes that the only valid basis for migrant entry is either immediate family reunion, and that is strictly enforced, or a recognised demand for certain limited classes of skills. [More…]
As it was she was never the primary breadwinner in her family. [More…]
I extend my sincere sympathy to his widow and his family. [More…]
His family also speak very highly of Cyril Chambers. [More…]
Since 1973-74, funds have been made available under the Community Health Program to support the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners ‘ Family Medicine Program. [More…]
The objectives of the Family Medicine Program are to improve standards in general practice, the recruitment of medical graduates to general practice and the availability of general practitioners in needy areas. [More…]
lm was allocated to the Family Medicine Program and it is anticipated that this will rise to $5. [More…]
I maintain that our social structure depends largely on our family life. [More…]
For instance, the cost of supporting all the Federal regulatory agencies created to monitor consumerism, anti-pollution and so on works out at an average of US$2,000 a year for each American family. [More…]
At the consumer level it has been estimated to cost the average family $700 each year. [More…]
Every second family in Perth was living in an unsewered area. [More…]
In June 1975 the Family Law Bill was passed. [More…]
They cost somewhere between $3 and $5 a week for a family. [More…]
If a person wants to take the risk of a medical practitioner performing unnecessary operations on him or his family he should maintain his intermediate ward hospital cover and go into hospital as an intermediate patient. [More…]
One is to achieve a more equitable distribution of the burden of taxation borne by individual taxpayers, especially the single income family. [More…]
Those who will pay more tax under the new system will, for the most part, be persons without family’ responsibilities or members of multi-income households. [More…]
Restructuring the scale in this way has also made possible an increase in the value of concessional allowances for dependants thus achieving a highly desirable redistribution of the burden of taxation in favour of the family man. [More…]
For example, I find it anomalous that the Commonwealth should have a power in respect of family law matters covering divorce, property rights arising out of divorce situations, marriage and so forth, whereas the States retain legal responsibility for such matters as legitimacy and adoption. [More…]
For my part, I think there should be a single, coherent body of family law in Australia. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the provisions contained in the Family Law Act, the Trade Practices Act and the conciliation and arbitration legislation where provision is already made for the granting of legal aid. [More…]
In the field of family law the minimum fee of $50 from the contributor can be waived depending on hardship and whether the person concerned has a bottomless pit. [More…]
Of that number 35.5 per cent were in the family law area; 24 per cent were concerned with problems related to Federal law; 21.5 per cent were conducted with pensioners and 8 per cent with migrants. [More…]
I ask honourable members opposite to picture themselves in a strange country, trying to establish a family in an environment characterised by indifference, trying to take account of a new set of laws governing their relations with the rest of the community. [More…]
I will say, first, that what he said about my family was untrue. [More…]
Surely honourable members opposite understand that there is a family name or a surname, as we sometimes call it, and that there is a given name which may be a Christian or a nonChristian name. [More…]
It is not for me to reflect on what motivates a Minister who is absent because of a family bereavement but I cannot help but look at the record of the Minister for Administrative Services (Mr Daly) over the last 3 years and at the manner in which he shuffled electoral officers like a pack of cards to ensure a proper redistribution in Western Australia. [More…]
The fact is that many people are suddenly and unexpectedly called interstate at the very last moment, perhaps because of a family bereavement, illness or business reasons. [More…]
Mr Pettit has a 273 acre family farm near Torquay which . [More…]
This council objects strongly to the proposed legislation whereby a large area of Western District land is to be acquired, thus depriving its owners of their livelihood and family inheritance, when the acquisition figure appears to be a figure which would not enable those ratepayers to continue, as primary producers, to produce much-needed foodstuffs. [More…]
Latest Corporate Affairs Commission records show that the Liberal (MLA) for Beliarine (Mr Aurel Smith) and his family have a substantial interest in the company. [More…]
How long and hard for a family on $70,000 a year? [More…]
-How long and hard for the Prime Minister and his family on $70,000 a year? [More…]
How sincere is the proclaimed concern of the wealthy grazier from Victoria who spoke a little while ago about the costs of taxation facing a family with an income of $7,000 a year? [More…]
The Attorney-General himself will be aware of proposals of his to appoint 30 federal judges to the soon to be operative Family Court of Australia. [More…]
It is recognised in the Family Law Act under which it is required to provide legal assistance. [More…]
Appeals Regulations, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Trade Practices Act, the Family Law Act, the Social Welfare Ordinance, the Legal Assistance Ordinance and the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
As would have appeared by further reference to the debate on 9 July, the matter concerned the Transia corporation, the Gunn family company. [More…]
Since the December quarter of 1 972 the increase in the take home pay of a typical family man on average weekly earnings has increased by 50 per cent. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty was a widow receiving social service benefits under Liberal governments and she had a young family to bring up. [More…]
It indicates that through a deferred repayment mortgage a young family man at about average weekly earnings could be helped to buy an average-priced property without committing more than 30 per cent of his income at any one time to mortgage repayments. [More…]
I and all my associates would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family all the best for new year. [More…]
I am afraid that this is an area in which incentive is lacking at present because the costs of domestic travel are going so high that it is becoming more and more difficult for the average Australian on a decent average income to be able to take his family for a reasonable distance around Australia. [More…]
Put in quite simple mathematical terms, it is cheaper now to take a family for a visit to Noumea than it is to go to northern Queensland. [More…]
If I could use an analogy, it is a bit like blaming a judge for the hardship that he causes to the family of a criminal whom he had sent to gaol. [More…]
Most families which are paying rent are paying one-third of their take-home pay in rent and no family budget can cope with this. [More…]
As well, many older people who move from family homes into units or flats prefer to rent. [More…]
Of course families do better in houses where there is a garden for the children to play in and marriages fare better when the family is adequately housed. [More…]
The tragedy is that thousands of young people recently married or contemplating marriage or hoping to form a family and set up a family are disadvantaged. [More…]
In Victoria the needs test eligibility limit at present stands at $130 a week for a family with up to 2 children, while in New South Wales the figure is $133.71 a week. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the enactment on a free vote on the Family Law Bill that went through this Parliament a little while ago. [More…]
It would certainly seriously impinge on the operation of that Act and the coming into being of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
1 refer to himself, his family, and all the Ministers of State and their families. [More…]
This Bill seeks to amend the Family Law Act 1975 and the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1 973- 1 975 to provide for increases in the salaries and allowances of judges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The Family Court of Australia is created by the Family Law Act 1975, which was passed by the Parliament earlier this year. [More…]
The rates of salaries and allowances forjudges of the Family Court, which are prescribed by the Act in accordance with constitutional requirements, have fallen behind the rates for judges of Federal courts of comparable status. [More…]
This occurred largely because the Family Law Bill occupied so much of the time of both Houses before it was finally passed. [More…]
As honourable members will see in the Schedule to the Bill, the rates recommended for the Chief Judge and for Senior Judges of the Family Court are equivalent to the rates for the Chief Judge and Judges respectively of the Australian Industrial Court. [More…]
The salaries of other judges of the Family Court have been increased proportionately. [More…]
In the interests of the wellbeing of the Family Court, the status, and therefore the salaries, of judges of the Court must be made such as to attract persons of a high calibre to the Bench of the Court. [More…]
This is approximately $6 a head of population or approximately $25 a family. [More…]
d ) were there any loans from the Lowe family or estate; if so, what amount, [More…]
The family friendship has been preserved since. [More…]
American family. [More…]
Towards the end of 1 966 my family and I decided, because of family illness, to live in our home at Murwillumbah for several months rather than in our home at Hughes in Canberra. [More…]
If we are to have a policy of putting 16 people in a house with only three or four bedrooms we can expect only that 16 people will make noise which is far in excess of that which a normal family of six will make. [More…]
The man, Mr Anthony informed Parliament, was a family friend even though he did not know he was an official of the CIA. [More…]
Mr Stallings was the Dale Carnegie of the spy world, ingratiating himself not only into the friendship of Mr Anthony and family but also into the senior echelons of Australian business and indeed into the confidence of senior officials of political parties [More…]
The introduction of the land trusts and the handling of the land situation can do nothing but bring very severe problems into the family life of the Aborigines. [More…]
They were self-determining; they reared their children to become selfsustaining and independent persons within family and tribal groups; they had well-defined and esteemed roles in their family and tribe; they had an appropriate identity, selfrespect and dignity; and they were motivated to participate as full members of their society. [More…]
The Committee was impressed by the strength of the requests made by Aboriginal people for more effective means of dealing with the complex personal and family problems connected with alcohol. [More…]
The land in the Arnhem Land area is comparatively rich and only a relatively small area is needed for the support of a family or a clan; but in the centre of Australia the land is very poor and barren and many square miles- tens or hundreds of square miles- are needed for the support of even a single family. [More…]
1 was aware that the business was purchased from the Lowe family. [More…]
However, this was a private transaction between the Lowe family and UNITUS Pty Ltd and as such I am unaware of the details of the purchase price. [More…]
The Government will continue to implement the Family Law Act. [More…]
That this House records its sincere regret at the death of Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, and expresses to the people of Malaysia profound regret and to his family tenders sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
Before Malaysia was formed he had served as a Minister in the State of Pahang, of which his family were the hereditary rulers. [More…]
To Tun Razak ‘s family, to the people of Malaysia, to the Government of Malaysia all Australians can say that they have lost a good neighbour and a good friend. [More…]
That this House records its sincere regret at the death of General Murtala Rufai Mohammed, Head of State and Commander of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and expresses to the people of Nigeria profound regret and to his family sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
We extend our sympathy to his family and our good wishes to the Government and people of his country. [More…]
It is all very well for people like Mr Stone and other senior public servants earning well over $25,000 a year to come along and tell the Government that it ought to put the screws on the man who has to keep a wife and family on less than $160 a week. [More…]
They will get a darn sight less if the Government is allowed to dismantle the whole wage indexation policy and revert to taking unilateral decisions in the Cabinet room as to what the wages of workers in this country should be, relying only on the advice of the Treasury, in its ivory tower, which has no contact with the average Australian person, the average Australian family. [More…]
Some State judges seem to be troubled by the section of the Family Law Act that requires them not to wear robes. [More…]
May I also direct the attention of honourable members to a rather more serious matter, namely, the fact that the general validity of the Family Law Act is now in dispute. [More…]
Because of a question that was raised in South Australia- I think in a case relating to custody with no associated divorce proceedings- section 40A of the Judiciary Act has operated to cause a question as to the validity of the Family Law Act to be before the High Court. [More…]
The result is, of course, that the Family Law Act is to that extent under question. [More…]
If the High Court was to declare the Act wholly or largely invalid there would be serious consequences both from the point of view of the administration of the Act in its extent and from the point of view of the Family Law Court concept. [More…]
The Government, in accordance with section 41 of that Act, did attempt to get the State governments to set up State Family Law Courts under section 41 by arrangement with the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
As a result of that the Government is proceeding to appoint further Family Law Court judges to take up the work of the Family Law Court as it proceeds. [More…]
I make that statement perhaps not in direct answer to the question but to indicate to honourable members that the Family Law Act and its administration are constantly under review but the Act is also under review in the High Court. [More…]
At this time it is estimated that the extra cost to contributors of these organisations will be small- in the region of 10 to 12 cents per week family contribution. [More…]
Surely it is desirable for a working man and his family to be able to move outwards to the closest suburbs without having to go miles and miles outside the metropolitan area from whence they would have to commute at expense and difficulty, and when the schools, hospitals and pre-existing amenities in an area such as St George would not be used because there would be fewer children and fewer people in the area. [More…]
Family Courts to handle enforcement orders. [More…]
For the most part they are very frightened people, people who have lived in daily fear of deportation, hiding their identity from their employers, afraid to communicate with their family and friends, moving from house to house for fear of detection, a prey to the exploiters and manipulators in this society. [More…]
It is only possible for a large number of farmers to follow that occupation because of the involvement of their family in farm work. [More…]
That felicitous collocation of words tumbled from the honourable gentleman only a few weeks ago, indeed asserting the family motto- modesty above aU. [More…]
I have in my possession a letter written in 1 888 by a member of my family from the then booming cattle and mining town of Croydon, in the centre of the gulf country. [More…]
What of the family with one or more members suffering from chronic illness? [More…]
For example, take the case of a family which has 2 children suffering from a chronic illness. [More…]
The family with such patients would be required to purchase 8 items at $2 a time. [More…]
As a result the family has to pay $16. [More…]
Therefore a family could be up for another $10 to $12 in a week to 10 da) s’ time. [More…]
It was said that those cents were taken out of the dollar and money was given back to the people in the form of pensions, payments, repatriation, family allowances and so on so that they could spend it. [More…]
Her part of the bargain was to encourage her ghastly ALP supporting family to take down their pro- Labor signs and to vote for the Liberal candidate. [More…]
So, not counting the cases in other electorates- only three of which are public knowledge- in my own electorate there was: Firstly the offer of money to a prospective Independent candidate if he would direct his preferences to the Liberals; secondly, there was the offer of money and a holiday in return for retraction of a family’s political affiliations; and thirdly, when all else failed there was the ultimate weapon, a death threat to an old man who unashamedly supports my return to this Parliament. [More…]
But the proper conduct of forestry operations in country areas keeps the ordinary worker and his family in those country areas. [More…]
We are told that for a family to be eligible for a maximum grant under this scheme it must save at least $26 per week for 3 years. [More…]
It would be an Australia that tolerates different lifestyles and the pursuit of an individual’s and a family’s own happiness. [More…]
Whilst I am speaking about Gladstone I should like to express my sincere condolences to the family of the late Marty Hanson, MLA, who passed away last weekend. [More…]
It was discovered by the Wedge family and eventually became the most important cattle market for the area. [More…]
We in Australia have a special interest in Rhodesia through the tobacco industry, through mining and through family connections. [More…]
The change appears in attitudes towards the church, the family, the army, the factory - [More…]
I know of families who are very well off and still claim these special allowances simply because they have some small amount of Aboriginal blood in the family, even though they own large properties or have high incomes. [More…]
Honourable members will be interested to know that that is where my family sprang from in this country. [More…]
How many honourable members of this House are associated with or know of genuine hard working community groups in their electorates which are seeking to raise funds to provide a kindergarten, a preschool centre, a child care centre, a play group or some other form of family day assistance only to find that $500 raised the year before last will purchase this year only the equivalent of $300 worth of goods. [More…]
When we look at the matter of child care services and pre-school education it is terribly important that as a nation and as a government we should have a philosophy relating to the position of the family in the community. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party in office did not believe in the family. [More…]
So much of its legislation put on the family pressures that created a need for child care services where families were previously able to provide and wished still to provide those services for their children. [More…]
This Government has pledged that it will look at the special problems imposed by the tax structure upon the single income family. [More…]
It has also indicated that it will show concern for the family by enabling young school leavers to find jobs rather than to have their first experience out of school being on the dole. [More…]
What riled him was that the grower next door who had a family farm with no debts on the land- I am not saying that he did not have other debts- received the full benefit of the allocation of that money. [More…]
I am sorry the Prime Minister is not here so that I could say this to his face now: It would bring no shame on my country, my Party or my family if it became known to what places or to what persons, by what means or at what hours, I had made visits in Singapore or Manila or in Sydney or Melbourne. [More…]
They will be felt by the wage earner and his family, by the minority groups and by those people most vocal in advocating fundamental changes to this present system. [More…]
When they said they were coming for family reasons we decided to ask them to fill in another form ‘. [More…]
The family unit, the student, the single person and the old, will die in the street or suburb where they were born. [More…]
I also express my appreciation to my brothers and sisters for their help, and to my wife Pat and the children for the many times I should have been at home with the family. [More…]
I find it humiliating and embarrassing that every time the question of a pay rise comes up, whatever is decided, I and my family are abused in the streets. [More…]
Why should they have to bear the strain and the sorrow of having members of their closely knit families separated by thousands of miles due to inhumane and narrow immigration guidelines for family re-unification? [More…]
Surely these people who have done so much for this country are entitled, if they so wish and if they can provide the appropriate maintenance and accommodation guarantees, to a more compassionate policy for family re-unification. [More…]
The presence of close family relationships in Australia will be an important consideration when approving migrant entry cases. [More…]
This covers areas such as a uniform income benefit, inquiring into proposals for a minimum family income, looking at ways and means of wiping out the multitude of individual programs which now exist in the social welfare system and implementing a single program for which people could qualify in a multitude of different ways. [More…]
I also suggest in relation to the Income Tax Assessment Act that we might look at the problem of the one-income family. [More…]
If extra money is required someone from the family is sent out to work. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable members would wish to extend to Mrs McKay and his family our deepest sympathy. [More…]
Trade requirements and specifications, how ordering takes place, the demands of particular industries, the understanding of consumer demand, the understanding of the requirements of a housewife or family in relation to goods from [More…]
I think some of the lessons that have been learned by the host families on one side in Japan and by me as a member of a host family in Australia are of importance and are of great interest to us. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that there is only one Family Court register for the whole of Queensland? [More…]
We will hear statistics quoted regularly about the large number of industries which are being established but we will continue to see every qualified young person who lives in a non-metropolitan area being forced to leave his or her family and home to enter the capital cities in order to seek employment. [More…]
But now the man’s allowance will fall by $73.40 to $23.40 a week and the family income will be reduced accordingly to $103.40. [More…]
People who genuinely wanted to learn a new skill but whose family incomes could be in the region of $20,000 to $30,000 a year were accepted into NEAT- at $96.80 a week paid by the taxpayer. [More…]
Trainees coming from a family where the combined income of the trainee and the spouse is up to $238 a week or about $12,000 a year are still entitled to the training component of $23.40. [More…]
That tax, a flat household tax, does not relate to the capacity of a family to pay. [More…]
They are, firstly, the Government’s undertaking to protect individuals from unlegislated tax increases; secondly, its undertaking to take account of the special problems of the single income family; and, thirdly, its undertaking to move towards a replacement of the means test with an income test. [More…]
At some later stage I will havemore to say on the effect of this concept of tax forgone, but I want to turn now to the problems of the single income family. [More…]
The Prime Minister gave the undertaking in his policy speech that a Liberal-National Country Party government would reform the tax structure to take account of the special problems of the single income family. [More…]
This has been so despite the fact that for the majority of Australians it is the family unit which is the real decision making consumption unit. [More…]
Our tax system increases these inequalities by imposing a tax burden on the single income family which is significantly higher than that imposed on the 2-income family with the same family income. [More…]
I urge the Government to act on the recommendations of a majority of the Asprey Committee and to submit for public examination and discussion an optional family unit system of taxation. [More…]
We should not be frightened off by the scaremongers who peddle misconceptions about the use of the family rather than the individual as a unit of taxation. [More…]
There are a number of ways to assess the family unit for tax purposes. [More…]
The imposition of tax on aggregate family incomes is not the only method. [More…]
This is done in the United Kingdom but there most families pay less tax than they would had the spouses been taxed separately because the rebates available to those taxed separately on the family unit are not otherwise available. [More…]
There are many other variations, such as the definition of family incomethe division of family income by a factor which takes account of the number of dependent children. [More…]
In conclusion I urge the Government, as a matter of urgency, to do 3 things: Firstly, to fully, not partially, index personal income tax; secondly, to introduce optional family unit taxation which permits spouses to be taxed on a partnership basis; and, thirdly, to replace all means tests with an income test integrated with the tax system. [More…]
There are a great number of applications for people to come from the Lebanon and in assessing those applications obviously we must give preference and priority to close family reunions. [More…]
We are giving preference to cases involving close family reunions. [More…]
It is a matter that concerns a basicenvironment for young people growing up and a basic environment for young people when they are married and when they are engaged in early family formation. [More…]
To qualify for an average $20,000 loan a family will need an income of at least $9,600 per annum- and many of them do not have it. [More…]
This, of course, leads to a lack of pride on the part of the individual and a lack of pride in his family which, quite often, is reflected in the children of that family. [More…]
They will not cut out gambling or the luxuries they enjoy in order to save for this very important item- the family home. [More…]
Finally might I say that I believe that our family life, when it takes place in a home owned by the family, stands our nation in good stead for the future. [More…]
He should look on the Australian community as a family and say to himself, for argument’s sake: ‘My wife had funds available to her and I had funds available to me. [More…]
We were that much richer, or perhaps we were in exactly the same position because we transferred our cash into a fixed asset, but the family was no richer or poorer for the transaction that took place, except that we now had the use of a motor car. [More…]
Those places are unsuitable for the people because the family must have children before it can be provided with accommodation by the Victorian Housing Commission. [More…]
So the family has children- two or three children, sometimes more- and it is moved into these monstrosities which are unsuitable for that sort of habitation. [More…]
This places unbearable stresses on the family. [More…]
No wonder those on the application list for family accommodation in Queensland as at 29 February totalled 6,490. [More…]
I must say that I feel that it is more than just a matter of philosophy, because I am certain that honourable members opposite would accept the point of view that I now put, namely, that it must be the basic and inalienable right of every Australian and his family not only to own a piece of his native land but also to have the security of knowing that the dwelling in which he lives is his for life and can be passed on after his life to those members of his family who may be in a position to occupy it. [More…]
A family consisting of a husband and wife and 9 children, the husband being employed in a State government operation, namely, the Tasmanian railways, and having been transferred from Launceston to Hobart, found themselves having to wait week after week after week for a house. [More…]
Similarly I think it is completely wrong and untenable that a person who goes into a home in accordance with a tenancy agreement and then wishes to become the purchaser, having improved that home and having tried to build it up and make it attractive for his family, finds that as his income has increased from the time he first became a tenant he is ineligible to become a purchaser because of the means test. [More…]
The Agreement provides further flexibility by allowing up to 1 5 per cent of the family dwellings provided by State housing authorities under the Agreement to be allocated to applicants outside the needs test. [More…]
In terms of the family responsibilities, not only the men in those family groupings but their wives and children are likely to suffer. [More…]
The family that consumes least, that produces least, that can consume least, that can produce least is given the smallest amount. [More…]
In one case it referred to a dairy production area where one farmer with 5 dependent children claimed that his family had only fried onions to eat. [More…]
It represents people who have commercial ties with Indonesia or who have family ties with Indonesia. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the world is moving to a stage of enforcing rules and bringing down regulations to see that this material does not get into the wrong hands and that all members of the human family get the benefit of it as well as protecting themselves. [More…]
The decline in the number of births recorded in Australia in each year since 197 1 is now generally accepted as the continuation of a longstanding decline in family size, not so clearly evident before 1971 because of the intervention of such factors as soaring rates of marriage. [More…]
What this argument overlooks is the longstanding decline in completed family size in Australia from an average of over 6 children in the 1880s to about three in the 1940s and to below three more recently. [More…]
However, this woman wanted a job to take her mind off some personal problems relating to her family in Sri Lanka rather than for economic reasons. [More…]
Travelling time of 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, means that an employee is required to be away from this home and his family an extra 15 hours a week but even more ridiculous is the fact that a worker from Sunbury, Broadmeadows, Keilor or anywhere else could be offered a job at Castlemaine, which is about a 1V4 hours drive from the outskirts of Melbourne, and, if he refused it, be denied unemployment benefit. [More…]
The fellow who lives in rented accommodation and who for environmental reasons- say, for the sake of argument, the presence of a noxious industry or an airport, which is affecting his family-and who can obtain alternative rental accommodation only in an area where, in the opinion of the Commonwealth Employment Service, there are little or no employment prospects is rewarded for caring for his family’s welfare by having his umployment benefit terminated. [More…]
The second problem area relates to a breadwinner who is forced to move for employment reasons, such as to continue in employment or to get promotion, and who has a family that includes a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old who should move with the family. [More…]
If such a person moves with the family, to my knowledge he or she will be voluntarily leaving his or her work and will not be eligible for unemployment benefit for 6 weeks. [More…]
I said that no married man should be required to work in localities where he would have to live away from home and away from his wife and family, and I hope that no one in this place will take issue with me on that. [More…]
Nearly 7 per cent had been dismissed, while the rest had resigned for reasons such as ill health, moving to another locality or family crisis. [More…]
In the heady days when we were being bashed by the present Government in an election campaign, under circumstances that would not bear repeating, the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised that there would be no Gold Coast holidays on the family earnings of Australians, no Gold Coast holidays for anyone. [More…]
I spoke to his predecessor, who advised me that the arrangement was that under the new Family Law Act the Australian Government was to fund the State governments to employ special officers in the Family Courts to handle enforcement orders. [More…]
Because of the complications of the new Family Law Act- the protection is much greater than under the old Matrimonial Causes Act but the new Act is much more complicated and accordingly needs qualified legal opinion and legal assistance for interpretation- such a woman who may be on a deserted wife’s pension, for example will be forced to go to a private solicitor and pay $120 to protect her legal rights. [More…]
Governor-General for political reasons- and not only against him, but against members of bis family. [More…]
In its vocational training and reorientation courses, the Family Medicine Program, sponsored by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, provides extensive instruction on early detection, intervention and rehabilitation with respect to alcoholism, drug addiction and the problems of handicapped persons. [More…]
However, I know that, in its implementation of the Family Medicine Program, the College shares the Government’s concern in these areas and, in regard to family medical practice, has always sought to emphasise the importance of early detection, treatment and rehabilitation in relation to these problems. [More…]
It is even more of a strain when the individual concerned is the head of the family. [More…]
The family has previously looked to this individual as the breadwinner, the head of the household. [More…]
In the case of a family with 2 children where both husband and wife are pensioners, instead of what is a reasonable expectation in the circumstances at the present time that they will get an addition of $1 a week to their pension income as the adjustment in the dependants’ allowance because of the 6.4 per cent increase in the consumer price index, which seems to have flowed to every other sector in the economy, they are going to get nothing- not even cold comfort. [More…]
Maybe I will get more support from the newer members in this House in November, especially after they have had the experience of almost all the older members of having to lend a widow or deserted wife $20 on a Friday afternoon, so that she can buy the groceries for the family, until her pension cheque arrives some weeks later. [More…]
When we are talking about these sums in family budgets, that amount of money can be substantial. [More…]
After all, the changing pattern of single income and two-income families in themselves must throw into some doubt the adequacy in the future- in 10, 15 or 20 years time- of merely adjusting pensions against the income of one of a two-income family. [More…]
That provision is brought forward into section 56 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in the family law debate one of the things about which we were basically concerned was the privacy of divorce proceedings. [More…]
I am aware that under the 1973-74 Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement which was introduced by the former Labor Government no more than 30 per cent of the family dwellings built after 1 January 1974 may be sold. [More…]
I want to say a word this morning about the family, from whose stable environment most of us have come. [More…]
I am prompted to speak on the family this morning because there are good family men on the other side as well as on this side of the chamber. [More…]
Another reason why I am speaking about it is that I believe there has been an overconcentration by all forms of the media in this country on the rather odd situations that substitute for family relationships. [More…]
I suppose the thing that concerns me more than anything else is that these odd situations might become more accepted as the norm in this country at the expense of the family. [More…]
I suppose the third reason I am speaking about this matter is that, having read with very great interest the splendid first speech made by Senator Shirley Walters in the other place, I felt that it was about time that somebody in this House drew the same sort of attention that she did to the importance of the family. [More…]
It was not so long ago that it was unheard of for anyone to speak ill of motherhood or of the family. [More…]
There is a variety of attitudes on just what the family means and what the role of the mother and the father should be. [More…]
There is a variety of attitudes to marriage itself and even to whether marriage is necessary to the raising of a family. [More…]
With the advent of easy divorce, easy contraception and abortion, there is a questioning of the old values and codes of behaviour that bound the family together and made it strong. [More…]
What I believe we have to fear today is the type of change that is developing in thinking about the fundamental role and integrity of the family. [More…]
There is, unfortunately, in the community a glib and vociferous minority which aims at destroying the fundamental family unit and replacing it not with anything demonstrably stronger but with alternatives that raise serious doubts about their long-term and short-term consequences. [More…]
The family is the natural and fundamental group-unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
The family is a cohesive force in society and the Liberal Party recognises the necessity for strengthening its influence. [More…]
Inflation makes the every day balancing of the family budget a heartbreaking impossibility without the added income from a mother’s earnings. [More…]
The burden of direct and indirect taxation also falls heavily on the family and undoubtedly is one factor in forcing women out to work, even though this adds to the family’s overall tax bill. [More…]
I urge this Government to do everything it can to lessen the burden of direct and indirect taxes on the family income. [More…]
One aspect of taxation is often overlooked, I believe, when considering the stability of the family as the basic unit of a community. [More…]
Granted, these people pay taxes but if their demands are met to the full the rest of the community, including the family where the mother remains at home, must cany part of the cost. [More…]
There is therefore injustice and a species of insanity in a situation where the family must bear a share of the cost of the consequences of a lifestyle which inherently is at war with the family concept. [More…]
It is not a moral but a social question to determine spending priorities and I urge the Government to look closely and carefully at its priorities so that it not only does nothing to penalise the family but actually encourages its growth and strength. [More…]
Liberals acknowledge the vital contribution of the family in the development of the individual and, if the family is having difficulty fulfilling that task, the community must come to its aid. [More…]
In this context the Government is the community and I urge the Government to do all it can to encourage women back into the home so the family is not deprived of its heart. [More…]
The same arrogant, inhumane and elitist attitude which says that if a young person from a poor family, without assets, wants to look around for agreeable work with good prospects and is on unemployment benefits then he is a bludger, also says that if another young chap with assets who can live with his family for a while does the same thing, then society admires him and describes what he is doing as looking for work. [More…]
They have arranged their family concerns to retire at that age and to do what they chose to do. [More…]
I have pensioners in my family and I am proud of them. [More…]
I have seen members of my family suffer because of the disease called inflation; I have seen them suffer because of unemployment. [More…]
I put this to the Minister: If, for instance, a person has lost his father, if a family has lost its home, or if a woman has lost her husband, does he seriously say that that does not come within the ambit of special circumstances? [More…]
As to the second question, I am now able to tell the House that last month, when questions concerning the divorce case were raised in the New South Wales Parliament, an officer of my Department raised the matter in a telephone call to the Registrar of the Family Law Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. [More…]
He did so on his own initiative purely for the purpose of clarifying certain details in anticipation of having to brief me on the case, having regard to my responsibilities under the Matrimonial Causes Act and the Family Law Act. [More…]
The changes, as the House is already aware, will enable women to preserve superannuation benefits while their careers are interrupted for such reasons as raising a family. [More…]
I think that is contrary to the socially desirable ideal of a 2 parent family being a better family in which to bring up children than perhaps a one parent family. [More…]
We must recognise in Australia that when we talk about re-location of resources we are talking about placing an extra burden on an individual or a family to seek different employment in another region. [More…]
The first requirement is very positive consideration of whether in the foreseeable future we will have partly produced in this country what might properly be described as a family car, the cost of which will be kept within the reach of the average Australian. [More…]
Any ordinary citizen who shoulders the responsibility for his family of maintaining a motor vehicle- in these days life is impossible without one- has constantly in mind the capital outlay, the depreciation and the maintenance of that vehicle. [More…]
As I understand it, the difficulty seems to have arisen because 3 manufacturers in Australia- the Ford Motor Co of Australia, General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd and Chrysler Australia Ltdhave been hell bent on building 6-cylinder motor vehicles that would normally be called family cars, when clearly the consumer was looking for something other than that. [More…]
A family earning an average income can improve the income at its disposal by as much as one third during its lifetime by buying its own home. [More…]
If a family cannot buy its own home, then capital gains, rentals and tax concessions derived from ownership go to the landlords. [More…]
These high early repayments fall harshly on the ordinary family. [More…]
In that way the raising of a family and the establishment of lives securely based in a family home comes about. [More…]
Anyone who travels around the nursing homes and the aged people’s homes of this country will see in them many people whose only asset that put them in a place where they could be cared for was their family home. [More…]
Our basic policy objectives seek to ensure that every family in Australia is able to obtain adequate housing within its capacity to pay-and that is the key. [More…]
Both increases have meant that in the initial years of paying off a housing loan it required a greater proportion of the family’s income than it did 10 years ago. [More…]
For example, for the average one-income family in Sydney in early 1974, about 42 per cent of income was required to meet first year mortgage repayments as opposed to 3 1 per cent in 1 963. [More…]
It is applicable to all sections of our society, from the young family to the older families, from single people to married people, and it is applicable to all permanent residents in Australia. [More…]
The tables on pages 1 7 and 1 8 clearly show that the children of the lower paid worker or the lower income family are not completing a secondary education and are certainly not even achieving entrance qualifications to the tertiary field. [More…]
It runs a family day care program, for which it received $6,000. [More…]
The family day care program requires only the rather small amount of $6,500. [More…]
In this way a link could be forged between school, family, peer group, and the society at large. [More…]
I am the only Australian born member of my family. [More…]
What are the economic factors which have contributed to the decreasing family size? [More…]
Family unity, growth centres, welfare and other requirements, representations on bodies that affect the welfare of their own future and representations throughout the occupational structures that give a voice to the individuals are some of the matters to which I make reference. [More…]
When the amendments to the maintenance sections of the Family Law Act come before the Parliament will members of the Government parties be given a free vote, as all members were given when the Bill for that Act came before both Houses? [More…]
So the predominance of people- people rearing young families and incurring family costs- are going to lose the benefit. [More…]
It is said in the country that it takes 3 generations for a family to build a property and to lose a property. [More…]
The particular publicity component during 1973-74 was directed at the smoker who was the breadwinner; who by age was at a higher risk and who, if prematurely deceased would leave a significant gap within a family. [More…]
Payments are continuing to those eligible for grants ($200 per family and $100 per single person), in accordance with the guidelines established by the Trust. [More…]
What I have said, and what the Treasurer and the Government have said, is that people should have confidence in the future to undertake their normal budgetary programs on a family basis. [More…]
I make no apology for the fact that he, together with 21 other people, happens to be a partner of my brother in a legal firm in Sydney, just as I would not have criticised the appointment of Mr Justice Dovey to the Family Law Court if that appointment had been made by the previous Government. [More…]
It was in recognition of this need that the Parliament legislated for the establishment of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I said that the honourable gentleman had a family connection with the company about which he has now asked 3 questions without notice of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that the serious shortage of judges with the Family Court of Australia is slowing its proceedings very markedly? [More…]
-I am constantly in touch with the position in the Family Court of Australia and I am concerned, as I think most honourable members are concerned, at the fact that the number of applications for divorce filed this year is running at three to four times the comparative rate for last year. [More…]
One explanation of this may be that there is a backlog of people who were waiting for the Family Law Act to come into force, but one would have thought that by this stage that rate would have declined somewhat. [More…]
Honourable members will also be aware that the Family Law Act itself is under challenge in the High Court of Australia and that the decision of the High Court has been reserved and has not yet been handed down. [More…]
It is proposed to bring into existence in Western Australia a State Family Court on 1 June next. [More…]
Does this not mean that the Family Law Courts will be required to set higher maintenance orders, with a resultant increase in both defaults and the costs to supporting mothers of enforcing maintenance orders? [More…]
We have a section of grazing industries but in Tasmania our rural industries largely are based on small family farms, mainly dairies and orchards. [More…]
As most honourable members would be aware, at the moment those small family farms are in a very bad economic situation. [More…]
If a nursing home bed is not needed these people should be looked after in their own homes in their family environment with a greater provision of support services for them. [More…]
Many are big homes that could accommodate a family. [More…]
They should be allowed to develop a family life in those areas without the necessity of having to commute very great distances to make use of hospitals, schools and the like which are already built in this area. [More…]
Will he take steps to see that orders made under the Family Law Act are complied with? [More…]
I had a look at the family law regulations and discoveredhonourable members will perhaps recall this- that the provisions for the enforcement of maintenance orders prescribe a series of alternatives for deserted wives with defaulting husbands. [More…]
Under the Family Law Act that procedure was set aside. [More…]
Whereas they had done that in the past they would not do it under the family law regulations because a choice had to be made as to whether the wife would apply for, say, an order for seizure, an order for sequestration or the like. [More…]
As a result of that questioning the magistrate will be able to make one or other of the orders that are set out in the regulations under the Family Law Act. [More…]
The simple fact is that it costs the Federal Government, a State government and a local council less money to settle a family in a designated growth centre than it costs each of those bodies to settle a family in any capital city in Australia. [More…]
In the provision of accommodation for people it is nearly twice as expensive to settle a family in Melbourne or Sydney now as it is to settle them in most of the non-metropolitan large regional cities. [More…]
There is a neighbourhood centre funded by the Children’s Commission to facilitate child care programs, an after-school program funded by the Children’s Commission, family day care funded by the Children’s Commission which arranges for children to be cared for in private homes, and an information bureau and youth worker both funded by the Australian Assistance Plan and both serving a useful purpose. [More…]
The vicious attack by the honourable member for Evans on a man who is respected in the electorate of Ashfield- a family man and professional man who has spent a lifetime in the area- is to be deplored. [More…]
This attack on a dead man- a man whom I did not know- has caused great distress to his family, to his dependants and to his loved ones. [More…]
They are working 80 hours a week, often with unpaid family assistance. [More…]
Honourable members opposite were prepared to see family against family. [More…]
This Act provides a sum of $30,000 to an employee’s family if he is killed in an unscheduled flight. [More…]
Thus, if the employee carried personal assurance of, say, $20,000, that sum would be deducted from the $30,000 available to the employee’s family in the event of death, and the Government would provide $10,000 only. [More…]
He was prepared to impugn that man’s integrity and honesty and to cause worry to his family. [More…]
The last thing I want to say, Mr Speaker, is that whilst the Leader of the Opposition is taking his 6 weeks’ jaunt overseas, as I read in the newspapers he is about to take, he might at least have the decency when he is out of the country to reflect on the situation that affects the Paltridge family and to send them a cable apologising for the whole of his actions. [More…]
It is proposed to save $20,000 in running expenses of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
The Government now says that it is better to put a levy on Medibank, it is better to destroy Medibank as a social instrument and put a bit more money back into the pay packet out of tax indexation because then each family can find its own level. [More…]
I like a negro in a negro’s place and that ain’t next to my family. [More…]
The biographer whom he quoted so approvingly here during the last week in which we sat has pointed out in the same work that the Prime Minister has quoted how, earlier as a Minister, the Prime Minister gave ‘Nareen’ as his home address so that he could gather the daily ministerial travelling allowance for residing with his family at his permanent home address in Melbourne. [More…]
When poor old Bessie or Tessie or some other old family pet has to be slaughtered because her useful productive life is over the problem is that the average city dweller does not understand the situation. [More…]
I know also that the Family Law Bill has in it a provision saying that no costs are to be awarded against any participant. [More…]
Some people now find that under the means test they cannot undertake contested matters, particularly in the family law field, because they cannot afford the legal costs. [More…]
Such charity is all the less likely to be extended having regard to the more limited opportunity to recover costs under the Family Law Act than was available under earlier legislation. [More…]
Whilst it is appreciated that the motor vehicle is a convenient mode of transport, it has become a monster, possessed sometimes to the extent of selfishness, an outlet for frustration and a large cost factor in the average family budget. [More…]
The pride and independence of owning one’s car, the thrill of keeping up with the model, and possibly the Jones family, is accepted as part of modern living. [More…]
However, following these changes to the Income Tax Assessment Act it became obvious to many of us that even with this major advance many family owned wine making companies and some private and public wine making companies would still be in an extremely tight liquidity situation. [More…]
This situation leads many of our companies, Australian owned and family owned companies, into a position where they will be ideally exposed to take-overs from multinational companies and overseas companies. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide for increases in the salaries and allowances of Judges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The rates of salaries and allowances for Judges of the Family Court, which are at present prescribed in the Family Law Act 1975, have fallen behind the rates for Judges of other Federal courts of comparable status. [More…]
This has occurred largely because the Family Law Bill occupied so much of the time of both Houses during its passage through Parliament last year. [More…]
The rates proposed for the Chief Judge and for Senior Judges of the Family Court are equivalent to the rates for the Chief Judge and Judges respectively of the Australian Industrial Court. [More…]
The proposed rate for ordinary Judges of the Family Court- at which level the majority of Judges are being appointedis $5,000 less than that for Senior Judges. [More…]
Since the proposed increases were to have been made before the commencement of the Family Law Act, and appointments to the Court have been offered and accepted on this basis, the Bill now before the House provides for the increases to be retrospective to 5 January 1976, the date of commencement of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Immediately after the House has agreed on further debate on this Bill, I propose to introduce a Family Law Amendment Bill to make a number of amendments to the Family Law Act. [More…]
One of the most significant provisions of the Family Law Act is the establishment of Family Courts. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Family Law Act has replaced the old divorce, maintenance, custody and property laws contained in the Matrimonial Causes Act and to some extent in State and Territory legislation, and that it came into operation on 5 January this year. [More…]
A further regrettable consequence of the decision as to the limits of jurisdiction under the Act is that the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia, a Federal court created by the Act, is limited to the same degree. [More…]
This means that a person who has taken proceedings under the Family Law Act in the Family Court, only to find that his case is beyond the limits of the jurisdiction under the Act, would have to start again in the appropriate State court under the relevant State legislation. [More…]
It will be seen that the High Court decision has meant that the concept of a family court able to deal with all matters relating to family law cannot be realised under a law of this Parliament. [More…]
Under present constitutional limitations, this concept can be realised only through a system of State family courts exercising State and federal jurisdiction covering the whole area of family law. [More…]
As far as custody is concerned, the problem of the disputes beyond the reach of the Family Law Act is part of a wider need for uniform State and Territory laws as to custody, including custody and rights of ex-nuptial children. [More…]
I therefore propose to suggest to the States that they consider introducing complementary legislation as to the closing of their courts when exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act. [More…]
Although the jurisdiction of the State supreme courts under the Act will be terminated in the near future- at the request of the States- I expect State courts of summary jurisdiction to continue to exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the Family Court for some time to come. [More…]
In the meantime, section 97 will remain unaltered, so that proceedings before the Family Court of Australia will continue to be in closed court. [More…]
One category comprises amendments included to ensure that State Family Courts established pursuant to section 41 of the Act can operate on the same basis as the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
In the grafting-on of the provisions for State Family Courts to the Family Law Bill during its passage through Parliament, a few oversights and omissions occurred which this Bill seeks to remedy. [More…]
For instance, the Bill provides for transfers of proceedings from a Supreme Court to a State Family Court in the same way as the Act now provides for transfers to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
An omission in the provisions of the Act governing appeals from State Family Courts is also dealt with. [More…]
After Western Australia decided to establish its State Family Court, it became apparent that it would be preferable for the Court to have its own counselling staff rather than use that of the Family Court of Australia, as envisaged by section 41 of the Act. [More…]
At the request of Western Australia, a provision of the Bill will permit one person to hold simultaneously the offices of Judge of a State Family Court and Judge of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The amendment will correspond to section 106 (b) of the Act, which was sponsored by the right honourable member for Lowe when the Family Law Bill was in this House, and which enables proceedings for enforcement of maintenance orders to be taken on behalf of persons entitled to moneys under them. [More…]
By an oversight when the original Bill was being amended during its passage through Parliament, provision was not included to enable appeals to be taken from Territory Supreme Courts to the Full Court of the Family Court, which is the court of appeal from State Supreme Courts under the Act. [More…]
An amendment in the Bill provides for appeals from Territory Supreme Courts to the Full Court of the Family Court. [More…]
To facilitate the determination of questions of law by the Full Court of the Family Court, a provision has been inserted to enable such questions that arise in any proceedings before the Family Court to be referred by way of a case stated procedure to the Full Court. [More…]
Without this determined action the pressing taxation and family reforms which the Government has decided to introduce would not have been possible. [More…]
The decisions I will announce shortly relate to expenditure restraint, Medibank, a new scheme of family allowances and personal tax indexation. [More…]
Among other programs the Cabinet reviewed the family law and legal aid programs administered by the Attorney-General. [More…]
The comparatively new program of family law will be continued with a budget of $ 10.4m for 1976-77. [More…]
Within the funds to be made available, the Institute of Family Studies is to be established during the course of 1976-77. [More…]
Among other things, this expanded program will facilitate family reunions. [More…]
To help offset the cost of the assisted passages, we have decided to increase the contributions from migrants receiving assistance under the scheme by $50 to $200 in the case of single migrants, and by $ 150 to $300 in the case of family units. [More…]
The annual cost of the new family allowances scheme in a full year is almost exactly the same. [More…]
The income tax rates scale will be indexed and so also will the rebates for a dependent spouse or a housekeeper, the sole parent rebate and the $540 basic rebate; because of our decision in relation to the new family allowances, the question of indexing the existing children’s rebates will not now arise. [More…]
These measures make it not only possible but also desirable to introduce the new family allowances scheme and our tax indexation measures in 1 976-77. [More…]
They deal with aspects of the better and fairer system of family assistance, and reductions in Government expediture that are elements of that package. [More…]
Although, as I shall refer to later, the Government’s new proposals for better and fairer family allowances entails the withdrawal of tax rebates for children, this will not exclude them from the basis for calculation of the zone allowances. [More…]
I have spoken elsewhere of the Government’s proposals for an improved scheme of family allowances and pointed out the reasons for the consequential removal of the rebates for maintenance of children from the income tax law. [More…]
Payment of a family contribution will provide exemption for each member of a 2-income family. [More…]
It is anticipated that the arrangement for people to contribute to the Commission will provide an effective ceiling on levy payments of about $ 1 50 a year for a person without dependants and about $300 a year for a family. [More…]
However, it is estimated that the combined contribution rates for the standard tables will be of the order of$175 a year-$3.35 a week-at the single rate and $350 a year-$6.70 a week- at the family rate. [More…]
The cost of this additional cover is estimated at $135 a year-or $2.60 a week- at a family rate and would be payable in addition to the levy. [More…]
As a guide, annual contribution rates to Medibank are expected to be about $ 1 50 a year for a person without dependants and about $300 a year for a family. [More…]
The new rates of family allowances will apply from 15 June and will be available for payment in respect of instalments due on 13 July 1976. [More…]
People who are receiving family allowances when the new rates come into operation will not need to apply to receive the higher payments, but claims will need to be lodged by those who will become eligible to receive payments under the new eligibility conditions. [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…]
The abolition of tax allowances for children and large increases in family allowances were recommended by Professor Henderson in the first main report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty. [More…]
The increases in family allowances will take effect at virtually the same time as the pay-as-you-earn schedules of tax instalments are adjusted to take account of the withdrawal of rebates for children and students. [More…]
Even the highest income earner in Australia can take out a $300 a year package to cover himself and his family, and a single person can take out a $150 a year package. [More…]
So far as the major point of the honourable gentleman’s question is concerned, that is to say the family allowances and the major increase in child endowment, if I may say so, Mr Speaker, that is one of the most significant measures of social welfare introduced in this country by any government. [More…]
I repeat what I said to the honourable member for Herbert, that is, that a man or woman who is in receipt of full medical treatment from the Repatriation Department will receive a full Medibank levy exemption and a man who has a wife or family will receive a 50 per cent exemption. [More…]
We read in the Press that about 57 per cent of all taxpayers will be worse off as a result of the new tax system of family allowances, tax indexation and the Medibank levy. [More…]
No matter how great a person’s income he cannot provide decent transport or decent cities for himself and his family without the intervention of governmentswithout government spending. [More…]
Any person who has a regard for children and a love of family will desire to ensure that the mother will have a better opportunity to feed, clothe, entertain and ensure the recreation of her children. [More…]
He was saying that the transferring of some tax rebates and other funds to family allowances means that money is more likely to be saved than to be spent. [More…]
If the honourable member had waited another day to hear the speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) on Thursday, 20 May, he would have heard two of the most significant reforms since Federationpersonal tax indexation and the implementation of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
That is the gap between the dole and the poverty line for a family of six. [More…]
But who puts up stories in the press about the round of second-hand clothes, kids without new shoes, cars without registration, monthly payments further and further behind, the fans of life of family unemployment? [More…]
Numbers given for people accompanying each Minister are in respect of family and personal staff only. [More…]
I hope they will show sufficient concern for their own electors, many of whom will want to know the specific choices available to them and to be able to relate those choices to the family income and circumstances and their predilections for the kind of health care that they want. [More…]
The family premium for Medibank hospital and medical cover will be $300. [More…]
I refer to such things as the cancellation of the rebate for dependants and its replacement with a family allowance or increased child endowment payments; the disbanding of Medibank and the forced return of people to the private health insurance funds, with a slug to taxpayers to pay for it; and income tax indexation as a trade-off to the Medibank tax or the Medibank levy- call it what you will, because it is one and the same thing. [More…]
Let us look at the dependants’ rebate and the family allowance in terms of dollars and cents. [More…]
Why did the Government decide to take away the rebate for dependent children and turn it into a family allowance or an increase in the child endowment? [More…]
There is no reason to believe that the money will necessarily be spent, although it is true to say that the breadwinner of the family will receive a reduced pay packet because the dependant’s allowance which was made available to him each week under the rebate system introduced in the last Labor Budget has been taken away. [More…]
The other is to bring about greater wage justice and social benefits by the introduction of tax indexation and family allowances in the desire that there will be greater wage restraint on the part of the ordinary men and women of this country. [More…]
The change from child endowment to family allowances, together with the abolition of the tax rebates for dependent children, will bring very great benefits to low income families. [More…]
However, the basic change now to be made with the introduction of family allowances at a much higher rate than the previous child endowment will prove to be of major assistance to many of these low income farm families about which I have spoken. [More…]
The Government is increasing the quota of people allowed into the country under the family reunion categories. [More…]
The concept of family reunion as a basis for migrant eligibility is one that the Australian Labor Party strongly supports. [More…]
What we are talking about- let us be honest about it- is increasing the number of migrants under the family reunification program. [More…]
Why has it not extended the family reunification program to include brothers and sisters of the permanent residents in Australia? [More…]
I suggest that real consideration be given to extending the concept of family reunification. [More…]
I call on the Minister to give the House an unqualified assurance that this new quota will not discriminate against the non-British migrant, that every person living in Australia will have an equal opportunity to nominate members of his family as permanent settlers, an unqualified assurance that eligibility under this new quota will in no way be influenced by the country of origin of the persons applying to migrate to this country. [More…]
2) and especially the family allowances proposals, which have been overlooked by honourable members opposite during the course of this debate. [More…]
In this context it is of great significance, in relation to the Government’s decision to use the vehicle of family allowance to direct resources away from the relatively well off to the poor, that the report showed quite clearly that the group of people in the community whose incomes fall below the poverty line by the biggest percentage were in large families whose fathers were earning the minimum wage or a little more. [More…]
I am surprised that the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) and the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) earlier in this debate, when summing up their comments on these proposals, would not acknowledge the benefits of income redistribution which accrue from the family allowance proposals. [More…]
By this new system of family allowances the Government is giving recognition to all parents of the extra responsibilities they carry, not merely to the taxpayers amongst them. [More…]
I have always felt that this was an abuse of scarce government resources, particularly when there were many poor families who needed much more in the way of family allowances to provide better food, clothing and other basic or essential items for their children. [More…]
The real value of family allowances now will be felt more by those who need them. [More…]
I have alluded already to the fact that by redistributing the benefits of family allowances to the poorer families this money will be spent on more essential items for the children. [More…]
The family allowances plan obviously, therefore, has a dual benefit for the country: Firstly, it introduces a very real measure of social justice into our welfare system and, secondly, together with the impact of” personal income tax indexation, it will redirect resources to people in the community who have a much higher propensity to consume. [More…]
The family allowances proposals will have a very significant influence on consumer expenditure. [More…]
A further advantage of the new system is that families will not have to wait until the end of the financial year to receive the benefits of family allowances, as occurred under the tax rebate system. [More…]
I have been surprised by some of the criticisms made of the family allowances proposals. [More…]
They are ill-founded on the ground of logic and in my opinion they do not reflect a proper understanding of the principles behind the family allowances proposals. [More…]
The cost of the family allowances scheme will be $ 1,020m in the first year, but $900m of this will be provided by the abolition of the rebate system. [More…]
Our migrant families are a particular group in the community who will benefit very substantially from the introduction of the family allowances proposals. [More…]
Although many migrant mothers might prefer to stay at home and attend to normal motherly duties, many of them are forced by their circumstances to join the work force in order to supplement the family income. [More…]
I have also seen the stress which this has imposed upon their family life. [More…]
One thing honourable members opposite will have to concede is that the poorest and the weakest members of the Australian community will have their circumstances immediately and substantially improved by the combined family allowances and tax indexation measures. [More…]
The average family with whom we equate, I think quite wrongly, budgetary policy, does not pay for its house in the year of purchase. [More…]
Anyone who thinks that that will make a great deal of difference to family expenditure does not know how much control most wives have over their husband’s pay packet. [More…]
But I suggest that the child endowment payments in those areas in which the family can possibly afford it- if the family could not it would be spending its total income anyhow- will remain in the bank to meet especially those commitments to rates and the commitments of that nature that will of necessity increase because the Government has not in this package indicated a sufficient level of support to local government to prevent very substantial increases in costs in that area being passed on to the public this year in the form of municipal rate increases. [More…]
The new scheme of family allowances which benefits those worst off families the most is a major advance in social welfare in Australia and is recognised as such by all Australians. [More…]
I turn now to the last aspect, namely, family allowances: Again, the provision of these increased allowances represents a complete shift in our social program as to the way in which we place money in the hands of those people who need it. [More…]
I refer to statements that have been made to the effect that the family allowance proposals will benefit the 300 000 families and their 800 000 children throughout Australia who could not take advantage of the previous system of tax deductions for dependants. [More…]
I see nothing wrong with this because in doing this we have made Medibank pay for itself and we have given an impetus to the people who want the advantage of the family allowances, namely, the poor and the disadvantaged. [More…]
Obviously, if I were an insurer I would much prefer to insure the group of people aged between 16 years, when those people start work, and about 25 years, when they start a family than the groups before or after that age group. [More…]
So, although the tax tables published show that people will be 7c or 14c better off, I do not think that is terribly important; nonetheless, for every child in the family people will really be 5c a week worse off than was shown in the published figures. [More…]
The new family allowances are probably the most far-reaching welfare step taken by any government since Federation. [More…]
He did not mention the family allowances. [More…]
He did not praise the family allowances that every Australian mother will be entitled to receive. [More…]
The policy concerning family allowances for the family man and woman helps such people. [More…]
We have seen that poverty among 2-parent families is related to family size . [More…]
We therefore welcome the substantial moves in recent years by several States into the provision of more comprehensive family and community welfare services . [More…]
As to the question whether I have had any allegations or complaints about judges of the Family Law Court, I have received one from one honourable member. [More…]
But may I say that that matter is now the subject of an appeal to the Family Court in its appellate jurisdiction. [More…]
However, I refer honourable members to section 97 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that last week there was a somewhat unusual meeting in the sense that members of both sides met and discussed amendments to the Family Law Act that were subsequently introduced into this House. [More…]
Section 97 provides for the proceedings of the Family Court, or indeed any court dealing with family law matters, to be heard in camera subject to regulations and subject to parties, relatives, etc., being present. [More…]
I indicated then to honourable members that I proposed to talk to the Attorneys-General of the States in relation to this matter to see whether they would apply to State courts under State legislation the principle of section 97 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
A very significant matter that was referred to me by the Chief Justice of Tasmania was whether contempt proceedings before the Family Court should be dealt with in open court or in closed court. [More…]
The Chief Judge of the Family Court and other judges have said to me that they believe it would be better if the predominant rule were that the Family Court itself was held in open court as distinct from the principle of section 97. [More…]
And it is difficult, on taxation principles, to see why a distinction should be made between the provision of maintenance for children in this way and that provided in ordinary family circumstances. [More…]
The position is not simply that the positions have been reversed, because our proposal was for a 1.35 per cent levy on everybody to a maximum, at that stage, $150 premium per family. [More…]
If a person had some major health problem which required a major operation and he finished up in an intensive care ward, I am sure he would not like to be in a private hospital and he would not like any members of his family to be in a private hospital. [More…]
It will cost a married person an estimated $135 a year for the right to select the doctor of his choice for his family. [More…]
As honourable members know, the family premium cover under Medibank is $300. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is the family doctor, the specialist, the ear nose and throat specialist, the pediatrician, the obstetrician or a member of that branch of the medical profession that is providing diagnostic services, we all appreciate exactly what is being done by the profession. [More…]
Families on higher incomes can, if they so wish, obtain the type of services that the honourable member for Maribyrnong mentioned- the services available in our great public hospitals- and can take out, in approximate terms, a $300 family premium or package that will cover them for the cost of treatment in standard wards of public hospitals with hospital staff engaged by the hospital. [More…]
The family will also be able to recoup 85 per cent of the scheduled medical fee. [More…]
We understand that this service will cost somewhere of the order of $350 a year for a family or $175 a year for a single person. [More…]
-A family on the $13,000 to $14,000 income level can take out a $300 standard Medibank premium which is very close to cost. [More…]
If we are married, with a family we can either take out a standard Medibank premium of approximately $300 a year or we insure privately for $355 a year. [More…]
My second question is this: If I apprehend the situation correctly in relation to the premium contribution for Medibank of $300 for a family or $350 to opt out and take private health insurance cover for private medical service and intermediate ward accommodation, if contributions to the private funds increaseaccording to my rough estimates from papers which I have kept concerning utilisation rates I calculate that the amount will not be $350 but will be closer to $400- do we have an undertaking that the $300 will not increase? [More…]
First of all, in reply to the questions from the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden ) let me say that the approximate $300 premium that was set for a standard Medibank package, as it is called, provides a family with standard ward accommodation in a public hospital and also with benefits involving 85 per cent of the scheduled fee. [More…]
It does not provide a tremendous subsidy to a man or a family on a high income and it goes pretty close to covering the cost of services. [More…]
The next question relates to the amount of $135 for a family or approximately $68 for a single person for hospital only insurance. [More…]
We are talking about levy payers where the family’s total income is about $9,000 net. [More…]
At about that point it will pay that family to insure privately for medical and hospital attention, but below that point if the family wants to exercise the right to ave their own doctor in a hospital in a standard ward accommodation it will pay the family to pay the 2Vi per cent levy on the joint or aggregated income and pay approximately $135 a year- that is our estimate- to a fund to obtain that sort of cover. [More…]
If we allowed that situation to occur what we would be asking the levy payers and the lower income people to do would be to subsidise a person who chooses to insure himself and his family for what he regards to be more comfortable accommodation in a hospital with choice of doctor. [More…]
The $300 that a family will pay will be fairly close to the cost. [More…]
He mentioned the way people tend to hero worship their local doctortheir family doctor. [More…]
The family allowance scheme shows the Government’s determination to work in the interests of all Australians. [More…]
It is a good feature that family allowances be liberalised and modified. [More…]
Curtailments will bite into the family planning activities, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories expansion program, the fight against tuberculosis which has been waged since 1948 and which has now been slashed by $9m, the school dental scheme and many others. [More…]
The Government’s major drive into the areas of poverty through tax indexation and family allowances is almost breathtaking in its magnitude. [More…]
The estimate of $ 1,020m in family allowances for the ensuing year is clear proof of the Government ‘s sincerity. [More…]
In future every mother will be able to plan for her family’s welfare, more confident in the knowledge that a Reserve Bank cheque will be paid direct to her in accordance with the scale. [More…]
A family with 4 children will now receive $20.50 a week under the new scheme as against $5.75 under the old. [More…]
I refer of course to the family allowances. [More…]
The more vulnerable groups of society- the very young, the sick and the old- were cared for primarily within the family group. [More…]
The family’s desire and ability to care for its weak ones was fractured by the number of women forced to go into the work force, in so many cases simply because of unindexed tax. [More…]
How do bike tracks, walkways and environmental nonsense help a mother to stay home to look after her family? [More…]
The Government has shown the way, with the family allowance policies. [More…]
If a woman cannot look after her own family then someone else has to and it does then become a matter of dollars and cents-either for the husband or the State or some combination of the two. [More…]
I am not advocating that the Government pay wages to housewives, but I am suggesting that increased family allowances in future would be a solid means of encouraging women to leave the work force and to do the job which many of them want to do. [More…]
Members of his family were not permitted to enter the court room. [More…]
That is the Soviet Union today, which would take a Christian leader from his wife and family because he dared to take the Bible, the scripture in his hand, and go into the Soviet Union and read from it. [More…]
-I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Is it a fact that a proclamation has been issued to phase out the jurisdiction of the State supreme courts to hear divorce proceedings and other matters under the Family Law Act? [More…]
Bendigo who at present are covered by the Supreme Court circuit will now be forced to travel to metropolitan cities such as Melbourne in order to attend Family Court hearings? [More…]
The Governor-General has been asked to issue proclamations under the Family Law Act terminating the jurisdiction of the supreme courts of the States in family law matters as from 1 June. [More…]
However, this does not mean that the Family Court will not service country areas. [More…]
I am happy to inform the honourable member that in Victoria proposals are afoot for the Family Court to sit at Bendigo, Ballarat, Horsham, Shepparton, Warrnambool, Mildura, Geelong, Sale, Wangaratta and Hamilton. [More…]
When you do knock the public sector as with their ideology, those on the other side of this Parliament do, then you are knocking these things: Better roads, better pensions, better overseas aid, better family law administration- and even better defence. [More…]
One family was recently quoted the sum of$15,000 to have a telephone installed. [More…]
For instance, I have suggested that such a devolution could occur in relation to sales tax and criminal law in Commonwealth places, and that the States should be able, with better assurance, to refer some of their powers to the Commonwealthfor instance, those in relation to defamation and the remaining aspects of family law. [More…]
Labor, in developing its regionalism concept, recognised that the individual living standards of the average family, especially in environmental and cultural terms, depend more on the initiatives and efficiency of local government than on the initiative and efficiency of either State or Federal governments. [More…]
1 ) The only discussion of which I am aware is the conversation between the officer of my Department and the Registrar of the Family Law Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales referred to in my supplementary answer on 6 April 1976 to a question from the Leader of the Opposition (Hansard, page 1 343 ). [More…]
The honourable member is, however, referred to rule 299 of the Matrimonial Causes Rules and regulation 1 62 of the Family Law Regulations. [More…]
Where the beneficiary or a member of the family is a registered nurse and the person provides some skilled nursing care to the patient, it is not necessary to engage the services of another person to provide skilled nursing care to the patient [More…]
-Will the Minister for Health confirm that the Medibank pamphlets produced by the honourable member for Macarthur state that private health insurance funds will offer full medical and hospital coverage for a family at a cost of $350 a year? [More…]
Will the Minister also confirm that private health insurance funds in Western Australia have stated that intermediate ward coverage for a family will cost $417 a year and private ward coverage $500 a year? [More…]
The Advisory Committee on Safety in Vehicle Design undertake research with a view to designing vehicles, particularly family type vehicles, to enable the fitting of approved child restraints. [More…]
If I stay in Medibank and pay the family premium it will cost $300 a year. [More…]
People with incomes above $12,000 a year will find it cheaper to get Medibank cover by buying a Medibank premium for about $300 a year to cover their family health costs. [More…]
One could well add to those factors the importance to those placed in stringent economic conditions of the family allowances which increase child endowment measures of the past so markedly. [More…]
We are dealing with amendments to the Family Law Act. [More…]
Following that decision it became apparent that, whilst the Family Law Act as we know it is a valid exercise of constitutional power in the majority of its clauses, there are various aspects which are deemed to be ultra vires the Constitution. [More…]
Nevertheless there are certain aspects of the Family Law Act which are deemed to be outside the Commonwealth jurisdiction. [More…]
It follows from this decision that unless that was directly related to ancillary provisions, the major contest being the question of a divorce, it could not be dealt with under the Family Law Act but would have to be dealt with under the State law called the Married Women’s Property Act. [More…]
Basically what the decision is saying is that the Family Law Act is a valid Act and the fact that various sections of it may to some extent be invalid does not invalidate the whole Act. [More…]
That is adequately catered for in section 12 1 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
This debate provides an opportunity to discuss some of the problems we now see flowing from the administration of family law, particularly as it relates to the very difficult area of people who are in conflict and who are unable to maintain their marriages, despite having the best will in the world. [More…]
-I should like to compliment the honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen) on the very clear, concise and succinct manner in which he has placed before the Parliament information relevant to the background and the trials and the tribulations that the Family Law Act had in the High Court. [More…]
It is, perhaps, unfortunate that the Commonwealth’s jurisdiction over matrimonial property and custody is limited and that therefore the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia is also limited. [More…]
The Family Court of Australia would not have jurisdiction in maintenance matters under the ruling of the High Court unless it is allied with matters of principal relief in divorce proceedings. [More…]
In all, it will be seen that the High Court’s decision has meant that the whole concept of the Family Court Court being able to deal with all matters relating to family law cannot now be realised as was at first hoped and at first envisaged. [More…]
I believe stricter guidelines should be inserted in maintenance Acts as to the matters to be taken into consideration in assessing a reasonable and adequate payment on the same lines as those set out in the Family Law Act which, amongst other things, not only takes into consideration the age and the state of health of each of the parties but is bound to have due regard to the income, the property and the financial resources of either parties, the care or control of a child, the financial needs and obligations of each of the parties, the responsibilities of either party to support any other person and so on. [More…]
Perhaps if that is not to be followed, the States might give some thought and weigh heavily the incorporation of these matters in State maintenance legislation or even better, legislate to confer these powers on the Family Court. [More…]
This provision is included to enable the Full Court of the Family Court to determine questions of law without the necessity or the expense of an appeal. [More…]
As I understand it, that provision came to be in the Bill at the behest, as it were, of the judges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Mention has been made of State Family Courts. [More…]
I just want to remind honourable members that an historic occasion occurred yesterday in Western Australia when the State Family Court of that [More…]
That was a very significant step because basic to the Family Law Act was the idea that there ought to be a family law court in which all matters relevant to the family could be dealt with by the one court. [More…]
One lesson that we learn from the High Court decision- indeed we suspected when we were debating the Family Law Bill last year that we might learn it- is that in Australia under our Constitution the Federal Parliament does not have power to legislate with respect to matters relating to the family and that therefore under our constitutional set-up the only type of court that can deal with all matters relating to the family is a family court set up under State law which is invested with the necessary State and Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
May I say that I am still hopeful that State governments in States other than Western Australia will turn their minds to the setting up of State family courts. [More…]
Indeed I propose to make approaches to State Attorneys-General again in the light of the High Court decision so that they might consider again whether it would not be desirable to set up State family courts. [More…]
I do not want to comment on what the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Birney) said because what he said could relate to proceedings which are currently before the Family Court on appeal and indeed in a proceeding in the High Court. [More…]
I mention that only because I feel that this is becoming an increasing problem, but it is increasing only because to some extent the pressure on the legal aid commitment is growing in the family law area. [More…]
I think that more than 75 per cent, perhaps 80 per cent, of the legal aid commitment is taken up with family law matters. [More…]
A very substantial part of that system is the family law contribution. [More…]
I mention another matter about the Family Court- I say this to the honourable member for Phillip and others. [More…]
In judging it we ought to remember that the Family Court is not like the courts in which perhaps some of us have been practising. [More…]
Therefore, I think that in judging the Family Court we ought to take these matters into account and not be over-critical in our judgment. [More…]
My constant contact with the Chief Judge of the Family Court leads me to the very firm conclusion that the judges of the Court are busy; that they are working well and working indeed beyond the point to which they might be expected to work. [More…]
I know that in Brisbane, for instance, the Family Court is over-committed in its work. [More…]
Whatever may happen in the case of an individual judge- of course, that is a matter for an appellate court to deal with- I want to conclude with a defence of the Family Court judges. [More…]
I do not believe that it is a fair criticism to say that the administration of the Family Law Act by those judges is basically open to criticism. [More…]
I think they are doing a good and thorough job and they are working hard towards the implementation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
If we look at some of the decisions that have been made recently on Medibank, on the indexation of taxation, on the new family allowances scheme and on depreciation allowances as incentives to industries, we see that there is nothing more certain than that this Government, in the few months it has been in office, is making ad hoc decisions, it has its priorities and is aiming not at the people in the community who deserve assistance but rather at the people who follow the Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
Under these provisions a student from a poorer family could borrow money from the Government to facilitate the payment of tuition fees and living costs while he or she undertook studies subsequent to a first degree. [More…]
Owing to the concern of many people, will he give an assurance that he will maintain the Labor Government’s policy of providing 75 per cent of recurrent costs for child care and family day care? [More…]
In the last couple of years, most of the attention that has been given to the area of family law has concentrated on the new divorce, maintenance, custody and matrimonial property legislation contained in the Family Law Act, and on the new family courts which have been established under that Act. [More…]
However, it is proper to acknowledge that many of the persons, both inside and outside Parliament, who expressed views both for and against the family law legislation were motivated by a- desire to preserve and protect the institution of marriage. [More…]
The supporters of the Family Law Act saw it as upholding the institution of marriage by reducing the bitterness and humiliation in divorce and other matrimonial proceedings and by offering greater encouragement to parties to be reconciled or to terminate their relationship amicably through the use of marriage counselling. [More…]
In other words, while the Family Law Act deals with cures, this Bill deals with prevention. [More…]
While the Government recognises, and will continue to support, the invaluable counselling work of both the approved counselling organisations and the family court counsellors, we feel that pre-marital education programs and courses can, if supported and made more widely available, also play an important part in helping to reduce marital instability. [More…]
Marriage counselling organisations that are approved under the Family Law Act are deemed to be approved for the purposes of these amendments. [More…]
In the same way as under the relevant provisions of the Family Law Act, the amendments provide for approved organisations to furnish annual financial statements and reports on their pre-marital education activities. [More…]
In fact, in recognition of the benefit that counselling might offer to persons contemplating marriage, the Government has decided that where a person under 18 has been refused parental consent to marry and wishes to apply to a magistrate for his consent instead, the person should first have to attend counselling with an approved marriage counselling organisation under the Family Law Act. [More…]
Consistently with the policy of the Family Law Act towards the use of counselling, the Bill does not go to the extent of imposing a more general requirement of compulsory attendance at premarital education or counselling. [More…]
The provisions in the Family Law Act prescribing the circumstances in which a marriage is void are to be incorporated in the Marriage Act, where one would expect to find them. [More…]
Parliament has approved major reforms of family law, the reform of the law of dissolution of marriage has preceded the reform of the law governing the formation of marriage. [More…]
The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1959 preceded the Marriage Act of 196 1 and the Family Law Act of last year preceded this Bill. [More…]
A number of provisions of the Bill provide for various functions now exercised under the Act by courts and judges or magistrates to be exercised by the family courts and judges of those courts respectively. [More…]
By family courts I refer to both the Family Court of Australia and State family courts. [More…]
The amendments would also enable proclamations to be made having the effect of making these functions exercisable exclusively by family courts and family court judges. [More…]
A family earning an average income can improve the income at its disposal by as much as one-third through its lifetime by buying its own home. [More…]
If a family cannot buy its own home the capital gains, rentals and tax concessions deriving from home ownership go to the landlord. [More…]
These high early repayments fall harshly on the ordinary family. [More…]
That is what Australia has been looking forward to for 3 years- an opportunity for fairness; an opportunity to participate; an opportunity to involve people in establishing their first family home. [More…]
This is the criteria with which we found a family, with which we give the wage earner, the keeper of the family finances, a chance. [More…]
This is consistent with the Government’s aims and policies to give help during those early difficult years when family commitments are probably high and when job payment is relatively low in comparison with what may be anticipated in the future. [More…]
Ethnically Japan is certainly of the Asian family, but her dramatic westernisation, her progress in production and her capacity to enter into competition and in many cases lead the world in modern technology, has lined her up with countries such as the United States and the Western block European countries which of course include Australia. [More…]
The Government has taken ad hoc, hastily considered decisions on defence, Medibank, taxation, family allowances, depreciation and investment allowances, funeral benefits, legal aid, the cadet scheme, child care and many other things. [More…]
However, the new rates of family allowances recently awarded by the Government will be of great assistance to pensioners and beneficiaries with children. [More…]
1 ) Has any ( a ) financial or ( b ) other assistance under the Australian Assistance Plan been received by (i) Australian Red Cross Society, (ii) Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (Victoria), (iii) Salvation Army, (iv) The Childrens Protection Society (Victoria ) and (v) International Social Service. [More…]
1 ) Except for 148 hectares of land on West Island bought by Australia in 195 1, the land of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands above high water mark has been owned by the Clunies Ross family since 1886 when it was granted to an ancestor of the present Mr Clunies Ross by Queen Victoria. [More…]
1 ) In connection with his statement that the withdrawal of taxation rebates from the husband in respect of his dependent children would be approximately balanced by additional children’s allowances to his wife so that the total family income would be virtually unaffected by the contemplated financial package, is it possible that an anomaly could arise where a divorced husband is supporting his dependent children so that the new arrangements, in place of rearranging the family income, would result in a transfer of money from one family to another. [More…]
1 ) Under the new family allowances system, there will be a transfer between persons of immediate command over Budget-provided assistance for the maintenance of children. [More…]
In the normative case, the transfer will occur within the family but this will not be so in the kind of situation referred to by the honourable member. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable members will wish to join me in expressing good wishes to Senator Greenwood, his wife and family. [More…]
I first came to know R. G. Casey through my family. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 1 7 June 1 976 of the Right Honourable Lord Casey, Baron of Berwick, Victoria, and of the City of Westminster, England, K.G., P.C, G.C.M.G., C.H., D.S.O., M.C., K.St.J., a former Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia from 1965 to 1969, a member of this House from 1931 to 1940 and from 1949 to 1960, and a Minister of the Crown from 1 935 to 1 940 and from 1 949 to 1 960; places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service; and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Labor Party I extend to Lady Casey- herself a figure of public distinction and high personal qualities- and to the members of her family our deep sympathy in the loss which they and the nation have sustained. [More…]
On behalf of the National Country Party I should like to associate the members of that Party in the motion of condolence to the Lady Casey and to the family of the late Lord Casey. [More…]
It is with a deep feeling of humility that I, personally and on behalf of the National Country Party, should like to extend to the Lady Maie and her family our tribute to a great Australian and one whose loss will be sadly felt. [More…]
I am sure that all members will join me in extending sympathy to his family. [More…]
He left school in 1916 to work at Mount Bischoff tin mine on the west coast of Tasmania to help to support his family. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable members will join with me in extending sympathy to his family. [More…]
To both his widow and his family I should like to extend my own personal sympathy. [More…]
On behalf of the members of my Party I extend deep sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
In a world of changing values his family was and is a shining example of all those good things we speak about whenever we refer to the family as the basic unit of society. [More…]
It is because of this wonderful family unity and spirit that I know how much he will be missed by his loved ones. [More…]
I join with other honourable members in expressing sincere sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
Mr Bridgman is the elder son of Mr J. S. Bridgman who served on the Western Australian Hansard for the same length of time- a very remarkable family record. [More…]
Since the House is in such a very good mood, I might say that he and I certainly derived what skill in or appreciation we may have of the English language from members of a family whose father was a member of this House at the time and one of whom is married to a former Clerk of the House. [More…]
All told the family man on $9,000 a year will have to find $4.32 a week or $225 a year after 1 October. [More…]
They will pay according to their means, up to a ceiling of $300 a year for a family and $ ISO for an individual. [More…]
The Government announced its fiscal policy decisions on 20 May, including the full indexation of personal income tax, the generous family allowances and the modifications that we are talking about today. [More…]
Because there is a ceiling to the levy, people have to make decisions, and hence choices, about whether they opt out of the levy and pay the ceiling, depending on their individual and family incomes, and whether they opt for intermediate or private cover with Medibank. [More…]
Being an impoverished backbencher, I will have to shop around and join the fund which is most economic for me and my family. [More…]
I refer to pensioners and people with taxable incomes, on a family basis, of up to $4,300. [More…]
The tourist resort of Point Lookout was begun in 1934 by the Kennedy family and, as a result of their venture on this island, the first post office, the first accommodation, the first shop and the first transport across an old bush track to this area of the island were established. [More…]
In the last few years the wages factor has resulted in a big downturn in the service that has been provided to the visitors to that pan of the world, so much so that it has become completely a family concern, with families running these individual organisations. [More…]
The new system of family allowances, which is helping 300 000 families and over 800 000 children, was and is hailed as one of the most far-reaching social reforms in the history of Federation. [More…]
If subclause 3(c) is enacted certain judges of the Family Court of Australia will be able to exercise this new power as well as existing judges- judges of the supreme court of a Territory and certain judges of State courts. [More…]
This Bill is giving weight to that as did the Family Law BUI. [More…]
Therefore there will be no need for that definition to remain in what is now known as the Family Law Act. [More…]
Clause 17 (b) invests Federal jurisdiction for this purpose in family courts. [More…]
Section 32 of the Family Law Act authorises judges of the Family Court to exercise certain functions under the Marriage Act. [More…]
Section 5 1 of the Family Law Act sets out the circumstances in which a marriage is void. [More…]
Whilst marriage counselling organisations are already in existence under the Family Law Act, the Bill will permit voluntary organisations that are willing to conduct premarital courses to apply to the AttorneyGeneral for approval and appropriate funding. [More…]
It is of interest that in the first 6 months of its establishment there have been 32 000 applications for divorce to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
If honourable members who are trying to interject ever find the time to go into a divorce court or what is now called as a result of innovation by the Labor Government, more humanely and decently the Family Court, they will see that it is those real problems that cause marital instability. [More…]
As Government members wrap themselves in this false cloak they will ensure that people go once more into the Family Court, there to fight out their disputes. [More…]
If the honourable member for La Trobe, who is not interjecting but who is at least sighing vigorously as if he has had something to do with an upset marriage, wants to know about this matter he can attend on any day he wishes in the Family Courts of this country and find out. [More…]
Subsequently I spent some time in the Family Court and, of course, in the Divorce Court. [More…]
The personal income tax indexation provisions and the family allowances are the greatest social reforms since Federation. [More…]
The family allowances will strengthen marriages tremendously. [More…]
This is a provision comparable with a provision in the Family Law Act relating to marriage counselling. [More…]
Under the Family Law Act it is not necessary because the provisions are clearly based on a conciliatory matter. [More…]
Counsellors are appointed under section 37 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
I think that if there has to be a document it ought to be as simple as possible and it ought to be consistent with the provisions of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Section 43 of the Family Law Act sets out the principles to be applied by the courts in the exercise of their jurisdiction. [More…]
If those principles were adopted, if the form were to incorporate those principles and if the Parliament were to see that the form was therefore consistent with the Family Law Act then I would be able to accept the position. [More…]
The girl was from a Roman Catholic family very strong in its faith and the boy was from a family of practising Anglicans. [More…]
But it is obvious that when the Family Law Bill was enacted in the Parliament about a year ago, contrary to the suggestion of the previous speaker, it required the support of honourable members on both sides of the House. [More…]
There are members of the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Country Party who voted for the enactment of the Family Law Bill, as did members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is just as correct to say that members of the ALP fought vigorously against the enactment of the Family Law BUI as did members of the National Country Party and the Liberal Party at that time. [More…]
So there is little point in the honourable member for Hunter claiming praise for the changes in family law legislation which have come about in recent times. [More…]
The Family Law Act of last year precedes this BUI, the Marriage Amendment BUI. [More…]
In the Family Law Bill we attempted to deal- I believe we did so in a very realistic way- with the community attitudes towards divorce. [More…]
Section 43 (a) of the Family Law Act says: the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
I thought it was very noticeable that the occasion tonight so far as he was concerned was a family affair, and if I can speak of that particular marriage, it is one of a union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, and he is the issue of it. [More…]
Because there is a State Family Court there. [More…]
Indeed, there is a provision in the Bill that will allow an appeal- if this Bill goes through, as I am sure it will- to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
May I say that in the Family Law Act there is provision to set up an Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
He will also find an amount of $25,000 set aside to establish a Family Law Council. [More…]
To get to the real point, and it is the real point, there will be an institute in this country which will do the sort of things that the honourable member suggested and its establishment will be the result of the combined will- not the Labor Party will, but the combined will- of this Parliament as expressed in the Family Law Act. [More…]
One of them, for instance- it is really the only matter of substance, I would think- brings into the Marriage Act the definition of domocile that is in the Family Law Act. [More…]
The first amendment simply omits the word and’ and the second amendment introduces the concept of domicile that is in the Family Law Act. [More…]
We should be concerned with the fundamentals of how people can live together, how they should be encouraged to live, and support family life and all that that stands for. [More…]
a representative or official of a state or an official or other agent of an international organization of an inter-governmental character or a member of the family of such a person forming part of his household. [More…]
So we are seeking to expedite the reuniting of immediate family members in this category. [More…]
What steps has his Department taken in the last 3 months to make these wider family reunion categories known in the Lebanon and Cyprus and to bring them to the attention of the Lebanese and Cypriot communities in Australia? [More…]
Let me assure the honourable gentleman and all honourable gentlemen that the criteria in relation to family reunion being applied throughout the world apply to parents, husbands and wives and dependent children of Lebanese residents of Australia. [More…]
It costs much less to settle a family in a planned growth centre than it does to provide the same roads, schools, housing, transport and sewerage in crowded or remote suburbs and towns. [More…]
No matter how much a family pays it cannot buy a road, a school, a railway, a hospital, or a university. [More…]
The family that has no hospital in its neighbourhood, no sewer, no park, no university, is poorer than the family that has. [More…]
That is that the Government’s new program of family allowances is of specific and particular relevance to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I think all honourable members would agree that many Aborigines would be most unlikely to be in income brackets where they would be able to obtain full benefit from the old family rebate scheme. [More…]
They will certainly all get full benefit from the system of family allowances. [More…]
Preliminary negotiations have already taken place with the University which, since 1 972, has had a Family Research Unit funded through the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in 1972 the Liberal-Country Party Government commissioned, with the support of the State Ministers responsible for child and social welfare, a family research project within the University of New South Wales to undertake a series of studies directed towards understanding and documenting family disruption and breakdown and changing family patterns in Australia. [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…]
These studies are complementary to the work of the commission’s Family Services Committee on which is represented relevant departments at Federal and State levels, and the voluntary welfare sector. [More…]
The Family Services Committee will continue in order to complete a major report in this area during 1 976-77. [More…]
Some officers will be used in activities, such as administering research projects and fellowship awards, servicing the Family Services Committee and undertaking work in the area of social welfare manpower planning, responsibility for which will be absorbed by the department. [More…]
A major advance is the new family allowance scheme which will help 800 000 disadvantaged children and which will give their mothers an assured income. [More…]
This applies particularly to the Aboriginal population which will benefit greatly from the new family allowance scheme. [More…]
One family I know has a contract for cutting railway sleepers from the timber on its property, which gives it a small cash flow while it cannot sell its cattle profitably. [More…]
I ask honourable members to look at the dramatic increases in family allowances provided in this Budget. [More…]
The previous Government persisted with an arrangement whereby the surviving spouse to a marriage very often had to sell the family home in order to pay government charges. [More…]
Many previous speakers have addressed themselves to the family allowances. [More…]
Many honourable members have detailed the long list- family allowances, personal income tax indexation, handicapped persons’ allowances, the new test for pension eligibility, the experiment with a new housing allowance voucher system, the expansion of health programs, community health, hospitals and so on. [More…]
If honourable members look at the family allowance scheme, about which the honourable member spoke at length, I am sure that they will realise that the welfare of people is uppermost in the minds of all Government supporters. [More…]
Family break-up of any kind is a matter of importance to society because the family has a number of important social functions. [More…]
The family has the main responsibility for socialising the next generation. [More…]
An incomplete family is likely to find it more difficult than a complete family to carry out these functions. [More…]
Whether the father decides to stay at home or continue to work, society is not prepared to support him in his efforts to maintain his family. [More…]
Many lone parents’ needs arise simply from the fact that providing for physical, social and emotional needs of all the family members is usually a full time job for 2 adults. [More…]
Many men are not acquainted with the skills which are taken for granted in the running of a family home, for example, cooking, house cleaning, budgeting and buying of children’s clothes. [More…]
If a father decides to try and keep a family together he will almost certainly find it a struggle to maintain a full time job and still provide for child minding during the time he is away outside school hours. [More…]
Tonight in speaking to the Budget the member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), and I must add in parenthesis after hearing what he said there is no prospect for Prospect, the learned doctor- doctor of neither mathematics nor logics I would presume- made some wild assertions about family allowances. [More…]
I will speak about family allowances which were announced in May this year. [More…]
I should like to read the actual figures of benefits related to the pre-family allowance and post-family allowance. [More…]
A family with one child will be 80c per week worse off; a family with 2 children will be 30c better off; a family with 3 children will be $1.40 better off; a family with 4 children will be $2.25 better off; and a family with 5 children will be $3.85 better off. [More…]
Frivolity aside, the family allowances are a most important innovation. [More…]
We do not know whether the family allowance to be given to womenfolk in general will be saved or consumed. [More…]
I hope that people will not continue to denigrate the family allowance in the way that has been done, and done again tonight, because the figures that I have quoted are accurate. [More…]
Many of these women are second income earners in the family. [More…]
The third group consists of those who have a family responsibility. [More…]
The mother would normally be a second income-earner within the family. [More…]
Mothers cannot buy groceries, shoes, school uniforms and basic family needs. [More…]
I hope that his family would not think it an impertinence on my part to say that that could well have been a motto for that very distinguished airman and parliamentarian, because he did serve again. [More…]
I wonder whether gentlemen opposite recognise the value of the new family allowance scheme. [More…]
The family allowance has now become a significant element in family incomes. [More…]
So obsessed with old style, out of date, economic propositions are members opposite that they have not recognised that wages make up only one part of the family income. [More…]
What the worker has to spend and what is available to him and his family are the keys. [More…]
No doubt we will hear from the other member of the family shortly. [More…]
Why did the Government not sustain the beginnings of an offer of a social contract which tax indexation and the family allowance schemes provided, and attempt to collaborate with the unions in maintaining the social wage and achieving industrial peace? [More…]
Spending on Aborigines is decimated; real overseas aid falls to a lower proportion of national income than that which has applied for over 10 years; the real value of family allowances is already falling; a decision about student allowances is still deferred. [More…]
People in my electorate will be able to see that family allowances are going directly to mothers, that this money is not being stacked up by greedy governments and handed back as deductions without interest to taxpayers. [More…]
However, if the indexation system is to be adhered to then it should also apply to family allowances, that most important measure to which the Government attended early in May. [More…]
Specifically they suggest that women leaving work to have families should be paid a benefit for the period during which they are caring for their family. [More…]
In circumstances where the children of the family are cared for at home and are not forcing governments to provide child care faculties by way of creches and pre-schools, a differential payment might be considered to take care of the different circumstances applying in family care. [More…]
They are a tribute to what an Australian woman will do in bringing up her family. [More…]
The new family allowances will assist some 300 000 low income families with in excess of 800 000 children involved. [More…]
I have a number of depressed areas in my electorate of Bowman and I know from speaking with many of my constituents what a welcome move the introduction of these vastly increased family allowances has been. [More…]
The new family allowances constitute a major social reform which the Opposition has still not recognised. [More…]
The new family allowance is a measure which will ensure that those who need the assistance will get it in the most direct way. [More…]
He is an only son of a fairly well-to-do family. [More…]
It is true that he has one sister, but I think that his parents must have spoilt him and made him more selfish, more self-centred and even more ruthless than he might have been if he had belonged to an ordinary working class family. [More…]
It has been mentioned by various speakers on this side of the chamber that one of the greatest achievements in the social security field has been the introduction of the family allowances scheme. [More…]
Indeed, the family life of this country is one of the most important aspects to consider. [More…]
The social security and welfare provisions in the Budget follow the major restructuring and improvement of the family allowances scheme. [More…]
The rates of the family allowances have been substantially increased, as has been announced, but I think it is worth my while reading repeating them tonight. [More…]
When speaking during the adjournment debate last night he referred to the effect of the exchange of tax rebates in respect of children for the new higher family allowances and he gave some peculiar figures. [More…]
If the Government had not introduced its new child endowment scheme and abolished the tax rebate, a family with one child could have claimed $4.35 a week as a tax rebate plus 50c for the first child, making a total of $4.85 a week. [More…]
Now a family with one child will receive child endowment at the rate of $3.50 a week, a loss of $1.35 a week. [More…]
Under the previous arrangement, the calculation for a family with 2 children was twice the $4.35 a week tax rebate, which equals $8.70, plus one lot of child endowment at 50c a week and another at $1 a week, totalling $10.20 a week. [More…]
This represents a loss, under the new system, of $1.70 a week for a family with 2 children. [More…]
Under the previous system a family with 3 children would have received 3 times the $4.35 a week tax rebate, which equals $13.05, plus the total child endowment to which they would have been entitled of $3.50 a week, making a total amount of $16.55. [More…]
Under the new system a family with 3 children will receive $14.50 a week, a loss of $2.05c. [More…]
Hopefully the honourable member for Eden-Monaro could make the appropriate calculations for families with 4, 5 and 6 children but I shall give him the figures for a family with 4 children. [More…]
The new child endowment rate for such a family is $20.50 a week, which represents a loss of $2.65 a week. [More…]
I refer to a statement by the Minister for Repatriation in which he said that repatriation beneficiaries would continue to receive repatriation treatment at no cost to the individual or at half cost for a family unit. [More…]
I ask the Minister: If a married ex-serviceman in receipt of full repatriation benefits wishes to have more than Medibank standard coverage for his family, does the exserviceman sacrifice the privilege of full repatriation benefits without cost? [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the combined effect of the tax indexation proposals and the increase in family allowances plus the abolition of deductions for children and the Medibank levy or the payments required to be made to private health insurance companies will be that many people will be no better off as a result of the fiscal measures of this Government. [More…]
In addition, there will be the effect of the system of family allowances, to which 1 will refer in a moment. [More…]
I refer to the system of family allowances which has been introduced and to the introduction of personal tax indexation as from 1 July. [More…]
So far as the system of family allowances is concerned, what is important is that in low income groups- income groups where insufficient tax is paid to take advantage of rebates for children- the substantially increased family allowances are a net addition to incomes. [More…]
For 5 children, the new system of family allowances represents something like $27.50 a week or a cheque for $330 for a 12-week period. [More…]
The Minister has also pointed out that the social wage component in our policy of family allowances and with tax indexation the increase here is above that of the United Kingdom. [More…]
Those with the better emotional and family resources have the least difficulty. [More…]
This aspect is perhaps best illustrated by what we have done in relation to family allowances. [More…]
They are the new system of family allowances and the implementing of tax indexation. [More…]
I want to give a few details of the Budget’s new system of family allowances because I know that many Australians listening to this broadcast perhaps even now are not fully aware of the details of the total shape of the system. [More…]
The main features of the system are these: The former child endowment payments will be replaced by a new system of family allowances under which the family with one child will receive $3.50 a week from the Government. [More…]
The family with 2 children will receive $8.50 which was formerly $1.50. [More…]
The family with 3 children will receive $14.50 a week; that was formerly $3.50. [More…]
The family with 4 children will receive $20.50 a week and the family with 5 children will receive $27.50 a week. [More…]
The effect of that is that for the higher income groups the gains from the new family allowances offset by the loss of tax rebates and consequent higher tax payments- it is more or less a line ball position. [More…]
Both of these measures- the indexing of taxes and the system of family allowances which gives special help to low income groups- are measures which, so to speak, confer authority on this Government to carry through its policy of containing the increase in wages and salaries. [More…]
Similarly approximately 300 000 low-income families with 800 000 children Will benefit by the excellent family allowance scheme. [More…]
Equally enlightened is the social reform by way of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
However, so far as real disposable income is concerned, any judgments regarding the effects of the new health service financing arrangements would also need to take into account the introduction from 1 July last of full personal tax indexation and significant improvements in the manner of assisting families through family allowances. [More…]
Where a husband and wife are both taxpayers, it is proposed that their individual levy liabilities are not, in total, to exceed the family ceiling of $300. [More…]
Thus- to conclude my introductory references to the ceiling arrangements- a serviceman with a family will pay no more levy than $ 1 50. [More…]
When introducing the National Health Amendment Bill 1976 1 indicated to honourable members that the cost of this hospital-only insurance for a person remaining in Medibank standard was estimated at $ 135 a year or $2.60 a week- at the family rate- and would be payable in addition to the levy. [More…]
When the contribution rates for Medibank private health insurance were being determined it became apparent that the family contribution rates for the standard hospital benefits tables would exceed $2.60 a week. [More…]
Because of its concern to keep the cost of this type of insurance within the reach of those with low to medium incomes, the Government decided to give a subsidy to hold the family contribution rate to $2.60 a week and the single contribution rate to $1.30 a week. [More…]
The maximum rates of Commonwealth subsidy are based on the difference between the contribution rates for the standard hospital benefits tables for privately insured persons in Medibank private and $1.30 a week for single rate contributors and $2.60 a week for family rate contributors. [More…]
The Bill also provides for the rates of $1.30 a week for single contributors and $2.60 a week for family contributors, and for the rates of Commonwealth subsidies, to be varied by regulations. [More…]
These provisions have become redundant as a result of the proposal to introduce individual and family levy ceilings. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that contracts to construct 400 family homes to be built by the New South Wales Government have not been let although tenders closed on 19 July? [More…]
I have been informed that contracts for 400 family homes in New South Wales are being delayed and that tenders did close approximately 2 months ago. [More…]
In view of this is it intended that family allowances which have replaced the rebates for dependent children will be indexed so that they retain their real value? [More…]
What did the Labor Opposition say when we introduced the family allowances scheme? [More…]
It knew very well that the family allowances scheme was a reform that it should have introduced when it was in government, but it did not do so. [More…]
In the meantime, if I can believe the report in the Australian and attributed to the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson), the families of these young people can look after them; they will be under wholesome family supervision for 3 months until - [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that a number of amendments were made to the Act by the Family Law Amendment Act 1 976, which was passed by Parliament in the last sittings. [More…]
Some 80 per cent of Commonwealth funds appropriated for legal aid matters referred to private practitioners is in respect of matters arising under the Family Law Act. [More…]
Approximately 80 per cent of this figure therefore will represent payments for family law legal aid. [More…]
Having in mind the facilities provided by the Family Court, a fee of $60 is not regarded as excessive. [More…]
In the case of applications filed in a State Family Court- at the moment only the Family Court of Western Australiathe Bill provides that the fees are to be. [More…]
At the request of Western Australia, the Bill will enable the Commonwealth AttorneyGeneral to delegate his power of intervention in proceedings to the Attorney-General of a State ha ling r. State Family Court. [More…]
In fact, Government expenditure has increased by only 8 per cent and not 1 1 per cent as the Treasurer claims, because in that 1 1 per cent he includes the family allowance increases which were matched by cutbacks in the tax deductions. [More…]
It is arguable that the first vital momentum towards recovery has been created by the introduction of personal income tax indexation and the new family allowance scheme. [More…]
I refer very briefly to the family allowance scheme. [More…]
Professor Henderson did consider the question of making the family allowances taxable. [More…]
Others have suggested that unless family allowances are means tested or made taxable, substantial sums of money will go to the welltodo and inequities will result. [More…]
2 also provides an answer to the Opposition criticism relating to the impact of disposable family incomes on consumption expenditure. [More…]
In view of the combined impact of personal income tax indexation, increased pension and other welfare benefits, and in particular the effect of the family allowances scheme. [More…]
The family allowances program, after allowing for the abolition of the tax rebates for children, will provide a net income gain for low income families which have a relatively high propensity to consume, as do pensioners, who with full and automatic indexation are assured of having their incomes increased proportionately by at least as much, and probably more, than the general working population. [More…]
4 is due to the loss of tax rebates for children, but this has been more than countered by the increased transfer payment to families through the family allowances scheme. [More…]
The family allowances scheme has provided a massive redistribution of income from the wealthier families to the poorest families in the country. [More…]
Other speakers have mentioned the very generous new family allowances, because they deserve to be mentioned. [More…]
As the Budget shows, before young families and people in need benefited under the generosity of our Government, family allowances were very small and under the inflation that exists today did not do very much. [More…]
Now, under the new rates a family with one child gets $3.50 a week; before it got 50c. [More…]
For a family with 2 children the allowance is $8.50 a week; before it was $ 1.50. [More…]
The allowances increase according to the number of children in the family. [More…]
I would hate to work out how much he gets in family allowances. [More…]
The total cost of these new family allowances will be $ 1,000m this year, and next year it will be more. [More…]
-My electorate of Lang happens to be one of those with a number of people who came from Lebanon residing within its boundaries and for the past few months, because of the conflict- perhaps one should say the civil war- that is raging in that country, I have had a great number of those people coming into my office asking for assistance to get some of their immediate family, other relatives and friends out to Australia. [More…]
The husband then travelled to Lebanon to get his family out to another country. [More…]
He was told by our officials in that country that they had received no advice from Australia regarding his family. [More…]
We are dealing with a family reunion situation. [More…]
They remained in the Strathallan family for about a century and were then acquired by the late Sir John Ferguson, the famous collector of Australiana. [More…]
On 2 occasions in the last week of sitting there was discussion during the adjournment debate about family allowances. [More…]
As I said when I had an opportunity to speak about family allowances, I do not really think that there is any prospect for Prospect. [More…]
On the night after I had made a statement about the net gains to families due to the very forward thinking family allowances, the honourable member for Prospect was very rude about my engineering training and claimed that as a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties he probably had a great deal to offer. [More…]
He attacked what I said about the net effect of family allowances. [More…]
I feel very seriously about the fact that family allowances are one of the greatest social reforms to have been effected in this country for a number of years. [More…]
He was under some strange misapprehension that for every child of a family there was a $200 rebate; he said that in his speech. [More…]
I can tell honourable members that the people in my electorate, especially the women, are very much aware of the family allowances contained in this latest Budget. [More…]
The so-called family allowance scheme is largely nothing more than a shifting sideways of the children’s rebate. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) put his finger on the point during question time today, to the great embarrassment of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch), when he raised a query as to when, if at all, the Government will index the family allowance payments. [More…]
He realises something that few members of the Liberal Party of Australia realise- he will have to say it to them 50 times before they understand it, although it is a relatively simple proposition- that is, that the family allowance was created at the expense of the child rebate allowance solely to avoid indexing that child rebate allowance. [More…]
The saving to the Government by shifting this payment sideways is something like $90m a year and each year, with the erosion of the value of money caused by inflation, the value of the new family allowance will diminish. [More…]
That is wholly and solely the reason for the introduction of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
I believe that these initiatives are firmly in line with the Government’s continuing concern to effect the reunion of close family relatives overseas with Lebanese residents in Australia. [More…]
That this House records its sincere regret at the death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, expresses to the people of China profound regret and tenders its deep sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
It has demanded the rejection of all family ties and accepted decencies, culminating in its assault of Confucianism. [More…]
He might also have referred to the family allowances scheme which will increase the capacity to spend of certain categories of families and increase their well-being over and above that which would have occurred under previous arrangements. [More…]
The Committee makes similar comment about dental care, the lack of vitamin C, the incidence of gastro-enteritis, hook worm, the problems of alcohol, family planning and mental health. [More…]
However the phoneyness of the Government’s claim of keeping the Budget outlays the same as they were last year is exposed by the fact that included in the 1 1.3 per cent increase in outlays is child endowment or the family allowance payments which were a consequence of the abolition of a tax deduction which amounted to $700m in a full year. [More…]
One of my colleagues has pointed out very effectively that if the family allowance, which was placed there at the expense of the rebate deductions available for dependants, is removed, the expansion in welfare payments is only 9 per cent, with an inflation rate of 12 per cent. [More…]
For every family affected by unemployment in this country, there will be a loss of more than $5,000 prospective income. [More…]
On current unemployment trends, the reduction in disposable income for 1977 will be $600m, or $150 per family. [More…]
When one adds to that the quite remarkable initiatives that have been taken in social reforms, such as in regard to family allowances, automatic cost of living adjustments for pensioners, personal tax indexation, and an improved and workable Medibank which will not bankrupt the country, it is clear that we have introduced measures more sweeping than any even contemplated by the so-called Whitlam reform Government. [More…]
There are family reunions that can be made at this stage. [More…]
I refer to a statement by the Minister for Repatriation in which he said that repatriation beneficiaries would continue to receive repatriation treatment at no cost to the individual or at half cost for a family unit. [More…]
I ask the Minister If a married ex-serviceman in receipt of full repatriation benefits wishes to have more than Medibank standard coverage for his family, does the ex-serviceman sacrifice the privilege of full repatriation benefits without cost? [More…]
Such a beneficiary with dependants whom he wishes to cover under Medibank standard would accordingly pay half the family rate of Medibank levy. [More…]
If he has a wife only, then the wife could be insured as an individual at one half the family rate. [More…]
But should he also have dependent children, then the fund would require that health insurance for his wife and children take the form of full family cover, which would include himself. [More…]
We have introduced full indexation of personal income tax in one year and an entirely new and imaginative scheme greatly to increase family allowances, to put more money back into the pockets of the people who earn that money. [More…]
So the actual cost to the family will be $ 1 35 as originally promised by the Minister. [More…]
This ceiling premium acts as a ceiling on family income to prevent the 2-family income from being penalised. [More…]
The abolition of this $50m subsidy would have had the effect of increasing the family rate for hospital cover from our proposal of $135 a year to $200 a year. [More…]
The Government has extended to the mothers of Australia the most generous family allowances in history, namely, $3.50 for the first child, $5 for the second child, $6 for the third and fourth children and $7 for the fifth and subsequent children. [More…]
A member of the family has to have an operation once every three weeks for the contributor to pass out square. [More…]
We do not have as our basic god, as our basic gaol, the purchasing of votes through the welfare system which was the sole motivation in assisting the middle class twoincome family at the expense of the worker in this kind of situation. [More…]
Will the Treasurer also confirm that a working wife whose husband is paying the levy at the family rate will not have the levy deducted from her salary and be forced to make a similar loan to the Taxation Department? [More…]
Has the Attorney-General seen recent reports which indicate that the New South Wales Attorney-General, Mr Walker, has described family law in New South Wales as a judicial cross-country course and an untidy jumble of jurisdictions? [More…]
Last year this Parliament in passing the Family Law Bill put section 41 in the legislation. [More…]
I cannot understand why State Attorneys-General do not agree to set up State Family Courts. [More…]
If those courts are set up all the Commonwealth law and the State law on the family can be administered in the one court. [More…]
In the long term if the States do not agree to set up State Family Courts, in order to achieve this principle we may have to seek some reference from the States. [More…]
One condition is that the judges in the Family Courts be appointed to the age of 65 years. [More…]
In enforcing section 41 I cannot direct what judge is to be appointed to a State Family Court. [More…]
This year 23 judges have been appointed to the Family Courts, and each of them, I believe, was a good appointment. [More…]
The other point that the New South Wales Attorney-General raises is that the Family Court judges cannot exercise all the jurisdiction; that jurisdiction has to be exercised by magistrates. [More…]
Magistrates are exercising family law jurisdiction now in every State, and so far as I am concerned they can continue to exercise jurisdiction in that area. [More…]
So the New South Wales Attorney-General has a ready solution, and that is to call in his secretary and start dictating a letter to me saying that he is prepared to negotiate to set up a State Family Court in New South Wales. [More…]
It had been our hope that we would be able to pass the legislation in relation to health insurance and the Family Law Amendment Bill so that it could have been referred to another place so that that chamber would have had notice of the legislation and in order that it could be adequately considered for debate next week. [More…]
Now that we have the Budget before us, we know that the family allowance scheme was not a flash in the pan. [More…]
The family allowance is so fundamental a decision that one wonders why on earth none of us had not thought of it before. [More…]
The difficulty is that people will have to pay the maximum levy of $300 a year for a family unit if their taxable income reaches $12,000. [More…]
But the net result, unless the Taxation Office has come up with some brilliant suggestion, will be either that people will owe money at the end of the year in order to come up to the $300 which is proposed as the levy or they will have overpaid significantly as a family unit before the end of the year and will have vastly exceeded the $300 levy. [More…]
We are entrusted with the conscientious control of the nation’s coffers for the Australian family, just as any responsible parent conscientiously administers the family budget. [More…]
I think I should be able to care for myself and family. [More…]
The average Australian family was paying only $3 or $4 a week at the very most for the maximum form of health care. [More…]
As the situation stands, if the husband pays the family levy of up to $5.80 a week, which automatically covers his wife and children for public hospital ward and 85 per cent of medical costs, his working wife will still have to pay the single levy of up to $2.90 a week. [More…]
The family planning program is intended to run until 30 September with the health program grants that have been made available to assist the family planning associations with their clinical activities. [More…]
We are continuing discussions with the States as to how these funds should be spent in order to maintain the family planning program throughout Australia. [More…]
This Bill is a further amendment of the family law legislation. [More…]
The whole concept of the family law legislation was to get away from the question of costs and pecuniary penalties. [More…]
If we adopt the idea of the fee on the filing of a divorce petition we will never get anywhere in trying to reach the ideal situation under the family law legislation of reducing divorces, reducing friction and doing away with the hardship that is obviously caused by parties being unable to agree, particularly on matters related to the children. [More…]
I have no particular disagreement with the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) on how he is administering the family law legislation in respect of making legal aid available except in relation to the severe limitations on legal aid. [More…]
The Attorney-General has suggested that clause 3 is necessary because of difficulty in the interpretation of ‘State wards’ and the question of their status under the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Opposition agrees that it is important to give the Family Court as much jurisdiction as possible. [More…]
We recognise the difficulties that now flow from the problems enunciated by the High Court in the decision in Farrelly v. Family. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not really have the constitutional power to deal with ex-nuptual children and others, and that is certainly going to affect the efficacy of the family law jurisdication. [More…]
I think it would be much more beneficial if we were to get the States to confer their jurisdiction on the Commonwealth, while creating State family courts as well. [More…]
If the whole of the State jurisdiction were conferred upon the Commonwealth there would be no gap because the Family Court, with jurisdiction conferred in accordance with that placitum, would cover the whole field. [More…]
We all know that because of the practices in the courts there could be six different interpretations under State laws and there could well be a fragmentation of the real definition of family law. [More…]
From an Australian point of view, I think it is fair and reasonable that there should be no State boundaries in relation to family law, including custody and maintenance. [More…]
We are one people with one citizenship and we ought to have one family law. [More…]
The Victorian State Police have refused to enforce Orders made under the Family Law Act because they say it is a Commonwealth Act and therefore they have no jurisdiction. [More…]
The concept of the Family Law Act is very good in relation to conciliation, the reduction of friction and the assistance of people in need. [More…]
In addition, the Bill clarifies certain provisions of the principal Act- the Family Law Act- relating to maintenance and custody where the child or children concerned are in the care of State welfare authorities. [More…]
I believe it is important for the public to realise that this legislation does not alter to any significant degree the fundamental principles of the Family Law Act. [More…]
It creates the Family Court of Australia and provides for the establishment of State Family Courts. [More…]
No fees are payable on affidavits and other documents that might be filed in the Family Court. [More…]
Firstly, people who use the facilities of the Family Court- its staff, its buildings, its documents and forms, its equipment and servicesshould make some contribution to the costs which would otherwise be borne by the community at large. [More…]
Eighty per cent of Commonwealth funds for legal aid matters referred to private legal practitioners is in respect of matters arising under the Family Law Act. [More…]
5m will go to the legal profession for services rendered in assisting people in need; 80 per cent of the $9.5m will therefore be for family law matters. [More…]
Section 97 (3) of the principle Act provides, inter alia, that the Family Court shall proceed without undue formality. [More…]
I do not think the Family Court will fulfil its purpose or achieve the standing it will need to have to administer effectively the Family Law Act, and the family law jurisdiction, until it eliminates, as far as possible, legalism and formality from its proceedings. [More…]
1 do not mean the publishing of the evidence that appears before the Court, but has it yet been decided whether the Family Courts are to hear their cases in camera or in public? [More…]
I want to know whether the Family Court, where people are now having to pay $60 before they can file their petition and before they can go before the Court, is operating in the correct manner. [More…]
I also quote from a statement received from a person whom I know well, who complains that the barrister who appeared for his wife in previous proceedings before a court was the judge who heard the case when it came before the Family Court. [More…]
I appreciate that a number of Family Court judges were appointed from divorce practices and that it could easily happen that a barrister who has appeared in court against a person in a hearing could be sitting on the bench hearing that persons petition before the Family Court. [More…]
There are going to be regulations made about the activities of the Family Court and I know that this is the second set of amendments which have been made to the Family Law Act since it came into operation this year. [More…]
I note from an article in the daily newspaper that a Family Law Council is to be set up to review the Family Law Bill. [More…]
As the article indicated that some members of Parliament would be part of this Council, you should be aware of the antagonism that has been created by Mr Fraser’s persona] amendment to the Family Law Bill, section 75 (2) (i) that permits excessive bias against men to be exercised by the Court. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General to consider whether the Family Court is operating in the way this Parliament intended when the legislation was passed through the Houses. [More…]
in reply- In answer to what the honourable member for Lang (Mr Stewart) has said, may I say that I am constantly keeping the Family Courts under surveillance. [More…]
In considering what the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) said about fees and the payment of fees and also what was said by the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Groom) in relation to family courts, it is necessary to bear in mind that these courts are basically informal. [More…]
There is one school of thought which has been upheld by the High Court, namely, that Family Court proceedings are adversary proceedings. [More…]
It is designed, as he sees it, to lead to a more conciliatory method of dealing with the particular’ problem confronting the Family Court. [More…]
This year the cost of running the Family Courts will be something over $llm. [More…]
As the honourable member for Braddon quite properly pointed out, $7.2m or 80 per cent of the estimated $9.5m that will be paid to the legal profession for legal aid services will relate to Family Court matters. [More…]
No one can say that the Government’s proposed appropriation for Family Law legal aid is in any way trifling. [More…]
The honourable member for Kinsford-Smith also said something about State Family Courts. [More…]
As he knows, and as I have reported to the Parliament, we are engaged in discussions with the States to set up these courts so that all law relating to the family can be dealt with in the one tribunal. [More…]
If we are to have family law administered by one court, if matters such as arose from the case Farrelly v. Farrelly are to be dealt with, if matters such as property, apart from divorce, the custody of illegitimate children, applications for custody by in-laws of children of a marriage and applications for custody in relation to children who are only de facto children of a particular marriage- for instance, the child of one of the parties- are to be dealt with by the court the only way of doing it at the moment is by having State Family Courts. [More…]
But may I say that I am not very sanguine of receiving it with the result that some time later I may have to go back to the States again and ask them again whether they will have State Family Courts. [More…]
May I say also that State Family Courts avoid this problem of judges being appointed for life. [More…]
At the moment, there are 23 judges appointed for life in the Family Court. [More…]
I would hope that if the State Family Courts are set up, most of those judges would transfer to the State Family Courts in their State. [More…]
The State Family Court system would enable that to be done. [More…]
The only thing that the State Attorneys-General put up against my idea is the proposition that in some way I am interfering in the appointment of their judges because under section 41 of the Family Law Act the Commonwealth Attorney-General has a right to veto. [More…]
That is really no intrusion at all when we come to consider the fact that under the Family Law Act if a State Family Court is set up, the Commonwealth Government has to pay for the establishment and the maintenance of that court. [More…]
So I say to the House that the question of State Family Courts is well and truly in mind, as is the improvement and surveillance of those courts, together with the matter of legal aid. [More…]
But if they go to the court and get a warrant under section 64 of the Family Law Act, I think they will find that the Commonwealth Police will execute the warrant. [More…]
If, as I think the honourable member said, it is a defended divorce case, it would not be in the Family Court. [More…]
Supreme Court no longer exercises jurisdiction in relation to family law matters except those that are remnants, as it were, from the previous period. [More…]
Its jurisdiction under the Family Law Act was cut off on 1 June. [More…]
So far as the Family Court in Victoria is concerned, at the moment that Court has, I think, 6 or 7 judges. [More…]
I have to bring the judges on stream, as it were, with an appreciation of the likely continuation of this pressure on the Family Court. [More…]
It has been put in the Bill at the request of the Western Australian Government which suggested that as it had its own Family Court it should be possible to delegate powers. [More…]
If other States were to adopt Family Courts, then a very great problem that is approaching would be overcome. [More…]
I should like to point out that there are 3 ways in which the ‘ present looming and serious problem can be overcome: Firstly, the establishment of family courts; secondly, a reference of power from the States; and, thirdly, a referendum. [More…]
If New South Wales, which has the largest proportion of the population of this country and the greatest number of divorce applications is to take a lead, it should take the lead of establishing a family court. [More…]
This brings me to the point that we thought that the Family Law Act, which we all passed here, covered most of the matters about which we are now complaining. [More…]
Again I repeat that we passed the Family Law Bill following the free debate in this Parliament. [More…]
The fees are going to be so high that people are going to say that we have taken a wrong approach to the family law concept. [More…]
I regret having to stand down men with family commitments who want to work. [More…]
There was the introduction of full personal tax indexation, the new system of family allowances, the major increase in assistance to the aged and the handicapped, the automatic linking of pensions to changes in the consumer price index. [More…]
The young children in my family tell me that there is a song on the hit parade entitled We Do It. [More…]
I ask: Which honourable member opposite has been game enough to stand up and say that the new family allowances scheme is the greatest social justice move in this country in 75 years? [More…]
It is my firm belief that after 10 years the average borrower from these societies has his family well on the way and has met the early expenses of providing the furnishings and other amenities he may require for his home and that he then has to look forward in the remaining years only to paying off the balance of his initial debt. [More…]
By his own admission he was insuring his family through a private society but has now joined Medibank Private. [More…]
Firstly, I draw attention to the very forward looking and major changes that have been taken with regard to family allowances. [More…]
That pressure, to some extent, is relieved by the innovation of the family allowances. [More…]
It is my hope that it is the beginning of further underpinning of the family. [More…]
It is the policy of the Government to recognise the family as the cohesive force in society, and the Government’s aim is to give recognition to the necessity of strengthening its influence. [More…]
I think it is terribly important that the country develop a philosophy for the family. [More…]
There are too many families in Australia who take the position of the family for granted. [More…]
They are unaware that the family as they understand it is under threat. [More…]
There is, however, in the large silent majority of families a strongly held view that the primary care of young children should be given by their mother in a comfortable, secure family setting. [More…]
This reform for family allowances will enable an increasing number of families to do just that. [More…]
One has only to read some of the literature that is available from time to time to discover that there are many who have an ideological commitment to changing the nature of society and replacing the normal family care of children with a substitute care- care by the state- of young children. [More…]
The family allowances that have been introduced will relieve to some extent the economic pressure on families that up until now have faced increasing difficulty in gaining sufficient resources to enable the mother to be the primary care giver of young children during the preschool years. [More…]
This Budget, containing as it does provision for the necessary funds to enable the new family allowances to continue to be paid, will assist those young families to meet the financial commitments involved in caring for young children.In a question I asked the Treasurer about a fortnight ago I urged upon him that when reviewing family allowances he do 2 things. [More…]
Firstly, I asked that he maintain the real value of the family allowances that are now payable and, if possible, index them so that they rise in a regular fashion and so that young couples either raising a family or planning a family can do so in the knowledge that family allowances will provide in real terms a significant contribution to the family income. [More…]
Further, I asked the Treasurer to look into the possibility of raising in real terms the family allowances payable to mothers with young children of pre-school age. [More…]
Those support services include the provision of a higher family income to enable parents to provide for their families the standard of living the community has now come to expect. [More…]
If it is possible when the children of a family are at school for the mother to work and she chooses to do so- and over 50 per cent of mothers in the community make that choice- then in those circumstances the family has 2 incomes, but families with young children are very often dependent on only one income. [More…]
There is an urgent need for careful examination of family incomes to ensure that families with young pre-school children have sufficient income. [More…]
That income can be supplemented by the provision of substantially higher family allowances. [More…]
This idea of substitute care is conjured up because within the community we have not identified clearly enough our philosophy for the family. [More…]
If there is developing in their areas a child care centre, they should go along to ensure that it develops upon the basis for which it is being established- to support the family. [More…]
It is a support for the family, not a substitute for it. [More…]
The final point I make is that one method of providing that added income is to carry out a review of our tax structure- a review designed to show concern that people should be given an incentive to work and to earn more, and that a careful examination should be made of the possibility of looking at the position of the single income family with pre-school children to ensure that it is not disadvantaged when compared with the 2-income family which has the same income as the single income family. [More…]
The comparative tax take from those families, which are equal in all respects, places the single income family at a considerable disadvantage. [More…]
I think careful consideration should be given to the possibility of introducing in the case of the family with preschool children an optional income splitting system in the form of some concessional family tax that recognises the need of families with young children to have larger resources available to them than the present tax system allows. [More…]
This will be of particular assistance to married women who wish to undertake training, particularly married women in the low income groups who have a desire to undertake training but would like to relate that desire to their family responsibilities. [More…]
Will the Treasurer inform the House why the Medibank levy exemption forms make provision for exemption from the Medibank levy for a working wife whose husband purchases private health insurance at the family rate, but make no provision for exemption from the levy if her husband pays the Medibank levy at the family rate? [More…]
I believe that most farmers whose family incomes are likely to be below $10,500 will be far better off paying the Medibank levy and taking out hospital-only insurance if they wish to insure for doctor of choice. [More…]
I ask the Treasurer why the Medibank levy exemption forms make provision for exemption from the Medibank levy for a working wife whose husband purchases private health insurance at the family rate but make no provision for exemption from the levy if her husband pays the Medibank levy at the family rate. [More…]
The approximate situation is that money outlays are expected to increase by 7.8 per cent, excluding the family allowances, which are, of course, completely offset by the increased tax receipts from the abolishing of child rebates. [More…]
The Government has introduced a system of family allowances which gives the greatest assistance to people on low incomes. [More…]
In the same way that we like to think governments can plan, we like to think that we plan our own family affairs. [More…]
They broke up into sub-groups concerned with the care of the aged, concerned with the care of young people and family problems. [More…]
Those initiatives were in line with the Government’s continuing concern to effect the reunion of close family relatives overseas with Lebanese residents in Australia. [More…]
It does not recognise the position of families where the mother is lost from the family. [More…]
There is no pension automatically available for men comparable to a widow’s pension or a supporting mother’s benefit, yet the family’s needs are exactly the same. [More…]
Lone fathers are therefore forced to work and have less chance of keeping the family together. [More…]
The father must be given an option to spend more time at home in order to keep his family together and to be able to provide adequately from part time work only. [More…]
I agree with the statement by the honourable member for Perth that it has a dreadful psychological impact upon not only the father but also the family. [More…]
Family allowances have been substantially increased and rebates for dependent children abolished. [More…]
A total of $70.7m has been provided for the payment of grants to the States, local government authorities and other eligible organisations under the community health program, as well as assisting major national voluntary organisations in the family medicine program. [More…]
There is also little chance for the foundation of family stability and the growth of self-respect. [More…]
In working out the contents of community profiles, the family allowances received by a community will be taken into account. [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…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out to the House on 25 August the family allowance scheme involves funds which go directly to Aboriginal families and gives them an independence and capacity to spend those funds as they believe best in their own interests. [More…]
So, he is not only uncomfortable about that, but he is also uncomfrotable about the fact that we have introduced a family allowance scheme- a scheme which any honest, objective person would agree is of more direct benefit to the lower income earners in our community than to the higher income earners. [More…]
He has introduced a filing fee of $60 for each document filed under the Family Law Act. [More…]
He should talk to a single income family with 2 dependent children and see what they think about the economic package. [More…]
He should ask them how many dollars they are behind in family income. [More…]
Represent clients on matters arising under the Family Law Act these matters should be referred to the ALAO or other legal aid agencies. [More…]
In the Australian Labor Party we believe, on humane grounds, in family reunions and of migration from such areas as Lebanon and Chile. [More…]
Immigration to this country should be allowed on the basis of family reunions and from such countries as Lebanon and Chile. [More…]
I must pay a tribute to the present Minister who, of all the Ministers for Immigration with whom I have dealt in the last 1 0 years, has given the most compassionate and sympathetic ear to family reunions and applications by people to come to this country. [More…]
I think the proposition that people have to commit themselves, sell up everything, bring the whole family out to this country and sign an undertaking that they are going to stay here forever is ridiculous if we want to attract the people who are intelligent enough to have alternative choices. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is attacking those who are coming to Australia to fill shortages in particular trades and he is, in effect, attacking family reunions. [More…]
We have sought to see that family reunions are given great emphasis. [More…]
Here they can be integrated into the Austraiian way of life and, by reason of human suffering and by reason of family reunion, they can be given a much needed place within the family circle. [More…]
In the 1950s many honourable members had to show great patience and ingenuity to establish family relationships between prospective migrants from Italy and their sponsors in Australia. [More…]
In the 1960s we had to show that patience and ingenuity in establishing family relationships between prospective migrants from Yugoslavia and Greece and thensponsors in Australia. [More…]
There are not, however, the international agencies- refugee and migration agencieshelping Lebanese family reunion in Australia as there were in helping the earlier migrants or refugees. [More…]
There are exceptionally strong family ties among the Lebanese. [More…]
The emphasis is on family reunion which introduces a small number of people into the work force and on attracting people with qualifications and skills which are in short supply in Australia. [More…]
I have no doubt that the Minister and his Department are looking at these skilled workers with a view to getting them to this country as quickly as possible, particularly those who will join family units which are already well established here. [More…]
I understand that at some other stage she asked for permanent residence and I also understand that some other members of the family are involved. [More…]
The composition of the intake is such that it is composed largely of family reunion cases, refugee cases and occupationally selected people. [More…]
At the finish of his contribution the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that we should have concern for family reunions and humane considerations in relation to refugees. [More…]
In fact, the people who will be competing with Australians for jobs in terms of the immigration intake fall largely within the family reunion category and humanitarian category both those sectors of the intake which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said we must continue. [More…]
Certainly they can rely on me for one thing and one thing alone: I will assist them in every way possible to bring about family reunions. [More…]
If they can show that they have a family here, if they can show that they have a guaranteed job and if they have close family relations, I hope that the Government will give them every consideration. [More…]
I know perfectly well that the Tahweel family and the Juaclid families and four or five others from Tripoli have been able to get here. [More…]
I want to commend the Minister and his staff for working towards family unity. [More…]
We have also pointed out on a number of occasions that the rebate system itself was capable of its own injustices because the family rebate, as introduced in the famous Hayden reform, was most unjust on low income earners who did not have sufficient income to claim the benefit of the rebate. [More…]
As a result, that system has been changed to the system of family allowances which does most to assist low income families, the people whom I hope, and I am sure, the honourable member would want to support. [More…]
Industrial action which people take at times in a most irresponsible way is likely not only to lead to their own ultimate loss of job opportunities but also to a certain reduction in the number of family farmers who are able to produce sheep and cattle throughout this country. [More…]
It recommended further that the existing means test being applied to gross family income did not adequately cover the capacity of the family to contribute to the support of the tertiary students. [More…]
It therefore recommended that there should be a deduction from gross family income of the income tax paid to allow for the variations in the proportion of tax payments with different income levels. [More…]
The maximum adjusted family allowance which attracts a full allowance will be increased from $7,600 to $8,200. [More…]
Is it a fact that recently the Government gave assisted passages to 2 members of the royal family of Laos to settle in Australia? [More…]
It is a fact that assisted passages were given to the sons of a member of the Laotian royal family. [More…]
The family of the 2 princes was amongst those 550 people. [More…]
In fact, family members of those people brought from Thailand were brought to Australia from such countries as France, the United States, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. [More…]
In terms of family reunion and in terms of the criteria relating to the refugee operation, those people were eligible for assisted passages. [More…]
When that was pointed out to them, they said they wished to be reunited with their family as quickly as possible. [More…]
The fact that these people are of the Laotian royal family in no way decides whether they are eligible for assisted passage. [More…]
I might add that the remaining member of the family, a son who was at that stage in the Philippines, was also granted an assisted passage and travelled to Australia, I think, sometime in August. [More…]
The handicapped child ‘s allowance is particularly designed to help the parents or guardians of severely handicapped children under the age of 16 years who need constant care and attention and who provide this care in the family home rather than place the child in an institution. [More…]
Without some form of forward financing, his book either cannot be written, or will be a spare-time project while he works at some other job to survive and support himself and possibly a family and a mortgage as well. [More…]
Most writers with family responsibilities were reluctant to apply for the one-year grants for this reason. [More…]
The need to increase the dairy farmers’ cash flow is so acute that in many cases dairy farmers are unable to go to the family grocer and pay the grocery bill. [More…]
I can only assume from what the Leader of the Opposition has said that he would prefer us not to provide aid and that he would prefer us not to have discussions between officials concerning family reunification. [More…]
Family allowances are helping those on low incomes and new Australians in many horticultural industries. [More…]
For many children pre-school experience is their first contact with their peer group outside of their own home and family environment. [More…]
If, however, they wish to be insured for shared ward hospital accommodation with the choice of their own doctor the basic hospital benefits table referred to above will be available at a Commonwealth subsidised contribution rate of $1.30 (single) or $2.60 (family) per week without need to take out private medical insurance. [More…]
The family members mentioned are the subjects of nominations lodged in Australia by a brother of the Australian citizen. [More…]
Following the statement of 23 September 1976 concerning the Government’s review of immigration policy relating to persons normally resident in Lebanon, all members of the family are now eligible for migrant entry subject to their completion of normal health and character requirements. [More…]
I know that I speak for all members of this House when I express our deepest sympathy to his family, to his wife and his children. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death, this day, of Senator the Honourable Ivor John Greenwood, Queen’s Counsel, Senator for the State of Victoria from 1968, a Minister of the Crown from 1971 to 1972 and from’ 1 975 to 1 976, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1 972 to 1 973 and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1975 to 1976; places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and the members of his family in their bereavement. [More…]
The last 6 months have been more trying, I suspect, for Lola and his family than anyone can well describe. [More…]
They are a wonderful, loving family and they deserve the respect of all of us. [More…]
I should like to extend my sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
But today I should like to think of Ivor Greenwood not as a senator but as I believe he would have wanted himself to be thought of, as a great family man with the greatest of affection for the family institution and for his own family. [More…]
He was a great man and a fine family man. [More…]
His illness seemed such a cruel and unnecessary agony for his magnificent wife, Lola, and for his family and friends. [More…]
It has opposed the suggestion of talks with Indonesian officials concerning refugees and family reunion. [More…]
In answer to my Deputy last night he stated that his Government’s policy was to see that aid gets through to those in need in East Timor by providing aid through the Indonesian Red Cross and by talking with Indonesian officials concerning refugees and family reunion. [More…]
A father and his family applied in Damascus in May 1976 before that post was closed. [More…]
All the family belongings in Lebanon were destroyed. [More…]
A family currently in Nicosia was sponsored by a brotherinlaw of one of the parents. [More…]
In true Anglo-Saxon xenophobic blindness, the Minister overlooked, with tragic consequences to those involved, the vastly different concept of family which we have in [More…]
Australia to that which prevails in the Lebanon where the term ‘family’ frequently applies to the extended family rather than the immediate family circle which we take it to mean in Australia. [More…]
A total of 854 persons had already been approved under the special arrangements, all of whom were outside normal family reunion and occupational criteria. [More…]
This was in addition to the significant number of visas being issued on the basis of normal family reunion criteria. [More…]
The Jabbour family is now actually in Nicosia waiting to come to Australia. [More…]
The whole familyeight of them in all- is now in Cyprus waiting for permission to leave for Australia. [More…]
She had one simple thing to say to me and to the Minister, namely: ‘Thank you very much for what you have done for our family’. [More…]
We have said that our policy, to be certain, is that we will help in bringing about family unity. [More…]
On behalf of the Lebanese people in my electorate and on behalf of the many migrants, from Mauritius and from Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia, I thank the Government for the work that it has done to assist in bringing about family unity. [More…]
Consider the situation of a young person in rented accommodation living in a large city away from his or her family and being out of work. [More…]
It might be argued by the Government that the new system of family allowances will overcome that and that there is no need for adjustment. [More…]
I will deal with that later, but by and large people are not better off in real terms as a result of the new system of family allowances. [More…]
Again, why should a young couple in difficult circumstances, raising a family with all the debts and liabilities that come at that stage of life and on a very modest income, be required to contribute a proportion of their income tax to pay the pensions of those people who, if they realised on their assets, would be in a handsomely adequate position? [More…]
The principals might even employ their family and pay very inflated incomes to them to avoid profit flow. [More…]
A company might even get to the point of bringing in- and this may be probably quite unlawful but hard to detect- some system of kickbacks to the family. [More…]
I will cite the example of family allowances to relate the point that I made earlier; that is, that people are better off because of the new family allowances system. [More…]
Therefore a family with one child will be $1.35 a week worse off as a result of the new family allowance. [More…]
Again in the case of a family with 2 children the indexed tax rebate with child endowment would have been $10.20 against a family allowance of $8.50. [More…]
Therefore a family of this size is $1.70 a week worse off. [More…]
There will be no adjustment to supplementary assistance and allowances, benefits for children or, most importantly, what is now called the family allowance, or child endowment. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley, who led for us in this debate, pointed out that every tax paying family in Australia is worse off this year because of the changes. [More…]
The family would have received $4.85 net benefit during each week for the first child. [More…]
A family with 2 children would have received $8.70 as tax rebate plus $1.50 as child endowment for the 2 children, a total amount of $10.20. [More…]
But they will receive $8.50 as a family allowance for 2 children, a loss of $1.70. [More…]
The family with 3 children would have received $13.05 as a tax rebate plus $3.50 as child endowment, a total of $ 16.55 compared with the new family allowances of $14.50, a net loss of $2.05. [More…]
In addition to that, the important point that people must realise is that there will be no indexation of child endowment or family allowances. [More…]
I believe that it is desirable, if at all possible, that these children be kept in the atmosphere of the family home and not be institutionalised. [More…]
Maybe there is a case to distinguish between people who are in an effective family dependency situation and those who are not, but honourable members opposite ought to take on board the fact that a large number of young unemployed and sick people are very seriously disadvantaged as a result of the ommission of increases in this legislation. [More…]
At some later stage that land will become urbanised and the pensioner, his family or his estate, will get a windfall. [More…]
Take the case of a pensioner who holds substantial shares in a family company whose share value is increasing and where the dividends are being withheld. [More…]
I am sure that this House will agree that there must be no argument that the most significant change in the social security benefits area has been the amalgamation of child and student endowment into a single family allowance. [More…]
Property is a means of earning income and a family’s livelihood, not only at present but in the future. [More…]
-I believe that it is of utmost importance that the community, through the Government, provide assistance at the family level for children requiring constant care and attention. [More…]
I believe that it should only be necessary for an applicant applying for unemployment benefit to prove that he has insufficient income for the maintenance of himself and his family and that he is available for full time employment. [More…]
Because my family no longer needed my attention I decided to work one day a week. [More…]
-They will both pay the tax and as the honourable member for Corio points out they will both pay the tax at the fully family rate if they have dependants, as many of these separated partners from a failed marriage do. [More…]
I want to talk about family allowances. [More…]
If one looks at a poverty scale concerning the period in which we were in government one will find overwhelmingly that most pension payments for individuals- the single person- for the family unit of a husband and wife and for the larger family units, including those with dependent children, were at or better than the poverty line by the time we had completed our term of office. [More…]
Let us not have this nonsense that the new family allowance system overcomes this problem. [More…]
-The table shows, for instance, that a family with one child is $1.35 a week worse off, that a family with 2 children is $2.70 a week worse off, that a family with 3 children is over $2 a week worse off, that a family with 4 children is $2.65 a week worse off, and that a family with 5 children is $2.50 a week worse off. [More…]
That is the whole rationale behind the family allowances scheme. [More…]
Despite what the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) has said, I think the family allowances scheme is a prime example of this approach. [More…]
I believe that the family allowances scheme, which was introduced earlier this year, provides for the most massive redistribution of income in our recent welfare history. [More…]
The family allowances will help greatly to alleviate the circumstances of these people. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley spoke in particular about the family allowances. [More…]
The allowances under the family allowances scheme were made available not only to taxpayers, as were the rebates under the Labor Party’s rebate system, but to all families with dependent children. [More…]
As a result, 300 000 families with 800 000 children will receive family allowances in circumstances where those allowances in no way replace a tax benefit, because they were not taxpayers. [More…]
We are all aware that the family allowances scheme is one of the most significant changes in the social welfare system ever made in this country. [More…]
I found it necessary to make reference to the family allowances scheme as a whole to expose the dishonesty of the honourable member for Oxley in the manner in which he tried to deceive this House when presenting figures which implied that pensioners with dependent children - [More…]
The assistance includes meeting the fares, up to the value of approved economy class public transport costs, for the journey for the applicant to travel to the new area for employment or training or interview; for the applicant and spouse, if any, to travel to the new area for one exploratory visit to examine living conditions and return home; for the applicant and or his family to move to take up residence in the new area; and if the applicant moves to employment ahead of his family to allow him or her return visits to the family. [More…]
The Henderson report on poverty in Australia pointed out very forcefully the effect of inflation on the average family and its effect on deprived families- families with real poverty. [More…]
Some of these family men with homes, wives and children to keep, have been employed at Bradford Kendall for up to 25 years. [More…]
Reverting to my former comment in respect of coal hydrogenation, is a matter of some urgency, and I have stressed many times in this House and repeat again the relationship of the three great members of the hydrocarbons family solids, liquids and gases. [More…]
I am reminded that the present legal aid allocation has been virtually eaten up by family law problems. [More…]
I understand that 80 per cent of the legal aid allocation in South Australia goes to family law problems. [More…]
The honourable member would be the first to agree with me when I say that it is ridiculous to say that one should not have the right of an appeal from a summary conviction unless perhaps the responsible Minister approves and that one should not involve oneself in family law matters because they are deemed to be of a lesser priority. [More…]
Secondly, I would like to compliment the Attorney on moving to establish the Family Law Council and in seeking advice on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I believe that already there are good reasons for the Family Law Act to be reviewed. [More…]
His intention was to impose the fee on every Family Court application, not simply on those for dissolution of marriage. [More…]
He has involved himself not in matters of esoteria but in matters pertaining to the people- legal aid and family law courts in particular. [More…]
The same comments apply to the family courts. [More…]
The sooner the States adopt family courts the better. [More…]
I think we would want to send our good wishes to his family and to him. [More…]
My family and many of my friends watch ABC television more than the other television channels. [More…]
Moreover, where a family with more than 4 children migrates to Australia the additional children can be accommodated at Fairbridge. [More…]
In this respect Fairbridge plays a vital and extremely important role, because Commonwealth Hostels will not accept more than 4 children from one family. [More…]
In these circumstances the migrant’s greatest comfort and support is his family. [More…]
How inhuman it is to separate families at this time, when above all else, migrants need the comfort and security of their family. [More…]
If there is a good reason why Commonwealth Hostels will not accept more than 4 children from one family, we in this House should know it. [More…]
It would be tragic if the Commonwealth Government was not willing to build on his example and achievement by removing this inhuman and anomalous practice of limiting Commonwealth hostel accommodation to only 4 children from one family. [More…]
It will be implicit in what I have said so far, but I should make it clear, that the present Bill would in no way affect the functions of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
This imposes real financial and personal hardship particularly when, as is not infrequently the case, the property has been in the hands of the one family for generations. [More…]
They therefore tend to be family inheritances rather than an opportunity for anybody to buy into them and, as it were, start from nought. [More…]
In estimating a program of 70 000 some consideration was given to refugee-type situations around the world and to the family reunion program. [More…]
What was then revolutionary in Australia’s treatment of disease was the idea that if a man was suffering from tuberculosis he could leave work, his family would be supported, he would get a full income and, therefore, he would not be under economic pressure not to obtain treatment. [More…]
This does not apply, of course, to every Aboriginal or to every family, but there is sufficient evidence for it to be of real concern to us. [More…]
He is concerned only with going to work, earning a living and having a decent standard of living for his wife and family. [More…]
He is concerned that his family and children will have the same job opportunities that he has been able to enjoy. [More…]
One of my constituents and members of that family refused to give their Medibank numbers and subsequently received bills from the diagnostic laboratories which had contracted to process blood tests on behalf of the organisation which was conducting the promotional exercise. [More…]
I am not referring, of course, to motor car advertisements which depict a family travelling somewhere in a motor car and which say that it is a particularly suitable motor car for family usage and I am not referring to a family group that is depicted in a barbecue situation using a certain product, but I am referring to some of the other things that I mentioned but a moment ago. [More…]
for private insurance cover will be required to contribute for both medical and hospital benefits at normal family rates. [More…]
Beneficiaries who are not in the above categories and who are entitled to treatment for specific disabilities only will, unless they and their dependants, if any, are covered by appropriate private insurance, pay levy of 2 per cent of their taxable income, subject to a ceiling of $300 (family) or $150 (no dependants). [More…]
Having security in a job and security for one’s family are fundamental to what we are about. [More…]
In the last 4 years we have lost 20 000 family farmers off the land. [More…]
The principal error of government economic policy is that at a time of deep recession Budget outlays, excluding the family allowances which are largely offset by higher taxation, are likely to fall by about 8 per cent in real terms during 1976-77. [More…]
It would encourage the primary producer in his later years to continue to improve his farm, knowing that his efforts would be of value to his family and would not all go towards paying probate. [More…]
What organisations were funded under the Family Planning Program in 1975-76. [More…]
Sir Garfield Barwick had it wrong on one count; he objected in 1964 to the inclusion within the original jurisdiction of a Federal court of family law matters or, as we then referred to them, matrimonial causes matters. [More…]
The Attorney-General now concedes that family law is an appropriate subject to be administered in separate Federal courts. [More…]
Sir Garfield Barwick, for instance, did not think that family law was an appropriate subject. [More…]
He said it referred to the Matrimonial Causes Act which had been repealed because the Parliament had passed the Family Law Act. [More…]
In Western Australia there are 18 State judges, 29 stipendiary magistrates and in addition 4 State Family Court judges. [More…]
On the Federal scene which includes the High Court, the Australian Industrial Court, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the Federal Court of Bankruptcy, the Family Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, the Law Reform Commission, the Royal Commission into Australian Government Administration, the Royal Commission into Human Relationships, the Grants Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal, the Trade Practices Commission and the Trade Practices Tribunal, there are a total of some 56 judges and 52 commissioners. [More…]
I find it amusing that the nation’s Prime Minister receives a salary that is $3,000 a year less than that of the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia; that the nation’s Deputy Prime Minister receives less money than the judge who is second in charge of the Family Court; and that the nation’s Treasurer, the man who is supposed to come forward with all the answers to save the nation, receives a salary barely more than that of an ordinary Family Court judge. [More…]
This is allied with a further substantial increase of SO per cent in the allocation of moneys to handicapped children which was brought down with the Budget and the real family allowance increase which was effective from the middle of June. [More…]
The assistance which is now rendered directly in money terms to each individual family in this country is quite substantial. [More…]
It was he who submitted in evidence to the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties that the influence on educational under-achievement of other factors such as cultural and linguistic difficulties, basic housing and health problems in a domestic environment, the pattern of alcohol consumption and problems of frequent family movement should be recognised. [More…]
The Baillieu family would huff and puff all over the place about these things and the honourable member has never had any experience with them. [More…]
The presbytery survey found that 43.6 per cent of families in June 1976 had at least one member of the family working away from the farm. [More…]
In some cases the family member is working in full time employment in an urban centre. [More…]
This means leaving home in the early morning, arriving home late at night or alternatively, working night shift, wives have been forced to milk dairy herds of up to 120 cows, and family life is shattered. [More…]
A further 22.5 per cent of farmers stated that one member of the family was seeking employment away from the farm. [More…]
The contents of the first report for 1974-1976 include the election of officers, the Chairman’s report, activities such as the family support program, housing, planning and community structures, and reports from South Sydney, the City of Sydney, Leichhardt, the staff, the treasurer and a financial statement. [More…]
In family care we have highlighted many aspects of problems in the Inner City. [More…]
If this is the case, will the Minister assure the House that, because of the apprehension that migrants in Australia feel for the safety of their relatives in some areas and the humanitarian aspects of family reunions, the extended criteria will continue to operate in the future? [More…]
The Commonwealth Attorney-General, by continually refusing to co-operate in negotiations with New South Wales, is denying the people of that State access to legal aid in Federal matters, and very importantly m family law matters. [More…]
If we were about the job of disestablishing the Australian Legal Aid Office we would not be increasing the budgetary figure; nor would we have introduced what might, on the face of it, be an unpopular provision, namely, the payment of a $60 fee per divorce application to the Family Law Court. [More…]
In due course they will administer the same form of legal aidfamily law legal aid, federal legal aid, legal aid to pensioners- which is presently being administered by them in Western Australia, but it will be done through a commission. [More…]
The ordinary citizen will be able to go into a legal aid office and say: ‘I have a legal problem’, and he will not be told: ‘Sorry, this is a Federal legal aid office, you will have to go down to the State office’, or ‘This is a State matter, you will have to go for family law to the Federal legal aid office’. [More…]
They might be sent down to the Divorce Court, where, I think, the family law aspect of legal aid is administered. [More…]
Nowadays, child endowment or family allowances are part of general welfare expenditure and payroll tax is just another revenue item. [More…]
We should not place a quarantine station on some part of the islands which is the property of the CluniesRoss family. [More…]
It can be proved that a family with an income of less than $150 after tax, after meeting essential living expenses, rental on a present residence, providing for children, has insufficient left for savings, particularly to the degree necessary to qualify for the maximum grant. [More…]
I accept completely, and it is implicit in the Government’s proposals, that a company which is trading across State boundaries ought not to be in a situation where the attitude of the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs in New South Wales is different from that in Victoria, but surely one cannot apply quite the same approach when looking at a family business which is simply carrying on its operations in one suburb of Melbourne or Perth or Sydney. [More…]
Excluding family allowances, which are largely offset by higher taxation, Government outlays are likely to fall by at least 8 per cent in real terms in 1976-77 compared with the previous financial year. [More…]
However, at the same time, those taxpayers have received the equivalent sum- all but a few dollars either way- in additional, family allowances as a straight transfer from tax to family allowances. [More…]
So in any reasonable assessment of what has happened to direct taxes this year, that has to be allowed for that $540m which is a straight transfer from tax to child family allowances. [More…]
They were offered a family Medibank package of $300. [More…]
He recommended that the Land Council field officers should identify their needs in respect of such matters as camping areas, community housing areas, hostels, single family housing and the like, and that their views should be put to the town planners and the land commissioners. [More…]
He said that land ownership was based on the family or clan groups. [More…]
Aboriginals in those family groups relate many of their customs and actions, such as the marriage ceremony, to beliefs tied up with their history on the law of the land. [More…]
How many high income families will receive a double benefit from this generous provision in the Government’s family allowances program. [More…]
As from I July 1976 the replacement of rebates for dependent children by increased family allowances means that a child’s separate income can no longer affect, by way of reduction in concessional rebates, the amount of tax payable by the parent or guardian. [More…]
I understand, however, that in determining eligibility for payment of family allowance in respect of a student child aged between 18 and 25 years, the amount of income of the student is taken into account in deciding whether the student is dependent on the claimant. [More…]
Allowances have been increased substantially, by up to 40 per cent in the case of students who are independent of parental support; the limit of family income at which the maximum allowance is payable has been increased and requirements relating to the student’s program have been eased where a student is unable to undertake a full study load because of course requirements or arising out of a direction by the student ‘s institution. [More…]
In this case there is not a taint against the late Senator Paltridge or his family or against any other Minister of the Crown or anybody. [More…]
There is still afeeeling within the Government that as only 22 per cent of the total unemployed are family breadwinners, unemployment is not so serious as it seems; besides, it is a useful discipline to enforce wage restraint in the -fight against inflation. [More…]
Our children and our children’s children will be infinitely better citizens if they are cared for and brought up in the atmosphere of a home that is the property of the family. [More…]
There are many instances of families of two and three people occupying 3-bedroom homes long after they could have moved into lesser accommodation, thereby freeing the larger premises for a bigger family. [More…]
Rents frequently remain at too low a level and act as a disincentive for people whose financial position may have altered to such an extent as to warrant their vacating to make way for a more needy family. [More…]
There will be instances where health, age or other factors may indicate that a particular family should remain undisturbed. [More…]
Household support is a new form of assistance designed to provide help for up to one year to farmers who are judged to be non-viable and who have insufficient resources to meet living ex- penses and who are in need of assistance to alleviate conditions of personal and family hardship while the farmer considers whether to adjust out of farming. [More…]
A farmer will be eligible for such assistance if he is assessed by the administering authority as being non-viable in the long term, is unable to obtain financial assistance from any other normal source and will suffer personal and family hardship if not assisted. [More…]
Many of these people have worked for very many years in that capacity because it suits their lifestyle and their family commitments. [More…]
A woman who was working as a typist in local government in Sydney, who was shifted with her family to Canberra, who took the opportunity of settling her family in the Canberra community, who was off work for no longer than 12 months and who then decided to take a job with the Public Service, would continue to have an entitlement to long service leave credits. [More…]
Family planning is another area where the pharmacist could play a useful role. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) would appreciate what I am saying because this is done in the more prosperous family situations. [More…]
Naturally when any person suffers some sort of accident or a family loses the breadwinner the Government would like to be, and usually is, as generous as possible. [More…]
If so, what figures resulted for growers for the following variables, for those industries and for the years available: (a) income from rice crop, (b) income from other crops, (c) total farm receipts, (d) capital value of farm, (i) including and (ii) excluding land, (e) farm costs for materials, (0 labour and services, (g) total cash costs, (h) family labour costs, (i) total costs (j) depreciation, (k) net farm income, (1) return to capital and management and (m) return to capital and management excluding land. [More…]
I have great sympathy for young people who are unemployed but the problem of the married man with a family is even more serious. [More…]
It is incredible that any government which, in its Budget and associated measures, reduces a family s take home pay by $300 could have the gall to claim that its Budget was the first in 3 years not to raise the indirect tax burden. [More…]
After adjustment for higher child endowment, health taxes and inflation we find that in 1976-77 the family that had earned $10,000 for 1975-76 has had its spending power reduced by $5.15 a week. [More…]
The Fraser family acumen is better displayed in the operation of the Nareen enterprise by two separate legal entities which give it tax advantages, and by the Fraser links with Rupert James (‘Dick ‘) Hamer, Victorian premier and skilled solicitor. [More…]
There has been a sharp decline in the number of male farmers plus unpaid male family labour, from 240 000in 1952-53 to an estimated 183 000 in 1975-76. [More…]
To provide assistance for up to one year to non-viable farmers having insufficient resources to meet living expenses and who are in need of assistance to alleviate conditions of personal and family hardship while the farmer considers whether to adjust out of farming. [More…]
A more recent survey this year, to which I have previously referred in this House, that of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in Victoria in a survey of farmers in central Gippsland, showed that 65 per cent of farm families find it necessary to seek work away from the farm for at least one member of the family. [More…]
This social effect on the family is best demonstrated by quoting a number of examples which are contained in that report. [More…]
These are separate individual examples from each family which figured in the survey. [More…]
Also I have had to find work to support my family over these winter months. [More…]
My wife and family are milking, etc., as our income is at least $3,500 down and with student children, 18, 16 and 10 years, find it hard to make ends meet on a farm of150 acres milking 85 cows with low butterfat prices. [More…]
The proportion of all dairy farmers without income- I emphasise ‘without income ‘-has been estimated by the BAE to have increased from 15 per cent to 44 per cent between 1973-74 and 1975-76.I predict that the percentage would have increased again this year if one took actual farm income as the base, without reference to off-farm income received by the farmer or a member of his family. [More…]
Following the High Court’s decision in Russell v. Russell on the Family Law Act, the Standing Committee of Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General considered the question of uniform State and Territory legislation in the areas of matrimonial property and also maintenance and custody of children to the extent not covered by the Family Law Act. [More…]
The proposal for uniform matrimonial property legislation was referred to the Queensland Law Reform Commission for a report, and that uniform legislation on maintenance and custody of children outside the Family Law Act was referred to the Family Law Council, which has now been established and is due to hold its first meeting later this month. [More…]
to see what portions should be repealed as having been superseded by the Family Law Act, and what amendments have to be made to give the Family Court of Australia jurisdiction under the remaining provisions. [More…]
Alternatively, has the Government any proposal to extend complete exemption from assessment of estates passing to spouses or to the immediate family? [More…]
That will have personal consequences to the farmer and his family and will flow through to the whole rural community- the shopkeeper, the supplier of rural machinery, the rate collector from the local municipality, the bank manager giving consideration to realisation of the bank’s security or considering deferment of payment of interest on the farmer’s loan. [More…]
Without that variation thousands of farmers would not have been entitled to this basic social service- a basic income to feed the recipient and his family. [More…]
To provide assistance for up to one year to non-viable farmers having insufficient resources to meet living expenses and who are in need of assistance to alleviate conditions of personal and family hardship while the farmer considers whether to adjust out of farming. [More…]
With farm build-up in particular the importance of inter-family transfers of ownership and their eligibility within the scheme are quite critical. [More…]
We have to take account of the necessity for continuing the family farm by transferring it from one generation to the other and the shortage of capital which requires the older generation to obtain cash for the farm when the younger generation does not have the cash to purchase it. [More…]
In some cases the necessary eligibility has not been given to inter-family purchases of farm land within farm build-up or debt adjustment. [More…]
In addition to assisting those categories of people, the Labor Government was able to establish that under the family allowances powers of the Constitution, it was competent for an Australian Government to provide a very wide range of assistance to the average home seeker in the Australian community. [More…]
In order to pay $220 a month a family would need to have an income of $220 a week if the objective of not requiring people to pay more than 25 per cent of their income for housing purposes is to apply. [More…]
Therefore it can be used for deaf people to communicate with members of their family, their relatives and their friends who do not suffer from this affliction. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will well know, and I believe he will support, the decision taken to change the previous basis of child endowment payments to the present family allowance system. [More…]
He has come, as you Mr Speaker have indicated, from a family which has traditionally served this Parliament and the people of Australia from the beginning of Federation in 1901. [More…]
Yet in the retirement of Norman Parkes and in the succession of the Parkes family since 1901 when the Australian Constitution was implemented, there is the living testimony of the development of the Australian Constitution through the House of Representatives. [More…]
Medibank in its original form represented a positive addition to the material incomes, the living standards of every Australian family. [More…]
Allowing for taxation, including the health tax and social security payments such as family allowances, the net income of such a person when Labor went out of office averaged $1 1 1.64 a week; today it has fallen to $108.54 a week. [More…]
Also we introduced a new system of family allowances to take effect from 1 July. [More…]
In fact, under this system the mother in a family with 5 children receives a cheque for an amount of the order of $330 every quarter. [More…]
But for the higher income group of people it is practically a line-ball situation; what is received in additional family allowances matches what is lost through the abolition of tax rebates for children. [More…]
But for people in the lower income group, where incomes are not high enough and insufficient tax is paid to take advantage of the child rebates, the amount received under the family allowance scheme represents a net gain. [More…]
I mention again our implementation of the system of family allowances, which is of such great benefit to low income families. [More…]
These measures include the automatic adjustment of pensions for inflation, the family allowance scheme and full personal income tax indexation. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh in another place in relation to new sub-clause (4A) of clause 9, quite rightly drew attention to the fact that a person could have an article or object which had been handed down through the family or which had been given to him by another person. [More…]
There was another man from an Italian family who had not learned to read and write and who was being restrained. [More…]
Perhaps in his retirement we might see Mr Parkes on the streets of Armadale when he visits his son and his family. [More…]
To Mr Norman Parkes, whose retirement we spoke about earlier today, I would like to wish not only a happy retirement but also to him and his family a happy Christmas and a prosperous and contented New Year. [More…]
1 ) How many mothers in the electoral division of Sydney with children aged (a) 1 to 5 years, (b) 6 to 10 years, (c) 1 1 to 15 years and (d) 16 and over are in receipt of family allowance. [More…]
No information is available on the numbers of mothers in receipt of family allowances cross-classified with the ages of children. [More…]
However, the total number of families receiving family allowances in the electoral division of Sydney was estimated to be 1 2 270 at 4 October 1 976. [More…]
It is estimated that there were 22 130 children in these families, for whom family allowance were paid. [More…]
The number of families in electoral divisions in receipt of family allowance is obtained by accumulating figures for individual postcode districts within the electoral divisions. [More…]
Statistics of the numbers of children in respect of whom family allowances were increased but income tax rebates for dependants were not allowed in the 1975-76 income year are not available. [More…]
Aboriginal children are not distinguished from other children for purposes connected with family allowances or the allowance of child rebates. [More…]
He claimed the right to do this on the ground that an MP could employ members of his own family in these positions if he so wished. [More…]
Apart from the absurdity of the claim that a wife’s salary should be added to a member’s salary I am unaware of any MP who does employ a member of his family. [More…]
How long and how hard for the Prime Minister and his family? [More…]
The introduction of the system of family allowances did more to assist the low income earner with a family than any other measure in a generation. [More…]
I have suggested to the Victorian Government that in the case of towns such as Streatham, and perhaps Cressy where 18 or 20 houses were destroyed, if it were possible to get a project builder into the towns, or under a housing trust or the Housing Commission, the houses might be rebuilt much more economically through a large contract than through each family having to pursue an individual contract. [More…]
In view of the serious and extensive difficulties faced by many farmers, will consideration be given to extending this program to allow farmers to train their own sons on the family farm, and will consideration be given to extending this excellent Government initiative to those we call this year’s school leavers? [More…]
Family tensions arise as young people fail to get employed. [More…]
This includes seven on the High Court, 19 on the Federal Court of Australia and 27 on the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
When the Family Law BUI was passing through Parliament in 1 975 the view was taken that Family Court judges should be required to retire on attaining the age of 65 years. [More…]
Provisions were in fact included in the BUI to ensure that this is the position in the case of judges appointed to State Family Courts. [More…]
But the present constitutional requirements precluded similar provisions being included in relation to judges appointed to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
One could not help but realise what a tragic situation confronted these people with the breakdown of the family unit and so on. [More…]
No family, no matter how well off it might be, should be faced with such a large immediate increase- such an instantaneous shock to the family budget. [More…]
Of course lifting the burden from a poor family is the right thing to do. [More…]
There are 27 justices of the Family Court of Australia, all appointed in the last year and a few months. [More…]
Hence the suggestion by the Leader of the Opposition that perhaps if there are Family Court judges or other judges to be appointed it might be desirable for the appointments to be delayed somewhat or the passage of this Bill accelerated. [More…]
In addition a further $5 will be added to the rent for each working member of a family. [More…]
The Swanson report, in expressing sympathy for the small family business that wants to be taken over, says nothing of the interest of the rival small business which will be confronted with a merged and much larger rival and perhaps be isolated in the market. [More…]
I disregard completely the very shallow proposal that this sort of thing allows a small businessman to sell out so that he and his family can live without worry for the rest of their days. [More…]
Family tensions arise as young people fail to get employed. [More…]
One thing which is necessary for everybody, especially the family man, is the right to work. [More…]
In addition to that, it ought to be noted that the policies of tax indexation, the changed method of payment for family allowances, the tax cuts which come out of past decisions which will apply from 1 July and which come from tax indexation, materially affect total disposable income. [More…]
We have through tax indexation and the family allowances system established a circumstance where people ought to accept and I believe would accept a much greater degree of wage restraint than has occurred over the past 12 months. [More…]
We have done this in a way in particular which has been designed to protect the lowest paid people in Australia through the revised method of payment of family allowances. [More…]
Family tensions arise as young people fail to get employed. [More…]
Where society should be primarily concerned with the welfare of the accident victim and his family it is more concerned with legal concepts of evidence, negligence and fault. [More…]
He got an enormous sum of money, but if he dies that money will go to somebody else- perhaps a member of his family. [More…]
He is a director of a small private family company. [More…]
What sum was provided in the 1976-77 Budget estimates for (a) age pensions, (b) invalid pensions, (c) widows pensions, (d) unemployment benefits, (e) sickness benefits, (f) special benefits, (g) family allowances and (h) other social security benefits and allowances. [More…]
The Minister has directed the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal to hold an inquiry into the extent to which broadcasters should be responsible for the setting and maintaining standards in the production, presentation and content of programs with particular reference to programs directed to chilren and family audiences. [More…]
I think also it ought to be understood that for those who want to work and who are unable to find work the personal tragedy involved is a very great one indeed not only for the individual but also for the family as a whole. [More…]
The Government should not try to argue that it can cut real wage levels without it really affecting household disposable income because of what it has done by way of tax indexation and family allowances, which were largely offset by the abolition of tax rebates for children anyway. [More…]
For example, in 1 97 1 an average family comprising a man, his wife and 2 children received a real income of $68.30 a week. [More…]
Based on the same dollar, that is the 1966-67 dollar, average weekly earnings for that family in 1976 were $78.20. [More…]
At the same time, a married man with 5 children would receive over $6,000 including his family allowance. [More…]
It is not very much on which to keep a family of that size. [More…]
we of the Great British family are privileged to live in unity under a young and lovely Queen, a great Queen to-day but one who is bound to be greater and greater as the years move on. [More…]
The strength of our family unit is being eroded and our national spirit and identity and endeavour appear to be waning. [More…]
Finally, this occasion gives us the opportunity to congratulate our Queen of Australia on her 25 th year of accession to the throne, to welcome her and to wish her and her family health and happiness. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the chamber the case of a family with 4 children. [More…]
The Henderson inquiry into poverty in Australia recognised, for example, the plight of large low income families and the Government immediately introduced the family allowance scheme in order to provide greater help to those who needed it most. [More…]
It is of little value for honourable members opposite to pat themselves on the back about a favourable family allowance scheme when families have nowhere to shelter. [More…]
This must require more capital intensive industries in the future, and the only prospect of changing the trend would appear to be the reintroduction of a much more positive immigration policy combined with family development policies to encourage more, young people to have larger families. [More…]
The introduction by the Government of family allowances and the new experimental housing allowance voucher program for housing are major initiatives to give money to those people in need with a minimum of bureaucratic interference in the hope that by helping those in need directly we are giving them dignity, self respect and the opportunity to decide for themselves how this assistance should be spent. [More…]
They are promising something which is yours, and the more politicians promise, the less there is for you to meet your own needs or your family’s needs. [More…]
I express the view that in the 23 years since Her Majesty’s visit in 1954 there has been, if anything, a growth in the respect and the admiration which the people of Australia hold for her, for her consort and for her family. [More…]
We may with propriety, with fairness and with justice claim that in the world today the Royal Family in London are an example of dedication to duty. [More…]
They are an example of perfect family life that might well be admired and respected right throughout the world. [More…]
However, I feel that it is reasonable to say that alongside the other great, important, powerful families in the world our Royal Family is outstanding. [More…]
I feel that we should look back at those days from time to time and remember that we have before us a great example of dedication to duty on the part of the Royal Family. [More…]
I know full well that the great majority of worthwhile Australians, to whom I refer will be in favour of her and her family and of this country remaining a constitutional monarchy in the future. [More…]
In fact, one of my colleagues has some family problems and has had to leave the House unexpectedly. [More…]
The new family allowance scheme places in every mother’s hands an allowance to spend as she thinks is best for the welfare of her family. [More…]
It will be remembered that the Minister relaxed the entry criteria to allow members of the extended Lebanese family to come to Australia with maximum speed and minimum discomfort. [More…]
In the first place the Minister obviously had no conception of what Lebanese regard as an extended family- a concept which goes well beyond the Australian understanding of members of the immediate family circle. [More…]
He is worried because, as most of us would, he finds the burden of supporting a family here and dependants overseas an overwhelming load to carry. [More…]
The members of the Lebanese community ask that the present policy which excludes a total family from emigrating to Australia where one member fails the medical examination be altered so that only the seriously medically unfit members may be excluded. [More…]
Unfortunately Mr Abdulla, an accredited courier for the South Lebanese Association in Sydney, was not only found to have urged nominees to mislay documents to confuse identity but also he deliberately deceived our officials both in Sydney and Nicosia in respect of his own sister and her family. [More…]
The honourable member made great play about my not understanding the question of extended family as evidenced by the Lebanese. [More…]
I well understand the feeling of extended family as evidenced by the Lebanese and other groups of people. [More…]
They have left some of their family in the Lebanon. [More…]
The Lebanese people have a tied family system. [More…]
I mention as an example a man who went to Nicosia in October last year to see whether he could get his sister, her husband and their family out to Australia. [More…]
While this man was there he paid to a travel agent the amount of fares for his sister, brother-in-law and family. [More…]
He might like to know that on a number of occasions I have taken up with the Minister the question of what is to be done about one member of a family who has been knocked back on medical grounds. [More…]
To my mind, he is attacking the concept of the family. [More…]
The Speech characteristically dwells upon the miniscule housing voucher pilot scheme and the family allowance scheme which, it is worth noting, took money on the one hand from the bread winner of the family and handed it back to the mother without effecting a cost to revenue. [More…]
In other words, the man who moves to a new city or town, the family that voluntarily travels interstate, the breadwinner who returns to work after disability or illness, the employee who resigns because of poor wages or conditions or to seek new opportunities, the person who quits work to care for children or a relative- no such person, whatever his or her needs, would receive any help from the community if he could not get work. [More…]
Christmas- the man has a family- the unemployment benefit was summarily taken from him on the grounds that he was not trying to seek work. [More…]
The family is again recognised as the most important element in our society? [More…]
I still believe that our society and its integrity depend on the male wage earner- basically the single wage earnernot the 2-income family. [More…]
I believe also that the same remarks could be applied to the Hohenzollern royal family and to the Kaiser and his colleagues in 1914. [More…]
But it is not their children or family who will be exterminated if war breaks out again and if terrorists are allowed to return to the same areas and continue to do the same things. [More…]
Disposable incomes rose in real terms during the September quarter of 1976, revealing the effects of personal tax indexation and the new family allowances. [More…]
Is it any wonder that his family wants him to retire from political life? [More…]
I refer to the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume), a man who would have you believe that he is a decent family man. [More…]
For humanitarian reasons Australia has supported the reunion of immediate family members. [More…]
Even in the present difficult economic circumstances, Australia has maintained a family reunion policy which provides for the entry, with a minimum of formalities, of nominated dependent immediate family members and parents. [More…]
The Government has naturally decided to retain the provision allowing a member of the family of a person on whom a Service decoration has been conferred to wear that decoration, provided he does not represent himself as being the person on whom the decoration was conferred. [More…]
Nothing has been done about a special child care rebate for the single parent family or the family where one parent is an invalid yet it was promised in the policy speech. [More…]
Time will shortly overrun the small business or family concern on which the reputation for hospitality and service has been established within the northern tourist industry. [More…]
I am aware of the very strong views that many migrants hold in relation to family reunion. [More…]
The Treasurer then talks about family allowances. [More…]
He refers to the reform by the introduction of family allowances that enables individuals and families to spend government financial assistance in the way that they choose, not in the way that the Government sets down. [More…]
So I would hope that in further consideration the Government would consider very carefully family and fertility policies which can encourage a net reproductive rate to be greater than onegreater than zero population growth in Australia. [More…]
That was done under massive new social benefits, social inducements, housing programs, family allowance programs and so on. [More…]
However, because of the complexity of factors involved in people ‘s decisions about family size, the extent to which such government measures have affected, or could affect, the birth rate is difficult to determine with any confidence. [More…]
I take it that the honourable member for Lilley was suggesting that population could be increased from the migrant content of the community when, in fact, I believe the migrant content of the community conforms in the main to the normal social attitudes that we take in Australia in regard to family size. [More…]
What other measures does he suggest for this stimulation of population growth through fertility and family size? [More…]
This is where I think we are probably too rigid in our family reunion program. [More…]
The present policy makes it extremely difficult for extended family reunion. [More…]
That means that the resources to house them, to give them jobs, to provide their children with education and to provide security to the older sections of the family who ought to have proper reunion rights must be made available to those people, hopefully in family units. [More…]
On the question of any stepping up of the immigration program on the basis of family reunions this will necessarily mean that because most migrant families live in Melbourne or Sydney there will be an increase in the population in those 2 cities. [More…]
A family in Sydney is not going to bring out members of its family and settle them in Alice Springs or in Broome. [More…]
I will be doing whatever I can to arrange family reunions. [More…]
It is pointed out that when we apply the policy or choose one of these options we must have regard, as we have done, to the family reunion requirements, to the refugee component which has been mentioned by a number of speakers, to our diversified manpower recruitment requirements, to our retraining policies and to matters of that kind. [More…]
Section 111 of the Family Law Act 1975 enables regulations to be made making such provision as is necessary to enable the performance of the obligations of Australia under the Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance signed at New York on 20 June 1956. [More…]
I am informed that, initially, after the Family Law Act commenced on 5 January 1976, the Attorney-General deferred the preparation of regulations under this section pending the determination of the challenge in the High Court early last year to the validity of major provisions of the Family Law Act. [More…]
I think people would be able to see a very real reason for and a great deal of common sense in having a retiring age forjudges appointed to the Federal Family Court. [More…]
Sir, when I joined multicover, it was to cover myself and family for additional out-of-pocket expenses that occur, at no time did I imagine or intend that I would be contributing to a doctor’s over award payment scheme . [More…]
The callous attitude of the previous Government towards the farmer and its deliberate attempts to destroy the concept of the family farm have unfortunately planted in the minds of many, the question: Do we in Australia need a rural sector? [More…]
She was not able to join other members of her family in Australia because of that situation. [More…]
But if the husband, because his wife chooses to stay at home to look after young children, takes overtime and earns $10,000 the family’s tax liability would be $1,779. [More…]
Thus the family’s disposable income would be approximately $500 less than if both had continued in employment. [More…]
Needless to say, I am concerned about the delays occurring in the Family Court. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that since the beginning of 1976 the numbers of applications received by the Family Court have been running at a much greater rate than those received under the Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]
During the major part of last year applications for divorce lodged with the Family Court were running at approximately 1000 a week. [More…]
Early last year I anticipated that the work load of the Court might well fall but it appears that since the beginning of this year applications lodged with the Family Court have increased, and they are now running- without being completely accurate- at between 850 and 950 a week. [More…]
Honourable members will also be aware that at the present time judges of the Family Court have to be appointed for life. [More…]
Already 28 judges have been appointed to the Court and I am proposing to put recommendations to Cabinet soon for the appointment of another 2 judges to the Family Court. [More…]
Honourable members will also know that the regulations under the Family Law Act restrict to twenty-nine the number of judges who can be appointed. [More…]
I am currently conducting a complete review of the judicial work load of the Court and of the need in the immediate future for additional judges to be appointed to the Family Court. [More…]
At the same time I want to stress that the solution to the delays occurring in the Family [More…]
There is a real need for research to be done by those involved in the family law area as to the appropriate way in which this work can be done. [More…]
For instance, let me point out that the 2 judges attached to the Parramatta Family Court are doing as much work as are 4 judges in another part of Australia. [More…]
The procedures adopted in the Parramatta Family Court are different from those used in other courts. [More…]
Therefore, let what we have done be taken into consideration right now in wage deliberations, along with the new system of family allowances, which has also operated since 1 July last year and which is of very great net benefit to some 300 000 low income Australian families. [More…]
A couple of Government back benchers have moved a traditional motion or address thanking Her Majesty for the Speech from the throne and expressing pleasure at the presence of the Royal Family in this country. [More…]
The housing for an Aboriginal family in Arnhem Land, is different from the kind of housing that is required at Port Hedland, and the housing in either place would be completely irrelevant to the houses of Aboriginal families who live in the capital cities. [More…]
The food preparation facilities for the average family are primitive to the point of being non-existent. [More…]
I do not recollect having heard anything from the Opposition, certainly as regards praise, for the family allowances that were introduced by the Government in the Budget. [More…]
The introduction of television has had a profound impact on the patterns of family interaction. [More…]
The United States of America National Government has long recognised the impact of television on family life and its largest single item in education outlays is now parental education. [More…]
To those who believe that this Government has not kept its electoral promises and has not put this economy on the right direction, I say this: Within the constraints of our present economic situation, we have made a significant number of moves in the right direction, in the direction that will help not only businesses, but also the average wage earner, the family man, the everyday citizen in our community. [More…]
Supporters of the Government stand up and prattle out parrot fashion what the Government has done in respect of family allowances when in fact the Government has taken money out of the pay packet of the father and given it to the mother. [More…]
I am also pleased to see that the Government has decided to retain a provision allowing a member of a family of the person on whom a Service decoration has been conferred to wear the decoration, provided, of course, that that person does not represent himself or herself as the person on whom the decoration has been conferred. [More…]
I would go further in Labor’s great and historic concern for the disadvantaged, the underprivileged and the weak- in the primacy we give to justice and individual and family security- women may have more to gain from a Labor Government than men. [More…]
We passed the Family Law Act to bring simpler, speedier, cheaper and more dignified treatment of matrimonial and family problems, we participated enthusiastically in International Women’s Year. [More…]
There is no longer anything grasping or self-indulgent about the two-income family. [More…]
The Committee in fact examined the impact of all vehicles, including the family 2-wheel drive car, when used off-road. [More…]
Say one had had one’s property stolen in The Lebanon because there was a change of government there and one went to Victoria and stayed with one’s family for one year. [More…]
Say a change of government occurred in Greece, one came to Australia for a short term of 12 months, stayed with one’s family and went back to one’s old hotel. [More…]
However if one returns to Australia to rejoin one’s family after having had the discussion, what would happen? [More…]
They stated that they were well and truly covered by a comprehensive insurance scheme and that when one of them had his brains blown out his family was well cared for. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member is trying to draw too strong a line in respect of the freedom that the people who are resident in Australia have in taking an interest in the affairs of overseas countries, particularly when the country concerned is the one from which they have come and with which they have very close and very pertinent, sensitive family connections. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is compiling a list of sponsored nominees acceptable under family reunion policy. [More…]
In accordance with normal immigration procedures, this information is for internal departmental use only and is being obtained on a form used, where required, in cases involving family reunion. [More…]
We have seen the break-up of the family unit with family members being spread all over the world. [More…]
We ought not to be too blase about finding some solutions to this problem because a lot of these courts are the physical arenas in which citizens come up against the power and the authority of the law, particularly laws passed by this Parliament, especially in family law jurisdiction. [More…]
First of all, it seems to have provoked an attack on me as the AttorneyGeneral because of my administration of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Just to put honourable members’ minds at rest, the fact is that because this building has been built and judges have moved into it, Temple Court, where the Federal judges have been for some years, will become vacant and very shortly those premises will be passed over to the Family Court and there will be eight or ten magnificent courts there to minister to the people of Sydney who find themselves embroiled in the Family Law Act. [More…]
So this building has a direct effect on the people of Sydney and it enables us to get on with plans to put the Family Court where it was always intended to be- in a place much more suitable than that chosen for it by, if I might say so, the Labor Government down in George Street well away from transport, well away from the legal profession and in a place where very quickly the building became quite inadequate and people were forced to move to various parts of the city. [More…]
But because of the construction of this building, and purely no doubt as a matter of coincidence in time, the fact is that the Family Court will be moving into better premises. [More…]
Because of the torrid climate that has existed in the ATAC meetings where we have had State Ministers walking out and other Ministers accusing a Minister of not having had a marriage in the family for many centuries, I suppose that is understandable. [More…]
It was in regard to a statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) on family reunions involving East Timorese. [More…]
These restrictions would be by way of sponsored nominations which are acceptable under the family reunion policy. [More…]
The reform that was introduced last year, to change the basis of family allowances, I believe, was probably the most significant single social welfare reform since Federation especially to help women. [More…]
There are many women and single parents in the Australian work force and unless there are adequate child care facilities, in a great many cases children are not properly looked after when their parents, whether they come from a 2 parent or a single parent family, are working. [More…]
While aged relatives may not have contributed through taxes they are an important part of family and community life and the cost of supporting aged relatives of migrants is one which must be recognised and borne by the country inviting immigrant families. [More…]
Look at domestic reforms: The public lending right, insurance deposits, Aboriginal land rights, Aboriginal councils and associations, the maritime college, the family allowances and the simultaneous elections referendum. [More…]
These humanitarian grounds principally relate to family reunions, refugee situations or other exceptional circumstances. [More…]
One of the unfortunate things that has occurred in the Western World in recent times is the necessity for the 2-income or 3-income family because this prevents women who wish to stay at home and increase their families from doing so. [More…]
To this extent I believe that the Government’s family allowances system is very much welcome because it directs the money into the hands of mothers. [More…]
I think it could be argued that these present developments might indicate a trend towards smaller family size. [More…]
The present declining fertility rate, in my view, threatens the very existence of the family unit and therefore the stability of our society. [More…]
Surely governments can create a framework- economically and sociallywhereby it is more attractive for a couple to have a reasonable sized family. [More…]
If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates and a couple with one income and the benefits and rebates accruing to their family of, say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to the others. [More…]
I think governments have a responsibility to provide a framework within which the decision by a woman to stay home and raise a family should be encouraged and not discouraged. [More…]
Obviously, to create a framework which does away with the disincentives to raise a family will be very costly and will take a long time. [More…]
What I am trying to say is that she should not be discriminated against when compared with the woman who chooses not to have a family but would rather work. [More…]
Notwithstanding the arguments I have advanced for increasing our immigration program over the longer term, I submit that this Government and all future Australian Governments have an obligation to ensure that we amend the present social and economic structure of Australia so that those women who wish to raise a family are no longer penalised or discriminated against as compared with the typical 2-income families. [More…]
In the first case, if we follow that program we must have a very restricted program of family reunions. [More…]
In the medium option we can have a wider family reunion policy and, in the third, we can have a very generous family reunion policy. [More…]
I am concerned that our family reunion program is far too restrictive. [More…]
In many of the source countries from which our migrants have come the family means not merely a dependent parent or a dependent child but brothers and sisters and their families. [More…]
Those communities depend very much upon the extended family, and when they want to nominate members of their family they should not be prevented from doing so. [More…]
The only way in which we can assist them in having family reunions as they understand them is to expand the migration program so that, in net terms, we are receiving something of the order of 50 000 to 70 000 migrants-a total settler intake of 100 000 to 120 000 people. [More…]
In this way there could be many more family reunions. [More…]
I urge the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) when he looks at this question to recognise that family reunion is based upon humanitarian grounds. [More…]
In the case of people who wish to marry perhaps the numbers to some extent are self-regulatory because many of the people who have come here in the past have come here as family units. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to them and ask him when reviewing the family reunion program to have a far more relaxed policy with regard to the brother and sister and more distant relative situation to enable those communities which have large numbers of people in this country to have the same rate per 1000 of nominations as some of the other communities which have lodged a larger number of applications. [More…]
My family came originally from the British Isles, mostly from Scotland. [More…]
We are pleased, happy and proud to have that girl as a member of our family. [More…]
I look at her family as a fair example of the battle of people such as they in this country. [More…]
Particularly in the family-reunion category, a lot of dependent parents come to Australia and for quite understandable reasons find it beyond them to learn the English language at that stage of their life, especially given the fact that they live within a small family environment. [More…]
Any suggestion that we ought actively to favour those who do possess the English language now, no matter what their other personal attributes may be or what are their occupational qualifications and their family connections in Australia, is I believe a backward step. [More…]
There is no evidence to suggest that the declining fertility or the trend for a 2-child family in Australia will, in fact, be reversed. [More…]
It was stated that we have international and humanitarian obligations in respect of family reunions and particularly in respect of refugee resettlement. [More…]
The most significant example of an incentive program is in France where extremely generous family allowances and other material incentives were provided by government to encourage people to have more children. [More…]
Such a child may be entitled to an allowance under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme as well as the Handicapped Child’s Allowance if he is either undertaking an approved course of correspondence studies at home, or living with a relative to attend daily an institution for the handicapped because his family home is too far from the institution. [More…]
If she loses her employment she does not necessarily register as an unemployed person, but the family surfers hardship because of her lack of employment. [More…]
the extent to which the applicant’s previous income and any other income the person or their family are currently receiving should limit the level of income support during a period of unemployment; [More…]
I am happy to say that the newspaper is still being published, but unfortunately the husband of the family who was running it has since passed away and the newspaper is being published by Mrs Rider- Wood and an invalid son, who is the photographer. [More…]
-I personally know Ms Wilcox and I know her family. [More…]
However, if the Government were to extend the criteria in relation to family reunion, for argument’s sake say particularly in respect of brothers and sisters, the numbers of people who would instantly become eligible to come to Australia would expand very rapidly to the extent that a major proportion of the annual intake would be covered by people in the category that I have just mentioned. [More…]
This was a tragedy and a great national loss because the loss of family security and cover could mean financial hardship for thousands of families should a breadwinner suddenly die. [More…]
Life insurance meets a basic human need- the necessity to protect a family against loss of income through old age and death. [More…]
As I mentioned previously, we can expect further legislation to be introduced which also will be of benefit to the industry and to the holders of the policies of these splendid life offices which mean so much to Australia’s development and to the safeguarding of family life. [More…]
The presence of close family relationships in Australia will be an important consideration when approving migrant entry cases, while a complete review of the existing conditions of entry will be made. [More…]
Under this approach, families who cannot afford even a modest standard of accommodation will receive a special housing allowance based on family size and income and the cost of a standard house or flat in the local housing market. [More…]
The family will be required to pay a rent contribution based on a realistic percentage of income, and the housing allowance voucher will make up the difference. [More…]
Once achieving a total family income of over $200 a week, prospects for home purchase are greatly improved. [More…]
There is nothing better for aged persons, be they grandfathers or grandmothers, than to be able to live near members of their family. [More…]
There is no point sending elderly people to Mt Druitt in Sydney or other places away from their families and away from the family doctor and the shops. [More…]
I hope that for the sake of his family he is relieved of his load very soon. [More…]
Everyone I have spoken to appeared to understand that, with the exception of the honourable member for Prospect who is incapable of recognising that it was not the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) who introduced the great social reform of getting rid of tax concessions of either kind for children and replacing them with this magnificent family allowance. [More…]
A regional dental health program has been established and a regional family services adviser has been employed. [More…]
Quite obviously the benefits of tax indexation, together with increased family allowances, mean that it is quite reasonable to ask for some wage restraint. [More…]
Tax indexation has already saved a family of four on average weekly earnings about $4 a week in 1976-77 and will save them a further $5 a week next year, making a total saving of $9 a week. [More…]
The newspaper is owned by the Fairfax family. [More…]
In family allowances the Government has introduced allowances payable for each child under 16 years of age, or under 25 years of age if receiving full time education. [More…]
I wish that the honourable member would come into my electorate where I could introduce him, as I know the honourable member for Grayndler could, to families where the wife refuses, because of instruction or for other reasons, to restrict the size of her family and brings into the world children for whom she cannot care. [More…]
When we look at those initiatives and at the easing of the distribution requirements to private companies, the new family allowances, the automatic adjustment to pensions in Australia and particularly at the incentives that this Government has created, we find that Australians are being given back $2,000m. [More…]
There is the plain, commonsense proposal to have a retiring age for Federal judges, which is especially necessary now with the development of a system of Federal Family Courts. [More…]
I regard any suggestion that Mr Anthony or members of his family have acted improperly in any way because of their association with a former tenant- a Mr Stallings- as gross impropriety, particularly in view of the fact that not only was a full explanation of the tenancy agreement given but also copies of arrangements entered into by a real estate firm in Canberra, then known as Mary Thynne Real Estate and now known as Thynne Real Estate, were in fact laid before the House on that occasion. [More…]
Does the Minister realise that when there is the happy expectation of one little addition to a family it is at the very least unnerving to suddenly find that there will be 4 little additions to a family? [More…]
I would have to agree that I would be a bit unnerved if I had the same addition to my family. [More…]
Some refugees will be capable of meeting normal migrant criteria concerning family reunion or occupational skills. [More…]
Other refugees will not fall within the normally acceptable degrees of family relationship or have skills within currently acceptable criteria. [More…]
In the Family Court the advantages of the new legislation have been largely negated by the failure to provide adequate staff. [More…]
In some places in Sydney delays in the Family Court are up to 2 years, and there is a substantial backlog even in Canberra. [More…]
It was in relation to the Family Court at Parramatta. [More…]
In fact, I was told with pride that the Parramatta Court was able to dispense with matters much more quickly and judiciously than other courts in the family law area. [More…]
1 ) On which dates has he or have members of his family or staff stayed at Kirribilli House. [More…]
On which dates has the Governor-General or have members of his family or staff stayed at Kirribilli House. [More…]
Did the pamphlet outline the basis for divorce under the Family Law Act; if not, why not. [More…]
Distribution began in January 1977 through offices of the Department of Social Security, Foreign language editions of the booklet are issued with a correction slip saying that the information on divorce and matrimonial matters no longer applies and announcing that a separate leaflet on the Family Law Act will be available soon. [More…]
A slip for the English edition says a separate leaflet giving details of the Family Law Act and how it works is available from the Family Court of Australia in capital cities. [More…]
When the text of the booklet was completed in June 1974, the Family Law Bill had not been passed by the Australian Parliament. [More…]
Later, a correction slip referring to the Family Law Act was printed in nine languages for issue with the booklet. [More…]
To have changed the text of The Newcomer and the Law when the Family Law Bill was passed in mid- 1975 would have caused further delay and cost because of the considerable time required to translate, typeset and check foreign languages. [More…]
It was decided instead to produce, in co-operation with the Attorney-General ‘s Department, a separate Family Law leaflet in foreign languages. [More…]
Only two defect incident reports concerning the hatches of the Ml 13 family of vehicles have been received. [More…]
Are any delays occurring in the Family Court in respect of matters listed for hearing. [More…]
How many days on an average must pass between the day a case is listed and the day upon which a matter comes on for hearing in each registry of the Family Court. [More…]
Does he propose to use Masters instead of Judges of the Family Court to clear the backlog of listed cases. [More…]
Are any new Judges to be appointed to the Family Court before the referendum on retiring ages for Federal Judges. [More…]
How many matters are listed for hearing in each registry of the Family Court and State courts exercising Federal jurisdiction and under what sections of the Family Law Act is relief sought in each of these matters. [More…]
How many Judges are there of the Family Court, and what was the date of the appointment of each. [More…]
How many matters have come before each Judge on each sitting day of the Family Court since it opened. [More…]
Does the Australian Government want the States to take over the responsibility for both the Family Law Court and the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to the report in the Age of 22 March 1 977 of remarks by Mr Justice Emery concerning delays in the Family Court. [More…]
Finally, I make the point to the honourable gentleman who seeks at present to concentrate unduly on the subject of wages that he ought to bear very much in mind the objective criterion of the living standards of the average family, the average worker. [More…]
After deducting a so-called ‘living allowance’ for the farmer concerned and for his family and deducting something for regular commitments on advances which he had received the officers then took the balance and called this the rent. [More…]
I refer to things like bank accounts, hire purchase agreements and all those little measures that a family man or an individual must be able to complete successfully to have a satisfying existence in our complicated modern community. [More…]
It is worth noting that the family allowances this financial year were significantly increased in the last Budget and are expected to cost $ 1,032m. [More…]
Expenditure on family allowances in 1976 totalled $244m. [More…]
Most of the balance is spent on a range of services of a nature designed to support the family and in particular to give expression to the Government’s wish to give child care to needy families where the children otherwise would be without care of any kind. [More…]
I hope that feeling extends to the Hughson family and their immediate relatives, as I am sure it does. [More…]
I was pleased that he undertook to liaise with the Victorian Minister for Housing, my colleague Mr Hayes, to see that we make adequate provision to help this family. [More…]
Recently I telephoned the Victorian department and established that they are in touch with the family. [More…]
On this occasion it has to be recognised that we need to be sure that the help that we as a government give to the Hughson family is the sort of help that will best suit their immediate requirements. [More…]
My friend refers to family allowances. [More…]
The arrival of these quads of course takes the Hughson family from three children to seven, which qualifies them for substantial help from the family allowance scheme. [More…]
This House congratulates the Hughson family. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I thank you for your nodding approval that I convey to that family the congratulations of the House on the arrival of David John, Scott Bradley, Clinton Neil and Grant Roger Hughson. [More…]
However, because of family allowances children are no longer included in that aspect of indexation. [More…]
If we are to move into indexation in this field, surely we should also be moving into the indexation of family allowances, although they are not yet 12 months old. [More…]
Perhaps we should also index family allowances for each child so that the value of the money received will remain the same. [More…]
Let us consider the benefits of family allowances of which we have heard so much and as a result of which it is alleged by Government spokesman the average income earner in the community will be much better off. [More…]
Family allowances for a man supporting a wife and 2 children are approximately $442 a year. [More…]
After tax and Medibank charges but with the addition of family allowances the average income earner had at 1 July 1976 $8,220 to dispose of according to his own autonomous wishes. [More…]
In terms of disposable real income, that is after Medibank charges and so on and allowing for family allowances, he is some $ 1 1 .50 a week worse off as a result of the passage of the current financial year. [More…]
How could it possibly be such when the average income earner, after making these quite legitimate allowances I have mentioned- that is deducting the tax he has to pay after the indexation arrangements have been applied, deducting the Medibank charges which he has to pay by 1 July and adding his family allowances- is, in fact, suffering a reduction in the income available to him for autonomous disposal of well over 7 per cent in the course of the year. [More…]
Where are the great advantages from family allowances which are supposed to have sprung to the families of Australia? [More…]
the extent to which the applicant’s previous income and any other income the person or their family are currently receiving should limit the level of income support during a period of unemployment; [More…]
1 ) How many mothers in the Victorian municipalities of Broadmeadows, Coburg and Brunswick with children aged (a) 1 to 5 years, (b) 6 to 10 years, (c) 1 1 to 15 years and (d) 1 6 years and over are in receipt of family allowances. [More…]
) and (2) Statistics of family allowances by local government areas are not available. [More…]
However, selected information on family allowances by postcode districts is collected by the Department. [More…]
The following table shows the numbers of families receiving family allowances, and the age groups of children in receipt of such allowances in certain postcode districts at 21 March 1977. [More…]
Tables which cross-classify ages of children by size of family and the sex of recipients of family allowances are not available. [More…]
What would be the estimated effect on net migration if family reunion provisions were to be relaxed to include brothers and sisters. [More…]
Persons seeking to migrate to Australia under the close family reunion policy are not required to meet the occupational criteria. [More…]
It is estimated that a relaxation of the close family reunion policy, that is, so that brothers and sisters would not have to be in an approved occupational category, could involve a minimum of 26 000 migrants in the first year, increasing to 35 000 or 40 000 in the second and third years. [More…]
If we look at the amount of money provided to a man with 2 children- the figures have been frequently quoted by various people in this place- and at the amount of money which it is claimed by various people in this place is the cost of protection, we find that it is far more expensive to pay a person unemployment benefit, service his family with the $7.50 allowance per child, and supply the free services which are provided under the social welfare program than it is to have a protected industry. [More…]
The best the Government can do is to fund the poor and to do some urgent work in respect of family law matters. [More…]
One can understand how it is the Commonwealth’s responsibility to provide adequate legal aid in the field of family law matters, but it should not be restricted just to that field. [More…]
The Commonwealth also has a legislative function in respect of the family law area, among others. [More…]
Family law is clearly one. [More…]
People develop expertise in family law. [More…]
Surveys by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, by social workers and by governments abroad show beyond doubt that unemployment is the first step in a cycle of personal and family breakdown that can lead to intractable social problems. [More…]
Your family’s security and happiness are not important. [More…]
The first concerns a family man who has to travel to Sydney each week where he pays $40 a week rent. [More…]
The family is in desperate difficulty because this man who is well qualified has had to take a much lower paid job. [More…]
The other example concerns a husband who has left his family because he is simply unable to support his family in the unemployment benefit. [More…]
The Parramatta Registry of the Family Court of Australia was officially opened on 1 September 1976. [More…]
What are the salaries and other benefits of (a) assistant private secretaries to Ministers, (b) secretaries to Judges of the Family Law Court, (c) secretaries to directors of statutory authorities and (d) secretaries to directors of commissions set up by the Federal Government. [More…]
1 ) What taxation concessions, rebates or other forms of taxation relief are available to the following groups of people: (a) male divorcees, particularly with respect to relief for those paying maintenance for children for whom the former wife is entitled to family allowances, (b) male “single” supporting parents, (c) female “single” supporting parents and (d) persons who are maintaining or helping to maintain relatives in nursing homes. [More…]
1 should add that section 69 of the Family Law Act 1975 provides for the transmission of Australian custody and access orders to prescribed foreign countries. [More…]
Negotiations are at present under way with some thirty countries with a view to seeking arrangements whereby Australian custody orders may be enforced in those countries, pursuant to section 69 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Is the main reason for the plight of the commercial sector an increasing duplication of these services by the establishment of Government centres and Government funded family day care programs. [More…]
I now ask him whether the Minister for Primary Industry informed him of the full nature of his financial interests and responsibilities which have now been discussed in the media and how long ago that Minister first informed him of the changes in shareholdings and directorships flowing from changed family responsibilities? [More…]
The family reunion conditions have been broadened. [More…]
Is it a fact that a married man supporting a wife and two children and earning $10,000 per annum throughout this financial year will complete the year with income in real terms- after tax and the Medibank levy and allowing for family allowances and tax rebates- which will be more than $ 1 8 a week less than his income at the commencement of the year? [More…]
I say that we would be standing in isolation because geographically we are a part of the South East Asian family and this zone of influence will inevitably extend, as the world contracts, into the Middle East and the vast African continent. [More…]
Another rumour that arose related to family allowances, and again that has been laid to rest. [More…]
Land at present being developed to provide housing for family applicants in the Sydney area is located at Minto. [More…]
The penalty applies not only to him but also to his wife and family. [More…]
Who wants to call a strike when a chap is broke and his family- the wife and the mother-do not have any money? [More…]
What about the young people and the family people? [More…]
I represent eople whose incomes this year will average 199 a family a week. [More…]
What is the Government’s attitude toward the fact that in the Third World alone 25000 persons die from water-borne diseases daily, and half of every average family suffers from the energy sapping disease of water snail, i.e. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 August 1977 of the Honourable Reginald Francis Xavier Connor, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1963, a member of this House for the Division of Cunningham from 1963, and a Minister of the Crown from 1972 to 197S, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to members of his family in their bereavement. [More…]
The particular focus of his loyalties and ambitions was the city of Wollongong, where his family had lived for five generations and where he was first elected an alderman nearly 40 years ago. [More…]
I would like to express sympathy to his three sons and to his very big family at his loss and also at the recent loss of his wife. [More…]
I convey to members of his family my deepest sympathy and condolences at their loss and Australia ‘s loss. [More…]
Darling electorate I would like to convey my sincere condolences to his family, relatives and many friends. [More…]
-His family has taken to burying farmers now. [More…]
When the effects of the changes to personal tax and the Government’s failure to index family allowances are combined, a family with three children on average weekly earnings will actually be worse off. [More…]
Last year these rebates were taken out of the tax system and paid instead as family allowances. [More…]
The failure to index the family allowances this year means that their purchasing power has fallen by 1 3 per cent. [More…]
It means that unless family allowances are indexed next year all families with average incomes will be worse ofT. [More…]
The purpose of such spending is to provide for the community services that the individual and the individual family cannot provide for themselves or, if forced to provide them themselves, can only do so unfairly and inadequately. [More…]
Is it also a fact that with family allowances, which took the place of rebates for children, heartlessly not being indexed, taxpayers with one child, on about $12,000 per annum or less, with two children, on about $13,000 per annum or less, and with three children, on about $ 14,500 per annum or less will be worse off than before by next July? [More…]
The main components of the intake will remain family reunion- the family reunion criteria will not be altered; they apply to mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, and dependent childrenrefugees, and those people who fit the occupational criteria. [More…]
I say this leaving aside for the moment- I shall come to it shortly- changes to the level of household disposable income brought about by such matters as family allowances. [More…]
Surely these two-income earners in the one family are reducing the employment opportunities for other Australians. [More…]
Many family companies have been established in the rural sector. [More…]
I mention also family allowances, pensions, the unemployment benefit for farmers, assistance to local government, additional assistance to State governments. [More…]
But I can assure the House that the program we have provided is one of positive assistance to maintain the Australian family farmer. [More…]
The category of measures taken by this Government is such that the Australian farming community is significantly better off today than it was under Labor and it is once more significantly moving to the time when the family farmer will be able to expect again to receive a reasonable return, not just for his labour but also for his management expertise and the capital he has invested. [More…]
I do not mention anything now about the fact that family allowances are not indexed at the same time. [More…]
Family allowances took the place of rebates for children. [More…]
Family allowances also should have been indexed. [More…]
People on taxable incomes up to $12,000 a year with one child will suffer because there is no indexation of family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances are another problem. [More…]
I instance income equalisation deposits, the indexation of personal income tax, changes in estate duty, the benefits of devaluation and the investment allowance, the private company profit distribution, valuation of trading stock, the family allowance, changes in pension benefits and indexation, unemployment benefits for farmers and funds to local government authorities which increased as honourable members will recall from $60m to $140m. [More…]
The second disquieting attitude of this Budget is the way it maintains the downward drift in the family living standards which the Fraser Government has encouraged. [More…]
Family income would need to rise by $9 a week to restore the purchasing power of the 1 976-77 income to the level of 1975-76. [More…]
The blame for this massive erosion of family living standards can be sheeted home to the present Government. [More…]
This is a Bill to amend the Family Law Act 1975 to fix a maximum retiring age for judges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
This Bill seeks to exercise that newly acquired constitutional authority to prescribe a maximum retiring age for judges of the Family Court of Australia of 65 years. [More…]
In 1974 the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs brought down a report on the Family Law Bill, then before the Senate, that was responsible for the insertion in the Bill of provision for the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
In recommending the creation of a family court, the Committee expressed concern that if it were a Federal court the judges would have to be appointed for life, because it felt that judges of a family court should not continue to adjudicate when of advanced years. [More…]
Subsequently, arising out of this recommendation, an amendment was carried to the Family Law Bill to provide for the opportunity for the establishment of State family courts. [More…]
Under this amendment, which is now section 41 of the Family Law Act, a State family court created pursuant to this provision may not exercise jurisdiction under the Family Law Act unless, amongst other things, judges of the court are to retire by the age of 65 years. [More…]
Accordingly, judges of the Family Court of Western Australia, which has been established pursuant to section 41, have a retiring age of 65 years. [More…]
Honourable members will recognise that this requirement, having been approved by both Houses of the Parliament, provides a compelling reason for prescribing an identical retiring age forjudges of the Family Court of Australia, now that the Constitution alteration has made this possible. [More…]
Further, the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on a retiring age for Federal judges, which led to the Constitution alteration, specifically recommended 65 years as an appropriate age for judges of the Family Court. [More…]
After the proposal to amend the Constitution to provide for the retirement of Federal judges was raised, and before the referendum on the Constitution alteration in May, the former AttorneyGeneral made known his preference for a retirement age of 65 years for judges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Honourable members will also, of course, be well aware that 65 years is the maximum retiring age for the great majority of employees and office-holders in Australia, including the holders of non-judicial offices of comparable status to that of judges of the Family Court. [More…]
However, it is generally conceded that in family law, more than in most other areas of the law, judges adjudicating over disputes should be aware of and keep abreast of current social values and attitudes. [More…]
For this reason, and also because of the demanding and arduous nature of at least some of the disputes- notably, defended custody disputes- there seems to be good reason for requiring judges of the Family Court to retire at least by the age recognised as the maximum retiring age for most other occupations in the community. [More…]
Accordingly, this Bill prescribes the age of 65 years as the maximum retiring age for judges of the Family Court. [More…]
Since all the existing judges of the Family [More…]
The Bill makes two other amendments to the Family Law Act. [More…]
By virtue of an amendment earlier this year to the Family Law (Judges) Regulations, up to six additional judges may be appointed to the Family Court. [More…]
They had, with reasonable expectation of continuation of employment with its attached income, committed themselves to expenditure in the way of buying homes and motor vehicles and attending to all the requirements normally associated with the establishment of family in an employment area. [More…]
He does not come within the present guidelines for permanent entry- that is family reunion or skills in demand. [More…]
I presume that Senator Guilfoyle s household has never had to survive for three or four weeks with no income and no money in the bank, unable to pay for the roof over the family’s heads, let alone to put food in their mouths. [More…]
In any period the unemployment benefit is miserably inadequate, but in a period when hundreds of thousands of Australians are unemployed as a direct result of the Government’s policies, the least the Government can do is to provide a benefit which will allow the recipient and his or her family to survive with dignity. [More…]
In all these ways- together with other initiatives such as the family allowances scheme and the increase in the tax threshold, which will relieve many pensioners from the burden of paying taxation which was imposed on them by the previous Government- this Government has demonstrated its concern for the disadvantaged groups in society and has made sure that the cost of reducing the inflation rate will not fall on those groups who suffer mostly from the effects of inflation. [More…]
Society is prepared to act as a breadwinner in a fatherless house but is not prepared to finance adequately a household in which the father is required to give up his normal working duties to assume a dual parental role to keep his family together. [More…]
More money in the pocket would not enable a family to buy any of these things but without these amenities a family’s quality of life is drastically reduced. [More…]
Without the control of inflation there can be no proper management at an individual or family level or at a government level. [More…]
A commitment of a certain amount of money a week will provide the necessities and the luxuries with far less strain on the family. [More…]
The Government has said that there should not be restraint on the capacity of individuals to establish their family home. [More…]
He knows, as we know, and as honourable members opposite are starting to find out as they read the Budget documents and the facts start to filter through to them, that it is a fraud, that nobody in Australia except people in the higher income groups will be better off and that because the Government has not indexed the family allowance people in the lower income bracket will be worse off. [More…]
The Asprey Committee pointed out that the law at present does not cover benefits given to an employee’s family and that clearly these benefits should be taxable. [More…]
They should talk to some members of the broken families who are now unable to get work, where husbands and wives have separated because the family income has dropped so low they cannot meet commitments and they have no prospect of getting work. [More…]
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That this House expresses its regret at the death on 12 September 1977 of Leslie Clement Haylen, a member of this House for the Division of Parkes from 1943 until 1963, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious service, and tenders its deep sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
I express sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
To his wife and family I extend my very deep sympathy. [More…]
His family came from the Bugendore-Queanbeyan district. [More…]
At some odd stages he had a nostalgic idea of buying back the family property. [More…]
I send this message to his family: We in this House who remember him and those of us who have taken an active and interested part in politics in the last 30 years will remember him, although it is 14 years since he retired from this place. [More…]
Accompanying the laughter, there is the sadness that we feel m his passing, and I would like to join with other honourable members in giving all our sympathy to his family. [More…]
This Government, in addition to its family reunion and refugee policies, will continue to recruit overseas those people whose qualifications are both acceptable and needed in Australia. [More…]
The first of these is the indexation of family allowances. [More…]
As family allowances replace the previous tax deductions for children, in the interests of equity they should be indexed against inflation as other tax rebate items have been. [More…]
The family is crucial for nurturing children and providing a stable psychological environment for their development. [More…]
I suggest that in that list of unfulfilled needs the Government should keep these things in mind as having top priority: Relief to beneficiaries, following the loss of a near relative, by the abolition of death duties; the needs of people outside the capital and provincial cities who live in uncongenial climates and who face inflated living costs and who are the real decentralisers; these people should be given realistic encouragement by means of an expanded zone allowance; the needs of taxpayers who suffer many anomalies such as paying tax on rent from a residence where the rent paid in a situation of job transfer is not tax deductible; the needs of taxpayers who are selfemployed and who receive no encouragement to superannuate or to insure themselves as employed persons can do; and the need for mothers to have their family allowance indexed to equate payment with the dependency tax deduction forgone by the parent. [More…]
It can be seen from the statement that the transfer covers a wide range of important functions such as primary industry, child, family and community welfare, payroll tax and stamp duties. [More…]
I think it is between $40 and $50 per year per family. [More…]
While he is there he says: ‘I know from family history that I might suffer from gall bladder complaints in a couple of years’ time. [More…]
They are the very personskely to have private resources, either owned personally or within their family units, that will allow them to meet the gap between the rates and their statutory contribution and the average fee. [More…]
We have quite a lot of people in the higher income area with fairly high capital assets in their own name or in their family’s name who have chosen to insure privately. [More…]
I direct his attention to recent reports in the media about visits to Australia by members of the family known as Barbaro. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether there have been any applications to him for permission for Domenico Barbaro or any of his family to visit Australia. [More…]
I sought advice from my Department in relation to this request and, consistent with the strong advice it had provided successive Ministers in relation to these members of this family, I decided not to grant entry. [More…]
I refer to the relative disadvantage of the single income family where one parent works and the other looks after the home and the family. [More…]
Where many families now have two bread winners the single income family feels under great pressure to bring a second income into the family to maintain a comparable standard of living. [More…]
Whilst the two income family contributes to increased national productivity it also adds to the community costs in some important respects. [More…]
The absence of both parents from the home leads to increased demands for child care facilities and welfare services which are provided as a matter of course in the traditional one income family. [More…]
I am finding increased concern in my electorate that present taxation and family allowance provisions do not give significant acknowledgement of the social and economic role performed by the full-time home maker. [More…]
The family allowance system introduced last year was a significant social reform but many of the social welfare activists in our community have not given sufficient credit to the Government for that reform. [More…]
It put additional funds into the hands of large low income families where the help was most needed, but in a period of inflation when prices and wages are still rising, when taxes are subject to indexation and social security pensions are indexed, the relative values of those family allowances declines. [More…]
Quite apart from dealing with this problem of the declining value of family allowances, the Government- indeed, the whole Parliament- should consider ways of correcting the relative disadvantage of the single income family. [More…]
It could be done by a variety of taxation mechanisms or by the provision of an allowance for a full-time home maker added to the present family allowance system. [More…]
There is one vital area which this Budget has given support to the family under stress. [More…]
The purchasing power of family allowances will be reduced. [More…]
The net effect of reduced real wages and family allowances and the tax changes will be to cut the purchasing power of our incomes by several dollars a week. [More…]
For the low income earner with a large family, the Government’s family allowance system has provided the greatest boost for very many years. [More…]
It is obvious that each time another migrant family is brought here work is created. [More…]
If Mr Grassby ‘s activities are beyond reproach his family and he deserve to have the heavy veil of current .public suspicion lifted. [More…]
For example, the staff number in the Family Court grew by over 130 last year and in the Department of the Capital Territory by 120. [More…]
For the average family of husband, wife and a couple of children this means an increase of income tax of $936 yearly since the Fraser Government promised to reduce taxation. [More…]
Last year it introduced what it called a revolutionary system for helping the family. [More…]
The Government’s halo in the area it calls ‘family reform’ is beginning to show distinct signs of tarnish. [More…]
Last year the Fraser Government made a rather more radical change to family incomes which it hailed, with typical modesty, as ‘one of this country’s most significant social reforms’. [More…]
It didn’t increase family allowance to allow for the effects of inflation. [More…]
The Government continues to misallocate resources in its provision of health services by failing to increase funds in areas which put the emphasis on health maintenance; for example, the community health program, drug education, the school dental scheme, family planning and so on. [More…]
I refer to his comment on the indexation of family allowances. [More…]
It changed the whole family allowance structure. [More…]
This was a complete revolution in the family allowance system. [More…]
When will the Opposition understand that a national Budget is like a family budget- if one continues to spend more than one raises, the results will eventually be disastrous? [More…]
It takes a pensioner- a person who has worked a lifetime for this country, lived through a depression, fought through a war, raised a family of five- to put it so simply. [More…]
These measures coming on top of the new scales of family allowances have been a great benefit to families in the La Trobe electorate. [More…]
A glance at the figures reveals the fact that a Labor Government is anti-family. [More…]
Under the Fraser Government scheme a family with three children now receive $14.50 each week. [More…]
I demand a full and independent inquiry into the operations of the Deen family and Hall and the activities they have been undertaking over a number of years to find out why my inquiries into the matter were not investigated some 4 months ago. [More…]
Only a full, open and independent inquiry into the whole of the operations of the Deen family and Hall and the system of warrantee rights over pensions can clear the air of this hideous manifestation which revealed itself in my electorate today. [More…]
The Family Law Act, and questions of citizenship, dual nationality and passport issue are all involved. [More…]
Instead of a family travelling by car from Newcastle to Sydney to visit relatives they could ring them on the videophone and see them as they spoke to them. [More…]
The impact which transport costs have on the household budget of the average family is shown in figures provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics survey on household expenditure. [More…]
These are actual costs and not percentages but they give a clear indication of the greater impact which transport costs have on the low income family compared with the high income family. [More…]
The same sized family with an income of $340 per week spends $38.42 per week. [More…]
So the high income family, which receives more than four times the income of the low income family, spends on transport only a little more than twice that spent by the low income family. [More…]
However, the same sized family with an income of more than $340 per week pays $34.16 per week, an increase of a little over 50 per cent in the transport cost component although this family has an income more than four times that of the family with an income of under $80 per week. [More…]
Both in the area of the private motor car and the commercial vehicle, I would like to see the Government lump together the road maintenance tax and all of those taxes into the petrol tax or the fuel tax so that when the owner of the family car sits behind his wheel on his way to work or on his way to some entertainment he knows the real cost he is paying at that moment to drive that motor vehicle. [More…]
More than 1,000 Lebanese still have applicatons registered with the Embassy to emigrate to Australia, most of them being in the context of family reunions. [More…]
We are now seeing the most extravagant and most irresponsible use of government aircraft to fly members of the Prime Minister’s family to the opera, of all places. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government and a number of people down there- the Von Bibra family in the Ross area, for example- are doing an excellent job in making that State more attractive to not only Australian tourists but also overseas tourists. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Family Law Act in order to fix a maximum age for judges of the Family Court of Australia Honourable members will be aware that this Bill was introduced in the Senate and that it passed that place without amendment. [More…]
It will amend the Family Law Act in two areas. [More…]
The interesting point about this legislation is its provisions relating to what is known as a non-party matter, the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
One of the matters to which they addressed their minds was the creation of State family courts. [More…]
When this matter was debated in the Senate on 26 November 1974 Senator Missen moved an appropriate amendment on the basis that if we created State family courts we then had a chance to guarantee a retiring age for judges. [More…]
It is important that we now enter this field appropriately as we are entitled to do under the Constitution and have a federal family court. [More…]
It became virtually a legal fiction that because we had to get judges of the right calibre and have an ability to retire them we would create State family courts. [More…]
If we look at section 41 (4) (b) of the Family Law Act we see where State courts are created there is an opportunity to negotiate an agreement which guarantees that people appointed by the States shall not hold office beyond the age of 65 years. [More…]
I notice there is a State Family Court in Western Australia. [More…]
I also notice that no other State has a Family Court at the present time. [More…]
As a result of the decision in Russell v. Russell we are somewhat defective in being able to grapple with all the family problems. [More…]
There are very severe problems for a family and they are the family’s own problems. [More…]
It is clear that under the Constitution if we could get States to refer to the Federal Parliament powers in those areas of property, maintenance, custody and what have you, we would not have any difficulty in dealing with the problems of the family. [More…]
Surely it is a fiction to think that under the Constitution we have the power to deal with marriage- as we have- with divorce, matrimonial causes and parental rights and that those powers have to be interpreted, as the High Court has legally said, but those matters are limited to the aspects of the family which I have mentioned. [More…]
It was suggested on the basis of what was best for the family in its time of need. [More…]
We have the stupid situation at the present time that while one is able to go to the family law court to discuss problems between husband and wife, one has to go to another court to discuss problems which relate to property and to another court if the matter relates to the custody of the children who have been part of the family home. [More…]
The Family Court made an order for the right of the former wife to have occupancy for life. [More…]
This is a question of a family problem and a family court decision. [More…]
If we could put another constitutional amendment and ask the people whether the family law court should have the ability to deal with all matters relating to the family, virtually unanimously all people in Australia would say yes. [More…]
It took us about 77 years to obtain one minor amendment, and we cannot afford to wait another 77 years to deal with the problems of the family which I have outlined. [More…]
There are some problems now which relate to the administration of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The law is reasonable, the interpretation of it is understandable and the question always has to do with a tragic circumstance, usually the break up of a family. [More…]
The Family Court has to deal with these matters. [More…]
We recognise that the basic unit in society is a strong family unit and that is to be encouraged. [More…]
We have created in all honesty and sincerity and, I think, in a rather well-meaning way, a Family Court concept which not only has the judicial concept but also has the counselling and assistance concepts to help people. [More…]
I notice that in the last Appropriation Bill we appropriated for family law $ 1 1 m but we spent only $6m. [More…]
In other words, the Treasury has saved $5m in the area of family law. [More…]
There is great trouble and concern there because in matters where there are disputantsfamily disputes are the fiercest of disputesthe margin for reconciliation and negotiation is not wide. [More…]
There has been the problem of trying to get the Family Law Court well established in a proper atmosphere. [More…]
I should luce to see a committee set up to look at how the Family Law Act is operatingwhat are the problems, the advantages and the weaknesses and what areas need to be improved. [More…]
We must guarantee that these solutions are available virtually at the time the Family Court is involved in order to avoid the situation in which, although we can solve the problem of separation, the very burdensome problems of custody, maintenance or property rights are not solved for a period of up to two years. [More…]
There is no point in suggesting that the Family Law Court could undertake this function; that would weaken the Family Law Court. [More…]
Obviously, the chief judge in the Family Law Court area should be the chairman. [More…]
We should also involve counsellors and people interested in family welfare concepts, such as social workers, and even representatives of family units, so they can determine what they can do together. [More…]
We emphasise that the Family Law Court concept has been a non-party one. [More…]
It has to be done by providing better support facilities for the family, the best of which would be a job for the wage earner. [More…]
There are family crises which are in no way related to temperament or conduct; they could be related to economic circumstances, such as poor housing, poor environment, or lack of income. [More…]
We have to provide the right facilities to enable the talented people in the family law area to function efficiently. [More…]
I suggest that, at the appropriate time, the Government might consider setting up an inquiry into how best to improve the Family Law Act or its administration. [More…]
I want to encourage Federal family courts. [More…]
I rise to speak in favour of the Family Law Amendment Bill. [More…]
As all honourable members have agreed, as this Parliament has agreed and as the people agreed in the referendum which was passed it is desirable that Family Law Court judges should retire at the age of 65 years, I believe it is important that additional appointments should have been postponed until such time as the appointments can be made on this new basis. [More…]
One of the important points that have been made already is that judges of the Western Australian Family Court already have to retire at the age of 65 years. [More…]
There is a need forjudges involved in this area to be people who are able to adopt a contemporary approach to problems involving the family which come before courts, which in so many ways are unique. [More…]
As has been mentioned already, there are considerable delays in the hearing of matters in the Family Law Courts throughout Australia. [More…]
But I think it ought to be noted that there has been a substantial change in our law with the introduction of the Family Law Act. [More…]
In New South Wales in the Family Law Division some five judges previously were able to deal with all the matters relating to the complex law which my colleagues will tefl me previously existed in relation to the establishment of a cause of action to enable the court to dissolve a marriage. [More…]
We have established a Family Court which is taking over not only the matters that formerly were dealt with by the Family Law Division in New South Wales for instance, but also many of the matters that previously were dealt with by courts of petty sessions. [More…]
The pace at which we have moved has meant that many of the matters that previously were dealt with by courts of petty sessions, such as those relating to maintenance, custody and so on, now, under section 46 of the Family Law Act, are required to be transferred to the Family Court. [More…]
In cases in which there is a dispute involving custody, guardianship and access to the children of a marriage, or property exceeding $1,000 in value, the matter must be transferred to the Family Court, unless the parties agree to the matter being determined in the Court of Petty Sessions or in a court of lesser jurisdiction. [More…]
When a delay occurs, such as is the case now in the Family Court, there is a distinct possibility that a party who otherwise might agree to a matter being heard by consent before a court of petty sessions would say: ‘I wil get an advantage. [More…]
There might be a two-year delay before this maintenance matter can be heard by the Family Court, whereas the Court of Petty Sessions might make an order in favour of my former spouse’. [More…]
I make the point that, while we are having these teething difficulties in establishing a family court system of the size and adequacy that is necessary to deal with all of these matters, we ought to look at ways and means by which we can involve the State courts of petty sessions in dealing with and determining some of these matters. [More…]
However, the matter which the honourable member did not pursue and the one which I think quite rightly should have been pursued- I believe that it was being pursued by the previous Attorney-General until it became too late to contemplate such a change- was the establishment in the remaining States of State family courts exercising Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
Quite clearly, if there were State family courts exercising Federal jurisdiction, those courts would have the power to determine matters arising under State jurisdiction. [More…]
I supported strongly- I believe that that support has been vindicated- the amendments moved by the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) when the Family Law Bill was before the House. [More…]
He made the point, quite validly- this has been brought out very clearly in the debate today by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith as well- that we do not remove from the family law area generally the conflict that can arise in marriage in relation to matters of property, maintenance and custody of children simply by removing the allegation of fault in the breakdown of marriage. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Family Court of Australia, with extra judges and extra personnel, is still having to deal with the same complex and difficult problems. [More…]
I say here and now that I do not believe that we will help the situation in Australia by the development of a very complex and large Family Court system. [More…]
I am informed that in New South Wales in the old family law jurisdiction a certificate from the Registrar stating that certain technical matters had been dealt with was sufficient to satisfy the judges in the old Family Law Division that those matters had been completed satisfactorily and that the paper work was in order. [More…]
We should have been aware that those problems might have occurred as a result of throwing out entirely the old system, instead of looking at ways and means of developing it to overcome some of the specific problems that existed in the minds of honourable members when the Family Law Bill came before this Parliament. [More…]
Notwithstanding my comments about the problems faced by the Family Court and those associated with the development of the Family Law Act, I am pleased to be able to support strongly this Bill which will enable additional judges to be appointed. [More…]
That may go a long way towards overcoming the problems that are facing the family law courts at the moment. [More…]
I support strongly the proposition put forward constructively by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith for a committee of inquiry to be set up as quickly as possible to study the means by which the Family Court can be made more efficient and more effective. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Parramatta should acknowledge that one of the frustrating difficulties in this country at the moment is not only in the area of family law but is equally in the area of corporate law. [More…]
While one acknowledges the regrettable number of deficiencies in the Family Court- they are deficiencies which I would strongly point out- they cannot be attributable to the Family Court. [More…]
It sets out concisely the problems in relation to custody under the Family Law Act. [More…]
When parents separate and cannot agree about the care of their children, the law usually refers to the problem as a dispute about ‘custody’, a word which has overtones of the prison rather than the family. [More…]
Formerly, the father was the child’s guardian, but since the Family Law Act, which came into force on 5 January 1976, both parents are guardians. [More…]
One of the very onerous difficulties facing the Family Court- we have often overlooked this in Australia, particularly since the Second World War- is that one third of all marriages in Australia during the last 2Vi decades have been between people born in Australia and people bom outside of this country. [More…]
Some Family Court officers estimate that SO per cent of their inquiries are from Australian couples with different ethnic backgrounds. [More…]
It does not take much to envisage the immense problems this creates for the Family Court. [More…]
These tug-of-love situations, if I can call them that, place great pressures not only on the Family Court but also on the Foreign Affairs Department. [More…]
Because of my concern about child abductions and the difficulties that the Family Court faces I wrote a lengthy submission to the former Attorney-General and I shall make some reference to it. [More…]
One area which has frequently been exploited relates to a passport under which a child or children may be lawfully taken out of the country on a passport that may have been obtained by one or other of the parents some time before proceedings in the Family Court commenced. [More…]
I do not know whether the Family Court has the power to request the surrender of foreign passports. [More…]
However, in the intervening period the Family Court could notify the foreign embassy or consular office of the court order. [More…]
Regrettably, when court orders are made in relation to custody or access there is no transmission of this information from the Family Court to the Foreign Affairs Department or appropriate consular office. [More…]
There has to be a greater notification of decisions made in the Family Court to the Australian Foreign Affairs Department which issues passports and is responsible for them. [More…]
However, as I said earlier, I think there has to be a greater exchange of information between the Family Court and the Foreign Affairs Department when court orders are issued particularly when they affect foreign nationals or rather those who have dual citizenship. [More…]
This might be more the responsibility of the Minister for Foreign Affairs although it stems from the Family Law Act. [More…]
This also stems directly from the Family Law Act. [More…]
The final matter to which I draw the attention of the House is that of interstate abductions and the execution of warrants under section 64 (9) of the Family Law Act which states: [More…]
Another ludicrous anomaly to which my attention was drawn-this is one of the strictures on the Family Court- is the confidentiality provmons which apply, certainly in the Social Security Act and, as I understand it, in the Repatriation Act. [More…]
I have had two cases drawn to my attention in which a parent obtained through the Social Security Department the address of a spouse who had defied the Family Court order for custody and abducted the child. [More…]
The name in turn was transmitted to the Department of Social Security through the Family Court, but the Department of Social Security refused to furnish the Family Court with the address of the offending parent so that the warrant could be executed. [More…]
I suggest that this is another factor that must be extremely frustrating to the Family Court and to the people in these situations. [More…]
Let me sum up by saying this: Undoubtedly, in this area, along with many others- particularly in this area in which so much human distress and tragedy is involved- there is an urgent need for the States to realise that if the Family Court is to remain effective and efficient there must be urgently a rationalisation and unification of laws. [More…]
The fact that an age limit of 65 years is fixed is an indication of a parliament’s judgment that there is, in the Family Court of Australia, an appropriate age at which judges ought to retire. [More…]
There is no point in going on appointing judges, even to the age of 65 years, let alone for life, simply to meet what I believe is really a temporary contingency in the Family Court. [More…]
They will add considerably to the work capacity of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
It was always a basic part of the Family Court concept that there would be counselling services. [More…]
I believe that 36 judges ought to be sufficient to cope with the work of the Family Court, and one would hope that the additional judges would be appointed within the next 6 months. [More…]
Let me say that the Family Court premises around this country are the most magnificent court premises in Australia. [More…]
But I would like the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) to know that the Temple Court building in Sydney is to be used by the Family Court. [More…]
But the facilities at Scandia House were provided to the Government when the Family Law Act was implemented in January 1976. [More…]
But let us not talk about Family Court premises in a derogatory way, because they are ideal premises. [More…]
I suggested I think in June in an address in Adelaide that a parliamentary committee to inquire into the operations of the Family Law Act ought to be established next year. [More…]
He has to provide the family home. [More…]
In many cases some other gentleman comes along and lives in the family home. [More…]
I am not saying that these problems necessarily can be avoided but a sense of hardship and injustice is being bred in the community in relation to the Family Law Act. [More…]
The family has become a less popular institution in our society but it is one that we need to underpin in many ways. [More…]
We are too ready to take off the shoulders of the family those responsibilities which traditionally belonged to it and put them on the shoulders of the State. [More…]
This transfer is not helping the family. [More…]
It means that the family is becoming a less significant unit in society and that people are looking more and more to the state for support instead of to the family. [More…]
I am talking not only of an enforcement body to operate within the Family Court area but also of one to act in other areas such as the High Court. [More…]
Indeed, the Conference took as an example of a perfect law to adopt our own Family Law Act. [More…]
We increased the private company retention allowance from 50 per cent to 60 per cent; provided for indexation of the valuation of trading stock; dramatically restructured family allowances; removed disabilities in farmers entitlement for unemployment benefits; abolished the property component in deciding eligibility for pensions; and adjusted for automatic adjustment of pensions for movements in the consumer price index. [More…]
As I have explained to the other shareholders, I am quite prepared to accept the responsibility within that family group and I will exercise that responsibility. [More…]
The increases in benefits flowing from the fees increases determined by Mr Justice Ludeke should result in increases in family contribution rates of up to 35c per week. [More…]
Were this allowance that I am suggesting to be part of a family income it would be taxable and this would ensure provision according to family need which is more equitable than provision according to institutional need. [More…]
We want to reinvigorate the world we live in and to renew society and I believe that this means putting as much real power as we can into the hands of ordinary people, especially power over their own lives and over the things which concern them most deeply, like education and the family. [More…]
I look for the day when, say, an average Australian family lands in Melbourne, having migrated from Queensland- nobody could blame them for that- and turns up at the door of the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and are invited to come m. Of course, that is not what happens in any non-state school. [More…]
It has a room specifically set aside for the works of the Lindsay family. [More…]
-In Moranbah, a mining town in Queensland, $5 per family rate is applicable - [More…]
So many of us are so far away from our school days that we have forgotten what a scary time it can be between 17 and 18 years of age faced with the prospect of going out into the world, having to start a new job, a new life, a new career away from the security of family and parents, having to perform in a quite different way from the way we performed at school. [More…]
Yet this Fraser Government has substituted family allowances for the old tax rebate for dependantsquite rightly and with our support- and did not then index family allowances. [More…]
We are part of an organisation and if we are to remain a part of the international family we should be just as much interested in the projected findings of the World Health Organisation of the United Nations as in anything else. [More…]
Not the least of them will be the relief not only to the alcoholic but also to bis family. [More…]
Further, does not this run down in the proportion of income being saved reflect the fact that under this Government after-tax income for an average family fell by 3.3 per cent in real terms in 1976-77 and that people were forced to draw on their savings to maintain their standard of living? [More…]
There is one indicator, and one indicator alone, which could reflect a modest drop in total disposable family income over the course of the last year. [More…]
If the Medibank element were excluded and any other indicators were used- there are four or five of them available and they could be made known to the honourable member if he wanted them- they would show that disposable family income had increased to a certain extent during the last year as a result of the totality of our taxation policies, our policies in relation to family allowances, and all the rest. [More…]
In fact, a person going on strike makes a great sacrifice for himself and his family because he believes an injustice is being done to him and his fellow workers. [More…]
Honourable members opposite should try to keep a family on some of the wages that are being paid in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to extend the Lands Acquisition Act to the external territories and, as has already been pointed out by honourable members in this debate, to acquire land to set up a quarantine station in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands which was obtained, if my reading is correct, for virtually nothing by the Clunies Ross family before the turn of the century. [More…]
It is difficult to track payments to preschools, to family day care centres, to full day care centres and to other child care projects such as pre-school centres, after-school centres and holiday school programs. [More…]
No one could quarrel with the priorities the Government set for itself or at least announced in relation to family day care and for all its child care projects. [More…]
What this country needs above all things is a philosophy for the family. [More…]
These provisions need to be assessed with regard to their impact upon the family. [More…]
It is time that the States exercised their responsibility and allocated greater proportions of funds into the area of childhood services, not merely into child care or pre-school education but into services to support the family in order that children can be brought up by their families and given appropriate care and education so that when they do start school they can begin their formal education without disadvantage. [More…]
Furthermore, a new scheme of family allowance has replaced the old child endowment and tax concession rebate arrangements. [More…]
We have to decide what we mean by family support systems. [More…]
It is time we had an adequate family support system. [More…]
I think that emphasis needs to be put on the treatment of the family rather than on the treatment of the patient. [More…]
A settler came to my office with only $30 to his name and with a family to provide for. [More…]
Denied government relief, what are his prospects; what are the prospects of his family? [More…]
I suggest that the assessors and bureaucrats get off their seats and see the poverty and despair of parents who want only to give the basic needsnothing more- to their family. [More…]
He came to Australia from Italy with his family when he was 4 1/2 years of age and settled in the electorate of McMillan in the township of Morwell. [More…]
The allowance will be paid where a child’s disabilities are adjudged on medical grounds to be marginally below what constitutes ‘severely handicapped’ as defined in the legislation and the family income does not exceed the adult minimum weekly wage (‘Six Capital Cities’), at present $1 10.60 per week, plus $6 for each child. [More…]
I said in the speech that in the twelve months to the September quarter 1976 real household disposable income increased by 2.9 per cent, reflecting in part the benefit to individuals of the Government’s policies in the area of personal tax indexation and family allowances. [More…]
These countries also sent condolences to his family. [More…]
Every other index available indicates quite plainly that total disposable family income rose throughout last year. [More…]
I ask: Firstly, does the Department of Aboriginal Affairs seek to give the unsatisfactory family suport, counselling or supervision at any point? [More…]
Secondly, is the child fostered, if possible, to a satisfactory Aboriginal family, having regard to the overtones from the past in taking an Aboriginal child from his own race? [More…]
If it is wise to foster the child to a European family, are steps taken for the child to maintain some contact with Aboriginal people? [More…]
The honourable member will recall that in the recent Budget under the family medicine program the Government announced an incentive scheme for young post-graduate general practitioners to encourage them to go to rural areas to practice at least for a period in the hope that they will settle in rural areas and thus help to overcome some of the manpower shortage that exists in these areas. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Prime Minister, concerns an answer given by him during Question Time yesterday in which he claimed that only by using the full consumer price index, including the Medibank element, as a price deflator is it possible to demonstrate a drop in total disposable family income during the last year. [More…]
The policies of family allowances, tax indexation and tax reform which have been introduced by this Government are of historic importance to all Australians. [More…]
The rent remains static while the family’s income naturally rises over the years. [More…]
The Government will be encouraged to have regard to family incomes, the size of houses and the assets of the intending borrowers, thus ensuring that assistance is directed properly to those most in need. [More…]
In some circumstances, however, as I have mentioned already, long term tenants are paying very low rents for dwellings located in inner suburbs yet their family circumstances and income might have changed dramatically. [More…]
Because these families would have access to cheaper finance there may not be quite so pressing a need for mothers to work to pay for the home with resultant benefits to family life and greater opportunities for work for our unmarried young people. [More…]
It can mean they have to sell a family home or live at a reduced standard of living. [More…]
Husband and wife can work together for many years to buy a home to raise a family, and then find their thrift and hard work penalises the remaining one. [More…]
I feel that I should say to him on this occasion- I am the only person in this chamber tonight who was here when he arrived- that we wish him well in his future retirement and we would be grateful if he would extend our very best wishes to his distinguished and wonderful wife and family. [More…]
Are they suggesting that all unskilled workers, including refugees and nominated immediate family members, should have been refused entry to Australia simply because they were likely to find employment in secondary industries? [More…]
We broadened the family reunion categories for immigration and allowed for the entry of entrepreneurs and proprietors of small personal businesses in addition to national need categories. [More…]
Many people who go into business or take over the family business simply are not suited educationally, psychologically, intellectually or emotionally, to be in business. [More…]
The 607 have been added to at least by the appointment of another half a dozen Family Court judges. [More…]
For the life of me I cannot understand why the salary of the Chief Judge of the Family Court has been increased so dramatically according to the Schedule to the Bill. [More…]
Yet the Chief Judge of the Family Court has a salary which pushes her into a position in which she commands a much higher income than the first lawman in Australia, the nation ‘s Attorney-General. [More…]
The salary of a judge of the Family Court- I think there are 30 of them as I said before- is way ahead of that of a federal parliamentarian. [More…]
A magistrate in New South Wales, from recollection, gets as much as a Family Court judge does under this Bill- something in the vicinity of $36,000 a year. [More…]
The judges of the Family Court of Australia, whether they are judges or senior judges, work very hard. [More…]
The fact is that the work load in the Family Court is being kept down to a reasonable level because the judges are working at a very fast pace. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith also mentioned the Chief Judge of the Family Court. [More…]
I think there is a need to understand that the Chief Judge of the Family Court will soon be overseeing the largest court in this country. [More…]
The Family Court shortly, when those six judges are appointed, will be. [More…]
the largest single court in Australia- not concentrated in one place but spread over five States; requiring appellate work as well as original jurisdiction work; but, more than that, requiring the administration not only of judges but also of counsellors, registrars and other people connected with the Family Court. [More…]
The honourable member referred to the number of judges of the Family Court of Australia and presumably he was referring to the cost of the administration of them. [More…]
He was, and still is, an ardent supporter of the family law legislation and he has of course been an ardent supporter of Parliament. [More…]
After reading through the speech he made in this House on 22 March 1977, I should like to know whether perhaps he wants to tail down the family reunion aspects of our immigration policy. [More…]
Does he want to say to the Australian people who want to bring their relatives to Australia: ‘No, we are not prepared to have your prospective spouse or children or parents join you in this country; we are against family reunions’? [More…]
During his term of office the Minister has expanded the family reunion categories for immigration and allowed people who are bringing business skills, money and so on to Australia that will enable them to commence businesses in Australia, to be eligible under the criteria for entry to this country. [More…]
It is the breadwinner who counts principally in the family, although I appreciate the hardship to other unemployed persons. [More…]
Most migrants have a close family unit and, if the breadwinner is working, at least the family unit can be maintained. [More…]
The problems of family reunion and of getting people here who have friends are not peculiar to the Labor Party, the Liberal Party or the National Country Party. [More…]
But of the men, the major breadwinners in the family, the migrants are the least secure employees in the community. [More…]
Another group is made up of those who have family members in this country. [More…]
1 mean the whole range of family members. [More…]
This means that eligibility will continue to be based on family reunion, refugee status and specific skills. [More…]
Whilst some will send funds to their former countries to assist other family members or to repay expenses incurred prior to their departure, the majority bring substantial funds with them to Australia. [More…]
I join with Senator Ryan in another place in calling upon the Minister for the Capital Territory to review the POliCY and take into account child care payments by lone parents and also family size. [More…]
The ability to borrow and the ability to expand and become a big business instead of remaining a small business depends on the skill of the operator, often the dedication of that operators family and the ability to borrow money at the right terms to progress, to expand and to be successful. [More…]
One of my constituents affected by this omission, Mr Gerald M. Smith of Young Street, Seacliff, and his family are most distressed by the situation. [More…]
The rest of his family is also extensively involved in community activities. [More…]
I should also like to pay a mark of respect to Bing Crosby’s family. [More…]
I can inform him that many of us have long family connections as well as personal connections with primary industry. [More…]
I am one of the members on this side of the chamber who have had a long family connection and also a personal associaton with primary industry. [More…]
Sometimes it is possessed to the extent of selfishness, provides an outlet for frustration, and represents a large cost factor in the average family budget. [More…]
I realise that the pride of independence of owning one’s car and the thrill of keeping up with the models and possibly with the Jones family are allimportant out we must realise too that it is a national responsibility to reduce the toll on Australia’s roads today. [More…]
That was a somewhat more sensible time-table for a measure that would affect the lifestyle of every man, woman and dependant in a case where the family breadwinner relied on wages or salary for income. [More…]
Extension of eligibility for handicapped child’s allowance to less severe cases where the family income is low and financial hardship would otherwise be suffered. [More…]
Some family groups, few in number I am pleased to say, nave arranged for unrelated aged people who are expected not to live for any length of time, and who have little in the way of assets of their own, to set up multiple ‘shell’ trusts under a will for the benefit of members of the sponsor family. [More…]
On the death of the aged person, the family channels income into these trusts which, because they qualify as deceased estates, are outside the scope of the special rate of tax under section 99A. [More…]
Family allowances have not been indexed, so their real value has been sharply reduced. [More…]
The family allowance benefit is an outstanding example of this program. [More…]
Let us look back to the days of the Labor Government when we saw a redirection of every resource and a willingness of the Government to involve itself in every activity of an individual’s way of life, whether it was a corporate individual or a family. [More…]
There was a tremendous breakthrough when this Government gave massive increases of money by way of family allowances to the poor people, to the people who really need it. [More…]
Of that number the Roy Morgan Research Centre found that 70,000 people were the main breadwinners in a family, not the 300,000-odd people whom the honourable member for Gellibrand would have us believe. [More…]
I think they themselves have lost $2,000 and obviously their own family finances will be very much behind as a result. [More…]
Turning to the estimates relating to family law, I commend the Attorney-General for his statement that there will be a parliamentary committee to investigate the operations of the Family Law Act. [More…]
I link that comment to the estimate provided for the Family Law Council. [More…]
Family Planning Program Nursing Home Benefits Program [More…]
We know that legal aid, in proportional terms, has basically gone to people who are involved in family law matters. [More…]
I think that more than 80 per cent of the legal aid vote in fact goes to family law cases. [More…]
I and others have said that there is a great need to work out in this area some sort of lump sum fee that will, in effect, mean that the legal aid vote for family law will be spread amongst more people in need. [More…]
It is true that legal aid has been sent off in specialised directions and that many people who have ordinary cases of litigation are excluded from receiving it if they are not covered by such provisions as the Family Law Act. [More…]
Does that mean that if there are people in the Attorney-General’s Department whom the Government wants to move sideways for some reason or other can be made a judge of the Family Court? [More…]
-The matters which I wish to raise concerning the Family Law Act are of the utmost national importance. [More…]
Whilst the criticisms I intend to make of the working of the Act are very damning and worrying and ought to be of the gravest public concern, they are m no way a reflection upon the present Government or upon the administration of the Family Law Act by the present Attorney-General (Senator Durack) or his predecessor. [More…]
It has to be acknowledged that some fundamental mistakes were made when this Parliament passed the Family Law Act in its present form. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that while the Family Law Act remains in its present form with all the imperfections that can occur in the adrninistration of justice, some very tragic miscarriages of justice are likely to occur simply because of the way in which the Act was ultimately passed and because of the lack of consideration of some of the points that were made in the debate on the legislation when it was before Parliament. [More…]
They have become much clearer with the considerable delay that is being occasioned in New South Wales in particular as a result of the large number of cases that have to be dealt with and the propensity of litigants in family law matters still to want to have the questions of custody, maintenance and distribution of property dealt with. [More…]
In New South Wales she has that right under the Testators Family Maintenance Act. [More…]
I recommend very strongly to all legal practitioners and to all litigants who are at present exercising their rights under the Family Law Act that parties be not prepared to accept a decree of dissolution of their marriage until a court is also able to hear the ancillary questions of maintenance, custody and the distribution of property. [More…]
Of course the problem has been exacerbated by our writing out of the family law system in Australia the courts of petty sessions which have so expeditiously dealt with so many matters that are now ranting before the family law courts. [More…]
That matter might be helped if we were able to amend the Family Law Act to give courts of petty sessions jurisdiction to handle these matters. [More…]
Whilst the Attorney-General has today made additional appointments to the family law courts in Australia I do not believe this will overcome the problem I am speaking of. [More…]
I believe it has to be looked at in the context of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The report outlines the devastating impact of alcohol in some communities, including serious illnesses and injuries, accidents, fighting, neglect of family, promiscuity and the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal authority. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that the Bill (a) contains changes to the personal tax system which are regressive in nature and which will have little effect in stimulating economic activity, (b) repudiates the Government’s commitment to full tax indexation, (c) fails to take measures to alleviate the increase in family tax burdens which have arisen as a result of the Government’s failure to index family allowances, and (d) contains insufficient measures to counter tax avoidance practices ‘. [More…]
In the 1976 Budget, the Government introduced the system of family allowances to replace child endowment and tax rebates for dependent children. [More…]
This in itself was a worthwhile reform and was welcomed by the Opposition, although we did not want it done at the expense of so many deserving people who lost the family tax rebate. [More…]
However, to add insult to injury, failure to index those family allowances has meant a relative erosion of family incomes. [More…]
If the 1975-76 system of tax rebates and child endowment had continued and if the child rebate had been indexed in line with other rebates, thousands upon thousands of taxpaying families, the vast majority- in fact all on $240 a week or less, which I believe constitute about 80 per cent of tax-paying families- would be better off now than under the proposed tax scales we are now debating, plus the present family allowance. [More…]
The disadvantage under the family allowance system varies from $1.80 for a family with one child to $5.30 for a family with five children. [More…]
The introduction of the family allowance scheme praised by the Prime Minister as one of the greatest social reforms of the post-war period is largely a cleverly disguised tax rip-off. [More…]
Of course Mr Gittins was referring to the fact that family allowances have not been indexed. [More…]
This comparison reveals that a family with five children and an income of $200 a week will be over $6 a week worse off as a result of this Government’s tax changes. [More…]
On the other hand, a family with one child and an income of $400 a week will be over $7 a week better off. [More…]
The practice where some family groups arrange for an unrelated aged person who is not expected to live much longer and who has little in the way of assets to set up multiple ‘shell’ trusts under a will to the benefit of members of the sponsor family is to be curtailed by bringing such estates under the scope of section 99a, This closes a loophole which existed in antiavoidance legislation passed in 1964. [More…]
The Government wants to take great virtue in what it calls indexation but it has quietly forgotten to index family allowances. [More…]
I have no doubt that one of the promises that will be tossed up in this election by honourable members opposite will be that the Government, as from 10 December, has decided to index family allowances. [More…]
For the average family consisting of a husband, a wife and two children, this means an increase in income tax of $936 yearly since the Fraser Government promised to reduce taxation. [More…]
The Government’s halo in the area it calls ‘family reform’ is beginning to show distinct signs of tarnish. [More…]
Last year the Fraser Government made a rather more radical change to family incomes which it hailed, with typical modesty, as ‘one of this country’s most significant social reforms.’ [More…]
It abolished child rebates and instead significantly increased the rates of child endowment payments, which it renamed ‘family allowances.’ [More…]
It didn’t increase family allowances to allow for the effects ofinflation. [More…]
I put it to the Committee that the Labor Party has been right in criticising the Government for its failure to index family allowances, but I think it has been wrong in attributing to the Government a hardness of heart on this aspect. [More…]
In 1 976 the Government said that it would change the method of income tax rebates and family allowances so as to help the people in the community who were worse off. [More…]
Yet now, while nearly everything else in the Income Tax Assessment Act is being indexed, the family allowances are not. [More…]
I suggest that we should reinstate the allowance for children at a figure which would compensate for the change in price levels which have affected the real values of family allowances. [More…]
The effect of this amendment will be that there will be restored, in addition to the family allowance, an income tax rebate in respect of children. [More…]
That income tax rebate, at $50, is just about the amount that family allowances have been short changed by the rise in prices and the failure to adjust them. [More…]
This House, to its shame, for a long time has forgotten the real interests of the family man. [More…]
For years now this House has condemned, by its financial operations, the sanctity and integrity of the Australian family. [More…]
Alternatively I would regard this as a better course of action- the Government here and now should say that before the Parliament rises for the election, family allowances should be adjusted in line with the change in prices. [More…]
In particular, has the Treasurer or any of his family companies ever held land in conjunction with Mr Colin Cooke, Mr Paul Day or Mr Peter Leake at [More…]
Has the Treasurer informed the Prime Minister whether the Treasurer personally or any of his family companies has any joint interest in land with Mrs R. Hamer? [More…]
Some of my wife’s family hold shares in media companies. [More…]
I would add that the Federal Court of Australia Act and the Family Law Act each empowers the making of regulations to provide for fees payable in respect of proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia and in the Family Court of Australia and other courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act. [More…]
First it introduces significant improvements to the reversionary benefits arrangements of the defence forces retirement benefits and defence force retirement and death benefits schemesthose benefits which are extended to the family of a contributing or retired member upon his or her death. [More…]
I would add that the Federal Court of Australia Act and the Family Law Act each empowers the making of regulations to provide for fees payable in respect of proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia and in the Family Court of Australia and other courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act. [More…]
Furthermore, this House endorses the view that support for the continued viability of the family remains an integral prerequisite for the future welfare of this nation. [More…]
Further, is the vendor known personally to the Minister and his family and is it a fact that the vendor is that well-known supporter of the National Country Party, Mr John McDonald of Sale? [More…]
It is true that he has no interest, but his wife and his family have an interest. [More…]
When he has pressure put on him he will jump and do as he is told by the weaker member of the family. [More…]
At present questions are being asked in this chamber and in the Senate about a direct pecuniary interest, with family interests, particularly in country areas. [More…]
In proposed section 16, after paragraph (d) of sub-section ( 1 ) insert the following paragraph: ‘(da) to determine what standards should be observed in regard to programs which are likely to be viewed by children, having regard to the fact that radio and television sets are usually located in family rooms, where it is difficult for parents to maintain continuous supervision;’ [More…]
I think mention was made of the huge profits that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and his family are making from television. [More…]
Willesee revealed and the Leader of the House has never disputed and has never even sought to justify the fact that he signed documents that in two of his family companies there were misappropriations of a quarter of a million dollars in the last four years. [More…]
There is the extension of the eligibility for the handicapped child’s allowance to less severe cases where the family income is low and financial hardship would otherwise be suffered. [More…]
The Bill gives no indication of how the handicapped child’s allowance will be applied or how the Director-General will decide whether a particular instance causes severe financial hardship to the family. [More…]
The family situation, such as it exists m those cases, will obviously benefit. [More…]
What I find particularly unpleasant is the fact that the family allowance stops when the child leaves school. [More…]
The children have been entitled to a family allowance, depending on their position in the family, of at least $3.50 per week. [More…]
The other children then move into other positions and the family allowance drops. [More…]
There may be a sudden drop in income of $1 1 to $12 for that family, which is probably a very large proportion of the total income. [More…]
I cite the case of a family where both the husband and wife have been working and it would be a very low income family if only one person was working. [More…]
With both the husband and wife earning something of the order of $150 a week, the total family income would be approximately $300 a week, and probably around $260 a week after taxation. [More…]
This would be a quite reasonable income for that family. [More…]
That is a hell of a blow for that family and I am sure that none of us could survive for any length of time on that sort of income without drawing on our capital resources. [More…]
I realise that in some ways it contradicts some of my other arguments about school leavers, but I invite honourable members to compare the income of that family with the relatively high incomes of people such as ourselves who possibly have working wives. [More…]
When one of the children reaches the age of 16 or 18 years and leaves school, and after a period of six weeks has not found a job, that family, provided the child is under 18 years, will receive $36 a week, and if the child is over 1 8 years the family will receive, I think, $49.30 a week even though there is a parental income of $500, $600 or $700 a week. [More…]
We talk about the family unit in the sense of two spouses with a total income inasmuch as one or the other is entitled to a benefit, but the children are not taken into account. [More…]
But surely people here can see that possibily there is something wrong with our approach in the situation which I was talking about before, where a couple whose incomes drops suddenly from $260 or $280 a week to $140 is entitled to nothing, but the other family with no drop in income at all and with a boy or girl still at home, as he or she has been for the previous 18 years, will get from the state $49.30 a week I think it is, in unemployment benefits. [More…]
I say very quickly that I, Karen Green and her family deplore the political purpose to which her case has been put. [More…]
Family allowances, of course, are the direct descendants of such matters as child endowment and all the rest of it. [More…]
A young person leaving school today is going into a very tense personal family situation. [More…]
There are changes in the concept of the family. [More…]
The family is under greater threat because of easier divorce laws. [More…]
It is absolutely necessary that the father be able to arrange his affairs so that he is a full time guardian and custodian of the family. [More…]
If we believe, as I do, that the family has the main responsibility for socialising the next generation, is an important agent for social control, and provides a unique opportunity for the satisfaction of emotional needs, it should be understood that an incomplete family is likely to find it more difficult to carry out these functions. [More…]
It can thus be argued that if the community is prepared to take the responsibility of breadwinner for a single mother then it should also take the responsibility for the provision of a substitute mother when a father is prepared, at all costs, to keep his family together. [More…]
As I mentioned before, we all believe in the family unit. [More…]
I believe that as a result of this measure the family unit will be kept together, though perhaps not altogether satisfactorily and that this legislation is a move in the right direction. [More…]
They lose the family allowance for the child. [More…]
The family decided that the husband should be interred in Italy and his wife accompanied the body to Italy without filling in an application for widow s pension prior to leaving Australia. [More…]
She was under the impression, as was her family, that she was in fact in receipt of a pension. [More…]
When her family inquired why she was not receiving the pension they were informed that she was not eligible because she had left Australia before establishing eligibility by making the necessary application for a widow’s pension. [More…]
The Catholic Church has interpreted literally the direction to go into the world and preach the gospel to those who are in need of hearing the gospel, and family income is irrelevant. [More…]
It should also be appreciated that the Commonwealth has assisted with a cash flow to those settlers with children with the alteration of family allowances. [More…]
That must jar on the nerves of people who have emotional problems, people beset with the problems of rearing a family in a modern day and age with all amounts of pressures being exerted on them from economy, science and philosophy. [More…]
Frank Green always used to say either that he was going to ring up His Holiness, which meant that he was going to take VAT 69, or that he was going to pay his respects to the British Royal Family, which meant that he was going for a George IV. [More…]
To the hundreds, if not thousands, of Australian- like one family, the Campisi family- in my electorate who have worked for me in more ways than I shall ever know. [More…]
I do not want to be sentimental and talk about my family but at least they will see a little more of me in the future. [More…]
In addition to the proposal in part (3), what legislative changes does the Attorney-General propose to make to the Family Law Act to prevent children being taken out of jurisdiction. [More…]
Does the Government intend to set up a joint parliamentary committee to inquire into and report upon the effectiveness and the deficiencies of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The question of restricting other than through a Court order under the Family Law Act the right of persons to depart from Australia is the concern of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, as well as the Attorney-General. [More…]
Sections 64 and 70 of the Family Law Act already authorise a Court to order the passports of a child or any other person to be delivered up to the Court if there is a possibility of the removal of the child from Australia or the person has deliberately defied a custody or access order. [More…]
In view of these provisions and the provisions of the Migration Act to which the Minister for Foreign Affairs referred in his statement (see answer to ( 1 ) above), there are no plans to make other amendments to the Family Law Act pending any recommendations as a result of the further examination referred to in ( 3 ) above. [More…]
In a press release dated 23 September 1977 the Attorney-General stated that ‘he proposed that possibly next year, a parliamentary committee should review the Family Law Act to determine whether any changes to the broad principles of the Act should be made. [More…]
1 ) How many enforcement officers have been appointed to the Family Court [More…]
Will the Attorney-General give consideration to instructing the Commonwealth and/or State Police to locate actively children abducted by a spouse during the course of hearings associated with family break-down or in defiance of custody orders granted by a Court [More…]
No enforcement officers have been appointed to the Family Court of Australia pursuant to sub-section (12) of section 64 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Minister has advised that the Commonwealth Police will endeavour to locate children named in warrants issued under section 64 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Will he arrange, in conjunction with his colleagues, for the withdrawal of the passports of any citizen or citizens who appear before the Family Court in relation to child custody matters to ensure that children are not removed from jurisdiction. [More…]
All organisations and governmental authorities which deliver family welfare services will advise and assist lone fathers. [More…]
I can inform the honourable gentleman that a private company owned by a family trust, the beneficiaries of which are my wife and three children, and in respect of which I have no shares or beneficial interests and am not a director or trustee, made an investment in residential land when the Liberal and National Country parties were in Opposition. [More…]
In accordance with the Prime Minister’s instructions to Ministers concerning their pecuniary interests, details were provided in writing by me covering the family trust to which I have referred and its involvement in the above mentioned investment [More…]
What is the additional amount which has been collected in PA YE income tax instalments since the introduction of the new family allowances scheme and the discontinuance of the tax deduction for dependent children. [More…]
What is the expected expenditure during the year ended 30 June 1 977 under the family allowances scheme. [More…]
The total outlay on family allowances in the 1976-77 financial year was $ 1 ,027.2m. [More…]
This approval refers strictly to consignments of water imported for the personal use of the traveller and his family and does not extend to consignments which may, by virtue of quantities or for other reasons, be considered as being for commercial purposes. [More…]
Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Has the Treasurer informed him of the full nature of his financial interests and responsibilities as required by the Prime Minister in his statement to the House on 16 August 1977 (Hansard, page 9); if so, do the Treasurer’s disclosed interests include (a) the Treasurer or any of his family companies having held land in conjunction with either Mr Colin Cooke, Mr Paul Day or Mr Peter Leake at (i) Summerville or Mornington, (ii) in the Westernport region or (iii) on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria or (b) the Treasurer or any of his family companies having any joint interest in lands with Mrs R.Hamer. [More…]
Taxation: Evasion by Use of Family Trusts (Question No. [More…]
My people and I miss him and wish to express our sadness to his family. [More…]
We know that it was for family reasons that the honourable member was not present in the chamber this afternoon. [More…]
A month after polling day the first of the private funds increased its basic family contribution rate by 24 per cent. [More…]
Since the coalition came to office, every Australian family has experienced a progressive reduction in spending power. [More…]
I make one point quite clear on behalf of the Labor Party and honourable members on this side of the Parliament: Under no circumstances do we accept that the Government, in spite of its majority, has a mandate to extend proverty, has a mandate to extend unemployment, has a mandate to extend family breakups, or has a mandate to promote greater drug dependence in the community. [More…]
One can find similar impressive achievements in the area of social welfare: Family allowances, the supporting parent’s benefit and the indexation of pensions and benefits. [More…]
Husband and wife can work together for many years to buy a home and raise a family. [More…]
It is the affluent ones who in many cases have been putting 200 or more cattle in the name of each member of thenfamily so they can multiply this benefit accordingly. [More…]
If there are six members in the family each with 200 or more head, the family receives $12,000 instead of the $2,000 that a small operator might receive from this benefit. [More…]
An analysis of the data at that time- admittedly a broad analysis in terms of rates of taxation on average weekly earnings, forgetting certain social factors such as family size and so on- illustrates this point. [More…]
Whatever our problems with unemployment, we must always accept family reunion as an undeniable ground for migration to this country for those Australians, new or old, choosing to reunite their families here. [More…]
Before I launch into a discussion of the real issues let me say once again that, in calling for migration to be cut to the bone as happened under the Labor Government, we did not discourage family reunion and we did not stop political refugees seeking asylum in this country. [More…]
I say that explicitly because I have been misinterpreted and people have felt that I was saying that there should be no family reunion. [More…]
He said that there would not be an opportunity for family unity and for jobs to be found within the family and within the local businesses which the family operates. [More…]
They stood for family unity, help for Italians, Greeks and all people coming here and help for them to establish their lives in this country. [More…]
I rely on memory as to the content of that statement but succinctly the reasons were: Firstly, that Indonesian control is effective and covers all major administrative centres; secondly, that it is necessary to press on expeditiously with the question of family reunion; thirdly, that it is necessary to do the same with the rehabilitation of Timor; and fourthly, that to carry out the last two matters in particular we need to have more extensive direct dealings with the Indonesian Government as the authority in effective control. [More…]
Family reunion must proceed as soon as possible. [More…]
He turned to work at an early age to support his family after the death of his parents. [More…]
It is not possible for a Minister in the interests of his own family to exploit young married couples trying to buy their first block of land. [More…]
He used a family trust company to maximise profit by minimising tax, using the trust- a popular form of tax dodge, a form he himself condemned in the 1977 Budget Speech. [More…]
A number of people who live in rural areas should not have to leave those areas because of the local situation where they have built their home and have their social and family friends. [More…]
At present the only unskilled people who are being admitted are some of those who qualify under the family reunion or the refugee criteria. [More…]
A lot of women feel a great pressure on themselves that modern society somehow expects them to be unfulfilled unless they are out doing something else rather than the traditional role of being a mother and raiser of the family. [More…]
The family and Sir John had a strong Labor background. [More…]
In Britain and I think we could say in Australia- mainly determined by family firms. [More…]
I thank also my wife and family for being able to put up with and to tolerate some of the problems that they definitely encounter as a politician’s wife and family. [More…]
111 health, family problems and so on are important factors in whether the elderly remain happy in the twilight of their lives. [More…]
In travelling up to Canberra the Sunday before last, my family and I stopped at a suburb in Melbourne to attend mass. [More…]
Family problems, health problems, et cetera distract them from happiness. [More…]
The difficulties of raising a family today are increasing. [More…]
I think it is evident by the number of marriage break-ups, family break-ups, et cetera, that are occurring in Australia today. [More…]
Family and friends often are not able to provide much assistance and the problem must become a community responsibility in order to minimise the changes forced upon the children. [More…]
My family recently placed an advertisement in the Land newspaper and in the Goulburn newspaper for a farm manager and, in the entire readership of the Goulburn district and in the area covered by the Land newspaper, there were five applications for the position. [More…]
In a report tabled in the Parliament today it was acknowledged that of all our institutions the family is the most influential in terms of human relationships. [More…]
There is no doubt that the family has a high standing in our social and political rhetoric. [More…]
Most lament the deteriorating state of the family in Western society. [More…]
The main focus of the report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships sees the principal purpose of the family as providing for the care and upbringing of the children. [More…]
However, the family has been stripped and is still being stripped of many of its functions- its responsibility for the education of young children; its responsibility to provide the socialising experience for young children; its role in the past as a productive unit; its functions and responsibility to be the unit that conveys social values to young children; and its responsibility to provide to its members some measure of economic security. [More…]
Many of these roles have been taken away from the family; yet Australians want the family to have an increased responsibility in the areas to which I have referred. [More…]
In debates on social policies, the family as a social unit is often lost from view. [More…]
Governments generally ignore the existence of the family. [More…]
Their approach to the family has been one of laissez faire. [More…]
I believe that there is an urgent need to develop a national family policy. [More…]
I was most encouraged that those of us in the community and in the Parliament who have been urging that something be done in this direction were able to read today in Volume 4 of the report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships that the Commission is of the view that the Government should initiate a national family policy. [More…]
As a nation we have been failing the family. [More…]
Without a conscious family policy we leave a great deal to chance. [More…]
There is an urgent need for Australia to have a positive and coherent approach to the family. [More…]
Competition between the individual and the state and concentration on self-fulfilment have resulted in the family being left out of the public debate. [More…]
Movement in this direction will continue unless the needs for the family are recognised, and recognised urgently. [More…]
The time has come for us to embrace values more supportive of the family. [More…]
If preachers are not to be believed, and politicians are not to be trusted and society as a whole is a jumble of lies and tricks then the family may still be the best bet available and may be even better than being liberated into loneliness. [More…]
It is a matter of regret and deep concern that government policies have rarely taken account of the needs of the family. [More…]
Indeed policies often have an impact contrary to the interests of the family. [More…]
Wages, taxation, education, employment, social security and many other policies are and should be used, in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘to protect the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’. [More…]
The increasing number of twoincome families makes it imperative that we decide whether women with family responsibilities should be able, if they so wish, to remain within the home to bring up their children. [More…]
These policies must ensure that the standard of living of a family with children and a single income does not compare unfavourably with that of twoincome families and of single men and women. [More…]
The Government now makes provision for dependent children through family allowances. [More…]
The introduction of family allowances has been welcomed by some people as an essential start to a family support system. [More…]
Unless increased family allowances and adequate parent allowances are provided, those mothers who wish to look after their young children have no choice but to seek paid employment. [More…]
In 1976 the tax rebates for dependent children were superseded by increased child endowment payments which were renamed ‘family allowances’. [More…]
In spite of continuing inflation family allowances were not adjusted last year and, though indexed, the tax rebate was not increased to remove the tax disadvantage of the single income family. [More…]
The Government should not use the fixed money value of family allowances as a means of raising additional resources to provide for other needs. [More…]
Family allowances should be indexed. [More…]
If one takes account of the movement in prices one would see that there was a saving to the Government last year of $ 1 1 4m as a result of the failure to adjust family allowances. [More…]
The Government should apply to itself in relation to family allowances the principles it has applied in the area of taxation. [More…]
If it wants to reduce the real value of family allowances it should do so explicity and not by allowing inflationary movements in prices to erode the value of those allowances. [More…]
Indexing family allowances at their present levels would not provide families with the support that they need. [More…]
In Australia we are a long way from the optimal tax treatment of the family. [More…]
We tax the individual and give limited recognition to family responsibilities through tax rebates for dependent spouses and family allowance payments for dependent children. [More…]
At present our tax system is neither equitable nor neutral so far as the family is concerned. [More…]
The tax now payable by a single income two-parent family is substantially greater than the tax payable by two individuals each earning half the income. [More…]
In fact, in many instances the additional tax burden placed upon the single income family is more than $600 a year or $10 a week. [More…]
This applies to a family where the mother is providing support for her family and children at home. [More…]
Some would argue that the household economies available to a family make the heavier tax burden on the family justifiable. [More…]
Also many two-parent families with two incomes pay less tax on the same aggregate income than a single income family. [More…]
The tax liability on families, especially those with young children, should be independent of the proportions in which the income is received by the family. [More…]
I am of the view that we must identify what Australians want as family goals. [More…]
Only then will other policies be analysed to ensure that they are not inconsistent with the attainment of these family goals. [More…]
To ensure that Government proposals are reviewed from the point of view of their effect on family life, we should do what many have urged and what the Royal Commission on Human Relationships has recommended. [More…]
We should require that all Government legislation that is likely to have an effect on the viability of families is subjected to a family impact statement. [More…]
I sum up my remarks this evening in this way: I urge the Government to initiate a national family policy. [More…]
I want it to convene a conference on families to assist in the development of a national family policy. [More…]
I also urge the Government to require all Ministers and all departments to prepare family impact statements so that the effect of decisions by those departments on family circumstances can be properly analysed and taken into account before final decisions are taken. [More…]
The Government should recognise the urgent need both to index and substantially to increase family allowances. [More…]
This survey concentrated on heads of households, predominantly males, so the figures are likely to be worse for other family members. [More…]
He suggests that we should- I think I am using his words- cut immigration to the bone but in doing so we should continue the family reunion and refugee categories. [More…]
He says that we should have fewer unskilled and semi-skilled people coming to Australia but that at the same time we should maintain the family reunion and refugee categories which are the only categories under which some unskilled and semi-skilled people are being admitted. [More…]
The present intake is made up of 29 per cent in the family reunion category; 10 per cent in the refugee category; 6 per cent approved on compassionate and humanitarian — ,.~.A~. [More…]
The greatest concern that is expressed to me by my constituents as I walk around talking with them is the breakdown in family life. [More…]
My electors are also concerned about the family law as it exists at the moment. [More…]
They cannot necessarily be blamed on the family law. [More…]
I suppose that the endemic problem may have existed for years before that law came in, but the new Family Law Act has enabled marriages to break up easily. [More…]
It is a most unfortunate and terrible situation that a wife can walk out on her husband, leave him with two or three children, go off with somebody else and then a very short time afterwards divorce proceedings can be instituted and carried through, resulting in the compulsory selling up of the family home and the division of the proceeds. [More…]
I think that the Family Law Act is a complete failure. [More…]
If we do not we will have more and more family breakdowns, and my files and the files of other honourable members will be filled with stories of unhappy people. [More…]
I must say at the beginning that, although I often disagree with the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr), I agree with him that family life is essential for the fabric of the Australian people. [More…]
I thank my wife and family for all the help they have given me. [More…]
How can the family man and the working woman, majority of Australians, live under these conditions? [More…]
I make one point quite clear on behalf of the Labor Party and honourable members on this side of the Parliament: Under no circumstances do we accept that the Government in spite of its majority, has a mandate to extend poverty, has a mandate to extend unemployment, has a mandate to extend family breakups, or has a mandate to promote greater drug dependence in the community. [More…]
Today the two-child family is the standard, and that is insufficient even to maintain our present population. [More…]
-The platform and philosophy of the Government parties strongly emphasise the importance of the family as a cohesive force in society and as one of the most important elements in society. [More…]
The Government does take into account the effect on the family of a number of its policies. [More…]
Indeed, a number of its policies have been designed quite specifically to enhance the family. [More…]
I refer to the family allowance scheme, the supporting parents’ benefit and the new policies of” expanding the domiciliary care benefit and helping those families which have a handicapped member, which are designed to relieve the additional burdens on the parents of handicapped children so that their financial costs will not be greater than those of parents who have normal children. [More…]
I instance those policies to emphasise the importance the family does take in our thinking and the development of our policies. [More…]
The 131 recommendations of the Commission on the family situation will receive particularly keen examination by the Government and, I hope, also by the public at large. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Sturt does well to draw attention in particular to those elements of the report designed to enhance the family and the wellbeing and status of the family in Australia. [More…]
The Government believed that he had earned the right to serve this nation quietly, at peace with himself, at peace with the nation, at peace with his family. [More…]
Sir John Kerr, once having discharged his duty to the nation under the most difficult circumstances, has no wish to continue as the centre of public dispute, making it impossible for him and his family to live the normal life to which we are all entitled. [More…]
That is the feelings of my wife and family, who with me have had to withstand the vilification and attack for pan of my term as Governor-General, and now in prospect through a term as Ambassador to UNESCO. [More…]
To be an ambassador, constantly pilloried, constantly in the public glare, who had his family placed under intolerable stress, was something that he did not want; he deserved better. [More…]
This is a booming family participation sport and it has enormous tourist attraction. [More…]
Despite the arguments that take place, it does not matter whether the national wage hearings are quarterly, half-yearly or annual: If real wages continue to be cut in the way they have been in the last two years, if petrol prices continue to increase in the manner in which they have increased and continue to be ignored by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission as being relevant to the cost of living increases that ought to be passed on to wage and salary earners, if the Government continues with its threat to abolish Medibank and thus thrusts up health insurance costs by what we believe will be about $ 1 9 a week per family, there will not be any consumer led recovery. [More…]
Many of the people who moved into the second car family field, particularly at the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, became consumers of the small imported car. [More…]
We do not care how much you are earning, what sort of car you like or how large is your family. [More…]
This one man dynasty is worthy of being ranked with the Bonapartes, the Harmsworths and the Coles family. [More…]
It has done that by the introduction of family allowance, tax indexation and the new standardised tax system which began operating on 1 February. [More…]
I understand that through his family trust- it is quite legitimate- he has commercial interests in Canberra and the passing of this legislation would be in his interests. [More…]
I believe that the full implementation of a federalist policy will help to bring people together in the old sense of family and village. [More…]
We are told by church leaders that the consequences of the present intolerable numbers of registered jobless will be family breakdown, child abuse, mental and physical illness, alcoholism and, again, crime. [More…]
For example, a single income family on average weekly earnings- which are about $205- with repayments set at 25 per cent of income, could borrow about $2 1 ,000 at the permanent building society interest rate of 12 per cent, to be repaid over 25 years. [More…]
A half per cent drop in interest rates would enable this family to borrow about $21,700, an increase of $700. [More…]
A house is the biggest single investment or expenditure item in the lifetime of any family. [More…]
It is an important item to that family. [More…]
In order to receive a housing grant for a family dwelling the bread winner’s income, excluding overtime, must not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
It is a serious burden for a farming family to have to go into debt as a result of incurring the losses which are now so universal throughout the rural sector. [More…]
There is no doubt now that there is a serious risk of many farmers and family business people being in a situation where they will be seriously disadvantaged financially as a result of those arrangements and the curious approach by the Taxation Commissioner, although these duties are now being removed. [More…]
Any person so detained is held incommunicado and therefore denied access to family, legal advisers and independent medical practitioners. [More…]
Also reported in that newspaper was a version of what happened by Colonel Pieter Goosen, the head of the Port Elizabeth security police, whose version was challenged by Biko’s family. [More…]
Either we take those additional taxes from the rich and poor alike, which is clearly regressive and which will bring about a situation in which we are taxing a large family with modest earnings to provide a pension for a wealthy widow who is quite capable of attending to her own needs, or we tax the rich alone- we would have to tax them at very high levels- in order to hand the moneys back to them. [More…]
Should we perhaps be looking hard at means testing the family allowance? [More…]
He needs constant supervision by his family. [More…]
I am pleased to say that his family has not asked him to go into a nursing home. [More…]
I am pleased to be able to say that his family is looking after him. [More…]
Senator Durack referred to the Family Court. [More…]
As he pointed out, fees payable in the Family Court are not paid by those who receive legal aid in that Court. [More…]
But, as I have indicated, there is a specific provision with regard to the Family Court that a person receiving legal aid does not pay court fees. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table that compares the net incomes of families under the dependant rebate and family allowance schemes. [More…]
I turn now to family allowances. [More…]
It has indexed everything under the sun with the exception of pensioner dependant allowances and family allowances. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which sets out what the family allowances would be if they were indexed. [More…]
The impending and long overdue abolition of Commonwealth probate and estate duty will not only be of great advantage to the entire nation but also will lift forever from the shoulders of small businessmen, family operations and primary producers an intolerable yoke and burden which has weighed them down for far too many years. [More…]
This Government has been generous in introducing the family allowance which is designed to help those people who have young families. [More…]
Large family companies which are pregnant with profits are obliged by law to distribute these profits as dividends to shareholders or bear tax on undistributed profits at the rate of 50 per cent. [More…]
Family trusts have been used for many years by wealthy taxpayers to avoid their tax liability. [More…]
As a result of higher rates of company tax, it has now become fashionable for businesses to be transferred from companies to family trusts. [More…]
Probably it is asking too much to expect the Government to take effective action against family trusts in order to minimise tax avoidance. [More…]
Honourable members opposite make full use of the family trust to conduct business on land speculation. [More…]
One can only wonder how many other members of the Government have family trusts to avoid taxation and have a vested interest in seeing that any legislation to rectify the rip-off is obstructed or that it is toothless. [More…]
I suggest that whilst she is not eligible under the family reunion provisions of the Government’s immigration scheme, she should be eligible under the retirement provisions. [More…]
He replied to me that the Vietnamese had reached agreement with a number of other countries on family reunions. [More…]
I refer the Minister for Industry and Commerce to an answer that the Prime Minister gave on 2 March to a question regarding the release of the full details of the family business interests of the honourable member for Flinders. [More…]
If it was his decision, when will he carry out his promise made to the Australian community on 18 November last year to provide full details of his family business interests? [More…]
I hope that, in the ensuing three years, our Government will have a good, hard look at immigration on the basis of a wider family re-union. [More…]
I say this: Turn on the taps of immigration at a moderate rate so that we can have family re-union and so that we can have skilled workers and some unskilled workers. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland has mineral leases through which he and his family have become fabulously rich by speculation. [More…]
It affects our population, our family policies and our immigration programs. [More…]
Two hundred or more people went to see one family off. [More…]
In fact the family that the 200 people saw off were the people at Maningrida who did all the work. [More…]
No more or less does living within one’s means apply equally to government, the home owner, the family man or the individual. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland opposed the repatriation of people who had been imported into Queensland to work sugar plantations in which, of course, the Philp family was interested. [More…]
The second stage of the promised abolition, which relates to all duties on estates of persons who died on or after 1 July 1979 and on gifts made on or after that date, also will be of very great significance to the Australians who have an interest and a desire in the field of private enterprise to sustain a business or to sustain a family enterprise of some kind which would otherwise face the strains and the dilemma of finding funds to keep it operative after a deathperhaps an unexpected death or that sort of thing. [More…]
Even during that election campaign we found that his time was somewhat taken up in investigating family trusts. [More…]
It certainly creates problems in their family life if they do not have understanding wives and children. [More…]
The enrolled families would also be required to submit biweekly health reports to the project, i.e., brief questionnaires that collect information on use of health care, self-perceived health status of the family and other indicators. [More…]
Preliminary estimates suggest that the unit cost of each family’s enrolment in the project would be the sum of the average premiums paid for health insurance at the moment plus whatever additional benefits are included in each Experimental Plan. [More…]
Under the present financing arrangements for health costs, patients often do not give any more real attention to the expenditure of, say, $9 on the provision of professional services for themselves or their children than they would give to spending $9 on going to a McDonald’s restaurant with the family for an evening meal rather than having it at home. [More…]
This is an unfortunate thing, because the provision of health services for a family is one of the most serious expenditures that any family should approach. [More…]
The future need as regards health services is something that each family should sit down and think about in a very responsible manner. [More…]
The third point with which I find a great deal of disagreement is the canvassing of the so-called deductible system where contributors may be asked to pay a certain fixed amount of the total medical costs for an individual or a family for the year. [More…]
I believe that the concern in the community arises from the level of contributions being paid yearly by individuals- that is, the family- at a base of $300 for contributors to Medibank and, of course, some $400 to $550 for contributors to private health insurance funds. [More…]
I believe that contributors, particularly the young Australian family, look at the number of times they attend doctors in a 12 month period and relate the number and cost of consultations to the annual contribution they must make to Medibank or the private health insurance fund. [More…]
Acquisition of one vehicle only per family is permitted in each two year period for all categories of staff other than the Head of Mission, his Deputy and officers of Minister rank who have a limit of two vehicles. [More…]
1) (a) $3,583,500-of this total $2,120,700 was spent on overseas staff transfers, excess baggage, travelling allowance, accommodation costs, family reunions, compassionate travel and Head of Mission leave and consultations. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The diplomatic and consular communities in Australia, including family members, total more than 2,000 persons. [More…]
In addition, I announced, in August 1 977, the introduction of an incentive allowance of $70 per week to be paid under the Family Medicine Program to medical graduates who choose to train as general practitioners in rural areas. [More…]
What progress has been made in implementing recommendations contained in reports of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, in particular (a) the encouragement of discussion by their organisations of interrelationships among professionals and their disciplines, their registration standards, and delegation of functions to purpose-trained aides and other support staff, (b) the provision of specific grants for initiating training for ail members of health teams, study leave and community health training, (c) the involvement of States, academic and professional organisations in discussion of interdisciplinary training, (d) the exploration of the concept of multi-purpose ‘ health aides, (e ) the definition of limits of responsibility of different health workers in varying situations and geographic settings, (f) a greater community involvement in identifying and meeting needs, (g) encouragement to applicants for community health funds, (h) the maintenance of the Federal share of 75 percent capital and 90 percent running costs pending review of Federal/ State relations, up to 100 per cent funding for approved national projects, and providing legislation as a formal basis for the Community Health Program, (i) the development with the States of standard evaluation procedures and administrative details of devolved responsibilities (j) the priority of projects indicating evaluation and feedback procedures when applying for funding, (k) the transfer of paramedical and home nursing funding to the Community Health Program, co-ordination of this program with home care and handicapped persons assistance and family planning funding, and inclusion in the program of services operating before 1 July 1973, (1) family planning training for community health workers, (m) hospital management links with community services, (n) the placement of more emphasis on health hostels, health education, promotion and training under the community health program, (o ) the implementation of the report on Health Transport Policies for Australia, and (p) funding rural health training, location incentives and continuing education for isolated professionals. [More…]
Vocational training for general medical practice, the cornerstone of personalised health care delivery in the community, is provided throughout Australia by the Family Medicine Program which operates and is funded as a national project. [More…]
1 ) Family planning services in one form or another are already being provided from most general community health centres, and family planning training for community health workers is an integral part of in-service training in such cases. [More…]
One of the basic objectives of the Family Medicine Program, a major national project funded under the Community Health Program, is the encouragement of improved general practitioner services in rural areas. [More…]
The Family Medicine Program also invites general practitioners to attend training sessions for its trainees, often in country areas, as a means of providing general practitioners with opportunities to obtain refresher knowledge. [More…]
The payment of family allowances as opposed to the old system of tax deductions, which helped the wealthy as opposed to the poor, was one of the most significant social advances in alleviating poverty in the less well-off sections of the Australian community that this country has seen in all the years since Federation. [More…]
The effects of long term unemployment find their way through to all members of a family. [More…]
Family stability is threatened. [More…]
We already have gathering and growing evidence that problems, such as the level of suicide, the level of illness and the level of family stress may be directly related to growth in unemployment. [More…]
They are worth so little that anyone who flies on a private aircraft should think not twice, but three, four or five times, about his interests and the interests of the members of his family because these insurance policies are so inadequate that they do not give the protection which should be given. [More…]
I refer the Minister for Industry and Commerce to a statement he made last year as Deputy Leader of the Federal Liberal Party about a three stage land development project at Balnarring, Victoria, involving his family companies. [More…]
Often this move involves the teacher living away from his own family. [More…]
As Sunday evening is an especially popular time for family viewing, will the Minister take action to suspend that episode or at least have the offending segment deleted? [More…]
The reason why I am giving those alternative figures is that I do not think the Government has made up its mind whether the amount will be applied on a contributor basis or to the individual member of a family. [More…]
We introduced the States Grants (Dwellings for Pensioners) Act, the aged or disabled persons accommodation program, the Aged Persons Hostels Amendment Act and the family allowance scheme. [More…]
The family allowance scheme is one of the greatest benefits of all time to the Australian family. [More…]
When we came into office we introduced almost immediately the family allowance scheme. [More…]
A family of four people receives $20.50 per week. [More…]
That money goes to the wife of the family to look after the children. [More…]
I will go no further than saying that since this Government came to power the movement in relations with the People’s Republic of China has been most significant in regard both to the cultural agreements that we have discussed and to family reunion, consular agreements and other matters. [More…]
Again I return to the point that in this prepared statement the people of Australia were told on behalf of the former Treasurer that this was a simple commercial transaction with his family trust company, and that he was not directly involved himself. [More…]
He had negotiated with Grosvenor Nominees to act as a financier, understanding it to be connected to the Lynch family in some way. [More…]
The then Treasurer, through his family trust company, entered into speculative land deals with a company whose principal had inside knowledge of future planning policy. [More…]
I believe that the statements which I will produce to the chamber shortly demonstrate that not only was there no undue delay but also there was no omission by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in his presentation of facts in order to maintain the integrity of himself and his family against the assertions made. [More…]
That statement said, inter aiia, that the partners were not aware of any transaction that, in their opinion, cast doubt on the integrity of myself, my wife, or any other members of my family. [More…]
They were referring to my colleague and his family- have been associated that, in their opinion, casts doubt on the integrity of the Rt Hon. [More…]
P. R. Lynch, his wife, or any other members of his family. [More…]
In particular the documents and correspondence do not disclose that the Treasurer or his family interests have been involved in any transaction which in our opinion is improper, reprehensible or illegal, nor that they obtained any advantage from the transactions, pecuniary or otherwise, which might not have been obtained by any private citizen in the management of his own affairs. [More…]
on the facts available to him from documents supplied and from information made available from Irish, Young and Outhwaite, and Mallesons, that nothing has been done by Mr Lynch or his family which was illegal, commercially improper or represented a conflict between his or their private interests and Mr Lynch ‘s public duties as a Minister of the Crown . [More…]
It is, however, the worst possible budgetary policy for an economy in which the average wage earner has already experienced a decline in his family spending power over the last 2’A years of $12 a week. [More…]
The one he had his family lived in did not. [More…]
I am sure that a large section of the community will be delighted to see the end of this impost, which for a long time has been causing serious problems in relation to family arrangements, particularly on the death of a member of a family conducting a small business. [More…]
Requirements for the lodgment of estate duty returns are to be changed to reflect the ultimate abolition of estate duty and the interim family exemption proposals. [More…]
We are talking about a company called Connair Pty Ltd, a family called Connellan and the great privileges they have been given by supporters of the National Country Party of Australia. [More…]
These include the investment allowance, the trading stock valuation adjustment, the increased retention allowance for private companies, tax indexation, the tax cuts that were introduced on 1 February this year, and the recent abolition of estate and gift duty, which is of tremendous benefit to small family businesses and rural enterprises. [More…]
Small business today employs something of the order of two million people, with a further three million family dependants and so on who rely on the operations of small business. [More…]
Family businesses, many of which in the past have had their very existence threatened by the untimely death of one or more of their principals, will appreciate the significance of this initiative. [More…]
Family Law Act 1975, section 121 [More…]
employees, employers, self-employed persons and unpaid family helpers) in manufacturing are derived from labour force surveys, which have been conducted only in February, May, August and November of each year. [More…]
Notes: 1(a) includes some family members other than the principal applicant. [More…]
1 (b) and 1 (c) both consist of family members other than the principal applicant. [More…]
With the exception of the land on which my own house stands, I have never at any time bought land, sold land, owned land, or been involved even remotely in the purchase, sale or ownership of land either at Craigieburn or at any other place, and neither has any other member of my family been so involved. [More…]
The Government ‘s exploitation of family health insurance having the effect of imposing taxation by stealth. [More…]
His stand was vindicated, and his courage in the face of threats and actual violence, both to himself and his wife and family, should be applauded by all those who cherish the great ideals for which our Diggers gave their all. [More…]
In another Parliament of which I was a member for 15 years, not once in the political cut and thrust of debate was a man’s family- his children or his wife- ever brought into a debate. [More…]
It is sad that a man can spend 17 years in Parliament dealing with probably some of the best representatives of the Liberal Party of Australia and he has to come to the national Parliament in order to find this sort of attack being made not upon himself but upon a member of his family. [More…]
There are people and families involved, families which have a minimal chance to lead the normal life that another family would lead and which, therefore, need to be in a position where housing is readily available. [More…]
The Premier has made misleading statements not only on this matter but also in regard to his family’s mining interests, when he was confronted with documentary evidence that his statements were incorrect and deliberately misleading. [More…]
Australian people and that an ageing population growing at zero growth is not in the best interests of this country’s contribution to the prosperity of its own people and the South East Asian region and that, therefore, policies be adopted concerning immigration and the Australian family, which remedy the present trend of events having regard to the development, employment and social justice obligations of Government. [More…]
The first is that an Australian family policy ought to accompany a migration policy. [More…]
It is not a matter of demonstrating a relationship between family allowance or family assistance and fertility. [More…]
It is a matter of justice as between the child born to an Australian family and the child born overseas who is to be a migrant to this country. [More…]
We know that the nature of the changeover from the tax rebate scheme to the family allowance scheme was first class, putting that money directly into the hands of the mother. [More…]
I merely say: Consider justice as between an Australian family and a migration program. [More…]
After all, this is a government whose leaders have openly admitted that they have family trusts, which are nothing more than tax avoiding arrangements, and whose ex-Treasurer, whilst threatening to take action against taxation avoidance, was revealed to have been minimising his tax liabilities through the device of a family trust. [More…]
I think it is entirely appropriate for people to have family trusts. [More…]
With the Prime Minister of the country openly advocating the use of a device to reduce income tax by sharing business income with members of the family and to reduce estate duty, is it any wonder that tax avoiders have felt free to go hell for leather? [More…]
Family trusts are included as an example of these tax avoidance schemes. [More…]
We had an example of the use of family trusts given to us by the former Treasurer, the present Minister for [More…]
Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), who himself engaged in a family trust to avoid taxation. [More…]
The chief tax gatherer of the nation, the man who made sure that he had wrung every single penny of tax out of the ordinary person, was engaging in a tax avoidance scheme in his own financial affairs, by the use of a family trust. [More…]
Mr Prime Minister, do your private family companies and private family trusts have the effect of lowering the rate of income tax that you pay? [More…]
Mr Fraser: Family trusts are designed to help keep the family’s assets together, yes. [More…]
That was an admission by the Prime Minister that he is utilising these family trusts to reduce the amount of tax that he pays. [More…]
It is right that I should make a declaration of pecuniary interest, for as one of those who is moderately well off, I should say exactly where I stand with regard to these sorts of schemes and retrospectively I have no pecuniary interest of any kind, nor does any member of my family, in any of the schemes that are now before the House or will come before the House. [More…]
The fellow from Chifley who spoke wanted not only retrospectivity in taxation, but also to abolish family trusts. [More…]
One honourable gentleman opposite said that he would not only backdate retrospectivity, but would introduce it in relation to family trusts. [More…]
Family trusts are designed to protect the family alone and not to be an avoidance type scheme. [More…]
If we want confidence, if we want predictability in business, if we want to sustain democracy, if we want to ensure that those methods which protect the family interest are upheld, we must not introduce retrospectivity. [More…]
The Opposition has made some comments in connection with family trusts. [More…]
Family trusts only blossomed because of the inequitable tax scales imposed upon the taxpaying public during the period of the Labor Government. [More…]
That is where the real family trust situation came about. [More…]
After all, the Labor Government had a similar period of three years in which to move if they had so wanted against the Pitt Street farmers, family trusts and so many other things. [More…]
If this is to be a Government of low taxation, it must be a Government that looks at the taxation loopholes and tries to plug up the inequitable ones in order to cut down on the taxation paid by the average man in this country who we believe should be allowed to make a quid for the benefit of his family. [More…]
If any arrangement had or was calculated to result directly or indirectly in the type of tax advantage described in the lettered sub-clauses of the section, the Commissioner should have the right to disregard it for taxation purposes, unless the arrangement was an ordinary business transaction creating rights or obligations that would normally be created between business people dealing at arm ‘s length in a transaction of the nature in question and effected by means normally employed in such a transaction, or was made in the ordinary course of making or changing an investment, or was a bona fide arrangement of a person’s or a family’s affairs, and the Commissioner was satisfied that the arrangement was not entered into solely or primarily for the purpose of obtaining the tax advantage or that one of its main objectives was to obtain the tax advantage. [More…]
Every person has a duty on behalf of his family and himself to avoid the amount of tax that he can avoid. [More…]
The former Treasurer avoided tax on these gains by resorting to the old ploy of family trusts. [More…]
There are several people on the Government side of the House who confess to employing family trusts to minimise or avoid taxation. [More…]
What has been his response to representations made to him on 28 October 1977 by the NSW Local Government Community Workers’ Association in which concern and dismay was expressed about the drastic curtailment of funding for the following Government responsibilities: (a) welfare workers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, (b) Family Law Court Counselling Service, (c) education programs, including after school care, child care and other family care programs, and migrant classes for adults, (d) health care services including community health centres, domiciliary care services and women’s health centres, (e) unemployment and unemployment relief schemes, (0 housing, in particular housing for the aged and invalid people, (g) pension and benefit reductions in real values and proposed transfers of responsibility for these, (h) 470 community programs funded under the Australian Assistance Plan, (i) programs for the handicapped, (j) the Legal Aid Commission Bill, (k) Aboriginal affairs, (1) grant in aid services for migrants and interpreter services, (m) Australian Government printing services, (n) national co-ordinating bodies for youth affairs, (o) women ‘s refuges subsidies reductions and (p) Australian Bureau of Statistics processing. [More…]
A reduction to 15 per cent would mean about $600 less being spent on the purchase of a family car. [More…]
I would never have been able to participate in it, nor would I have permitted my family to do so. [More…]
Direct and indirect taxation is based on principles which will ensure maximum benefits to taxpayers with family responsibilities and those in low-income groups. [More…]
We believe many loopholes should be closed such as family trusts, the averaging system and so on. [More…]
That is the practice of the Prime Minister avoiding tax via family trusts. [More…]
First, it can be paid for by the individual or his family incurring the expense; in other words, the sick user pays. [More…]
Possibilities canvassed during the last week in the newspapers include that the gap between what the doctor charges and what patients receive from either Medibank or private funds will rise from 1 5 to either 20 or 25 per cent; the hospital charges will increase by up to 50 per cent and that, to cover this, hospital insurance for private ward treatment will rise by about $2.80 a week per family; that many long-term elderly patients in public hospitals will be covered only for nursing home benefits, rather than for hospital benefits, which means that they will be contributing a substantial sum from their own pockets; that the subsidy of $ 16 a day per bed for private hospital patients will be abolished; that bulk billing will be abolished; and that health insurance funds will be able to offer cheaper medical benefits insurance for people prepared to pay up to the first $150 a year of doctors’ charges from their own pockets. [More…]
I would like to take this opportunity to remind honourable members of the fraud associated with replacing our system of tax rebates and child endowment with the family allowance scheme. [More…]
But now every taxpaying family with children is much worse off than it was under Labor. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which compares the rates paid to tax paying families under the family allowance scheme with those paid under the tax rebate and child endowment arrangements. [More…]
Under indexation the child rebate in 1977-78 would have been at least $250 per child- that is $4.82 per child per week for a taxpaying family calculated on the basis of indexing $200 by 13 per cent in 1976-77 and by 10.9 per cent in 1977-78. [More…]
We see from the table that every tax paying family is worse off. [More…]
The tax rebate which has now been lost in respect of a family with just one child is $4.80 a week. [More…]
Therefore a family with one child would have received $5.30 a week under our system even if the level of child endowment had not at any stage been increased. [More…]
The family allowance this year for the first child is $3.50. [More…]
Therefore every family with only one child loses $1.80 a week. [More…]
A family with two children would have received a tax rebate, which is no longer available, of over $9.60 a week. [More…]
The family allowances introduced by this Government are $3.50 for the first child and $5 for the second child, making a total of $8.50 a week. [More…]
Therefore there is an income loss to that family of $2.60 a week. [More…]
Similarly, for a family with three children the loss is $3.40 a week, for a family of four children it is $4.45, for a family of five children it is $4.75 and for a family of six children $5.30 a week. [More…]
He claimed he had the support of at least one other Government supporter to index family allowances. [More…]
If the family allowance is not increased and the tax rebates are allowed to apply to areas other than those available to children every tax paying family with children in Australia will suffer a net loss. [More…]
She has applied for more than 70 jobs and only strong emotional support from her family and the hope that sooner or later she must get a job has kept her going. [More…]
But we cannot and must not forget about the private companies- be they family or otherwise- which comprise the remainder referred to in the speech of the Hon. [More…]
One is to abolish both estate and gift duties on property passing to a member of a family as from 21 November 1977. [More…]
In respect of the abolition from 2 1 November, property passing to members of a family has been denned to include a widow or widower, a child, a grandchild, a parent or a grandparent of that person. [More…]
By this means a person divests himself of his assets tax free by making them over to a family trust. [More…]
Both of these gentlemen acknoledged during the last election campaign that they have family trusts; so we have right at the top of the political tree in this country people, including also the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), who have family trusts which exist to avoid income tax and estate duty. [More…]
I think it is entirely appropriate for people to have family trusts. [More…]
Do you have any family trusts? [More…]
They are designed to benefit the family and to keep the farm together. [More…]
Mr Prime Minister, do your private family companies and private family trusts have the effect of lowering the rate of income tax that you pay? [More…]
Family trusts are designed to help keep the family’s assets together. [More…]
Rural properties are said to be particularly badly affected because such properties are a family business. [More…]
The farmer whose father leaves him the family farm worth, say, $150,000 is in a much better position than a person who is left little or nothing. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 9 May of the Honourable Sir Denham Henty, K.B.E., a Senator for Tasmania from 19S0 to 1968 and a Minister of the Crown from 19S6 to 1968; places on record its deep appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I join the Prime Minister and the Government in expressing sympathy to the family of the late Sir Denham Henty on his passing. [More…]
The community is the worse for his passing and the Opposition joins the Government in expressing its sympathy to the members of his family. [More…]
I wish to associate the members of the National Country Party of Australia with the motion which has been moved by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and supported by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) expressing condolence to the family of the late Sir Denham Henty. [More…]
On behalf of the members of my Party and on my own behalf I extend to his widow and others in his family deepest sympathy in their sad loss. [More…]
He was a charming man and his family was charming. [More…]
I express through you, Mr Speaker, my sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
I also join in the expressions of condolence to the family of the late Sir Denham Henty. [More…]
I am sure all honourable members will join me in extending to the Government and people of Italy and to the family of the late Aldo Moro our profound sympathy. [More…]
Why did the Prime Minister choose not to make public all of the documents prepared by the former Treasurer in respect of his family interests, as well as opinions provided by Irish, Young and Outhwaite, Mallesons and Stephen Charles, Q.C.? [More…]
Further can the Prime Minister assure the House that, as a result of the disclosure to him of their personal interests, no Minister, while a Minister, or any company in which he is involved by way of family trusts or otherwise has been involved in speculative land deals? [More…]
Lynch family trust, transferred its interest in three blocks of land to the Australian Equity Corporation for a consideration on 17 September 1976, many months after the Minister’s statement that payment had been received in full? [More…]
The individual circumstances such as family income, assets and standard of the home will be taken into account. [More…]
Rent rebate systems will continue to apply, so that those unable to meet the ceiling rent for their dwellings will pay a rent geared to their income and other family circumstances. [More…]
Not only is there a financial burden on a family but, as many in the community will know to their cost, the unexpected death of a small businessman can often mean that the business is severely disrupted. [More…]
The disruptive effects of death duties on family farms are also equally deplorable. [More…]
In the general family situation, that deprivation once caused by the loss of a breadwinner and heightened by the imposition of death duties on assets left for the support of children is now gone forever- at least while the Australian Labor Party Opposition remains where it is. [More…]
At the root of the opposition of honourable members opposite is their failure to appreciate the importance of the family in society. [More…]
We have protected pensions from inflation by indexing them to ensure automatic increases every six months and we have greatly increased family allowance payments. [More…]
The Committee recommended restructuring the rates so that the tax bite would increase with the scale of property interests held, and recommended exemptions to exclude the weight of the duty falling on the spouse and family firms. [More…]
He has not taken into account the fact that in the last couple of years alone this Government has introduced a family allowance system and full indexation of taxation in Australia and that it brought about tax cuts as recently as last February. [More…]
These arguments might have all sorts of merits but when one gets out into the country areas and has to face up to the harsh realities of seasons and to the fact that a family must sell half its farm and finish up with an uneconomic unit because of the incidence of death duties and estate duties. [More…]
In discussions of the effects of estate duty, it is sometimes said that people who have been building up assets for years should not have their efforts undone by death duty, forcing the family to sell up the assets. [More…]
Everything was sacrificed to retention of the homestead and the land around it, and when estate duty falls due it has to be sold and the family unit disturbed. [More…]
A great number of farming people have been to see me in my office in my electorate of Hume in recent years and- I know that my National Country Party colleagues found this as well- were literally distraught at the prospect of having to break up their family holdings which they have had for years and which they know will finish up being uneconomic once those sales have been made in order to raise the revenue. [More…]
The suggestion about combining incomes of husbands and wives and calling upon each for half of the tax is one of various forms of family unit taxation that have been canvassed from time to time. [More…]
Observations by the Asprey Committee about family unit taxation is one aspect of its report that the Government has yet to consider. [More…]
Children are the key to family viewing. [More…]
If the children can be secured for a particular program -for example, Blankety Blanks on Channel 0 rather than the ABC news- this may set a family’s viewing pattern all night unless the parents are very strong willed. [More…]
We have heard a lot recently about frauds such as those involving family trusts, tax dodging by Prime Ministers and former Treasurers and so on. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the report of the recent meeting of Federal and State Ministers on 2 1 April was not more expansive; but it would seem that at this meeting there was agreement about continuing support for migration, that programs should extend over longer periods rather than that there should be an annual intake approach; that more emphasis should be placed on the English language as a criterion for entry; that there should be greater assistance to enable skilled workers to travel to Australia, and that restrictions should continue to be placed on people entering under the family reunion category, as well as the monitoring of people- whatever that means- of differing ethnic background, and limitation of the inflow of refugees. [More…]
Thirdly, the Australian Government needs to face the problems associated with, on the one hand allowing family reunion policies to operate in a way which allows the consolidation of existing ethnic family structures, and on the other hand allowing a proper response to the humanitarian needs of an increasing number of refugees wishing to come to Australia. [More…]
It really is quite extraordinary when one considers that the Treasurer, having announced that he is going to close all these tax loopholes, in reply to a question asked the other day by my colleague from Western Australia, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins), said that he would not agree to closing that extraordinary rank of the tax loophole of family trusts. [More…]
The reason was that very prominent people- people in the establishment in this country- are involved in family trusts. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), and the former Treasurer are all on record as being involved in family trusts, which is one of the most effective ways to avoid tax. [More…]
There is no longer anything grasping or indulgent about the two income family. [More…]
That this House express its deep regret at the death on15 May 1978 of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Gordon Menzies: Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle; Knight of the Order of Australia; Companion of Honour; Queen’s Counsel; Fellow of the Royal Society; a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1928 to 1929; a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1929 to 1934; Deputy Premier of Victoria from 1932 to 1 934; a member of this House for the Division of Kooyong from 1934 to 1966; founder and for many years Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia; a Minister of the Crown for over 25 years; and Prime Minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941, and from 1949 to 1966; places on record its appreciation of his long and highly distinguished service to the nation and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
It will be a source of comfort to Sir Robert’s family. [More…]
To those who served him he was always courteous and considerate, and to his family he was a constant symbol of devotion and love. [More…]
He will be remembered as a leader, a statesman, a scholar, an ally, a friend, and to his family as a loving and devoted husband, brother and father. [More…]
From a modest family background he became an outstanding student and an eminent practitioner at the Bar. [More…]
The Opposition joins the Government in expressing its condolences at the passing of Sir Robert Menzies and extends its deepest sympathies to his widow, Dame Pattie Menzies, and to members of his family. [More…]
I should like Dame Pattie to convey those sympathies to the members of her family. [More…]
To her and her family I would also like to extend my personal sympathy. [More…]
On this occasion I recognise that the Menzies family has lost a person who must have meant an enormous amount in the family life. [More…]
I know that these remarks will be passed on to his family, members of whom I know. [More…]
Those occasions gave one a different picture of the man in his family life. [More…]
He was not without some familiarity with personal physical suffering, and in his family life from time to time he was subjected to great stresses that were tragic in their nature. [More…]
He also had to sustain his family. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I hope that you will convey my comments to Dame Pattie and to Sir Robert’s family. [More…]
It was with great satisfaction that he would have witnessed his own family growing up and expanding, the growth and the development of his grandchildren and his family embarking upon a road of distinction. [More…]
As the present member for Kooyong I naturally wish to be associated with the motion and to confirm again my sympathy to Dame Pattie and the Menzies family. [More…]
The influence of his family in developing an interest in and finally an ambition for a political career must have been significant. [More…]
It recognised a lifetime of public service and the loyalty and personal sacrifice of this great man’s wife and family. [More…]
Finally I refer to his family. [More…]
It is not easy for the family of a public figure to share that public figure with the nation, but I thank Dame Pattie and his son Ken and daughter Heather for allowing the nation to share their sadness and to pay tribute to its famous son last Friday. [More…]
Pattie and to his family. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, on behalf of the citizens of Ballarat I wish to join the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) and other speakers in expressing our sadness at the passing of Sir Robert Menzies and extending to Dame Pattie Menzies and her family our deep sympathy on their loss. [More…]
Robert Menzies’ family lived in Ballarat for many years, his father being a coach painter at that time. [More…]
His family has lost a husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather. [More…]
I add my deepest sympathy and prayers to those offered to Dame Pattie Menzies and her family at this time of sorrow. [More…]
1 ) Has the Attorney-General ‘s attention been drawn to the article entitled ‘The law and artificial insemination with donor semen (AID)’ by Dominica Whelan, barrister-at-law, Family Court of Australia, in the Medical Journal of Australia of 14 January 1978. [More…]
-The Minister for Primary Industry has advised me that when he became executor of his father’s estate, upon examining those matters he immediately commissioned inquiries into the affairs of a number of family companies in which three family companies were involved. [More…]
I pointed out also that in the past two years there has been effectively a reduction in average incomes for the average family and what they can spend in real terms of about $12 a week. [More…]
If I had the bad luck to have any member of my family enter a hospital or need to undertake expensive medical treatment, in fact the Government would subsidise any medical expenses I had by an amount between 48 cents or 60 cents in the dollar, depending on what tax rate I was paying. [More…]
The first relates to an extraordinary thimble and pea trick- the Government’s family allowances. [More…]
If ever a thimble and pea trick were played on the Australian family man and woman it was done by his Government when it decided to cut out the tax rebate for dependent children and introduce family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances are not indexed. [More…]
The family allowance for a person with one child is now $3.50 a week, instead of the 50c a week. [More…]
A person who received previously a tax rebate as well as a family allowance- the tax rebate would have been continually indexed- today receives only a fixed family allowance and accordingly is much worse off. [More…]
That is why I say it is a thimble and pea trick which the Fraser Government played upon the ordinary family men and women of this country. [More…]
Then we have the ultimate, the question of family trusts. [More…]
The other day the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) asked whether the Treasurer would legislate against family trusts. [More…]
The Treasurer gave the extraordinary reply that family trusts did not amount to tax avoidance, they were merely tax minimisation. [More…]
He has to pay every penny that he owes, but those with wealth can form family trusts, those with wealth can buy a farm and average their income, those with wealth can utilise Norfolk Island as a tax haven and avoid paying taxes. [More…]
The reason for this is that involved in these swindles of the Australian purse are prominent members of this Government, particularly in relation to family trusts, and I refer to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the former Treasurer and now Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), and the Deputy Prime [More…]
It estimates a surplus for almost every service used by the ordinary family person. [More…]
A family in Victoria named Bloom is involved with the Portmans company which is about to take over or has already taken over Buckleys and Nunn Ltd. [More…]
By way of example only, let me suggest two possible opportunities: If a very reasonable income test were to be applied to the family allowance, it could save revenues in the order of no less than $500m. [More…]
No one can reasonably object to three judges of the Family Court of Australia being members of the Family Law Council. [More…]
Justice Elizabeth Evatt, of course, was a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission when she was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission, but by the time the report was presented she was Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The tax payable, reduced by family allowances in respect of the 2 children, would be equal to approximately 12.4 per cent of the taxpayer’s taxable income. [More…]
Increased offences mean an increase in the number of prison visits, arrangements for bail and legal representation, attendances at hearings, communications with family and, if the person arrested is imprisoned, a continuing interest in his or her welfare, sometimes for many years, under arduous prison conditions. [More…]
We have indexed social security pensions and we have introduced family allowances. [More…]
But, if there is a chronically ill person or persons in the family, they can insure by gap insurance and that will not mean much greater hardship to those people. [More…]
If we look at the low income families and the pensioners with whom I take it the Opposition is concerned, we find that there is no difference in the case of pensioners and only a small amount of difference in the case of the low income family. [More…]
Let us examine the effect this will have on the ordinary or low income family. [More…]
The low income family, if it wishes, can remain in Medibank Standard and the change will have absolutely no effect on those people. [More…]
Preference is given to those who show farm management skills but are unable to acquire a farm or additional land from their own ordinary commercial credit or family resources. [More…]
Hence lessees, sharefarmers, managers, second and subsequent sons on family farms, et cetera, have preference. [More…]
The rent they are prepared to pay is far in excess of what a normal family could afford. [More…]
A single income family finds it extremely difficult to purchase a home in its own right. [More…]
Without exception, people who have been interviewed regarding their family’s requirements and the requirements of the community for housing listed certain matters as of importance. [More…]
There is more power over one’s life and a pride in one ‘s family if home ownership can be brought about by any mechanism which is open to governments, whether it be by the instrument we have before us today or whether it be by instruments which are available to the Government through economic measures or any other measures. [More…]
Nowdays new home ownership is increasingly restricted mainly to the top 30 per cent or so of income earners, families with two incomes acceptable to lending institutions, and those people fortunate enough to inherit money or a substantial share in a family home. [More…]
-More than 90,000 Australian family applicants. [More…]
In the past two and a half years three Ministers have resigned, one has been sacked, one has been suspended, one is the centre of an inquiry involving the operations of two family companies and alleged misappropriation of some $250,000, another has impaled himself on the public admission that he might have lied to the Parliament, while yet another has lost clear and obvious control of his Department. [More…]
Why did a land speculation company offer such an extraordinarily generous deal to the Lynch family trust, a deal which covered the cost of the trust’s investment after only the first stage of a three-stage program? [More…]
There have been changes to company tax law, changes to stimulate mining, investment and development in this country, and there has been the historic social reform of family allowances, something the Labor Party never even thought of. [More…]
I am seeking to incorporate in Hansard the letter that I sent to the Prime Minister on 25 May 1978, which deals with the family companies of the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
To exclude from eligibility those not in need, to minimise continued availability of assistance to those no longer in need and to accord benefits which are designed so that assistance being provided is related to particular family’s or individual’s current economic and social circumstances. [More…]
Man, in order to protect himself and his family, has attached great importance to it. [More…]
If a family owns a house the members of the family virtually have some independence, some little castle, as it were, to which they can retire secure in the knowledge that no one can knock on the door and throw them out in the street. [More…]
In allocating their assistance the States will be encouraged to have regard to family income, size of house and assets of the intending borrower. [More…]
Under the variation in repayment in case of hardship arrangements a facility would be made available to reduce repayments if for some reason- for example, unemployment or incapacity- a family’s circumstance worsens. [More…]
The rental is related to the income of the tenant consistent with the tenant’s other family pressing circumstances and commitments. [More…]
At this rate, the last family of that list will be accommodated in 1986. [More…]
For several years before entering this House I knew Alex Ramsay through his family. [More…]
I am pleased that the debate on this Bill, which bears his imprimatur, affords me the opportunity to pay tribute to him and to offer my condolences to his wife and family. [More…]
Rental rebates are designed so that the rent paid is related to the income of the tenant and to other family circumstances. [More…]
What on earth do we mean by such terms as market-related rents’, ‘economic rents’, and family income as related to rents ‘? [More…]
The Government will be taking action in the area of the law to protect migrants’ rights in criminal investigations and in voting, and to improve information on such aspects as the legal system generally and family law. [More…]
The Government notes the particular advantages of the family day care scheme for migrant communities to which the Review draws attention. [More…]
That was principally due to the fact that the Government had abolished the tax deduction for children following the increase in family allowances. [More…]
The suggestion in respect of social security payments is that the Government will take action such as restoring the means test for pensioners aged 70 years and over or introducing a means test on the family allowance. [More…]
People relate these matters right back to the family budget. [More…]
A national budget is only a family budget on a far more involved, and infinitely greater, scale. [More…]
People know perfectly well that if, with a family budget, they continue to spend far in excess of what comes in by way of earnings, they will get into some awful problems. [More…]
Will he say definitely that pensions will continue to be indexed, that the means test will not be imposed on those who are over 70, that the allowable income for those pensioners who are under 70 will be indexed, that family allowances will not continue to lessen in real terms and that education expenditure will continue to be maintained in real terms? [More…]
However, it would be foolish to hold out rash hopes to the family of Mr Wilson, as I am advised that thorough searches were conducted both in Noumea and on the ship but that no trace of Mr Wilson has been found. [More…]
I can assure the honourable gentleman that the Department of Foreign Affairs will certainly keep Mr Wilson’s family informed of any developments. [More…]
He also becomes aware of the hardships suffered by the family of the person who goes on strike for no reason whatsoever. [More…]
The customs officers told the Muhvich family that they would have to confiscate the birds because they had reason to believe that the birds had been smuggled into Australia. [More…]
As can be imagined, this period of being guarded and treated like criminals was extremely embarrassing to the family and to the children who were severely taunted at school. [More…]
Mr Hancher, the family solicitor, arrived and asked Mr Mumford why he had not informed the Muhvichs about the action the Government intended to take and why they had been tricked into thinking everything was alright. [More…]
The family was told to go inside the house, until told to come outside. [More…]
As he was always a strong and healthy child, the Muhvich family have every reason to believe that the two permanent scars he now bears on his lungs are as a direct result of the fumigation carried out to slaughter the birds. [More…]
The Muhvich family contacted Mr Trager of the Gosford Health Commission to seek his advice about whether the chemicals used were dangerous to humans and to ascertain what they could or could not touch and so on. [More…]
Mr Trager of the Health Commission inspected the aviaries with the Muhvich family and commented that they had been left in an unhygienic and awful state. [More…]
Even if that person could sell his property, he may receive less for his farm than would be required to buy a house for his family in the nearest town. [More…]
It should also say that in accordance with section 5 1 of the Constitution, if it exercises authority and passes a family law Act or a bankruptcy Act such Acts will have priority over any exercise of legislative power by the Territory. [More…]
Of the 40.9 per cent or 18,880 persons, 31.9 per cent (6,026) were stated to be workers in occupations on the approved occupations list, 9.6 per cent (1,815) were accompanying workers (family members), and th’ remaining 58.5 per cent ( 1 1 ,039) were classified as dependents of the principal breadwinners. [More…]
Other of the Senate Committee’s recommendations dealing with follow-up welfare work, English language training, welfare benefits, family reunion, et cetera, are being carried out under the supervision of the Standing Committee, and the Determination of Refugee Status Committee. [More…]
Other categories eligible for entry are confined broadly to family reunion Le. [More…]
I know that since taking office the Attorney-General has expressed publicly on a number of occasions his interest in having a general review of the Family Law Act. [More…]
It is quite likely that we will see such policies as the reinstatement of the means test for age pensioners or the imposition of a means test on family allowances. [More…]
The Government, through its financial assistance to the Royal Flying Doctor Service; the community health program; the Mobile Dental Clinic under the school dental program; the encouragement to graduate doctors to practise in rural areas under the family medicine program, is endeavouring to improve the access of health services to people in remote areas. [More…]
It provides that, commencing in the 1978-79 income year, where a child of a divorced or separated couple would, under the existing law, be taken to be a dependant for levy purposes of both parents, the child will be taken to be a dependant solely of the parent who is paid family allowances for the child. [More…]
This will avoid the situation that could arise at present where both parents may be required to pay levy up to the full family ceiling through the same child being taken as a dependant of each of them. [More…]
Most people in Australia ought to express their gratitude for what he did for the preservation of such matters as freedom of speech, the protection of family rights and so on. [More…]
Migrant entry has largely been limited to nominated immediate family members, refugees, persons travelling under Australia’s bilateral arrangements with New Zealand, and a very narrowly-defined group of workers with occupational skills in continuing demand in Australia. [More…]
In my view, the increased selective program, the points system, will make it more difficult for migrants already here to bring their own family members to join them. [More…]
The Minister claims to be broadening the family reunion category, a move we would applaud - [More…]
I refer to the policies concerning personal income tax reduction, tax averaging, the indexation of personal income tax, the abolition of estate duty, the introduction of income equalisation deposits, the investment allowance, private company profit distribution, the valuation of trading stock, family allowances, pensions, unemployment benefits for farmers, assistance to local governments, rural roads and telephones. [More…]
With respect to equity, the proposal does seem to be inequitable because the new provisions seem unlikely to deter the welltodo but will place an excessive burden on the average family man. [More…]
Not only does that person have to travel and stay away from home; he or she must make provision for their family while they are away. [More…]
The family must be attended to. [More…]
Will the Minister for Health ensure that if health insurance funds make an application for increases in premiums for medical insurance the estimated 46c a week family reduction is passed on to the contributor? [More…]
Whilst 1 am grateful to the Attorney-General for intimating that he will set up a parliamentary committee to monitor the Family Law Act, I venture the proposition that fuel and energy has a far higher priority than the Family Law Act. [More…]
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, [More…]
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. [More…]
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. [More…]
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. [More…]
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. [More…]
I might say, because this is a cognate debate, that for the chronically ill, the poor in our community, the family man and his wife and children, the migrants and the Aboriginals that the changes being made by the Government to the system that has operated for the last 18 months or two years represents a retrograde step and will save only approximately 1.5 per cent of total medical costs. [More…]
It abolished bulk billing, thereby disadvantaging the unemployed, the low income family, the person on sickness or special benefits, the supporting mother and many pensioners. [More…]
In the Whitlam years we introduced a measure which was a radical departure from this by promoting the community health program and other programs of its kind, such as the school dental scheme, family planning grants and so on. [More…]
I do not think that is fair because it imposes a further burden on people who are already handicapped- large families, those with sick people in the family, people in the older age groups and the very young age groups who need medical or hospital attention more often. [More…]
The change in medical benefits is expected to lead to a reduction of 46c a week, family rate, in medical insurance contributions, reducing the average rate to $4.54 a week. [More…]
They get a shock at the end of the year when, even though the wife, say, has been covered by a private fund, the husband receives an assessment at the family rate when they have no children. [More…]
If a family business is involved it makes little difference. [More…]
Family companies can have one director work free but the rest have to join up or else. [More…]
Review of Family Law Act (Question No. [More…]
This matter was considered very recently by the Government, and, as a result, I shall be putting to the Government a detailed proposal regarding the establishment of a parliamentary committee to review the Family Law Act in the very near future. [More…]
1 ) Do the guidelines governing the acceptance of gifts by a Minister and his family apply to acceptance of offers of overseas travel by the Minister’s family from persons or organisations whose day to day commercial activities fall within the ministerial responsibilities of the Minister concerned. [More…]
What proportion of total social security payments is spent on (a) sickness benefits, (b) old age pensions, (c) invalid pensions, (d ) unemployment benefits, (e ) family allowances, and (f) other. [More…]
Reflects advertising in foreign language newspapers dealing with family allowances, pensions and benefits. [More…]
1 ) How many persons have been employed by the Department of Social Security in each quarter in each State in (a) the pensions section, (b) the family allowances section and (c) the unemployment and sickness benefit section since I January 1975. [More…]
How many applications for benefits have been processed by the Department of Social Security in each quarter in each State in (a) the pensions section, (b) the family allowances section and (c) the unemployment and sickness benefit section since 1 January 1975. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of tinAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘ family ‘ ‘. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
Therefore whilst people were being encouraged to pay the levy and then to pay $ 1 35 a year extra for a family so as to get treatment by a doctor of their choice in a public hospital, they will now not be given that insurance in a subsidised form. [More…]
I think in the end one has the philosophical attitude- I certainly have it- that the whole community should contribute towards the health costs of those who have larger families and sicker families- some members of the family are chronically ill- and who therefore have to take out extra insurance. [More…]
It also will be significant for the individual car buyer as it should mean that the price of an average family car now costing around $7,000 will fall by some $530. [More…]
I believe that this honourable House would wish to convey its respects to this distinguished family. [More…]
This figure includes counsel fees and costs of transcription of evidence in appeal hearings held during September/October 1974 and October 1977, fares and travelling allowance for Departmental representatives on the Appeal Boards and the costs associated with the transfers of Mr Toomer and his family. [More…]
Factors taken into account when considering cases involving periods of absences in excess of three months relate to the total length of the applicants residence in Australia, any other periods of absence, the reasons for the absence during the immediately preceding twelve months and the interests retained in Australia by way of family, home and business while away. [More…]
No one is to be blamed for the fact that he was born into a comfortable family- perhaps a wealthy family. [More…]
Programs for family viewing and for children could be promoted at any time other than times set aside specifically for children’s viewing when special guidelines set down by a Children’s Program Committee would operate. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘family’. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strenthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
The medical premium for medical insurance for a family clearly will be less than the $300 maximum which is paid at the present time. [More…]
So I am in accord with the Budd family. [More…]
They have been aware that bacon and eggs are still much desired by the Australian family and they have promoted such products as KR Darling Downs ham, a product of my own area. [More…]
Families are not allowed to work on the family business stand and small businesses are being attacked. [More…]
-My attention has been directed to that criticism, and I should point out to the House that when taking that decision in Budget Cabinet, the Government did have in mind circumstances where, as the result of trusts and other income-splitting devices, children received separate income while their parents continued to receive the family allowance. [More…]
What on earth gave substance to the belief that those people who sit on the back benches, spineless as they may be, ought to support a measure that would send public servants, acting as policemen, around this country to see how much money children were earning, so that if they were earning over $6 a week the mother could be fined by way of a reduction in her family allowance? [More…]
Few people seem to be aware that, on a constant basis, servicemen are required to move with their families from place to place throughout Australia, often on a two-yearly basis, thereby disrupting home life, family life and the schooling of the children and thereby causing the onflowing effects which appertain in relation to the wellbeing of the children, their development and growth and their capacity to cope with the educational system. [More…]
The effect of service is notable even in the fact that simple things such as motor vehicle licences can be a great problem for a family moving from place to place. [More…]
They have given time and training, dedicated their lives to important areas of our defence and sacrificed many family pleasures and enjoyments that the average citizen benefits from in order to take part in a fine and proud career in the service of the nation. [More…]
Tell that to the mother who has just lost her family allowance because one of the kids earns $20 a week for baby-sitting or selling newspapers. [More…]
Those who are worse off are: The weak and unorganised, the poor, the retired, the small businessman and the farmer, the school leaver, the family man who is paying more of his wages in tax than ever before in our history. [More…]
Its effects are not just confined to the person unemployed, but they are felt throughout the whole structure of family life. [More…]
Today, the Prime Minister takes a different view, based on the barbaric philosophy that the jobless should be punished for their unemployment, the more so if they have no family ties to sustain them. [More…]
The family allowance is not indexed, although the rebate scheme it replaced would have been. [More…]
Moreover, the family allowance is to be reduced to offset a child’s income from such sources as the tertiary education allowance scheme. [More…]
The capital gains tax we propose would exclude the family home and normal possessions, including a car. [More…]
We would act positively against the use of family trusts as devices for tax avoidance. [More…]
It is suggested that one of the Government’s motives in changing the terms of the family allowance is to stop tax cheating through the use of these trusts. [More…]
As I have just indicated, we would remove the means test on the family allowance. [More…]
Now, to hammer the point home, there are indirect taxes which, added together, might cost the average family another $ 10 a week. [More…]
That $ 10 a week has to come out of a minimum income of $120 or $130 which has to look after a family. [More…]
That is happening while the lower income family struggles to get the marginal dollar. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition tried to disparage what the Government had done, but the fact is that the Government’s measures will substantially reduce the cost of health insurance for the typical Australian family. [More…]
So for perhaps half or less than the current maximum health insurance levy of $300, on a family basis, Australian families will be able to receive the benefits that are currently provided by Medibank Standard. [More…]
I would, however, reiterate the statement of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) this afternoon that, in respect of the family allowance, it was never the intention of the Government that the part-time earnings of the newspaper boy- children generally showing a bit of ‘get up and go’ and earning something for themselves in part-time work- should be disadvantaged. [More…]
To most Australians the two cores of their lives have been the family and work. [More…]
The Australian family has been the nuclear one, not the Italian style or Japanese style extended or threegenerational one. [More…]
With many Australians in later years, as the family disperses, work may well become the dominant core in males lives. [More…]
Sufficient time will be allowed for Australians to investigate the new proposals and to see which scheme suits their pocket and family responsibilities. [More…]
One does not have to observe particular religious practices to believe that a funeral service has a legitimate role in the expression of the grief of a family on the death of a member of the family. [More…]
They have interviewing skills, a knowledge of literature, and so on, and they can bring those skills to bear in performing an appropriate ceremony which expresses the grief of the family at that time. [More…]
Nonetheless, if people feel some cultural need to have a ceremony to accept a child into the family and formally give it a name, I do not see why that service should be denied to them. [More…]
Have been widely comdemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘ family”. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s failure to index family allowances, the removal of the tax deduction claim in respect of home mortgage interest payments and the indexation of pensions only once a year instead of twice a year. [More…]
It was indicated to us at Question Time yesterday that no longer will pocket money of news boys- the income they earn from selling papers- affect the amount of family allowance received by their mothers. [More…]
The next heading I mention is family allowances. [More…]
For the six month period the Government hoped to save about $90m by reducing the family allowance payable to parents of children with a separate income above $312 per annum. [More…]
So we have an over-estimate by about $80m of the saving associated with means testing family allowances. [More…]
I would like before leaving this subject of family allowances to draw attention to the fact that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) and other Government spokesmen have said that they did not want this means testing of children’s income to affect people whom they did not have in mind when they drew it up. [More…]
Further in the area of incompetence we find the recently announced change to the family allowances proposals. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) mentioned the family allowance. [More…]
I would remind everybody that the family allowance was a substitute for a taxation concession, the dependants’ concession, which was itself means tested with a ceiling. [More…]
103 or the Senate relating to the proposed appointment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the provisions and the operation of the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
the provisions, and the operation, of the Family Law Act 1975, with particular regard to: [More…]
the organisation of the Family Court of Australia and its conduct of proceedings; [More…]
whether the Family Court should be more open to the public when hearing proceedings, and whether publication of the details of proceedings under the Act should be permitted; [More…]
the counsellors attached to the Family Courts; and [More…]
We have passed the Family Law Act. [More…]
The emphasis in that Act is on support for the family in the context of the division that follows matrimonial discord. [More…]
One of the attitudes adopted has been that we should not be emphasising who was to blame; rather that we should try to emphasise the best way of solving the problems of the family following the separation for a period of 12 months. [More…]
I think that if that aspect were examined it would be found that it is not related to the question of guilt; it is related to the inability to agree on the terms of separation of a family with regard to property, maintenance and custody. [More…]
There is a Family Law Council. [More…]
The Family Law Bill was initiated in the Senate. [More…]
I am anxious that we concentrate on how we can best solve the problems of the family with less legalism and at the minimum of cost and how we can support the parties in coming to an agreement in advance on the property distribution, the maintenance problems and the welfare of the children. [More…]
I recognise that the Family Law Council is much of that mould and has been making submissions. [More…]
I note that it was the subject of a recommendation by the Family Law Council in respect of other matters. [More…]
The House has before it a resolution carried by the Senate that a joint select committee of the Parliament be appointed to review the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Family Law Act has now been in operation for more than 2l/i years, having commenced on 5 January 1976. [More…]
The Family Law Act was passed after a very lengthy debate in both Houses of Parliament during late 1 974 and the first half of 1 975. [More…]
However, the Family Law Act introduced major changes in the principles governing the laws not only of divorce but also of maintenance, matrimonial property settlements and custody. [More…]
More importantly, it also established the Family Court of Australia as a specialist court to administer the law, and provided the opportunity for States to establish State family courts. [More…]
The rough edges of the Family Law Act, it could be said, were ironed out in the two amending Acts passed in 1976. [More…]
As I mentioned a few moments ago, the Family Law Act marked a conscious change of basic principle in a number of areas of matrimonial law. [More…]
For instance, I think it is fair to say that the Family Law Act aroused wide expectation that the conduct of parties would not be examinable in proceedings under it. [More…]
On the other hand, I think it is equally fair to say that sceptics of the Family Law Act were confidently predicting that the provisions for counselling, unless at least given the force of compulsion, would prove largely ineffective in preventing bitter disputes or increased family breakdowns. [More…]
One of the features of the family courts that few deny is the tremendous help counselling has been in the settling of proceedings which might otherwise have become protracted contested cases. [More…]
I think that the success of counselling has exceeded the expectations of even the strongest supporters of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The fact that provisions of the Family Law Act have not operated as expected might not, in itself, be sufficient reason for submitting the operation of the Act to a parliamentary committee. [More…]
Some honourable members may be wondering whether the establishment of the committee is necessary when the Act already provides for a Family Law Council with the stated function of monitoring the operation of the Act. [More…]
I would expect that the committee, when established, would find it helpful to consult the Family Law Council, particularly in relation to recommendations it has already made. [More…]
Let me conclude by paying tribute to the tremendous efforts of the Family Court of Australia and the Family Court of Western Australia since their establishment, in coping with the work of administering the large volume of applications filed under the Act, particularly in its early stages. [More…]
I have already mentioned the success of counselling under the Act and this must be attributable, in the case of counselling in the course of proceedings, to the commendable efforts of the Family Court counsellors. [More…]
I feel confident that the committee will not fail to be impressed by the dedication and professionalism shown by the people who make up the Family Court. [More…]
The Family Law Act when before the House was the subject of a non-party debate. [More…]
I intend to speak to clause ( 1 ) of the proposal to establish a joint select committee to inquire into and report on the provisions and operations of the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
At a later point I will discuss the actual composition of the committee, but I think it is important to note that the members of the House of Representatives will be involved in this discussion and consideration of the provisions and operation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Subparagraph (iii) deals with the organisation of the Family Court and the conduct of its proceedings. [More…]
Sub-paragraph (vi) mentions the services provided by counsellors attached to the Family Courts and approved voluntary marriage counselling organisations. [More…]
Whilst I accept, in general terms, that the committee would have an ability to look at this matter, for the same reason as we have detailed other matters that ought to be looked at I support the general proposition that the committee ought to look at the effects of the Family Law Act on the nature of marriage and the family. [More…]
I believe it is important when considering an Act that goes under the title of Family Law Act and has such a marked effect upon marriage as an institution and the family, which are very important to our society and which are the basis of our society, that we know the effects of this legislation upon marriage and be prepared to act with courage if we find that it has a detrimental effect. [More…]
All of us ought to be prepared to look at it because we regard it as being a fundamental question and we want to know if the Act is not operating to support the family structure that we regard as so important. [More…]
He mentioned specifically the wide expectation that conduct of the parties would not be examinable in proceedings under the Family Law Act. [More…]
Whilst many people thought that by removing the traditional fault principles under which our Family Law Act had operated previously we might be able to relieve the court from examining the domestic affairs of the parties to a marriage, I was not one who supported that view. [More…]
The nature of the family situation when you are dealing with custody of children becomes an important matter. [More…]
My electorate is served by the Family Court in Parramatta. [More…]
Those who have looked at the experience of the Parramatta Court have indicated that they regard the counselling that has been undertaken in that court as being admirable and constituting an example that other Family Courts might follow. [More…]
I take this opportunity to deal not with the specific legal matters that the Family Law Council has said require review- I draw the attention of honourable members to the reports of the [More…]
Family Law Council because I think that they highlight many important dilemmas, some of a legal nature and some of a more practical nature, associated with this legislation- but with some very practical aspects of the legislation that I believe this Committee when it is set up will have to look at. [More…]
I would like to relate that specifically to a matter that I raised in a debate on the Family Law Act in this Parliament on a previous occasion, that is the consequence of delay, and the consequence of delay linked with the fact that the dissolution of marriage and the ancillary matters were separated by this Act so that the dissolution could take place at an early date and the ancillary matters could be looked at at a later point in time, instead of being linked to be solved by the Court in one fell swoop. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the delay is now so long in some of the Family Courts that a situation is emerging where people will be divorced- that is, the marriage will have been dissolved- and all the rights that go with marriage including the right of the widow to bring an action under the Testators Family Maintenance Act can very easily be lost if the procedure in relation to ancillary matters has not been concluded. [More…]
The wife would thereby not be able to get an order for the handing over of assets or for maintenance, both of which would secure her position, and she would lose because of the dissolution of marriage, the rights that she would have had under the Testators Family Maintenance Act. [More…]
The Family Court is probably the largest court in Australia. [More…]
Parties are entitled as of right to take whatever aspect of their family law matter that they wish to the Family Court. [More…]
They do not want their family affairs broadcast through the Press. [More…]
For this reason, subject to the one qualification that I have mentioned in supporting an additional term of reference, I strongly support clause ( 1 ) relating to the appointment of a select committee to examine the Family Law Act. [More…]
The fact is that the Family Law Act has been in operation for more than 2 years, having commenced on 5 January 1976. [More…]
They involved new legal structures in the creation of the Family Courts. [More…]
They involved the creation of a specialist court, in the Family Court, to administer the law. [More…]
They established such a body as the Family Law Council which is a specialist body working in the fields associated with various aspects of the Act and its administration. [More…]
High Court decisions in cases like Russell v. Russell and Farrelly v. Farrelly have created new problems in the area of property and maintenance that members of this Parliament, at the time of supporting the implementation of the Family Law Act could not have foreseen or interpreted. [More…]
The most recent report of the Family Law Council indicates a summary of recommendations which are already with the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack)- and I commend the work that has been done by the Family Law Council. [More…]
It might be fair enough, in terms of an exercise in political polemic, to ask: What are the effects on the nature of marriage and the family of the operation of the Family Law Act? [More…]
Posed in those simplistic terms- with all respect to those who have drafted the foreshadowed amendment- I do not know how one with the wisdom of Solomon could make a finding on that matter in view of the pressures on family life in this community. [More…]
In my view divorce primarily is a symptom of the disease of marriage breakdown which itself is also a symptom of other pressures on the whole institution of marriage and the family which exist in the community. [More…]
That is the problem that I see in attaching this type of proposed amendment- no matter how worthy the motives might be- to the motion to establish a parliamentary committee that is to deal with what I see as fairly technical problems associated with how we can make the Family Law Act, which was passed by this Parliament, work more effectively for the benefit of our people and solve many of the imposing legal problems which have been produced in the last 2 te years. [More…]
I refer the Parliament to Part II of the Family Law Council’s first annual report. [More…]
It contains some pages covering questions on dissolution and nullity; custody and maintenance of children; third parties and custody; interstate enforcements of custody proceedings; overseas enforcements; the magistrates’ jurisdiction in custody matters; affidavits by children regulations; questions of maintenance and property; powers over property on breakdown of marriage; recission orders; section 79A of the Family Law Act 1975; magistrates’ approval of agreements under section 87 of the Family Law Act; and the vexed question of whether courts and their procedures ought to be open or closed. [More…]
To ask this proposed committee also to engage in some sort of analysis of the effects of the Act on the nature of marriage and the family I think would be to refer an area of inquiry which ought not to be properly the purview or responsiblity of the committee. [More…]
If the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), who is sponsoring the foreshadowed amendments, were to propose the establishment of a parliamentary committee to look at the whole question of the nature of the family in Australian society and the pressures upon it, I would support him. [More…]
It is not surprising that in the first year of operation of the provisions of the Family Law Act there was a remarkable and dramatic increase in the number of divorce applications. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable gentleman that we are living in a society in which the rate of change and the nature of our economic system have put the family under tremendous and inordinate pressures. [More…]
There are many pressures which contribute to the cause of family break-ups but to attach the responsibility of ascertaining the cause of family break-ups to a parliamentary committee that has the responsibility of trying to make more effective what has been an important piece of social legislation, of ironing out the very specific references that have already been referred to the Attorney-General and of producing a piece of legislation which will be relevant to a plural democratic community so that the problems of divorce, maintenance and custody can be resolved in a way which is sensible and rational is to confuse the issue. [More…]
It seems to me that to add to that the interesting question of the effects on the nature of marriage and the family and to isolate the operations of this Act in terms of that very important question is to confuse the very important question of marriage breakdown with the question of divorce. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley, who is sponsoring this proposed amendment, is concerned, and quite properly so, with the problems that bedevil and upset the average Australian family right across the board at the present time and he wants an inquiry to be conducted into marriage breakdowns. [More…]
the provisions, and the operation, of the Family Law Act 1 975, with particular regard to : [More…]
In sub-clause (a), after paragraph (i) insert the following paragraph: (ia) its effects on the nature of marriage and the family; ‘. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to allow the proposed joint committee to investigate the provisions and the operations of the Family Law Act 1975 with particular regard to the ground of divorce and whether there should be other grounds and its effect on the nature of marriage and the family. [More…]
I have been fascinated by the argument that the inquiry should be limited and that it should not look in any way at the fact that this law is concerned with the family or marriage. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
This Act seeks to define the principles according to which the Family Court is going to make its determinations. [More…]
What the honourable member is saying is that we ought to have an investigation into the Act called the Family Law Act but we ought not to look at what the Family Law Act says about the institution of either the family or marriage. [More…]
-I seek the leave of the House to alter my amendment so that the amendment would then read: (ia) its effects on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
Section 43 (b) refers to the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society. [More…]
The terms of reference are, like the Family Law Act itself, excessively legalistic. [More…]
Paragraphs (iii) to (vh) of clause 1 (a) deal respectively with the technical features of the inquiry, the organisation of the Family Court, the conduct of proceedings by the various courts, whether the proceedings in the Family Court should be more open to the public, the services provided by counsellors and the cost of proceedings under the Act. [More…]
We know that the family in society is changing, and it is changing at a very rapid rate. [More…]
It is changing because society itself is altering its attitude towards the family and marriage. [More…]
We need to look at the operation of the Family Law Act and to see what relation that Act has to the changes that ostensibly and clearly are occurring in society. [More…]
Commitments in respect of the family have altered. [More…]
I see that as being an emphasis in the thinking of the Government and in the manner in which it provides for the implementation and operation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The most distressing thing I have experienced in my electorate is the long delays that people have to suffer under the Family Law Act. [More…]
I know that prior to the passage of the Family Law Act, and when it first came into operation, there were continual outcries at the high rate of divorce, but I think most people now realise that those very high rates experienced in the early years of the Act’s implementation really represented a clearing away of the backlog of marriage breakdowns. [More…]
-The proposed select committee to inquire into and report upon the Family Law Act will serve a very useful purpose. [More…]
My concern is for the preservation of family life as the cornerstone of society. [More…]
In our examination of the Family Law Act we should have this basic concept in mind. [More…]
Any examination of the operation of the Act should view as a matter of utmost importance the need for the preservation of family life. [More…]
Too many people seem to be hell bent on providing every possible avenue, indeed almost every encouragement, towards the breaking up of family life, with its consequent often tragic disadvantages to the children of the marriage. [More…]
Quite obviously, the humanitarian aspect of the breaking up of marriage, and the effect on any resulting family, is in my opinion the very first aspect of the operations of the Act that should be carefully examined. [More…]
It is that aspect that I emphasise tonight in this debate about an examination of the Family Law Act. [More…]
My contention, upon which I base my remarks, is that the preservation of family life is important and has a beneficial effect on society as a whole. [More…]
It is the preservation of family life which gives me most concern. [More…]
Many people, including myself, believe that the preservation of family life is a very important factor in maintaining a stable society- a society which will give the maximum number of children the advantages that only a normal family life can provide. [More…]
I acknowledge quite freely that success in life has been achieved by many people who have suffered disadvantages in many ways, including the disadvantage of not having the benefit of a normal family life. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, particular attention should be paid to the preservation of marriage and family life to the maximum extent possible. [More…]
I realise that family life and marriage come under increasing pressures in what we call the modern way of life. [More…]
I regard marriage and family life as one of the very important aspects of community life in this country. [More…]
I hope that it will examine the Family Law Act with the sincerity of purpose which I believe has activated most honourable members who have taken part in this debate. [More…]
I believe that there is a genuine desire to try to improve the Family Law Act. [More…]
I believe very strongly that unless we preserve the security of family life we will be stepping down from the standards which the pioneers of this country and other people have provided in the past. [More…]
They adopted a better approach to the necessity to accept some of the problems with which marriage and family life are confronted. [More…]
But the essence of my remarks tonight is that we should examine this matter carefully and determine whether there is anything that this Parliament can do by way of amending the legislation to enable people to preserve marriages, both in their own interests and in the interests of any family which might have resulted from those marriages. [More…]
The Family Law Act has been operating now for 2Vi years and I think that most honourable members in the House would agree that many aspects of it have been more than welcome and have worked very well indeed. [More…]
I go along particularly with the first amendment he moved to clause (1) of the motion which seeks to add the following words as paragraph (ia): its effects on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
I go back to the days when the Family Law Bill was being debated in this House and in the Senate. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under this Act or any other Act, and any other court exercising jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the exercise of that jurisdiction, have regard to- [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
Surely we must be able to see some connection there between some of the aspects of the Family Law Act and the situation that is developing. [More…]
I rather agree with the previous speaker, the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett), who claimed that the family unit is the basis of our society. [More…]
In the past the family unit has been that basis. [More…]
If there are aspects of the Family Law Act that can contribute to the stabilisation of marriage or that are detracting from it already they should be investigated by this committee. [More…]
The bitterness that is occurring was hopefully to be eliminated with the institution of the Family Law Act. [More…]
If there is any way that the Family Law Act can assist marriage it should be encouraged. [More…]
It is easier in some ways to deal with those changes, before I come to how they affect the family, by referring to the editorial in the Australian Financial Review of 22 August. [More…]
Then there was the proposition to tax family allowances concerning many children who are worse off than many others. [More…]
BUDGET AN INTOLERABLE BURDEN ON THE FAMILY [More…]
Sir, The Liberal Party has always professed to be a party that recognised the value of the family unit. [More…]
On Tuesday, August 15, the Fraser Liberal Government showed in its actions, if not its words, that it no longer recognised the family unit as an important social or economic unit. [More…]
In its attempts to balance the nation’s budget, the Government robbed the family budget. [More…]
The abolition of the maternity allowance, the decision to tax family allowances for students receiving scholarships, the increases in taxes and in petrol, the cuts in the national school dental scheme, the failure to increase and index family allowances will hit family budgets very hard. [More…]
Yet, while it has robbed the family budget and increased financial pressures on families, the savings the Government will make from its changes in this area are meagre. [More…]
The abolition of the maternity allowance saves only $7.2 m (on 1977-78 figures), the cuts in the school dental scheme save S4.9m and the administrative costs of taxing family allowances will be high in relation to the amount to be saved. [More…]
And while it has made these changes which adversely affect the family, the Government will still continue to pay a maternity allowance to the Canberra bureaucrats which is worth $2,400 to a woman on $200 a week. [More…]
3m for institutionalised child care and $1 1.5m for the Family (Divorce) Law Court. [More…]
It seems that not only is the Government financially pressuring the family, but that it is also going out of its way to encourage mothers to leave their children and enter the paid workforce. [More…]
This Budget is clearly a direct attack on families and on family life. [More…]
It will have an adverse effect on family budgets, on young people seeking jobs and on family life by forcing both parents into the paid workforce and thus splitting families even more than they are now. [More…]
History may well record this Budget as being the most anti-family Budget ever brought down by any Australian Government. [More…]
Had the Government had a different set of priorities and wanted to help the family unit, then it would have at least maintained the maternity allowance at its 1977-78 level, decided that under no circumstances would it have taxed family allowances and certainly it would have increased and indexed family allowances. [More…]
The Liberal Party has always professed to be a party that recognised the value of the family unit. [More…]
On Tuesday, August 15, the Fraser Liberal Government showed in its actions, if not its words, that it no longer recognised the family unit as an important social or economic unit. [More…]
The abolition of the maternity allowance, the decision to tax family allowances for students receiving scholarships, the increases in taxes and in petrol, the cuts in the national school dental scheme, the failure to increase and index family allowances will hit family budgets very hard. [More…]
This Budget is clearly a direct attack on families and on family life. [More…]
Had the Government had a different set of priorities and wanted to help the family unit, then it would have at least maintained the maternity allowance at its 1 977-78 level, decided that under no circumstances would it have taxed family allowances and certainly it would have increased and indexed family allowances. [More…]
It shows the loss to the family taxpayer because of the failure of this Government to index the family allowance. [More…]
In the table I have compared the cumulative tax rebate which has been lost since the Government abolished the tax rebate which was introduced in the 1975-76 Hayden Budget and the rather small child endowment that was paid under Labor with the amount the taxpayer’s family now obtains. [More…]
Let me give the example of the family with one child. [More…]
With the 50c child endowment, that family would have been receiving $5.66 a week. [More…]
So the family has lot $2. [More…]
I just hope that these people will look at the figures and will understand that the Government has failed to index family allowances. [More…]
The Government, during the last few weeks before the Budget came down, floated alleged proposals- I am afraid that some of our people picked these up- that family allowances for the first child were to be abolished or were to be taxed as part of the mother’s income, and so on. [More…]
The people were relieved to find that the family allowances continued at the previous level. [More…]
I supported the concept of the family allowances replacing the tax rebate back in 1976. [More…]
But through changing a tax rebate which was indexed to a family allowance which was not, greater and greater amounts of money are being lost by people with families. [More…]
I believe that it was wrong that old people and people with pressing family responsibilities, should have to be greatly concerned about their future economic activity because some newspaper reporter for cheap notoriety and political gain seeks to print in a newspaper a figment of his or her imagination. [More…]
The Government is living up to the promise it gave in the election campaign to provide universal health care cover, but we are leaving it to the individual to decide what type of coverage he wants for himself and his family. [More…]
Despite the rhetoric of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) about sharing burdens equally, the Budget deliberately sets out to force low income earners, the aged, family breadwinners and the unemployed to pick up the tab for the Government’s obsession with lowering inflation by reducing government expenditure and the money supply. [More…]
The Government now says that the infamous attempt to tax children’s pocket money by attacking the family allowances of their mothers will be reviewed- no doubt as a result of the massive clamour throughout the land. [More…]
Assuming he gets a loan and pays $50 a week or so in repayments, how can the family exist on the remaining $ 100 to $ 1 10 a week? [More…]
In that interview he admitted that he had a family trust and was involved in real estate development deals while he was a Minister. [More…]
Real estate projects in which he is involved at the moment through the family trust include a shopping centre at Mount Gravatt in Queensland, a housing development on the New South Wales coast, a number of houses in Sydney suburbs and land. [More…]
I am attacking the fact that on 3 December 1977 in the National Times he denied that he had a family trust. [More…]
-This Government has responded to the needs of Australia by getting the underlying factors of the economy right, reducing inflation and interest rates and introducing family allowances, the greatest social reform in history. [More…]
I point out that I will not rest until I have convinced governments of all political persuasions that the family farm, which is the life investment of the small farmer, is a totally different ball game from industries that have their source of raw material in an annual crop. [More…]
As a result, the old will be forced out of their family homes and the taxpayer eventually will be forced to pay for every person institutionalised because of inability to cope at home. [More…]
This is a measure by a Government that not only claims to support the institution of the family but also continually complains of the high cost of institutional care. [More…]
Professor Henderson said it would also cost an immeasurable amount in human hardship, family breakdown and psychological stress . [More…]
There was a history of family alcoholism and a strong relationship existed between parental alcoholism and drinking problems early in their lives. [More…]
As to social contact there was a high usage of church or welfare shelters and a virtual absence of family ties. [More…]
They have pitched the 40 per cent subsidy payable to people who choose not to be insured and to all people who join private insurance funds just high enough to tempt the unwary person, the family man who may rue the day when he fell for the Minister’s blandishments. [More…]
The formulae used to determine the extent of unemployment were devised on the assumption that the single-income family household was the norm. [More…]
Former unpaid family workers not at work and not seeking work for pay or profit. [More…]
Of that amount $150m would be raised by means of a resources tax, $300m by means of a capital gains tax, $100m by means of taxing family trusts, and $400m by means of the abolition of the investment allowance. [More…]
In my younger days my family conducted a non-official post office. [More…]
When I went home at night I had that sense of achievement that I was working, earning money and providing for my family. [More…]
The grant is $ 1 00 for each child who qualifies for the Boarding Allowance or $ 100 per family qualifying for the Second Home Allowance. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘ family’. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
That is, the family allowance- have shifted the major benefit from middle-class beneficiaries to the really needy poor. [More…]
Why has this hypocritical Government which boasted of the family allowance plan which in the words of the Prime Minister was the greatest social reform in recent history, attempted to emasculate the family allowance even to the point of plundering pocket money from paper boys and baby sitters? [More…]
Compared with the old Hayden days, he would be better off by $13 a week- $6 a week less tax plus $7 a week because the family allowance is so much more than the old child endowment. [More…]
The disposable income of the average family is substantially greater because of our reform of the tax rates, our introduction of indexation and our enlightened policy towards the Australian family. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition wants to impose a penal tax on family trusts to raise $100m this year. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition needs to tell us what he would do with trusts- whether the family trusts or trusts for children of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) would be caught in the penalty taxes that he would want to put on trusts. [More…]
It was the fact that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said he did not have any family trusts when in fact he did that was the point at issue. [More…]
In reality this Budget serves to penalise the poor, the sick, the aged, the young and the family man. [More…]
They include the family man who has been sacked or retrenched, the man who is the sole breadwinner of the family, and the man or the woman of the house who has to pay rent, who has to clothe the children and themselves as well. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to the article in the Sunday Mail of 2 April 1978 concerning the conflict between the Family Law Court and the Queensland Government over the passing of jurisdiction of illegitimate children from the State to the Family LawCourt and, in particular, the statement that the Queensland Government seems certain to go ahead with a takeover of the Family Law Court system. [More…]
Which States have agreed to give jurisdiction over illegitimate children to the Family Law Court. [More…]
Were there any discussions at the 1976 Hobart Constitutional Convention concerning the power of the Family LawCourt to assume responsibility for matters relating to illegitimate children. [More…]
If this matter was discussed at the Constitutional Convention, is the Family Law Court assuming responsibility for illegitimate children as discussed by the Convention. [More…]
Illegitimacy- including family inheritance as it affects children who are legitimised by Commonwealth legislation (so as to achieve uniformity in law as between legitimate and illegitimate children). [More…]
The Family Court of Australia exercises jurisdiction to the extent to which it has been invested with jurisdiction under Federal law. [More…]
For example, at present the following programs are among those being evaluated: the Family Day Care Scheme of the Children ‘s Services Program the role of the Aged Persons Hostels in the Aged Persons Welfare Program the pilot Welfare Rights Program the pilot Citizens Information Centre Program. [More…]
-The right honourable gentleman, in making his speech last evening, said that I had endeavoured to hide the facts as to my family assets and that I had told a lie in the process. [More…]
In explanation, I say again that I am on record as having disclosed the interests of all my family, including my income tax return. [More…]
So, Mr Speaker, the position is that I have not hidden anything, I have not lied on any occasion and none of my family has avoided or evaded tax. [More…]
During the election campaign the National Times asked the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr Lionel Bowen, and many other people the following questions: ‘Do you have family trusts?’ [More…]
I don’t have a family trust company but I do have a family of eight children. [More…]
I only wish to say that, as I understood Mr Oakes ‘s article, Mr Oakes, having seen the income tax return, indicated that it demonstrated that there was something called the ‘Bowen family trust’. [More…]
If the Bowen family trust is not a family trust so be it, but there seem to be certain inconsistencies in the honourable gentleman’s statement. [More…]
The only thing about which I want to make a point is this: I make no criticism of the honourable gentleman for having a family trust. [More…]
The honourable gentleman seems to misunderstand my point of criticism of him; not for having a family trust because many people have a family trust. [More…]
I think there are many legitimate reasons why a family trust can be quite proper. [More…]
The only point of criticism that I make of the honourable gentleman is that in the original National Times article he said that he did not have a family trust, but all of the subsequent evidence would seem to be that he has. [More…]
He might not have one family trust but he might have separate family trusts for each of his eight children. [More…]
If his children have a trustee as opposed to a family trust company, that makes no difference in law and in the benefits available under the various Acts relating to trustees. [More…]
-My friend, I have never hidden the fact that I have family trusts. [More…]
It is the fact that this honourable gentleman has indicated that he did not have a family trust or trusts or family trustees for his children when in fact he did. [More…]
Do you have family trusts . [More…]
I don’t have a family trust company but I do have a family of eight children. [More…]
My children have a specific personal trustee, not a family trust company. [More…]
There is a distinction between that situation and family trust companies, of which the Prime Minister is well aware. [More…]
One of his Ministers got involved in family trust companies in order to make a quick gain and to distribute it amongst his children. [More…]
He accused me of having said that all family trusts were immoral and dishonest. [More…]
What I have said is that any tax avoidance measures, including those measures, where family trusts are used for this purpose, are immoral and dishonest. [More…]
Socially the building industry contributes accommodation for about 140,000 family units each year in a healthier situation. [More…]
But some people prefer to look after their quadriplegic and paraplegic relatives at home, at enormous personal expense and inconvenience to their family life. [More…]
There was a great deal of discussion earlier today on the issue of family trusts. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made accusations against the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) which finally he had to retract because the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, whilst he has trusts for his children, does not have family trust companies for income splitting or tax avoidance purposes. [More…]
The Prime Minister admitted that he had a family trust and I would say he has. [More…]
This Budget hits hardest those who are already the disadvantaged of this nation- the low income earners, the family unit and the pensioners. [More…]
While attacking the family unit, the low income earner and the pensioner, it provides a windfall for the multinationals, such as the Utah Development Corporation, the automobile companies and the oil cartels. [More…]
Apart from the broken election promise to reduce taxation, the broken election promise to maintain Medibank, the broken election promise to phase out the means test on pensioners, the Budget places an intolerable burden on the family unit. [More…]
While the Liberal Party claims that it recognises the value of the family unit, it attempts to balance the Budget of this nation not by a resource tax on unearned profits or excessive profits but by robbing the family budget. [More…]
The abolition of the maternity allowance will hit young couples right at the start of their new family life. [More…]
The decision to tax family allowances for students receiving scholarships will hit families struggling to educate their children. [More…]
The failure to index the family allowance means a reduction in the real value of this allowance. [More…]
That will hit the family budget hard. [More…]
There will be no escape for the family even when the children become school leavers because the Treasurer (Mr Howard) has predicted that there will be a rise in the level of unemployment during the year, despite the fact that 16.5 per cent of the young people aged between 15 and 19 years are unemployed already. [More…]
While all this is going on the family will have to find more money for taxation, more money for fuel costs. [More…]
If someone in the family is in ill health they will have to find more money for medical expenses. [More…]
The people want to know why it is necessary for the Government to hit the family unit the hardest. [More…]
Speaker after speaker has supported this vicious and unfair Budget, bluffing it out in the true Nixon style, regardless of the harm to the family unit, regardless of its hidden recessionary measures, and regardless of the broken election promises. [More…]
I want family units to know that I am protesting at the treatment that they are receiving. [More…]
As for those who need social security and welfare payments, it is interesting to note that the Budget provides $8 billion to help the family, the handicapped and the aged. [More…]
Family allowances were introduced with much fanfare in 1976 and have remained at the same figures since that time, with no indexation. [More…]
At the moment in Parramatta we have 13 Commonwealth departments in rented space such as the Department of Health, the Australian Electoral Office, the Commonwealth Employment Service, the Bureau of Customs, the Family Court, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, two Medibank offices, an office of Qantas Airways Ltd, two social security offices, a branch of the Taxation Office with 1,000 people working in rented space and Telecom Australia. [More…]
In view of the statements made in the Victorian Parliament yesterday about business transactions involving the Minister and his family, will the Minister now, in the interests of this Parliament as well as of himself, table the full- I stress ‘full ‘ - statement of his affairs which was presented to the Prime Minister last year but which has not been made public so far? [More…]
The honourable gentleman might think that what I am putting, therefore, is the simple proposition: Disclose wives’ assets and family assets. [More…]
In Singapore political detainees are allowed to be visited only by their immediate family (parents, wife/husband, children, brothers and sisters), and for half an hour each week. [More…]
I will illustrate as my colleagues who have spoken in this debate have already done, how the burdens fall on pensioners and families, particularly families with young children who are the recipients of the family allowance which was substituted a couple of years ago for tax rebates based on the number of children in a family. [More…]
But the family allowance has in no way been indexed. [More…]
The Government has also gone cold on its proposal to tax family allowances according to children’s earnings. [More…]
Of course we have brought in the family allowance, a major innovation of tremendous benefit to Australian families. [More…]
Others, because of various reasons, such as the fact that they have raised a very large family or have suffered unfortunate circumstances, have reached an age at which they are completely dependent on other people for assistance. [More…]
I think that we can learn a lot from other countries where it is believed that the elderly mother or father is an integral part of the family structure. [More…]
The elderly want to be part of the family and part of the happenings associated with bringing up children. [More…]
They believe that the elderly interfere with the bringing up of the family and feel they are a burden to them. [More…]
They want to belong and they want to stay in the family structure. [More…]
Some two million or three million are probably in retirement and the rest consist of family people who are not at work. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the family’. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
He has accused the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) of inciting violence, but we have all failed to remember the spirit of generosity that was shown to the late Rex Connor and his family. [More…]
I have yet to see a member of Her Majesty’s Opposition come over and vote on our side of the House except on the Family Law Bill when four members of Her Majesty’s Opposition came over and voted with the majority of Government members in relation to a matter of conscience. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of un-Australian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘ family ‘. [More…]
b ) Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
These matters concern me and my family. [More…]
It obviously would be an expensive proposition for a man who is required to travel overseas with his family. [More…]
Not one of our Treasurers was dismissed because he had a family trust. [More…]
It may be that a family of five does not have enough money to pay the tax. [More…]
The other day I dealt at length with a particular avoidance scheme, that is, the family trust There can, of course, be genuine family trusts set up for the purpose of protecting the interests of a family as a result of a death in the family, whereby the assets of the parent who died are willed to the children or the grandchildren. [More…]
Such family trusts can be utterly and completely valid. [More…]
For example, by dividing the income from a property of, say, $60,000, which normally would attract tax at the rate of approximately 60c in the dollar, amongst four members of the family, the income is reduced to $ 1 5,000 for each of those members, which would attract a tax of 15c in the dollar. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and former Treasurer, with his land deals and family trusts, are all involved in tax avoidance. [More…]
The comment that I have made was that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) has a family trust, that he has been involved in land deals and that he has minimised his tax. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, there is nothing wrong in itself in having a family trust, which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition does. [More…]
That entry reads: ‘See Bowen family trust’. [More…]
It says: ‘See Bowen family trust’. [More…]
The only way, if there be any doubt at all, that one can get further into the matter is for that tax return of the family trust to be produced in public. [More…]
I repeat that it says: ‘See Bowen family trust’. [More…]
But a family trust does not need a company. [More…]
But the tax return says: ‘See Bowen family trust’. [More…]
Where is the tax return of the Bowen family trust? [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘family’. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lalor well knows and as members of this House well know, the affairs of my right honourable colleague and his family were subject to very exhaustive investigation and affirmation by a reputable firm of accountants, Irish, Young and Outhwaite, by a reputable firm of solicitors, Mallisons, and by Mr Stephen Charles, Q.C. [More…]
The documents and correspondence do not disclose that the Treasurer or his family interests have been involved in any transaction which in our opinion is improper, reprehensible or illegal, nor that they obtained any advantage from the transactions, pecuniary or otherwise, which might not have been obtained by any private citizen in the management of his own affairs. [More…]
I believe that the tourist promoters, whether they be large companies or family companies, have sought to build tourist attractions around the natural attractions They have sought to protect these attractions as much as possible and I believe that they have been successful in this endeavour. [More…]
I find unattractive the fact that the children of parents who receive family allowances will now be able to earn only $20 a week before their families are income tested for the family allowance and I would have preferred to see an extra increase in direct taxes rather than this kind of fiddling tax being added on. [More…]
The family reunion test generally has been accepted as a not unreasonable test to be applied in the present circumstances. [More…]
It was obvious to him that the best place for his mother was in Australia with him and his family. [More…]
His own efforts to have her brought out under the family reunion arrangements were unsuccessful. [More…]
It illustrates the problem that arises if the family reunion test is applied too rigidly. [More…]
There can be circumstances in which, although all the members of a family do not reside in Australia, important members of the family who are supporting relatives overseas are residing in Australia. [More…]
If I can take as a guide the number of representations the honourable member makes to me in relation to immigration, I am sure that he was not arguing that we should be stopping family reunion migration. [More…]
Accepting that there are genuine family trusts, does the right honourable gentleman agree that the Government is losing massive revenue as a result of the widespread use of family trusts and interlocking companies as an income-splitting technique for tax avoidance purposes? [More…]
-There are many people throughout this community, and I suspect that there are many in this Parliament, quite apart from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and others who have indicated that they have family trusts of one form or another, who believe that a family trust is necessary for the best discharge of their own family responsibilities, and the Government will not move away from that position. [More…]
We are not going to be in a position of denigrating any person with any family trust, no matter what the circumstances may be. [More…]
I acknowledge that family trusts can have a legitimate purpose where they are not used for tax avoidance measures. [More…]
Is it not a fact that an income earner with income from sources other than wages and salaries of $33,000 a year- for instance, a wealthy land holder from the Western districts of Victoria- supporting a wife and two children, one under 16 years and one over 16 years, can set up a family trust exclusively for tax avoidance measures and the tax savings through those avoidance measures would be $4,950 a year? [More…]
What steps does the Prime Minister propose to take to close off this tax avoidance which is depriving the Government of hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue so that he can avoid in future Budgets taxing sources of income of the more deprived groups such as those dependent on low income, on family allowances or on various allowances for the handicapped? [More…]
In addition, at the same time the Leader of the Opposition said that family trusts can be legitimate to avoid tax liability but they are improper and immoral. [More…]
On Sunday, 27 November 1977, during the last Federal election campaign I made a full and true disclosure of my family finances. [More…]
There is no doubt that the implementation of the recommendation of the Industries Assistance Commission would have caused widespread family and community hardship had it been fully adopted by the Government. [More…]
Mr Whiting said if growers could work their properties in their spare time, or get another member of the family to do the work, they should register for unemployment benefits. [More…]
It sought to cut back funds for the family allowances by introducing a means test on children and students but I understand that that proposal is to be revised. [More…]
It has reduced funds for family planning services by 6.3 per cent in real terms and has cut funds for children’s services by 15.5 per cent. [More…]
The demand for permanent part-time work as distinct from casual employment has increased considerably, especially among men and women with family responsibilities, single parents, people with health or domestic problems, and those wishing to update their knowledge, skills, and so on. [More…]
I know that he probably even has problems within his own conservative party, and one has to recognise the role he has to play within the Government and within the international family of nations. [More…]
1 ) How many Family Courts were operating in New South Wales as at 30 June 1978, and what were their locations. [More…]
How many judges of the Family Court in New South Wales were there as at 30 June 1978. [More…]
How many additional judges have been appointed to the Family Courts in New South Wales since 30 June 1978 and how many more are still to be appointed. [More…]
) Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Have been discredited as irresponsible in adopting a new definition of the family, i.e., ‘a varying range of people living together in relationships of commitment’, which has effectively confused the real meaning and intentions of the Report where it refers to the ‘family ‘. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
I refer the Prime Minister to his remarks yesterday on family trusts. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister reassure this House and the Australian people that he has not used his family trust for tax minimising and avoidance? [More…]
As a demonstration of his credibility in this matter, will he, as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has done, make public a statement of his assets and those of his family, as well as his taxation return last year? [More…]
I think that what the honourble gentleman is seeking to do at the moment is to establish the circumstances in which a person with a family trust should feel obliged to do what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition did. [More…]
Before the last election I never hid the fact that I had a family trust. [More…]
I made it perfectly plain also that the purposes of family trusts have generally been to hold a family’s assets together, especially in industries that have been low in profitability, as rural industries and other small industries have. [More…]
I do not know of any trust which has been established to look after the family interests which does not also have that result. [More…]
Several years ago, in the management of my family affairs, I wanted to establish circumstances in which, if it were necessary, I could remove myself from the management of those affairs. [More…]
All seven members of Mrs Truong Thi Rot’s family were beheaded. [More…]
All the eight members of Nguyen Van Tarn’s family were beheaded and the heads were put on a table for amusement. [More…]
I have sent notice to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) that I will be asking him to carry out his undertaking of 20 September to disclose the tax return of the Bowen family trust. [More…]
I make it clear that, of course, family trusts ordinarily are quite proper. [More…]
However, if one looks at Hansard one will see that on that night I said: Where is the tax return of the Bowen family trust? [More…]
That is the tax return of the Bowen family trust. [More…]
Mr Oakes described a real estate project through the family trust, including a shopping centre at Mount Gravatt, in which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said he had an equity. [More…]
One can readily see that the only way to settle that point is for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to do as he said he would and as the Prime Minister invited him to do and disclose the tax return of the Bowen family trust. [More…]
The importance of the matter is this: Only by doing what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said he would do, namely disclosing the Bowen family trust, can two issues be settled. [More…]
All I want to know is this: In accordance with the statement of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on 20 September 1978 that he would disclose the tax return of the family trust - [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that he would disclose the tax return at the time the family trust situation was raised. [More…]
That commission was set up because a Minister of the present Government allegedly had organised a rapid profit by way of a family trust which diminished his income tax. [More…]
1 ) The number of persons that have been imprisoned by order of State courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act is not conveniently available in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. [More…]
The total number of persons imprisoned by the Family Court of Australia, Territory Courts and courts of the other States under the Family Law Act since its commencement is 24. [More…]
Section 12 1 of the Family Law Act prohibits the publication of particulars of proceedings under the Act, and, accordingly, I do not propose to provide the names of persons gaoled under the provisions of the Act, except where publication has been authorised by the Court in a particular case. [More…]
I am informed that the Full Court of the Family Court authorised publication of the fact that on 24 November 1 977 Daniel Henry Kramer was imprisoned for 3 months by order of the Full Court for contempt of the Court [More…]
I refer him to his reply to a recent question to him concerning family trusts, in which he referred to the need to safeguard the interests of one’s children and family. [More…]
Since business assets and property held in the name of the husband will be able to pass within the family free of federal estate duty, could the Prime Minister explain to this House what other benefit, apart from the minimisation or avoidance of income tax, is provided by a family trust? [More…]
I must say that in my own case it was necessary to establish circumstances in which I would not be involved in the management of my own family’s affairs. [More…]
-I refer the Prime Minister to his reply to a question yesterday concerning family trusts, in which he indicated that the abolition of such trusts could affect almost two million people. [More…]
Does the fact that the latest taxation statistics show that there are 131,000 trusts mean that there are more than 15 members on average in each family taking advantage of trusts? [More…]
I have not checked the transcript of yesterday’s proceedings and I did not check the greens of the remarks I made but I think that if the honourable member looks at the transcript carefully he will see that I was mentioning family trusts, private companies and partnerships. [More…]
Many of the purposes of partnerships are interchangeable with the purposes of family trusts. [More…]
What the Opposition is trying to do now, in response to the numerous steps that this Government has taken and will continue to take over the next two years in respect of tax avoidance, is to raise the issue of family trusts. [More…]
In continuing its review of mistakes made in the 1978-79 Budget, will the Government now reverse its decision to index pensions once a year instead of twice a year- a proposal which will deny pensioners increases worth $ 100m- and will it abandon the proposal to increase the tax paid on accumulated annual leave and long service leave while the Government allows capital gains in excess of $200,000 to go undisturbed and tax avoidance family trusts immunity? [More…]
Was it an equity proposition that this Budget brought down no capital gains tax, no tax on excess profits and no action against family trusts and gave an extra $340m to oil companies while trying to tax kids and the handicapped? [More…]
We were told that $90m would be saved on family allowances. [More…]
Mr Peter Reynolds, who is a very able and competent young family man, will be standing against an invalid pensioner representing the Labor Party. [More…]
1 stress again that 100,000 family people have their names on the waiting lists of the housing commissions and [More…]
It did not take any notice of the Borrie report, of the nuclear family, as it is termed, and the fact that families will be smaller. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill cover the following: Indexation of pensions and benefits; age pensions for persons aged 70 or more; rationalisation of payments for children; family allowances, including handicapped child’s allowance and double orphan’s pension; maternity allowance; and payment of benefits in respect of children living abroad. [More…]
Existing provisions allow continuation of payment of handicapped child ‘s allowance for not more than 30 days in the case of severely handicapped children who are temporarily absent from the family home but exclude those who are not severely handicapped. [More…]
The Bill gives the Director-General discretion to continue handicapped child’s allowance in respect of any child during short absences from the family home. [More…]
In order to make provisions regarding children uniform the Government has also decided that the upper age limit of 25 years for payment of family allowance and double orphan’s pension will also apply to payment of additional pension and additional unemployment or sickness benefit for children. [More…]
It has also decided to preclude payment of family allowance and double orphan’s pension where the child receives an invalid pension. [More…]
Family allowances [More…]
The Government will continue the new scheme of family allowances which it introduced in 1976. [More…]
The Social Services Act provides that family allowance, including double orphan’s pension and handicapped child’s allowance shall be payable in respect of endowment periods as determined by the Director-General. [More…]
The Bill amends the Social Services Act to provide that family allowance be paid in respect of monthly endowment periods rather than the existing four-weekly periods. [More…]
The rates of family allowances will accordingly be expressed in monthly amounts. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the following table showing the present weekly rates and proposed monthly rates of family allowances: [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the Government’s decision that family allowance will no longer be paid for students receiving Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances or other related Commonwealth education allowances. [More…]
In order to compensate for the loss of family allowance, the rates of TEAS and other related Commonwealth education allowances are being increased by $5.25 a week. [More…]
As the Act stands at present the Department of Social Security has been advised that it is possible for two people to be paid a full family allowance for the same child at the same time. [More…]
Provisions in the Social Services Act currently enable family allowance, including handicapped child’s allowance and double orphan’s pension, and additional pension or supporting parent’s benefit or additional unemployment or sickness benefit for children to be paid for a child living abroad. [More…]
The rates of family allowances and the size of the tax rebates for dependants are set in the light of Australian conditions and, in many cases, would be over-generous having regard to the cost of maintaining a dependant overseas. [More…]
The absence of such a limit is inconsistent with the upper age limit of 25 years applied in respect of family allowance under the Social Services Act and with the 25 years age limit included in the income tax legislation. [More…]
While providing fund benefit coverage for all items in the Schedule exclusion from fund benefit of a specified sum of fund benefit entitlements- up to $500 a year (family) $250 a year (single). [More…]
Registered organisations should frame their rules so that in assessing when the exclusion has been met by the contributor it should regard a family as one unit and total the days or number of services or cost of services or days used by the whole family. [More…]
In framing rules for hospital benefit tables which include options, organisations would provide the same level of benefit exclusion for both family and single contributors under that particular table- [More…]
The next point I would like to deal with is the question of the family allowance which we have been talking about during the last few weeks. [More…]
There was criticism of the attempt to means test the family allowance. [More…]
I can understand the Government’s original proposition which aimed to exclude from receipt of the family allowance those families in respect of whom a trust had been set up to reduce taxation and therefore benefit the children. [More…]
My criticism of the family allowance scheme at present in existence in Australia is that the allowance has not been indexed as the taxation deductions it replaced about three years ago were indexed. [More…]
Therefore every family containing taxpayers is losing by the transfer to the family allowance scheme. [More…]
-The table shows clearly that, because of the Government’s failure to index family allowances, a family with one child, provided there is a taxpayer in the family, loses $2.16 a week; a family with two children loses $3.32 a week; a family with three children loses $4.48 a week and so on. [More…]
This is a significant loss and I hope that the Government will be forced by public opinion and by the Opposition to index family allowances. [More…]
Regrettably, when people cannot get jobs there are social implications which flow right back through into the family unit, and thus many people are affected adversely. [More…]
That is in relation to the dropping of the imposition of the means test on family allowances and of the income taxing of invalid and Service pensions and rehabilitation and sheltered employment allowances. [More…]
Then we had the reversal of the decision to means test family allowances. [More…]
The decision to means test family allowances was in direct contradiction of the assurance given by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
Another decision affecting disadvantaged people is the failure to index family allowances. [More…]
The value of family allowances has fallen 27 per cent since 1976. [More…]
Family planning services, in real terms, are to be cut back, as are the community health programs which are so important to women as they support women’s health centres and refuges. [More…]
Then there is the expenditure of family allowances. [More…]
As I glance through this great catalogue of cuts and curtailments in government benefits, I see, for example, that the payment of family allowances abroad is to be discontinued. [More…]
1 indicates the Government’s decision no longer to pay outside Australia family allowances, orphans’ pensions and handicapped children’s allowances unless the child is temporarily abroad, living abroad pending migration to Australia and living abroad with a person receiving the Australian pension. [More…]
We have seen that the degree of inequality of incomes is diminished by the same extent as income tax when imputed rent from owner-occupied houses are added to original family income. [More…]
He is not concerned about those who form family trusts to evade taxation. [More…]
In doing so I draw to the attention of the Committee a concern that I have expressed in recent times about the need for governments in this country to have a family policy- a policy that is designed to enable the families of the nation to achieve the objectives that they would like to achieve. [More…]
We should develop a family policy so that at least in an explicit way government actions strengthen the role that the community wants the family to perform rather than, by design or inadvertence, weaken its capacity to fulfil the role. [More…]
I believe that as an adjunct to the development of a policy for the Australian family we should institute the preparation of impact statements by government departments so that when they make policy decisions they are required to indicate the way in which they believe those decisions would affect families. [More…]
All too often we look at the effect of policies and programs on the community at large and on the individual but we often forget that they have an effect upon that small group with whom the great majority of Australians relate most; that is, their family. [More…]
I am not seeking in this debate tonight to define the very wide range of differing family configurations that might exist within the community. [More…]
We may well have to look into that question to ensure that work opportunities are adequately and equitably shared among Australian families- to ensure that each family has a fair opportunity to develop for itself and for its children the opportunities that we would all like them to have. [More…]
One of the great innovations of the Government was the family allowance. [More…]
If there had been a family impact statement we may not have been faced with a debate about the effect of certain proposals, which have now been withdrawn, in relation to the so-called ‘newsboy’. [More…]
I believe that the payment of family allowances should be continued on a universal basis. [More…]
If it is not, we place a family with dependent children in a disadvantaged position in comparison with a family that has the same income but no dependent children. [More…]
As the economy revives the purchasing power of these family allowances should be examined so that they can be maintained. [More…]
In time we will need to give consideration to increasing the family allowance paid in respect of the first child and in respect of children under the age of six. [More…]
We pay the lowest rates of family allowance in respect of the first child. [More…]
They do not just receive the family allowance. [More…]
the patterns outlined above do seem to support the case for transfer payments to serve the needs of households during the vital years of family formation. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who in this House represents the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the need for the Government to look at the total family allowance program and the need as circumstances permit to ask the question whether when we increase those benefits to maintain their real value we should not at the same time make a substantial increase in real value of the payments made in respect of the first child particularly while that first child is in the pre-school age group. [More…]
If a family is eligible for a number of separate payments, each of which tapers away as private income increases, the total reduction in the various benefits can often rise till it nearly wipes out the increase in private income. [More…]
In passing, I refer to the dropping of the iniquitous means testing of family allowances. [More…]
It is hard to accept that the original intention was simply to prevent tax avoidance by some people by the use of family trusts into which children’s unearned income is paid. [More…]
I also give an assurance to the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) that I will convey to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) in due course the views and the suggestions that he has made in regard to the way in which family allowances should be dealt. [More…]
She is promoting the integrated, loving and caring family unit as the soundest place in which to bring up children. [More…]
She advocates that children should at all times be protected by the family, by society and by law from exploitation. [More…]
I am sure that I speak for all honourable members in this House -I hope so anyway- when I say that it is agreed that a decent family life and legal protection from salacious exploitation are the very least we owe our Australian children. [More…]
Surely the decent ALP members in this House can be ashamed of the student club either for its unintelligent foolishness in thoughtlessly condemning something on which it did not bother to get some hard facts; or worse, for its implicit support for the disgusting exploitation that Mrs Whitehouse opposes and its implicit denial of the value of the family as the basic unit of society and the best haven for the growing child. [More…]
Mrs Whitehouse seeks to protect the family. [More…]
before suggesting that the family . [More…]
Given inflation, the product of inflated land values and the extent of capitalisation in agriculture, this investment is one which most family farmers find more and more difficult to encompass under normal lending circumstances. [More…]
Bank, the family farmer will be able to look to the future with considerably more confidence than would otherwise have been possible. [More…]
A reduction in medical insurance rates of $2.80 a week for a family was announced yesterday by the first major NSW health fund to have new tables approved. [More…]
One of the major reasons is that it will not close off one of the most important means of tax evasion in this country, that is, family trusts. [More…]
It is very obvious that the family trust mechanism is being used as a means of avoiding taxation and that this is costing this country many hundreds of millions if not thousands of millions of dollars in revenue. [More…]
It has done so because it is losing such massive amounts in revenue from the use of the family trust mechanism as a means of avoiding taxation. [More…]
But let us look at when the proliferation of the use of trusts and family trusts occurred. [More…]
As a practicing accountant at that time, I can certify that these family trusts found their basic origin and their growth in the years when the ordinary individual was being overtaxed. [More…]
The family trust or the trust structure is no different from a private company or a public company structure in which the income is spread over a greater area. [More…]
I believe that the fact that we have not recognised certain alterations which should be made in the companies structure has led to family trusts being created so that these tax concessions can be gained in practically the same way they are gained in companies. [More…]
We should have legislation which provides for one basic tax rate on income, whether on the basis of capital gains or otherwise, with a ceiling to ensure that a family or an individual is allowed to earn a certain income free of tax. [More…]
Dealing firstly with the unfairness of the proposals, they penalise wage and salary earners, and in a severe way in many cases, but they allow privileged opportunities like capital gains, excess profits generated by mineral development companies in this country, windfall gains as additions to the profits of oil companies derived because of arrangements instituted by this Government, and family trusts to go scot free. [More…]
There are certain basic outlays they must make, especially if they have a family, for bread, butter, milk, eggs and flour, the staple essentials necessary to keep any family going. [More…]
Accordingly, that is the whole tactic behind the thrust of Government fiscal thinking at present, a shift of the burden of fiscal responsibility away from the wealthy, away from the high income earners like the Prime Minister who in any case pays very little tax because of the tax avoidance devices he has been able to establish like his family trust- and on to the shoulders of the middle and modest income earners and especially on to the low income earners in the community. [More…]
What I would like to see the Government moving towards is a resource tax raising $ 150m; to eliminate the crude oil levy windfall gain to the oil development companies of $340m; to impose a capital gains tax on gains in excess of $200,000, raising $300m; to adjust the highest levels of personal income tax to raise $200m; to abolish the investment allowance, $400m; to abolish tax avoidance through family trusts, $100m-$l,490,000 as against the imposition of the direct increases in personal tax and denying pensioners and employment beneficiaries and other social welfare beneficiaries of benefits amounting to about $l,140m. [More…]
A family receiving $175 a week will pay 7.3 per cent more tax while a family receiving $300 a week will pay only 5.6 per cent more tax. [More…]
A family receiving a salary of $1,000 a week will pay only 3.2 per cent more tax. [More…]
In 1976 64 per cent of post graduate scholars were married … 40 per cent of scholars are supporting a family while undertaking post graduate studies. [More…]
There is only one scheme about which I wish the Treasurer would do something, and I refer to the matter of family trusts. [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) has been most outspoken about the lack of action by the Government in respect of family trusts, particularly as they relate to some members of this Parliament. [More…]
I ask the Treasurer to give consideration at an early date to doing something about the family trust legislation. [More…]
The need does not exist at the present time for the setting up of family trusts if the reason given for doing so is that a taxpayer wants to make sure that his estate is not dissipated. [More…]
When a situation exists where there is no estate duty, then there is not the necessity for family trusts to be incorporated. [More…]
I suggest that the Treasurer might give consideration to the introduction of legislation to prevent the racket, and it is a racket, of family trusts being instituted. [More…]
How many and what percentage of total net migrant arrivals were admitted to Australia in the following categories during 1977-78: (a) family reunion; (b) refugees; (c) occupationally eligible; (d) New Zealanders; (e) specially approved cases and (0 other. [More…]
1 ) Has the New South Wales Aboriginal Family Education Centres Federation informed the Regional Director (Eastern), Department of Aboriginal Affairs, that it decided on 6 April 1 978 to refuse Federal funding for the last quarter of 1978-79. [More…]
Has the Federation been an autonomous allAboriginal self-help movement since 1969 emphasising aboriginality and family education especially for infants and their parents, run mainly by people supporting themselves by taking menial contract work despite having done special training at Sydney University. [More…]
The Federation was formed in 1974 to support local Aboriginal family education centres using materials and methods originally prepared in association with the Adult Education Department of the University of Sydney. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say whether (a) a Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement official instructed or advised Hubert Dooley, a driver employed at Woorabinda, to take Jane Ray, her grandson and Caroline Saunders with him on the front seat of a hearse carrying a coffin containing the body of Mrs Ray’s late younger brother, Ruben Salmon, from Rockhampton to Woorabinda on 2 August 1978 for a funeral; (b) the vehicle was stopped several kilometres from Woorabinda and the 4 occupants ordered by the Sergeant of police and/or Manager from Woorabinda to alight and burn their belongings; if so, why; (c) Robert Bundle, Chairman of Woorabinda Council, and others engaged Mr Jeremy Harper, solicitor, of the Aboriginal and Islander Legal Service, Rockhampton, to obtain redress for Mrs Ray, Mrs Saunders and Mr Dooley for their loss, intimidation and mistreatment; (d) some of these persons, whose employment, housing and other aspects of personal and family security depend on the Woorabinda Manager, after speaking with the then Manager, Mr Topham, reversed their requests to Mr Harper; (e) Mr Topham advised Mr Harper that Mr Dooley had withdrawn his request for legal aid because he had not understood the full ramifications of what he was saying; (0 Mr Dooley has been demoted from his job as driver to work at the cemetery; if so, when and why; (g) Mr Bundle improperly took from canteen takings $130 with Mr Topham ‘s knowledge, to recompense Mrs Ray in part for her loss and $30 to recompense Mr Dooley in part for his loss of belongings burnt on the roadside; (h) the goods burnt included two blankets and a nightgown given to Mrs Saunders before she left hospital in Brisbane to return to Woorabinda via Rockhampton, Mrs Ray’s suitcase, clothing she had bought for the funeral, a $20 note, the shoes Mrs Ray was wearing and her other belongings except the clothes she wore, a [More…]
Bible, a family photograph and camera which she hid behind a log and recovered later; (i) the Manager and or Sergeant refused Mrs Ray, who had travelled all night from Townsville for the funeral, a lift into Woorbinda ‘to hear the singing for her brother’ but offered to hold up the funeral until another vehicle picked her up; (j ) the funeral service in fact finished before she arrived; (k) a crowd gathered outside the office to demonstrate their anger, causing the Sergeant to send for police reinforcements; (1) the Manager requested a number of Woorabinda people, Mr Ray and a Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs liaison officer, who has since left the settlement, to sign a statement exonerating him; (m) Mr Dooley signed such a statement which he did not fully understand; (n) others signed and some refused to sign these statements; (o) the Woorabinda community is so oppressed by the Queensland laws and settlement regulations, which have been condemned by the Commissioner for Community Relations as contrary to international human rights, that they fear for their homes, jobs and safety to the extent that they are unwilling to testify to the oppression while the Sergeant remains in authority there, and (p) several complaints have been made to police, to the Aboriginal and Islander Legal Service and to Mr N. Blair, National Aboriginal Congress representative, about Sergeant O’Shea exploiting financially, intimidating, illtreating and procuring wrongful convictions of Woorabinda residents. [More…]
I can see no reason why the Opposition should attempt, first in my case and then, going down the line, in the case of some other Ministers, to establish by selective questioning of this kind a particular circumstance, and to reveal circumstances which to this point are the affairs of a person or a person ‘s family. [More…]
It happened with the proposal concerning the family allowance and the earnings of people such as newspaper boys. [More…]
Mothers and infants will be denied maternity benefits so that the tax avoidance family trusts, devices used with such great effect by the Prime Minister and the deputy leader of his Party, can be preserved. [More…]
Students from poor homes and on austere students’ benefits will have family allowances withdrawn but well off people who have no real need, comparatively, for those benefits will remain unaffected. [More…]
This Bill denies family allowances to students in receipt of student allowances such as allowances made under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme but it leaves the wealthy alone. [More…]
If a member of this Parliament decides he wants to provide, say, $3,000 a year for one of his children who is attending university or a college of advanced education, the family allowance for that child will still be intact. [More…]
Yet we find that because of the tight means testing arrangements and because of the changes to the arrangements for the payment of family allowances people in receipt of TEAS allowances- that is, very simply stated, people among the least well off in the community- will find that they will be deprived of the family allowance. [More…]
Two dependent members of a family, where those two dependent members are drawing on TEAS allowances, will as a result of this change and because of the failure to adjust TEAS allowances adequately to offset cost of living changes in the last few years will be $10 a week worse off. [More…]
Again, this Bill totally ignores family allowances. [More…]
In real terms a family is worse off now as against 1975 by between $2.96 in the case of one dependent child and $7.86 in the case of three dependent children if one makes an allowance for the child endowment and tax rebate which Labor introduced in late 1975 and which were effective from the beginning of 1976, updated according to cost of living movements and measured against the family allowances paid at the present time. [More…]
This Bill is an assault against the family. [More…]
The Budget is consistent with the erosion of the position of the family overall as a result of various initiatives taken in this Budget. [More…]
It is families who will suffer because the students receiving allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme will no longer receive the family allowance. [More…]
Everything that it has done in the welfare field, including the effects of the taxation adjustments, erodes the position of the family, and especially the position of the middle and the modest income families. [More…]
In that way, family allowances could have been adjusted in some respect at least. [More…]
If family trusts which are used as tax avoidance measures- family trusts are so beloved by so many members on the Government side of the chamber for that reason- were abolished another $100m of revenue would be available. [More…]
It may also seem that we have something of an obsession in respect of family trusts where they are used not for legitimate purposes but as tax avoidance measures. [More…]
I pointed out in the House a little while ago in the course of this session that it is possible for a man who is supporting a wife and two children and who earns $33,000 a year from sources other than wages and salaries effectively to avoid $4,950 of his tax liability by exploiting one of his tax avoidance devices- a family trust. [More…]
It had three years in government to do something about family trusts but it did nothing about them. [More…]
Indeed I suggest that we might think in terms of allowing the family allowance at some time in the future, when finances permit, to be paid during the period when women are expecting a child so as to assist them with preliminary expenses. [More…]
The Government talks a lot about the family. [More…]
Just before election time it came out and found royal commission reports, et cetera, which allegedly were supported by the Labor Party and which may have had some adverse effect on the family. [More…]
As far as the family is concerned, by not indexing family allowances, which replaced indexed taxation deductions, the Government is reducing the value of those family allowances. [More…]
-The table shows quite clearly that every taxpaying family in this country will lose a significant amount of money because of the Government’s failure to index family allowances. [More…]
That is $5.16 per week per child for a taxpaying family. [More…]
Under our scheme, a family with one child would have received a tax rebate of $5. [More…]
All that that family receives now is $3.50 a week. [More…]
There is a loss to the family of $2.16 a week. [More…]
A family with two children would have been entitled to a tax rebate of $10.32 a week, with child endowment of $1 for the second child and 50c for the first child, making a total of $11.82 a week. [More…]
That family now receives $3.50 for the first child and $5 for the second child, making a total of $8.50 a week. [More…]
There is a loss to the family of $3.32 a week. [More…]
Similarly, for a family with three children there is a loss of $4.48, for a family with four children a loss of $5.89, for a family with five children a loss of $6.55, and for a family with six children a loss of $7.46 a week. [More…]
That represents a net loss to every taxpaying family in this country and is in addition to the extra taxation which is being levied. [More…]
What is the Government doing about family allowances in this Budget? [More…]
It is not indexing family allowances; it is abolishing family allowances for those children in receipt of allowances under prescribed educational schemes. [More…]
The parents of those students will lose the family allowance from now on. [More…]
The Government is taking away the family allowance from the parents of students who are entitled to an allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, and we all know that a severe means test is applied under that Scheme. [More…]
In other words, the Government is taking away the family allowance from those parents whose children qualify to receive a benefit under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and other schemes, yet it is not removing the family allowance from those people who earn much more. [More…]
If a parent earns a very large amount of money, earns too much for his student child to receive the TEAS allowance, and is able to send his child to university or to some other tertiary institution, there is no attempt to remove the family allowance. [More…]
However, the family allowance payable to those parents who qualify under the means test will actually be removed. [More…]
The table emphasises the desperate situation of the family where the usual income earner is unemployed. [More…]
Family allowances which have been introduced on a nonmeans tested basis are not being indexed. [More…]
One can go on to refer to the elimination of family allowances for students under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
This represents a saving to the Government in this year of perhaps $30m which could have made a difference to many people ‘s family income. [More…]
It means that not only can people not afford to live independently but also when they go back into their family situation they are then dependent upon their families. [More…]
There are 1,756,000 pensioners in Australia and 4,305,000 children are covered by the various family allowance and assistance schemes. [More…]
Mention has been made of family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances are part and parcel of our scheme. [More…]
I advance the thought to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) who are at the table, that when considering forward planning for good, decent living for all Australian people, they bear in mind that under the arrangements for the payment of family allowances and tertiary assistance there is some discrimination against big families. [More…]
We find under the existing arrangements that no family can receive at one and the same time a family allowance and a Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance, that the one child family is better off by $1.75 a week, that the two-child family is better off by 25c a week and that the five-child family is worse off by $ 1.75 a week. [More…]
Students in the last two years of secondary school can still get the family and student allowances and I hope that those people who are facing traumas because of incorrect information on the subject sent out by Opposition members from time to time can take heart from the fact that families can still receive the student allowance in respect of secondary school children as well as the family allowance. [More…]
I offer the suggestion that for future planning we should consider the indexation of family allowances. [More…]
If we want to encourage Australian families and encourage mothers to stay at home we must index family allowances. [More…]
In 1974 it reduced the education expenses allowance from $400 to $150 per annum again discriminating against the large family. [More…]
There is no greater resource than a good, large family with the mother staying at home to look after it. [More…]
The taxation system needs to be one that taxes the family rather than the individual. [More…]
I want to uphold the social security part of this Budget as a decision by a Government which wants to preserve basic family life, which wants to look after old people and which looks after old people in its total concept, not in isolation, but as part and parcel of fiscal responsibility wherein each and everyone has a special right and a special role to play. [More…]
What is (a) the total office size, (b) the rental cost for (i) the year 1977-78 and (ii) the period 1 July 1978 to date, (c) the administrative costs, and (d) the number of staff temporary and permanent, in occupation of the following Commonwealth offices within the Electoral Division of Parramatta: (A) the Acoustic Laboratory of the Department of Health, 68 Macquarie Street, (B) the Australian Electoral Office, 28 George Street, (C) the Commonwealth Employment Service, 30 Darcy Street, (D) the Bureau of Customs, 30 Darcy Street, (E) the Family Court of Australia, (F) the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, 23 George Street, (G) Medibank, S3 Phillip Street, (H) Medibank, Church Street, (I) Qantas, 20 Macquarie Street, (J) the Department of Social Security, 68 Macquarie Street, (K) the Department of Social Security, Level 6, Westfield Centre, (L) Telecom Australia,5th Floor, 30 Darcy Street and (M) the Taxation Office, 126 Church Street. [More…]
I think that it should be said first of all that we all share in the distress that the tragic death of Miss Phillips has caused her family. [More…]
Certainly I hope that he would, having read the publicity, think twice about the threats he has offered with respect to his own life and think whether perhaps he would not be better to give himself up for the sake of his family and prevent the furtherance of an incident such as that which affected the poor Miss Phillips. [More…]
If you are in real trouble- I don’t mean just like the drinking charge I read about a few months back, but something that your own people can’t help with- something which might be helped by a white man interested in hearing blackfeller secrets if they want to tell him and willing to tell whitefeller secrets if people want to hear them-then I would like you to think of me as a former family doctor who had a large following of Aboriginal patients years ago, who took time to explain things to them and who would like to be thought of as your friend whether our politics is the same or not. [More…]
-I inform the House of the following nominations of senators and members to be members of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act: Senators Davidson, Missen and Walters have been nominated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
-Clauses 21 and 22 abolish maternity allowances and clause 23 abolishes family allowances for certain persons receiving benefits under prescribed educational schemes. [More…]
But when we take that in conjunction with the continuing reduction in the amount of money available to a family under the family allowance scheme as a result of the nonindexation of family allowances, there is a significant loss of spending money for the family. [More…]
Clause 23 seeks to abolish the payment of the family allowance for those students who are covered by certain prescribed education schemes. [More…]
Yet, these families will be unable to receive benefits in respect of the family allowance. [More…]
These families which do not qualify under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, for example, will still receive the family allowance in respect of their children. [More…]
The question of means testing the family allowance was raised in another context in the Budget, and we all know that the Government changed its mind on the question of the abolition of the family allowance as far as the income of children is concerned. [More…]
We all know that there are other sections of the community in respect of which the Government would be quite reasonably justified in abolishing the family allowance. [More…]
I refer to the case in which the child is being used as part of a tax avoidance scheme and has significant income via a family trust or some othersimilarmethod.Itisverydifficulttojustify the payment of the family allowance to such families. [More…]
I certainly hope the Government will continue to look for some fairer method of means testing the family allowance. [More…]
I again emphasise the fact that we are dealing with the abolition of the family allowance in the case of those families which have already passed a means test. [More…]
However, there will be no abolition of the family allowance in the case of other families whose children are attending tertiary institutions up to the age of 25 years. [More…]
However, I want to say in fairness to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) who is at the table and who has shown himself to be remarkably sensitive and responsive to the needs of the community, that I believe he more than perhaps any other Minister would watch closely the impact of the alteration with respect to the family allowance scheme on young persons who are qualifying for assistance under education schemes. [More…]
For instance, the Government could have considered increasing the size of the family allowance to a decent amount to aid lower income families during a pregnancy and after the birth. [More…]
We were told that a government, many of whose Ministers are very experienced in the operation of family trusts they know how they work all sat down and decided that what they were concerned to do was to - [More…]
In order to illustrate the point I am pointing out that many of the Ministers of this Government were very fully informed as to the operation of family trusts. [More…]
They said that what they were really out to attack was the operation of family trusts and funds in the hands of children. [More…]
As from 1 January 1 979, there will be no dual payment of TEAS allowance and family allowance. [More…]
In order to compensate for the loss of family allowance the rates of TEAS allowance for 1979 have been increased by the equivalent of $5.25 a week. [More…]
However, in order to prevent the need to recover any family allowance which may have been paid to the student’s mother over that period, the arrears of TEAS allowance will be paid at the 1978 rates with the increased rates for 1979 applying from March onwards. [More…]
The Department of Education will liaise closely with the Department of Social Security in order to prevent the situation arising in which an overpayment of family allowances may occur. [More…]
The increase of $5.25 a week in the rates of TEAS allowance for 1 979 will correspond to the average amount of family allowances lost. [More…]
-We of the Opposition oppose clause 25 because it denies payment of the family allowance in respect of a dependant receiving a benefit under the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
A family receiving an income of $8,600 a year- that is the threshold of the means test operative in relation to TEAS payments- and having a dependent child receiving a TEAS payment will lose its family allowance. [More…]
Yet the dependent children of a family with an income of $40,000 a year will not be eligible to receive TEAS payments but will still be eligible for the family allowance. [More…]
The dependent children of a family receiving an income of $40,000 or more a year will be eligible to receive a family allowance but not eligible for a TEAS allowance. [More…]
The dependent children of a family on an income of” $8,600 or less a year will be eligible to receive a TEAS allowance but will not be eligible to receive the family allowance. [More…]
Clearly the children in the lower income family should still be eligible to receive the family allowance. [More…]
How pious the Prime Minister sounds when he pontificates about the need to hold the family farm together. [More…]
But I do say that we have to ensure that the young people, the family breadwinners and the people who have worked for many years but who. [More…]
But I think that quite often extra expenses are involved for a family when someone from the family is a patient in hospital. [More…]
There is no loss of income but there is a loss so far as the family is concerned. [More…]
I realise also that a saving is involved for the family because the husband does not have to be fed during the time he is hospitalised. [More…]
This was a method of not only averaging our costs over the community at a given time, but also averaging costs for each family over a lifetime rather than paying most at a time when it has least resources to call upon. [More…]
My advice is that unless those persons have members of the family who are chronically ill or who are likely to require surgery under private conditions, they should certainly not take out medical cover. [More…]
In passing, I make the comment that this particular piece of legislation will increase the cost of that cover by 75c or 80c a week for a family because of the removal of the subsidy. [More…]
Let us assume that things are bad as far as one family is concerned and a member of the family has major surgery requiring an anaesthetist, an assistant, a couple of tests, all involving an expenditure of $100 or $120. [More…]
But if this sort of attitude becomes prevalent I would think that a number of people, particularly family groups who would not have the financial resources to withstand some of the bouts of illness or accidents that occur from time to time, could be enticed not to insure. [More…]
The abolition of the levy of 2.5 per cent will mean a minimum saving of some $150 for a single person or $300 for the family man. [More…]
The view expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) yesterday really related to the fact that in his moments of relaxation the Prime Minister might watch those television shows which deal with the old family doctor operating in a small rural hamlet or in a country town where he is intimately associated with not merely the medical condition of all the people who live there but also their social and economic problems. [More…]
It seems to me to be absurd to say that if a medical practitioner arrives at a house at 10 o’clock at night he must make some sort of a judgment about whether the family is socially disadvantaged. [More…]
For almost three years, this Government has been lying to the people about its economic policies, unemployment, interest rates, the illusion of tax cuts, pensions and the professed concern of the Prime Minister for the average Australian family. [More…]
We have a Prime Minister who talks glibly about good housekeeping and balancing the family budget, yet in three years he has increased Australia’s debt to more than $4,000m. [More…]
A person with a family income of $8,000 a year and with an average loan of near enough to $ 1 7,500 will be paying $6.77 a week extra as a result of the abolition of that benefit we introduced. [More…]
Finally, let me quote the case of a family with an income of $10,000 a year and an average size loan of $21,800. [More…]
That family would be paying $5.64 a week extra as a result of the loss of the benefit of the housing interest mortgage subsidy. [More…]
Relief from death duties and gift duties in my State of Queensland has helped to keep family enterprises together. [More…]
There is mounting anger and frustration among the thousands of small family grapegrowers of the South Australian Riverland as they face another year of poverty and hardship. [More…]
If a doctor refuses to do this generally or refuses to do it in the case of a particular person or a particular family, the 40 per cent or $20 gap Commonwealth benefit arrangement applies. [More…]
When he returned he found that all of the family property in that country had been destroyed by the Nazis and his father had been shot by the Gestapo. [More…]
Although these payments which are taxed are coming from the Dutch Government as compensation for what he and his family suffered during the war, people who receive compensation payments from the West German Government as victims of Nazi atrocities apparently have those payments exempted from income tax. [More…]
Proper maternity leave provisions ensure that women, in whom the Government has made a considerable investment in terms of training and development of expertise, are afforded employment protection by being able to continue in Commonwealth employment while also raising a family. [More…]
Obviously, individual schools would not discriminate among their pupils on the basis of the size of the parents’ income and would receive from the government the same basic sum whether a pupil was from a wealthy family or not. [More…]
This system would draw education funding away from a concentration on the needs of schools to a concern for the needs of the individual family. [More…]
It is only fair that if an Aboriginal family can afford to send its children to boarding school it should receive no more aid than the equivalent non-Aboriginal family living in the same area. [More…]
Historically and linguistically it is an extremely important language- it is a Semitic language, as honourable members would know- but very rarely taught although there are thousands of children in Lalor ‘s schools whose family tongue is Maltese. [More…]
He ignores the fact that in most cases- certainly it is the case in my electorate- if married women are working they are doing so to sustain the income of the family and not to keep kids out of work. [More…]
If they were to move away from their present employment the whole family would go down the drain. [More…]
They often made effective use of interiors in their family home, Drummoyne House. [More…]
Retirement at age 55 works well in Japan, where it is the norm, because the Japanese family is essentially three generational. [More…]
This is not the pattern of family life in Australia where work is an essential prop for most people. [More…]
This leads us to the concept of the guaranteed minimum income, that is, that each family ought to have a minimum income based on its reasonable needs, irrespective of how many members work, so as to keep up current levels of consumption. [More…]
He then goes on to say that if one does not come from a good family background one is at a disadvantage in becoming a lawyer, because one has not learnt the traditions of learning and scholarship which, to a considerable degree, are transmitted by the family. [More…]
He complains about the flooding of the profession by persons who, without either professional family association or inadequate indoctrination, have acquired the often dangerous skills put in the hands of lawyers. [More…]
Of course, we want the law to have persons who represent high standards in the community regardless of their background, family, race, colour or creed. [More…]
What is wrong with loyalty to the family? [More…]
Would we not have less divorce and less trouble in our community if many of the people in the community adopted some of the extended family type activities of migrants? [More…]
The Chairman, the honourable Kevin Cairns, is unavoidably absent due to illness in his family. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I table two papers: One titled ‘Means and Needs Test and Contributions Guidelines’ and the other titled ‘Solicitors’ fees in Matters under the Family Law Act 1975’. [More…]
The need for legal aid is not as urgent in dissolution cases as in many other family law proceedings, such as custody, access, maintenance, property settlement and injunction matters. [More…]
The procedure to dissolve a marriage is now very simple and it is believed that most people will be able to handle the work themselves, with assistance where necessary from the Family Court staff. [More…]
A court fee of $ 100 is payable to the Family Court in respect of proceedings for dissolution of marriage, but where the applicant has been granted legal aid for those proceedings the applicant is exempt from payment of the fee. [More…]
The Family Law Regulations at present provide for the fee to be not payable where the Registrar of the Family Court is satisfied that payment of the fee would impose substantial hardship on the applicant, and that provision will remain. [More…]
Solicitors who act for clients who are in receipt of legal aid from the Australian Legal Aid Office are paid 90 per cent of the fees payable under the Family Law (Costs) Regulations. [More…]
Also, in the Family Court and other superior courts much of the work can properly be handled by solicitors. [More…]
It is desired to encourage as far as possible the settlement of ancillary matters under the Family [More…]
Aid for property applications will initially be granted up to the stage of a conference under regulation 96 of the Family Law Regulations. [More…]
Again the Government has talked about legal aid being concerned with the real problems in family law. [More…]
It is desired to encourage as far as possible the settlement of ancillary matters under the Family Law Act, that is, custody, access, injunction and property settlement matters. [More…]
As the report stated, so far as road transport is concerned, the family car will be the main mode of transport. [More…]
I am not suggesting that it is a family arrangement, but a Mrs Katter seems to be connected with the project. [More…]
There are numerous cases where subscribers do not recognise that there has been a change of circumstances in their family or in their business where there could have been an increase in the number of calls for which charges are levied. [More…]
It has been conceded again by the AttorneyGeneral’s Department that over 80 per cent of funds allocated for legal aid are expended in the family law jurisdiction. [More…]
This is what is going to occur in the area of family law. [More…]
What an extraordinary thing it is for the Government to be changing the guidelines in respect of the operation of family law when only a few weeks ago we established an all-party parliamentary committee to look at the operation of family law. [More…]
I would have thought that the rights of people to legal aid under the Family Law Act are a major factor. [More…]
By way of illustration- there are plenty of them- the Family Courts are particularly disadvantaged, with two judges sitting, reportedly doing the work of five. [More…]
In that time he has had to bring up a teenage family. [More…]
His family has grown up in the meantime and he is still waiting. [More…]
We have intentionally produced policies designed to help the little man, the family farmer who, over the years, has contributed to making this nation what it is. [More…]
Here, as in the United States, the family farm remains the predominant form of ownership and operation. [More…]
In the Bulletin of 24 October and in the Australian Broadcasting Commission program AM of 18 October it was asserted that I had been asked to show cause why I should not be prosecuted under the Companies Act for offences arising from the affairs of private family companies. [More…]
In a question in this House on 25 October, as reported at page 2260 of Hansard, the Leader of the Opposition referred to ‘sums of at least $164,000 gained by the Minister or by his family’. [More…]
Withdrawals have been made to the account of the Sinclair Pastoral Co. and me from the $183,534 standing to the credit of my family interests in the Reliance group accounts. [More…]
The withdrawals were entirely within the credit due to my family interests. [More…]
I can assure him that at successive meetings at which all shareholders, including representatives of the Walsh family, were present, the appointment of Mr Torok was agreed on by resolution of all the shareholders. [More…]
-To the best of my knowledge, all members of the Walsh family have agreed with the resolutions which were supported on their behalf by those who attended the meetings of the companies to which I referred. [More…]
Despite all the changes to the health insurance system, despite universality, despite the fact that they could have obtained universal cover for a family for a maximum of $300 a year, the majority of the people covered themselves for more expensive health insurance. [More…]
Obviously we are not going to stand by and allow a fund to penalise a family that has been contributing for 10 years to a table above the basic table. [More…]
A reduction to 15 per cent would mean about $600 less being spent on the purchase of a family car. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is this Mr Haylen whom his staff could not identify the same Mr Haylen who is a chartered accountant appointed by the Minister to represent his family interests in the examination of the business affairs of the Sinclair Pastoral Co.? [More…]
Is he representing certain family interests of the Minister in the examination of certain business affairs involving the Minister? [More…]
At each of those meetings a resolution was passed, with the complete support of the representatives of the Walsh family group, appointing Mr Torok as representative in all matters pertaining to the inquiry before Mr Finnane, that is the Corporate Affairs Commission inquiry instigated by the New South Wales Attorney-General. [More…]
possibility of a family policy being introduced in Australia. [More…]
In my opinion, any government which ignored its responsibility regarding the preservation of the family unit as being the basis of a healthy society would be doing this country a great disservice. [More…]
If families happen to be better off at the moment as a result of the amalgam of policies put forward from time to time from the variety of portfolios which affect family circumstances, I say that it is due more to good luck than to good management. [More…]
Many portfolios have an indirect effect on family circumstances. [More…]
But even if we confine ourselves to those departments which have a direct effect on family circumstances, both financially and legally, one can see that there are several departments which should share a coordinated approach to family preservation policies. [More…]
These are just eight departments which, through Government policies, have a direct effect on family circumstances. [More…]
One can ask: Do they act in a coordinated way with respect to support for the preservation of the family unit? [More…]
As I suggested earlier, if changes to direct taxation levels, changes to the health insurance scheme, changes in pensions or family allowances, changes in education funding and other measures all combine either to improve or disadvantage the circumstances of individual families, it is more a coincidence than reasoned social policy. [More…]
Quite clearly, therefore, as part of a national family policy, it is necessary for government policies which directly affect the family unit to be subjected to a family impact statement. [More…]
I am sure that this Government would be sympathetic to any suggestion aimed at preserving the family unit. [More…]
Governments are very long on rhetoric in this regard and many leaders speak very emotionally about the declining state of the family in a trendy and permissive world but nothing ever seems to be done about it. [More…]
Certainly, it could be argued as part of a population policy for Australia but primarily I would support such policies simply because of my belief in the concept of the family unit. [More…]
to protect the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society. [More…]
That is the basis of my contention that Australia should have a national family policy. [More…]
Apart from the introduction of family impact statements, more positive steps could be taken through the income support system or the taxation system. [More…]
Nowhere is the neglect of the family unit better seen than in the area of tax policy. [More…]
But the needs of the State and the needs of the family are not incompatible and both can be reasonably catered for, even in times of economic restraint. [More…]
In the area of income support, selectivity in transfer payments can be applied or, through the taxation system, the family could receive some recognition rather than just individuals, without prejudicing fiscal policy. [More…]
But at the moment, there is no question as to where the family unit stands. [More…]
If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates, and a couple with one income and the benefits of rebates accruing to their family of say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to others. [More…]
But more than this, governments should be able to ensure that the position of the single-income family should not progressively deteriorate and should not be discriminated against by default, by lack of government concern, or by lack of compensating fiscal action compared to the two-income family. [More…]
In this context, I think we should recall that the Henderson inquiry identified the large, single-income family as a major poverty group in society. [More…]
Of course, the two-income family will always be better off. [More…]
I am concerned that governments could, almost by accident and in the absence of family policy, create a positive disincentive for those young families at the margin, where a choice can be made, who wish to opt for the one-income situation. [More…]
Because the personal tax system is based on the individual rather than the family as a tax unit, the position of the single-income family becomes very dependent on rebate systems which historically do not cater adequately for rising costs of dependency or for the declining value of money. [More…]
At present, I fear that that choice is not being given and this constitutes a continuing and growing threat to the family unit. [More…]
This is better than a system of increasing the spouse rebate for those who have the care of children because it creates an element of horizontal equity which does not exist under the present system where some income earners are able to split their incomes and others, with similar family responsibilities, cannot split their incomes. [More…]
I strongly recommend in the context of these remarks that the Government consider the introduction of a national family policy as soon as possible. [More…]
I probably will be branded as being out-of-date, old-fashioned, not trendy enough or permissive enough, but I submit very strongly that it is absolutely critical for the future stability and health of Australian society that governments as last begin to recognise the role of the family unit in Australian society. [More…]
The inmates (8 at present) are aged 1 5-20 years, both male and female, and are either ex-institutional kids, have no parents, or a history of family conflict and breakdown. [More…]
Other residents are country kids, transients (and travellers) and victims of home and family breakdowns. [More…]
It is thought that this would have a bad effect on the therapeutic, family atmosphere maintained for the the [More…]
WCA operate a 6 room family house for threatened, battered and raped women with children in Brisbane (SHELTA). [More…]
This figure takes no account of the family allowance scheme which provides mothers with significantly higher benefits than the old child endowment. [More…]
Many women find it essential to return to work after having a child because they are family breadwinners or because the survival of the family depends upon two incomes. [More…]
Proper maternity leave provisions ensure that women, in whom the Government has made a considerable investment in terms of training and development of expertise, are afforded employment protection by being able to continue in Commonwealth employment while also raising a family. [More…]
With modern family planning methods it would be simple to join the Public Service, remain there for 12 months and then become pregnant; so the Government is not going to close that. [More…]
We need to accept that many married women work because their husband’s wages are too low to support their family. [More…]
But even this argument ignores the genuine and pressing desire of modern women who find self-fulfilment in active careers outside the family unit. [More…]
A great deal of the changes occurring in Swedish family policy have been prompted by this trend. [More…]
It has been commonly agreed that no financial support for families can match the earnings of a family where both parents are able to go out to work. [More…]
the important point is that the issue of joint family responsibility in raising children should be encouraged. [More…]
The provision is in tune with the more miserable of the Budget changes, such as the abortive attempt to impose a tax on paperboys through penalising their mothers and removing their family allowance. [More…]
The rationale for its policy is to encourage persons with family responsibilities to work outside the home. [More…]
One of the reasons why the Minister for Primary Industry was able to achieve agreement was that the trading banks would handle not only the refinancing of development but also the normal day to day operations of the man on the land and his family. [More…]
We wanted to keep the family unit on the farm so that, on the death of the senior representative of the family, the surviving members would be able to obtain the facilities necessary to provide for probate and similar matters. [More…]
Quite frankly, they will not give up- quite rightly I believe- conditions that they have won over many years, conditions which accept the fact that weekends are a time for sport, recreation and leisure, a time to spend with one ‘s family; that if they are to be forced to work at those times they are entitled to some form of compensation therefor. [More…]
What is the estimated cost to revenue of the decision to drop the proposed means test on family allowances (a) in its original form and (b) as subsequently proposed at $20 per week. [More…]
It also appears clear to me, although I have not expressed the view to any member of your family or to Mr (Ian) Sinclair at the present time, but it seems perfectly clear to me that with the exception of you, everybody else has got their heads together and have agreed, not to give false evidence so much, as to agree to present a common front. [More…]
It appears to me perfectly obvious that members of your family have been persuaded by being given large cheques and by being given this interest, to agree that it would be in the best interest if they all agreed that they somehow knew about all this, and in some way or other had given some vague general authority for him- (Mr Ian S inclair)- to do all this. [More…]
There is absolutely no basis on which any credibility can be given to the honourable gentleman’s claim that in any way I haveintimidated Mr C. W. Walsh or any member of the Walsh family. [More…]
This House ought to note that no charges or official allegations have been made by the New South Wales Government or the New South Wales Corporate Affairs Commission against the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) in relation to his position as executor of his father’s estate and as a director of family companies connected with that estate. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition’s approach has been confused and confusing, sometimes even to the extent of not appearing to know which members of a particular family he is dealing with. [More…]
The members of the Labor Opposition are not sticking up for the rights of members of the public to go about their ordinary affairs in their motor vehicles, to go about their affairs concerned with their businesses, with their family activities or for purposes of their own pleasure. [More…]
Furthermore, I would point out that rural industry as such, being a fragmented industry and an industry that is still largely dependent on family farms and farmers, does not have the capacity itself to conduct the research that is necessary whereas in so many areas of secondary industry and mining there are large corporations which already have a large research and development input. [More…]
At the invitation of the Commonwealth Government in respect of various requests from State and Territory Governments for members of the Royal Family to attend significant functions here. [More…]
I represent my wife’s family interest on the company not my own. [More…]
During the last decade great hopes have been held for the effects of new technology, new food grains and family planning. [More…]
Is the family situation of the deportee taken into account. [More…]
The circumstances of the family or of other persons having a relationship with the offender; [More…]
Another consequence if this motion were accepted would be a situation in which the honourable member for Robertson would say, when he comes across a mother of three or four children in a street: ‘We would like to have given you a little more money in family allowance payment for your children but- and I know that you will understand- we have taken that because I want that money to pay for my political campaign and my party’s campaign. [More…]
The Opposition should consider the pensioner and the mother in receipt of the family allowance and what it proposes to do to them. [More…]
As we all know, income splitting through family trusts is a blatant area of tax avoidance, and although this has been pointed out to the Government time and time again in debate, both the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer have made it clear that they have no intention of moving to close off this substantial tax loophole. [More…]
I asked the Prime Minister questions regarding family trusts. [More…]
I have pointed out in this House on a number of occasions that family trusts are one of the main tax avoidance schemes operating in this country today. [More…]
who believe that a family trust is necessary for the best discharge of their own family responsibilities, and the Government will not move away from that position. [More…]
We are not going to be in a position of denigrating any person with any family trust, no matter what the circumstances may be. [More…]
In other words, no matter whether it is a family trust for tax avoidance purposes, whether it is a family trust which in the past has been used by people, including the Prime Minister himself, to avoid death duties the Prime Minister will not have the loophole plugged. [More…]
Quite plainly, a family trust serves many purposes and it ought to be stated quite plainly that this Government has been very concerned about the breaking up of family farms. [More…]
It has been very concerned about the breaking up of family businesses and, in a high tax situation, especially when there was low profitability in many small businesses and on many farms- under those circumstances - [More…]
I emphasise this- many people introduced family trusts to enable their assets to be held together, their farms preserved . [More…]
Incidentally, I have quoted that part of the Prime Minister’s answer as a good example of his straightout, flat refusal to correct the large scale avoidance of tax and death duties in the past by the use of family trusts and these involved interlocking companies that he himself has such as Fraser Properties Pty Ltd, the Nareen Pastoral Co. and L.J.W. [More…]
I admitted at the time of the last election that I have a family trust, and there is no reason why that should not stand. [More…]
Before the last election I never hid the fact that I had a family trust. [More…]
I made it perfectly plain also that the purposes of family trusts have generally been to hold a family’s assets together . [More…]
I do not know of any trust which has been established to look after the family interests which does not also have that result. [More…]
Many of the complex arrangments which people entered over the years were simply designed to keep family farms and businesses together. [More…]
It is very obvious, I think, from what I have shown this afternoon that the Government’s actions in legislation on death duties and gift duties and its refusal to close up the loophole in respect of family trusts have been taken in the interests of individual and senior members of the Government itself. [More…]
Once again, they are part of the establishment around the Fraser family. [More…]
He is also tied up with the establishment, with the Fraser family. [More…]
His suggestion was that a family unit and not the individual should be taxed so that a family in which the husband earns a salary and the wife stays at home has the advantage of spreading that income with his wife and getting the benefit of that, as would apply with the nontaxable ceiling that the neighbours would have if the two of them were at work. [More…]
As the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) pointed out, the Government will not ban the use of family trusts to avoid income tax because many of the honourable members who sit opposite have trusts themselves. [More…]
“(3) Paragraph (e) of sub-section (1) applies notwithstanding that the income referred to in that paragraph was derived by the company in the course of ordinary family or commercial dealing, but that paragraph does not apply in a case where the natural person or natural persons who had shareholding interests in the company immediately before, and immediately after, the time when the income was derived will benefit from the derivation of the income to an extent that the Commissioner considers to be fair and reasonable having regard to voting, dividend or capital rights attached to the shares in respect of which that person or those persons had shareholding interests in the company immediately after the time when the income was derived. [More…]
“(4) Paragraph (f) of sub-section (1) applies notwithstanding that the loss or outgoing referred to in that paragraph was incurred by the company in the course of ordinary family or commerical dealing, but that paragraph does not apply in a case where the natural person or natural persons who had shareholding interests in the company immediately before, and immediately after, the time when the loss or outgoing was incurred will benefit from any profit or advantage that has, or might, arise, directly or indirectly, from the incurring of the loss or outgoing to an extent that the Commissioner considers to be fair and reasonable having regard to voting, dividend or capital rights attached to the shares in respect of which that person or those persons had shareholding interests in the company immediately after the time when the loss or outgoing was incurred. [More…]
It is against this background that I deprecate the attitude of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), as stated in the Courier-Mail, that he will not take out private health insurance for himself and his family. [More…]
Of course, if the Leader of the Opposition or any member of his family required hospitalisation, he would, no doubt, be able to afford a doctor in a hospital of his choice if this is what he chose to do. [More…]
By the same token, if the Aboriginal people who live in family groups or clans rather than those who are grouped in large areas, such as in Central Australia or Arnhem Land, are asked whether they wish to do certain things such as running a business or health centre they agree and that business automatically becomes that of the proposer. [More…]
On behalf of members I convey to Mrs Harrison and members of the family the sympathy of the House. [More…]
If the family breadwinner were injured in some way, not necessarily fatally but severely, as a result of an aircraft accident on the ground or in the air and lost the capacity to provide income, under the legislation as it stands the limit of compensation of $45,000 which includes medical and legal costs is totally and woefully inadequate. [More…]
Over the same period the number of children and students receiving family allowances has increased from 3,835,000 to 4,305,000. [More…]
Almost all programs utilise group process and recognise the need to go beyond the patient to involve his family and attend to community factors. [More…]
Has the Government’s attention been drawn to the situation in Marrickville Holdings Ltd where control was attained by Southern Packers Pty Ltd, a company in turn controlled by a family named Liberman and the former company deliberately put into a loss situation to force minority shareholders to sell, with resulting destruction of many jobs. [More…]
-The person primarily responsible for family reunion, as the honourable member knows, is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
We are pressing on in regard to family reunions. [More…]
The family reunion matter, as I said, is for the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
How do we contrast those standards with the tax avoidance schemes being operated by the leaders of the Government parties through the use of family trusts? [More…]
Its specific purpose was to help young Australian couples building a family to meet the initial impact on household expenditure when a child was born. [More…]
The middle class alcoholic has the protection of friends and family. [More…]
Most are isolated, alienated, friendless, remote from family or friends and socially defenceless. [More…]
I ask the Government to reconsider its proposals in the light of the following: People who travel at short noticepeople who have a sudden bereavement overseas, a sudden illness in the family, or some sort of sudden emergency- will be penalised under the fare schedules outlined in the Minister’s statement of 1 1 October. [More…]
Those proposals, if they are to stand, will impose hardship, particularly upon those three million Australians who were not born in this country and who have close family and emotional links abroad. [More…]
The change in the law will apply to trust income paid to or applied for the benefit of a beneficiary on or after 12 June 1978 under tax avoidance schemes of the kinds mentioned and will not apply in the context of an agreement or arrangement that is entered into in the course of ordinary family or commercial dealing. [More…]
To have their choice of doctor in hospital single people are required to pay out in a lump sum $52.02, or a week’s pension and married pensioners are required to pay twice that amount to obtain family cover. [More…]
Monthly and quarterly contributions are not available to non-group contributors if the weekly contribution rates payable for the combinations of tables insured by the contributor are less than $5.00 at the family rate or $2.50 at the single rate ‘. [More…]
A history of asthma and respiratory complaints in the family had meant that they had spent hundreds of dollars on medical consultations. [More…]
It was the issue of the Whitlock family, which had been insured with the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia at tables higher than the basic table. [More…]
Then, because of a recent history of chronic illness, the fund chose to write and tell the family that as from 1 November it would be entitled to a maximum number of benefits. [More…]
This family had been contributors to that fund for a period of 10 years. [More…]
They will have a wide range of options, not stereotype ones but what we might term a ‘family of trades ‘ education. [More…]
Society therefore suffers the attendant problems of mass societyalienation, crime, family breakdown and drug addiction. [More…]
The first is: Why is it that 34 months after he has taken virtually sole control of his family financial affairs- that is, almost three yearsthere has been no satisfactory explanation in response to the grave charges, made against him in the public arena, about those family affairs? [More…]
I do not believe that the accountant who relies for so much of his income on Sinclair clients who have taken over the family firm is in a sufficiently independent position to be seen to be giving an objective report The charge has been made that he has been seen riding around in Commonwealth cars. [More…]
Everywhere one turns as one examines what is public knowledge in relation to these affairs, the more subjective decisions which benefit one family at the expense of another have to be made. [More…]
My own view and the view that I advised my accountants and my solicitors was that, because I had immediately accepted responsibility for all the sums that were found to have been misdirected at the time they were found, they should be treated as loans due to me and to my family group of companies. [More…]
In the mid- 1920s he came to Australia with his family and as a schoolboy living in Canberra saw the finishing touches put to the construction of Parliament House and witnessed its opening in 1927. [More…]
I join with you in wishing him a recovery from his present illness and trust he has many more years of health and happiness ahead of him and that with his family he may now enjoy those years of retirement which he has certainly more than justified. [More…]
1 ) Has the Queensland Government still refused to give the Federal Government full authority over family law matters such as custody, guardianship and maintenance as was reported in the Courier Mail of 10 April 1978. [More…]
that it was desirable to request the States to refer constitutional power to the Commonwealth to deal with those matters presently outside of the ambit of the Family Law Act; and [More…]
that it was not desirable for the control of Family Courts to pass from the Commonwealth to the States. [More…]
How many taxpayers paid the levy at the (a) individual rate and (b) family rate m (i) 1976-77 and (ii) 1977-78 by grade of net income. [More…]
1 ) How many cases per month are dealt with by the Family Court of Australia in Melbourne. [More…]
1 ) In October 1978 the Family Court of Australia in Melbourne heard 954 applications for dissolution of marriage, and made final orders in 96 1 applications for ancillary relief including 86 defended applications. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General consider urgently increases in staff for the Australian Legal Aid Office and the Family Court to assist people in matters of Family Law. [More…]
The Australian Legal Aid Office will not require additional staff to assist people in matters of Family Law as this assistance will be part of its general problem service of legal advice that has been given to all persons with an element of financial need since the inception of the Office in 1973. [More…]
The Attorney-General has asked his Department to let him know urgently whether any increase in staff for the Family Court is necessary so that the staff of the Court can advise and assist people in matters of Family Law. [More…]
Professor A. H. Pollard and Dr F. Yusuf- Macquarie University- ‘A survey of family formation in Australia’ (1971 $49,000). [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the following proposals for the administration of civil marriage celebrants: (a) that a course of preparation to be set up for celebrants, (b) that selection of celebrants take place annually following a procedure including interview by a panel including celebrants and representatives of the local community, (c) that the handbook for celebrants be progressively revised and issued in a loose-leaf edition, (d) that fees be set by an arbitrator from the Arbitration Commission and indexed, (e) that celebrants be consulted prior to changes in the Family Law Act or the interpretation of the Act, (f) that the interpretation be consistent at Registrar level throughout the Commonwealth, (g) that more detailed guidelines be established for prescribed authorities in shortening the month’s notice for marriage, (h) that prescribed authorities be appointed from among the civil celebrants and/or independent persons available out of hours, and (i) that celebrants be appointed to the Family Law Council. [More…]
I draw his attention to the fact that in Australia when the single decision to introduce the family allowance was made- most of this expenditure did not represent an increase in money going into the community although there was some increase- it obviously immediately increased public expenditure, without any, or with very little, increase in the amount of effective governmental support overall. [More…]
One realises it would be a rather limited market, but I believe it is appropriate to bring to the attention of the House the success story of Leader Trucks Australia, a private family company which operates in the city of Toowoomba and which makes trucks which are much in demand in work which is of a tough nature- in the heavy, commerical, industrial enterprises. [More…]
That council will have transferred to it, for the benefit of the community, most of Home Island; that is to say, all of Home Island except that which is remaining for the Clunies Ross family and that which is being leased to the co-operative, namely, that which consists of the area on which the co-operative coconut factory is located. [More…]
When I was researching this matter, I phoned one of Australia’s leading car dealers to inquire about the safety features of their basic family sedan. [More…]
Under the ILO convention, people ought not be required to move from their place of residence to take work which represents a form of compulsion and which obviously has significant effects in terms of family life. [More…]
How does he propose to distinguish between a child in a poor family selling newspapers to earn this amount and a child of a wealthy family receiving a dividend of this amount from a family trust. [More…]
I am informed that the only paid leave available to public servants specifically for compassionate purposes is bereavement leave of up to 3 days which may be granted on the death of a specified family member. [More…]
It is recognised that many migrants feel a strong moral obligation to help financially family members left behind in their home country. [More…]
However, as the Galbally Report on Migrant Services and Programs states, ‘the present provisions enabling migrants to send money out of Australia are generous by international standards and are generally adequate to meet any family obligations a migrant in Australia may feel. [More…]
operated a table of benefits designated ‘R’ (Extra-cover), which was available to all persons at a monthly family contribution rate of $9.10, offering benefits covering the 25 per cent ‘gap’ between basic table benefits (75 per cent of the Schedule doctors’ fees) and the Schedule fees, as well as benefits for a wide range of ancillary services. [More…]
Table ‘PZ’ introduced on 1 November 1978 is specifically tailored for pensioners in that it offers benefits covering the 15 per cent ‘gap’ (maximum $5) between pensioners’ Commonwealth medical benefits entitlements (85 per cent) and the Schedule fees, as well as the same benefits cover for ancillary services as previously available under Extracover, for a monthly family contribution rate of $ 1 4.73. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to allegations that new clauses in the HBA agreement operate selectively against the single elderly, who, if they seek to obtain top hospital cover of $80 per day, have to pay the full family rate. [More…]
Hospital benefits of $80 per day would comprise two components: basic hospital benefits $40 per day for which all single contributors, irrespective of age pay the same contribution rate, half the family rate. [More…]
Supplementary cover $40 per day for which HBA apply the same rate for single as family contributors. [More…]
The basis for the flat rate is the claims experience from both single and family contributors. [More…]
The present cost of the $80 per day hospital benefit is: single $5.96 per week family $7.48 per week. [More…]
Contributions for other supplementary tables ( up to $30 per day) for single persons are half the family rate. [More…]
This will include definition of clinical stages of disease, family and social patterns, relation to socio-economic status, nutritional state, age, sex, personal habits, climate and geographical location, association with epidemic infections and assessment of probable causative and risk factors. [More…]
To name but a few the Government has introduced tax indexation, export incentives, family allowances, automatic indexation of pensions, abolition of estate and gift duties, lowering of Division 7 taxation on private companies, a major improvement in the facilities for migrants and improved social welfare services. [More…]
If the sum is a large one it will mean that that person and his or her family perhaps will be driven into bankruptcy. [More…]
It will make for good staff morale within the department, so that an officer may go about his job knowing that a permanent head who might have a snout on him will not be in a position to deal with him capriciously and perhaps fine him an inordinate amount of money, which could put him into bankruptcy and ruin his whole family. [More…]
It is an expression of disgust by the Government for those people who cannot afford the luxury of family trusts. [More…]
Even the family allowance has not been indexed. [More…]
Making an allowance for child endowment and for the tax rebate which Labor introduced in 1975 and which were effective from the beginning of that financial year, in real terms, a family is worse off now as against 1975 by between $2.16 a week in the case of a family with one dependent child and $7.46 a week in the case of a family with six dependent children. [More…]
The sharp reduction in inflation and the continued demonstration in each of the sensitive areas of benefit, from family allowance on, indicates this [More…]
In addition, of course, there are millions of mothers who qualify for family allowances. [More…]
They attack the family. [More…]
They have said many times that they believe in the family; yet no encouragement is given for a family person at all in Australia today. [More…]
The Immigration Department asked us to find Kadya a position to come to, but unfortunately we have been unsuccessful in obtaining a job for her and the situation has become quite impossible for my family in Lebanon. [More…]
I therefore would like them to join my husband and family here in Australia and live with us at Revesby, until my brother Josef who made the original application can find a home for them. [More…]
In view of the family re-union policy of the Government, and as a matter of humanity, it is requested that consideration be given to allowing the two (2) girls to come to Australia with their parents. [More…]
Today the average family- a man, wife and two children- on average weekly earnings is $9 a week worse off, before tax, than in 1975. [More…]
No family in this country believes that it is better off as a result of three and a bit years of Fraserism. [More…]
A child in an area with proximity to academic institutions, a fully equipped primary school, a high school with the necessary course structure and equipment, is able to be educated in an orderly manner without disruption to family life. [More…]
Any person in this House who considers that it is a reasonable economic proposition for a family with an income between $8,000 and $9,000 a year with a reducing level of assistance to maintain a child, possibly several thousands miles away from home, is either a fool or has never tried to keep a person aged 20 years or 2 1 years in reasonable circumstances. [More…]
Another point I want’ to make is that no one should take any notice at all of the basic statistics on family incomes and family expenditures relevant to these types of items. [More…]
(1) That paragraphs (2) and (4) of the resolution of appointment of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act be omitted and the following paragraphs substituted: [More…]
It attacked the family unit. [More…]
It did not want to see certain aspects of the family unit continue in our society. [More…]
Are we supposed to believe that it is a private matter, a matter for the family- to blazes with the Government, to blazes with the Parliament and to blazes with the public? [More…]
It ‘s foolish to say ‘ keep it in the family ‘. [More…]
The Mafia is a family with that kind of secrecy. [More…]
On 8 February, the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act held public hearings in Canberra, the principal witness appearing before it being the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
With the concurrence of the Committee I wrote to the editors of the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph saying that the Committee was concerned to ensure that the public obtain a balanced view of the evidence being taken by the Family Law Act Committee, and offered its co-operation in ensuring that this was possible. [More…]
The number of type of complaints to the Federal Attorney-General’s Department about the Family Law Act are only a shadow of the real extent of public disquiet about this controversial law. [More…]
But it would do well to speed up its review of the Act by the Federal Attorney-General’s Department and repeal the Family Law Act if it has, in fact, been a flop. [More…]
The provisions and operations of the Family Law Act affect many thousands of Australians in an extremely sensitive area of their lives. [More…]
Unless reporting of proceedings is fair and accurate the efforts of committees such as the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act to inform the public and facilitate intelligent debate on family law will be frustrated. [More…]
Mr LIONEL BOWEN (KingsfordSmith) by leave- The Opposition has representatives on the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
It is taking evidence from all people who are interested in the problems of family law and the problems of the family. [More…]
There will be no delay and it will be important, if we are to have some constructive consideration of what has happened, that the Press and the media really understand the problems of the family. [More…]
They need not worry about the Committee but about the problems of the family. [More…]
In this way, the family as a unit receives the benefit of increased pensions and allowances and the primary purpose of Repatriation pensions as compensation for disabilities related to service is achieved. [More…]
Members of my family were dairy farmers on the North Coast and I was brought up in a scenario of paspalum, mud, hand milking and hardship. [More…]
Some others have entered under family reunion categories or as refugees. [More…]
If disclosure is to be adequate one may well assume that all members of a family should be involved. [More…]
Is it also a fact that in 1977 the Commission made a loan in the vicinity of $250,000 to a pastoral family at concessional rates of interest? [More…]
Was the loan made to members of the Beggs family, including the Prime Minister’s wife? [More…]
As I think most honourable members will know, Marysville is a popular family tourist resort with a number of guest houses and motels which are very well patronised throughout a great part of the year. [More…]
The Commission has not done anything for the Beggs family that it would not do for others similarly placed. [More…]
I have received - the ‘ I ‘ obviously refers to Mr Morton- no representations from anybody in relation to these loans, and the Beggs family’s presentation of its affairs has been exemplary. [More…]
I have received no representations from anybody in relation to these loans, and the Beggs family’s presentation of its affairs has been exemplary. [More…]
Last year I went on record, in giving evidence to the Bowen inquiry, indicating my attitude with respect to the attacks which were made upon the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) in relation to family trusts. [More…]
We are the great Australian family. [More…]
How can such an officer deal with a complicated and sophisticated type of inquiry that may come from an individual who is struggling to find a job so that he can support his family. [More…]
A glance at the Who’s Who in Australia would show that the Baillieu family, of which Mr Baillieu is a member, is one of the most privileged families in this country. [More…]
No fewer than four columns of Who’s Who in Australia are taken up by the reference to the Baillieu family which shows all their connections with major Australian industries and the wealth and property that they own throughout this country. [More…]
It is a rather amusing thing about this Government that when, approximately one hour ago, it came to light that part of the Prime Minister’s own very extremely wealthy family has been given a low interest loan of $250,000, the Labor Party is accused of muck-raking. [More…]
But not the Prime Minister’s family! [More…]
The Government cannot say to them: ‘Irrespective of how much training you have done, your higher school certificate or tertiary education, you are going to leave your family, you are going to leave your home. [More…]
drew attention to the growing practice of the use of Unit trusts and family settlements carrying on trading businesses. [More…]
The manner in which this occurs is that a profitable business or family income is sold to a unit trust which has been set up to operate the business and receive all income. [More…]
The previous partners are then employed by the trust which runs the business and pays the profits to the discretionary family trusts of the partners. [More…]
The trust then declared dividends out of the profits from providing the services and paid them to its unit holders who were the partners’ families or family companies. [More…]
Honourable members will know that I have raised the question of trusts and particularly family trusts in this Parliament time and again. [More…]
I have asked the Treasurer (Mr Howard) when he is going to close the loopholes in regard to family truststrusts generally- which are used as a means of tax avoidance. [More…]
I think it is entirely appropriate for people to have family trusts . [More…]
It is already stated that he was not seeking to evade tax through the maintenance of a family trust which he admitted; he was only wanting to avoid death duties, et cetera. [More…]
It is not a tax avoidance device, it is a device to enable your family to become part owners in your property. [More…]
Before the last election I never hid the fact that I had a family trust. [More…]
I made it perfectly plain also that the purposes of family trusts have generally been to hold a family’s assets together. [More…]
I do not know of any trust which has been established to look after the family interests which does not have that result. [More…]
I admitted at the time of the last election that I have a family trust, and there is no reason why that should not stand. [More…]
were simply designed to keep family farms and businesses together. [More…]
As I understand the position, for many years the courts refused to apply section 260 if a transaction could be explained as relating to ordinary business or family dealings. [More…]
Will the Treasurer (Mr Howard) consider the proposition that an ordinary business or family dealing test be written into section 260, and that the question of whether a transaction is an ordinary business or family dealing be finally determined by a panel of lay persons, not judges, with the taxpayer able to provide relevant evidence not to be banned by technical rules of evidence? [More…]
They have been written into family trusts for quite a while. [More…]
I believe that one of the main causes of income splitting and tax evasion is the fact that in the separation of income between husband and wife or between parents and children the ceiling of $3,893 is enjoyed not by just one person in the family but by many members of the family. [More…]
I would suggest that, if this Government is genuine in wanting to give equity to the spouse who stays at home and looks after the family and the house while the lone income earner is out working, that spouse should be given greater recompense; and this could be indexed almost to the tax ceiling arrangement. [More…]
Just keeping to the mathematics of the matter, I would recommend that either there be no second ceiling for a double income family or that the spouse rebate be lifted to $ 1 ,899. [More…]
But what about the use of family trusts here in Australia as an income splitting tax avoidance measure? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) using such a simple family trust as this? [More…]
It could be said that certain people, honest men, do take advantage of tax avoidance schemes through family trusts and so on. [More…]
The owners of small family businesses have been working extremely long hours and receiving no return just to keep the doors open. [More…]
Growth plunged from an overheated 10 per cent with inflation running at close to 20 per cent with the cost of a family home- the honourable member for Wills (Mr [More…]
It is perfectly plain when one looks at the figures that there has been a particular family reunion rate applicable to Greece which is higher than that for many other areas. [More…]
I point out that Mr Kaldis was complaining about family reunions. [More…]
The fact is that 77 per cent of Greek migrants in the last year were approved on a family reunion basis compared to 31.6 per cent for Italian migrants, 15 per cent for South African migrants, 24 per cent for Rhodesian migrants and a higher level of 64 per cent for migrants from Turkey. [More…]
There are many Greek persons in the St George electorate and the more Greek migrants who come here under the points system the better- and that includes family reunions. [More…]
Coming as it does at a time of distress and sadness this approach often results in the grieving family honouring the supposed debt. [More…]
On Nationwide tonight we heard about the Beggs scandal involving the Fraser family. [More…]
The Commission has not done anything for the Beggs family that it would not do for others similarly placed. [More…]
I have received no representations from anybody in relation to these loans, and the Beggs family’s presentation of its affairs has been exemplary. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that some special attention be given to the needs of the ethnic groups in Australia because of very close family links and emotional ties they have with those countries. [More…]
When a family is involved the total insurance premium, worked out at the rate of $25 per ticket on a round trip to the United Kingdom, can add up to a substantial amount. [More…]
An example that has been given to me is that of a family- a husband, wife and two children- travelling to England in the shoulder or high peak season. [More…]
They do not want their children to receive unemployment benefits- not because of a rationale that the young people are not entitled to them but because they live in fear of the stigma that would be associated with the family if a young person was out of work and receiving unemployment benefits. [More…]
This Bill makes a number of miscellaneous amendments to the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
Nearly half the Bill consists of amendments to the provisions of the Act relating to the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
Most of the other amendments in the Bill are based on recommendations of the Family Law Council. [More…]
The Act established the Institute of Family Studies as a national research and educational body, the object of which is to try to identify, and disseminate information on, the factors- both negative and positive- affecting marital and family stability in Australia. [More…]
A large number of applications from within Australia and overseas were received, and the Attorney-General approved the constitution of an expert panel headed by the Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia to interview applicants. [More…]
Subsequently, after further examination, it was found that the provisions, which were inserted by way of an amendment when the original Family Law Bill was before the Senate, were defective in several other respects. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, most of the other amendments in the Bill are based on recommendations made by the Family Law Council. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Council, which was also established by the Act, has the function of advising the AttorneyGeneral on the working of the Act and other family law legislation, as well as legal aid in family law and other matters relevant to this area of law. [More…]
Since the Council’s recommendations included several which it was felt should be implemented at the first opportunity, when the need to amend the provisions of the Act regarding the Institute of Family Studies arose, the approval of the Government was also obtained to the inclusion of several of those recommendations in the amending Bill. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, pursuant to a resolution of the Parliament a joint select committee is currently undertaking a general review of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Accordingly, when consideration was given to the question of which recommendations of the Family Law Council should be implemented without delay, regard was also had to the question whether implementation of any of the recommendations might preempt the findings of a parliamentary committee. [More…]
As a result, the amendments in the Bill are of a technical and non-controversial nature, which do not make substantial changes in any areas of the Act that are singled out by the terms of reference for the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act, or which are likely to become the subject of submissions to the Committee. [More…]
In the important area of enforcement of orders the Bill makes 3 minor or clarifying amendments, one of which implements a recommendation of the Family Law Council. [More…]
The Bill also enables the Family Court of Western Australia and magistrates courts to punish breaches of undertakings given to courts, as well as orders, as contempts of court. [More…]
The recommendation of the Family Law Council on which this is based was prompted by specific cases in which the existing provision of the Act was found to be too narrow. [More…]
Under the Bill, appeals from magistrates courts to the Family Court will be by way of a complete rehearing. [More…]
In 1976, the Family Law Amendment Act extended the opportunity in the original Act for parties to divorce proceedings pending at the commencement of the Family Law Act to have the court decide their case on the ground of divorce under the Family Law Act. [More…]
What the Bill does is to enable parties in such cases who were not separated for 12 months at the commencement of the Family Law Act but who have since been separated for 12 months to have their cases decided on the ground of divorce under the Family Law Act. [More…]
It also extends the power of a court of first instance to state a case to the Full Court of the Family Court to the Family Court of Western Australia and the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, which still exercises jurisdiction under the Act in the Territory. [More…]
Apart from amendments implementing the recommendations of the Family Law Council, the Bill also includes a small number of amendments of a largely formal or minor nature to facilitate the operation of the Act. [More…]
These concern the powers of courts to transfer, stay or dismiss proceedings, the appointment of members of the Commonwealth Police as marshal and deputy marshals of the Family Court of Australia and appeals from approvals of maintenance agreements. [More…]
The feature that is common to all the amendments, including those recommended by the Family Law Council and those concerning the Institute of Family Studies, is that they are intended to facilitate the operation of the Act in the manner originally conceived by the Act. [More…]
We are placing initial emphasis on family involvement, fun, enjoyment and the many and varied ways in which unstructured activity can take place. [More…]
The advertisement purports to offer the ‘best value family sedan you can buy’ at a mere $5,399. [More…]
Matters have been mentioned in this Parliament and by the media which raise serious questions as to the equity and indeed, the propriety of loans made to the father-in-law of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and family companies under or controlled by him. [More…]
The Treasurer of Victoria has, on the most charitable interpretation, spent three days giving three different answers as to the nature of his professional and business relationship as a solicitor with the Fraser family and its trusts. [More…]
The unacceptable facts are that the circumstances surrounding the loans to the Beggs family seem to involve evidence which transgresses the general policy upon which these funds are normally allocated and possibly even the statutory requirements within the relevant Victorian Act. [More…]
Finally, we have to consider whether the loan of $50,000 at 10 per cent to the Beggs family, in fact, constituted a debt reconstruction. [More…]
It was from this source that a loan of $50,000 at a rate of interest of 4 per cent was obtained by the Beggs family. [More…]
The effect of these transactions was that the Beggs family received $100,000 in loans and $180,000 in compensation from the State Electricity Commission. [More…]
What has to be remembered is that the funds that were made available to the Beggs family were funds which were not available to other Victorian farmers who did not have the capacity to borrow on the open market. [More…]
Equally, I find it difficult, if not impossible, to believe that the Treasurer of Victoria could presumably accept without being informed a situation in which one family and its company could receive assistance to the extent of $ 100,000 by the simple device of splitting mortgages and creating two loans with different rates of interest. [More…]
It has taken the Treasurer, Mr Hamer, over a week to sort out the complexities of his own professional relationship as solicitor to the Fraser family trust. [More…]
I finish on this note: At least the Beggs family has restructured with some success. [More…]
Not only does he reconstruct on public money but also he keeps it in the family. [More…]
Not only have individuals within the Beggs family been attacked. [More…]
The Commission has not done anything for the Beggs family that it would not do for others similarly placed. [More…]
That is, Mr Morton- no representations from anybody in relation to these loans, and the Beggs family’s presentation of its affairs has been exemplary. [More…]
Not content with that, he has also attacked a Mr Strachan, who I understand is a solicitor in the firm of Messrs Aitken, Walker and Strachan, and the basis upon which an application apparently was made on behalf of the Beggs family. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has attacked the probity of the Beggs family. [More…]
As I understand it, the loans that have been made to the Beggs family are not within that Act; the funds have not been advanced under that Act. [More…]
As I understand it, one of the advances made to the Beggs family came specifically from funds that are the responsibility of the Victorian Government. [More…]
Moreover, he has been backed by another statement issued by Mr Bill Borthwick, the Victorian Minister of Lands, who, as the Minister responsible within the Victorian Government, examined the application by the Beggs family. [More…]
This matter is one which in its narrow ambit is designed to bring some sort of pressure on the Prime Minister, suggesting that because a family happens to have a Prime Minister as a brotherinlaw or a son-in-law that family should not be entitled to the same assistance as every other member of this community. [More…]
Our attack is not on the Beggs family. [More…]
I believe that what we have established in terms of the facts that have already been uncovered in this case study of power is that funds are not distributed equitably, that in fact the treatment that was given to a particular family in the Western District was certainly not given to the families in Gippsland. [More…]
Over and above that average of $ 12,000 we find that this particular family and company that we are considering received two amounts of money amounting to $100,000. [More…]
We have to add to that the fact that the State Electricity Commission, after an exhaustive inquiry, reached an out of court settlement with the Beggs family which resulted in a payment which we believe to be about $180,000. [More…]
The family received $280,000 of public money. [More…]
No one believes that a family of that standing with property of that scale could not raise that kind of money. [More…]
So this poor family received $280,000 and we are told by the Government that this is equitable treatment. [More…]
I put it to this House that the Premier is involved very closely with the Fraser family and the Beggs family. [More…]
Not a farmer in the Western District believed the Premier when he appeared on PM and said that he had never heard of the Beggs family. [More…]
The family received a considerable amount of money from the SEC. [More…]
For God’s sake, it is absolutely incredible to suggest a debt reconstruction loan for a family worth $5m. [More…]
That money in fact was given by the Premier of Victoria, through the State Government, to this family with no strings attached and with no criteria involved. [More…]
The Opposition today concentrated its remarks on the loans paid to the Beggs family by the Victorian Rural Finance Commission. [More…]
I hope that someone takes some action to rectify the unfortunate allegations cast not only on the Beggs family but all the people involved in the fires. [More…]
If he is to be given say, a 50 per cent pension, he can present evidence from his own local medical officers, from his employer, from his family and from friends indicating he ought to be entitled to a much greater pension. [More…]
It will prevent Australia taking its place as a fully mature nation in the international family. [More…]
-On 7 June 1978 the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) made a statement on immigration which held out considerable promise in the field of family reunion for the ethnic communities. [More…]
He promised changes to make it easier for family members. [More…]
In addition, a major factor sustaining the proportion of gross domestic product represented by income tax and also sustaining the proportion of gross domestic product represented by outlays, more than would otherwise have been the case, has been the removal of concessional allowances for children and their replacement by the new family allowance arrangements which transfer expenditures- [More…]
Problems are also occurring in the family law area. [More…]
Our only opportunity to influence the course of events in any foreign situation is provided when we speak out in unison with other countries in the family of nations. [More…]
We also know that for a variety of reasons, personal, family, social and economic, some persons who have not been in the work force for a long time may want to come back into the work force, or people who have been in the work force, again for the variety of reasons that I have mentioned, may decide not to try to obtain work. [More…]
Indeed, as I have mentioned in the House previously, the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in Melbourne made that very comment in a letter to the Australian Taxation Office when he said that the failure to act effectively against family trusts was destroying the equity of the tax system as between the incidence of taxes on businessmen and that paid by wage and salary earners. [More…]
The wage and salary earners cannot avoid the payment of tax by using family trusts whereas businessmen have that capability if the Government allows them so to do. [More…]
Quite clearly one can see that the non-pay-as-you-earn taxpayers- that is the professional people and the businessmen- are using some device to escape the payment of income tax and, on the evidence, that device overwhelmingly is the use of family trusts, service trusts and trading trusts. [More…]
The failure to act against family trusts in this way destroys this Government’s credibility as a government which is really concerned to eliminate tax avoidance and so increase the equity of the tax system. [More…]
The Government refuses to take measures in respect of tax avoidance on family trusts, which would increase equity in the tax system. [More…]
How much longer will family trusts be allowed as a means whereby the rich escape their tax obligations? [More…]
Ordinary people cannot afford the luxury of a tax haven offered by a family trust. [More…]
If the Government is serious about containing tax avoidance it will do something about the use of family trusts as income splitting devices. [More…]
The Treasurer- let me refer to him as Fraser ‘s razor- is out to slash the incomes of wage and salary earners while the wealthy batten on tax avoidance, the use of family trusts and the absence of capital gains tax. [More…]
When one looks at the problems evident in family law, one has to wonder whether the Commonwealth and the States can ever co-operate. [More…]
However, unlike Western Australia, Queensland has not yet moved to establish a State Family Court. [More…]
The Family Court in Western Australia is operating very successfully, due very much to the efforts of its Chief Justice, Mr Justice Barblett. [More…]
I make that point because I would not want it thought that we are opposed to the setting up of State Family Courts. [More…]
That provision is already contained in the Family Law Act and we have no intention of removing it. [More…]
However, the success of the Western Australian State Family Court solves only half the problem, that is, the jurisdictional problem. [More…]
In 1975 this Parliament decided that the whole subject of family law relating to custody and property should be the subject of one Federal law. [More…]
The enforcement of the law can, if they wish, be through a State Family Court. [More…]
This Bill seeks to amend the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Family Law Amendment Bill is designed to make necessary changes to the Family Law Act so that an Institute of Family Studies can be established. [More…]
The Bill also makes several relatively minor but nevertheless important amendments to the Act, resulting in the main from the recommendations of the Family Law Council. [More…]
The Family Law Council has submitted two annual reports. [More…]
We are very thankful for the fact that it has been able to furnish information as it sees it relating to family law. [More…]
The major purpose of the legislation is to cure deficiencies in the Act which have prevented the Institute of Family Studies from coining into being. [More…]
It is a pity that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Family Law Act, which was set up to review the Act, does not have the benefit of the researches and studies that would have been available had the Institute been in existence for those three years. [More…]
Broadly, its functions are to promote the identification and understanding of the factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia, with the promotion and protection of the family as the natural and fundamental unit in society, and to advise the Attorney-General in relation to the making of grants for purposes related to the functions of the Institute and the supervising of the employment of the grants so made. [More…]
Most of them deal with the recommendations of the Family Law Council through its two annual reports. [More…]
Before I deal with these amendments I want to make it clear that I do not consider that the establishment of the parliamentary joint committee in any way inhibits action being taken to implement the recommendations of the Family Law Council. [More…]
Belated recognition has been given to the recommendation of the Family Law Council in its first report that persons who commenced actions under the Matrimonial Causes Act should be able to take the benefit of the operation of section 9 (2) of the Family Law Act. [More…]
It should always be borne in mind that there will be satisfaction between parties to family law matters only when adversary proceedings can be avoided. [More…]
Another amendment is that being made to section 96 of the Act, and this stems from the second report of the Family Law Council. [More…]
The particular recommendation was that all appeals to the Family Court from courts of summary jurisdiction should be dealt with as complete de novo hearings and that the Family Court should have unlimited power to hear further evidence in such appeals. [More…]
We also welcome the fact that the Government has accepted the recommendations of the Family Law Council in its second report for the repeal of section 83 (6). [More…]
A number of matters have been put before the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act relating to the effectiveness of garnishees. [More…]
However, I will speak briefly to the Family Law Amendment Bill because I am Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
Of course, very early in the peace when the Committee commenced its deliberations it had the opportunity of speaking with representatives of the Family Law Council. [More…]
This Bill is designed to pick up those sorts of questions and deal with them, and to enable the Family Law Act to be more effective, as far as there is substantial agreement. [More…]
So far as the activities of the Committee on the Family Law Act are concerned, I want to report to honourable members that, as I have said when making statements at the public hearings which the Committee has held already, there has been a very large degree of public interest in the Act as it now stands. [More…]
It would be a very game committee that would attempt to act in such a way as to review individual cases, and that certainly has been the approach of the Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I am pleased to hear that the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act is looking at these matters with objectivity. [More…]
Much as one may try to maintain a position of neutrality, if I can call it that, anything connected with family law brings with it a very deep feeling of involvement with all parties, whether it be the petitioning husband or the respondent wife or vice versa. [More…]
The counselling services that are so ably provided under the Family Law Act seem to have a great bearing on the decisions reached finally by the judges, and in my experience it is only rarely that there are appeals from a decision of a single judge to the Full Court. [More…]
In all the circumstances, the review of the existing provisions of the Family Law Act is being made at a time when that is most necessary. [More…]
I commend the Chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Family Law Act which is reviewing that Act, on the manner in which he has begun the operations of the Committee and given members a lead as to the way in which the hearings will be conducted: I have not had an opportunity as yet of going into the recommendations of the Family Law Council in detail, but I have had the opportunity of observing the whole trend of the approach to this matter by the Family Law Courts. [More…]
Regrettably I am coming to the conclusion that the title should be: The Destruction of the Family Law Courts. [More…]
I sat in the Family Law Court last week and saw seven marriages dissolved in something like 20 minutes. [More…]
I think that the greatest achievement of the Family Law Council would be if it were to come forward and do as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) has suggested and that is to at least recommend to the Government that more counselling facilities be made available. [More…]
I think this nation rests on the sacredness of the family. [More…]
I think it is timely to remind the House of the members of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Family Law Act which has been referred to. [More…]
I distinctly remember in this very House in 1975, when this side of the Chamber was in opposition, moving an amendment to the Family Law Act that the period of separation should be two years and not one. [More…]
Regrettably only one home in that street had a normal family situation; the other 13 homes were occupied by single parents with children. [More…]
The Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act has an important role to play. [More…]
Firstly, I remind the House that, like the honourable member for Fadden (Mr Donald Cameron), I moved an amendment to the Family Law Bill when it was before the House. [More…]
I hope that the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act will consider this matter. [More…]
In so many cases before the family law courts, because the parties to the marriage- the husband and the wife- are concerned about their own emotional conflicts, their property disputes and their personal interests in custody or access to children, not enough emphasis is placed upon the interests of the children in having a proper relationship with both their parents. [More…]
The second point I raise and which I hope the Committee will consider is the title of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The unit with which all of us associate the most is the household unit or, for 95 per cent of the population, the family unit. [More…]
It is the family to which the majority of individuals turn in time of need. [More…]
They turn to the family for emotional support. [More…]
They turn to the family in time of sickness. [More…]
They turn to members of the family in times when they need someone who is more than a friend. [More…]
So, if the future of the nation is to be guaranteed and assured we want to make certain that as many Australians as possible have strong family ties and emotional support which will enable them to pass through life in a meaningful, happy and satisfying way. [More…]
If governments by their policies put stresses and strains on the household unit and on the family they will create more work for what we today call the Family Law Court. [More…]
I do not believe the court should be called the Family Law Court. [More…]
That name implies that society as a whole is concerned only with the well being of the family when it has reached a breaking point. [More…]
I urge the Government- I will not have time to pursue the point this evening- to develop a full and comprehensive family policy which concentrates on preventing families from breaking down rather than having to cure the circumstances that have brought about a breakdown and then to provide for the outcome of that breakdown through a heavy burden on the rest of the community by way of economic and other support to children of broken homes. [More…]
That means a saving to the Government but it can mean tragic results for the family concerned because the income of that family is cut off for no reason whatsoever. [More…]
It was in these terms: Will he introduce legislation to prevent family trusts from being used as a tax avoidance measure through income splitting? [More…]
-Has the Treasurer seen Press reports last week of proposals to introduce a capital gains tax, to introduce a petroleum revenue tax, to terminate family trusts and to restructure income tax scales? [More…]
Family trusts should attract about $100m of revenue. [More…]
A. Johnson while he was Research Director of the Family Planning Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, and Mr D. B. Roberts, which showed that about 25 per cent of the women who have abortions in Australia are of the Catholic faith. [More…]
Not one of us in this place has the right to interfere in the advice which a medical practitioner, a clergyman, a member of the family or a friend may give to a person who is giving earnest consideration to the termination of her pregnancy. [More…]
The girl, her mother or other members of the family must therefore pay the full cost of the operation to abort her father’s child. [More…]
That family may not be able to afford an operation to terminate the mother’s pregnancy. [More…]
In these circumstances I see two competing moral questions: Should the mother carry that child, thereby causing unwarranted pressure on the family and perhaps even placing the family unity and wellbeing under threat, or should she have the child aborted? [More…]
They include the lack of financial resources or financial support; inability to cope emotionally; family size completed or a recent baby; too old; too young to assume parental responsibility; desire to continue studies; desire to avoid a forced marriage; unwillingness to have the baby adopted. [More…]
They have to put up with pressure and abuse from family, friends, even hospital staff and others. [More…]
For the second group, the disruption to personal and financial relations in the family is a major concern. [More…]
Women have a variety of responsible reasons for wanting an abortion such as the inability to manage financially; inability to cope emotionally; completion of a family or a recent child; no wish to be forced into a marriage; avoidance of family strife or parental awareness; ill health; worry about the deformity of a child; and rape or incest. [More…]
The effect is not suffered only by the woman; it is suffered by the family- the children and the other parent- and society generally. [More…]
In the course of my practice a 16-year- old female, one of a family of eight, came to me pregnant to her father. [More…]
If Federal MPs were genuinely concerned to discourage abortion, they would be better advised to press for more generous family allowances and support for single mothers, and to promote sex education and family planning. [More…]
This Parliament must ask itself: What are the facts in the biological development of a child; is there life at stake in every abortion; what are the possible long term complications to the mother, the family and the nation; does an abortion terminate the life of a child or is the so-called foetus just a piece of tissue? [More…]
There is no majority support for the anti-abortion position and there is little real support for the position that abortion is to be permitted but that the poor, unmarried girl or the worn out mother of a family that is already too large to be given the normal maternal attention should be forced to face the risk of death at the hands of a back yard abortionist because she cannot afford the cost of proper medical treatment. [More…]
It seems to me that in a country which has made such wonderful technological advances, in which we have progress and development, it is rather strange that we cannot find a solution to the problem confronting people in this situation and at the same time provide an opportunity for the children they do not want to have love and care and a normal family life. [More…]
It makes no effort to stress the need for advice on family planning and for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies by contraception. [More…]
Some of our submissions put the view that liberal abortion laws would lead to disregard of family planning services … a disturbing number of abortions are carried out where liberal laws exist; in fact there is evidence from all over the world that where liberal laws regarding abortion exist, there is disregard of family planning services. [More…]
It is important for her to discuss the situation fully with an impartial person to avoid the influence of family and other pressure. [More…]
My personal feeling is that in protection of Mother and Child, there should be a continuing responsibility by Governments in regard to family allowance, medical services, child care, education and housing, etc. [More…]
I am appalled that in a country like Australia, that is experiencing zero population there is no encouragement of family life. [More…]
I think family life is essential for the stability of our nation. [More…]
In a country of zero population growth and a population of 14 million people we are worried about our family life. [More…]
Why are we not helping them to rear a family and build a good life and to have a happy home together? [More…]
I think to myself that now I am involved I will see that the family will be looked after. [More…]
We would like to provide there the facilities such as jogging tracks about which I spoke earlier with a view to promoting some family exercise, but we just do not have the money. [More…]
If that money was made available to local government to provide family facilities and community exercise facilities I think we would see a rapid decrease in the national health bill. [More…]
It is no secret that my family and I are practising members of the Catholic Church. [More…]
This Federation represents parents who are not only rearing their own families, but have over the past few years been expected to pay ever increasing tax to cover the cost of antifamily Government policies. [More…]
Concessional deductions for dependent children were abolished, educational deductions are minimal, and family allowances are annually eroded in value because of the Government’s failure to index same. [More…]
I appreciate that critics of this viewpoint will argue that, whilst the very existence of life may be a matter of great principle, so too is the quality of that life and that to permit a child to be born into a family or to an individual who does not want it or who feels she cannot cope is a greater misfortune than to abort the life of that child. [More…]
The real solution involves many potential elements- improved systems of family support, not only financial but also educative, counselling and moral; improved sex education in our schools; improved understanding of human relationships; better family planning facilities, and many other elements. [More…]
The alternative is a supporting mothers’ allowance, a guardians’ allowance, a dependants’ allowance, a family allowance and supplementary assistance for accommodation because most of the women receiving the supporting mothers’ allowance draw on that benefit- a total cost over 16 years in current terms of $61,000. [More…]
Because of the shame she felt, she could not confide in her family doctor or her family. [More…]
He urged us to improve birth control and family planning procedures. [More…]
Fewer babies are being born not only because of abortion but because of the pill and other family planning devices and methods. [More…]
Family planning procedures, including abortion, undoubtedly are allowing more married women to remain in the work force. [More…]
Add to that the pregnancies prevented by other methods and one can appreciate the extent to which family planning is affecting the socio-economic balance of this country. [More…]
The evidence, at least in relation to one substantial clinic, is that the main reasons persons have gone to have abortions are as follows: Firstly, in 32 per cent of the cases it was felt that future plans might be impaired by a child being born to the mother; secondly, in 35 per cent of the cases it was felt that there would be additional financial strain on the rest of the family; thirdly, in 1 7 per cent of the cases it was felt that the girl concerned was too young or too immature to deal with a child; and, fourthly, that in 5 per cent of the cases the woman was pregnant to a man other than her husband. [More…]
Probably we should say that it is abortion on request as a result of a necessity imposed upon the family situation or the mother as a result of her own decision. [More…]
The more civilised approach would be to introduce more adequate family support systems. [More…]
I look into every area of social and family support and see what has happened. [More…]
Housing surely must go to the heart of the family matter. [More…]
I would have some respect for honourable members who support the motion moved by the honourable member for Hume if consistently they had supported programs for family support and treated it as a vital matter in this Parliament. [More…]
To the family person, every cent matters. [More…]
If any honourable member has an amendment to support the proposition of the honourable member for Hume which will bring the matter closer to reality, then let him move it and demand that the Government bring in family support systems adequate to the situation of a person who is faced with a family she cannot possibly support. [More…]
I do not do so lightly but after long and careful consideration and after long and lengthy discussions with many people, discussions which have revealed wide differences of opinion even within my own family and amongst my own friends. [More…]
It is essential that we educate people about contraception and family planning. [More…]
I think of all the married couples in Australia who could afford but are unable to adopt babies which would bring them joy and happiness and who would provide them with an opportunity to participate in this wonderful nation and add to the wonderful institution that we call the family. [More…]
I am afraid the family is being eroded because of many fundamental things occurring in our society. [More…]
The family is everything. [More…]
Everybody seems to be thinking of some other alternative to the family, but it never succeeds. [More…]
But the family structure has meaning. [More…]
There are many families in Australia that could adopt young children and give them the family love that they so richly deserve and need. [More…]
Even if I think they are wrong, the fears, the anxiety, the destructive effects on the women and their family relationships are all too real all too often. [More…]
In addition to all the patient and immediate family burdens I have mentioned, how would it be implemented? [More…]
In view of this enormous diversity in the human family, I refuse to assume the right to dictate what morality is, although as a politician I am actively engaged in suggesting changes in morality in line with my own perceptions. [More…]
A. Johnson while research director of the Family Planning Centre at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney . [More…]
However, unfortunately, it does not provide for the severe impairment of a mother’s mental health, particularly a mother who has a family already. [More…]
A fatal strike might be justified if it could be said to be a reasonable reaction in the defence of my life or the life of my family or others close to me. [More…]
As a component of the family allowance it is not indexed and is pathetically inadequate. [More…]
It has done nothing that represents any additional costs to itself to support and encourage family growth and cohesion. [More…]
Instead of maintaining the family it is killing it off to maintain living standards and what is deemed to be a desirable lifestyle. [More…]
Lalor has an unusually high average number of children per family- nearly double the national average. [More…]
Does not the family have a responsibility? [More…]
I hope that we will give emphasis to family support and to helping those women and those young people who are under threat, by ensuring that the conditions are favourable for them to rear their children, and to have the children who have been commenced. [More…]
If we in this Parliament were genuinely concerned in this area we would be better advised to press for more generous family allowances and increased support for single mothers. [More…]
We have been thinking of providing an allowance for pregnant girls before their child is born, to provide them with more enlightened sex education and better family planning. [More…]
They speak of doctors’ opinions, of the mother’s mental or physical needs and the stress on the family. [More…]
I cannot support this position as I am a Catholic by choice and family tradition. [More…]
At present the Commonwealth Government is paying approximately $ 1,000m for family allowances. [More…]
I support the family unit. [More…]
I would like to cite a few facts in regard to my own family. [More…]
Had these three sons of ours been aborted my family and Australia would have been the losers. [More…]
One family has three mentally handicapped children. [More…]
What is the movement doing about increasing family allowances, improving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and so on? [More…]
At present, family allowances are not available to mothers whose children are receiving TEAS payments. [More…]
Family Planning Centre at St Vincents Hospital in Sydney, and by Mr D. B. Roberts. [More…]
I believe that we should all support programs such as sex education and family planning which will assist in reducing the number of abortions sought. [More…]
The installed cost of a solar hot water system for a family of four averages approximately S90O on an Australiawide basis, and ranges from about $750 in the accessible sub-tropical region in northern Australia to the order of $ 1 ,200 in the colder south-eastern parts of the continent. [More…]
1 ) Does the Federal Government provide finance for the Victorian Family and Community Services (FACS) program. [More…]
and (2) The Federal Government does not provide finance for the Victorian Family and Community Services (FACS) program. [More…]
It does however, make use of FACS regional committees to receive applications for the Family Support Services Program, and provide information to assist the Commonwealth/State Management Committee to assess applications for funding. [More…]
The aims of the program, which are to encourage the development of services which preserve and strengthen family life, promote personal growth, and help people to play an effective part in their community, are similar to the aims of the Commonwealth’s Family Support Services Program. [More…]
The Family Support Services Program has a total of $8.7m allocated for the three year period. [More…]
On 5 March he said that the family home would be exempt from the capital gains tax. [More…]
It might be argued, though I do not know of anybody outside the Prime Minister’s immediate family who would argue it, that self-indulgence on this lavish scale is the province of a Prime Minister. [More…]
He has acted as a volunteer house father for the Elizabeth Family Home which cares for disturbed children and is organised by the State Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
In any event, will he pay attention to the point made by the writer, namely, that if the cost of abortions is to be met by the Commonwealth Government then it has a bounden duty to spend its money in preventing the necessity of abortions by giving more money to family planning associations so that proper contraceptive means can be employed, rather than the more costly exercise of dealing with unwanted abortions? [More…]
I firmly believe that a greater responsibility is now imposed not just upon the Commonwealth Government, but upon State governments which have a responsibility for administering the laws relating to abortion, to spend more money and to ensure that there is a comprehensive and satisfactory family planning program in this country. [More…]
We have a family planning program. [More…]
The family planning program provides finance for the educational and training aspects of family planning. [More…]
In this financial year $750,000 has been allocated to the States for the family planning associations within the States, including the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission for educational programs. [More…]
Until the family planning program got off the ground there was an incredible deficiency of knowledge in the medical profession. [More…]
In fact, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners generally supported the family planning associations in their educational programs for its practitioners. [More…]
There has been a wide acceptance that the program has already made a tremendous contribution towards proper family planning in this country. [More…]
I understand that the South Australian Government is already making funds available, but all the State governments should join with the Commonwealth Government in expanding the family planning program to avoid the problem of unwanted births and to assist those childless couples in our community who want to have families. [More…]
1 per cent and, taking the family allowances into account, the public sector percentage of receipts is 32. [More…]
Coming more nearly to the question that the honourable gentleman asked, as a result of our tax reforms, indexation, the reform of the rate scales and our introduction of family allowances, the taxpayer, on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children, is $15 a week better off under this Government than under Mr Hayden’s tax scale. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s reforms, indexation and reform of the rate scales and its introduction of family allowances, the taxpayer on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children is $15 a week better off under this Government than under Mr Hayden ‘s tax scales. [More…]
So the family pays, the children pay and the pensioners pay. [More…]
The Prime Minister says that the family allowance arrangement which the Government has introduced has been of extraordinary benefit to people in the community. [More…]
The facts are that the people in the community with families receiving the family benefit today are worse off in real terms than they were at the end of 1975 when they received child endowment and the tax rebate for children which I introduced. [More…]
For instance, a family with one child is $2.17 a week worse off and a family with two children is $2.06 a week worse off. [More…]
The result is that these people are worse off because of the failure of the Government to index family allowances. [More…]
Why has it not indexed family allowances? [More…]
It has not done so for the same reason as it introduced family allowances. [More…]
It did not introduce family allowances as a welfare program. [More…]
So, it slid them across the board in the Budget under the new heading ‘ family allowances ‘. [More…]
That is why I am able to point out- the facts confirm it- that today the average income earner or, as the Prime Minister likes to call him in that new matey parlance he has suddenly discovered, the average bloke supporting a wife and two children is, before tax but after consideration is taken of the present family allowance compared with tax rebates for children and child endowment in effect at the end of 1975, $8.50 a week worse off. [More…]
Families are worse off because there has been no indexation of family allowances. [More…]
The fact that this Government, despite introducing various measures to reduce tax avoidance, refuses to crack down on family trusts, for instance, is also another indication of the way in which the Government refuses to pursue a tax policy which would be equitable and fair. [More…]
As its own taxation officers pointed out, refusal to crack down on family trusts as tax avoidance measures means that a substantial inequity is allowed to remain in the tax system. [More…]
Every person in Australia knows the truth about family allowances too. [More…]
The family allowance system allowed people who were paying hide or no tax immediately to receive something meaningful in the post every month. [More…]
Those people remember the family allowance and it is no good denigrating it. [More…]
The family allowance was a positive move by this Government to help those people. [More…]
This section will need sensitive and skilful handling and extensive and effective co-operation with the family courts. [More…]
The latter is the place where the family register is left. [More…]
Foreigners who become Swiss citizens can take citizenship in the regional area of their choice which then commences and retains their family register. [More…]
In the middle of 1976, this case was transferred to the Family Court. [More…]
A warrant was issued by the Family Court in Adelaide for the return of the children. [More…]
Subsequently, the Family Court issued a warrant authorising the Commonwealth Police to search motor vehicle registration records. [More…]
Eighteen is the age at which, according to the Family Law Act of 1975, a child ceases to be under parental control. [More…]
Increased emphasis must be placed on the sanctity and value of the family unit as the basis of our society. [More…]
The Government, through its policies, has a responsibility to ensure that maximum support is given to the family and thus minimise the likelihood of marital breakdown with its subsequent problems, of which child abduction is one manifestation. [More…]
I commend the officials in both Canberra and the Philippines for actions they have taken recently concerning a family of children who were striving desperately to join their parents in Australia. [More…]
The Barton family fled to Brazil and then to Paraguay. [More…]
The Barton family then came back to Australia voluntarily. [More…]
In instances of family crisis, authorised officers are sometimes faced with emergency situations which require an immediate response. [More…]
I feel that this area could be dealt with expeditiously in the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Where there is an application for a custodial order the Family Court judges have the power to call for passports and impound them until such time as the court determines which parent will have the custody of the child. [More…]
This question needs legislation both in relation to this Bill and the Family Law Act. [More…]
Unless the discussion is based upon a substantive motion, drawn in proper terms (see page 367), reflections must not be cast in debate upon the conduct of the sovereign, the heir to the throne, or other members of the royal family, the Lord Chancellor, the Governor-General of an independent territory, the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means, Members of either House of Parliament, or judges of the superior courts of the United Kingdom, including persons holding the position of a judge, such as a judge of a Court of Bankruptcy or a county court, or a recorder. [More…]
As I have mentioned previously, inter vivos trusts in respect of trading trusts, service trusts and family trusts, are tremendously important as a means of tax avoidance in this country. [More…]
But if it were owned through a family trust, he would be able to allocate the income to all members of his family and reduce the tax payable to only $6,800. [More…]
That gives honourable members an idea of the enormous amount of tax which can be avoided through income splitting via a family trust. [More…]
It is a pity that the Treasurer has not implemented other recommendations made by the Asprey Committee; for instance, its recommendation in relation to family trusts. [More…]
The Asprey Committee recommended all sorts of measures which could be taken, by which family trusts could be eliminated as a means of tax avoidance. [More…]
It must be evident to all honourable members that whether one is managing a country, a corner store or a family budget there is a limit to financial capacity. [More…]
It is not concerned at the family trusts which this country’s ruling class use to avoid estate and gift duties. [More…]
Perhaps those gentlemen involved very close to the mark with family trusts on the island could explain why the Government is ignoring the tax evasion. [More…]
Perhaps other gentlemen in the Cabinet with family trusts elsewhere could explain why the tax minimisation is to continue. [More…]
Every other citizen is entitled to an age pension, to a family allowance, to unemployment benefit and to the full range of Australian social welfare benefits; but that is not the case for those Australian citizens who are unfortunate enough to live on Norfolk Island. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I ask that you convey to the members of his family the condolences of this House. [More…]
The Opposition joins with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in expressing condolences to the surviving members of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ‘s family. [More…]
He married an island girl, one of the Christian family. [More…]
A similar situation exists in relation to the police, corporate affairs, prices and rent control, industrial safety, mining and minerals, public and private land, environmental protection, child, family and social welfare. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the Department of Social Security has appointed Ansett Airlines as official travel consultant to the International Year of the Child National Conference on the Child, the Family and the Community. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 16 April 1979 of the Honourable Francis Eugene Stewart, a Member of this House for the division of Lang from 1953 to 1977 and for the division of Grayndler since 1977 and a Minister of the Crown from 1972 to 1975; and that this House places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
On behalf of the Government I extend to his widow and family our sincere sympathy at the passing of a very fine Australian. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I join the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the expression of condolence from this House to the surviving members of the family of the late Frank Stewart. [More…]
He was a most devoted family man. [More…]
The second is to remark on the evident qualities of strength of personal character displayed by the surviving members of Frank’s family in the face of the trying and immediate ordeal of personal bereavement. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Labor Party, I offer my sincere sympathy to Mrs Maureen Stewart and to her family. [More…]
I always considered him a manly man, a person dedicated to his party and devoted to his family. [More…]
We all remember the forthright and unyielding way in which he put his views on matters relating to the sanctity and security of family life. [More…]
join the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) in expressing condolence to the family of the late Frank Stewart. [More…]
As one who has known the Stewart family for many years, I can talk of Frank Stewart as a son, brother, husband, father, colleague and friend. [More…]
I knew his family. [More…]
Frank Stewart is well remembered for the contribution he made to debates in the chamber on family law and abortion issues. [More…]
-(Moreton-Minister for Defence)- We pause today from our contest, our contention and conflict to recall the life and work of Frank Stewart and to express our sorrow to his widow and family. [More…]
I am sure that his family, his colleagues and friends would understand me when I include his weaknesses, but his strengths far outweighed his weaknesses. [More…]
-I want to express my sorrow at the passing of Frank Stewart and offer my condolences to his family. [More…]
In the circumstances I think that needs to be mentioned to the House and I offer my condolences to his family. [More…]
-On Saturday night, 14 April, Barry Jones, the honourable member for Lalor, who was visiting the central coast as my guest, myself and my family went out to dinner at The Entrance. [More…]
I offer to his wife and family my very sincere condolences. [More…]
-I join the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) in offering my condolences to Maureen Stewart and her family. [More…]
The composure of Maureen Stewart and her family was testimony to the fact that they believe what Frank Stewart believed; that is, that there is a life after death and that one’s life on earth counts in terms of one’s contribution to others and one’s eternal reward. [More…]
Our most fervent wish is that his family will join him in a life with Christ after death. [More…]
Perhaps on many occasions his family did not understand the tests of strength which were put on him, not often in great public speeches but in the corridors and in the Caucus- in those little ways in which a man can have a big influence on the way in which the Parliament works and upon the nation. [More…]
I join the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in offering Maureen Stewart and family my condolences. [More…]
-I join the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and all my other colleagues and friends in expressing my deepest sympathy and condolences to Mrs Stewart and her family at the sad passing of her husband. [More…]
I put this tribute on the record for the benefit of Mrs Stewart and her family and for Frank Stewart’s distinguished brother, who is the Minister for Health in the Government of New South Wales. [More…]
I must convey to his wife Maureen and his family the thought that many times when he should have been at home he was in the Parliament looking after Australians. [More…]
She had agreed to leave the family and take a few weeks to see the world. [More…]
-Just one moment’s reflection makes it clear that Frank Stewart’s period in the Parliament was an adornment to his family, his party and the Parliament. [More…]
The reputation which he deservedly earned was well known to me and my family. [More…]
His whole family can take enormous pride in his private and public life. [More…]
To Maureen and to his family his loss is indeed a heavy blow. [More…]
His party, this Parliament, Australia and certainly his family should remember him always. [More…]
He was justifiably proud of his family. [More…]
Possibly he did not always express outwardly the pride which I know he deeply felt for his family. [More…]
He was part of a family commonly known in the green belt around Belmore- as the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon) has often said- as the Stewart clan. [More…]
The Stewart family is a very close-knit family. [More…]
One sees a wonderful respect displayed from the members of the Stewart family and the grandchildren not only to their own mothers but also to the mother of the Stewart clan. [More…]
I pass on my sincere condolences to Maureen and her family and also to the other members of the Stewart family, including the six remaining brothers and sisters and Mama. [More…]
I express my very deep sympathy to Mrs Stewart and members of her family. [More…]
-I wish to support this motion of condolence and to express my sympathy to Mrs Maureen Stewart, her family, and Frank’s family. [More…]
I refer to Frank’s tenacity, his fundamental belief in the place of the family in our society and his determination to fight for the place of family in society, irrespective of the cost. [More…]
Once again I wish to express my sympathy to Maureen Stewart and her family. [More…]
-I wish to be associated with this condolence motion not only because I had the opportunity of serving with Frank Stewart in this House but also because of his family’s association with mine in other ways. [More…]
He told me of his fondness for and his admiration of another member of the Stewart family. [More…]
As one who, in a sense, is part of a political family I think I can recognise and respect what happens when members of a family together serve the public and serve their country in the way they think best. [More…]
I also had the opportunity of serving with Frank Stewart on the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
We recognised his conscientious support of everything that had to do with the family and family life, and its importance to our particular task. [More…]
At times I spoke to him about some of the situations in which one found oneself, particularly in terms of the effect on family life of the commitment that is required of a Federal parliamentarian and the sacrifices that are made by one’s wife, children and friends. [More…]
I join in supporting the motion and extend deepest sympathy to Mrs Stewart and her family. [More…]
On what dates did he and /or members of his family stay (a) at Kirribilli House and (b) elsewhere on visits. [More…]
The means test on family allowances of the so-called newsboy tax was abandoned. [More…]
It will not be possible to initiate welfare initiatives such as family allowances to a satisfactory level and it will not be possible to index such benefits regularly in order to preserve the real value of those benefits. [More…]
Not even that tame cat of conservative journalism, the florid pensioner of the Packer family, David McNicoll, could seek to excuse this fiasco without at least blushing. [More…]
More importantly, in many instances mothers and fathers write to the people responsible for the administration of the schemes stating that their children have extra confidence and have been able to relate better with other members of their family and with society, by virtue of the fact that they have been able to establish inter-personal relationships through the confidence which has been given to them by people indicating that they are concerned about them and interested in them. [More…]
Family allowances which had previously been paid for students receiving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance were abolished. [More…]
The family allowance was to be taxed but of course, because of great pressure, the Fraser Government was forced to reverse its policy on that particular matter. [More…]
But the reality is that the Fraser Government introduced the much vaunted family allowance which is costed in the Budget at something of the order of $ 1,000m a year. [More…]
That family allowance was introduced with a promise that it would not be means tested. [More…]
When the present Government came into office one of its early and significant social initiatives was to introduce the family allowance. [More…]
The question that we must face is whether we will subject a family with dependent children to the same tax burden to which we subject a family with no dependent children or a single taxpayer. [More…]
I would invite all those honourable members who are suggesting that means tests should be put on the family allowance or that the family allowances should be withdrawn at certain income levels, to ask any woman in a single income household whether she believes the cash benefit should be replaced by a tax rebate. [More…]
They are netting down the tax paid by the family by the amount of the cash benefit that is paid to that family by way of family allowance. [More…]
We are adopting and continuing to adopt wrongheaded accounting procedures when we treat as part of public expenditure a cash benefit to a family that, in net terms, is paying more to the Government than it is getting back. [More…]
We should increase the horizontal as well as the vertical redistribution of income in favour of families, and not concern ourselves only with family poverty. [More…]
He said that some people, however, not only object to the introduction of social dividends- one could say that he is talking about universal payments, and the family allowance is a universal payment for children- but consider that there should be no such payments at all at higher levels of income for such children. [More…]
I believe that it is the responsibility of government to recognise the role performed by families, to recognise that over the life cycle of a family its income will rise and its income will fall in its purchasing power per head. [More…]
The wine industry in this district is a family interest. [More…]
I have known the members of the Brand family for a very long time and I regret very much that I was overseas at the time of his death and was unable to attend his funeral. [More…]
On this occasion I extend my sincerest sympathy to his widow and to his family. [More…]
Anything up to 50 per cent of the Division’s experienced and dedicated officers, who are men of great talent and capacity in this area, have already indicated that for family reasons they would not be prepared to make that transfer. [More…]
Other areas besides preschool funding that have been supported have been daycare schemes, before and after school care programs, vacation care schemes and family support programs. [More…]
In fact there have been very substantial increases in recent years in the day care, after school care, vocation and family support areas. [More…]
Then, last November, the Peoples Temple collapsed with a violence that raised fundamental questions about how the nation could deal with religious groups that wooed the young and the idealistic, then got them to give up their possessions, their family ties, their freedom and, at Jonestown, their lives. [More…]
The leader creates a family, often a communal living arrangement, and takes a name such as “Dad”. [More…]
The Love Family is so small- about 250- that members can all take the same last name. [More…]
Stewart Traill, 43, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, founded a group in Pennsylvania called the Forever Family. [More…]
The proposed loan would have increased the debt for every Australian family by $1,000. [More…]
In the family law area, where there is a provision that judges will retire at the age of 65, there is a least one judge who will not be able to qualify because of the 10-year provision. [More…]
In the case of the Family Court, judges cannot become entitled to payments if they are appointed after the age of 55. [More…]
I know of a Family Court judge who would have almost the same entitlement. [More…]
I do not know personally Mr Justice McGregor or the Family Law Court judge affected but I do not know that whatever is decided today about this Bill will not necessarily be the final word. [More…]
The table covers the High Court of Australia, the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration or the Australian Industrial Court, the Federal Court of Bankruptcy, which still exists in a much diminished way, the Australian Family Court and the new court which has arrived on our scene, the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
It is a family enterprise which gives employment to well over 1 ,500 Australians. [More…]
It formed part of the ordinary motel complex and opportunity was given the family either to care for itself or to be given service. [More…]
My last brief remark is that I believe that in Walpole Crescent there are what I think are Zelcovas, members of the elm family. [More…]
That this House expresses its deep regret at the death, on 9 May 1979, of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Frederick Adermann, K.B.E-, a member of this House for the Division of Maranoa from 1943 to 1949 and for the Division of Fisher from 1949 to 1972, Chairman of Committees from 1950 to 1958 and a Minister of the Crown from 1958 to 1967; and that this House places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I believe that all honourable members will join me in extending sympathy to Lady Adermann, to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Mr Adermann), and to the other members of Sir Charles’s family. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I join with the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) in expressing sympathy to the surviving members of the family of the late Sir Charles Frederick [More…]
It is a sad day for Evan Adermann, for his mother, Lady Mildred Adermann, and for the other members of the Adermann family. [More…]
To my colleague Evan, to Lady Adermann, and to his family I should like to extend my deepest personal sympathy. [More…]
I join with other speakers in extending my sympathy to his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Liberal Party I join with the Acting Prime Minister and other speakers in conveying to Lady Adermann, to our colleague Evan and to members of the Adermann family our deepest sympathy. [More…]
I enjoyed a close lifelong friendship with Sir Charles and with his family. [More…]
I conclude by saying that Lady Adermann, the honourable Evan Adermann and other members of the family, can be very proud of Sir Charles Adermann ‘s outstanding record of public service and the fact that he always maintained the very highest standard of public spirited Christian citizenship. [More…]
I extend to Lady Adermann, Evan Adermann and other members of the family my sincerest sympathy. [More…]
I stayed at their family home at Kingaroy after Charles asked me if I would go there to try to explain to the farming community what I had done to improve the returns of milk and butter producers. [More…]
Again I express my deepest sympathies to his charming wife and members of his family. [More…]
They are a remarkable family and they deserve our respect. [More…]
I believe not only that we should join together in support of the motion of condolence that has been moved in this place this afternoon and express our sympathy to Lady Adermann and the family of the late Sir Charles Adermann but also that we should remind ourselves that it is our privilege and our responsibility to serve in the same manner and, I would hope, with the same high standard. [More…]
Finally, how does the Minister justify the fall of 28 per cent in the real value of the family allowance and the handicapped child allowance? [More…]
Chokitos make you a better skateboarder, and the girl from the pasteurised Partridge Family has been elected Miss Dill Pickle. [More…]
The inequity is in the fact that a two-income family can benefit from two zero tax ceilings, which are at present set at $3,893. [More…]
This additional family ceiling means an advantage to the two-income family, based on a taxation rate of 33*/2c in the dollar, of a rebate of at least $ 1 ,304. [More…]
Let us compare that with the position of a single income family. [More…]
That family not only is called upon to live off the lesser income inherent in the one income as compared with the two-income family but also sees a tax advantage of at least $1,304 go to the multiple income family. [More…]
The present recompense for these real home and family makers is a pittance of a spouse rebate of $595. [More…]
I believe that on the ground of equity alone there should be a further recompense to the single income family of this additional rebate of $1,304. [More…]
This amount could be given as an additional spouse rebate or paid to the mother in the form of a family allowance. [More…]
If that is not acceptable, legislation should be prepared to allow once only to a family the zero ceiling tax allowance of $3,893. [More…]
The first alternative of adding to the rebate for the spouse would mean an outlay of further Commonwealth expenditure; the second alternative of restricting one zero ceiling to each family would mean the collection of more Commonwealth revenue. [More…]
Perhaps as a matter of equity the single income family situation could be added to any review. [More…]
The shame and reflection on the family of the person concerned is very important. [More…]
The Government’s program acknowledges the case for caution in current conditions but is sensitive to family reunion and to humanitarian and international responsibilities. [More…]
I am pleased to see the family approval coming from that direction. [More…]
Accepting that this is some measure of compensation, not a capital settlement but income, I invite him to think for a moment of what this represents in the way of income per Aboriginal family in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Well, what does the royalty from Ranger represent per Aboriginal family in the Northern Territory? [More…]
The honourable member for Dundas may be surprised to know that it represents an annual income per Aboriginal family of less than $1,000. [More…]
Leaving aside the argument as to what the money is spent on and leaving aside the argument that most of the money does not get into the individual’s hands, even if all of it got into the individual’s hands each family would get less than $1,000 a year. [More…]
Yet the miserable Liberals on the other side of the chamber want to tax a family income of $ 1,000 a year at the rate of 6Va per cent. [More…]
This Government is applying excessive taxation to the Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, taxation in excess of that applied to any other Australian family. [More…]
The honourable member completely ignores the fact that very little of this money is going to find its way indirectly into the personal disposable income of any Aboriginal family. [More…]
It does not accept the formula of the honourable member for Dundas (Mr Ruddock) that an imputed $1,000 is to be given to each Aboriginal family in the Northern Territory and that it should be taxed because they are getting other income. [More…]
If we divide that $1,000 by five we find that $200 per Aboriginal family is the amount that is to be taxed at the rate of 32 per cent- at an income tax rate- the honourable member for Dundas is asking honourable members to believe that a taxable rate of income should be applied to the Aboriginal families in the Northern Territory because of the $200 they will get from these royalties. [More…]
I recall emphasising at the particular conference that while there are insufficient jobs available- I emphasise that there are insufficient jobs availablethere seems to be no point in pushing young kids into jobs contrary to their wishes, contrary to the benefits to their employers and where another person who has family responsibilities and who wants to do that job loses his job or does not get a job. [More…]
We make no apologies about avoiding these sorts of impositions on the public by introducing a capital gains tax which would raise about $100m conservatively, a resource rental tax which would raise $150m and a crude oil levy which would raise $450m, and by cracking down on family trusts- so beloved of the conservatives in the Liberal National Country Party- which would raise $ 100m. [More…]
For instance, he chose to discount the fact that family allowances were introduced in a way that prevented taxation deductions being made. [More…]
He can go home to his family and say: ‘I haven’t been sacked; the Commonwealth just used its initiative to retire me, 35 years before I was due to retire’. [More…]
Either he retired or he accepted a job many hundreds of miles away from where he was brought up, had his stakes or lived with his family, in which case he would have to pick up stakes and move to a place where one would not send his worst enemy. [More…]
The number of instances of breakdown in family life, of people suddenly, for some unknown reason, finding themselves thrown out of a home, of the collapse of family life, or of some such serious incident occurring in households, is now on the increase. [More…]
We are supposed to live in a society which is infinitely prosperous, in which human relations are better understood than ever before, but my experience has been that our social services are not yet geared to deal with the tragedies that occur following family breakdown; that we do not know quite how to handle that situation. [More…]
We all accept that the Uniting Church and the Catholic Church- indeed all the churches in our electorates- do their very best to assist broken families; but when it comes down to employing permanently people who can help, to finding a refuge for these people, or to these people being told what they should do in these circumstances, I am sorry to say that members of our society still seem to say: ‘Well, it is hard luck for them; it does not happen in my family’. [More…]
Therefore, I would recommend to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the Government and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that upon the agenda of the forthcoming Premiers Conference there shall be placed without fail, at my request and that of this Parliament, an item requiring that a decision be taken as to who is in fact responsible for the support and funding of family welfare organisations in the States. [More…]
Until this is done some people will say that the responsibility to support family welfare lies with the Federal Government. [More…]
Therefore, I call upon the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom), who is at the table, to take note of my speech tonight and communicate to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Premiers that I am not prepared to countenance a situation in which there is no proper support, either State or Federal, where there has been a family breakdown because the State and Federal authorities are quarrelling amongst themselves about who is primarily responsible. [More…]
) General family care and personal hygiene. [More…]
How many (a) temporary and (b) permanent staff are currently located at the office of the Family Court of Australia at 34 Charles Street, Parramatta, N.S.W. [More…]
Does the Government believe that the cost of supporting a dependent spouse and dependent children should be taken into account in determining a family’s capacity to pay tax? [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Health would not like his family, his kids or anybody else for that matter to be at risk and to be exposed to such substances. [More…]
When he cannot find a job, he will try to stand up with dignity and decorum and face his family. [More…]
The real value of the family allowance which was introduced with such a fanfare in 1976 has already fallen by 28 per cent. [More…]
Yet these are the very people most directly affected by the failure to index family allowances. [More…]
Are many cases awaiting hearing in the Family Courts in the various States? [More…]
If there is an undue delay, is it the intention to appoint more Family Court judges? [More…]
I am advised that the latest statistics prepared by the Family Court show that at the end of April 1979 just over 5,300 cases in the defended lists in all registries were awaiting hearing. [More…]
The Attorney-General has said on several occasions that simply appointing more Family Court judges will not deal with the situation. [More…]
I understand that that matter will be the subject of inquiry by the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I think the honourable member can be well satisfied that the AttorneyGeneral is taking whatever steps are necessary to see that cases before the Family Court are speedily dealt with or otherwise is inquiring into the situation to see what might be done. [More…]
To them I say simply that the refugee program is quite separate and distinct from the family reunion migration program and is a response to an international problem. [More…]
In fact, the Government has broadened its family reunion categories since the refugee problem became obvious. [More…]
It is the second highest electorate in New South Wales with respect to people receiving family allowance. [More…]
We agree with the suggestion that such people benefit from being able to be kept in the home or the family environment. [More…]
Family allowances are $2 a week less in real terms than they were in 1975. [More…]
These proposals are anti-wage earner, they are anti-householder, they are anti-farmer, and they are anti-family. [More…]
Those sums would relate to weekly family contributions to the basic medical table. [More…]
However, the basic weekly family table contribution rates for hospital cover are estimatedand against I emphasise only estimated- to rise by amounts ranging from between 65c to about 90c, and for supplementary tables by from 90c to about $1.20 a week. [More…]
Can he also confirm that changes to the health scheme also announced in the miniBudget will cost the average family an extra $4 a week? [More…]
The average weekly earner will have to pay an extra $4 a week for health care, either in the form of insurance or in the form of carrying a risk for himself and his family. [More…]
Let me remind the House that the removal of the Commonwealth subsidy for medical care and the increase in public hospital charges are certain to have a combined effect of increasing the cost of health insurance for a family by approximately $3.50 to $4 a week. [More…]
All honourable members know that the Deputy Prime Minister has a family trust for the purpose of incomesplitting and tax avoidance, yet the House was adjourned two and a half minutes early and before I could raise that matter. [More…]
This document shows quite clearly that the most rampant taxation avoidance scheme in this country is that relating to family trusts. [More…]
He proposed a capital gains tax, a resources rent tax a tax of some sort on family trusts and a restructuring of the tax scales for upper income levels. [More…]
In addition, within the welfare society, we needed to establish the circumstances, particularly in relation to health, in which people would do for themselves what they could properly do for themselves, pay what they could be expected to pay for themselves and be protected by government only when the situation was likely to get beyond an individual’s or a family’s resources. [More…]
The health changes will continue to protect pensioners and the socially disadvantaged and will establish the circumstance where people can pay the small bills for themselves but be protected against the major accounts that can completely break any individual or any family. [More…]
We have a vision of a liberal society of free, independent people with a pride in being able to do things for themselves- an Australia of growing strength, unequalled as a place to bring up a family, unequalled in freedom and unequalled in opportunity; a nation creating our own distinctive culture, our own identity out of the culture and history that so many people have brought to us from so many different lands. [More…]
3392 (Hansard, 27 March 1979, page 1 194) how much of the $2.1m allocated by the Commonwealth to Victoria over the 3 year period through the Family Support Services Program already has been granted. [More…]
Have the grants been publicised as being provided by the Commonwealth or have they been hidden in the Victorian Family and Community Services Program. [More…]
1 million allocated to Victoria over the 3 year period for the Family Support Services Scheme, a total of $1,416,389 has been approved, covering the funding of service projects in the first and second years of the Scheme and specific amounts for evaluation in each of the three years. [More…]
Of those, 402,800 people were not looking for work because of personal or family considerations. [More…]
These tax proposals and the other proposals announced in the mini-Budget the other night, including the final burying of Medibank, will cost the average family man at least another $10 a week. [More…]
So taking into account the health care costs, one can understand why I say that the average family man will be worse off by $10 a week. [More…]
The greatest tax avoidance racket in this country today is the family trust mechanism - [More…]
But to be effective there must be equality of opportunity for every individual to cope with his environment, occupation, community, family relationships, work and leisure time. [More…]
This would mean providing each family with a ticket representing the real cost of providing that family’s children with a standard approved education, a ticket which the family could then spend at the school of its choice, paying additional funds if it wished for any non-standard features a particular school might provide. [More…]
The Schools Commission’s excellent project for devolution of educational authority, including financial authority, I assert can best be implemented by funding the consumer, that is, the child attending school or his family- not the school directly or the system, but the child whose education, whose life therefore, is what this whole operation is about. [More…]
Equal needs are not being met with equal aid, which is why I recommend that the Schools Commission’s needs policy should be applied to each family and not to institutions, whether public or private, attended by children from quite different socioeconomic backgrounds. [More…]
I believe the Schools Commission has been holding seminars with Professor J. E. Coons, whose book Education for Choice- the Case for Family Control is recommended for study and discussion. [More…]
It affects every family for some time of their life and many families for many years of their life. [More…]
I would like to place on record a few words about the family that Frank Stewart loved and the wife that he adored. [More…]
That she has done a magnificent job in that regard is fully evidenced by the family that Frank Stewart has left behind. [More…]
The united family which Frank Stewart has left behind might well be described as the apotheosis of his political career and surely a fitting monument to all those great family causes which Frank Stewart so sincerely espoused in his parliamentary life. [More…]
Has the Treasurer’s attention been drawn to the financial strain and anxiety caused to families in the lower income tax paying ranges concerning the increase in hospital, medical, dental and other family charges? [More…]
It is my firmly held view, as a resident of Canberra for over 15 years, and as one who had raised a family here, worked in the Public Service and also in private enterprise, that the administration of Canberra is far to unco-ordinated. [More…]
How does the family man earning $212 a week and paying $40 a week in tax react when he sees moving in next door four single people who, by pooling their welfare payments, live as well as he does and who do not pay any tax at all? [More…]
If the Government has decided to save money and if it thinks that the money ought to go to those in greatest need, surely the average family with a number of children or with a chronic illness in the family has a greater need. [More…]
A family needs to work fewer hours to buy a pound of meat today than it did 20 or even 10 years ago. [More…]
The family with a number of sick children with, let us say, asthma, other chronic chest conditions or chronic urinary tract infections, diabetes or any other chronic condition, will not get any subsidy from this Government in future for medical insurance. [More…]
In this legislation making changes to the Health Insurance Act it attacks the family. [More…]
With the increases involved in these Bills, plus the foreshadowed increase in doctors’ fees by the end of this year, the family rate for hospital and medical cover for a man on the average wage will be $ 10 a week. [More…]
The incentives for the healthy, particularly those without dependants and the wealthy with tax rebates simply to drop out narrow the pool of the insured, thereby inevitably pushing up the rates and increasing the costs to the sick and to the average family man who tend to be pushed into private insurance provision. [More…]
These people ignore the whole point of the Henderson inquiry which pointed out that one of the major problems of poverty in this country is the low income family with only a single income and a large number of dependants. [More…]
Visits to general practitioners, repeat visits to specialists, ordinary blood tests, simple pathology tests and the day to day medical needs as they are sought by the average family and the average citizen are all covered in terms of the first $20. [More…]
Does the Minister for Health now deny the strong possibility that family medical and hospital insurance rates are likely to reach over $ 10 a week by the end of the year? [More…]
I frankly say that in the present economic climate a payment of $10 a week for health care insurance is too much for the average family. [More…]
The average family will have to either pay that much or neglect the early symptoms of illness or, when symptoms become so bad, seek treatment at the already overburdened outpatient clinics at public hospitals. [More…]
On any view of this concept the people of Australia will reject it not merely because it involved broken promises and stands as a permanent record of this Government’s dishonesty, but also because, from any view of this legislation, what is now being structured as a so-called health program is expensive, inefficient and socially divisive of the Australian people, and a completely socially inadequate response to the health care needs of the average Australian and his family. [More…]
Those people whom the family doctors refuse to classify as socially disadvantaged will pay the $9 plus for a GP consultation. [More…]
That this House is of the opinion that the Treasurer should introduce legislation to outlaw the use of family trusts for tax avoidance purposes through the artifice of income splitting as practised by senior members of the Government - [More…]
That this House is of the opinion that the Treasurer should introduce legislation to outlaw the use of family trusts for tax avoidance purposes through the artifice of income splitting as practised by senior members of the Government, such as the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs and, until recently, the Prime Minister. [More…]
It must be stressed that persons who have come from Italy and Greece to settle in Australia have especially strong ties with those countries because of their unique extended family links and traditions. [More…]
Taxing the rich to pay family allowances to the rich seems absurd. [More…]
Family Law Act, 1975 s. 19 [More…]
Family Law Act, 1975 ss. [More…]
Family Law Regulations, r. 20 [More…]
That woman is a friend of my family and she is known to my wife’. [More…]
She is a friend of the family’. [More…]
Together with amounts standing to the credit of Sinclair Pastoral Co. Pty Ltd and the estate of the late George Sinclair of about $174,000 in the accounts these sums remain to be settled between the three family shareholders of the companies. [More…]
his contradictory and misleading statements in relation to his family financial affairs, the latest statements about which disclose misappropriations between $500,000 and $ 1 ,000,000; [More…]
I attended as a Director of the Company and as proxy for a family company. [More…]
Primary Industry Minister, Mr Sinclair, told Parliament in a personal explanation yesterday that one of his family companies, the Sinclair Pastoral Company, owned 10 houses in Sydney and had a mortgage on another, although rent was only paid on three houses. [More…]
The Age reports this morning that $377,000 of that has been misdirected to the Sinclair Pastoral Co. Pty Ltd. That company is a family company. [More…]
Its directors are the Minister for Primary Industry and his family. [More…]
He is a life governing director of that family Sinclair Pastoral Co. Pty Ltd. [More…]
Even as late as 1 8 October last year the Minister was asked in an interview with the Melbourne Age whether he was aware of allegations that half a million dollars had been misappropriated from his family companies. [More…]
We find that $260,000 has been misappropriated from Allan Walsh Pty Ltd and another $283,000 from Allan Walsh (Hornsby) Pty Ltd, which is a total of $489,000 from two companies, out of a total of $543,000 of which $377,000 went directly into the Sinclair Pastoral Co. Pty Ltd, his own family company. [More…]
It seems incredible to me that half a million dollars could have been systematically embezzled from six companies into a family company over a period of five years, without the Minister knowing what was going on. [More…]
It was a son of Mr Williams, a well known truck driver around Canberra and, just as his father devotedly served a former Opposition, the son carries on the family tradition today. [More…]
What sort of reaction do honourable members think will arise in the community when- the average man and woman read that sort of headline showing that a senior Minister of the Government of Australia is part of a family company organisation about which a respected conservative newspaper writes as its main headline on page 1: ‘Sinclair firm got “milked” funds’? [More…]
It appears to me perfectly obvious that members of your family have been persuaded by being given large cheques and by being given this interest to agree that it would be in the best interest if they all agreed that they somehow knew about all this and in some way or other had given some vague general authority for him to do all this . [More…]
Well I don’t know whether it’s bribery but I find it very hard to accept that anybody in your family knew anything at all about this before the 12th June, 1978. [More…]
We understand that as a sort of double indemnity the Minister for Primary Industry has now bought out the other parties to the family companies. [More…]
The Parliament cannot function properly in a responsible way if it is to be continually distracted by questions on this matter as a consequence of the media’s properly raising the latest episode in the developments of the Sinclair family company affairs. [More…]
On the contrary, in answer to part 3 of the motion, not only have I shown that I have personally benefited, but at every stage I have said that the Sinclair Pastoral Co. and my family have been involved. [More…]
The allowance is available to parents or guardians of severely physically or mentally handicapped children who are living in the family home and who by reason of their disability require constant care and attention and are likely to need such care and attention permanently or for an extended period. [More…]
The allowance may also be paid where parents or guardians care for substantially handicapped children in their family home and provide care and attention only marginally less than that required if the child were severely handicapped and who, as a result, experience severe financial hardship. [More…]
The Director-General has the discretion to set the rate of handicapped child ‘s allowance where the family is suffering hardship as a result of providing almost constant care and attention to a substantially handicapped child. [More…]
I have been informed that in setting the rate the DirectorGeneral has regard to the family income, its relationship to the average minimum weekly wage, the size of the family and, of course, the special costs incurred in providing the required care. [More…]
Priorities for Departmental funding were discussed during Area Advisory Committee meetings held in the QED (Townsville) Area in March and August/September last year and accommodation for single meetings, delegates preferring to support grants for family accommodation. [More…]
) What criteria are used to formulate the Adjusted Family Income rate for the calculation of the living allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
1 ) Maximum living allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme are payable where the Adjusted Family Income of the student’s parents does not exceed $8,700. [More…]
This rate is known as the Marginal Adjusted Family Income (MAFI). [More…]
For Adjusted Family Incomes in excess of the MAFI the maximum allowance is reduced by $2.50 for each $ 10 of additional income. [More…]
The maximum level of allowance for dependent students ‘living away from home’ for 1979 is $45.15 per week (including the transfer of family allowance). [More…]
This compares with the maximum allowance of $29.28 per week (including the transfer of family allowance) for dependent students living ‘at home’. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister had his attention drawn to the released details of settlement between the family company of the [More…]
He has sought to argue, in circumstances designed to prevent debate in this House, that he is not a responsible director of certain family companies which were the subject of that question. [More…]
There has been no indexation of the family allowance. [More…]
If we examine the family allowance- and I was a strong supporter of its introduction in place of the tax rebates and child endowment which had obtained for many years- we find that the loss in benefits to a taxpaying family in respect of their first child has become $2.70 a week; in respect of a family with two children it has become $4.42 a week. [More…]
For a family with three children it has become $6.10 a week; for one with four children it has become $8 a week; and for one with six children it has become $10.50 a week. [More…]
These very, very significant losses to those families have resulted from the failure to index the family allowances. [More…]
A person who is in his, or very often her, 40s, who is 45 or 50 years of age, and who has been unemployed for three or six months and does not see the possibility of a job coming up, who has lots of responsibility and a family to look after and so on would become really desperate. [More…]
I do think that it is easier for them when they are still living with their families, to a large extent, than it is for those who are already responsible and who must feel terribly depressed when they have that responsibility to their family and are not able to get a job. [More…]
The estimated increases in basic medical weekly family contribution rates by State from 1 September 1979, if all fee differentials were removed and Schedule fees adjusted to the State with the highest Schedule fee would be- [More…]
If the person has become employed by the time of the review his rental rebate is adjusted or terminated depending on the level of his family income. [More…]
I refer the Treasurer to projections contained in the Budget which show average weekly earnings increasing by some 9 per cent, consumer prices increasing by at least 10 per cent, net pay-as-you-earn tax going up by a massive 1 5 per cent and no indexation of family allowances. [More…]
Does this mean that under the Fraser Government the average Australian working family is now about $15 a week worse off? [More…]
Does the 48 per cent increase in the consumer price index from 1975-76 to 1979-80 mean that the value of family allowances for a family with two children has declined by $3.70 over the last five years? [More…]
Does the Government’s failure to index family allowances mean that the Government is being dishonest with families? [More…]
Very simply, the facts of the matter are that this Government has given to Australian families, through the family allowance scheme, one of the most revolutionary social reforms that this country has seen. [More…]
At the time the family allowance scheme was introduced it was hailed not only by members of this side of the House; it was acknowledged also by members of the other side of the House. [More…]
Members of the Opposition now have a fondness for the family allowance scheme that was not evident when they were in office between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
There has been a very significant increase in costs to every Australian family since November 1975. [More…]
Labor’s argument about the effect of spiralling health care costs for the average family is obviously wrong. [More…]
It is of interest that if the tax rates applying when Labor lost office in 1975 applied today the average family would be paying $ 1 6 a week more in tax. [More…]
calls upon the Government to allocate sufficient funds to enable programs to commence immediately, to increase job and training opportunities for the young unemployed and to make subsidies available direct to employers in order that family heads and elderly workers can be kept in employment, and [More…]
That this House, mindful of the principles and philosophy of the Liberal Party to assist those in need, is anxious to protect the family and single people in the lower income groups from the worry of bills and charges for medical or hospital treatment due to illness or an accident, and therefore requests the Minister for Health to advise the medical profession that a confidential letter from a local justice of the peace, minister of religion, industrial chaplain or an officer of the Citizens Advice Bureau, Social Security or Welfare or Probation, in relation to any patient, shall entitle that medical practitioner to accept the patient as ‘disadvantaged’ and refer any charges to the Commonwealth for payment. [More…]
Does this mean that a family with a dependent spouse and two children will be $4.92 a week worse off in real terms after tax as a result of this year’s Budget as against the position last financial year? [More…]
Further, would a before tax increase of $7.35 a week above what the Government is forecasting be necessary this year merely to maintain the real after tax living standard of this average single income Australian family? [More…]
It was revealed halfway through the hearing that the chief witness, Mr Bruce Gordon, did not own Oberon Broadcasters Pty Ltd, the family company making the $4.5 million purchase. [More…]
But let us not be under any misapprehension about this matter: The business stays in a cosy family group. [More…]
Mr Gyngell said he had withdrawn from the WIN4 hearing and did not vote on last week’s decision because of his long association with Mr Gordon, who had looked after Mr Gyngell ‘s family company, Warooka Pty Ltd, while he was in England between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
On this basis it would take at least four years for a family with two children and one income earner on average weekly earnings to save the deposit to buy a $35,000 home. [More…]
The assumption is that the family can save onequarter of its income during that period to bridge the deposit gap. [More…]
On behalf of Your people throughout the Commonwealth of Australia, we express deep sympathy to Your Majesty and other members of the Royal Family in Your personal loss and we mourn the loss sustained by the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and indeed the whole world. [More…]
This House expresses its horror and shock at the violence which was perpetrated upon Earl Mountbatten of Burma and upon his family and condemns this type of action as a breach of all that is humane and reasonable in the world. [More…]
The motion moved by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) expresses the horror and the shock of this House at the violence perpetrated upon Earl Mountbatten and his family, and properly condemns it as a breach of all that is humane and reasonable in the world. [More…]
The tragedy is compounded when so many others, including family members, die or suffer as a result of such a shocking attack. [More…]
He reflected great credit on the Royal Family. [More…]
By his closeness to it he helped the Royal Family in many ways, not least by his bearing, his demeanour and his devotion to public service. [More…]
Therefore my party joins with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) in expressing sorrow to the Mountbatten family. [More…]
We are distressed for his family and for those who were injured. [More…]
Did the Treasurer acknowledge in the same speech that the case of the single income family has growing support amongst his parliamentary colleagues? [More…]
As far as the position of families is concerned, this Government has a record since it was elected in December 1975, through its Budgets and its other economic decisions, of giving support to the family which is the envy of other political parties in this country. [More…]
The introduction of the family allowance system, which was greeted by many members of the Opposition with exclamations of ‘Why didn’t we think of that when we were in government? [More…]
calls upon the Government to allocate sufficient funds to enable programs to commence immediately, to increase job and training opportunities for the young unemployed and to make subsidies available direct to employers in order that family heads and elderly workers can be kept in employment, and [More…]
It was the longest and fullest debate since the debate on the Family Law Bill in 1974-75. [More…]
It grossly misrepresents the impact of its decisions on the average Australian family. [More…]
Then after being slugged these higher health costs the single income family on average weekly earnings will get an alleged tax cut of $4.50 a week on 1 December- three months later. [More…]
The family on average earnings, if it is lucky, might be left with a dollar a week- the price of two meat pies. [More…]
What the Government does not squeeze from the motorists it pirates from the pay-as-you-earn wage and salary earner- the family breadwinner. [More…]
Above all we reject the Budget because it neither meets the need nor fulfils the aspirations of the Australian family. [More…]
A budget is judged by whether it advances and enhances the family or whether it stunts and inhibits family development. [More…]
None has been so destructive of family security, as contemptuous of family welfare or as corrosive of family life. [More…]
This is an anti-family Budget from an anti-family government. [More…]
It is an unemployment Budget which will reduce the jobs available to bread winners, to working wives and to young family members wanting to enter the work force for the first time. [More…]
It is a high tax Budget which will increase the total tax burden of every Australian family. [More…]
It is a higher inflation Budget which will erode family income and stability through rising prices for essential foods and household goods. [More…]
By failing to increase or index basic social welfare benefits the Budget permits a drastic erosion of payments on which many disadvantaged family units are dependent. [More…]
There has been no increase or indexation of family allowances for three years. [More…]
Inflation has progressively eroded the value of family allowances so that in real terms a family with two children is now $3.26 a week worse off than it was in 1975. [More…]
A family with three children is $4.10 a week worse off. [More…]
He said that quite boldly and quite plainly, and I hope that every taxpayer and family in this country understand the consequences of raising the deficit. [More…]
Even if adjustments are made for expenditure on family allowances, unemployment and sickness benefits, the increased eligibility nevertheless means that expenditure on social security and welfare as a proportion of the Commonwealth Budget has increased from 18 per cent in 1975-76, Labor’s last Budget, to 21 per cent in the current Budget. [More…]
People should always remember that, leaving aside all this verbiage from the Labor Party, if the Hayden tax scale were operating today the average family would be paying $16 a week more in tax. [More…]
Others include increased family allowanceseither an increased spouse’s allowance or a form of family taxation to assist single income families- reduced excise on low alcohol beer, a fourth year for the aged person’s capital grants scheme and a scheme to assist those disadvantaged by the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]
In South Australia it will be only 10c a week more expensive for a family. [More…]
It is indifferent to the sort of suffering, disadvantage and disruption to the social structure of family life in Australia that those policies bring about. [More…]
On top of that this Budget in the tax area alone, and making allowances for family allowances, disadvantaged him to the extent of a further $7.92. [More…]
An amount of $125 out of $160 a week leaves $35 a week upon which a family of two adults and two youngsters has to live; $35 a week for food, recreation and clothing and other essentials to which any family should be entitled in a wealthy country like ours. [More…]
If one assumes 9 gallons of petrol a week as the average consumption a family, one is talking about a $6.30 a week cost of living addition for essential petrol usage as a result of the Government’s pricing policy. [More…]
For the average family in this community, it is enormously cheaper to stay out of medical insurance than to be in it. [More…]
Medical costs in New South Wales on average run at $69 a year for a single person and $138 for a family. [More…]
Basic health and medical insurance costs $104 for a single person and $208 for a family. [More…]
By not going into medical insurance a single person would save $35 a year and a family $70 a year, using average statistics. [More…]
This Government is an anti-family government. [More…]
If that is the case, we ought to ask ourselves, firstly, this very simple question: What is the greatest destroyer of living standards, job security, personal security and family security of Australians? [More…]
Nothing so undermines the security of a family, the sense of wellbeing of a family and the sense of togetherness of a family and gives it a greater sense of desperation than a spiralling level of inflation. [More…]
We hear a lot about the stability of the family. [More…]
We do not hear anything -from the Opposition about the fact that in 1976 this Government introduced undeniably the most valuable social reform for the Australian family, namely, the family allowance. [More…]
Unfortunately the greatest casualty has been the Australian family. [More…]
The Australian family has got in the way of this Government ‘s economic ideological obsessions. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition was at pains to point out that an ordinary family now would need an extra $17 a week just to stay where an ordinary family was in 1975. [More…]
What that has to do with the Australian family I do not know, except that, as a result of this Government’s extravagant approach to overseas borrowing, the family of the future is to be landed with the debt which this Government has placed on its head in terms of the repayments of the loans which it has borrowed in the last couple of years. [More…]
This Government, year after year, for the last four years, has continued assiduously to attack the ordinary Australian family. [More…]
It is the ordinary Australian family which is carrying the burden of this Government’s mismanagement, not the wealthy families. [More…]
It has taken the Government four years to close a loophole which has been used as a tax avoidance measure by the wealthiest families in this country, namely, the family trust. [More…]
Through the misuse of the family trust, the wealthiest families of this country have, in fact, made quite profitable use of the fact that they have a family. [More…]
It is all right if someone belongs to a rich family; he can make money out of it. [More…]
It is when someone belongs to a poor family, a low income family, that this Government decides to screw him to the wall. [More…]
It is only in the last few months that this Government has belatedly got round to closing the loophole of the family trust. [More…]
Mind you, of course, this was after the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) signalled that he was getting out of his family trust. [More…]
The Government has now decided to close the loophole of the family trust; except, of course, for the wealthiest people in the country for whom it will still be profitable to order one’s family affairs around family trusts so as to avoid tax. [More…]
There is nothing magic about the idea of the family as a means of social organisation. [More…]
What has been the effect of the trauma on the ordinary Australian family resulting from unemployment? [More…]
In this House a week ago he was able to say quite boastfully that this year the purchasing power of the average Australian family will, in fact, decline. [More…]
This is the man who is part of the Government which, a few years ago, held out great promise, which turned out to be fatuous, for the average Australian family. [More…]
We can see so many of the attacks which have been made against the Australian family. [More…]
One low income family which has been particularly singled out for treatment by the Government is the family of a student who has to survive on the tertiary education allowance. [More…]
So what do they do when students als provide the family income? [More…]
A family of a student with a dependent spouse and two children is worse off to the extent of $2 1 a week now than he was in 1975-76. [More…]
Everybody applauded family allowances when they were introduced. [More…]
This side of the House too applauded the Government for the introduction of a family allowances, but we have seen, little by little, the value of the family allowance being eroded over the years. [More…]
The failure of this Government to index family allowances has meant that the family allowance for one child has lost its value to the extent of nearly $3. [More…]
The loss to a family with five children has been $7.50. [More…]
That is an indication of this Government’s commitment to the family. [More…]
It allows the rich still to make a profit out of having a family while it relentlessly assaults the living standards of ordinary families in this country. [More…]
If a person on such a low income or any member of his family is sick, attends a doctor and obtains an average of two prescriptions per consultation, he will have to pay $5.50. [More…]
Its two paragraphs say nothing about the equity of the proposal before us, nothing about the burden to the ill who require numerous prescriptions, nothing at all about the problems of disadvantaged patients, and nothing at all about the fact that this measure will again strike particularly at the single income family with a large number of dependent children. [More…]
Of course, we recognise that the Government has introduced this change because it is totally insensitive to what that kind of change means to a lower income family, a family with perhaps a number of children, a family in which there is. [More…]
The Government’s moves on income tax will secretly occasion an increase in taxes for the average family man. [More…]
For all the Government’s much heralded tax reforms, it is accurate and objective to say that the average family man and middle income earners are marginally worse off than they were when this Government first, unscrupulously, came to power. [More…]
The regressive measures that this Government has introduced since it came to office include the personal income tax restructuring in 1978, a tax on social security benefits, the abolition of estate and gift duty, the excise duty increases in 1978-79, the customs duty increases in 1978-79, non-indexation of family allowances, the abolition of the property component in the means test, less frequent indexation of pensions, the freezing of unemployment benefits, the moves to payment in arrears, harassment of recipients, freezing of rates for juniors, non-indexation for those without dependants, the abolition of the maternity allowance, the cut in the Aboriginal programs, the complete destruction of Medibank, the composition of education funds, cuts in urban public transport funds, the reduction in the coal levy, oil pricing at import parity, the investment allowance, and the increase in the retention allowance. [More…]
They include the raising of the tax threshold, the family allowances, the tax on lump sum leave payments, the departure tax, the technical and further education scheme and the training schemes, and the unemployment benefit for farmers. [More…]
One advantage young people may have in gaining a job is to have family connections. [More…]
It means another increase in the cost of health care to the average family in Australia. [More…]
Remember the big story about the family allowances. [More…]
The family allowance, which was much mooted as a great aid to them, has had its value completely eroded. [More…]
-If the 1978-79 tax scale is compared with that for 1975-76, for people on various levels of real income, including family allowances as a replacement on tax rates, the combined effect is regressive. [More…]
Those in the same family position, but on $30,000, had the greatest improvement. [More…]
That is the face of the one who is cunningly and crudely convincing nations that nationalism is outlived, that religion is the affair of old women, and that the family is old-fashioned. [More…]
That sect is hellbent on destroying the Christian upbringing and family life of many young Australians. [More…]
Members of the Moonie cult have succeeded in enticing fine young men and women from their family life and have brainwashed them in such a way that their parents no longer have any influence over them. [More…]
A young Sydney member of the cult, recruited in America, told his brother that he could kill his family if necessary. [More…]
It is $6 for a family, and every dollar earned over that is a direct reduction on their income. [More…]
It means that in two years the cost of filling the tank of an ordinary 6-cylinder family car has risen from $8.50 to $17.00. [More…]
The real problem is the attack on the average Australian- the worker and his family. [More…]
The other thing upon which the Opposition has played is family life. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) was not taking himself seriously when he was talking about family life. [More…]
What group of people ever set about to destroy the things most sacred to family life more than did the people on the Opposition side of the House? [More…]
So much for family life and the polls. [More…]
Family men and women realise that this Budget disadvantages them greatly. [More…]
The taxpayer with family dependants is the big loser under the Fraser Government’s new tax scales. [More…]
Amongst those who receive the 9 per cent increase in income predicted in the Budget, the family breadwinner will be by far the most disadvantaged in the whole of the community. [More…]
Well publicised and proven tables show the plight of the family man on average weekly earnings, which according to the Bureau of Statistics are $240 a week. [More…]
I return to what I was saying about the plight of the family man who earns these mythical average weekly earnings. [More…]
The family man earning $12,000 in 1978- 79 will suffer a 5.7 per cent tax increase in 1 979- 80, but the single taxpayer will suffer only a 2.6 per cent rise- that is, less than half that which the family man will pay. [More…]
Some of the results are startling, but the family man with dependents earning $6,000 will suffer a massive 135 per cent effective tax increase compared with the single taxpayer’s increase of 13.8 per cent. [More…]
So the increase will be 10 times as much for the family man on minimal wages. [More…]
At $7,000 the tax rise for the family may is 32 per cent compared with 9 per cent for the single man. [More…]
At $8,000 the tax rise for the family man is 18 per cent compared with 6 per cent for the single man. [More…]
So every working man with a family is now up for an extra $3.50 a week. [More…]
They do not have the back-up support that some other person might have of living in a stable family existence. [More…]
I wouldn’t say it is all out war on members of the British Royal Family. [More…]
Would you, as Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Ulster Association, support further attacks on members of the British Royal Family if that were to happen, if that were announced IRA, Provo, policy? [More…]
-I ask leave of the House to move a motion to amend the resolution of appointment of the Joint Committee on the Family Law Act to extend the time for the bringing up of the report of the Committee. [More…]
1 ) That paragraph (12) of the resolution of appointment of the Joint Committee on the Family Law Act be omitted and that the following paragraph be substituted: [More…]
The motion establishing the Joint Committee on the Family Law Act was moved by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) in the Senate on 17 August. [More…]
In that regard, I have recently returned from a study tour of Europe and North America, during which I gathered substantial data on family law systems in other countries with comparable jurisdictions. [More…]
These meetings will cover topics where difficulties have been identified, such as the position of children under the Act, custody, maintenance, property and the organisation of the Family Court. [More…]
This Budget is definitely an anti-family Budget. [More…]
The Liberal Party has never shown any great propensity to care for the family, the integral unit in our whole society. [More…]
There has been no adjustment to the family allowance, which is a very important payment. [More…]
It is worth noting that after 1 December a taxpayer on average earnings, and having a wife and two children, will be $20 a week better off as a result of our reforms and as a result of family allowances than he would have been under Labor. [More…]
In the case of family allowances alone, we have provided $4 billion over four years. [More…]
I have called for a national family policy; I have urged the use of family impact statements; I have called for increased family allowances; and I have advocated tax reform in the interests of families. [More…]
I hope that it will give similar attention to a number of other important proposals including those which, if accepted, will result in increased family allowances and the abolition of the pension income test. [More…]
The problem of family income support for children should not be confused with the relief of absolute poverty. [More…]
The introduction of the family allowances and the tax changes in 1 975-76 were positive steps in the right direction. [More…]
As a country we lag behind many others in family policies and family income support. [More…]
Family lobby groups must become more influential and press more strongly the interests of the family, so that tax and social security policies are reformed. [More…]
The aim of these policies should be to ensure that the standard of living of a family with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly with a family with no dependent children or with that of a single income man or woman. [More…]
Until now, the Australian system of taxation and social security has had comparatively little effect on levelling out the fluctuations in income requirements associated with an individual ‘s family life cycle. [More…]
He also declared that it was the Commission’s view that ‘the care of family needs is principally a task for governments’. [More…]
Notwithstanding this clear statement, governments, both Liberal and Labor, have gone on pretending to themselves and to the public that a breadwinner’s wage is adequate, firstly, to keep a family with children above some ill-defined poverty line and, secondly, to enable it to cope with the increasingly expensive task of giving children a fair start in life. [More…]
So long as the two systems are separate and one is based on the individual and the other on the family unit, no patching up will be successful and our income support arrangements will be more costly than they should be and our taxation system will remain unfair. [More…]
This we should do because the welfare of any individual is a function not so much of his own income but of the combined income of the family or household of which he or she is a member. [More…]
At present, a family’s tax liability is not assessed according to taxable capacity. [More…]
It is largely determined by the proportions in which each spouse earns the family income. [More…]
Two-income families pay much less tax than the family in which one spouse is the only breadwinner. [More…]
For example, single-income families with incomes under $16,608 pay $707 a year or $13.60 a week more in tax than twoincome families with the same family income. [More…]
Where the household income rises that tax advantage in favour of the two-income family rises to $60 a week. [More…]
It takes insufficient account of family commitments. [More…]
It regards most expenditure of a dependent spouse and dependent children as a way in which taxpayers choose to enjoy their after-tax income and not as a measure of the increased needs of the family or its reduced taxable capacity. [More…]
A family should be taxed according to its ability to pay. [More…]
It is wrong that tax cuts should be available to those who can arrange their affairs so that they can split their family income but denied to those who cannot or choose not to do so. [More…]
Tax cuts given in this way will not provide the answer to the problem facing family taxpayers. [More…]
But optional family income splitting could be phased in. [More…]
As a result, reform has been retarded; but now that indexation has been suspended, let us keep it that way until we have a tax system that is fair to all taxpayers and seen to be fair by them all; otherwise, tax minimisation will and should become the proper concern of every family. [More…]
There are no grounds on which those who put their family’s interests first in this way can be called tax avoiders, except perhaps by those who are blind to the inequities of the present tax system. [More…]
Selective indexation should continue for a new optional family tax scale until it places single-income families in the same position as two-income households who split their incomes under the present arrangements. [More…]
The phasing in of these reforms would be facilitated by the introduction of a new optional family tax scale. [More…]
At the present time, the per capita income of a taxpayer and his dependent spouse which is tax-free, is $2,837 compared with $3,893 per capita for members of a family splitting their income. [More…]
At current inflation rates, indexation on the optional family tax scale without interruption since the last adjustment would mean that, within three years, the amount of taxfree income available to all families would be unaffected by the proportions in which the spouses earn the family income. [More…]
As the thresholds in the new family income tax scale rose as a consequence of indexation, at first 1 V4 million single income households would receive substantial tax cuts and later more would do so. [More…]
However, if the Government were to index the tax scales it could accelerate the rate at which the new family tax system was brought into operation, or it could use that revenue to increase substantially and maintain the real value of family allowances. [More…]
Is he aware that since the end of 1975 real disposable income for a single income family on average weekly earnings with a dependent spouse and two children has fallen by 5.5 per cent? [More…]
Is he also aware that to return the purchasing power of this representative family to its 1975 level would require an after tax increase in income of $ 1 1 .40 a week or a pay increase of $17 a week? [More…]
In addition we have introduced a policy of family allowances to assist the lower income families. [More…]
A taxpayer on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children will be $20 a week better off because of our tax reforms and family allowances than he would have been under Labor. [More…]
Grants to autumn centres throughout Australia have been increased and family services programs have been extended. [More…]
That is, the ethnic health workers- would play a key role in preventing the development of serious health problems and the family breakdown and major settlement problems often associated with them. [More…]
Let me put it in the words of the family: You and your families can spend only as much as you can earn. [More…]
I now refer to taxation which is very important to the average person and the average family in this country. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Howard) made a statement on 26 July about what one could call the abolition of the system whereby family trusts could be used as a tax avoidance measure. [More…]
I recall that on 9 May 1978 my colleague, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) asked the Treasurer a question about the use of family trusts for tax avoidance purposes. [More…]
The Treasurer, in his reply, said that income splitting by the use of family trusts was not tax avoidance; it was tax minimisation. [More…]
Now the Treasurer has decided that the use of minor children in family trusts for income splitting purposes is a tax avoidance measure and that it will be outlawed. [More…]
However, he still allows family trusts for husband and wife for income splitting purposes. [More…]
In the case of a man who earns $40,000 a year and who has a family trust consisting of himself and his wife, the tax liability is reduced by almost 30 per cent or $4,600 per annum. [More…]
A group of backbenchers yesterday called on the Federal Government to review plans to clamp down on family trusts as the tax debate raged inside and outside Parliament. [More…]
Members argued that many people had set up family trusts to avoid death duties and probate rather than inocme tax. [More…]
Let us look at some of the people who have been involved in family trusts. [More…]
I also wish to deal, in the little time available, with a very vital question concerning this community, and that is the family and the way in which it is being hit. [More…]
After all, the family is the cornerstone of our community and of our society. [More…]
We should look at the effect on the family of the tax increases which will occur over the coming year as a result of the increase in average weekly earnings and the increase in the inflation rate which is engendered by this Government. [More…]
In the ultimate, the family will pay more taxation. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, this Budget can best be described as being a continuing attack on the Australian family unit and a treatment by this Government of the sons and daughters of Australians as being dispensible. [More…]
As well, the Government’s latest Medibank fiddle will cost nearly everyone more, and although Mr Howard can honestly say this is not a tax increase, the distinction will not be apparent in family budgets. [More…]
The other area I want to refer to is family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances are supported by members on both sides of this chamber. [More…]
Along with family allowances came the abolition of tax deductible allowances for dependent children. [More…]
An average single income family of four will be about $7.90 a week worse off through the overall impact of the Budget. [More…]
The Government has dealt particularly savagely with the single income family. [More…]
It has done nothing about family allowances. [More…]
The table shows quite clearly that under the tax rebate system which was introduced during the last Hayden Budget, the tax rebate per child, indexed as taxation has been indexed until this year, would have been $5.60 per week per child for a tax paying family plus 50 cents child endowment for the first child. [More…]
The family allowance for the first child is $3.50 compared with the $6.10 paid previously. [More…]
So a family with one child loses $2.60 a week. [More…]
Similarly, the table shows that a family with two children loses $4.20 a week, a family with three children loses $5.80 a week, and so on. [More…]
If a family has six children it loses over $10 a week because of the Government’s attitude to family allowances. [More…]
This Government has attacked the family in every possible way. [More…]
It has continually attacked the family. [More…]
Since 1976, the wholesale price of petrol has increased from 60c a gallon to more than $1.20 a gallon- or approximately $7.20 extra a tankfull for the average family car. [More…]
It has even less concern for the single income family unit. [More…]
The family allowance scheme, introduced by this Government, was another hoax which it perpetrated. [More…]
If the old child endowment scheme had been kept and tax deductions allowed for dependent children, the average Australian family would have been dollars a week better off than under the family allowance scheme. [More…]
Notwithstanding the hoax which the Government has perpetrated, the amounts payable under the family allowance scheme have remained unchanged despite the fall caused by inflation in the value of money. [More…]
There would hardly be a Maltese family which does not have large numbers of relatives in Australia. [More…]
On top of that, for the third year in a row there is no rise in family allowances. [More…]
The real disposable income of wage earner households will decline because of reduced real wages, increased real taxes and reduced real family allowances. [More…]
The real fall in the value of family allowances impinges most heavily on low income earners because the allowances are a higher proportion of their total income. [More…]
Not to increase family allowances in line with inflation provides a greater impost on the incomes and living standards of low income earners. [More…]
Over the last few weeks since becoming a member of Parliament I have come to know, as has my family, many of the tribulations that members of Parliament put up with that the general community has not been aware of. [More…]
The Government has been living on credit for the family allowance which it introduced some years ago. [More…]
I think everyone in the Parliament would agree that the family allowance was a good innovation. [More…]
The Government has not increased family allowances this year even though it seems to think that is the jewel in its social welfare crown. [More…]
If one looks at the amount of funds provided for long day care and family day care schemes in Victoria and compares that with what was being spent in New South Wales one sees where the Government’s political airlegiances lie. [More…]
This is from a government that says it cares about the family. [More…]
Some of this increase would have been offset because of the taxing of pensions and benefits and the change from a child tax rebate to a family allowance scheme. [More…]
Even if adjustments are made for spending on family allowances, unemployment and sickness benefits, expenditure on social security and welfare as a proportion of the Commonwealth Budget has increased from 18 per cent in 1975-76 to 2 1 per cent in 1979-80. [More…]
In 1977 eligibility was extended to substantially handicapped children where the family income was low and to handicapped students in the 16 years to 24 years age group. [More…]
The survey established that there had been a 300 per cent increase in the number of people seeking assistance from such benevolent organisations as the Smith Family, St Vincent de Paul and the Anglican welfare organisation. [More…]
If a married couple has five dependent children and the bread winner is unemployed, the family is expected to live on a weekly income $15.34 below the poverty line. [More…]
In only four instances in the family groupings with one, two, three, four or five children and so on do families living on the pension or unemployment benefit receive a weekly income above the poverty line, that is, a married couple without children on the pension and a married couple with six or seven children on the pension, If the same married couple with six or seven children is on the unemployment benefit however, they are living more than $6 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
Let me refer to another matter that seriously affects the Australian family and on which this Government gave some commitment. [More…]
The extent by which other services to support a family have been cut by the Fraser Government can be illustrated by the following figures prepared by the Statistical Service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
This year he will be some $7.90 a week worse off just because of the tax policies and the failure to index family allowances. [More…]
The average family today just is not living. [More…]
Family allowances are being rapidly eroded by inflation and the Government’s refusal to adjust them for inflation. [More…]
He will find that his standard of living this year will be 6.6 per cent lower than it was in 1975-76 as a result of the reduction in his real wages, increases in his tax burden and the nonadjustment of family allowances. [More…]
Has the Government given any indication of when it will stop increasing the proportion of income paid in tax or when it will start the adjustment of family allowances? [More…]
In reality, a single income family is out of the race to buy a home under the present circumstances. [More…]
Generally, the policies of the Labor Government were totally haphazard and did nothing to assist young home buyers in Australia and nothing to assist the industry to produce houses for young families or any family who wanted to get into a house. [More…]
For particular family reasons he felt deeply about the issue involved, as did hundreds and thousands of other Victorian citizens. [More…]
For persons 35 to 45 the average duration of unemployment is 34 weeks; and asserting that the lengthening period of unemployment for family heads has repercussions in social costs for which Australia will pay over the next generation, is of the opinion that the Federal Government should provide financial assistance to State and local government for adult job creation, training and retraining schemes. [More…]
He is a good family man. [More…]
One can completely cover one’s family under a health scheme for all eventualities for less than $ 1 ,000 a year. [More…]
We have an active immigration policy with denned objectives over rolling three-year periods; we have relaxed family reunion entry categories in a responsible way; we have introduced new opportunities for independent applicants to be considered for migration under a systematic selection system known as NUMAS, which is based on the collective experience of settlement in this country over many years. [More…]
The ALP’s immigration policy is a very imprecise one but it does say that family reunion must have a high priority. [More…]
We might ask what is meant by family reunion. [More…]
In a statement on a new approach to immigration and community relations, the Opposition spokesman said that family reunion is a concept that includes: [More…]
This sort of nit-picking approach by the Opposition spokesman obscures the fact that we are accepting large numbers of persons on humanitarian grounds such as Indo-Chinese refugees, Soviet Jews, Timorese, Eastern European refugees, and large numbers of persons on compassionate family reunion grounds. [More…]
If we take a different approach and look at the family reunion and refugee categories- the groups the Opposition would give priority to- 73 per cent of those indicating they would be seeking employment were in the unskilled, semi-skilled or not classified categories, the very groups in greater difficulty in finding employment under current circumstances. [More…]
One remembers well the eulogies in this House by Government members about the Government transfer of the former provision of tax rebates in respect of children to increased family allowances. [More…]
The Opposition was told by the Government, not altogether honestly, that the family allowance was actually a new reform and that new money was being pumped into the family through this system. [More…]
The family allowance scheme is now very much like the scheme which was introduced in 1950 when another conservative government came to power on a promise to pay child endowment for the first child- an appeal to greed rather than need. [More…]
Nevertheless, that promise was honoured and in 1950 a five shilling child allowance fee was paid in respect of the first child to each family entitled to receive it. [More…]
The family allowance scheme is shaping up in exactly the same way. [More…]
The changes in arrangments that took place in 1976 were said to be the greatest advance in care and understanding of the family by any government in modern times. [More…]
It refused to index the family allowance payments and therefore it is allowing those amounts to depreciate through inflation to amounts which are insignificant. [More…]
People who would have gained under the tax rebate system are gaining nothing extra now because of the change to the family allowance scheme. [More…]
Members of this Government have talked and beaten hollow drums about their concern for the family and yet they are presiding over a situation where in every respect the levels of support for families, on a government basis, are being eroded by inflation. [More…]
Then there is the imposition of selective indirect taxes to the massive extent of $3 billion via the oil excise levy and the petrol tax at the pump, the final burial of Medibank and, finally, the erosion of real wages and family living standards. [More…]
To that loss we can add the real loss in family allowance payments. [More…]
At present family allowances are the same as they were when they replaced concessional taxation rebates for children back in 1976-77. [More…]
If half-yearly indexation had been applied, as it ought to have been, to those family allowances they would have risen, respectively, by $ 1 . [More…]
So a family with three children is losing $4.70 a week because of this Government’s failure to index family allowances and a family with four children is losing $6.70 a week. [More…]
In the field of taxation, as a result of the latest tax mix, a family with an income of $12,000 a year is paying $322 a year more in taxation, or $6 a week, as a result of the failure to implement full tax indexation and the failure to remove the surcharge of 2.5 cents in the dollar until 1 December. [More…]
In view of the losses that have already occurred in real wages, family allowances and taxation, it is not surprising that the trade union movement has knocked back what amounts to only a con trick upon the wage and salary earners of this country. [More…]
The total of unemployment benefits and family allowances for a married couple with two dependent children is approximately $ 1 12.20 a week. [More…]
The rate of family allowances for two dependent children represents approximately 3.7 per cent of the same figure. [More…]
The total of unemployment benefits and family allowance for a married couple with two dependent children represents approximately 48.5 per cent of preliminary seasonally adjusted AWE for the June quarter 1979. [More…]
There are probably as many unemployment benefit formulae as there are schemes, and quoting random national examples of them for international comparison would at best be meaningless, if only because their value to the recipients depends on other factors such as benefit duration, the number of waiting days, if any, and the treatment of family allowances, if any, during the benefit period- factors which, like the operation of earning ceilings in contribution and benefit calculation, can influence the actual structure of benefit rates enacted’. [More…]
Revision of sections 62 and 63 of the Migration Act 1958, which provide for offences in respect of the removal and carriage from Australia of children in respect of whom custody or access orders have been made or are being sought, to give them broader application, and relocation of the provisions to the Family Law Act 1975 where their existence should become more generally known; [More…]
In this way, the family as a unit receives the benefit of increased pensions and allowances and the primary purpose of Repatriation pensions as compensation for disabilities related to service is achieved. [More…]
I am aware of the claim that an Aboriginal Liaison Officer and his family may have been exposed to radiation at Nabarlek in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The percentage of a person’s income which he or she spends on housing must be, of course, a matter for his or her individual judgment, based on the needs of his or her family and the way it wants to spend its money. [More…]
What hope can the Minister give to a family paying such high rentals and trying to save to buy a house? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Housing and Construction aware of the fact that if a single income family with one adult on average earnings and a dependent spouse and two children was able to save even 25 per cent of disposable income it could accumulate only $2,500 in 1978-79? [More…]
Because the Fraser family fortune was made on a swindle with the Victorian Railways does not mean you have to cover up on everyone. [More…]
The Government is obviously trying to cover up the corruption within it- Sinclair, Lynch, the Beggs family, Withers, Garland - [More…]
A report tabled today in the New South Wales Parliament alleges that a certain person in this House forged signatures on company statements and devised an elaborate system of transferring large sums of money between several family companies without the knowledge of his fellow directors. [More…]
Our birth rate has declined to a critical level and so child rearing does not contribute the same economic significance in the family budget as it once did. [More…]
Many of the essential services that consumed a large slice of the family budget are now taken for granted- hospital services, dental services, and so on. [More…]
Nobody can argue that a family with a taxable income of $6,000 can afford that sort of money. [More…]
I do not want to put forward views as to the correctness or otherwise of married women holding jobs but I think that in assessing unemployment the community needs to take that fact into account and to make a very careful assessment as to whether there should be two wage earners in the one family when others are on the unemployment list or whether full-time work should be limited to one wage earner per family. [More…]
You will be aware that I have been in touch from time to time with the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in New South Wales concerning matters relating to family companies in Sydney with which I am associated, and which have been the subject of some controversy in Parliament and outside. [More…]
South Wales concerning matters relating to family companies in Sydney with which I am associated, and which have been the subject of some controversy in Parliament and outside. [More…]
He does that in conflict with evidence that was given to him by counsel on my behalf of the circumstances whereby I had made a number of letters available to other shareholders, including the Walsh family, and an acknowledgment by the special investigator in the course of that transcript of evidence that if it had gone to the Walsh family, as he quotes on page LXI of the preview: [More…]
The New South Wales Government was completely entitled to hold an investigation in order to establish whether the Sinclair family or the Sinclair Pastoral Company Pty Ltd had in fact misappropriated moneys from these three companies. [More…]
Was he told that the houses purchased for the Sinclair family in Canberra were actually bought with money misappropriated from the companies? [More…]
Three years ago the right honourable member for New England inherited a group of family companies. [More…]
We will need also a major expansion of preventive health and medical care and the family planning services linked with them. [More…]
Wait until my family sees it’. [More…]
Whilst the family allowance has been frozen at the same level for three years prices have escalated by 30 per cent, spending on education has been reduced, child care services have been starved of funds and housing has become dearer and dearer. [More…]
It commenced by saying that we should work towards, firstly, placing a ceiling on selected prices, from hospital costs to gas, oil and basic food items such as bread and milk; secondly, we ought to expand our supplies of basic commodities such as housing by way of selected mortgage assistance, conservation of synthetic fuels, the introduction of consumer co-operatives, family farm aid and more direct marketing of food; and thirdly, we should establish new public- not governmentinstitutions such as energy corporations and health maintenance institutions to force the big corporations to compete both openly and more efficiently. [More…]
Opposition members have shown the severe limitations of their capacity for economic analysis by claiming that the Budget is on the one hand pro-business and on the other against the average family man. [More…]
In addition to that, the ordinary motorist who for years has had a sixcylinder car- the six-cylinder medium compact that does something like 16 to 20 miles to the gallon is a sort of standard Australian family car- will suffer a very heavy impost. [More…]
There will be additional health charges on the individual, through health insurance, of up to $3.50 per family. [More…]
Which government introduced the family allowance scheme? [More…]
But as well I think there is the legitimate question which people have to ask themselves and that is, when does family responsibility end and State responsibility begin? [More…]
Family allowances have not been indexed for three years. [More…]
As a result, a family with three children has lost $4.70 a week. [More…]
The average family will now pay $9 a week for hospital and medical insurance. [More…]
-This evening there is a family in my electorate who have discovered that their husband and father is to be deported on 5 November. [More…]
It is somewhat extraordinary that a deportation order should be served against a person, even though he be in gaol, and his family not be informed. [More…]
This deportation order denied him the opportunity to return to his family. [More…]
I suppose the idea was to deal with the matter quietly- to put him on an aircraft and to send him awaybecause his family were not told. [More…]
I sent a message to the Minister to ask that he be in the chamber at 1 1 o’clock tonight to explain to this House and to me why a deportation order was served without the family being informed. [More…]
I would be perfectly willing to agree to the whole family being deported. [More…]
On the other hand, I would be much happier if the offender, having served his sentence, were allowed to join his family in my electorate. [More…]
After considering most carefully all the circumstances, including Mr Grunau ‘s family situation- I say at this stage that the honourable member for Holt does not have a mortgage on human compassion and human concern in relation to these matters; all members of parliament feel very strongly about these sorts of situations- I directed that he should be deported in the public interest. [More…]
Mr Grunau ‘s unsettled lifestyle resulted in long periods of separation from his family. [More…]
From the continuing reports of maltreatment of the Timorese population by Indonesian authorities and the obstruction of the family reunion programme, the fears expressed by the Timorese appear to be justified. [More…]
A letter from Timor five weeks ago reported the execution of the Lobato family, the father being a male nurse and the mother a former member of the Portuguese Red Cross. [More…]
Thus, the family reunion program involving those Timorese with relatives in Australia is proceeding at a very slow pace. [More…]
Another important question is whether the International Red Cross officials will be permitted to probe into the sensitive areas of family reunion, tracing and the question of political prisoners, traditional functions of the organisation. [More…]
-I refer the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to an explanation he gave on 30 August this year in which he said that migrants coming to Australia fell into four categories- family reunion, refugees, those entering by virtue of the Tasman agreement and persons who were selected because of their occupational skills. [More…]
He said that the family was not informed. [More…]
The family was informed. [More…]
Today, I have still not received any official communication from the Minister whatever, firstly concerning my husband ‘s deportation and secondly that according to the Minister, the Commonwealth was prepared to offer me and my Australian born family passages to West Germany at Commonwealth expense if my husband was deported . [More…]
Towards the end of1977, I was contacted by a Mr Belford of the Department of Immigration in Melbourne, with a view to determining whether or not I would be prepared to have my husband return to myself and our family upon his release. [More…]
Today, I have still not received any official communication from the Minister whatever, firstly concerning my husband’s deportation and secondly that according to the Minister, the Commonwealth was prepared to offer me and my Australian born family passages to West Germany at Commonwealth expense if my husband was deported to Germany. [More…]
It is my fervent wish that my husband be allowed to continue to live in this country and to join me and his family at our home in Doveton, Victoria. [More…]
For me to follow my husband to that country as a result of his proposed deportation would result in much hardship to my family. [More…]
If the motorist needs a larger vehicle, a Holden Kingswood for example, to carry his family or to tow a trailer or if his job requires it, he would now pay $22.64 for that 100 kilometre trip. [More…]
I visited it last Saturday for a family festival and what a delight it is to be able to go to an area like this which was once a brick pit and which is now a veritable Garden of Eden where people can go in their thousands on the weekend to enjoy the pleasures of the open air, the trees, the gardens, the waterfalls, the ponds and the wildlife that were never there before the advent of a sensitive administration in the Federal sense that was prepared to consider local government as a most important partner in the servicing of people as far as government is concerned. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the current family allowance scheme brought increased assistance to some 300,000 families with 800,000 children who, simply because of their low incomes did not benefit fully, or at all, from the previous system of tax rebates. [More…]
Provision for the payment of family allowances on a daily basis where the child moves from one person to another or enters or leaves an institution. [More…]
Provision for the continuation of handicapped child’s allowance to a person ordinarily caring for a child where the child is temporarily in an institution approved for the payment of family allowance. [More…]
Family Allowance, Double Orphan’s Pension Handicapped Child’s Allowance [More…]
At present, family allowance is payable in periods which commence on the fifteenth day of one month and end on the fourteenth day of the next month. [More…]
This can mean that a person or institution having the care of a child for the greater part of a period but not the commencement, receives nothing by way of family allowance in respect of that period. [More…]
Broadly stated, the conditions for payment of family allowance apply also to double orphan’s pension and handicapped child’s allowance, but handicapped child’s allowance is not payable to an institution. [More…]
Consequently the absence of a child from the family home for a few days covering the commencement of a family allowance period can result in the non payment to the parent or guardian of amounts of $47.70 and $65 a month respectively. [More…]
In respect of a handicapped child ‘s allowance, the absence of a child from the private home for a short period can be disregarded and payment continued uninterrupted provided family allowance continues to be payable to the parent or guardian. [More…]
However, under existing conditions if a child enters an institution to which family allowance is payable the parent or guardian loses handicapped child ‘s allowance. [More…]
The Labor Party disputed the introduction of family allowances at the time they were brought in. [More…]
But now it is the most constant critic wanting change to family allowances. [More…]
Yet family allowances are not part of its policy. [More…]
I know of someone who had obtained permanent resident status and who for business reasons wanted to travel and of another person who for family reasons had to take more than one trip overseas. [More…]
It has been operated as a family business by the Ryder- Wood family for the past 26 years, although more recently without the assistance of Mr Ryder- Wood senior who passed away a few years ago. [More…]
I am sure both of us admire the service given by and the dedication of the Ryder-Wood family. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the concern of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union that occupational as well as family and community health standards are threatened by the lack of research into the Zoonoses disease to which meat workers are exposed. [More…]
It concerns the family reunions of East Timorese in Australia. [More…]
Not only that, but I will bring forward evidence to show that for the greater part of our population it is not possible for members of a single income family to get their feet on the first rung of the ladder, that is, getting a loan to build or buy their own home. [More…]
This decision not only discriminates against resident migrants seeking to bring additional family members to Australia, but ensures that many people approved under NUMAS for settlement in Australia as independent migrants will be pushed to the end of the ever growing dole queues. [More…]
Evidence in our possession shows that NUMAS is biased in favour of rich, white English-speaking middle class immigrants from Rhodesia and the USA, while at the same time significantly weakening the family reunion aspect of the immigration program. [More…]
Immigration is no longer a program where, except for the refugee and family reunion categories, labour market considerations are the prime considerations in determining entry. [More…]
The intake of migrants to Australia is made up of four broad categories, namely, refugees, family reunion cases, the free flow from New Zealand and the admission of migrants with skills currently in short supply or with proved entrepreneurial capacity. [More…]
The next category is the family reunion category. [More…]
It says that it is going to increase the numbers coming in under the family reunion category. [More…]
It has not delineated that matter, but it has made the broad statement that it is going to increase the entry under the family reunion category. [More…]
We all know that until 1 January immigration policy covered these categories: Family reunion, special family reunion, refugees, persons freely granted residence because of the Tasman agreement, and the general eligibility provision wherein independent new migrants were selected mainly by relating their skills to the Australian 1 mainly abour market. [More…]
Apart from people admitted as refugees and for family reunion, migrant entry criteria should be developed on the basis of benefit to the Australian community, and the social, economic and related requirements within Australia. [More…]
The Opposition policy to give family reunion a high priority and to extend it to brothers, sisters and generally to non-dependent relatives has very serious repercussions for the labour market and shows a great disregard for the unemployed in this country. [More…]
On the other hand, in the administration of a sensibly controlled intake this Government has been able to accommodate the basic domestic constraints of the Australian economy, and at the same time sensibly meet the immediate family reunion requirements of our migrant population. [More…]
I know of many people- particularly wives and mothers- in those isolated areas who find that this is a tremendous burden for the family. [More…]
an increase in family allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation’. [More…]
Let me point out to the House that amongst those pensions which are not being indexed are the supplementary allowance, which for some considerable time has been $5 and which now should really be indexed to $8 and the family allowance. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which I have had incorporated on an earlier occasion showing the loss in value of the family allowance because of inflation. [More…]
The State Social Welfare Minister, Mr Dixon, telegrammed two Federal Ministers warning of the possibility of family breakdown if the benefits were not paid. [More…]
an increase in family allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation’. [More…]
I turn now to the question of the placing of a means test on family allowances. [More…]
The ALP has constantly criticised the Liberal-National Country Party’s family allowance scheme. [More…]
The ALP platform speaks of ‘reviewing family allowance programs in order to direct resources to low income families ‘. [More…]
If it was considered desirable not to add to government spending, a reduction in the Family Allowances could pay for the increased supplement paid to lower income groups, e.g., a reduction of $4 per month per child would have resulted in approximately $200m in 1978. [More…]
A married man with two children would have received, including family allowance, some 50.5 per cent of average weekly earnings while unemployed compared with 48.4 per cent at the end of the term of the Labor Government. [More…]
Fourthly, there is payment of the family allowance on a daily basis for a child moving between parents and an institution or between one person and another. [More…]
Thirdly, my colleagues, particularly the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) and Senator Bishop, played a key role in drawing the attention of the responsible Minister to anomalies in specific cases arising from the monthly payments of family allowances. [More…]
Whether the Fraser Government likes it or not, it has a responsibility to see that no family or individual lacks food and shelter. [More…]
However, the Government is not only taking away the right to unemployment benefit; it is even taking away the right to special benefit, a payment made only when a person or family is destitute, without money and without any prospect of raising it. [More…]
If, for example, a husband and wife are in the same union and the wife voted against strike action and was not involved in it, the family still cannot receive any benefit, even if the breadwinners are supporting children. [More…]
The costs of unemployment are being seen in depression, psychiatric illness, suicide, homelessness, family breakdown, alcoholism, crime and an unemployment bill of approximately $980m per year. [More…]
Taken from Department of Social Security- Recipients of pensions, benefits and family allowances in postcode districts and electoral divisions, NSW-ACT; June 1978. [More…]
In a number of instances people have to leave their place of employment for genuine family reasons. [More…]
That man will find that he is being penalised and his family and children are being penalised for a decision that he had absolutely nothing to do with. [More…]
That, for a family in that situation, makes a very real difference. [More…]
In New South Wales a single employee receives $96.30 a week, a spouse $22 a week and each child $ 1 1 a week, which are about the same as the rates paid by the Commonwealth for a family man. [More…]
I understand that the new proposals provide for $105 a week for an employee, $30 a week for a spouse and $ 10 a week for a child, but these rates will be subject to a ceiling of $155 a family a week. [More…]
Such a person has to go home to his family and say: ‘Look, we have been stood down because of an industrial dispute 2,000 miles away but I am told that because I am a member of the same union that went on strike in Adelaide, I cannot receive any unemployment benefit from the Government’. [More…]
What is the family expected to live on? [More…]
The unemployed person and his family are subject to a means test threshold of $6 a week. [More…]
It is quite incredible that this is the kind of legislation that the Government is introducing into this House at a time when I do not think there is a family in Australia that is not unaware of the suffering being caused to people- perhaps in their family, perhaps in their community- as a result of extended periods of unemployment. [More…]
The State Social Welfare Minister, Mr Dixon, telegramed two Federal Ministers warning of the possibility of family breakdown if the benefits were not paid. [More…]
The report also shows that a glowing prospectus was issued in May 1974, despite the fact that the company had no further borrowing capital and that it had lent more than $15m to family companies of the managing director, of which less than $5m was represented by assets and the balance was written off. [More…]
How does he buy food for his family? [More…]
I am referring to the decline in real wages, the rise in health insurance contributions, the erosion of family allowances and so on. [More…]
He spoke of the patient in the benevolent home going out for Christmas or going out with a family. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that gift duty acted as a deterrent to income splitting between members of a family. [More…]
We have acted by introducing a family allowance scheme. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that since combining the then existing tax rebate for dependent children and child endowment in 1976 into a family allowance payment, that benefit rate has remained frozen? [More…]
Is it a fact that the family allowance payment for four children in real terms today is $6.54 a week less than the combined tax rebate and child endowment for four children in 1975? [More…]
Is it a fact that by terminating the tax rebate for dependent children and by refusing to index the substitute family allowance he has saved $5 80m so far at the expense of Australian children? [More…]
They continue to get a substantial benefit from family allowances, a benefit that they would not have had if the rebate system had continued, that is, the rebate system as planned and, I think, introduced by the honourable gentleman. [More…]
If we are asking the ordinary people of this country to pay increasingly high prices every time they go for a drive in the family automobile then we ought to know that that is being done within the context of a rational overall energy policy. [More…]
Even though the students come from the higher strata of their home societies because of the poverty of those countries compared to Australia it often means an enormous strain on the family resources to enable those students to come here. [More…]
The nominations of approximately 600 people were approved by the Department under the slightly expanded family reunion guidelines. [More…]
He reported that to date 285 of those 600 people had come to Australia under the family reunion program and that an additional 85 people outside that group of 600 people had been reunited with their families under normal migration arrangements. [More…]
At a Press conference on Friday, Mr Peacock indicated that Indonesia had agreed not to stand in the way of the 600 or so East Timorese eligible to come here under the Government’s family reunion guidelines. [More…]
If the clothing and textile industries are costing the Australian family as much as the IAC calculates that they are, that cost is borne by other industries through the higher wages that they must pay. [More…]
Does he recognise that the effect of the recent Budget is to reduce family incomes by a further $9 a week over the course of the financial year? [More…]
Will this persistent erosion of family living standards further depress demand and lead to lower levels of economic activity? [More…]
The effect of the amendment is to accord to judgments of the Federal Court, the Family Court and the supreme courts of the Territories, the same status as judgments of supreme courts of the States. [More…]
A hiatus occurs in one’s life which means that in the process of years one cannot really pick up or make amends for what one could have earned for one ‘s family in the normal course of progress. [More…]
I have said that it is almost impossible for a single income family to purchase a home in Sydney or Melbourne. [More…]
It is an affluent area with a high proportion of cars to each family. [More…]
In addition, there are the family support services scheme, the community health program and the welfare housing programs. [More…]
Government and President Park’s family by the Foreign Minister (Mr Peacock) who represented Australia at the funeral ceremonies held in Seoul on 3 November. [More…]
Is it a fact that contributions to private health insurance in 1974 for full family cover amounted to 1.9 per cent of average weekly earnings? [More…]
What would be the saving to revenue if family allowances were included as income for the purposes of income tax assessment. [More…]
The Commissioner of Taxation has advised that the saving to income tax revenue that would result if family allowances were included in the assessable income of the recipient (generally the mother) and if they were to qualify as separate net income, for the purpose of determining the amount of the spouse rebate, is estimated at an amount of the order of $220m in a full year. [More…]
Family allowances are also available and supplementary assistance may be payable. [More…]
What proportion of the cost of maintaining migrant centres, providing food services, temporary accommodation assistance, building and equipment for migrant centres, can be attributed to (a) caring for refugees (b) caring for immigrants in the family reunion category and (c) caring for independent immigrants arriving under the occupational eligibility category. [More…]
Negligible numbers of migrants in the family reunion category are accommodated in migrant centres. [More…]
There has been a history of family alcoholism and a strong relationship existed between parental alcoholism and drinking problems early in their lives. [More…]
As to social contact, there has been a high usage of church or welfare centres and a virtual absence of family ties. [More…]
I have before me tonight an account of the activities of the Smith Family, the Salvation Army and the St Vincent De Paul Society in terms of all the meals they serve, how many people they accommodate and so on. [More…]
Attitudes are moulded and chiselled into shape by the personality of the individual, by the quality of family life, by the existence of a conscience in all strata of society and also by the lead given by government. [More…]
I remind the people of Australia that notwithstanding the need to spend much more money in this area there are parallel schemes in existence: $3m has been made available on a dollartodollar basis with the States for the provision of youth support schemes; various family support service schemes, the community health programs and the welfare housing programs are operating. [More…]
I refer firstly to the suggestion that these people are somehow the product of family conditions, personal attitudes and perhaps their immediate social environment, rather than their being in any sense the victims of larger social forces. [More…]
In the past few years we have seen major programs of urban renewal and the tendency for office areas within a city to expand into neighbouring suburbs and for properties that have been used for perhaps 30 or 40 years as rooming houses to be taken over for commercial purposes or sometimes turned into large family homes. [More…]
The Soviet Government regards emigration as an unpatriotic act and has virtually restricted it to the concept of family reunion, which is applied to those Soviet nationalities that can be seen to have a homeland abroad, such as Jews and Germans. [More…]
She was paying $76 a month health insurance- I repeat, $76 a month health insurance- out of a family income of $140 a week. [More…]
One can pay up to $17 a week- $884 a year- for comprehensive family insurance and trust that one gets one’s money’s worth. [More…]
Then we come to the The Growing Family Plan’. [More…]
Under the Hospital Benefits Association, we find that a family is asked to pay $11.30 a week for basic cover. [More…]
As a result of the abolition of the general 40 per cent subsidy, contributions for the 75 per cent table for the Medibank Private family rate have increased by 18 per cent. [More…]
The figures show that the average first home buyer in Australia is a young family purchasing a house costing about $34,000, although this figure obviously varies between cities. [More…]
How doctors in private practice can channel all their income into a family trust. [More…]
How to get even more benefits from family trusts’- I think the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) has been reading this- ‘How loans within the family can reduce tax’. [More…]
While ever there are smart people, the rich business friends of the Government, who are prepared to dodge tax and the ordinary average family income earner has to pay more and more tax because he cannot avoid taxation, because he pays pay-as-you-earn taxation, we will have to do something about this matter in this chamber. [More…]
Of course it can be argued that those- figures make no allowance for the changed arrangements in respect of family allowances or health insurance. [More…]
So one can do the sum again and include in the concept of net tax the amounts paid by the Government by way of child endowment or the family allowances and the additional amounts that taxpayers have to pay now to be covered for health care. [More…]
This sits oddly with the Government’s claim that it has done marvellous things for families by way of increasing family allowances. [More…]
Of course, the reality is that the decision originally to move to family allowances and abolish the tax rebate was a good move which we supported. [More…]
I wish to commend the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) for the proposals he has brought forward, which have been favourably received, in relation to family income splitting. [More…]
In contrast to the family income splitting proposal of the honourable member for Sturt, this proposition involves taxing the family unit. [More…]
The proposal depends largely on the acceptance of taxation of the family unit. [More…]
A ‘family’ means husband, wife, children and full time student children. [More…]
The flat rate of tax would be applied to the grossed up income derived by all members of a family. [More…]
A family would be taxed as one entity. [More…]
The reason for this approach is to remove the necessity for income splitting and it would result in virtually all family partnerships and trusts being taxed as if they were one income. [More…]
With the passage of time, and with the effect of inflation, the number of taxpayers with an income below $9,500 would diminish until virtually all taxpayers, on a family unit basis, would receive about $9,500 and paying the flat rate of 20 per cent. [More…]
Obviously every individual and every family receiving over $9,500 would be advantaged by the 20 per cent flat rate, and any individual or family receiving below $9,500 would be disadvantaged because the average, the flat rate, below $9,500 falls steadily. [More…]
There are working wives whose individual incomes are less than $9,500, but who, on a family income basis, would benefit from a flat rate. [More…]
The Government brought in the family allowance as a great reform. [More…]
We concede that the family allowance scheme was a great reform. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to index family allowances either. [More…]
When those tax scales in February 1978 were introduced their regressiveness, their unfairness to the family income earners and the middle income earners, rapidly became apparent. [More…]
The most disturbing factor that strikes me from listening to the honourable member for Werriwa is this phoney concern he is now expressing for the family. [More…]
The honourable member did that, and then he has come into this House and profess cynically and phonily that his concern is for the family and for low tax. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that family allowance rates have been frozen since 1976 while prices have risen by 48 per cent; that a family with four children is now $7 a week worse off than before the family allowance was introduced; that the maternity allowance has been abolished; that family allowance has been discontinued for students receiving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance; that the TEAS allowance would have to be increased by something like $10 a week to provide the same spending power as it did in 1975; and that an extra $ 1 7 a week would be required to restore a family on average weekly earnings to the living standard it enjoyed at the end of 1975? [More…]
In view of these few- from many- examples of the alarming erosion of family living standards, combined with the abolition or watering down of many benefits, what incentives does the Minister offer to encourage the growth of families that he has espoused with such uncharacteristic vigour? [More…]
A sort of coldhearted indifference seeps through, whether it is in relation to family allowances or in relation to the provision of adequate library facilities in this country for the people who belong to Australian families and who want to improve themselves or who want to relax in some sort of creative and satisfying way. [More…]
I want to make a few remarks on the question of family reunion. [More…]
We have received some 600 applications requesting family reunification from the Timorese who came to Australia in the early days after the Indonesian takeover. [More…]
This is important because we are demonstrating in respect of family reunions for Timorese people- as we did with, for example, the similar problems in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and also the Middle East- that we are prepared to do our utmost on the basis of humanitarianism to bring together families which are disunited by events over which they had absolutely no control such as war and so forth. [More…]
That this House recognising that- (1)1 in 5 unemployed family heads in South Australia experience bankruptcy and repossession; [More…]
An example of this is where, on the death of a person, a public appeal is made for members of the deceased’s family. [More…]
In other cases, the amount raised may be paid directly to the members of the deceased’s family. [More…]
It is already clear that some will attempt to discredit the Government’s changed tax arrangements on family trusts by emotional references to their effect upon the earnings of children. [More…]
The Treasurer is saying that, by abolishing gift tax, what he has done is to make tax avoidance that much less complicated and costly by enabling the transfer of capital assets within a family or to other persons. [More…]
I also rebut the idea that the sugar industry is controlled by that family of 60 sitting on boards throughout Australia. [More…]
In this whole process the rights of the community, the rights of parents, the rights of family and the places of students and children when they grow up all have to be considered. [More…]
The suburban city seeks to maximise the advantages of low density family style suburbs and the advantage of accessibility to all the services of the city. [More…]
A single income family on an income below $15,000 a year is virtually excluded from the Scheme. [More…]
Let us consider the case of a single income family in a suburb in Sydney such as Auburn or Burwood, receiving a gross income of $10,000 and wishing to buy a very average home in that area for $45,000. [More…]
Even if the family saved 20 per cent of its income, it would take 1 5 years to save the required deposit. [More…]
They did not have an extended family to accommodate them. [More…]
That is a substantial slug for any young family trying to establish a home in this country today. [More…]
It will be measured in terms of social costs imposed on the rest of the community, with things such as cramped accommodation, where two and three generations are forced to share accommodation which was designed, in a very cramped way, for one family alone. [More…]
It concerns a family called Aussieker of Cronulla, a Sydney suburb. [More…]
Over 20 months ago the family asked the Minister for permission to bring the child to Australia. [More…]
In correspondence with the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the only information I am able to obtain is that in order to receive coverage for the child under any form of benefit other than family allowances the woman would have to resign her war widow’s pension. [More…]
Let us say that a member of the family of the honourable member for Bonython (Dr Blewett), who has taken part in the debate, was kidnapped and held somewhere by a terrorist, not necessarily anybody on drugs. [More…]
If there were a possibility that the location of the person who was holding that member of his family hostage could be ascertained because a telephone call was expected to the home of the honourable member, as a subscriber, does he mean to tell me that he would not invite the police to listen to that phone call? [More…]
1 ) What has been the reduction in the real value of family allowances since they were introduced. [More…]
The new family allowances, however, are worth $62.90 a month to every such family- an increase of $25.40 or 68 per cent in money terms. [More…]
After some family discussion we decided that there seemed to be no reason at that time why my son should not take the job. [More…]
There are the Farrands at Rabbit Flat, which is some 300 miles northwest of Alice Springs, and the Savage family at ‘Supplejack’ station, some 40 or 50 miles north of the Farrands. [More…]
The ‘Colbourne family has many members. [More…]
I convey sympathy- I feel I am joined by many people in the Parliament- to the whole Colbourne family, particularly the two sons. [More…]
When the interests of members of his immediate family are involved, the officeholder should disclose those interests, to the extent that they are known to him. [More…]
b) solicit or accept any benefit, advantage or promise of future advantage whether for himself, his immediate family or any business concern or trust with which he is associated from persons who are in, or seek to be in, any contractual or special relationship with government; [More…]
The Government recognises that declaration of private interests will involve an intrusion upon the privacy of those involved, including in some circumstances the privacy of family members. [More…]
Conference on Family Policy (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Has it yet been decided who will attend the public conference in Sydney during 1980 to discuss the theme, Towards An Australian Family Policy. [More…]
Is it possible as a first step to the indexing of family allowances to implement a scheme to index family allowances for families who are in receipt of one income on or below the average weekly earning or two incomes which together do not exceed that figure (i.e. [More…]
It would be possible to implement a scheme whereby indexed family allowances would be payable to families where the families’ incomes were equivalent to or less than average weekly earnings, but administration would be complex and costly. [More…]
The definition of the family members to be included in the income unit for the purpose of income testing, e.g. [More…]
Over what period would family income be assessed and average earnings determined? [More…]
How frequently would the maximum rates of family allowances be adjusted and how soon after the relevant movement in the Consumer Price Index? [More…]
How many persons were approved in the categories, (a) immediate family reunion, (b) special family reunion, (c) nances, (d) independent applicants, (e) employment nominees, (f) refugees, (g) patrials, (h) entrepreneurs, (i) self-supporting retirees, and (j) others. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the Northern Territory News of 4 September 1979, claiming that ( a ) Mr Solomon Nayilibity, employed for some years by Queensland Mines as an Aboriginal Liaison Officer, lived with his family for about 6 months in a core shed belonging to the company, (b) the shed and a nearby tank containing radioactive samples were marked as radioactive, (c) the company has claimed that (i) unmineralised dust samples only were in the shed and were not dangerous and (ii) Mr Nayilibity did not mention any fears of radiation to a company spokesman who saw him during August 1979, (d) the company has not replied to Mr Nayilibity ‘s request for a medical test, (e) the test would be unlikely to disclose irradiation effects which might take decades to appear, (f) uranium samples were spilt from a split bag over a former company exploration camp site and registered more than the maximum 5000 microrems/hour on a counter, 85 times the safe public exposure limit and (g) Aborigines hunt and camp in the area but the company has no commission to re-enter the area. [More…]
The first allegation was that Mr Solomon Nayilibitj, a local Aboriginal who is an employee of Queensland Mines, and his family and other Aboriginals had some years ago lived for approximately 6 months in a core shed containing uranium bearing core samples. [More…]
I am also informed that Queensland Mines Limited is prepared to arrange, upon request, for medicals for Mr Nayilibitj, his family or any other member of the Nabarlek Aboriginal community who is concerned about radiation and at no cost to the Aboriginals. [More…]
Applications for permanent residency from other sportsmen and women who have been here since 1975 would be considered on their individual merits, allowing for such factors as marriage to an Australian resident, family disposition and ability to maintain themselves without recourse to dependence on social welfare. [More…]
Was a Mr Paul Stewart, or a member of his family, associated with any of the companies which complied. [More…]
How many years’ disposable income was required by a single income family, with a dependent spouse and 2 children, receiving average annual earnings to purchase (a) a medium priced block of land, ( b ) a newly erected 2 or 3 bedroom house or flat and (c) a medium priced established 2 or 3 bedroom house or flat in each capital city during each of the years from 1 970-7 1 to 1 978-79 and for the period1 July 1979 to 1 8 October 1979. [More…]
Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware that the rate of unemployment, financial tragedy and family depopulation has now reached alarming proportions throughout the sheep areas? [More…]
The special provisions in its television program standards relating to programming during family and children’s viewing time between 4 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. daily are strictly enforced and all stations are familiar with their responsibilities under the Standards in programming at these times. [More…]
For obvious reasons the special provisions for family and children’s viewing time do not prevent the presentation of news and other types of actuality programming of an informative nature during these periods: ‘A Current Affair’ is basically a live interview program, and as such is in this category. [More…]