family - senate - 1970

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

Why has Western Australia been denied this coverage when that State has been excluded totally from the Royal tour and not one member of the Royal family will visit it. [More…]
My Party joins in expressing to his family its very deep regret at his passing. [More…]
As a means of meeting one of the problems of retention of skilled Service personnel, will the Minister earnestly consider initiating a scheme in the 3 Services whereby postings of serving members with families, with a consequent disruption to family life, will be made only when other persons with similar skills and qualifications and willing and able to accept the postings are not available? [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I join with the Leader of the Government (Senator Anderson) in what he said and in expressing our sympathy to the family of the late Mr Joshua. [More…]
Has the Minister any objection to the young man being examined medically by some outside person, the examination to be paid for by the family of the young man? [More…]
I have a newspaper cutting which purports to state that the Vestey family made a statement that the report in previous newspaper cuttings was not correct. [More…]
Did Brian Ross answer the questions normally found necessary to ask to establish genuine conscienious beliefs such as ‘Would you forcefully slop an invader in your home threatening the female members of your family’. [More…]
I wish to add to the condolences which have been extended to his wife, whom I came to know very well, and to members of his family who I am sure will follow the tradition of Jim Ormonde. [More…]
Does the voting system operating in Holland provide for absentee voting rights: for example, can crews of the North Sea fishing fleet delegate to other members of their family the right to exercise proxy votes. [More…]
Was he induced to return by threats that his family would bc dealt with? [More…]
What has the Australian Broadcasting Control Board done to ensure that greater opportunity is taken by commercial television stations to develop a wider range of Australian programmes, of both an entertaining and informative character, to interest children and adolescents during family viewing times? [More…]
In the Bill the term ‘separate living accommodation’ means, in relation to an employee, living accommodation provided for the exclusive use of the employee, or of the employee and his family, being accommodation that includes cooking, bathing and sanitary facilities. [More…]
Yesterday the honourable senator asked me a question about this matter and I gave him information on the points he raised regarding an Aboriginal family living in the house next to 33 Morrison Street, Swan View. [More…]
1 ask the AttorneyGeneral whether he has yet had an opportunity to ascertain what progress has been made by his departmental officers in considering the possible introduction of a system of family courts in Australia. [More…]
That the Senate is of opinion that immediate action should be initiated by the Commonwealth Government, where necessary by negotiation with State governments, to bring about the abolition of all death duties insofar as they apply to a bereaved widow or widower and members of the immediate family, and also for the drastic revision and reduction of these taxes in other deserving cases. [More…]
In view of the tremendous problems which will be caused to family life by disruption, and also the interference with business, for what might be thought to be only slight advantages, will the Government, before proceeding with these proposals, consult with the various other authorities which might be affected, such as the local councils and the State governments which have decentralisation plans that might be cut across by the proposals of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department? [More…]
On behalf of honourable senators I have extended to Senator Negus and his family the sympathy of the Senate. [More…]
I assure you that the misfortune was made easier for my family and me to bear by your sincere wishes. [More…]
its costliness to patients and their family, and lb) an inadequate provision of alternative forms of accommodation and domiciliary services; bc put as one amendment; and that the balance then be put as a second amendment. [More…]
How does the Acting Minister for Immigration reconcile the rejection of an assisted passage to Mr Nigel Joseph and his family with the reiteration by Dr Forbes of an immigration policy that places heavy emphasis on the reuniting of families through normal immigration processes? [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral advise whether any progress has been made in the consideration being given by him and his Department to the introduction of a system of family courts in Australia? [More…]
The members of the Democratic Labor Party certainly desire to be associated with this sad motion of condolence to Her Majesty the Queen, the parents of the late Prince and other members of the Royal Family on the untimely and tragic death of Prince William. [More…]
Prince William showed promise of being a very important and valuable member of the Royal family. [More…]
He showed inclination and promise in the discharge of duties that are required to be performed by members of the Royal family. [More…]
We sympathise very deeply with the Queen and members of her family circle. [More…]
by leave - It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Commonwealth Department of Social Services with the full support and co-operation 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…]
and (3) In October 1969, the weekly family* contribution rates of the major health insurance organisations for hospital and medical benefits in each State were: [More…]
and (4) The current weekly family contribution rates of the major health insurance organizations for hospital and medical benefits in each State are: [More…]
The basis on which the Commonwealth Employment Service refers persons to the State and local government authorities for recruitment under the Non-Metropolitan Unemployment Relief Scheme is length of unemployment, suitability for the work in question and the degree of family responsibility. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security aware that a family with 4 children would receive child endowment of $5.75 a week and yet if, due to divorce, the family were divided into 2 groups with each parent, looking after 2 children, each group would receive only $1.50 a week - a total of $3? [More…]
On behalf of the Family Law Committee of the Sydney Law Graduates Association I enclose herewith a copy of a Press statement which will be issued to the Press on Thursday in the name of the Committee. [More…]
1 assure Senator Durack that the question of costs had loomed very large, according to my information, in the discussions of the Family Law Committee. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Acting Minister for Primary Industry, relates to the ever increasing financial problems being faced by family units in the Australian poultry industry. [More…]
I simply rise briefly so that his family will be reminded of a very firm friendship, deeply seated by our confidence in his ability and manhood. [More…]
I would not deign to mention the matter of relationships between me and my family but, as I am on my feet, that too is entirely false and malicious. [More…]
I propose to introduce some minor amendments which will be concerned mainly with the exercise by the Superior Court of Australia of its jurisdiction in family matters. [More…]
That notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the legislative and general purpose Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs be empowered to consider the clauses of the Family Law Bill 1974 during its consideration of the matter previously referred to it, namely, the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters; [More…]
The purpose of this motion is simply to avoid debarring that Committee from looking at the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage as the sole ground for divorce, as set down in the Family Law Bill 1973 based on one years separation. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the members in Parliament assembled will see that the powerful communicator, television, is used to build into the nation those qualities of character which make a democracy work- integrity, teamwork and a sense of purpose by serving, and that television be used to bring faith in God to the heart of the family and national life. [More…]
3 ) Dr Jarvis has indicated that whilst he was certain that the Health Centre concept offered an enlarged dimension for family medicine, he felt personally that he would be happier working in a private capacity. [More…]
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage as the sole ground for divorce, as set down in the Family Law Bill 1 973 based on one years separation. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
We deplore the tactics of the opponents of the Family Law Bill in seeking further delays for its implementation. [More…]
That we have examined the Family Law Bill and substantially support the provisions therein. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
We support the introduction of Family Courts and the single non-fault ground for divorce based on 12 months separation. [More…]
Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We deplore the tactics of the opponents of the Family Law Bill in seeking further delays for its implementation. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
The there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement at a last resort. [More…]
If it needs more time beyond the end of next month, I do not imagine that it will hesitate to do what it did in relation to the Family Law Bill and seek an extension of time from the Senate. [More…]
The question is that the second reading of the Family Law Bill 1974 be now put- I am sorry, that Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s amendment that the words proposed to be left out be left out. [More…]
We deplore the tactics of the opponents of the Family Law Bill in seeking further delays for its implementation. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We support the introduction of Family Courts and the single non-fault ground for divorce based on 12 months separation. [More…]
Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
-Much as I should like to be able to give an assurance to the honourable senator I cannot guarantee that the Family Law Bill can be given a higher position on the notice paper. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill asto strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That the inclusion in Sub-section 54 (2) of the Family Law Bill of the Clause recommended in paragraph 67 (f) (2) of the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, which will allow “any fact or circumstance” to be taken into account when considering maintenance, completely alters the whole concept of specific guidelines as now set out in Section 54, and we oppose it. [More…]
That the removal of the word “exceptional” in Subsection 92 (2 ) of the new Family Law Bill will result in a high level of bitter and costly litigation in ancillary matters, which the proposed sharing of costs with legal aid available, would otherwise minimise. [More…]
The existing law and administration of divorce, custody and other family matters is too humiliating, too complex and too costly. [More…]
It is a long time since I moved, and the Senate accepted, that there be an inquiry into the law and administration of divorce, custody and other family matters, dealing in particular with the oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
It is also a long time since the Family Law Bill was introduced in this chamber. [More…]
Senator Greenwood was asking what would happen in distant places where there was no family court. [More…]
Of course all the lawyers have been talking but would they just tell us whether people can take such a matter to another court or do they have to travel a few hundred miles to find a family court? [More…]
PartIIIa- The Family Court of Australia ‘. [More…]
I think the considerations relating to the Family Court are quite substantial considerations. [More…]
They relate not only to certain constitutional problems but also to whether or not a Family Court can provide the service and the facilities for persons who are involved in matrimonial causes with adaptations that the existing State system can provide. [More…]
My hope was that the Attorney-General would be prepared to explain why, in contradistinction to the initial attitude he adopted when the first version of this Bill was before the Senate, he has now responded to the suggestion of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and desires to have a Family Court. [More…]
It may be that one of the members of that Committee- I think there are only two of them in the chamber at the moment- could likewise proceed to give reasons why they prefer a Commonwealth Family Court as distinct from State Family Courts. [More…]
It refers to the ‘Family Court of Australia’. [More…]
The question is that the new heading, Part IIIa, ‘The Family Court of Australia’ be agreed to. [More…]
Court’ means the Family Court of Australia; [More…]
Full Court’ means the Family Court when constituted by three or more Judges or when constituted in accordance with sub-section 1 7J (4); [More…]
Judge’ means a Judge of the Family Court (including the Chief Judge or a Senior Judge). [More…]
I do so basically for the reasons already put forward by Senator Everett, but I add to them that the practices and procedures of this court will be of particular importance if we are to meet the ambitions that I think Parliament has for the Family Court. [More…]
I indicated at the time we broke off discussion that we would seek to have the Family Law Bill brought on again. [More…]
For the information of the Committee, the Family Law Bill being a Bill in which the party disciplines are not operating, I simply ask as to the extent to which there is knowledge that this Bill was being proceeded with at this hour? [More…]
I ask honourable senators to give their attention directly to that clause of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Will the Minister table the file relating to the entry into Australia of the Dungca family? [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Treasurer whether he will give serious consideration in the Budget to enabling taxpayers to claim as a tax deductible item fees for the use of ambulances as these fees can and in many cases do impose severe financial hardship on an injured person and/or his or her family? [More…]
do not fit the nuclear family pattern. [More…]
On behalf of all honourable senators 1 extend deepest sympathy to Senator Primmer and his family. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister in future follow the example of the economy saving, employed by the Royal Family in using normal commercial flights or does he intend to force the taxpayers to foot the bill for his luxury VIP travel. [More…]
If it is good enough for the Royal Family to use commercial flights why cannot the Prime Minister do the same. [More…]
Has the Minister noted that the Commission’s terms of reference require that it examine family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of the male and female relationship? [More…]
1 ) Are many medical services rendered by salaried doctors employed by welfare agencies, many of which are in financial difficulty, for example, the Spastic Centre, the Family Planning Association and Red Cross Blood Banks. [More…]
None has been given to members of my family. [More…]
My family and I made no dutiable purchases. [More…]
N75/78694, involving admission to Australia of: Mr and Mrs Eduardio Medina Iberra and family, from Chile. [More…]
I understand that, under the last Federal Government, the policy was that family planning clinics opened following federal funding were to provide their services free of charge. [More…]
Is this the policy of the present Government or will these family planning clinics be able to charge for their services? [More…]
The shareholding of the Group is held 5 1 per cent by the Dairy Farm Group m Hong Kong and 49 per cent by the Lavery family which holds a casting vote on the directorate. [More…]
Australian National University Child Care Centre, Parents-on-Campus Co-operative Creche, Research Students Association Family Day Care Scheme, Spence Children’s Cottage, Bunbury Street Creche, Woden Family Day Care Scheme, Narrabundah Family Day Care Scheme at Marymead, Part-time co-ordinator of services for two Southside caravan parks, Neighbourhood Children’s Centre. [More…]
1) and (2) It is true that applications for dissolution are being filed in the Family Court of Australia at a rate considerably in excess of the filing rate for divorce petitions last year. [More…]
1 ) Does the Attorney-General agree with a prediction made in the Melbourne Age of 18 February 1976 by the President of the Law Institute of Victoria that, at the current rate of applications to the Family Law Court in Victoria, that State will have a backlog of over 18 000 cases at the end of 1976 if more judges are not appointed. [More…]
If there is a backlog, or if one is anticipated, why have more judges not been appointed to the Family Court. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General’s announcement of a reduction of $1.5 million in expenditure on the Family Law Court in this financial year increase the crisis apparently existing at present. [More…]
While a grant has not been given, within the Health portfolio, to any organisation specifically wishing to express a contrary view, the Government provides assistance to both the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission ($250,000 and $125,000 respectively in 1975-76) to assist with family planning and contraceptive programs. [More…]
The Brook Centres, established by the Family Planning Association, which now number nineteen. [More…]
‘Grapevine’, an educational service for young people, also established by the Family Planning Association. [More…]
1 ) With regard to the previous Government’s announced intention to create Family Planning ‘Action Centres’ in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, were these centres established; if so, where and when, and are they still operating. [More…]
The policy provides for entry to be considered on the basis of family relationship criteria or of skills or qualifications specified as in positive demand in Australia. [More…]
As has been announced, the medibank premium is to be within the range of $300 for family cover or $150 for cover for a single person. [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security aware that there has been concern in the community that people have not yet received their family allowance cheques? [More…]
Can the Minister explain to the Senate the way in which the payments of family allowances are being made and assure me that payments are being made on time without any delay? [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Older children are cared for in government or family homes. [More…]
How many parents or family units offered themselves as adoptive parents in the same categories during the same period. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Such advice is included in the teaching of medical students and graduates and in education programs run by the Family Medicine Program and Family Planning Associations and has been referred to in medical journals. [More…]
1 ) How many family trusts were registered in Australia (a) in 1972-73, and (b) in 1975-76, or the most recent available year. [More…]
and (2) No arrangements for the registration of family trusts exist in Australia, but trusts are required to lodge income tax returns each year. [More…]
There are circumstances in which family allowances may be paid to persons who are overseas. [More…]
1 ) Since staff ceilings were placed on the Public Service (a) has the staff of the Hoban Branch of the Australian Legal Aid Office declined from four solicitors to one solicitor; (b) is the Burnie office kept open by a temporary officer; and (c) is the officer-in-charge at Launceston to leave that office to transfer to the Family Court. [More…]
The Attorney-General has personally looked at the problems of the staffing of the Office in Tasmania and directed that action be taken to recruit additional solicitors, (a) At one stage the staff of the Hobart Office was reduced to one solicitor but four solicitors have now been recruited raising the number of solicitors to five; (b) At present, the Burnie Office is temporarily staffed but a senior lawyer has been recruited and is expected to take up duty shortly; (c) The Officer-in-charge at Launceston has now withdrawn his request for transfer to the Family Court. [More…]
The Government has said that these proposals are part of its package which also includes improvements in family allowances and indexation of taxation. [More…]
However, both the family allowances scheme and taxation indexation came into effect on a date different from the date on which the Medibank levy will come into effect. [More…]
We do not believe in fees being charged in the Family Court. [More…]
It ought to be pointed out at this stage that the mother and the 2 brothers- a catholic family from Kerala have had nothing to do with the career of George Fernandes but they have suffered, and suffered very badly, at the hands of the Indian police. [More…]
1) Administrative Appeals Tribunal; Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; Films Board of Review; Law Reform Commission; Legislative Drafting Institute; National Literature Board of Review; Office of the Parliamentary Counsel; Solicitor-General; Trade Practices Tribunal; Australian Institute of Criminology; Film Censorship Board; Barristers and Solicitors Admission Board of the Australian Capital Territory; Commonwealth Practitioners Board; Criminology Research Council; Legal Aid Committee of the Australian Capital Territory; Administrative Review Council; Copyright Tribunal; Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
Under the Family Law Act, since it came into operation on 5 January 1976, how many actions for maintenance have been undertaken by husbands against wives in respect to maintenance of children and how many have succeeded. [More…]
No investigation of the possibility of making family allowance payments taxable is currently being undertaken by the Depanment of Social Security nor by any interdepartmental committee on which the Department is represented. [More…]
Is the Department of Social Security, or an interdepartmental committee of which the Department is a member, currently investigating the possibility of making payments under the family allowance system taxable. [More…]
1 ) What, over the past two years, was the (a) number of family groups and (b) number of one parent family groups, which arrived in Australia under the Fairbridge Scheme and, in each case, what was the average number of children per family. [More…]
For the one parent family the Fairbridge scheme provides that children are taken into one of the Fairbridge Centres and that the mother or father is found accommodation in the same State. [More…]
In the case of large two-parent family groups, some children reside in the Fairbridge Centres and others reside with the parents in private accommodation or Commonwealth Hostels. [More…]
and (2) I am informed that neither the Supreme Courts nor the Family Court nor my Department have as yet kept such statistics. [More…]
As indicated in my statement on 20 May 1976, the Institute of Family Studies will come into being towards the end of the first half of 1 977. [More…]
1 ) In what percentage of cases have orders for custody been made in favour of the father of children as against the mother by family law Judges since the coming into operation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
To what degree do such orders compare with the number of custody orders made by Supreme Courts before the coming into operation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
What is the anticipated date of commencement of operation of the Family Law Institute and will it be requested to make enquiries in the areas of custody of children or other related subjects. [More…]
The honourable senator is, however, referred to sections 64 and 70 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The cost of proceedings under the Family Law Act is governed bv the Family Law (Costs) Regulations. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that if the Family Law Court makes an order for reasonable access to the child or children of a separated couple where the wife has custody and the husband applies for access, the only way the husband can enforce this order is again to apply to the Court for it to enforce the order. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 10 March 1977 of the Honourable John Ignatius Armstrong, A.C., a senator for the State of New South Wales from 1938 to 1962, a Minister of the Crown from 1946 to 1949, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 19S1 to 1 956, Lord Mayor of Sydney from 196S to 1967, and High Commissioner for Australia to the United Kingdom from 1973 to 197S; 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 am sure all honourable senators will join with me in expressing sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
(i) the deceased in 1974 was a son of the family and the deceased in 1975 was a nephew of the family. [More…]
What percentage occurred in the family’s own backyard pool, and in what percentage was the fencing around the pool adequate. [More…]
On behalf of my colleagues I extend sympathy to Mr Connor’s family and his close friends. [More…]
-The Senate is dealing with the Family Law Amendment Bill, which the Opposition does not oppose. [More…]
This is being done in relation to the Family Court. [More…]
I add only that this was a matter which was the subject of some discussion by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs when it was dealing with the Family Law Bill a couple of years ago. [More…]
I think it is true to say that it was the unanimous view of the Committee at that time that because of the social implications and the age groups of people involved in the dissolution of marriage, it was desirable that there should be on the Family Court of Australia, if possible, younger judges whose views may be considered to be more in touch with the views of the generation most affected by marriage break-up. [More…]
Subsequently, the same Committee, in dealing with the question of the retiring age of judges last year, again commented on the desirability of a fixed retiring age for judges and a reduced age forjudges in the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
In addition, single persons, have in the absence of family or community support here, developed mental illness requiring hospitalisation. [More…]
depending on which is in the best interest of the patient and his or her family. [More…]
-Can the AttorneyGeneral say when the appointment of the Director of the Institute of Family Studies will be announced? [More…]
The precedent for this arose on the occasion of the tabling of the Committee’s report on ‘The Law and Administration of Divorce and related Matters and the Family Law Bill 1974’ on 15 October 1974. [More…]
It should be borne in mind also that the take-up of this benefit is not expected to be very great, other than in the first couple of months when a disturbance to the family occurs and a person is in great distress. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle): Will the parents of these school leavers still be entitled to the family allowance and the student allowance during that six weeks period when the school leavers will not be entitled to receive unemployment benefit? [More…]
My understanding is that any genuine person who can show an interest- an interest as a viewer, as a family or as an organisation in a particular programming or activities- would be regarded as quite bona fide and would have access - [More…]
The statement which the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) brought in tonight has set down a record by the Fraser Government of new initiatives, increased benefits, a family allowance scheme, extended benefits, a movement towards an income supplement scheme which will guarantee a minimum income, an income test replacing a means test and consultative mechanisms set up within the welfare area. [More…]
1 ) There are currently 8 registries of the Family Court of Australia, situated in the following cities: [More…]
How many Family Law Courts are located in each State and in which cities-towns. [More…]
How many Family Law Court Judges are there at present. [More…]
In each Family Law Court what are the current delays being experienced in (a) divorce hearings; (b) property settlements; and (c) allocation of custody of children [More…]
Does the Minister for Social Security recall in November last giving a guarantee to the Senate that the payment of dependants ‘ allowances and family allowances would continue for school leavers until they were eligible for the unemployment benefit, a guarantee that was given in justification of the Government’s change in the legislation? [More…]
I join in tendering to his widow and to the members of his family our deepest sympathy. [More…]
I shall convey their messages to Mrs Southwell and the members of her family. [More…]
-I ask the Attorney-General whether he can confirm his recent statement, as reported in yesterday’s Australian that he would ask the States to pass legislation handing over to the Family Court their custody responsibilities. [More…]
I am aware that the Whitlam Government in fact sought to impose a capital gains tax on every family by applying a capital gains test to the sale of a home. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware of the heavy costs faced by people living in isolated areas in obtaining specialist medical treatment and of the heavy burden travel and accommodation costs place upon patients who have to travel long distances for health care, not to mention the social costs due to disruption of family life? [More…]
Can the Minister for Social Security confirm that it is still the Government’s intention not to impose a means test on family allowances? [More…]
When will the booklets Information for Widows and Preparing People for a Death in the Family be available to the public? [More…]
Was Stumpy Gully Estates, the land in which the Right Honourable P. R. Lynch or his family company had a financial interest, zoned by the Westernport Regional Planning Authority for conservation purposes or as an area of special interest, prior to Mr Peter Leake’s taking up his position as Chairman of My Lynch ‘s electorate committee on 6 October 1972. [More…]
Will the Minister for Social Security enlarge on the guidelines the Government proposes to lay down regarding means testing payments of family allowance on the basis of a child ‘s income? [More…]
I understand that that is a family name; so there is no question of the wrong person being talked about. [More…]
135 from the Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives acquainting the Senate that the House has agreed to the resolution of the Senate of 17 August 1978 relating to the proposed appointment of a Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act 1975, with modifications. [More…]
What has been the cost of each official and unofficial visit to Australia by members of the Royal Family since November 1975. [More…]
Costs of visits by Members of the Royal Family since this date are identified in Appropriation Acts (No. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received letters from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) nominating senators to be appointed members of a Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
That Senators Coleman, Davidson, Melzer, Missen and Walters, having been duly nominated in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of 17 August 1978, as varied on 28 September 1978, be appointed members of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I am aware of the problems that certainly arise in the Family Court generally because of the number of matters with which it has to deal. [More…]
I will refer the specific question raised by Mr Justice Muirhead to the Chief Judge of the Family Court and discuss the matter with her. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth, we feel very strongly that we do not want any interference from the Government in the payment to families of the family allowance. [More…]
If she has the custody, care and control of the children and the children are with her she would be paid a family allowance. [More…]
As far as I am concerned there is not the problem that Senator Cavanagh has raised, particularly if he is talking about a divorced woman or a family breakup. [More…]
I interpolate there that I understand that Lake Macquarie is where the elder members of the Walsh family normally reside. [More…]
It is also significant for the individual car buyer as the price of an average family car costing around $7,000 at the 21Vi per cent rate should now be some $530 less. [More…]
Can a mother lose $14 from her first family allowance cheque because her baby was an ‘odd number’, as indicated in a report in the Sunday Sun, 22 October 1978. [More…]
If so, what are the conditions of payment of family allowance which cause this to occur. [More…]
I refer to the recommendation of the Family Law Council, recently endorsed by the Australian Council of Social Service, relating to the prolonged delay in obtaining reciprocal arrangements with New Zealand in respect of the recognition and enforcement of custody orders. [More…]
-by leave- I was present at the meeting of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act this morning when the decision was made to release the statement which Senator Coleman put before the Senate tonight. [More…]
We are dealing with the lives, the happiness, the stability and the wellbeing of men and womenthe family unit in particular- of this country. [More…]
The kind of reporting that we have seen in relation to the work performed by the Committee so far has not contributed to the family unit. [More…]
The Department of Social Security does not fund the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners or its Family Medicine Program. [More…]
1 ) What is the total amount of money which has been granted to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and its Family Medicine Program by the Department of Social Security since the first grants were made by the Federal Government. [More…]
Australia’s very substantial refugee program is intended to provide opportunities for a new life to as many as possible of those in refugee camps, commensurate with Australia’s absorptive capacity, family reunion considerations, the needs of the individual refugees and the resettlement opportunities available for them in other countries. [More…]
by leaveLast week, I had the opportunity to travel to Tasmania to pay personally my respects to Eric Bessell ‘s widow and family. [More…]
We feel a very personal grief at the passing of Eric Bessell- a young man, at 55, with a comparatively young family of six children, of each of whom he was enormously proud, and deserved to be. [More…]
I extend my sincere sympathy to his wife and to his family. [More…]
-by leave-I would like to be associated with the previous speakers in expressing condolences to the wife and family of Eric Bessell. [More…]
I did not know Eric very well but he had a large and obviously very loving family. [More…]
I believe that he was one of the few politicians able to acomplish the best of both worlds by being a good family man as well as a good politician. [More…]
I express my condolences to Rita and his family. [More…]
I had great regard for Eric, as I still have for his widow and his family. [More…]
It involves travelling time, family dislocation, cost and other things which amount to a total family contribution to politics and the Liberal Party. [More…]
That the Senate calls on the Government to introduce sixmonthly indexation of repatriation and social security benefits, in particular, pensions and family allowances. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I extend sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
That the Senate calls on the Government to introduce sixmonthly indexation of repatriation and social security benefits in particular pensions and family allowances. [More…]
In the light of the further increases in home loan interest rates which will cause acute hardship for persons on fixed incomes, will the Government give urgent consideration to introducing a moratorium on home loan repayments where the major income earner of a family unit is unemployed? [More…]
I have received a letter from the Opposition Whip in the House of Representatives advising that Dr Neal Blewett, M.P., has been selected to fill the vacancy on the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act, caused by the death of the Honourable F. E. Stewart, M.P. [More…]
On behalf of honourable senators I tender deepest sympathy to the bereaved family in what is for them such a sad time. [More…]
On behalf of the Government, I would wish to be associated with the remarks that you have made in respect to him and in extending sympathy to his family. [More…]
During the Whitlam government, Justice Mary Gaudron was appointed to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and Chief Judge Elizabeth Evatt to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
During the present government, Justice Kemeri Murray, Justice Margaret Lusink and Justice Josephine Maxwell have been appointed to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
In my speech during the second reading debate I referred to cases where workers may have been encouraged- a better word would be ‘exploited’- by a family which conducted a business or restaurant. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General whether a decision has been made to appoint a Family Court judge who will be permanently based in Townsville. [More…]
I understand that courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act have interpreted s. 64 ( 1 ) as authorising the making of orders preventing a parent having custody of children from removing children from a specified locality. [More…]
Where a child is removed from one part of Australia to another, it remains, of course, within the jurisdiction of courts under the Family Law Act, so that a parent whose access to a child has been interrupted by such a removal of the child can make the appropriate application to a court having jurisdiction under the Act for restoration of previous access arrangements. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General, in the light of the Government’s proposed action to prevent one parent taking children overseas without the consent or knowledge of the other, considered what steps might be taken, or be legally possible, to prevent one parent taking children interstate without the consent or knowledge of the other, where the children have been the subject of a Family Court order granting access rights. [More…]
Let us consider the case of a single income family in a Sydney suburb receiving a gross income of $ 10,000 and wishing to buy an 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…]
I do not think we should tie ourselves because emergencies with family, with constituents and with Party work can always arise. [More…]
Many of these young men are at a stage of life when their greatest expense is upon them, when their greatest interest in work is with them, and when they have the problem of bringing up a young family and paying a relatively high tax. [More…]
adequate measures to promote family life, particularly in the fields of child endowment, maternity ‘ allowances and education; and [More…]
They called for the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into the total effect of the cost-price pressures, inflation, tariffs and marketing methods on primary production and the rural community, with emphasis to be placed on the appraisement and assessment of new longterm development programmes to secure the retention of the family farm as a major part of Australian agriculture. [More…]
As we are aware there are certain people who today say that the only remedy for the position in primary industry is to get rid of the family farm and institute huge collectivetype farms. [More…]
I refer next to the position of the family. [More…]
There are some proposals in the Speech such as the remission of taxation which may have some favourable effect in regard to a family. [More…]
I think that it would be better for the Government to retain the tax rates as they are and to provide for those people in the community who are underprivileged and for the family man. [More…]
I feel that this Government is falling down on the essential job of helping the family and of helping to populate this country when it again fails to increase child endowment, when it leaves maternity allowances at the miserable rates at which they have been for so many years, and when in regard to education it still has not done all it should, although I must be fair and admit that the Government has done a lot in recent years for education. [More…]
It will facilitate family reunion as, in the past, for financial reasons, some Yugoslavs preceded their families here. [More…]
Amongst the poor are 10-year-old children who wear their mothers’ shoes to school or go barefooted in winter and girls of 12 years who are exempted by the authorities from going to school so that they can stay at home and care for the younger children in the family. [More…]
Then it mentions adequate measures to promote family life’. [More…]
I know that every Australian will welcome the occasion when, for the first time in our history, the Queen and her husband and family will be with us for a visit, which we hope they will enjoy. [More…]
In the main it would be paid by the family man. [More…]
The Government should have more regard for the family man. [More…]
Do we support the idea that the family is the basis of a nation or do we support a permissive society that disregards the family and allows those things which have destroyed great civilisations? [More…]
Yet they come here and say to the Senate and to the people of Australia: ‘Let us have adequate measures to promote family life’. [More…]
One reads in their amendment that members of the DLP are in favour of measures to promote family life. [More…]
They talk about how they support the family man. [More…]
I do not think anyone in this chamber will ever forget the desertion by members of the DLP of the family man when the measures to increase sales tax on the family man went through this chamber. [More…]
Not once, but twice - at the second reading stage and at the third reading stage - members of the DLP crossed the floor to vote with the Government and to put the sales tax on the family man. [More…]
What more pernicious lax could there be than that sales tax on the family man? [More…]
They say that we should not have this kind of tax on the family man. [More…]
On the occasion in question they went and voted with the Government, when all they had to do was stay with us and we would have defeated that extra impost on the family man. [More…]
In the same way, members of the DLP come here and say: ‘It does not matter that we have supported the Government, that we have abandoned the family man, that we have not cared at all about these other matters and that we have an extremist foreign policy. [More…]
This is something which is giving all Australians a great deal of pleasure, especially those who live in the parts of Australia which are to be favoured by the presence of the royal family. [More…]
As a South Australian I am bound to say that I have some disappointment that no member of the royal party, which consists of four members of the family on this occasion, is coming to our State. [More…]
But for all that, I hope and 1 am sure that the royal visit will be a very great success and that everyone, particularly Her Majesty the Queen and the members of her family, will enjoy it. [More…]
adequate measures to promote family life, particularly in the fields of child endowment, maternity allowances and education: and [More…]
We have a specific proposition for adequate measures to promote family life, etc. [More…]
They want to live within their family environment. [More…]
There would be differences from State to State as to the number of bushels which provided a reasonable living for the farmer and his family. [More…]
Whilst Senator Young and Senator Prowse, representing the Liberal Party on the one hand and the Country Party on the other, certainly this evening have quoted figure after figure, statistic after statistic and percentage after percentage in respect of the Government’s general economic and rural policy, so far as wheat is concerned we say it is about time that the Government stopped looking only at figures, statistics and percentages and came down to the real and pressing problems of the man on the land, the small grower, his wife and family and those who live in rural areas, who rely on the stability of the wheat industry for their livelihood and economic security. [More…]
It is the small wheat farmer and his family who are involved principally in the crisis that confronts the wheat industry today. [More…]
On behalf of the small wheat grower, his wife and his family and workers involved in the wheat industry 1 and other members of the Opposition criticise particularly the Minister for Primary Industry and the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen). [More…]
In view of the special circumstances now confronting the wheat grower and his family, particularly the small grower and the worker in the industry, and the economic reliance of large and small rural towns for their continued progress on the wheat industry generally, the Opposition does not oppose this measure but urges the Government to put its thinking cap on and show some leadership. [More…]
I know of one instance in which a mother on the mainland badly needed the child endowment not in order to look after her children but merely to pay arrears of rent in respect of the very dilapidated little flat in which the family lived. [More…]
But the nonpayment of it caused much hardship for that family. [More…]
If he has a history of protest, if he has ever said on a government settlement that a wage of S8 or $10 a week is not sufficient to keep a family or if he has ever protested about the living conditions under which he has had to exist on a government settlement, his name will never go on the list tor home. [More…]
He has asked on numerous occasions for assistance in purchasing or renting a home large enough to comfortably house himself, his wife and his family of 9 or 10 children. [More…]
The 2 homes were available but the man was told that he could not occupy either home because local by-laws stated that a family of the size of his would not be permitted to live in a 3-bedroom home. [More…]
But the by-laws seem to be adjustable enough to allow that family to live in sub-standard conditions. [More…]
However, the Government gave him a small loan to allow him to go on to a little patch of ground about 6 acres in area that would not support bandicoots, let alone the man and his family. [More…]
On removal, where it is necessary because of the wife’s health or because the ages of the children are such that it would not be reasonable to expect her to bear the sole responsibility for the movement of the family. [More…]
The family groups were supposed to stay away from Yuendumu for two weeks but the girls ran away after 2 days and we went out and got the other people a day later. [More…]
On the other hand, married people have paid their taxes throughout the whole of their lifetime and have received poor allowances in terms of child endowment and taxation deductions for keeping a wife and rearing a family, which contributes so much to our community. [More…]
We believe that the very virtue of marriage itself and of rearing a family in this community should give the married couple the right to the advantage derived from their standard being increased slightly because their rate of pension is the same as that of single people and they pool their resources as they have done all their lives in rearing their family. [More…]
It is tragic that these people are pushed into a field which is very competitive, particularly for those who have been rearing a family for 15 or 20 years and find suddenly that they are forced to seek employment. [More…]
We would like to join the Minister for Supply (Senator Anderson) in extending the heartfelt sympathy of everyone here to his family and in putting on public record our feelings regarding the outstanding service which he performed under very difficult circumstances in this Parliament on behalf of the people of the Territory. [More…]
This was brought about because their family had outgrown the first home. [More…]
For a returned serviceman who perhaps has been separated from his family for some time and who wants to get into his own home instead of living with in-laws, 8 weeks can seem like half a century. [More…]
It is all very well for us to sit in this House and say that it is only 8 weeks, but 8 weeks can be a long lime if you are living in circumstances which are not conducive to good relationships within your own family. [More…]
A Papuan school teacher In the north coast New Guinea town of Madang has been separated from his family for 15 months because he cannot find adequate public service housing. [More…]
lt is allright for the average indigenous person who has a family of two to live in them, but when a man has 5 or 6 children it is absolutely hopeless. [More…]
I do not think that honourable senators on the Government side can say that my family has not tried to do its bit when legitimate, declared wars threatened our shores. [More…]
on primary production and the rural community, emphasis to be placed on the appraisement and the assessment of new long term development programmes to secure the retention of the family farm as a major part of Australian agriculture. [More…]
The Bill also contains provisions under which estates of deceased persons who had carried on their primary production activities through proprietary family companies may qualify for the relief. [More…]
In requiring that shares which are the subject of an election be valued by reference to their assets backing value, the objective of the Bill is to place estates of shareholders in family companies in a position that broadly corresponds with the situation which would have existed if the property represented by the shares had been owned by the deceased persons themselves instead of by their companies. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill relating to family companies will also enable estates in which shares in these companies are included to meet what I might refer to as the ‘income eligibility’ test; that is, the requirement that, for a deceased person’s estate to be eligible for the rebate, the major part of his income for the 5 years before his death must have been derived from a business of primary production carried on by him. [More…]
For the income to be so treated, it will be necessary, firstly, for the company to have been a family company throughout the year in which the deceased person derived the income and, secondly, for the company’s own income for that year to have been derived principally from a business of primary production carried on by it. [More…]
These provisions of the Bill are designed to avoid the situation in which an estate containing rural assets would be ineligible for the reliefs because income from a primary production business in which the deceased person had an interest was derived by him through a family company rather than directly through personal ownership. [More…]
Senator McClelland quite properly reminded me of the achievements of the late Ernie Wetherell who was a great friend of my family and of Senator McClelland’s family. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the views recently expressed by a number of economists and commentators that the present crisis in rural industry calls for the abandonment of the family farm and its replacement by large units, of the collective farm type, owned by big corporations? [More…]
Can the Government give an assurance that it favours and will continue to support preservation of the family farm which deserves to exist as a way of life? [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Treasurer inform the Senate: How does it help the economy to force the family man to pay an increased rate of interest - a savage rate - on the mortgage of his home? [More…]
is it a fact thai mortgages on housing contracted in the past and still in operation will be subject to increased interest rates, thus adding a further burden on the shoulders of the family man? [More…]
Is not Treasury policy of high interest rates and lack of provision of adequate finance for housing belting the family man where it hurts most? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament which Commonwealth department was responsible for catering arrangements for functions attended by the Royal Family during their visit to Canberra? [More…]
What was the total cost to the Commonwealth Government of the function in honour of the Royal Family which was held at Parliament House? [More…]
In that situation they have then to set out on the path of raising a family. [More…]
On another occasion I was confronted with the problems of a young family which was in considerable difficulty in a number of directions. [More…]
The family was living in a completely substandard home. [More…]
The family had quite a number of economic problems. [More…]
If I find these difficulties myself, how does the ordinary working person, the ordinary young person of 22 years or 23 years who has nol really made his mark in his particular industry or occupation and who has not reached a high level of income earning, possibly meet this situation of trying to provide for his young wife and the family that he hopes to raise in this country? [More…]
I think that they ought to be available right across the board for every Australian family which needs a home. [More…]
If we cannot find any institution in Australia that can provide that family with a home on a deposit of $500, 1 think there is something wrong with the system. [More…]
They have raised their family. [More…]
Some members of the family have commenced work, but some are still at school. [More…]
We thought that in a developing nation such as Australia, with such a crying need for people, encouragement should be given particularly to young people so that they would have some hope of home ownership for a family of their own. [More…]
A house is very important to young married people, but it is far more important to a family. [More…]
It is true today that it could be argued that a young married couple who gain the advantage of a homes savings grant may never have a family. [More…]
It is virtually impossible in a period of less than 4 or 5 years to find State housing accommodiation for a young family that finds itself in difficult circumstances. [More…]
They concern mainly the smaller primary producers who find the greatest difficulty in meeting probate duty when the head of the family and owner of the farm dies. [More…]
Some sort of legislation should bc introduced which will help the farming family retain control of the property without having to realise on it in order to meet death duty, because this duty can be quite considerable. [More…]
Those who have done what I have suggested have been rather surprised at the amount for which the estate would be liable and the amount which would be left to their family. [More…]
of family life in the community in the State in which they are applied. [More…]
I said that I was going to try to keep politics out of my speech, but I think I of the problems at the moment is that there cannot be too much of a fuss made because the Premiers of all the Stales ure of the same political persuasion as the Commonwealth Government, lt is very difficult to criticise one’s own family. [More…]
However the North Vietnamese villagers will recall how they were compelled to denounce and torture one another, to sever all family ties and to supress all human feeling. [More…]
Does the Minister not think, in view of the effect that this committee might have on family life, that there should be included on it some married women who have had experience of running a family? [More…]
This is one way this disease has been carried through to the family. [More…]
It appears obvious that the proposed changes are already operating because I have seen a Press statement to the effect that the Leader of the Opposition was permitted to take a member of his family- [More…]
The Leader ofthe Opposition in another place, according to this Press statement, was permitted to take a member of his family on a visit to New Guinea. [More…]
The 1968 Tet offensive took 2 victims in my own family: my younger brother, a non-commissioned officer in the ARVN and a published poet, and my nephew. [More…]
Only much’ later, when I got word from my own family, did I learn that they had been killed by the bombings. [More…]
This happens not only with primary producers but also in many family concerns. [More…]
has made great sacrifices in her lifetime to help build up a family business, be it a farm or anything else, should see some of it taken away on the death of her husband. [More…]
We live in a community in which there is a gradual flight from the land and in which the old and very satisfactory type of rural settlement - that is, the small family farm with the diversified rural economy - is disappearing. [More…]
One of the great problems for primary industry has been the inflated values of property and the problem that a primary producer has in trying to give some protection to his family so that his dependants will have security when he is deceased. [More…]
I believe that one of the tragedies of the situation is that having paid tax throughout your lifetime and having created an asset for your family, estate duty is imposed when you die. [More…]
It is a burden for which your family should not be responsible. [More…]
His family experienced 2 or 3 years of drought after he died. [More…]
With a drought, the numbers of stock were depleted and the family’s income was down. [More…]
It takes that family a long time to develop the property again to the stage of good earning capacity. [More…]
But the family is penalised because the father happened to die at the time when the property was in full bloom of production. [More…]
The family of the deceased property owner has not done anything to cause an increase in land values, but it is penalised because of the high commercial values applying in the district. [More…]
So in many instances today we have the position, particularly with a downturn in income and a downturn in land values, where, because a man died 2 years ago - prior to the imposition of wheat quotas, to use an example - his family is paying death duties which are based on the inflated price of land. [More…]
The deceased’s family may not have been the cause of the inflation in land prices because it may not have bought any land, but 3 or 4 properties in a district may have been sold at big prices. [More…]
The family is penalised for this. [More…]
Perhaps the woman had never needed to be involved in the family affairs. [More…]
I think the Government has aimed its sights very correctly at the principle which was originally spelt out; that is, the purpose of these proposed reliefs is to provide assistance to discourage the breaking up of rural economic holdings, particularly family holdings. [More…]
The proportion of assets which can be represented by rural holdings within genuine family proprietary companies comes under the benefit of this Bill. [More…]
The family which held assets in a deceased estate was faced within 2 years with a demand by both State and Federal authorities for a sizeable amount of cash to pay the duty. [More…]
This forced the family to place on the market assets which, perhaps under other circumstances, it would have been wise for the family to hold. [More…]
The provision of maximum relief for the tax payer with family responsibilities. [More…]
To offset the dissolution of stud properties and family rural estates to meet probate duties; [More…]
To minimise the incidence of death duties so as to avoid the necessity for the forced sale of family property where the estate is left to the wife and children of the testator. [More…]
The family groups were supposed to stay away from Yuendumu for 2 weeks but the girls ran away after 2 days and we went out and got the other people a day later. [More…]
Indeed, we had an example of this today when the Senate firmly and unitedly supported the provision of certain benefits to our rural community in relation to estate duty in order to prevent the breaking up of family estates. [More…]
The workers believe that the absence of price control is responsible for the present inflation that is affecting our whole economy and making it impossible for the ordinary working family to live on present wages and salaries. [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 IS 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…]
If he or any member of his family does become sick he can write off a substantial part of his medical and hospital expenses as income tax deductions, whereas a man receiving only an amount, equal to the average weekly earnings must pay in contributions the same amount as a man who earns twice or three times as much and who may have only as many or even fewer family responsibilities. [More…]
If we consider the average citizen in this country, at some time during his life he or she, or some member of his family, will suffer from an illness. [More…]
What is important is the impact on a person who has contributed to a fund for years to cover himself and his family. [More…]
Any honourable senator who had a member of the family affected would be up in arms and would say that this system is nonsense. [More…]
I should think that prior to this period the average Australian awed and revered the medical profession, in which he included the general practitioner, the family doctor - that great help at all times, the real guide, philosopher and friend - and then the specialist to whom one was referred if the general practitioner felt that professional specialist advice and action was required. [More…]
In my view one of the weaknesses of the national health scheme has arisen - not from a legislative point of view, but from the viewpoint of the medical profession - when the old trad tion has not been followed of the family doctor referring a patient, if he thought fit, to a specialist. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s decision that families on incomes which we, in this day and age, consider are not adequate for the proper sustenance of a family should receive their medical benefits entirely free. [More…]
This has its disadvantages, lt may be said that in some States the lower fees were justified because of the difference in the cost of living and in the cost of maintaining a practice and a family. [More…]
It is not sufficient to say, as Senator Webster said, that they can only go to the specialist if they are referred by the family doctor. [More…]
Amendments were made to the National Health Act in September last year so that persons and family units in receipt of an income of less than $39 a week would receive not only free government assistance to meet medical and hospital costs, but also free fund benefits for the same objective. [More…]
This is illustrated simply by taking 2 people living side by side and both paying $100 a year for the protection of their family and themselves. [More…]
The new family contribution rate to the major Queensland medical fund will he 64 cents per week. [More…]
So the whole family is inconvenienced because of these few words in this Bill. [More…]
I know that as a family man it costs me $20.35 every 3 months to insure for hospital and medical benefits. [More…]
If I get ill, or if one of my family gets ill and it is a serious illness which warrants an operation, it will cost the fund and the Commonwealth a lot more money than the S20.35 which I pay in contributions to the fund every 3 months. [More…]
I could let my membership lapse at the end of 3 months and probably for a year or 2 years I could pay nothing into the fund until another illness or accident struck my family. [More…]
He may have a larger family. [More…]
I am sympathetic as always to the indigent or the family man who might find difficulty in contributing to a medical benefit society. [More…]
I cannot reconcile the Opposition’s desire to pay a Commonwealth benefit to a person who is not in the category of the indigent or the hard pressed family man and who has the capacity to contribute to the scheme but does not. [More…]
The fact remains that if a man was responsible and his family started to increase he felt that he had to have security., insurance or protection if he could afford it. [More…]
He felt that he had a responsibility to his wife and family and himself to have some insurance in the event of sickness, particularly his own sickness, he being the breadwinner. [More…]
I felt that I had a responsibility to my wife and family to do so, because in the event of my illness they would get something from the friendly society. [More…]
As I have already said, I think a man with a big family and in receipt of a low income would experience difficulty in budgeting for his contribution to a medical and hospital benefits scheme. [More…]
If they can afford to take the risk so far as health insurance of themselves and their families is concerned they are paying taxation at a pretty high rate, much higher than the ordinary family man in the Australian community. [More…]
But what is the situation of - for want of a better term - the more humble man in the community, the man who cannot afford the $1.80 a week or whatever the amount is to insure his family? [More…]
But bearing in mind the circumstances I have set out and looking at the situation from the point of view of the humble man in the community, this amendment will mean a great deal and certainly it will give the underprivileged man, the ordinary working man in the community and the family man his just entitlement; he will receive something back for the amount that he contributes to the public purse by way of taxation. [More…]
I believe that it is not asking too much of anybody to make a weekly contribution towards this health scheme for the protection and welfare of his family. [More…]
I raise with the Minister the case of the male, the head of the family, who is receiving treatment and benefits under the Tuberculosis Act and whose dependants may require medical or hospital treatment. [More…]
They were set down as an encouragement to persons to go into hospital and be treated for tuberculosis knowing that there was sufficient income for the family to live on while the treatment was being received. [More…]
Not only is Mr Limb a man of great fame throughout the Australian community but 1 have the honour of being able to say that he and his wife and family are very close personal friends of mine. [More…]
I thank sincerely the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Anderson) for having made reference to the recent death of the former Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party and also for his expression of condolence to be conveyed to the widow and family of the late Mr Joshua. [More…]
(Victoria)- On behalf of the Australian Country Party 1 wish to join in the expressions of condolence to the bereaved family who survive Colonel Joshua. [More…]
Indeed, my family was connected with the Victorian State Parliament at that time. [More…]
The DEPUTY PRESIDENT (Senator Bull) - I will convey to the family of the late Mr Joshua the expressions of sympathy of the Senate. [More…]
In our view assistance to the full amount of contributions for standard hospital and medical coverage should be provided by the Commonwealth Government to the head of a family with two dependent children where the family income, exclusive of child endowment, for a defined period, does not exceed the minimum wage payable under Commonwealth awards or the State in which they reside (with appropriate adjustment for assets). [More…]
Similarly where there are more than two dependent children in the family the amount should be increased by $4 for each additional child. [More…]
the family weekly contribution would be 70c which returns a total benefit of $10.40. [More…]
Medical benefits and public ward hospital benefits in Victoria are expected to cost a family $1.46 weekly. [More…]
In addition the person has to decide whether he wants to cover his family so far as hospital insurance is concerned. [More…]
I do not know what it would cost if all persons under a family income of $48.50 were to have, in effect, their contributions to a health insurance scheme paid fully for them by the Government. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Treasurer, ls it a fact that an Australian taxpayer is allowed the total costs incurred for medical1 services for himself or his family as deductions from his assessable income for tax purposes? [More…]
Frequently the whole pattern of their lives - social activities, holidays, employment as well as ordinary domestic duties - have to be adjusted to meet the needs of the son or daughter who cannot become part of the normal family group. [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…]
Finally the scheme reinforces the concept of the single-unit family farm as the basis of agriculture in this country. [More…]
The deteriorationlast year meantthat each family in Australia sold out assets and raised debts overseas of more than $500. [More…]
1 have had some association with companies, corporations, partnerships and family affairs. [More…]
They also have an intimate relationship in the development of family life, community life and personal life in a period of Australian history which is changing and which is particularly significant both at home and in our relations abroad. [More…]
They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the whole of his family has accepted parcels of shares. [More…]
According to a person I spoke to in Kings Hall the only one in the family who did not receive shares was the dog. [More…]
That is all tor the Deputy Premier of Queensland and his family, but it goes much further than that because he is not the only one in the Cabinet who is involved. [More…]
3,000 shares are to be distributed among the Chalk family. [More…]
I ask the Minister: In view of the further statement to this picture, ‘There is only one horror worse than the indignity this woman was suffering: the fact that there are thousands of others with the same problem’, will she bring this matter as one of urgency to the attention of the Minister and request an immediate allocation of funds or any other assistance to the Smith Family, the St Vincent de Paul organisation and other organisations helping these unfortunates. [More…]
The figures I have just given are by way of illustration and are based on afamilyof husband and wife and would vary if the family included one or more dependent children, or conisisted of 1 parent and a child. [More…]
A further relevant provision is in section 82u(l.)(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 senators 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 agebut 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…]
Well, the word does not apply, for instance, if the child is injured in a motor accident, but if the child is born with some affliction - and this is the point that I wish to mention to the Senate - the assistance flows not only to the parents of the child but to the other children who may be within the family or, indeed, to the close relatives and people of the particular family from which the handicapped child comes. [More…]
All children, without any exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]
I was a member of a family in which there was a spastic child, a younger sister to me. [More…]
The mover of this motion referred to the tremendous impetus that work in this field gained in the United Slates of America because a man was elected President who had had the problem in his own family - if it should be called a problem. [More…]
I was about 4 or 5 years older than her and had to accept quite a deal of responsibility in the family. [More…]
The character, strength and love which can be developed within a family as a result of a problem such as this is amazing. [More…]
I am sure that Senator Fitzgerald will support me when 1 say that so many of them are still interested long after a member of their own family or their own child has passed out of the ambit where they can be assisted or have been assisted to the fullest extent possible and are dedicating themselves to helping others because they have become involved in the problem at (his level. [More…]
We have all seen the tragedy of children who are born nol so well equipped as other children not being able to take their place in the family circle and in the community at large. [More…]
I feel very proud for myself, my wife and my family, but also very humble because 1 recognise that what I have done and what I do is what every other citizen who aspires to public life attempts to do, that is. [More…]
I refer to the peculiar manner in which the British great train robber, Biggs, and his family emigrated to Australia and to today’s report of a man eloping with his brother’s wife and family on assisted migrant passages to Australia. [More…]
The following actions have been taken: - Additional positions of hygiene supervisor, supervisor family services, nursing sisters, a’nd assistant kitchen supervisor have been added to the settlement staff; - The Department of Health has provided additional Health Inspectors to service the settlements and mission stations; - a new kitchen/dining room unit, a home management centre and an infant welfare centre have been built; - 65 houses with an appropriate number of laundry, toilet and ablution blocks have been erected for Aboriginal families; - The hospital has been renovated and improved; - A substantially improved water supply has been installed; - A water-borne sewerage scheme for the settlement is scheduled for early construction and funds have been set aside for this purpose; - Health education is being stressed in the school and adult education programme; sisters of the Health Department are assisting with infant welfare and health education programmes; - A research project into the incidence of deaths amongst children at Yuendumu is being undertaken by the Australian National University and the Adelaide University in conjunction with the Welfare Branch of the Administration. [More…]
First of all, it is 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, secondly, after the writing off of redundant assets, to make the land and useful improvements available to other farmers so that they can build up their properties to a viable family farm level and, where possible, diversify the pattern of land use. [More…]
He gets his reward in lower taxation rating, and to hell wilh the family dairy farmer who is being forced from his chosen way of life. [More…]
The average family unit dairy farmer, unless he very soon lakes steps to protect his slums in the industry, is doomed to disappear. [More…]
Because it will take one third if they are pickedon one-man-family units lo make a big enough dent in our national production lo leave a nice compact cosy industry for the big ones, and the high finance boys. [More…]
In any case, belter one 200-cow tax dodger kept out than four 50-cow family units forced out. [More…]
Quotas can save the family unit because they can be allotted on any basis decided on by the industry. [More…]
1 think that one thing that has affected many of us in examining this legislation is the uneasy feeling that this may be one of the first measures towards the elimination of the family farm. [More…]
I am one who believes that the family farm must be maintained, despite the agricultural experts who say that the key to the future lies in huge collectives such as we see in authoritarian countries. [More…]
1 have believed always that the family farm is a way of life. [More…]
Foremost among them must come those things that are necessary to maintain the family farmer in the industry. [More…]
Finally the scheme reinforces the concept of the single-unit family farm as the basis of agriculture in this country. [More…]
A commodity such as dairy produce is essential, particularly for children, and the family man will be asked to pay more not only in prices but also in taxation. [More…]
The most appealing aspect of the legislation is summed up in the closing paragraph of the Minister’s second reading speech when he said that the scheme reinforces the concept of the single unit family farm as the basis of agriculture in this country. [More…]
Is he prepared to have an independent doctor, paid for by the family, investigate the health, in a particular respect, of the Aircraftman? [More…]
1 concur with the Leader of the Government in the Senate in expressing sympathy to the family of the late Senator. [More…]
I will explain this further when I am replying to Senator McManus because he spoke about strengthening family farming. [More…]
It will help bona fide dairy farmers to maintain family farming. [More…]
Further, I was delighted to hear the assurance from the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) a few minutes ago, that the Government is concerned to retain a family farm interest in the dairying industry. [More…]
With all the changes taking place in the world today I wonder whether anybody gives serious consideration to the family that is living on workers compensation. [More…]
But even worse, it was pointed out to me that on a conservative basis the retrenchment and subsequent vacating of Cooma of each present staff member will mean that Cooma will lose an additional 3 family members. [More…]
Does it not seem rather strange for the Commonwealth Government to be deporting people in connection with what might be a family estrangement? [More…]
1 must say I regret the circumstances of this case and I think it is very unfortunate that the family has been split up. [More…]
First, they seek to impose unfair taxes; taxes which are of an inequitable nature in that they will fall ultimately on the consumers, the family men, the people least able to bear them in the community. [More…]
The State also has to provide him and his family with hospitalisation and all the other things that are required in the community life of the country. [More…]
Mr Chalk, who with his family, we now find, owns 2,000 preferential shares in Utah-Mitsubishi, negotiated, in the interests of Queensland, a royalty of 5c a ton giving his Government’s consolidated revenue a return of $4m from an estimated total return of $ 1,000m. [More…]
K..B.E., M.V.O., M.C., E.D., M.P., a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Chisholm and a former Minister of [he Crown, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its sincere sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
My Party offers its most sincere sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
I should like to be associated with this motion of condolence to the widow and family of the late Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes. [More…]
He was a great family man. [More…]
Possibly his appreciation of the problems of other people, which was gained so early in his life, helped him during his years as a prisoner of war and enabled him, with that determination that marked everything that he did, to endure and to return to the family whom he loved and who loved him so much. [More…]
In a small number of cases where a nonEuropean has formed part of an applicant’s family, assisted passages have been granted as a matter of discretion. [More…]
Which Commonwealth Department was responsible for the catering arrangements for functions attended by the Royal Family during their visit to Canberra. [More…]
The Joint House Department was responsible for the catering arrangements for the function attended by the Royal Family at Parliament House on 23rd April. [More…]
The Official Secretary to the Governor-General was responsible in the case of those functions attended by the Royal Family at Government House. [More…]
What was the total cost to the Commonwealth Government of the function held in honour of the Royal Family at Parliament House, and the total cost of the similar function held at Government House. [More…]
Family after family is moving out of rural areas against its will to seek the bare means of existence. [More…]
These people are leaving behind them family hopes and aspirations built up over a long time, even generations. [More…]
Big discussions are going on about the future of the family farm and also on whether we will change our wool marketing system. [More…]
As a means of meeting one of the problems of the retention of skilled service personnel, will the Minister earnestly consider initiating a scheme in the 3 branches of the service whereby postings of serving members who have families, with the consequent disruption of family life, will only be made where another person with similar skills and qualifications and willing and able to accept the posting is not available. [More…]
As for me, I am getting pretty old and 1 have a family. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, this Budget represents social injustice perpetrated by an unfeeling government against those already economically handicapped - the wage earners, the family man, the pensioner. [More…]
If those whose policy is justice for the family man will support that policy with their votes there will be enough votes in the Senate to defeat these measures. [More…]
The low and middle income earners, especially the family men, are hammered by this Government’s policies. [More…]
The Budget proposal, against this background of increasing interest rates, is now to increase the taxes on the commodities which comprise the standard of living of the average man and his family. [More…]
The family man has not even been considered. [More…]
There has been no mention at all of a family man who would be paying no taxation. [More…]
HU family still has to eai and be clothed. [More…]
So that family will start 2c a week behind the 8-ball. [More…]
Even if she does not use cosmetics, nearly every commodity that that family uses will be transported in a vehicle that uses petrol. [More…]
If one person is paying 50c tax in the $1 the Government says: ‘At the end of the year we will remit to you half of what you pay so that protection for the health of your family will cost you S50 this year’. [More…]
when their family grows up, move into a smaller house: ‘We are going to charge you 40 to transfer that phone down the line.’ [More…]
It adds further to the iniquitous situation regarding indirect taxation which hits hardest at the family man and imposes a greater percentage penalty on him than on people better able to look after themselves. [More…]
If one looks at basic wages and at incomes, one normally looks at the family as being the average unit. [More…]
If we look at the family unit, we note that the increase in pension was $1 a week. [More…]
At page 465 of Hansard Mr Whitlam incorporated a table, called table 8, which is headed ‘Budget impact on Family Income and Spending’. [More…]
If we consider the increased postal charges which may apply to the ordinary family we find that there is an additional $7 a year in respect of rental charges for a telephone. [More…]
But a family would have to write 900 letters a year to make up that amount. [More…]
The only other increases are some relatively insignificant ones to the average family because I do not think many of them send a great number of money orders each year and 1 do not think the average family sends a great number of telegrams each year - certainly not enough to make up this difference. [More…]
He wants to do his job and live like a normal human being, with the opportunity to finish work at 5 or 6 o’clock in the evening and, if he is in Canberra, to have a decent meal and come back to the evening session of the Parliament or, if he is in his electorate, to go home and enjoy the company of his family. [More…]
With migration flowing strongly and the prospect of a continuing high rate of family formation, some increase above the existing level of dwelling commencements is needed. [More…]
It is assumed that she can augment the family income by finding a job. [More…]
We are all aware of the needs - and 1 mean ‘all’ because there is not a senator who is not conscious of the needs of the individual, the family and the institution, religious as well as private, in the way of medical and hospital care, educational and institutional requirements, research, guidance clinics, staff training and workshops. [More…]
I believe that the members of the family, in their hearts, do not expect to see their son again but, nevertheless, this is indicative of the intransigent attitude of this Government to cases involving ordinary human beings that are brought before it, not every day of the week but several times every day of the week. [More…]
In formulating the Budget, the Gorton Government forgot the family man, ignored the chronically ill and insulted the pensioner. [More…]
The Vestey group is a group of private companies controlled by the English Vestey family. [More…]
If we are to survive as a free enterprise democracy the strength and stability of the family unit is fundamental to our very survival. [More…]
The strength and security of the family unit is perhaps the basic reason why we have, to this stage of our political history, arrived by evolution and not by revolution. [More…]
May I reiterate these 5 points: The security and strength of the family unit; the provision of ever greater equality of opportunity; the maintenance of a profit motive within a properly constructed and developed and generous legal system of restraint; a careful attitude to our real understanding of freedom; and a suggestion that we should temper our concern for pure theory with social and political considerations lest we become slaves to ivory towered conceptions. [More…]
The first is that the fundamental strength and security of the family unit is basic to our society in a free enterprise democracy. [More…]
Yet this is the Government which talks about the stability of the family and the family being the whole future of this country. [More…]
the Budget merely plugs holes in social services and makes no provision for a comprehensive national insurance scheme or for necessary aid for family life through better child endowment, maternity allowances, housing, health and education assistance; [More…]
It has been nurtured and advanced through the assistance of family organisations, particularly in South Australia. [More…]
If the Government had seen fit to do something about increasing child endowment instead of reducing the level of personal income taxation on taxpapers in the lower and middle income groups I feel that it would have been more beneficial to the family man. [More…]
However, I feel that an increase of child endowment could have been more beneficial to the family man. [More…]
As I have said before in this chamber, the family unit is the backbone of Australia. [More…]
Did a doctor take undue liberties with a teenage female applicant during a medical examination at Calcutta; if so, have subsequent family groups been reluctant to have their daughters examined by this doctor. [More…]
No-one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference wilh his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. [More…]
The person most vitally affected is the ordinary Tasmanian consumer, the family man, who has to bear the brunt of the extra impost not only of increased freight rates but also of increases contained in the Budget. [More…]
Therefore, apart from the duty I have to address myself to the chamber in order to present the position of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, 1 can claim some minor entitlement in the other role because of the strong Tasmanian connections of my family; my mother and 2 sisters having been born in Tasmania. [More…]
From this examination wc conclude that in terms of night time viewing Channel 10 reaches 1 family in 5 effectively. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to mark well that it is no longer possible for a man working 40 hours a week to keep his family decently, in comfort and in dignity and to provide for them. [More…]
The worst aspect of poverty in Australia is that most of it is not caused by some sudden family crisis such as illness but rather is inherited. [More…]
According to Dr Henry Schoenheimer, for the child of a professional or senior executive family the chances of obtaining a tertiary education are 18 times higher than those of a child with semi-skilled or unskilled parents. [More…]
Those people who seek to do what society demands - to marry and raise a family as early as possible - are at a distinct disadvantage. [More…]
The person who is married and has a family but does not own a home has less chance of obtaining a home. [More…]
In Brisbane today it would be very hard to get a cheap family flat for less than $16 to $20 a week. [More…]
In a flat you cannot raise a family. [More…]
Flat owners seem to object to having as tenants couples who have children, so of necessity a family man who does not own a home must rent a house. [More…]
To rent a house in the suburbs in Brisbane would cost from $25 to $30 a week or more, which lessens the ability of a man with a family to save sufficient to purchase a home. [More…]
I ask the Minister to consider the position of the person who in this community should be the most important - the man with a wife and family. [More…]
The family is the most important single unit within society. [More…]
The family should be assisted in as many ways as possible. [More…]
There is no provision in this Budget by way of child endowment to assist the family. [More…]
Rather, the Budget increases the taxes which flow indirectly and become a penalty on the family. [More…]
It is anticipated that legislation will be introduced to increase receipts duties which will further escalate and inflate the costs of basic requirements for the family. [More…]
But it is of little use to the wife and 3 children of an unemployed man to know that the family would be getting more money to meet their needs if the husband was an invalid or a TPI pensioner. [More…]
What is required in Australia in our social service system, simply on the money level, is a determination of the needs of a family according to the size and rate of benefit adequate to meet their needs, regardless of whether the breadwinner suffered a setback due to poor seasons or loss of markets in the case of a farmer, or due to unemployment or physical incapacity. [More…]
This would apply whether the head of the family was working or not. [More…]
Yet good Australians who rear a family in an atmosphere that we applaud, in the main, are denied an adjustment of something that has been in operation for years. [More…]
the loss of home and family life. [More…]
In conformity with the United Nations principle just enunciated, the Government believes that the family is the cornerstone of our nation. [More…]
We will take what steps are necessary to promote the well being of the family. [More…]
It might have been in a position to give the family man something more than he has been given in this Budget. [More…]
I, and I am sure many more people in Australia, would have been prepared to forgo tax cuts if something realistic had been done in the social services field, particularly with regard to the age pensioner and the family man who has always been the concern of the Party which I am privileged to lead. [More…]
Let us consider the case of a family man who has a wife and 4 children and receives $60 per week. [More…]
But it is the first family man who requires more assistance, the family man with 4 or 5 children who is on a low income. [More…]
I am sure he has not examined the proposed tax because my advisers tell me that it will mean at least an additional 50c per week to the average family in increased cost of living. [More…]
Those who are least happy are the pensioners and the family man. [More…]
1 have listened to many honourable senators opposite saying that the family man has not had a fair deal from this Budget. [More…]
To me this statement is extraordinary because in the first place the family man is surely the man who will benefit from the taxation relief. [More…]
This is a direct benefit to the family man. [More…]
These are all benefits to the family man. [More…]
Again these are benefits to the family man. [More…]
The family man will also benefit by the assistance being given to primary and secondary industries. [More…]
For example, in the invalid pensioner group, is it reasonable that a 16-year-old invalid pensioner would need the same pension as an invalid man with a family? [More…]
I agree wholeheartedly with him in what he said about the Government’s approach to the family man. [More…]
Is the question of the introduction of a system of family courts into the Australian court system receiving any current consideration, and is the system to be introduced in the foreseeable future? [More…]
The question whether a system of family courts should be introduced into Australia is of concern to both the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Murphy) in condemning this Budget as being a Budget which would appear, on the surface, to be honouring a promise of tax concessions for the lower and middle income groups whereas, in fact, the people who really need the assistance - the family man and the person on the average wage - will be receiving in the vicinity of $1 a week concession. [More…]
the Budget merely plugs holes in social services and makes no provision for a comprehensive national insurance scheme or for necessary aid for family life through better child endowment, maternity allowances, housing, health and education assistance; [More…]
Quite apart from medical and allied costs, however, a person with dependants will invariably have continuing family and domestic expenses; accordingly, hospitalisation will not affect the introduction of the higher rate of benefit in such cases. [More…]
Did Brian Ross answer the questions normally found necessary to ask to establish genuine conscientious beliefs, such as: ‘Would you forcibly stop an invader in your home threatening the female members of your family?’ [More…]
They are saving perhaps to buy a house, maybe to get married, maybe to raise a family and educate their children. [More…]
For a younger child in the same family kindergarten fees for the year amounted lo $72. [More…]
If we deduct from the basic wage the amount of income tax that a basic wage earner would have to pay, the difference between the net amount a pensioner couple receives, together with fringe benefits, and the net amount which a basic wage earner receives after tax and on which he is expected to bring up a young family and to accumulate assets to purchase furniture and all the other things that a pensioner couple may not have to purchase at their stage of life- [More…]
Of course, the basic wage to which Senator Rae referred was based on the needs of a family unit of a man and his wife and their 2 children. [More…]
But the family unit with less than 2 children, including the single man, received a higher income and did somewhat better out of the basic wage which was determined from time to time according to cost of Irving figures. [More…]
The family on a low income - even a family whose breadwinner has had constant work, on a tradesman’s wage with a tow margin- employs its income perhaps in the rearing of 3 or 4 children. [More…]
Since the rearing of children is expensive, this leaves the family nothing to save. [More…]
We could even come down the list quite a way and regard recreational activities, family and child welfare as well as counselling services, as coming within the field of social services. [More…]
The average family was much larger in those days than it is today. [More…]
The economic circumstances of those days made it practically imperative that, if schooling was available to them, they leave school at the minimum age of 14 years and go out to work in order to supplement the family income. [More…]
If it is in the form of indirect taxation or direct income taxation the burden would fall heavily upon the young people who are about to be married or who are married and are raising a family, lt is harmful to have heavy taxation in our developing country if the desire is to have a happy and prosperous family unit which is bringing more Australians into the world. [More…]
Mr Chalk descended to a personal attack and insulted me because I adopted a procedure which my family had used for years of normalising the name which my family had used in business from time to time. [More…]
But Mr Chalk took me to task on this and accused me of disloyalty to my father and my family. [More…]
There is no humanity; there is no sympathy; there is no depth of feeling for any youngster who goes in and says: ‘I am the sole breadwinner in my family. [More…]
We have a situation today in which young 20-year-olds, very often against their will, are being taken away from their homes and their family life, thrown into the Army, conscripted to serve in Vietnam, wounded in action, brought back to Australia and awarded a total and permanent incapacity pension if their case warrants it. [More…]
Members of the British Royal Family, the Governor-General and the Prime Minister are their own approving authority and are responsible for approving persons travelling as members of their party. [More…]
At the Cambodian Government’s request the Queen moved on 24th July from the Royal Palace to Prince Sihanouk’s family home in Phnom Penh where she now lives. [More…]
The applicant indicated that of the 37.5 per cent station-originated material, 8 per cent of total programme time would relate to news, 8 per cent lo family programmes, 6.5 per cent to light entertainment, 4.5 per cent to informational programmes, 4 per cent to sport, and 2.6 per cent to current affairs, with drama, arts and religion making up the remaining 3.9 per cent.’ [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…]
The honourable senator will have an opportunity to say whether he wants to help to prevent inflation, whether he wants to help the family man who is affected by this kind of impost. [More…]
This Bill will fall heavily on the family man and on businesses. [More…]
It is doubly unfair because it falls on the family man directly in what he purchases and indirectly in the goods and services for which he pays. [More…]
If they really intend to protect the family man, as they have often said, I would hope that they would support us in opposing this legislation. [More…]
By doing so they would protect the family man, not only from the direct effect of these taxes but also from the indirect effects in that the cost of goods and services which ordinary citizens have to purchase will not be increased. [More…]
I would find it difficult to understand how any Party which desired to protect the family man could agree to the imposition of this kind of tax, not only in the field I have mentioned but also in respect of all the other items which are affected by increases in sales tax. [More…]
It professes that it wants to look after the family man and it speaks about what it is doing. [More…]
He stressed by way of some opposition that this was legislation which fell heavily on the family man and on business men, and that it was one of the worst ways of raising revenue. [More…]
If a young couple cannot afford a drying cupboard, they will use their oil fuel burner as a method of drying their clothes quickly, particularly where there are young babies in the family and their clothing has to be dried quickly. [More…]
(Under the present system of imposing excise charges and sales tax it is the family man with children who pays the most tax. [More…]
This is a very real threat to the livelihood of many honest family men in this country. [More…]
It would appear to me that the greater are a man’s responsibilities to himself and his family the less he will be assisted by this legislation. [More…]
In contradistinction, as a result of the indirect taxation charges imposed by the Government in the recent Budget, the poorer man will have to pay the same rale as the wealthier man for his postage stamps - postage charges have been increased all round - his packet of cigarettes, his bottle- of wine for the family table at Christmas time, the petrol for his motor car, the additional sales lax charges imposed upon him by this Government and the additional charges that have been thrown immediately upon his shoulders as a result of the indirect taxation imposed on him in the Budget. [More…]
In the city in which I live the cost of freighting an ordinary family motor vehicle from the capital city is something in excess of 100. [More…]
If the Government wanted to do something to assist the family man it would have had a look at the taxation remissions which are allowed such as the amounts which one may claim for dependants. [More…]
From a revision of the scale and of the allowable deductions for dependants the family man would have received considerable assistance. [More…]
We have plenty of examples, 3 think, of cases where people have received such assistance on the occasion of returning to Australia but Mr Bould, who was an ordinary worker in the community and a valuable’ asset to this country, has now placed himself 1,000 or more in debt in order to bring his family back to Australia. [More…]
I will read an extract from the letter received from Mr Bould in which he gives me permission to use his name in advocating on his behalf some sort of financial relief for the money that he has expended to bring his family home. [More…]
Immigration (Mr Lynch) to re-investigate this case in spite crf the fact that my representa-: tions on behalf of the Bould family have been rejected by the Department on several occasions. [More…]
on primary production and the rural community, emphasis to be placed on the appraisement and the assessment of nen long term developing programmes to secure the retention of the family farm as a major part of Australian Agriculture. [More…]
An average family man and his wife who smoke a packet a day are up for an extra 42c a week. [More…]
The family man who borrows money to purchase a horns costing $12,000 finds that by the time he has paid it off with interest at a flat rate of 8 per cent or more he pays $36,000 for his home. [More…]
I deplored also the fact that there was no additional provision for the family man in the form of child endowment. [More…]
As you know, Mr Deputy President, the Party which I am privileged to lead has been a strong advocate for generous payments under the heading of child endowment because we believe the family man is bearing a burden out of proportion to what he should be bearing today because of increased costs of living and because of the relatively poor position that he is in compared with his married fellow worker with no family or the single man. [More…]
Many people always feel that this is unfair to the family man and to people on low incomes. [More…]
The baby sitter looking after my little family this evening will receive for her evening’s work more than the weekly allowance paid to a destitute mother. [More…]
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…]
To take home $69, a married man with 2 children must earn just over $80 and claim family allowances week by week . [More…]
The tradition of Australia’s relations with Great Britain has been that, of a family. [More…]
We have been making alt these concessions as a member of a family, and now we find we have been slapped in the face. [More…]
I make the plea in the hope that those over whom we have some control will, in all decency, assist this man and his family while he is struggling along this road of life. [More…]
It was a direct, desperate appeal by me to Premier Hall to extend me some decency and allow me to work and provide for my family. [More…]
Even if a man has walked away from a prison background and is working honestly to support his family his right to do this should be protected. [More…]
I will move my family to wherever I settle as soon as I can. [More…]
By putting family units into the environment in which it is now putting people, it will create in Victoria in 50 years time the type of Harlem slums that exist in New York today. [More…]
There is no concern about providing the small suburban home that each family should have. [More…]
By spending about the same amount of money on taking those people out to suburban blocks to live in an environment in which family life can develop in much more congenial circumstances, an additional 400 homes could be made available. [More…]
The environment in which the people in those flats are living is such that normal family life is almost non-existent. [More…]
Some people may say that if family units are taken from the centre of Melbourne out into the suburbs the breadwinners will have long distances to travel to their employment. [More…]
The report says there are unsatisfactory facilities for family recreation in all inner Melbourne’s high density residential areas. [More…]
I believe governments have to be careful when they are moving into this field that they operate at a level where they reclaim slum areas and construct family units. [More…]
Would anybody ask people to live their family life in these buildings? [More…]
The problems of looking after a family under those circumstances are so big that even the Apex clubs at this stage have moved into the field. [More…]
Most people in the low income groups are unable to meet their family commitments and, at the same time, pay high rentals or, if they are successful in saving the necessary deposit, home purchase instalments under the most favourable conditions which they can find. [More…]
The waiting period of family groups which require 2 and 3 bedroom cottages is anything up to 3 or 4 years. [More…]
Both go to work because they have to meet their family commitments and because they feel that they are entitled to what were previously regarded as luxuries of life but what are now regarded by modern society as being essentials. [More…]
We hope that much more can be done, not only in the provision of housing finance but in all directions in the housing field by the Federal and State governments to protect the Australian people and particularly the man on the low income who is saving desperately to provide a roof over his family. [More…]
The number of dwellings being completed in Australia adds more dwellings to the housing stock each year than are needed solely because of marriages and the arrival of migrant family groups in Australia during the year. [More…]
To assist the housewife to meet the family needs, will the Treasurer give consideration to allowing a taxation relief by way of an annual depreciation allowance on major household appliances and furniture. [More…]
Normally assisted passages are not granted to a family in which one or more members are ineligible. [More…]
Every honourable senator no doubt is aware that a young couple who wish to purchase a home in the early years of their marriage have to plan their family to the extent that the wife must work for 3 or 4 years, or even more, in the initial stages. [More…]
But $10,000 today is little enough when it comes to building a home which will meet the needs of a family for many years. [More…]
I established last week that the cost of an average I2i square 3 bedroom family home has increased by from $800 to $1,000 in the last 12 months. [More…]
Normally assisted passages are not granted to a family in which one or more members are ineligible. [More…]
Of course, this means that if they have a family, this stigma of racial prejudice is passed on to the children of that family. [More…]
Normally assisted passages are nol granted lo a family in which one or more members are ineligible. [More…]
(8.26) - Senator Poyser raised the question of what would happen if a European family adopted a child who would not normally come within the category- [More…]
Normally assisted passages are nol granted in a family in which one or more members are ineligible. [More…]
Douglas was born at Tjirabon (Java) on 7th January 1939, of Chinese parents, and is one of a family of three sons and two daughters, all of whom were sent to Australia by their parents to receive an education. [More…]
As a result of political unrest and persecution of the Chinese the family moved to Hong Kong about 1964. [More…]
The brother seeking to bring him to Australia is a qualified sugar chemist in permanent employment and married to the former Glenda Mae Gee Kee, a daughter of a highly respected Innisfail family who are well known in the local business community. [More…]
Again may I reiterate that there is no suggestion that he will become a charge on the community as both accommodation and employment for him will be attended to by his family. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that this was about the time that his family were having problems in Indonesia and migrated from there to Hong Kong with the loss of most of their personal possessions. [More…]
I ask: Is the repatriation of the Todman family, the Taylor family and others covered by this appropriation? [More…]
But we get to the situation where a British subject born in England and of European race has married an Indian lass and is denied an assisted passage to this country because one or more of his family are ineligible. [More…]
It is a disgraceful situation when, because he chose somebody he desired to spend the rest of his life with and because he chose to have a family and bring young children into this community, the Government says ‘No’ because the colour of his wife’s skin is different, and because the colour of his children’s skin will be different, from the colour of his own. [More…]
I said: ‘Normally, assisted passages are not granted to a family in which one or more members are ineligible’. [More…]
Normally assisted passages are not granted to a family if one or more members of the family are ineligible. [More…]
If one or more members of the family are not of European descent, normally this is a bar to the whole family. [More…]
I think that the family to which Senator Poyser has referred comes into this category. [More…]
The result has been that serious financial embarrassment has occurred to the inmate and his or her family and there seems to be no reason in the administration of this section for the removal of those persons, in many cases without any medical examination whatever or, in some cases, a visit from a doctor. [More…]
After all, it is Commonwealth public servants’ money, and 1 understand that the policy of the Commonwealth Superannuation Board - the Minister can correct me if I am wrong - is not to advance loans from the Superannuation Fund to public servants who are anxious to secure loans at a reasonable rate of interest for the purchase or the construction of a home or for other purposes connected with their family welfare. [More…]
The disruption of family life, including children’s schooling, which these practices cause is a prime element, I believe, in the resignation of Service personnel and failure to re-engage. [More…]
The only new consideration which the Opposition considers would be satisfactory is the need to look at the whole question of the Services, including the social environment and the family separation which comes from posting, reposting and reestablishment. [More…]
We have it on record in the Senate, as well as everywhere else, that rates for skilled personnel are better outside, conditions are better outside and the person has a greater opportunity of promotion and of getting the sort of things which he needs for his family. [More…]
The family life of those people is being disrupted practically every few minutes until 11 p.m. [More…]
It has been stated that it is the policy of the Department to train women for re-employment after they have advanced their family to a certain stage. [More…]
Could you feed and clothe a family (as Aborigines on Reserves are expected to do) on wages ranging from $10 to $25 a week? [More…]
I ask the Minister whether she, if she were the breadwinner in a family, would be able to look after four or five kiddies if she were living in a substandard house and on a weekly income of $8 or $10. [More…]
If the Minister thinks that $8 plus child endowment is enough to keep a family of five or six kiddies in proper health, I would ask her to draw up a diet chart showing what they are required to eat and how much they can purchase with this amount of money. [More…]
I have yet to find one Aboriginal family which has been installed in a home of standard design which has not looked after the home as well as, or even better than, many white people. [More…]
I. feel that all governments have failed to a great measure because of their inclination to adopt a paternal attitude to these people, as instanced on settlements where they are given foodstuffs sufficient to enable the maintenance of a family without requiring them to accept any responsibility. [More…]
I have a very good Aboriginal friend who managed a station for many, many years while members of the family who owned the station were away serving in the Services. [More…]
his wife and family, were regular attenders at that church. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret al the death of Senator James Patrick Ormonde, senator for the State of New South Wales, places on record ils appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders ils sincere sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
lt is a personal loss and a political loss and (he Australian Labor movement extends its sympathy to Jim Ormonde’s widow and family. [More…]
I and my Country Party colleagues extend our deepest sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
On behalf of the Democratic Labour Party 1 join with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) in the motion of condolence to the widow and family of the late James Patrick Ormonde I bad known him only since I met him here when I became a Senator. [More…]
He came from a great Labor family. [More…]
He loved his family deeply. [More…]
On behalf of my own family and all Jim’s friends in the Labor movement I would like to express to his dear wife, sons and daughters my deepest sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
He was a friend of my late father’s and also a close personal friend of mine and of my family. [More…]
My sympathy and that of my family go to his widow, to his sons and to his daughters in their very great and overwhelming loss. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Government and people and speaking on behalf of honourable senators on the Government side, including members of the Australian Country Party, I extend our sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
D.S.O., M.C.. a former Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia from 1953 to I960, and lenders ils profound sympathy io Viscountess Slim and family in their bereavement. [More…]
In supporting the motion the Australian Labor Party extends its sympathies to those members of his family who remain. [More…]
Have officers of the Department of the Interior or officers of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs had discussions with any members of the Vestey family or representatives of the Vestey company, or any of its subsidiary companies. [More…]
The Palm Island Office at that time made all the necessary arrangements for the McAvoy family and also arranged suitable local accommodation. [More…]
The main payers will be the family man who has great needs himself and the young person who will probably pay into the taxation pool for 50 years before he qualifies for any of these benefits. [More…]
I am sorry for the young person, the married man and the family man. [More…]
This is the basis on which the minimum wace is fixed - the requirements of a man, his wile and his growing family. [More…]
He returned to work after some time had elapsed and when he gave his reason for being held up he was told that he knew the Hoods were coming and that if he thought his family was more in need of assistance than his employer then he had better leave. [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 $12.15 per week and, if married with a dependent wife, $.15.00 per week with increases according to the number of dependent children in the family. [More…]
Whilst a number of the proposals encompassed in the Bill are only of a machinery nature, nonetheless broadcasting and television affect every home and every family throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
Probably he is in this difficulty because he has had a lapse of memory, there has been an oversight on his part or because of the individual circumstances of a family. [More…]
The general disability loading applicable to all servicemen has been increased and the following allowances have also been increased - flying pay andflightpay, submarinepay and rental allowances payable to servicemen for temporary premises after family removal. [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…]
In listening to Senator Poyser I have not heard one argument which I feel would convince any thinking Australian that the appointment of an inquiry such as proposed would provide an additional home for a needy family. [More…]
Probably the most significant factor affecting future demand is the estimated growth in population and in family formation. [More…]
Given this choice, there is surely no problem in allocating funds between home ownership and home rental - or would the Opposition deny a family on a relatively low income the opportunity to own its own home, as it did under the 1945 agreement? [More…]
He could not visit his mother and other members of the family. [More…]
If his behaviour is as alleged by departmental officers, surely he could see his family under the supervision of responsible people. [More…]
Ten days before her tragic death I visited the family on Palm Island, with two other people, and baby Inez was a happy, squirming little 2 months old but was being fed on powdered milk and water from a stubby beer bottle. [More…]
The tiny hut in which the family lives has insufficient space for them to exist in even semihygenic conditions. [More…]
I could tell honourable senators about John Logan, who is having a breakdown in his health because of the drastic methods which have been used to keep him apart from his wife and family over a period of years. [More…]
1 think it is envisaged that some assistance should be given to him to house himself and his family, but this will be decided by the various State organisations set up to administer the scheme in the Slates. [More…]
What is the position if there is domestic trouble in the family and, as an act of- [More…]
We say that the great bulk of people who are dealt with under these provisions for not having a wireless licence or a television viewers’ licence are dealt wilh only because of a lapse of memory or because of some family circumstance. [More…]
They would be people who were dealt with merely because in the main they have had a lapse of memory or because of some family circumstance. [More…]
She will, I know, be sadly missed by the staff of the Refreshment Rooms, and I am sure that honourable senators would want me to extend to her family sympathy in their bereavement, and appreciation of the fine service that she gave to the Parliament. [More…]
In 1953 Mr Smith and his family emigrated to Australia where he immediately took up an appointment as assistant gardener-in-charge at Government House in Canberra. [More…]
on the establishment of family courts, doing something about the out of date laws in the Australian Capital Territory, or trying to have something done about the system of legal aid? [More…]
I know that Senator-elect Gietzelt and his wife and family have been terribly distressed. [More…]
More importantly in the matter of integration the need to learn the English language shows up in the area of family welfare. [More…]
This has an effect on the parent and child relationship and on the total family integration into the Australian community. [More…]
Moving from the personal situation through the family welfare situation, one comes into the area of employment. [More…]
In the main, we do not bring people to this country as individuals: we bring them as families or as family units. [More…]
It must be very difficult for a man in the profession in which Senator Turnbull was to communicate with a woman from a European country who has never been required to mingle outside her own family circle after migrating here. [More…]
But very often the woman is isolated in her own family circle. [More…]
Will the Minister lake ihe appropriate action to ensure that, at least as far as families arc concerned, members of the family may be free io visit reserves at any time. [More…]
Statistical records have not been maintained to show the grounds for each decision but such factors as marriage to an Australian resident, the presence here of other family members, long residence in Australia and other special circumstances are taken into account. [More…]
These included duplicates and cases where more than one member of a family unit submitted separate applications. [More…]
The family home from which 1 am very proud to have come was on the banks of the Parramatta River in Sydney. [More…]
Probably she has reared a big family and has been provided for by a dutiful husband all of their married life. [More…]
Older people no longer live as they used to do within the family home. [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…]
Some are saving to build a house, others for their family, most for their old age and retirement. [More…]
The culpable neglect of the Federal Government in allowing child endowment rates, particularly those for three or more children, and maternity allowances, to deteriorate in real value to such an extent that the family obtains no great assistance from the receipt of such payments. [More…]
I wish to quote a few excerpts from it to show that there is irrefutable evidence, as a result of expert technical investigation, that the large family group is one group which is a victim of the current inflation and that it is a group which is providing one of the gross and grave areas of poverty in our community. [More…]
A line was drawn arbitrarily at a level equal to $33 a week for a family of a man and his wife and 2 children - this was in 1969 - and anything below that line constituted poverty and anything less than 20 per cent above it constituted marginal poverty. [More…]
I suggest that he could not sustain the general porposition he was making - that the Government has been lacking in that responsibility to the family, to young people and to those who are in poverty. [More…]
The Institute, in that report, assumed that a standard family consisting of a man, his wife, a son aged from 6 to 14 years and a daughter aged under 5 years, with an income equal to the basic wage together with child endowment, was likely to be in poverty. [More…]
For the purpose of the survey it was assumed that an income of $33 a week for such a family would not be an unrealistic figure to use as a poverty line. [More…]
The second change I mention occurred in 1964 when the rate for the third child and subsequent children in a family was increased by 50c to $1.50 a week. [More…]
Now one finds that a very real benefit is provided for families or for the mother of a large family in terms of the remuneration received. [More…]
Where there are 2 children in the family the amount received is a mere $1.50 a week, but when there are 8 children in the family the amount received is $14.25 a week. [More…]
If there are 9 in the family it is $17.25 a week, and if there are 10 children it is $20.50. [More…]
In 1941 when child endowment was introduced the situation was, as the Government said, that the family unit was the cornerstone of national life and the key to our national progress. [More…]
It was necessary in the national interest therefore to ensure that some substantial proportion of family income was not affected by seasonal or intermittent unemployment. [More…]
Certainly the situation with regard to the family unit being a cornerstone of national life and the key. [More…]
For example, there is a variety of aids, benefits and concessions which are designed to make an easier task of bringing up a family. [More…]
If child endowment was increased by 50c a week in respect of each endowed child according to his place in the family, based upon statistics of the people receiving child endowment at 4th January last the cost annually would bc about SI 01m. [More…]
The following table sets out the current cost of paying a 50c per week increase in respect of each endowed child according to his place in the family based on statistics relating to 4 January 1971. [More…]
He referred to the culpability of the Federal Government in allowing child endowment rates, particularly those for 3 or more children, and maternity allowances, to deteriorate in real value to such an extent that a family obtains no great assistance from the receipt of such payments. [More…]
So, it is very difficult for them, in view of the affluence in which they live, to understand the situation that confronts the ordinary family, particularly the family with more than 2 or 3 children. [More…]
I hasten to say that although I am not going to support this motion of urgency I very strongly believe in the importance of a vital family life. [More…]
But it has assisted the happy family and the happy, healthy child in many other ways. [More…]
The Government has an amazing record of assistance for the family. [More…]
I think the Minister for Health (Senator Greenwood) listed some of the things the Government has done to assist the family. [More…]
I am not going into detail because of lack of time but I shall repeat the things this Government has done to assist the family, either indirectly or directly, and also to assist children in addition to the child endowment allowance. [More…]
It has introduced the pharmaceutical benefits which assists the family and the child and introduced income tax concessions in respect of children at a total cost to revenue in the year 1967-68 - the latest figure I could obtain - of $266m. [More…]
Tt seems to me that we should be praising the Government for what it is doing, for having such a wide range of interests in respect of which improvements are made regularly for the benefit of the family and the children, instead of picking out one item and saying that in this respect the Government has been culpably neglectful. [More…]
This shibboleth of the ‘continental’ Sunday had its roots in the early and mid-Victorian idea that a Frenchman was naturally immoral, the chief evidence of which was that he and his family made merry on cream puffs and well watered wine on their one weekly holiday. [More…]
We uphold the principle of the importance of church and family life, but we have also listened to the pleas on behalf of that heavy percentage of young people who are hostel or flat dwellers and we have recognised that the continually increasing large number of visitors flocking to our national capital must be given due consideration. [More…]
He said that he wanted to welcome the People’s Republic of China to the family of nations. [More…]
Also Communist China’s endorsement of an inevitable world war for the triumph of Communism renders her unworthy of recognition or entry to the family of nations. [More…]
They are a major burden for persons on middle incomes and the family man and they- limit the number of houses which need to be built. [More…]
The first one may well come when the leaseholder has his family starting at university, when he is in the worst possible position to accept an increase in rental very greatly above what he was paying. [More…]
Please extend my sympathy to his family on behalf of those many Australians to whom he was well known and respected. [More…]
This, in fact, happened to one of my family. [More…]
Bill into effect we will remember that we are part of a world family of nations; that even though, in diplomatic language, we may have a difference with forms of government, at least we are prepared to respect the freedom of others just as much as we claim that our own. [More…]
Even the right of a man to rejoin his own family was denied by action of the Queensland Government. [More…]
A member of my own family had ceased work at a time corresponding with the passage of some demonstrators passed her work place during the last moratorium campaign. [More…]
I believe - I speak from experience - that in times gone by when one was battling to make a crust and rear a family I never heard of drugs other than the legally accepted drugs, alcohol and tobacco. [More…]
We were all far too busy trying, as I said, to rear a family and make a living. [More…]
The television programme standards determined by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board contain special provisions relating to the types of programme matter which may be televised during periods defined as family and children’s viewing time. [More…]
In broad terms the standards require that during these periods, the only programmes that may be televised are family programmes which are suitable for viewing by persons of all ages, or programmes which are specifically designed for children in various age groups. [More…]
But since I have resided in Australia with my family since 1951, I have never disputed the fact that I have a national service Lability. [More…]
He is an American by birth and because he has sentimental and family ties with America he felt he would like to do his service in the American Navy where he was assured of being able to work in the field in which he wanted to work. [More…]
All these natters have been taken into account and we feel that the proposed increase in contribution rates of Se to 10c per week for a family in an era of rising costs and incomes is something which most people can well bear. [More…]
In view of the fact that there is no Territory rehabilitation centre for juveniles, will the Minister inform the Parliament whether he is prepared to intervene immediately to ensure that the lad concerned is released and returned to the care of his family? [More…]
One has been involved in these matters, through one’s own family and one’s children. [More…]
In August last year, in dealing with the 1970-71 Budget, I pointed out that the Budget represented social injustice perpetrated by an unfeeling Government against those already economically handicapped - the wage earners, the family man, the pensioner. [More…]
The culpable neglect of the Federal Government in allowing child endowment rates, particularly those for three or more children, and maternity allowances, to deteriorate in real value to such an extent that the family obtains no great assistance from the receipt of such payments. [More…]
Yet leave was denied to me in my humble efforts to do something for the family man under the heading of child endowment. [More…]
That Party had a day’s notice of the DLP move and surely it was concerned for the welfare of the family man. [More…]
At one time a person was very fortunate if he went to school beyond the age of 14 and 15 years and the possibility of a university education for anybody who belonged to what might be broadly described as a working class or middle class family was almost non-existent. [More…]
This figure is based on the fact that 14,900 families are waiting for all types of units and it allows for 3 persons to a family, which is low when we consider .the conditions of eligibility to secure a rental home. [More…]
Honourable senators who are interested in this problem should obtain the results of this investigation and see for themselves the problems that are associated with these immense concrete jungles that are now being built to house the people who I believe should be strategically housed in areas where the family will be a unit in its own right once more and not a unit amongst a great mass of concrete where home life no longer exists. [More…]
It is the basis of family life. [More…]
to participate, with their ‘family, in a fully co-ordinated rehabilitation programme including technical college education or at least its equivalent.’ [More…]
What range of alternatives is open for the family? [More…]
The applicant will be provided with the magnificent sum of $1,000 with which to rehabilitate himself and his family. [More…]
Then he receives a loan of $1,000 with which to rehabilitate himself and his family. [More…]
to participate, with their family, In a fully co-ordinated rehabilitation programme including technical college education or at least its equivalent. [More…]
But then the insidious onward march of increased costs, increased interest rates, increased transportation charges and increased problems of living in a rural community caught up with me, swallowed me up, steamrolled me, overcame me despite the fact that I was working from the very early hours of the morning until late at night, as one must do when operating a small family farm. [More…]
I had hoped to establish my family there. [More…]
There is a gradual taking over of properties and a movement away from those properties of the pioneers who went on to them and cut down the bush, tilled the land, planted and grew crops on it and took it to the point of production before having to move off it because they have been caught up in the passage of time and the economic movements in our society which have shattered any chance they may ever have had of staying on and keeping their family together as a community. [More…]
For instance, to take one aspect of family life today, the man in the country who wants to give his children a reasonable education comparable with that which is available to people in the urban areas has a problem. [More…]
In the first place, he has to suffer his family leaving him, and he has to pay board for his children somewhere in the town, he has to pay for them to travel day after day - this surely must affect the capacity of the children to learn - or he has to make some other arrangements for his children to go away from the property. [More…]
There are very many reasons - other than money reasons - why a man or a family wish to maintain himself or themselves on the land. [More…]
The recent report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shows that the Bureau estimated that between 20 per cent and 25 per cent of the total debt in the wheat and sheep industries is represented by private family loans, loans from solicitors’ trust accounts, hire purchase debts and vendor credit. [More…]
I speak as one of many thousands of people in Australia who have family businesses, farms or interests in various spheres and whose biggest worry is: ‘How do we continue to carry on with succession and probate duties hanging over us?’ [More…]
Senator Byrne told us that when this man dies and estate duty is imposed on his estate, his family has to sell the property at the market value, not at the potential value, in order to pay the duty. [More…]
Every 25 or 30 years in the family cycle a family just finishes paying its estate duty when the whole vicious circle starts once again and the family is unable to carry on with the efficiency with which it would be able to carry on but for this heavy taxation in the form of death duty. [More…]
If there is to be an alleviation we on this side would insist that it be given to those people who are suffering, such as the widows to whom Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood referred, the person with a large family, the woman who is widowed by the untimely death of a young man who has not paid off his house and that type of person. [More…]
The income of a family is probably lower than that of people in a comparable Aboriginal group in Australia- [More…]
Indeed, the State was threatened with the loss of needed income by way of the CommonwealthState financial agreement if it exercised the right to levy an income tax properly based on a capacity of a person to earn an income with the proper type of remissions for responsibilities that are of essential character in our community such as rearing a family. [More…]
How can there be any justification for the Government to obtain its revenue through this method of income tax if, in the hazards of business life, one shows a loss and one has to pay a tax because one is participating in community activities for the purposes of trying to make a living for oneself and one’s family? [More…]
But income tax is based on a different set of principles altogether and it provides proper allowances for those people in the community who are faced with family responsibilities. [More…]
The family man who is the most valuable asset that this community has and those young couples who are setting themselves to rear 3, 4 or 5 children will be the people paying the greatest amounts as a result of turnover tax because this tax will reflect in everything that is purchased by these people for the purposes of rearing their children. [More…]
It will also be reflected in food, entertainment and everything that goes .to make up a home and a family background. [More…]
Iri most instances a family cannot afford to buy cigarettes, beer and those goods that are heavily taxed by excise duty.- But these families still get the whip of the sales tax on exercise books, pencils 1 and other materials needed to send their children to school. [More…]
This last addition happily, perhaps because of the activities of the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the firm belief of this Party in the Australian people and the Australian family, is at present removed from the statutes of both the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
It has no place in the philosophies of people who are fair minded and who at least believe than an opportunity should be given to a man to rear his family in a decent way without being taxed beyond his capacity to pay by insidious hidden forms of taxation. [More…]
The Tasmanian royal commission referred to agreements and practices to hold up to an artificially high level the price of electric lights, beer, hot water systems, paint, cement and steel pipes all of which affect every family in the community. [More…]
The first case referred to by Senator O’Byrne concerned a young man and his family who had been engaged in a business and it was stated by Senator O’Byrne that receipts were about $26,500, that assets were about $23,000, that the family was still deeply in debt and that the trustee’s remuneration was $1,369. [More…]
My time at school was somewhat curtailed by family necessity brought about by the tremendous economic stresses of the 1930s. [More…]
The parents of that family paid their taxes and then paid for their children to attend school as well. [More…]
All of us who are interested in children and in their education well know that the educational opportunities of the second, third and fourth child in a family were being neglected because of the sheer lack of finance. [More…]
A family could not provide the money to continue educating the third, fourth and perhaps the fifth child who might have, been particularly brilliant. [More…]
All the money available to the family circle had been spent on educating the older members of the family. [More…]
The rich squatter family of one era is sometimes the impoverished family in the next, and vice versa. [More…]
The situation then is that under the Commonwealth Act the family unit - a man, wife and child - receives only 50c more than the rate prescribed in South Australia for a single man. [More…]
The average family plans its spending and purchasing pattern in relation to daily and weekly commitments on the basis of that earning capacity. [More…]
We are most concerned that the hardship which is occasioned to the average family, which has nothing to spare from the weekly wage, should be allowed to continue because of lack of provision in this Bill to increase the rate of compensation to an amount somewhere near the ordinary wage which Ls earned by a working man. [More…]
We commend to the Government the suggestion that there should be regular reviews of the rates of compensation and that such rates should be at a level closer to the full wage of the family bread-winner. [More…]
Of course it is unnecessary for me to point out that a man who is disabled and who has been denied compensation may find himself in the position, pending the hearing of his appeal, of having no resources at all to sustain himself and his family, so I would urge the Government to take a closer look at these sections and possibly minimise the period during which an appeal should be heard. [More…]
Nothing can compensate for injuries suffered, for pain and suffering, for the loss of a breadwinner to a family or for the loss of an affectionate father, but as far as possible a court sees that there is no monetary loss to a family as a result of someone’s negligence. [More…]
If at the present time an injury happens at work and negligence can be proven the court upholds the principle that there should be no monetary loss to the family as a result of the negligence that happened at work. [More…]
The process of refusing to accept the Bill would deny the wife and family of an workman injured between now and August of increased entitlements. [More…]
In the case of a periodical payment to which this Article applies, the rate of the benefit, increased by the amount of any family allowances payable during the contingency, shall be such as to attain, in respect of the contingency in question- [More…]
Returning to the Schedule, that is 60 per cent - of the total of the previous earnings of the beneficiary or his breadwinner and of the amount of any family allowances payable to a person protected with the same family responsibilities as the standard beneficiary. [More…]
Separate living accommodation’, in relation to an employee, means living accommodation provided for the exclusive use of the employee, or of the employee and his family, being accommodation that includes cooking, bathing and sanitary facilities. [More…]
Can he say whether the reason the previous Air Force tenant moved out of the house was because an Aboriginal family is now living in the house next door? [More…]
Is the house being kept vacant of Air Force personnel because of the continuing presence of the Aboriginal family? [More…]
the Air Force won’t pui a family in there because nf an Aboriginal family next door. [More…]
humanitarian considerations involving close family relationship or hardship on grounds of specific discrimination are present; or [More…]
It is a deprivation to his wife and family. [More…]
No-one acts capriciously to deprive his family of income, for this very reason. [More…]
60 a day is paid for each 10c of contribution per week paid for family membership. [More…]
Is it also true that in a family of 8 children endowment is reduced from $57 a week to $46 a. week when the eldest child becomes eligible for the $1.25 a week student allowance, thereby losing $65 a year endowment? [More…]
If this is true, was the reduction taken into consideration when the student endowment scheme was brought in and is this another instance where the Government gives the family an increase with one hand and takes more away with the other? [More…]
I heard Senator Murphy say that as far as the family man was concerned 2i per cent would be more than he would gain from additional child endowment. [More…]
That would be a decision based on a quick assessment, because the average family man - the man I have in mind would have 4, 5 or 6 children - on an average rate of pay does not pay tax at all. [More…]
The family man has been left behind. [More…]
He was at a disadvantage compared with his fellow worker who had a small family or none at all, with the single man and even the spinster woman who was doing the same work as himself and receiving the same pay. [More…]
Mr A was married and had no family. [More…]
Mr B had educated a nice family - a boy in medicine, a girl in pharmacy, a girl school teaching and a boy in the Public Service. [More…]
In my speech on last year’s Budget 1 pointed out that it was the family man on a low income with 4 or 5 children or more who was particularly in need of the Government’s concern and assistance. [More…]
While this Budget makes some progress in reducing injustices in the family field, the present payments remain quite inadequate. [More…]
It is interesting to compare the family allowance in France with our own. [More…]
Under the present Budget increases an Australian family with 5 children will receive $27 a month as against S82.48 in France. [More…]
In the case of one family, the son is in Brisbane selling real estate in an attempt to maintain his wife and family. [More…]
One said: ‘lt is not desirable to levy a widow’s estate, large or small, especially when it is barely sufficient to bring up a family’. [More…]
Yet another said: ‘I do not think that a man who strives to make a few thousand pounds to leave to his wife and family should have to pay duty until his wife dies’. [More…]
A problem which arises from legislation does not hit one family only; it hits many families. [More…]
The poverty line was fixed at $40 a week for such a family. [More…]
Has the Minister for Health noticed that when a contributor to a medical and hospital benefits fund fills in an application form for a refund he is required on every application to write in a considerable number of facts about himself and his family, every one of which is contained in the contributions book which must accompany the application? [More…]
I refer to such details as the date of birth of the contributor, the age of each member of the family for whom benefits are claimed, date of joining the fund, date of transferring to a higher table, date to which contributions have been paid and method of payment. [More…]
Does the standard type of dwelling being built by the Trust for aboriginal housing provide, as stated in the report, for the addition of bathroom and inside toilet as the inhabitants become more sophisticated in accordance with the standard considered desirable by the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs; if so, what degree of sophistication does an aboriginal family have to achieve before their homes can be provided with a bathroom and toilet. [More…]
Does the standard type of dwelling being built by the Trust for aboriginal housing provide, as stated in the report, for the addition of bathroom and inside toilet as the inhabitants become more sophisticated in accordance with the standard considered desirable by the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs; if so, what degree of sophistication does an aboriginal family have to achieve before their homes can be provided with a bathroomand toilet. [More…]
The fact that they are fearful of starting a family before they arc able to establish themselves at this level is creating a situation in the home which is dangerous for the future. [More…]
At the level of wages today people are struggling to meet commitments and to carry out the functions that they have at the family level. [More…]
Even if the charge by a private nursing home was only $50 a week, does Senator Greenwood believe that the balance of $20 should be found by a family that may be in circumstances making it impossible to meet its commitments? [More…]
The net effect of that Budget was that the family unit was worse off. [More…]
lt does not matter very much whether the workers have a wage cut taken directly out of their pay packets or we say to them: ‘You have to stretch that wage packet to pay all the bills which you cannot dodge in your day to day living in a family’. [More…]
Instead of providing an increase in indirect taxation to cover the cost of these things, the Government is saying to the unfortunate wife or widow who has children and who has to buy pharmaceuticals: ‘Because you are unfortunate enough to have to go to a chemist shop to buy these things for the protection of your family, or because you arc silly enough to get sick, you will pay for them’. [More…]
The Government says that the normal healthy working family can carry the increases; but if there is a period of illness or some period of unemployment during the year, one of the things that people could well have to cut out would be television. [More…]
Let me reduce it to this concept: It concerns the raising and spending of, for every one of the 12,800,000 Australian people, a sum of $695; or, for a family of 5 - a man, his wife and 3 children - an impressive sum of $3,500. [More…]
I thank my family and members of my Party for the support that they have given me over the years. [More…]
lt is one of the casualties of the postwar years, i suggest that Government members and Ministers in particular converse with officials from welfare organisations like the Smith Family and the Red Cross and other charities. [More…]
They are becoming aware of the tremendous social implication and consequences of the inflationary hurricane which is ripping away the savings of thrifty people, destroying family life and imposing hardships on all those who use their mental or physical skills to create the wealth of this country. [More…]
Land prices skyrocket still further, accommodation is priced beyond the reach of young people and family life is seriously undermined. [More…]
What is taking place under our very eyes is the silent demise of the family unit. [More…]
There must be many ordinary Australians like myself who have struggled with the problems of feeding, clothing and educating a family and with trying to balance a domestic budget. [More…]
He referred to the case of a family with 8 wholly supported children. [More…]
Under the new child endowment rates, when the eldest school child turns 16 the endowment cheque of that family drops by $7. [More…]
However, with a family of 2 wholly supported children the endowment cheque rises by $2 when the eldest school child turns 16. [More…]
It is quite useless for the Treasurer, who comes from a working class family, to stand in his place and say that the bulk of the fault for the inflationary spiral in Australia today lies with the activities of work ing class people. [More…]
I note that the payment for children under 16 years in institutions and for each child under the age of 16 years where there are more than 2 children in a family will be increased by 50c a week. [More…]
The family companies have not been dividend payers; they have been builders. [More…]
Petrol, stamp, telephone, cigarette, medical prescription and radio and television licence costs are basic costs for any family. [More…]
When some unusual demand is made on the family income there are no reserves to cover it because the family has not been able to put away any money for such demands or, as it is commonly known, for a. rainy day. [More…]
Is it also true that in a family of 8 children endowment is reduced from $57 a week to $46 a week when the eldest child becomes eligible for the $1.25 a week student allowance, thereby losing $65 a’ year endowment? [More…]
If this is true, was the reduction taken into consideration when the student endowment scheme was brought in and is this another instance where the Government gives the family an increase with one hand and takes more away with the other? [More…]
Just as a wealthy family should help its relatives, friends or even strangers who are not so well off, so should an opulent country help provide money and goods to other countries. [More…]
I believe that he is quite correct when he says that the amount of child endowment received by a family with more than 2 children decreases when the eldest of those children reaches the age of 16 years. [More…]
The anomaly which exists is that the child endowment payments received by a family with more than 2 children are reduced when the eldest child attains 16 years of age. [More…]
The proposed increase of 50c in child endowment for the third and subsequent children, I believe, creates a worse anomaly as far as the income received from child endowment by a family with more than 2 children is concerned. [More…]
With the proposed increase of 50c, the first born child in a family will attract a payment of 50c a week, the second child will be paid $1 a week and the third child will now receive $2 a week in child endowment. [More…]
The third child in the family becomes the second child for child endowment purposes. [More…]
So, that family with only 3 children loses a total of $1 a week. [More…]
The parents of a family of 13 children wrote to me and drew this matter to my attention. [More…]
The more children in a family, the greater the anomaly. [More…]
Three of the children in this family of 13 of which I have spoken are students receiving the student’s allowance of $1.50 a week. [More…]
This means that the total loss to this family when the eldest child for child endowment purposes reaches 16 years of age is $8.25 a week because that child loses his child endowment entitlement and receives a student’s allowance. [More…]
By that I mean, without any attempt at whimsy, that murder mostly is a family matter or a domestic matter, as Senator Murphy has, I think, brought out. [More…]
As I have said, murder is mostly a family matter. [More…]
During my early years I grew up with a great number of young criminals because my father thought it was wise that lads without a proper family background should be assisted. [More…]
I believe that we tend to get oversentimental about a person who commits a crime and to forget society or the person against whom the crime has been committed, lt always sickens me somewhat that the moment the death penalty is imposed upon a person who has committed a crime we have people drawing up petitions and “ raising money for an appeal by the criminal, but making no attempt to raise money to help the family of the victim. [More…]
It is argued that it should be the responsibility of the state to compensate the family of a victim of a crime. [More…]
Did the O’Leary family arrive in Australia without passports, and on what basis were the members of that family allowed entry? [More…]
Is the O’Leary family presently accommodated on a boat moored among mangroves in Auckland Creek at Gladstone and is the family living on the charity of local people? [More…]
As United States citizens has the O’Leary family applied for permanent residence in Australia? [More…]
The rate of child endowment for tho 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 per week for the first child under 16 years in a family, $1 per week for the second child, and $1.50 for the third child, with cumulative increases of 25c per 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 Senate is to increase endowment for the third and each subsequent child in a family by 50c per week. [More…]
This will mean that the rate- of endowment in respect of the third child in a family will become 2 per week, in respect of the fourth child $2.25 per week and so on, increasing by 25c for each additional child. [More…]
Assistance is given to families through the National Health Act where the family insurance rates for a family with children - however many children - are pegged at the rate applicable to a married couple without children; special assistance is also provided for handicapped children and children of pensioners - the latter being a matter which I shall deal with more fully in a moment. [More…]
All these exemplify the attitude of a responsible government, which is to provide benefits in respect of children in a way which will render positive assistance to the family. [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…]
We are told in the Budget Speech that the Government will introduce legislation to increase child endowment by 50c a week for each child under the age of 16 years in excess of 2 in a family. [More…]
Why should the increase be restricted to children in excess of 2 in a family? [More…]
I believe that Canada has proposed a special tax rate but I would prefer that 2 people living on one income have the family income regarded as 2 separate incomes for taxation purposes. [More…]
A great number of people receive this benefit and I think it is grossly unfair that a lawyer, a doctor or a worker in industry who shares his income with his wife should be deprived of access to a means of lowering the incidence of tax on a family in that way. [More…]
She and her husband and family have, however, been refused assisted passages. [More…]
Because the family does not meet the requirements for the grant of assisted passages, approval of their application was withheld. [More…]
The terrifying situa-tion can exist where half of a family may be classified as black and the other half may be classified as white although they eat around the same table. [More…]
That was the second case in the family. [More…]
I shall not read the report on the other cases; suffice to say that the whole family was affected by mercurial poisoning. [More…]
The family diet was mainly pork, and simply through the use of seed which had been protected by mercury the whole family was rendered incapable and virtually destroyed. [More…]
The family man has been betrayed and the security of the country has been let down. [More…]
I do not have much sympathy for the person who has lived his life riotously and at the end of his working days claims that he and his family are living in abject poverty and that he needs assistance.’ [More…]
I believe there is an urgent need for complete taxation relief for an income earner who has a family and who is on a low income. [More…]
1 will relate my remarks to a family with one child under 16 years of age. [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 unempolyment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. [More…]
Child endowment in respect of children who are in institutions will be increased by 50c and child endowment for each child under the age of 16 years in excess of 2 in a family is increased by 50c a week. [More…]
The husband, the bread winner, earning the basic wage or a little in excess of the basic wage is unable to bring home enough money to ensure that his family shall live even with ordinary dignity. [More…]
So the mother of the family is compelled, often against her will, to become a co-breadwinner. [More…]
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family. [More…]
Senator Webster might not thank me for this, but let me say that no family in Australia is doing more for unmarried mothers than Senator Jim Webster and his wife. [More…]
Fourthly, the family allowance provision, including the increase in child endowment payments to the third and subsequent children, represents rejection through the national Parliament of the new doctrine summarised in the slogan ‘Pollution is People’. [More…]
Surely the presumption on which any family allowance system is based is that people are important, but it seems that to some sections of the community people matter little. [More…]
I am one of a family of 9 that grew to adulthood. [More…]
We were an average working class family. [More…]
Surely the presumption on which any family allowance system is based is that people are important and of intrinsic value and are not merely stepping stones to disaster. [More…]
Two spinster women or a brother and sister who go on living in the old family home would receive more in pensions than a married couple does. [More…]
The children have probably gone out and taken up their own responsibilities for their wife and family. [More…]
The family man has been overlooked for too long. [More…]
So the child endowment scheme is the only way in which we can maintain any measure of justice to the fellow who is married and who is sincerely trying to do something for his family. [More…]
The day that we reach the point of believing that the family unit has no value in our society, our society will finish in hell itself. [More…]
It might be a hackneyed expression, but the family unit is the basis of our society. [More…]
All of those things are destroying family life which in turn will mean the destruction of our society. [More…]
The sooner that the family gets back on the proper road the better. [More…]
It applies to children in excess of 2 in 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…]
From that it can be seen that the payment of State and other assistance towards the maintenance of a large family is desirable. [More…]
In 1941 the full bench of the Arbitration Court said that it could not differentiate between the single worker and the married worker with dependants and recommended that the legislature should introduce some form of child endowment to supplement the income of the married man with a family. [More…]
Theoretically there are many ways in which a family within the community may be provided with the normal material means necessary to sustain it. [More…]
In 1941 the Chief Judge of the Court considered that on the basis of needs only the basic wage then operative was sufficient to provide only frugal comfort for a family unit of 3. that it offered only a meagre existence for a family unit of 4, and that if there were more than 2 children a family on the basic wage would experience hardship. [More…]
I mentioned in my speech on the Budget that in the case of a person who had more than 4 children, when the first child reached the age of 16 years and became eligible for endowment under the student endowment scheme the family would lose a certain amount of the child endowment. [More…]
If one looks at the table which is part of the Minister’s speech on this Bill one finds that a family of 8 would have received $14.25 a week before the eldest child became eligible for student endowment, but that after the child became eligible for the student endowment the family would receive only $13 a week - $1.25 a week or about $65 a year less than had been received previously. [More…]
Under the new scheme a family with 8 children under the age of 16 years will receive 17.25 a week, but if the first child becomes eligible for the student’s allowance the amount received will be reduced to $16.25 or, in other words, Si less than the family would have received had the child endowment remained and the student’s allowance not been paid. [More…]
After all, child endowment was introduced to supplement the income of the breadwinner with a family so that the family could improve to some extent its standard of living. [More…]
It contains a table showing the minimum cost in 6 countries of keeping a family of 4. [More…]
In 1967 in West Germany it cost $A42 a week to keep a family of 4. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of Social Services has assured me of the accuracy of the following situation: Under the new rates payable per month of 28 days (a) for a family with 8 wholly supported children, when the eldest school child turns 16 the endowment cheque drops by $7. [More…]
For the family of 2 wholly supported children, when the eldest school child turns 16 the endowment cheque rises by $2. [More…]
That illustrates the difference between a small family and a large family. [More…]
The smaller the family, the more you get; the larger the family, the less you get. [More…]
On the aspect of child endowment I would simply say to Senator Drury that it is a fact that when a child turns 16 and receives student endowment the amount received by the family in which there are more than 2 children will undoubtedly decrease. [More…]
In 1964 the Government introduced the student endowment and that has meant that the young person living with his family after he has turned 16, if he is still a student, has gained a benefit. [More…]
The Scheme will also assist members of the family of an eligible farmer who have been working full-time on farming other Ulan domestic responsibilities, and who have been primarily dependent on the income of the farm. [More…]
It could be said to exist where a perron or a family is unable to maintain a standard of living which is generally accepted as adequate by the community in which he lives. [More…]
The test which was adopted by Professor Henderson in 1966 proceeded on what he regarded as an acceptable standard of living for a family. [More…]
Having made provision for the family, he assumed that there was a standard of living for a pensioner. [More…]
For a standard family of a man, wife and 2 children, the income equivalent to the poverty line was assumed to be marginally adequate to meet a family’s expenses after payment of income tax, but the appropriate poverty line for a pensioner was calculated on the basis of a given percentage of the family poverty line. [More…]
This procedure does not take account of the fact that, unlike family income, what a pensioner receives is not subject to taxation. [More…]
In general the pensioner does not have to meet medical, hospital or pharmaceutical expenses, as does the family. [More…]
In addition the pensioner receives other fringe benefits which a family do->- not receive. [More…]
1 claim for my Party credit for having influenced the Government to alter the flat rate system of child endowment payments and for granting an increased rate of payment in respect of all children in each family after the second child in order to assist big families to get by. [More…]
Today a single man, according to industrial awards, receives as much as a married man who is required to maintain a wife and family. [More…]
With equal pay for the sexes - I am not growling about that at all - an unmarried woman without chick or child to maintain will receive the same income as a male, if she is doing the same work as that male; yet that male may be married and have a family to support. [More…]
I think that it is a very bad thing for a country like ours to overlook the necessity for making adequate provision for the children of any family. [More…]
Conceivably one may have a death in the family occurring in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and if a home is not connected to the telephone system and the death took place on a Saturday afternoon those concerned would know nothing about it until the Monday morning. [More…]
One is that the citizen who has had a large family or has incurred sickness or other heavy expenses is the one who is unable to take out all the units to which he is entitled. [More…]
1 could understand, and I think anybody could understand, that an act of murder could be committed in circumstances of great domestic emotion, lt could be committed in a circumstance of family trouble. [More…]
As a result, when a child in a family of 3 (or more) children reaches 16 years and attracts student endowment, the total payment for the family will be reduced but even so it remains $1.50 a week higher than it would have been had the Government not introduced student endowment in 1964. [More…]
It was introduced, as was suggested by 2 previous speakers, as a measure supposedly designed to bring in two-thirds of the money required to contribute some supplement to the wages and income of the family man. [More…]
In other words, it will provide funds with which the Government will supplement the wages and income of the family man. [More…]
The importance of the family man to this country is too often overlooked. [More…]
In such circumstances, the family assumes a role of paramount importance. [More…]
Members of his family had always voted for the Liberal Country League in South Australia. [More…]
Politics have made a militant person out of a member of a small farming community who follows Christian principles and whose family had Liberal Party philosophies. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware of the pornographic content of the New South Wales University student journal Tharunka’, particularly the ‘Family Issue’ dated 28th July 1971? [More…]
The Opposition believes that the imposition upon such a person of an additional charge of the type intended by this legislation could in many circumstances, because of the limited financial means of that person or that person’s family, delay him or her from seeking the necessary attention and could keep him or her off work longer than is necessary, thus depriving the community for a much longer period than is in fact necessary of the value of that person’s productivity. [More…]
It has happened to members of my own family. [More…]
If any one of us were sick or if our family, wife or children were sick we would go tothe medico. [More…]
Category A includes a man with a family whose weekly income does not exceed $46.50. [More…]
I suppose practically every member of the Senate has received correspondence from people who suffer with chronic illnesses, people who suffer with diabetes, asthmatics, people who suffer with ulcers, who are not eligible for the subsidised medical scheme and who are not pensioners, age or invalid; from people who have family responsibilities or whose kiddies constantly require medical treatment, who might have to obtain a prescription once or twice a week and whose means are comparatively limited. [More…]
Broadly, these arc people with family income and means as assessed of $52.50 a week. [More…]
But what young family is able to find up to$40 a week to subsidise the cost of private nursing home accommodation? [More…]
Every family with young children has some kind of a Christmas ceremony. [More…]
But what would the family think if, shortly after the distribution of Christmas presents, the head of the family went around to assess each of them for their share of the cost of the presents, plus a substantial remuneration for himself as administrator? [More…]
Be that as it may, let me say this in relation to the argument that Senator Cavanagh has been putting: Because this increase will impose a very heavy burden on a great number of wage and salary earners, having regard to the half empty bottles in their medicine chests it could well be that the health of a large section of the community will suffer because the worker on a limited income and with family responsibilities, rather than seeing a doctor after having a recurrence of an illness that he had 2 years ago, might well decide to use the contents of that half empty bottle. [More…]
In many cases this has led to the breakup of a man’s family. [More…]
In fairness to the department concerned, it keeps on the payroll for as long as it can men so afflicted, but that is no compensation for the complete loss of family life. [More…]
Following representations made to me by the family of Geoffrey Mullen I desire to ask a question of the Attorney-General. [More…]
In the absence of Senator Wright, who represents the Minister for Foreign Affairs in this place - he is absent because of a family bereavement - let me say that, having regard to the historical facts of the case and because the question should be answered with particularity and in detail, I would prefer it to be placed on the notice paper. [More…]
The system recognises that general practitioners are the doctors of first contact and, as family, doctors, have an overall responsibility for the medical treatment of their patients. [More…]
As the honourable senator is probably aware, the Television Programme Standards of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board provide that nothing unsuitable for children’s and family viewing shall be televised between 4.00 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on week-days and before 7.30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. [More…]
I join with the Leader of the Government in expressing sympathy to his family. [More…]
She lived through the depression, a period when one needed all the qualities that she had if one was to survive and bring up a family. [More…]
It is nice to know that a person can lead a life of interest, not only in the affairs of her own family but also in the affairs of the nation. [More…]
It is with sincere regret that I rise to join with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) and the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) in their expressions of sympathy to the widow and family of the late Bill Heatley who died very unexpectedly and prematurely last Friday. [More…]
He was a son of a well known and highly respected Townsville family. [More…]
Of course, we all are very sorry for his widow and his family. [More…]
Mr Heatley’s death is a great sorrow for her and her family. [More…]
As one who came into this place following the retirement of the late Mr Heatley after the Senate election in 1967 and as one who knew him, his wife and his family personally, I pay my small tribute of regard and express my sorrow at his unfortunate and premature passing. [More…]
I convey to the family of the late Mr Heatley - his sons and daughter and his widow - my personal sorrow. [More…]
Perhaps the world will settle down because of China’s participation in the family of nations. [More…]
This should be everybody’s hope, but it will happen only if China is a member of the family, behaves like a member of the family and stops subverting the democratic people who live on its southern borders. [More…]
We regret that Israel was one of those countries which, perhaps was prompted by the same hopes as were expressed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate tonight that mainland China would desert the policies that she has practised towards her neighbours up to date, would accept the responsibility of being a member of the family of nations and would not use its position against the democratic world but would come more closely towards a democratic way of life. [More…]
The entry of China into the family of nations, as it was referred to, in my view represents another great step forward. [More…]
Eligibility of a family for passage assistance is normally based on the eligibility of the breadwinner. [More…]
Mr Nigel Joseph, who was born in Ceylon and described himself as a ‘burgher’ was not eligible for assisted migration but was, with his family, approved for entry to Australia as an unassisted settler. [More…]
Some 2 or 3 years ago that factory was taken over by a British company which bought out the family interests of Bedggood Pty Ltd which had been on that site for 100 years. [More…]
Such taxing methods always operate much more harshly against the family man. [More…]
A family visiting New Zealand is offered a 50 per cent rebate on the fares of dependants. [More…]
I believe it is our wish to retain the family bond as an extremely important facet of our society. [More…]
What is now needed is a new code of family law created by a combined effort of the States and Commonwealth so that within the constitutional powers of the latter, a new divorce and marriage code may be created, drafted in the context of the new provisions on the subjects within the State sphere, which could be enacted as uniform legislation by the several States. [More…]
A new code governing these matters as well as Testator’s Family Maintenance and kindred subjects, is required which will cover all the proprietorial and financial questions between married and divorced people. [More…]
Of course there is the carryover of an earlier idea that the responsibilities of citizenship were best acquired by experience and that the problems of how to live with one another in a domestic relationship were best culled from the family example. [More…]
This has weakened the example which may be derived from family experience. [More…]
They have endeavoured lo meet the problems which they have seen arising by identifying themselves with groups such as marriage guidance bureaux and other family welfare groups designed to help in a variety of ways. [More…]
We were one happy family in relation to this grant and this loan which is to go to Tasmania for the construction of a rail link until Senator Rae introduced party politics. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware of the pornogr aphic content of the New South Wales University student journal’ Tharunka’, particularly the Family Issue’ dated 28th July 1971?Is thetaxpayers’ money being used in the production of Tharunka’ and associated publications such as the notorious ‘Sex Manual’? [More…]
What reply does the Government make to his criticism that it is actively discouraging family planning by levying this tax at the rate of 274 per cent as a luxury item under the amusement tax? [More…]
Will the Minister, therefore, introduce along lines similar to citizenship instruction, education in domestic economics and family budgeting for students in their last year of schooling? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the views of Professor Wilfred Mommaerts, Professor of Physiology and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who recently told a seminar in Melbourne that a quiet revolution in medical education is occurring in the United States of America, created by students concerned with the needs of the under-privileged and who desire to create a modern variation of the old style family doctor? [More…]
Priority is also being given to family reunion and the movement of personal nominees.In particular, priority will be given to wives and dependent children of breadwinnerswho are already in Australia. [More…]
The present rate is not enough -o keep a family that finds itself in the situation of temporary unemployment on the standard on which we all would expect an honest, hard working family to be kept in this community. [More…]
That in itself, without judging the rights or wrongs of whether wives should work - that is their own business - gives a family in which both the husband and the wife work much more money to spend and therefore much more money with which to contribute to an inflationary tendency. [More…]
The loss of a man’s sense of being able to provide for his family is something to be witnessed and observed at first hand. [More…]
An average family now is better off than in 1951. [More…]
So we go through the relative hours of work required to earn the consumer products which the average employee would seek to buy for himself or his family. [More…]
I believe that in the Government’s present assessment of the economy should any social distress be occasioned the Government will be acting to ensure that the individual Australian employee and his family will not be suffering unnecessary social distress through temporary economic difficulties. [More…]
By using the private sector, the family has to work excessively to pay the first and second mortgages which are so much part of our society today. [More…]
The Housing Industry Association has suggested that in less than half this period - that is between now and the year 2005 - 7 million young couples will marry and that 3 million migrant family groups will be looking for homes in this country. [More…]
Does the proposed amendment imply that because a woman is a deserted wife, even though she is reasonably well off, she is to be placed within special categories and not dealt with on the same basis as other people with family responsibilities who happen to be low income earners? [More…]
The Commonwealth has the responsibility to look at the people of Australia and to say: ‘We are out to assist the low income earners, particularly the family man. [More…]
Because of the Government’s philosophy over the last 20 years we have arrived at a. situation in which the man who most needs assistance for housing is the family man with 3, 4, 5 or 6 children, rather than the man who has no family. [More…]
The taxation structure in this country offers very little to the man with the larger family even if he does not pay very much in direct taxation. [More…]
It pretends that because the family man is nol paying very much income tax it is providing him with a great concession. [More…]
The family man has to meet this burden of indirect taxation in purchasing needs for his 5 or 6 children. [More…]
The whole family lives in one room. [More…]
People wanting an up-to-date new house in Sweden are lucky if they can get 2 bedrooms for a family unit. [More…]
If I were a worker receiving an average wage I would be very chary indeed about spending my last cent on things needed by me or my family, or on Christmas gifts. [More…]
Some men do not attend on the dale set down for their call-up because, for example, of illness, family death or other unavoidable cause’s; in these cases arrangements are made for their enlistment at a later date. [More…]
We do not believe that a person should be deprived of the opportunity of benefiting from the education which these colleges provide because he does not have enough money to attend a college, or his parents or his family have not enough to send him to a college. [More…]
We do not believe that Australia should be deprived of the contribution that this person would be capable of making as a result of that education because, of the poverty of his family, his parents or himself. [More…]
I think this is what he would expect for the world which he hopes to pass on to his family and to his descendants. [More…]
Later I asked for a breakdown of the amount expected to be spent this financial year on Australian productions in the categories of current affairs, news, Australian drama, Australian professional variety and Australian family viewing programmes, and how much it was estimated would bc spent on the purchase from abroad of programmes for both radio and television within the same categories. [More…]
On my representation the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) and his officers exercised their discretion to allow Mr Anthony to leave the country for 5 days and lo return and rejoin his family. [More…]
A few weeks ago some of the members of the Opposition were lauding the statements of an alleged learned professor who had been brought to Australia from the United States of America to tell us we must join the zero population growth movement; that we should not be filth sinners and have more than 2 children to * family. [More…]
They went back to England and their family was reared in England. [More…]
Now her 3 sons have decided that the whole family should come to Australia and settle in this new world with all its new opportunities. [More…]
We have rejected that family - the whole lot of them. [More…]
He decided that he would come to Australia and join other members of his family who had already migrated and who had settled in Geelong. [More…]
In recent weeks Press publicity was given to a family which migrated from England. [More…]
I cannot recall the name of the family. [More…]
One member of the family was granted an assisted passage, but the rest of the family were not. [More…]
The white member of the family was granted an assisted passage. [More…]
When investigating Mr Hanley Woodbridge’s case in Geelong in order to find some kind of precedent or some kind of - method by which I could convince the Minister that this family was entitled to further consideration I obtained information about a gentleman working at the ‘ Ford Motor Company. [More…]
At the moment he is endeavouring to buy a home, rear his family and pay back a substantial debt still owing in the West Indies. [More…]
That is the money that he had to borrow to bring his family to this country. [More…]
His family is here. [More…]
The whole family should receive the assistance that it is seeking because it will be a very fine family of Australians. [More…]
I shall refer briefly to the reply which the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) gave in relation to the case I brought before him of a mixed marriage family seeking to obtain an assisted passage. [More…]
This man was forced into heavy debt,for the reasons I outlined before, in order to get here to join his family. [More…]
Then we see cases such as one 1 saw reported in the Press - 1 cannot confirm this because it was a Press report - in which one partner of the marriage, a European, received an assisted passage but not the rest of the family. [More…]
I have been making a plea for the family of a European British subject who married a coloured person. [More…]
That was a ridiculous, unfair and unmitigated attack on me personally because I am appealing to the humane attitude of the Government on behalf of a particular family that the Government itself has already admitted but to which it has refused assistance. [More…]
If the Minister were in charge of the matter, he would quite obviously admit no parties to mixed marriages because of this terrible fear of murder and rape and all the type of jazz which he has just tried to imply would follow if I were able to get a few bob for a mixed family that is coming into this country or is already here. [More…]
It is absolutely disgraceful for the Minister to imply that I was doing anything other than attempting to get some assistance for a family of mixed marriage. [More…]
For family reasons, he had to leave this country. [More…]
The case which Senator Poyser raised concerned one member of a family who, because his birth did not take place in a European country, could not receive assistance to come to Australia where other members of his family were living. [More…]
This man had lived in Great Britain for 25 years but because he was born in Colombo - having had no control over where he was born - he could not receive assistance and is now S900 worse off because he has brought his family here without Government assistance. [More…]
The second case to which I refer is another one referred to by Senator Cavanagh, in this instance involving the Joseph family whose relatives in Adelaide had come to Australia on assisted passages. [More…]
1 do not think that I would like to sell my home and take my wife and family to live in another part of the world. [More…]
If the desire of a family is to bring into Australia a relative, the assistance to be afforded to the intending migrant will nol be determined on the colour of the skin of that individual. [More…]
I ask: Is it not a fact that the local general practitioner is the sole person wholly in possession of the total medical history of the patient and of the patient’s family? [More…]
Yes it is true - I think ail of us would recognise this - that the family doctor, the general practitioner, usually is in possession of case histories which contain basic information concerning the medical condition of his patients. [More…]
This is part of the normal procedure of general practice and of the family doctor. [More…]
Despite this the report in ‘The Herald’ referred to Mr Stanley’s claim (bat he and his family would never have left England if they had known their fate in Melbourne’. [More…]
Mr Stanley and his family arrived in Melbourne on 1st May, 1971 and the Postmaster-General’s Department has informed the Department of Immigration that they cannot locate any record of Mr Stanley, having called to apply for work in the Post Office. [More…]
From his reference to News Release 48/71 by the Minister for Immigration I assume that the honourable senator is referring to Mr Silva.Mendoza and his family. [More…]
A family needs allowance is payable to a married local employee whose basic salary is less than the prescribed minimum pay applicable to the locality at which he is stationed. [More…]
a scale according to the size of the employee’s family and the costs of a regimen of minimum living needs. [More…]
For example a local employee with a wife and two children stationed in Port Moresby is paid family needs allowance to raise his basic salary to $16.48 a week. [More…]
That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs the following matter - The law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters, with particular regard to oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [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…]
The problems will not easily be overcome, for they require the improvement of living conditions and Ihe extension of medical and health knowledge and understanding amongst Aboriginal parents, including increased voluntary use of family planning techniques. [More…]
Will the Minister for Health confer with his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, to consider the desirability of establishing a faculty of general practice or family medicine in all medical schools with the aim of uplifting the standing of this form of medical practice and of halting the serious drift away from it? [More…]
Referring first to Sydney, in Blacktown, which 1 understand is a working class suburb catering for people up to an artisan class and where the development of normal family homes is continuing, the price of land in 1969 was $3,300 a block whereas in 1971 it is $6,500 a block. [More…]
As an example, one case of which I am personally aware and on which I have made representations concerns an Air Force officer who, in order to obtain a home for his family, was forced’ to resign from the Air Force so that he could commute part of his Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund entitlement and thus have a deposit for the home. [More…]
This was the only way in which he could supply a home for his family after, I think, 12 years of service in the RAAF. [More…]
Our amendment will extend eligibility for loans from the War Service Homes Division to allow a member of the permanent forces to construct a home for his family and to live in it, and not be forced to resign as happened in the case of the RAAF officer to whom I have referred. [More…]
They have suggested that the War Service Land Settlement Act be amended to permit lessees to introduce members of their family as partners in the equity of the holding - sharing the responsibility that would apply in a normal perpetual lease - and that the partners or the dependants of the original war service lessee should have the opportunity of enjoying the same opportunities as would apply to the original lessee. [More…]
The collective efforts of a father and his sons should ensure that the asset belongs to the family in due course. [More…]
Some compensation has to be given for the work which is put in on war service land settlement holdings by members of a family. [More…]
Therefore the Government believes that it should not open it up to members of his family. [More…]
I have reared a family. [More…]
The expert evidence given to the Senate Select Committee indicated that the history of every drug dependent person or every incurable drug addict can be traced back to a family disturbance or a family trauma in his early childhood. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death of the Honourable Benjamin Courtice, a former senator for the State of Queensland and a former Minister of the Crown, places on record its appreciation of his long and .meritorious public service, and tenders its sincere’ sympathy to the members of his family in their bereavement. [More…]
He leaves behind, him a family who may remain proud of the fact that he served with such distinction and that he goes down in the pages of history as one who was well loved and respected for his efforts on behalf of his Party, ‘ on behalf of his colleagues and on behalf of the people of Australia. [More…]
On behalf of my Country Party colleagues I join with the previous speakers in extending to the family of the late Senator Courtice our deepest sympathy on his passing. [More…]
Senator Courtice was a member of a very old and highly respected family in southern Queensland. [More…]
He was a man of great integrity, as were those of his family in his generation. [More…]
All the members of the family that he reared - they are fairly well scattered now throughout the southern part of Queensland - are very highly respected. [More…]
I join with previous speakers in extending to his family the very sincere sympathy of the Queensland representatives of the Australian Labor Party in this chamber. [More…]
I would like to offer my sincere sympathy to the members of his family - his son, Mr H. B, Courtice, his 3 daughters, Mrs W. D. Clay, Mrs T. Thiele and Mrs [More…]
He embellished a family record that was already one of great’ worth, for the Courtice family has produced in its time very many distinguished men. [More…]
Senator Courtice, in his time and his way, added lustre to the record of that family. [More…]
I had the deep and abiding pleasure of enjoying the friendship of not only the late Senator Courtice but also his wife and family. [More…]
I pass on to those of his family who survive him my very warm regards, and my deep personal sympathy at a loss which is deep for them but only slightly less deep for his friends, who recall him with admiration and respect. [More…]
Are Mr Hayden’s claims accurate that a family man in Victoria earning $10,000 a year pays only 60c weekly after claiming his tax deduction for medical and private ward hospital insurance, while a family man earning $3,000 a year has to make a net payment after tax deduction of $1.05 weekly for medical and public ward insurance? [More…]
Will the Minister confirm or deny reports that the existing rates of marginal taxation relief on health insurance funds mean that the effective cost of subscribing to the present top scale hospital and medical benefits table at family rates, which amounts to nearly $120 a year, is only slightly more than $90 for the person earning $3,000 a year and, by contrast to show the total injustice, only about $52 for the person earning $12,000 a year? [More…]
A pensioner or a low income family cannot afford insurance against storm and tempest or against rain water damage. [More…]
The matters referred to it which are still unresolved and which are still for consideration are: The elimination of discrimination against Aborigines (including Torres Strait Islanders) by or under Commonwealth and State laws, which is a reference from 7th October 1971; and the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters, which is a reference from 7th December 1971. [More…]
When we consider that one of them is the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters, I should imagine that we could scarcely find an issue which is in greater need of attention, examination and remedial measures, or which is larger and more comprehensive than that. [More…]
Upon his death she returned with her family to Australia. [More…]
Whether or not there was someone whom the Commonwealth police were after and whether or not that person was on the run, even if there was an anonymous telephone call, the police should not have entered the home on that day which was sacred to the family. [More…]
The assault may well have occurred in the family home. [More…]
The increase is particularly striking where children are concerned, and this illustrates our special concern for the family unit. [More…]
How would they like to be confronted next week with a wage packet of $35.50 and have to meet all the commitments which, by and large, other people in the community have to meet - those who have family commitments, those who are making their way as newly weds, or those who are not married but who are hoping and intending lo wed and who are trying to put aside the wherewithal to reach that stage? [More…]
One still has to feed oneself and one’s family and clothe them. [More…]
If he is genuinely concerned about the worker and his inadequate income, why does Senator Brown add to the difficulties of these people, particularly the family man, by causing strikes and throwing these people out of work for weeks and weeks on end? [More…]
More particularly are we concerned for the family man who has a wife and 4 or 5 children to support. [More…]
At the end of motion add: ‘, but the Senate is of the opinion that the child’s allowance payable in respect of dependent children under sixteen years of unemployed persons should, where there are three or more children, be substantially increased; that the payment for a dependent spouse should also be increased; and that a special allowance for student children sixteen years and under twenty-one years should be introduced so as to reduce the inevitable pressure on such children to forsake or interrupt their studies by seeking employment in order to assist the family’. [More…]
At end of motion add - but the Senate is of the opinion that the child’s allowance payable in respect of dependent children under 16 years of unemployed persons should, where there are 3 or more children, bs substantially increased; that the payment for a dependent spouse should also be increased; and that a special allowance for student children 16 years and under 21 years should be introduced so as to reduce the inevitable pressure on such children to forsake or interrupt their studies by seeking employment in order to assist the family’. [More…]
Family reunion and other humanitarian claims are given priority. [More…]
In May 1968 the World Health Organisation recognised the importance of family planning to some member nations and in the wider context of general health, lt carried a resolution on the subject, as the honourable senator has pointed out. [More…]
It is also true that the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian body, at its 72nd session in May J971 re-affirmed its recommendation of the 68lh session that family planning facilities should be made readily available. [More…]
That represents about one family in four. [More…]
There has been a continuing high turnover of staff, because of both expanding opportunities for social workers in the government and voluntary bodies, and family responsibilities of female social workers. [More…]
But let me pass on to the effects upon the family. [More…]
Figures have been taken out which indicate that the cost of the increased fares to a family with 3 children going to school at the present time will be in the vicinity of $1.50 a week. [More…]
Under the proposed new tariff the cost to a family with 3 children attending school will bc $63 and for a family of 6 - there are a number of families like this in the Australian Capital Territory - it will be approximately $126 per year. [More…]
Applications for relief on the basis of the economic circumstances of the family have to be made and processed. [More…]
When that is related to the high cost in the Australian Capital Territory - at least in some areas - as has been proved quite conclusively, particularly in respect of the cost of homes, it is conceivable 1 hat there could be conditions of very severe hardship in a family, yet that family would not come within the $52.50 provision which would mean that it would qualify for a remission of the cost of these bus fares. [More…]
Surely it would be completely unacceptable to an enlightened community if it were to bc suggested that, because a family, through economic circumstances, was not able to provide the funds to enable a child to get to school, that child was to be denied for the rest of his life something which otherwise he might have had. [More…]
The financial and family circumstances of an applicant under the regulation were considered by that section. [More…]
Would it not be consistent and in the interest of the family man that the deduction should be about $750 per annum? [More…]
In view of the nation wide concern over Mr Snedden’s revelation that new forms of taxation are under consideration, can the Government give a firm assurance that any re-arrangement of the taxation schedules will not result in increased taxes, either directly or indirectly, for family men with working wives? [More…]
I am delighted that 1 am able to say that Australia on all measurements of the living standards of the average working family leads the rest of the industrial world. [More…]
I think the whole world is indebted to that dominion for the introduction of the principle of testators family maintenance and many other legal principles. [More…]
Also, in probate or testator’s family maintenance litigation in which the competency of the testator is involved it can be highly critical. [More…]
I understand that about 70 per cent of all murders are committed in the family circle. [More…]
On behalf of all honourable senators I express condolence to the widow, family and relatives of the late Roy Kendall. [More…]
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate in extending our condolences to the widow and family of the late Senator Kendall. [More…]
I would like to associate myself with the expressions of condolence to the wife and family of the late ex-Senator Roy Kendall. [More…]
I wish to convey to his widow and to his family my personal sympathy in the loss of a very fine citizen. [More…]
The answer I received - honourable senators can probably anticipate what it was - was that it is not possible to get a young executive of ability and drive, the sort of man who ought to be in the Government of this country, to stand for parliament because the salary is such that he would not be able to afford to live and to educate a family on what he would receive as a member of parliament. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Health: Is it a fact that a dependent student above 16 years of age in receipt of a Commonwealth Teachers Training Scholarship of approximately $16 a week is not covered by his parents’ health insurance at the family rate, nor is he covered by the subsidised health insurance scheme? [More…]
We must make sure that every family in this country, black or white, has a decent home in which to live. [More…]
We must make sure that every person in this country, black or white, has a job and a standard of wage that will keep that person and that person’s family in comfort. [More…]
Free family planning facilities for those who have large families and cannot decently care for them. [More…]
In those who cannot be bothered with pills and other conscious family limitation, it is cheap, sure, safe and (if desired) permanent. [More…]
That they call on the Government to raise the standards and conditions of service in the Armed Forces to a professional status with guaranteed security for the serviceman and his family during and after his service. [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to relieving the student or his parents of some of the cost, especially where there are two or more members of a family attending a University. [More…]
One of these is the number of dependent student children in the family. [More…]
A deduction of $300 is made from the gross family income for each dependent child under 16 years of age and for each dependent child (other than the award holder) under the age of 21 who was in full-time education at 30 June of the previous year. [More…]
In addition, substantial concessions to the means test apply where 2 or more members of a family are attending university, advanced education or technical courses as full-time students. [More…]
Taken together these provisions can result in payment of higher benefits to a scholarship bolder where other members of the family are also full-time students in approved courses. [More…]
For example if the gross income of a family whose only child at university is the award holder is $6,000, the living allowance paid at home rates to the award holder is $120 p.a. [More…]
However, if a family whose gross income is $6,000 have three children at university, one of whom holds a Commonwealth scholarship and the other two hold no awards, then the living allowance paid to the award holder is $546 p.a. [More…]
Two adult classes at the Dorcas Street Primary School, South Melbourne and three classes at the Prahran Primary School as well as two family group classes at the Prahran Town Hall were closed towards the end of 1971, as the result in each case of attendance falling and remaining below an acceptable level. [More…]
At the family group classes at the Prahran Town Hall (where bi-lingual teachers were employed) enrolment had fallen to 7 adults and 6 children. [More…]
There is also a family group class for adults and children at the Richmond technical College. [More…]
Alternatively I can be driven down by my wife or another member of my family and on my re ruin from Canberra, often late at night, 1 will need to have a car waiting for me at Gawler as there is no other means cf conveyance back to my home town. [More…]
A prisoner may be granted leave for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]
This shocking state of affairs is compounded because the Minister for Conservation, Marine and Aboriginal Affairs in Queensland also comes from a grazing family in a grazing area. [More…]
I would like to see him and/or his family produce similar wage sheets to see whether their black employees have always got the correct wages. [More…]
Senator Cant has said that it is permissible and has quoted the words ‘where it is for the prisoner’s welfare or the welfare of his family’. [More…]
General, who represents the Minister for Social Services in this chamber, ask the Minister for Social Services to examine the possibility of altering the legislation applying to unemployment benefit so that when a person is out of work he can claim the benefit, irrespective of the income of others in his family? [More…]
A prisoner may be granted leave for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]
Regulation 280 does not refer to prisoners obtaining leave for the welfare of themselves or their family units. [More…]
to be in attendance on his family - [More…]
on occasions of family illness or family bereavement; or [More…]
for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]
283 which, again I emphasise, provides only that, a prisoner may be granted leave of absence to be in attendance on his family, amongst other things, for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]
There is no provision which in the terms quoted by Senator Cant says that a prisoner may be granted leave for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]
Under regulations made in 1970, leave of absence may be granted by the Chief Secretary for specific purposes, and those purposes include employment, family bereavement, hospital treatment and attendance on the family for certain welfare purposes. [More…]
I wish on behalf of all senators to offer condolences and sympathy to his family in his sad passing. [More…]
I always had the feeling that he was a man who was devoted to his family. [More…]
Again, I think this would be consistent because just as he was very much attached to the Australian Labor Party and all those things in which he was interested, I am sure he would also be deeply attached to his family. [More…]
In fact, the members of the Lamp family were family friends. [More…]
This has thrown an extra strain on the family unit, particularly on larger families. [More…]
I could not even say how many cattle have come off our family property in the last 3 years. [More…]
If the Government is sincere about keeping Australian control of our land resources, will it take urgent action against the proposed sale of over 1,200 square miles of the Northern Territory by Gunn Development Pty Ltd, the family company of Sir William Gunn? [More…]
I think it is quite clear that a need exists in this country for a review of the whole of our law relating to divorce, family law and custody of children. [More…]
Finally, will the Government in its education programme consider producing television advertisements advocating that young people should not smoke and time slot such advertisements at children and family viewing times, at the same time thereby supporting Australian programme productions for children and family viewers? [More…]
I ask Senator McManus whether he has applied to the Packer family to go on its show in order to put his case? [More…]
I am sure he is good to his immediate family. [More…]
A member of my family had an unhappy experience of this. [More…]
On a particular day, after having almost despaired of being able to bring his car and his family to Tasmania, and after having made an alternative decision to go to Queensland or somewhere else, on the one day 2 of the agencies through which he had been making inquiries said: ‘Bring in your deposit and we will get you on’. [More…]
1 point out that the public company of the Killen family, the Northern Australian Development Corporation, was floated with financial support from some of the biggest institutions in Australia. [More…]
An approach was made to the Sunnyside Rest Home in Hobart to have this man admitted, but admission would cost to the family $28 a week, and he would not qualify for repatriation assistance while he was in that home. [More…]
He referred to the avenues which were available to this man and to the family, namely, an appeal to a board, a tribunal or a commission. [More…]
The family is in dire circumstances. [More…]
We are building a house alongside him in north Queensland for an Aboriginal family, and he is now racing around trying to sell his own home. [More…]
What hypocrisy appears now if this honourable senator, who has been championing the cause of Aborigines, is trying to sell ‘lis house because Mr Hodges is deliberately placing an Aboriginal family next door. [More…]
They have noted the distress caused to individuals when, on the death of the breadwinner in the family, the survivors must live in an agitated situation not only because of the death of the breadwinner but also because of the very grave strictures of the Commonwealth and State governments on the assets of the estate. [More…]
I could quote a dozen cases, as undoubtedly Senator Negus could, in which families who have lived on a farm for years have found that when the head of the family has died the demands of both Federal and State estate duty have made it essential to sell part of the property. [More…]
In turn, the company can pay ready cash to Mr Weeks to distribute amongst his family or in whichever way he wishes. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall from their reading of the report that domiciliary nurses, or people who are engaged in domiciliary nursing, form part of what we call the community health team in which the general practitioner provides the essential continuity to the health care for each individual and family whilst domiciliary nurses operating from either a hospital or a community based service ensure that specialised nursing is available in the home when necessary. [More…]
More importantly - this reflects something 1 have said once or twice today - the family concerned can be counselled or helped as to the best way in which it can take advantage of other services provided, perhaps by hospitals, local councils or voluntary agencies. [More…]
It is conceded that family groups - ‘wuntoks’ as they are known - have the right to live on and have whatever may be the property of their own families or tribal groups. [More…]
What we have to understand as an Australian community is that most of these problems arise because of the isolation of the individual from a family or, if I may use the phrase, a tribal group, so that in adversity he is incapable of banding together with others and solving his problems. [More…]
It is a problem of a shattered tribal situation, of a shattered family situation, of a people who have no traditions, nothing to fall back on and nothing to belong to. [More…]
He realises that he is going too far and that his over-indulgence is breaking up his family or impairing his health. [More…]
It is widely claimed that a Mr Kevin Kent is the Godfather, that a Mr Joe Cerutti is the Don and that another member of the family is Mr Stan Sheldon. [More…]
If the accusations being made about these Mafia type people are false - as I have said, one is the Don, another is the Godfather and another is a member of the family; they are 3 prominent citizens in Brisbane - I think the public of Queensland should be told, and the person to accept this responsibility is the Minister in charge of racing in Queensland. [More…]
As to the other part of the honourable senator’s question, I am not sure that I am the best person to approach the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs which has, as one of the many matters charged to it, the review of the whole question of divorce, family law and custody in this country. [More…]
I have had a long association with the Townley family. [More…]
I remember that in the early days of the Australian Labor Party, leaders of that Party - men in prominent positions - advocated the prohibition not merely of alcohol but also of tobacco on the ground that the worker was wasting on them money which ought to have been spent on his wife and family. [More…]
A rather remarkable factor that we found in our considerations of the Australian evidence - it was pointed out fairly strongly to us - was that a considerable number of young students who indulged in drug taking found, when they reached what we might refer to as a more responsible age, in the twenties, and perhaps because of intentions to marry or because of family responsibilities, were able in most cases to give up the drug taking without, as far as they could see, any serious effects. [More…]
Although the study showed that 62 per cent of those surveyed took it for headaches or joint pain, 31 per cent took it for such reasons as nerves, tension, ‘out of habit’ or ‘to cope with the family’. [More…]
Labour costs for the farmer and his family were calculated on the Rural Award of 1947 and a 25/- per week extra calculated as managerial allowance for the farmer. [More…]
I well remember a great friend of our family indicating that he rode through the depression purely on the sale of cream which, in those days, represented about 10s a week for the whole of his family. [More…]
He was able to see that his family lived healthfully. [More…]
If I may use the term in the totality of the family circle of the Senate, in some sense I have sometimes been the fall guy in respect of matters that I put forward. [More…]
An investigation by an officer of the Queensland Department shows that a family of nine persons live permanently in the house. [More…]
Itinerant visitors would not exceed five persons at any one time, all living away from home and being members of the family. [More…]
The dwelling ls four miles from the Edmonton Post Office, and is considered inadequate for the family. [More…]
It would not know the psychological effect of these things on the worker and his family. [More…]
He said, ‘Certainly I am not saying that the new unemployment rates are- adequate for a family to live on. [More…]
They are obviously an improvement on the old rates, but at least another $10 a week is needed to support a family in reasonable comfort. [More…]
I would have thought that a man who was trying to raise a family on $40 or $50 a week was making a sacrifice to curb inflation. [More…]
I believe it is much more desirable to exercise restraint on those who are in receipt of a salary of $11,850 than on the working man who is struggling to bring up a family on a much lower wage, or on our pensioners whom we cannot keep in a state of livelihood above the poverty line. [More…]
They have expenses for the provision of a house if they live for the purpose only of sustaining life, supporting a family and educating children, but probably the people affected by this clause live in much more luxurious accommodation than the others. [More…]
As well as being a much loved member of the Royal family, the Duke of Windsor was a significant person in our national history as the central figure in the abdication in 1936. [More…]
On behalf of your people throughout the Commonwealth of Australia we express deep sympathy to Your Majesty and to the members of the Royal Family in the loss which you have sustained. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, I join in the expressions of sympathy to the Duchess of Windsor, who survives the Duke, and the members of the Royal Family. [More…]
the concession is only $312 per annum; if so, (a) would it not be consistent and in the interest of family men that the allowance should be about $750 per annum, (b) is it becauseof such obvious anomalies that the Government has ordered the present inquiry into the taxation system, and (c) will the Treasurer assure the public that such anomalies will be removed following this inquiry. [More…]
When be asked for specific examples, the name and address of the family living in the dwelling cited by the honourable senator was given. [More…]
In reality it denigrates the family unit, the church, our moral codes, our schooling system, law and order and government It belittles what is necessary for an orderly society and what is good and wholesome in it. [More…]
The 42-year-old principal of Kailis Gulf Fisheries is a second-generation West Australian and a member of the State’s leading fishing family. [More…]
Some of Mr Kailis’ sternest critics are among his own family. [More…]
I have known members of the Kailis family for many years. [More…]
Due to your statement, my name has been slandered from one side of Australia to the other and has caused myself and my family a considerable amount of embarrassment. [More…]
My family has been associated with Broken Hill since that time. [More…]
Mr Justice Jenkyn listened to cases in the new Family Division of the High Court of Justice and he discussed the operation of the new Act with the President of the Family Division and his brother judges and also the Registrar of the Court. [More…]
But now with this Institute which is being created, a unit such as that at Mourilyan Harbour and interested private organisations will have an intellectual academic home at the James Cook University to which they can resort as one family investigating these important matters. [More…]
The Government’s policies in regard to the wool-growing industry are aimed at the industry as a whole although the interests of the family farmer have been kept well in mind in their formulation. [More…]
We salute his memory and we extend our deepest sympathy to his family. [More…]
lt is a sad privilege that is mine today, speaking on behalf of the Australian Democratic Labor Party to identify the members of our Party with the motion of condolence extended by the Senate to the family of the late Sir Owen Dixon. [More…]
The circular went on to explain that many new hotels and motels which provide twin and family suites have been opened in Canberra in the last 5 years. [More…]
Is it a fact that a dependent student above 16 years of age, in receipt of a Commonwealth Teachers Training Scholarship of about 16 dollars per week, is not covered by his parents health Insurance at the family rate nor is he covered by the Subsidised Health Insurance Scheme; if so, (a) does this mean that this person has to fully cover himself out of the Commonwealth Scholarship Allowance, and (b) does the Minister propose any action to overcome this situation. [More…]
Although the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan is not specifically designed to provide direct assistance to dependent students, such a student could be covered if he were a member of a low income family which has qualified for the benefits. [More…]
a certificate from a Greek Consul in Australia giving full details of the family and stating that the person concerned arrived in Australia legally; (it) a certificate from the Australian authorities in Greece showing that the person concerned is an Australian citizen and remains as such whilst in Greece; [More…]
Is it true that an unmarried full-time student between the ages of 21 and 25, who is not earning a taxable income and whose parent or parents receive a pension, must pay full medical benefits contributions to be completely covered; whereas students of parents earning a normal income are fully covered by their parents contribution until they reach their 25th birthday; if so, (a) why is it that students in the circumstances described in the first instance, are offered no assistance by the subsidised Health Benefits Plan because they do not constitute a family unit, and (b) will the Minister act with some degree of urgency to extend the age limit from 21 to 25 for the students allowance of pensioner parents in order to eliminate this gross injustice. [More…]
The conditions of membership of health insurance organisations provide that a contribution at the family rate covers for benefits student dependants up to 25 years of age. [More…]
Gunn Development Pty Ltd, the family company of Sir William Gunn. [More…]
Man had a reason to stick together as a family man, had a reason to combine his income, and had a reason to study because he wanted a full tummy; a healthy body, a clothed body and. [More…]
The questions are becoming more learned and more on the ball, and people are more interested to know how they can learn means of helping in their family life, personal life or social life when drug problems are met. [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…]
When I recall the 1930s - a period which has memorised for me personally and for my family - and compare it with today, it seems to me that nobody is giving any consideration at all to the very difficult problems which world events have forced upon nations such as ours in the last 2 years. [More…]
Knowing the ropes a bit (unlike the average hapless family Holden man) I telephoned Mr Kevin Cox, GMH public relations officer at Fishermen’s Bend, and put the screws on. [More…]
As the range of subjects recently considered includes part time employment for women, family taxation systems and allowable deductions, and child care, I would appreciate any information which can be supplied from this Committee. [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 our history. [More…]
Rent and land, for instance - 2 major costs to the Treasurer’s ‘typical suburban family man’ - will continue to rise unchecked. [More…]
The Government cry of ‘taxes down, pensions up, and particular help to the family man’ is deliberate political deceit and economic dishonesty. [More…]
In the process, we can afford to encourage, to aid and to reward the thrifty and the provident and to look after the family people who have made this country what it has become. [More…]
Secondly, the family man was becoming affected to a greater degree. [More…]
Another very important consideration is the degree to which family taxation concessions have fallen as a percentage of average income. [More…]
In 1960-61 when the average weekly earnings were $46, family concessional deductions, based on a man, wife and 2 children, totalled $598. [More…]
The most prominent light in this Budget is the benefits which must flow, as a direct result from proposed Budget measures, to the working man and to his family, to those who rely on the community for financial assistance to gain regular income and, to a minor extent, to the business community. [More…]
I would hope that the committee of inquiry into poverty or social distress would be one which would be sensitive enough to show us ways of escaping from the self-perpetuating cycle of poverty which does seem to be limited to some family groups. [More…]
This home care service also is a supplementary assistance designed to help those people to remain in their own homes and in their own family circles as long as that is practicable. [More…]
My family is to sail from Tasmania tonight on the ‘Empress of Australia’. [More…]
Tasmania is the poorer sister of the family. [More…]
At about the age of 12 her family moved to Brisbane and became fringe-dwellers at Acacia Ridge, just outside Brisbane. [More…]
Eventually she returned to Brisbane where she was rejected by her family. [More…]
Estate duty is an area of taxation which I feel is not conductive to the general well being either of the community or the nation at large because of the inherent disincentive implied in taking from the family organisation the rewards of effort over many years during which taxation has been paid year after year by the person or family. [More…]
This is the second time in recent months that the Senate has been asked to express ils condolence to Her Majesty the Queen following the death of a member of the Royal Family. [More…]
Sir, 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 (he Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and to other members of the Royal Family, in the loss which you have sustained’. [More…]
In particular, the single income family, the typical suburban family man is being hard hit. [More…]
The Treasurer seeks to tell us in his document that we are entitled to judge matters based on a family of husband, wife and 2 children. [More…]
This means that the average family, according to this Budget, will pay 4 times $38, which is $152 more in national revenue during 1972-73. [More…]
In his documents he has stressed that the Government recognises that the family man is heavily taxed; he is carrying too big a burden; the family man needs to obtain relief. [More…]
The man on a low wage with a big family does not pay very much tax and will pay very little subsidy but the rich man will pay a lot more because he pays more tax and the money for the subsidy comes out of the tax poo). [More…]
I would think that he was one of those people who had never seen the day when he did not have sufficient money to buy himself or members of his family a meal. [More…]
There is an event that may take place early in October in the McMahon family. [More…]
The ACTING PRESIDENT- If that is the case, I would ask Senator Poke to confine his remarks to the political side and not to any family matter. [More…]
I do not think it is right to be talking about anything relating to a person’s family in that way. [More…]
Probably he knows more than anybody else I could nominate about having to struggle through on a small pension with a large family. [More…]
What action is being taken by the Commonwealth Department of Health to ensure that pensioners, repatriation patients and people who are members of family health insurance schemes are not being penalised by this selfish attitude on the part of such medical practitioners? [More…]
A lot has been said about the need to help the family man. [More…]
The only effective way in which to help the family man is through child endowment. [More…]
Why are we so slow to recognise the worth of the family man to society? [More…]
1 find it curious that a Budget which professes to help the family - in fact it takes important steps to do so - should in another instance discriminate against the family. [More…]
It has always been unfair that primary producers, because they are running a family business rather than a company, have to pay off their property during their lifetime and, when they have paid it off, all too often the Commonwealth and State estate duties take a large proportion of these hard earned productive assets. [More…]
Lastly, its emphasis is placed on the family man and it seeks to alleviate his more pressing economic problems. [More…]
The DLP hopes that this emphasis will continue in following Budgets because in our view the family man is the basis of a sound and healthy Australia. [More…]
All too often - perhaps far too often - they get themselves into great difficulties through no fault of their own - through a death in the family, illness, accident, or unemployment caused by retrenchment and automation. [More…]
1 believe that the Government in the United States has done that because lt feels that if a man gives people money during his lifetime, especially to members of his family, they use that money to create employment, perhaps for a deposit on a home or some such purpose. [More…]
lt is shocking to think that I receive letters from members of the rural community who have had death taxes imposed on them because of a death in a family and then the family is offered financial support by way of the rural reconstruction plan. [More…]
We take money from a family with one hand and give it back with the other. [More…]
Amongst the innovations in this Budget are 2 proposals which are particularly related to breadwinners in the family. [More…]
Such distances have heightened feelings of loneliness and separation - feelings which can be more acute, particularly for wives and mothers, when ignorance of the English language prevents communication with neighbours, school teachers, shop assistants and others with whom discussions often could result in more efficient and happier family life. [More…]
No amount of money or beds can replace the need of aged people to be loved and wanted within the family circle. [More…]
The provision of $14 a week to families which maintain their senior members in the home is indeed praiseworthy and should provide added incentive to family responsibility. [More…]
Previously where one family had been raking in income and little country towns were unknown, as a result of the soldier settlement scheme under the Cain Labor Government of the time in Victoria, those properties were cut up and many, many families were placed on them to develop these areas. [More…]
These young people can marry with consent and when married they must accept all the responsibilities and duties of raising a family. [More…]
I say this because problems are very often unique to one family, they are not shared by every family. [More…]
It may be that the Association will not deem it necessary to put a particular situation but one family might wish to present on its own behalf a submission on that aspect. [More…]
A family may not be able to afford a governess. [More…]
This part of the family returns to the family home for the weekend and is there for the remaining 3 nights of the week. [More…]
A family which has several school age children has to pay prohibitive costs just to send the children to a hostel for a period - perhaps it is only for a period of their secondary education. [More…]
As explained in the Budget Speech, these increases in dependants allowances, together with the reductions in income tax proposed by the preceding Bill, are directed to easing the tax burdens of the family man and the single income family in particular. [More…]
Plenty of right wing people in the community, including White Russians and other groups, are not above coming to Labor parliamentarians if they think we can be a bridge across ideologies to reunite a family. [More…]
ls the Minister aware of the interest of some Australians in retaining the present national anthem for use only in the presence of the Queen, members of the Royal Family or representatives of the Queen? [More…]
For instance, we believe that large family, child endowment and maternity allowances should be greatly increased. [More…]
In the family culture of the nomads in the deserts infants were breast fed until they were 4 or 5 years of age. [More…]
So we have had the situation in which students, part time workers - particularly women who are working to supplement the family income - and young people have been paying tax on their wages which is out of all proportion to their ability to pay, which should be the basis of taxation. [More…]
At page 13 of the ‘Liberal Platform’ issued by the Federal Secretariat of the Liberal Party in November 1948 its policy had been amended to read that the adoption of a programme of progressive tax reduction was part of its platform, with special help for the family taxpayer, particularly with reference to allowances for dependent children, medical and like expenses, and education. [More…]
In particular, the single income family, the typical suburban family man, is being hit hard. [More…]
There are new facilities for intensive courses, full time courses and classes for special groups with particular emphasis being placed on migrant women with a view to caring for the family. [More…]
That story stated that the shocking bombing in Sydney may have been the result of a family fued and have nothing whatever to do with politics. [More…]
Generous provision by means of an effective social insurance scheme for superannuation, incapacity, sick pay, medical and the like expenses, unemployment, widowhood and family endowment. [More…]
Today a person who has coped with a large family or, indeed, is happy with a large family, is treated almost like an unwanted citizen. [More…]
She does nursing for 2 afternoon shifts a week in order to help supplement the family budget. [More…]
Her family is her life and when you talk to her about the permissive society today she laughs and asks: ‘What have I got to be sad about: this is the most wonderful thing that can happen to anybody’. [More…]
In present circumstances a family can be regarded as a burden, but that burden should be removed from this category by lifting the rates to a more realistic level when compared with costs and charges in the community. [More…]
has to bring up a young family. [More…]
I digress for a moment to point out to people who bleat about how much more can be done by the children of aged persons - I am indebted to Dr Klugman, a learned medico in the other place - that since 1955 family contributions to national health has virtually trebled. [More…]
The Treasurer said, secondly, that the family man, with all his other commitments, is finding that the income tax burden is looming ever larger as a problem and that in relation to his income on the question of fairness, the volume of taxation which he pays, should be re-evaluated. [More…]
The reason explained to my brother, and hence passed on to the family, was that a young man had attempted suicide and the officer concerned was busy. [More…]
A fully effective programme should both keep up with the growth rate in family formation, which is roughly estimated to be of the order of 1,200 new families a year, and overcome the very substantial backlog. [More…]
I estimate that for the first time the allocation for 1972-73, taken along with what the States are doing with funds from their own resources, should provide enough houses to keep pace with .the rate of family formation amongst those families wishing to occupy houses provided by governments. [More…]
In the light of experience we are moving increasingly towards smaller family-type hostels as being more attractive to Aboriginal students and workers. [More…]
It is based on what happened in my own time and in the time of my family. [More…]
I notice in the young people with whom I and my family associate much less ability to decide upon their final career until much later in life. [More…]
My family came from South Australia but we all left about the year 1901 so I do not think that we can be blamed for anything that has gone bad there. [More…]
He used to insist on this to his family at family meetings, Christmas dinners and every other other occasion. [More…]
Very often they make domestic establishments away from the family. [More…]
After all, if one takes into consideration not only the adults in a family but also their children, one could say that the Democratic Labor Party represents between one million and one and a quarter million people. [More…]
His family feels that he died because he was subjected to sorcery by this alleged leader of a religious organisation. [More…]
Let me cite the case of a Mr X and his family. [More…]
The breadwinner in this family, who is in regular employment, has produced no money for the keep of his family from the day that he joined the church. [More…]
family a special levy of up to 25 a week. [More…]
This man will tell the breadwinner of a family that if he cannot convert the rest of his family and make sure that they go to church, he must throw out his family. [More…]
Before I refer specifically to the other part of his question, I think that I should add that inherent in the forms of saving by the community in life assurance is the fact that taxation concessional allowances, which are most important for the family man, apply in respect of life assurance contributions. [More…]
Senator Keeffe has observed that because my family has some interest in the timber industry in Oberon I should not deal with the Bill. [More…]
I should like to make this brief comment: So far as what my family and I have done is concerned, we are rather proud of what we have done; we are proud of our achievements and of our contribution to decentralisation and development where we have been working. [More…]
However, I do not think that my family or my previous associates would draw much comfort from the observation. [More…]
When the estate is made available, the duty is paid and the assets cease to be frozen there is enough money to provide an adequate living for the widow and family in many cases. [More…]
However, Senator Lawrie as a result of information which has come to him in public hearings of the Committee has been able to give the Senate the benefit of certain inferences that can be drawn as to the effects of the incidence of this duty, the effects of individual cases of hardship which are involved, the general oppression implicit in the imposition of this duty, the economic consequences of it generally and the effect it has on rural industries and on rural settlement, on individual ‘lives, on domestic circumstances and on the breakup of justifiably accumulated family estates. [More…]
That becomes virtually the sole asset of the family and the sole asset which is passed on in succession. [More…]
The estate must be sold; the assets have to be distributed; a whole domestic family unit is disturbed. [More…]
This duty is a tragedy in cases where a breadwinner is suddenly taken away from his family. [More…]
Particularly is this so in the case of the widow with a young family who, virtually before she has been able to bury her breadwinner, is beset with the problem of finding finance to pay probate duty and, at the same time, to go ahead with earning revenue to feed and clothe her family. [More…]
I have said already that it is a tragedy to be involved with an estate and to see the trials and tribulations of a young widow with a young family who is trying to overcome the burden of probate duty after her breadwinner passes on. [More…]
One generation of a family after another has to pay probate duties and estate duties and each succeeding generation has to start off from scratch again, whereas they should be in the position of being able to expand, if not into land industries, then into the mining industries, and thus develop our resources. [More…]
I would have thought, especially with a Party such as ours which believes the family unit is the basis of society, that we would be doing the utmost to preserve the family unit and not to give charities greater priority than the family unit. [More…]
Socialists do not necessarily believe in the preservation of the family unit. [More…]
These are matters which have deep importance for the retention of society as we know it in Australia and of which we consider the family to be the most important unit. [More…]
For primary producer estates the cut-out points will be $240,000 when passing to members of the family and $120,000 when passing to nonmembers of the family. [More…]
It will encourage people to build up a nest egg for members of the family which can be passed on in due time to better the conditions under which they may be living. [More…]
In my opinion to tax that remaining little amount is completely anathema to the spirit of promoting thrift, to a sense of responsibility to one’s family, to encouraging the family unit and to the continuation of -individually owned assets in the community. [More…]
Nevertheless, I welcome the action of the Government in doubling the exemption amount, particularly in the case of family estates, it is a move in the right direction. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, of course, sees this only as a tax to deprive the family of a deceased person of its rightful assets - Labor Party members are always talking about redistribution of wealth - but we see this Bill as a means of protecting the assets of the family unit. [More…]
I recall that some years ago when I was in another place that I had to make representations on behalf of a family that was asked to pay an amount of $250,000 on a rural property estate in South Australia. [More…]
More recently since I came into the Senate a family in South Australia was faced with a bill of $175,000 with respect to an estate in a South Australian rural area. [More…]
This presented the family with the problem of having to sell a property in order to pay this amount. [More…]
The exemption for primary producers will now rise to $48,000 where the estate passes directly to family dependants and close relatives, and to $24,000 where it passes to people outside the family. [More…]
The good honest citizen is one who works for his family and in the process of working for his family he also works to give his family security. [More…]
That security should not be whittled away when the breadwinner or one of the senior partners of the family unit suddenly passes from this good world. [More…]
Yet, living in the same street can be someone who has gone through life without caring about saving - ‘thrift’ was the last word he ever used - and who has made no contribution whatever to his family’s security. [More…]
I say that it is far better for people to pay taxes while they are earning income and are able to pay them than to apply a penalty to their dependants after a senior member of the family has died. [More…]
But at certain times or in certain circumstances a death in a family can have very adverse effects on the dependants. [More…]
At the time of the death of one of the family the shares were valued very highly. [More…]
Still, the family had to pay death duties on the basis of the higher value. [More…]
I am very pleased about this because I think gifts are one way in which a person is able to help his family. [More…]
They should be given the opportunity to pass some of their wealth and hard earned savings to their family dependants. [More…]
I believe that people should be allowed to do this because, whether the savings be reasonably small or large, all of us place prime importance upon our family units and wish to ensure that we leave them secure. [More…]
That cattle station was settled by a family from Melbourne 10 years after Burke and Wills perished at the water hole on that station. [More…]
The family built up a complete pastoral enterprise in the centre of Australia. [More…]
That property was lost to the family because the father kept it in his own name despite the fact that he had a large family. [More…]
The burden of probate and estate duty lost the property to a pioneer family which had the fortitude and sheer guts to go up there, settle that country in about 1872 and make a home and a pastoral enterprise out of it. [More…]
In a lot of cases it has certainly not been in the family interest. [More…]
As I say, I would like to see the country built up by people expressing enterprise and by their family, if they want to do so, having the chance of carrying on that enterprise. [More…]
Those honourable senators opposite who have already spoken in the debate have portrayed themselves as being the modern father who want to organise his family according to orthodox lines and according to his own values and who finishes up finding that his family leaves him because he is not able to adapt himself to the needs of young people. [More…]
This evening I dined with a lass who is attending the Australian National University and her family. [More…]
The great majority do not accept the responsibilities of adulthood until they have decided to share their lives and to accept the ordinary processes of marriage and rearing a family. [More…]
If not, will the Minister take steps to investigate the matter with a view to restoration of family financial support? [More…]
At the same time, could the investigation cover the abnormal expenses incurred by deserted husbands or widowers who are in an identical situation of raising a family unassisted? [More…]
I will make one comment though: Speaking personally, I do not believe that the situation of the deserted husband is the same as that of the deserted wife where a family is involved, although they both have a tremendous problem. [More…]
The aim of the 1970 reliefs was to avoid the breaking up of economic family holdings through the incidence of estate duty. [More…]
In addition to increased exemptions from the duty the collection provisions of the law were amended - with application to all estates, not only those of primary producers - to provide most flexible arrangements for the deferment of the payment of duty so as to avoid wherever possible the need to dispose of farms or other family businesses to meet estate duty. [More…]
In the meantime, a very basic concept of the establishment of the Committee to investigate this question was to relieve the people of this country from the degree of hardship currently thrust upon them at one of the worst periods in the history of a family, at the time of the loss of a breadwinner. [More…]
If hardship is the basis on which we are to operate, let us accept the proposition that we look at these things on the basis of the hardship inflicted upon a family at this most distressing and difficult period in their lives. [More…]
There is a moral and legal responsibility on every Australian to see not only that he and his family live in comfort but also that every other member of the community lives in comfort. [More…]
One can show that serious hardship can result from national service to either the applicant or the family unit especially in a farming partnership. [More…]
Among other things it supports the application of taxation concessions to minimise the incidence of death duties so as to avoid the necessity for the forced sale of family property where the estate is left to the wife and children of the testator. [More…]
No mention of abolition, no mention of relieving hardship on the widow or the family of the testator where death duty is imposed without there being recourse to anything else; merely a mention of minimising the estate duty. [More…]
A third point to be considered is that this woman is a mother with a family. [More…]
While she is prepared to serve the gaol sentence, with all the hardship to her family and the like, we are supporting her cause of making a sacrifice in the manner of a heroine on this question. [More…]
He accused me in his speech of having come from a privileged family, of having a privileged position in life and of having had a privileged education. [More…]
I refer to the numerous previous questions relating to the matter of the introduction in Australia of family courts. [More…]
1 know that over a number of years questions have been raised about the desirability of family courts and that there have been seminars and discussions in which those interested in the project have been engaged. [More…]
Essentially, the introduction of family courts is a matter for the court structure of the various States, although I must qualify that by suggesting that it largely depends upon what a person envisages when he uses the expression ‘family courts’. [More…]
It is coincidental that Senator Rae should have asked this question because it is my intention to table later this week a paper which has been prepared by an officer of my Department on this whole question of family courts, with a view to providing information and stimulating public inquiry and discussion of the merits of family courts. [More…]
This officer undertook a fellowship in the United States of America where he made family courts his study. [More…]
This statement (that there would be no assurance that the money would be spent on education, it would probably go in “booze”) I feel is a personal insult to each family living in the outback.’ [More…]
I know his wife and I know his family. [More…]
The point is that this Australian, whose people owned the country before we took it from them, was thrown into gaol for 6 months because he dared to give his family a drink. [More…]
The provision of maximum relief for the taxpayer with family responsibilities. [More…]
to offset the dissolution of stud properties and family rural estates to meet probate duties; [More…]
to minimise the incidence of death duties so as to avoid the necessity for the forced sale of family property where the estate is left to the wife and children of the testator; [More…]
The level of gross income which would ensure that a family qualified for free medical and hospital treatment under the Australian Labor Party’s health proposals would depend on the amount of concessional deductions allowed. [More…]
Under the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan, a family earning $43.30 per week is already eligible for the full level of assistance and therefore pays no contribution. [More…]
In fact a family earning $51.50 a week ($2,678 a year) or less receives free insurance cover against medical costs and public ward hospital charges. [More…]
Under the Labor Party health proposals, low income earners supporting a family with one or more children would be automatically covered at public expense where their taxable income does not exceed $1,700 per year. [More…]
I table a paper on Family Courts in North America’ prepared by Mr G. J. F. Yuill, Senior Assistant Secretary (Family Law, Bankruptcy and Bills of Exchange), Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
The term ‘family courts’ is in common use these days as though it had a generally understood meaning. [More…]
However, the persons who use the term have widely differing ideas as to what constitutes a family court. [More…]
in indicating just what is in fact involved in some family courts that are actually functioning. [More…]
Mr Yuill’s paper has already been made available by my Department to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs to assist that Committee in its consideration of family law reform. [More…]
In view, however, of the considerable public interest in family courts that is currently being expressed in many quarters, I have concluded that the desirable course is to make the paper available to all interested persons. [More…]
He states, in paragraph 91, his belief that family courts would be a desirable improvement to Australia’s legal system, provided they have an ancillary function of counselling. [More…]
As the desirability and practicability of establishing family courts is a matter that is necessarily involved in the consideration the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs is giving to family law reform, it would be inappropriate for me at this stage to make any recommendation to the Government as to whether or not a family court or family courts should be established. [More…]
The nature of the tribunal that should deal with matrimonial and family matters is a subject that is engaging the Committee’s specific attention. [More…]
The reference related to the law and administration of divorce, family and custody matters, with particular regard to delays, indignities, oppressive costs and other injustices. [More…]
lt 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…]
Oh, by the way, would it be against the national interest if I was to raise, say, 6 hogs just for the family to eat? [More…]
A family was living together but the husband and wife were incompatible. [More…]
He left his wife and family of 3 children but agreed to pay regular maintenance. [More…]
But such action would conflict with the religious beliefs of this family. [More…]
In the hope of getting some assistance so that the members of the family could be fed, on 2nd October I wrote to the Minister, but they are still waiting for some assistance in helping them to exist. [More…]
One should remember that within Australia there are not so many families with different age groups of people within the family structure. [More…]
We have very much a family structure of parents and children rather than the other generations which are involved in some other countries of the world in close living conditions. [More…]
Assistance is provided at 3 levels under this Bill: There is assistance to the child who will be cared for in the centre, assistance to the family and assistance to the community. [More…]
I think that the children of mothers who are unable to care for them or of the single male parent who is occupied in earning income for the family will need to have Specialised care such as we envisage will be provided under this Bill. [More…]
I believe the Government’s approach shows that it places emphasis on the role of the family and the responsibility of the mother to the child. [More…]
It does not conform with the ideas which we have expressed in relation to the family. [More…]
As a father who has found no generation gap in his family because it was never allowed to develop, 1 shudder when I hear people talk of children under 5 years of age and of the tender age of 3 years being placed in the hands of trained staff. [More…]
She may have no ambition to go out to work and if subsidised she might readily take a third child such as a 3-year-old, to share in the love of the family for the day. [More…]
There would be no specialised nursing knowledge or anything like that; but there would be love, a family atmosphere and personal attention for the child. [More…]
The child who has come home from the baby care centre is thrust out of the way while the urgent duties of feeding the rest of the family are engaged in. [More…]
She has to meet the challenge of the adjustment of personalities within the family circle. [More…]
There are many modern appliances to take much of the drudgery out of a woman’s life and to leave her far more time than was available to our parents and grandparents to enjoy the intricacies of family life and the wonders of developing new lives and new personalities. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party has always stood for the family. [More…]
The child who goes to the child care centre for 5 days a week for 8 hours a day, as envisaged in the second reading speech of the Minister, comes home to chaos and confusion, is swept off to bed to sleep, is awakened in the morning to similar chaos and confusion when the family is getting off to work, and in the process is dumped somewhere with strangers who do their best. [More…]
No-one with any feeling for the child or the family could think that there was any possibility of improving the standards of civilisation by taking such a retrogressive step as is envisaged under this legislation. [More…]
We would like to see a subsidisation of the child, perhaps in the atmosphere of a family circle, rather than what is contained in the Bill. [More…]
Whilst such an environment may not have the scientific technical perfection of the trained mothercraft nurse, it will at least have the softness of the family home and family background. [More…]
Any child psychiatric expert will tell us today that this is mostly because of neglect in the family. [More…]
Is this neglect in the form of a lack of food, clothing or shelter, or is it neglect of the time necessary to establish proper relationships - a neglect of time in which the child can feel wanted, special and loved in a family circumstance? [More…]
The recognised Opposition of this country has abandoned the principle of the family society and has endorsed, and indeed not only approved but sponsored, the permissive society that is wrecking the family community. [More…]
In that home she was the most important person in a family group which sometimes numbered 7, 8 or 9. [More…]
Mothers are becoming fear stricken at the effects these ideas are having in their family circles and they are turning back to what one might call the foolish old-fashioned ideas of people concerned with the family itself. [More…]
I am very concerned with the problems that I see coming about in the community with a further breakdown in the family life of some people. [More…]
I hope that they will not be availed of by people purely for the benefit of having a second person in the family working. [More…]
They should be availed of by single mothers, by fathers who have been deserted and by the people in whose family there is a person who is helpless or physically incapable of getting out. [More…]
I mention in passing that Senator Little suggested that there might be centres in which there is provision for children to be minded in the family. [More…]
The matter I wish to raise tonight concerns a Greek family who returned to Australia from Greece on or about 1 1 th October last. [More…]
The ages of the 4 children in the family range from 24 years to 7 years. [More…]
The family left Australia on 15th March of this year. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the interest of some Australians in retaining the present national anthem for use only in the presence of The Queen, members of the Royal Family or representatives of The Queen. [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 certainly not that - 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…]
One of the important factors to emerge from the wide-ranging consultations which the Government has instituted on child care was that the provision of good quality facilities is often an invaluable support to a family. [More…]
The measures taken by the Government in assisting the community to overcome such problems do in fact provide a number of supports to the family such as the counselling service to be provided to parents of children needing care. [More…]
I have heard from time to time justifications of allowing compensation at a rate which would put the worker or his family in exactly the same position as they would have been in but for the injury; the most familiar argument of course is that malingering must be deterred. [More…]
There the principle has been accepted that not for 26 weeks but during the total period cf incapacity a worker and his family are entitled to suffer no financial disability as a result of an unfortunate physical injury which the worker has suffered. [More…]
We say that even though the Government may appear to have recognised the dwindling value of money by raising the widow’s entitlement from $13,500 to $14,500, this approach really misses the point I have been making, that a worker’s family should not suffer any penalty because of an injury to the worker whether it be temporary, permanent or fatal. [More…]
But 1 am very proud for myself and my family that I have been able to do it. [More…]
His family, another dedicated Labor family, must be proud of his 12 years of service to Western Australia and to the Parliament. [More…]
I had heard of the Riordan family’s interest and, as a West Australian, the Burke family is known to me. [More…]
I am sure honourable senators will join me in paying tribute to him at this time and in expressing sympathy to his family and to the Canadian people. [More…]
Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs had before it a reference by the Senate concerning the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters and was in the process of conducting an inquiry by taking evidence from the judiciary, the legal profession, academics and representative organisations; and thirdly, the fact that the Attorney-General himself sat on such committee and would be aware of the complexity, difficulty and variance of opinion on the subject of reviewing the field of matrimonial and family law, I ask: Will the Attorney-General suspend the operation of the amended rules, refer the suspended rules to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs when that Committee is reconstituted and defer any further similar action until the Committee has presented a report to the Senate? [More…]
Each family has its own land rights on the islands where they have their gardens. [More…]
If a family trespasses on another family’s garden, there is a row. [More…]
Similarly the Prime Minister and his family and staff are entitled to protection. [More…]
As the honourable senator will recall it was I who moved that there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters, with particular regard to oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
1 am assured by the Minister for Social Security that the existing Social Services Act provides that where for any reasons any children, who would otherwise be living together as one family or as part of one family, are not living together the Director-General of Social Security may, if he thinks fit exercising his discretion, authorise payment of endowment in respect of any of those children- at the rate that would be payable if those children were in fact living together as one family, this rate being not less than the rate, that might otherwise be payable. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General received from the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association, the Law Council of Australia, the New South Wales Bar Association, the President of the Law Institute of Victoria, and other legal bodies and practitioners, representations relating to the confusion inherent in the recent amendments to the Matrimonial Causes rules? [More…]
I must say that some of the bodies, including the law graduates, the family committee and certain others, particularly in New South Wales, have presented some criticism, mostly directed to the question of costs and mostly inspired by a small group of divorce barristers who have expressed to me personally their very great concern at the ruin that may be caused to their practices by the changes in the divorce rules. [More…]
In accordance with that, I moved in the Senate, after I had moved for the establishment of certain Senate standing committees, that there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs the matter of the law and its administration regarding divorce, custody and family matters, with particular regard to oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
Mr President, I desire to place on record the service of the late member and to extend to the members of his family our sympathy with them in their loss and the gratitude of the nation for the service which he gave to it during his time as a member of this Parliament. [More…]
On behalf of the DLP I offer our sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Country Party I join in the expression of sympathy to the family of the late William Bryson. [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 1 949, 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 extradition offence of such matters as the use of interstate facilities or use of mails or transporting across the borders of States. [More…]
Take the situation of a returned soldier who has no family responsibilities. [More…]
He may have a family of six, but is denied the employment because Senator Gair and Sir Frank Nicklin said that he should not have the employment. [More…]
At the time of her appointment she was with the British Law Commission and was instrumental in the publication of a book on Family Law. [More…]
Her work in this section led to the passing by the House of Commons of the recent Act relating to Family Law reform. [More…]
This Act recently came before the English Court of Appeal for construction and the English Court of Appeal headed by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Denning, gave an important historical ruling that the wife in the home is to be treated as being as valuable to the family as the wife who goes out to work. [More…]
I refer to an answer which he gave to Senator Greenwood in which he appeared to deny having received any representations about the new matrimonial causes rules from the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association, although late in his answer he did indicate that he had received a letter from that body, as I understood his reply. [More…]
I ask: Will the Attorney-General be prepared to table whatever document he has received from the Family Law Committee, or whatever it may be called, and will he indicate where in that document the criticism was mostly directed to the question of costs? [More…]
If this is so and as the Government propounds the policy of open government, will the Minister give the full facts as to why this family has been granted these financial benefits? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Attorney-General, arises out of a question which I asked him earlier today and in answer to which he refused to table in the Senate a document containing representations to him from the Family Law Committee of the University of Sydney Law Graduates Association. [More…]
In the course of question time on 7th March 1973 - the matter is reported at page 207 of Hansard - Senator Greenwood asked the Attorney-General whether he had received from the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association, among a number of other bodies, representations relating to the confusion inherent in the recent amendments to the matrimonial causes rules. [More…]
In reply to that question Senator Murphy said, first of all, that the answer was no - in other words, that he had not received representations from the Family Law Committee - but that he had received letters. [More…]
He went on to say: 1 must say that some of the bodies, including the law graduates, the family committee and certain others, particularly in New South Wales- [More…]
I feel that in using the phraseology ‘the law graduates, the family committee and certain others’, he was referring to the same body, that is, the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association - have presented some criticism, mostly directed to the question of costs and mostly inspired by a small group of divorce barristers who have expressed to me personally their very great concern at the ruin that may be caused to their practices by the changes in the divorce rules. [More…]
If that purports to be a summary of the basic criticism that was levelled at the rules by the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association, I submit to the Senate - I propose to endeavour to establish my case by using material in my possession - that that summary represents a gross distortion of the representations which were made by that body to the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
The Family, Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates’ Association has carefully considered these rules. [More…]
For several years now we have proposed far-reaching reforms in family law such as the creation of Family Courts, the simplification of maintenance and divorce procedures and above all the introduction of a divorce system based on the fact that the marriage has broken down and not on whether either party was at fault for such breakdown. [More…]
The Standing Committee had before it Senator Murphy’s resolution that it examine the law relating to divorce, custody, and family mutters. [More…]
The strong criticism comes from the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association. [More…]
Also it is sorting out the problems of custody, access, maintenance, settlement of property and all the other consequences of the breakdown of a marriage and the breakup of a family. [More…]
In fact the 2 parties are in court at arms length lighting about who slapped whom on such and such a day, or who slept with somebody else, whereas what they are really arguing about -the real contest between them - is who is to get the family house or who is to get the BHP shares. [More…]
But then we hear this nit picking about the drafting of the rules and someone comes along with a Press report of a statement by the family law graduates. [More…]
The family law graduates have an opinion and the opinion has been expressed. [More…]
An instance is given of an unemployed standard family consisting of a man, his wife, one daughter 6 to IS years and one male student 16 to 21 years. [More…]
For that family the poverty line has been drawn at $58.74 and the present Government proposes a payment of $48.50. [More…]
No matter how proud honourable senators on the Government side may be in pointing out what has been done, this family is still $10.24 below the poverty line. [More…]
If the previous Government was remiss in paying an amount below the poverty line to that type of family, I hope that this Labor Government will show more sympathy and meet that difficult situation. [More…]
The honourable senator said that even with the increases, we were still providing a pension rate for a standard family that is below the poverty line. [More…]
I shall cite the figures for a standard family before the change of government and compare them with the position that will exist under the new Government. [More…]
Senator Webster referred to the standard family. [More…]
A standard family consists of a man. [More…]
That means, in effect, that the existing rates as determined by the previous Government provided a standard family with a handsome income that was $27.24 below the poverty line. [More…]
We all like to think that our own family circle is immune from these pressures and that those in it would not be corrupted by anything at all. [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…]
Both consular and legal access have been freely granted and messages have been passed to his family in France. [More…]
We have had the situation in the Royal Family for the last 500 or 600 years where the King or Queen could become of age at the age of 18 and exercise all powers of the monarchy, so I suppose it is only right that at last the peasantry or the lower orders or non-royalty should reach equality with the Royal Family. [More…]
Did this question subsequently prompt the Minister to fear for the life of the Yugoslav Prime Minister and for the safety of his own family? [More…]
19th Street, Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory, a naturalized Australian citizen, do solemnly and sincerely declare that at approximately 3.25 a.m. on Sunday morning, 18th March, 1973, a number of plain clothed policemen woke my family and myself by knocking and kicking at the door of my house at the above address. [More…]
Recommendations by the Family Law Committee of the Sydney University Law Graduates Association described discretion statements as ‘much criticised by both judges and the legal profession’ and recommended ‘urgent action’ for their abolition, asserting: Their abolition can take place without alteration to the present law’. [More…]
The Family Law Committee has said: [More…]
When a family breaks up the money should go to the family and particularly to the children. [More…]
I think there are positive steps which ought to be taken and they can be taken through this national Parliament to try to preserve the family. [More…]
Steps ought to be taken to see that we start to enhance the factors that will preserve the family. [More…]
When a family is broken up or when there is a divorce, at least let us enable those people concerned to solve their differences in a decent, humane and dignified way and without their being subjected to this kind of expense which is ruinous to them and which reflects on and injures the prospects of maintenance and advancement of their children. [More…]
Everyone who participated said that the Act was not a divorce act; it was a matrimonial causes Act and its supreme aim was to protect the family. [More…]
Surely it is wrong that a law which sees itself as a Matrimonial Causes Act, which sees as its supreme duty the protection of the family, should have rules made under it which allow a divorce to happen and then, in its own time, deals with all these vastly important things. [More…]
In fact, he has attacked the family and weakened the position of children in the broken family. [More…]
I repeat that it is the supreme duty of the court to protect the family and that supreme duty has been destroyed by the rules. [More…]
In other words, he has attacked through costs the weakest member of the family - the wife - and this is an outrageous situation. [More…]
If it were I would be at some pains to join issue with Senator Carrick who asserted that the purpose of such an Act is to protect the family. [More…]
That does not mean that I am not in favour of the family. [More…]
I suggest that the protection of the family is something which is probably beyond the reach of governments. [More…]
I refer particularly to the evidence of the Family Law Committee of the Sydney Law Graduates Association to which Senator Murphy has referred in other respects. [More…]
1 note that on 7th December 1971 the Senate gave to that Committee a reference entitled ‘The law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters’. [More…]
Therefore before asking my question of the Leader of the Government in the Senate I would like to say how pleased I am, as are all senators, at the happy event which occurred in his family in Sydney at the weekend. [More…]
In spite of the joyous family event and the heavy political duty undertaken by him in recent days, was the Minister able to relax on Saturday night and view the Australian Broadcasting Commission program ‘Four Corners’ and listen to his colleague Senator Georges, who appeared prominently and for such a considerable time that 1 understand that in ABC and media circles the program is known as the Georges Four Corners program? [More…]
I thank the honourable senator for what he said and for the good wishes he expressed in respect of my family. [More…]
Article 12 states that no-one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, or to attacks upon his honour and reputation. [More…]
There was to be one family, one citizenship and one nation. [More…]
We find that amongst those affected are people who left Europe to escape from the type of administration where a knock on the door at midnight means that you can say farewell to your family. [More…]
I remember the heavy questioning addressed by my colleague Senator Douglas McClelland who, you will recall, on that occasion had to meet his family. [More…]
Does the form NH5 entitled ‘Application for Approval for Nursing Home Benefit Purposes’ call upon a doctor to state specifically his diagnosis and prescribed treatment and to indicate the degree of mobility and incontinence of a patient, the care required and the general family situation of the patient. [More…]
Yes - except for the general family situation on which information is supplied by the patient or his relatives. [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…]
A close study of Aborigines in their simple environment reveals that they had excellent methods, for example, of maintaining family levels at a standard which was commensurate with their environment and which enabled them to survive. [More…]
Because of the impact of our type of civilisation on Aborigines, their family numbers have expanded out of all proportion to previous family numbers. [More…]
The first matter to which I advert briefly is the situation in relation to wife and family dependency. [More…]
not circumscribed in any way by any family relationship. [More…]
Emphasis is placed on our role through the Bank and on the important field of assistance to Papua New Guinea to enable it to become not only a worthy nation in the family of nations but also a very friendly and acceptable neighbour. [More…]
The smaller and middle level property owner such as the family farmer just cannot afford the elaborate schemes for avoiding estate duty which are open to wealthier citizens. [More…]
Let me state a common instance of how estate duties have become punitive and oppressive for the small family farmer. [More…]
Where the beneficiaries of such a small estate are a widow with or without dependent children (although the hardships in the latter case are multiplied) the delays resulting from the existence of death duties can cause considerable hardship since the family assets - such as savings bank deposits - can generally not be touched while the only source of income has suddenly been removed. [More…]
The burden of estate duties falls on the smaller property owner - the family farmer - who is in the greatest need of his small savings built up by sheer hard work over a generation. [More…]
In fact, this tax has turned into an attack on the rural community and especially on the small family farmer who is the backbone of country life. [More…]
I came to Australia because I was a member of a family which has been persecuted by the Tito regime since it came to power. [More…]
One of these letters was from a member of my family warning that visitors coming to Sydney from Yugoslavia as members of the Croatian Matisa were probably members of UBDa. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 2] April 1973 of the Right Honourable Sir Arthur Fadden, G.C.M.G., a member of the House of Representatives far the Division of Darling Downs from 1936 to 1949 and for the division of Mcpherson from 1949 to 1958, for many years Leader of the Australian Country Party, a former Minister of the Crown, Prime Minister of Australia in 1941 and Leader of the Opposition betweeen 1941 and 1943, places on record its appreciation of his long and distinguished public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
The effect of this motion is to place on record that great public service which he performed and to convey sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
On behalf of the members of the Opposition I convey to his family and all those he leaves behind him our deepest sympathy. [More…]
I express my own sympathy to Lady Fadden and her family. [More…]
As a family unit, they were an inspiration. [More…]
That family was probably the major contributing factor to the success of Artie Fadden in public life. [More…]
At least I know that when I go home I will be well received and that my family at least will support me. [More…]
On behalf of the Country Party in Queensland, of which he was a great stalwart, I extend our deepest sympathy to Lady Fadden and the members of his family. [More…]
I support the motion, which has been moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), expessing condolence to the family of the late Sir Arthur Fadden. [More…]
I wish to extend to his family my sincerest sympathy in their loss of a great husband, father and citizen of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I, too, extend my sympathy to Lady Fadden and the family. [More…]
I join in supporting the motion of condolence to the family of the late Sir Arthur Fadden which has been moved by the Leader of the Government in . [More…]
He was, as Senator Gair so ably mentioned, a wonderful family man. [More…]
I extend to her and to her family my warmest sympathy. [More…]
Let me quote the case of a family that I know. [More…]
This family wished to borrow a reasonable amount to purchase a home of its own. [More…]
That family came to a particular bank which also operated a hire purchase company. [More…]
The bank refused to lend the money at 7i per cent or 8 per cent per annum, but it said to this family: ‘Go to our hire purchase company around the corner and you can have all the money that you want at 131 per cent per annum to build your house’. [More…]
Personal reasons, such as homesickness or family circumstances, compelled migrants to return to their source countries. [More…]
There were personal and family reasons over which nobody had any control, rather than any financial or economic reasons existing in Australia. [More…]
After a tremendously hard day the family returned to their own home and went to their beds. [More…]
He murdered him and robbed a woman of a husband and a large family of its father. [More…]
This is because Mr Fry, his family and the executives who now sit with him are excellent employers. [More…]
Senator Byrne has explained to the Senate what this family company has done in that area. [More…]
This is a family company and not a company into which overseas interests have been pouring money. [More…]
It is an ordinary family company which started from nothing 20 years ago. [More…]
What family company of this nature could afford a gigantic loss of something like $180,000? [More…]
I should imagine that Senator Wright would be the first to agree with me when I say that no government should be expected to accept responsibility for a commercial decision made by a family company, as Senator Maunsell referred to it; but that is what the Government is expected to do. [More…]
Is he aware that it was only a few years ago that a State Labor Party candidate whose family had given long and faithful service to the ALP had to resign from contesting a State election because he was told by his Party to toe the Party line on the matter of abortion. [More…]
They are now approaching retirement and usually have no family to whom they may turn for a home. [More…]
It will be a matter for each college of advanced education to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that the grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by bread-winners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the bread-winner; loss of earning power by the bread-winner or any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
It is a matter for each university to determine who should receive assistance, but the Minister for Education has indicated that he would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
The report continued, utterly soberly, to say that if you want to reduce your chance of being murdered you have only one thing to do, and that is to keep away from your family and your relatives; that is the only way - this was a serious situation - in which you can reduce your chance of being murdered, because murder is overwhelmingly a family matter. [More…]
It is a family crime. [More…]
Do we really believe that a crime committed in the passion of a family dispute is of a greater magnitude than the crime of the heroin pedlar? [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…]
If this is so, as the Government propounds a policy of open government, will the Minister give the full facts as to why this family was granted financial benefits? [More…]
The details supplied to me by the Department of Immigration are that the Bonfield family arrived in Melbourne on 28th February 1961 - some 12 years ago. [More…]
There were 10 children in the family. [More…]
I understand that soon after arrival the Bonfield family began to have settlement difficulties. [More…]
During this period the family developed a considerable degree of dependency on the community and on assistance agencies, including of course the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Mrs Bonfield had been ill on many occasions, and it was thought that the family situation had been a factor contributing to her illness. [More…]
Prior to their repatriation approval on 5th December 1972 the family had assumed a situation of chronic dependency, with medical conditions as contributory factors, and the Department considered in all the circumstances that the family would benefit if they were returned to the United Kingdom where their relatives and friends could be of assistance to them. [More…]
I. remind the Senate that the Attorney-General rose to his feet and admitted - and admitted without apology - that there had been a raid, without a warrant, on the home of the Till family at Narrabundah. [More…]
He is gaining an asset, he is proud of his home and he attempts to maintain it and to keep it in an environment in which his family is pleased to live. [More…]
Are allegations contained in the Monthly Bulletin correct that (a) a Commonwealth Department of Health official visiting a 95 year old, helpless and partially blind woman admitted for intensive care, suggested that the woman should try to get up and, she having taken a few steps, decided that she did not need intensive care: the woman allegedly dying the following day; and (b) a patient suffering from a deteriorating condition of bowel cancer, admitted to a nursing home by his family doctor who agreed to complete the form NH5 after admission, was subsequently discharged from the nursing home because of a Departmental letter warning of possible deregistration of the nursing home if the new rules were not observed and only readmitted subsequently as the result of many hours of search by the family doctor to finally secure telephone approval from a Commonwealth Medical Officer; and (c) a doctor seeking the speedy admission of a 67 year old helpless woman followed precisely the new regulations and forwarded the form NH5 by post, receiving Departmental approval some 8 days later. [More…]
Not even Mr Anthony or anyone closely associated with him can challenge the accuracy of that newspaper report, because the paper was the family newspaper. [More…]
It was owned by his family. [More…]
It is not at present because when the newspaper companies in the northern rivers and Gold Coast regions introduced offset printing they banded together to form Northern Star Ltd, of which the family is a major shareholder. [More…]
The accuracy of the report cannot be challenged because at the time to which I am referring the newspaper was the family newspaper. [More…]
Mr Aubrey Budd, the patriach of the family, the champion of the Country Party in the area and a respected citizen, would be sitting up at the front and Mr Anthony would be dancing to the tune that Mr Budd wanted him to dance to. [More…]
What was the precise cost of chartering the Qantas Airways Ltd jet aircraft for the Easter vacation round the world trip taken by the Prime Minister and some members of his family, and others? [More…]
Having indicated that I oppose French nuclear testing if health dangers are involved, I ask: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article by Sir Philip in this morning’s ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ which states inter alia that any person who moves his home from Sydney to Canberra is deliberately subjecting himself and his family to a permanently increased radiation dose very similar to that from the French tests because Canberra is 1,900 feet above sea level? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the present wheat quota system is reacting harshly against some traditional wheat farmers who, for health, family or other reasons, did not produce wheat during the quota averaging period of 1963-64 to 1968-69? [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 senators, the community in which the new citizens live will welcome them into the community and the family of the nation. [More…]
The remaining $654 is subject to a means test on the family income. [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 us: this weapon but because it is strong enough to do without it. [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…]
It is not the way for an Australian family to behave. [More…]
the reunion of immediate family members; [More…]
So if today we take into consideration the indirect benefits that flow through State and local government instrumentalities to the Australian people, the average family receives back in services and handouts about the equivalent of the average weekly wage. [More…]
It has never related wages to productivity, which is something that it must do if it is to protect the ordinary family or the ordinary wage earner. [More…]
It must be borne in mind that today a family, which includes a man, his wife and dependent children, is covered by one annual payment of something like $110, which is reduced to $80 or $75 a year once it is claimed as a tax deduction. [More…]
This will apply to whoever in the family is working. [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with our advances will be allocated to families in which the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner (exclusive of any overtime and child endowment payments) does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as denned in the Agreement. [More…]
Where the family includes more than two children, this will be increased by $2 per week for each child after 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 that become available during the year for allocation for the first time, and 25 per cent of the number of family dwellings constructed by the States with financial assistance under this and previous Commonwealth-State Housing Agreements that become available during the year for reallocation. [More…]
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…]
We have from the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) a proposal that there is considerable wisdom in trying to settle this matter in the family of the States and the Commonwealth without having a public brawl by trying to shove the Bill through immediately. [More…]
The population, as we all appreciate, will not develop naturally because of the circumstances of family life which have changed so much from what they were in the first stage of our development and since the major period of the massive development of the United States when that country had an immigration rate similar to the one we might be running now. [More…]
The branch office concerned will arrange tickets and bookings for the family concerned and the balance of the moneys remaining after tickets have been purchased can be used to assist with the cost of furniture removal. [More…]
As an alternative to this, an approved applicant can pay the cost involved in removing his family, and furniture and present his receipts on arrival in Whyalla and be reimbursed under this agreement. [More…]
of this clause, the Housing Authority of a State shall not sell more than 30 per centum of the family dwellings for the provision of which Housing Authority advances have been used and which are completed or purchased during the period of five years- [More…]
If a family has lived in a housing commission home in a certain suburb of one of our principal cities for 4 years, 5 years or 6 years; if the children of that family have grown up in the companionship of neighbouring children; if that family has reached the stage at which it may wish to venture into home ownership, it should not be mandatory upon that family to pull up its roots from that district and move somewhere else in order to buy a home because the law makes it impossible for that family to buy the dwelling in which it has been living for several years. [More…]
State housing authorities could be powerless to sell a home to a person whose family has been living in that home for 4 years, 5 years or 6 years because the 30 per cent of family dwellings built by the State housing authority had been absorbed already in sales. [More…]
We do not think that this is a question on which we should ignore what this Government is prepared to do for housing in other areas, but we urge upon the Government the absolute necessity for it, because of the restrictions that may creep into home ownership in this area, to redouble its efforts to make money available in other areas for the purchase of homes by those people who are prepared to accept the responsibility, which is better from the point of view of the nation, of owning their own homes, and so achieve a better way of life and enjoy a greater potential for a successful family life. [More…]
This is so important not only to the parents and children in a family but also to any government which may need to meet commitments arising from those problems which can develop out of bad family backgrounds and which can flow very often from the simple fact that people do not have the opportunity to own their own home. [More…]
of this clause, the Housing Authority of a State shall not sell more than 30 per centum of the family dwellings for the provision of which Housing Authority advances have been used and which are completed or purchased during the period of 5 years commencing on the first day of January 1974. [More…]
That is, a family that qualifies as a housing commission tenant should be able, if it wishes, to buy the home in which it lives instead of frittering away its income by making payments in rent. [More…]
The most difficult family to house is a married man on a tow income with a large family . [More…]
Those who cannot purchase homes, those who have not the deposit to purchase a home, the family man on a low income with a large family, are among those 93,000 seeking homes. [More…]
of this clause, the Housing Authority of a State shall not sell more than 30 per centum of the family dwellings for the provision of which housing authority advances have been used and which are completed or purchased during the period of five years commencing on the first day of January 1974. [More…]
So in that case the family would be receiving $37.55 a week. [More…]
This is a situation which will seriously and adversely affect his personal life and his family’s life, and make his recovery more difficult. [More…]
All of us speak from experience and association in this field and we know that in deciding to accept Australian citizenship a migrant takes into account personal reasons, family reasons, employment situations; he looks at the geographical influences and he takes very strong cognisance of the state and political factors. [More…]
But I think it is pertinent to refer to a statement made by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) that the first priority -would be given to the reunion of immediate family members - husband, wife, parents and children. [More…]
I know that the present Royal family is aware of evolutionary changes. [More…]
It is only by recognising the ordinary human trait in the family that in ordinary circumstances we realise that we have a somewhat more positive nexus with these people. [More…]
If either of those situations were to arise in this case, although it is 1973, does anyone imagine that some indication that the Royal Family was displeased with the supposed arrogance of the Prime Minister would not have percolated from Buckingham Palace to the British Government and even back to the Opposition in Australia? [More…]
I wish to indicate on behalf of the Government - and, I take it, on behalf of all honourable senators - our deep sympathy to the Governor-General and members of his family. [More…]
I suggest that a message of sympathy be sent to the Governor-General and his family by you, Mr President, on behalf of all honourable senators. [More…]
One can imagine the plight of a man who wants to take his wife and family on annual leave when it costs $57 for each of them to get only as far as Cairns. [More…]
It is the public interest - the protection of public services, the provision of supplies of fuel, electricity, gas, transport, the maintenance of employment opportunities, the security of a family’s takehome pay and the effective functioning of our complex and interdependent society with which government ought to be primarily concerned in any industrial legislation it promotes. [More…]
They seem to forget that if another job means that a family in Collingwood or Bankstown has to be uprooted and to go somewhere else in this society the breadwinner wants adequate severance pay and sometimes needs it. [More…]
If I may speak in broad terms, not only have they a significance from a scientific point of view as descendants of a family of the dinosaur type, which is of special interest to the world, but also they are extremely important to the ecology of the area. [More…]
I would like to think that this Government or any government in Australia would see the whole question of women, their opportunities, the facilities for them to fulfil their professional careers and the ideal way in which the family structure should be protected, as part of a whole national institution and not one in which a single Bill is sought to give a discriminatory benefit only to those women who are Commonwealth Government employees and then to have, as a rider to that, the fact that the Government would intervene if this principle were to be introduced in the ordinary, commercial sense. [More…]
It has been calculated - J think quite effectively and accurately - that a 35-hour week would add $800 to the yearly bill of a family. [More…]
In some families the wife works 40 hours a week and the husband works 40 hours a week just to keep the family going. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable senators will agree with me when I say that one’s mother or father deserves definite consideration, but if they have passed on I believe that a single member of Parliament should be able to nominate a person in his family to be his dependant, as it were. [More…]
I think that a member who has spent many years in Parliament deserves consideration in this regard and that he should be able to nominate a person in his family. [More…]
This example could be the case where one family bought the shares of their relatives who held just over 50 per cent of the shareholdings, and the relatives bought shares in other companies. [More…]
Fourteen of the requests have a compassionate basis associated with family problems, one request is based on financial loss occasioned by a long standing commitment while 3 of the requests are based on political andhealth reasons. [More…]
In 22 of these cases the granting of leave is in no way connected with the French nuclear tests and would be normal for any unexpected deployment of a ship (14 are for compassionate reasons and 8 for family financial reasons). [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 8 July 1 973 of Arthur Augustus Calwell, a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great, a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Melbourne from 1 940 to 1 972, a Minister of the Crown from 1943 to 1949, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from1951 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…]
This must have brought him and his family satisfaction at a time when he was suffering considerable personal discomfort and physical hardship. [More…]
Perhaps the measure of his success not only as a national figure but also as a man is that he has been so well loved by his family- that was evident- and also by those in politics and by the country at large for the great things he did, whether successful or unsuccessful, and for the efforts which he made. [More…]
My colleagues and I extend to his widow and to his family our deepest sympathy. [More…]
My colleagues and I extend our deepest sympathy to Lady Cooper and to the members of her family. [More…]
On behalf of the Democratic Labor Party and myself, I extend to Lady Cooper and the members of her family our very deep sympathy. [More…]
The death of such a promising young family man at the age of 43 is saddening. [More…]
His death was most untimely and his family deserves a very special place in our sympathies. [More…]
We in the Country Party would like to extend our deepest sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
I join with other speakers and add my condolences to his widow and family. [More…]
It is a document designed to give to everyone, irrespective of the means or the income of his family, an equal opportunity to the educational facilities which are available. [More…]
It involved a family of highly intelligent young people. [More…]
The father of the family was gravely ill. [More…]
Three highly intelligent members of that family might have been denied the opportunity to fulfil their intellectual capacity. [More…]
Thank God, as a consequence of the Karmel report and the actions of the Government of which I am so happy to be a member, the opportunity will be provided for the members of that family to be educated, to go to university and to follow the course that they want to take in life. [More…]
Countless thousands of Australians who have had the intellectual capacity must have been placed in this situation in the past because the income earner in the family has not brought in sufficient money to allow his children to be educated to the highest level possible according to their capacity. [More…]
In the past how many families have gone without many things because some member of the family has had the ability to take higher education? [More…]
They have gone without so many things so that that member of the family could have the opportunity that the others were denied. [More…]
They may well be people with family responsibilities who for a number of valid reasons have limited labour mobility. [More…]
However hard such an attitude may seem in a particular case - an honourable senator in such a case would want to pay any price if his own children or members of his own family were involved - nevertheless in the general public interest, as with cases of kidnapping, the law ought to be as strong as it can be that no one should be permitted to pay any ransom. [More…]
A man might murder somebody who is destroying his whole family structure or who is caught in an illicit relationship with his wife. [More…]
He may be the father of a large family which is dependent for their success in life and for their future on his efforts and so on, yet he is destroyed. [More…]
These comprised 309 houses, 76 family flats and 31 bachelor flats. [More…]
I know people in the Dutch community who suffered not merely nostalgia but the much deeper feeling that to obtain Australian citizenship they had to deplore, more or less in a general sense, that at one time they had owed allegiance to the Dutch royal family and to the then Queen Wilhelmina and all that sort of thing. [More…]
We do not have to go back so far- only to the previous debate- to recall that Senator Davidson’s clarion call then was that the terminology used referred to the Australian Constitution and he virtually interpreted it to mean that we had submerged any reference to the Royal Family. [More…]
I have had brief discussions with members of the Royal family and I have had no occasion to feel that because someone hammers a particular Australian view it might have the effect of cutting across Britain ‘s economic ideas in relation to Australia. [More…]
By all means, let people maintain their cultural links, historical ties and family associations. [More…]
But the real threat to consumer purchasing power is inflation, and consumers, who are basically the working man and his family, can only gain by measures that are taken to slow down the rate of inflation. [More…]
This Government is on the road to solving unemployment and we are now by our fiscal measures setting out to solve the problem of inflation which, as I have said, not only is a problem in Australia but also is an international problem which basically affects the working man and his family. [More…]
It is that trend rather than the higher interest cost which is the real enemy of the home buyer and the ordinary family man. [More…]
The increase in the interest rates on government securities will encourage more savings on the part of the worker and the family man and thus reduce the rush to spend. [More…]
It is well to remind the Senate that we are debating an urgency motion brought forward by the Opposition because of its very great apprehension that the actions taken last weekend by the Labor Government, ostensibly in an antiinflationary way, will in fact do great future damage to the whole Australian community and, notably, to the ordinary family. [More…]
It is covering its mistakes by taking it out of the hide of the average Australian family. [More…]
The deception out of the policy speech that the Budget would contain increased family allowances continued to within 3 or 4 weeks of the Budget, but the Budget disowned it. [More…]
It went to the people with a family endowment policy and a policy of helping poor families. [More…]
He and his family suffered as a result of inflation. [More…]
It is an alternative to asking the family and the individual to make a sacrifice. [More…]
Many brilliant scholars at school when the compulsory age was reached had to terminate their studies in order to supplement the family income. [More…]
To make matters worse the private business, manufacturing and family sector has been under pressure and restraint. [More…]
It is easier, better, more payable and more secure in Australia to work for the Government than to chance your arm and take the risk of working for yourself or in private enterprise to build something for yourself and your family and, in the process, build a bigger and better country. [More…]
What about the family concessions about which we have heard so much from the honourable senators opposite? [More…]
They say that they love the family man and his children. [More…]
It will affect city dwellers, rural people and all those who purchase the inescapable food part of the family budget at this increased cost which is due to Government policy. [More…]
They are essential at this stage for the participation which is already involved and the numbers of pre-school age children and young school age children whose mothers are working mothers and who need the assistance of child care centres to combine their domestic and family reponsibilities with that of their employment. [More…]
It is important to the Australian community that the development of child care centres be a program which protects the strength of the family and gives the children of the working mother an opportunity to develop at all stages of their emotional and educational needs. [More…]
Mr Crean ‘s Budget was rather like a stern father confiscating a bag of sweets from his adolescent son, and telling him to grow up and learn to eat the same food as everyone else in the family! [More…]
Every honourable senator knows damn well that if his own doctor told him that he should take drug A that is the drug he would take without waiting for a Government medical officer who has not even seen him, has not seen his family and does not know anything about his history to write and say: ‘Yes, he can have that drug’. [More…]
This affect’s not only the wife or the mother who is responsible for the family. [More…]
But two or three members of the one family who are on the dole are better off than a family of five or six children whose father is working 40 hours a week. [More…]
The Government is guilty, by its own deliberate actions, of adding a minimum of $40 a month to the cost that an ordinary low wage family has to meet without their having the ability to buy a thing for it. [More…]
The rates payable by the worker who is seeking to purchase land on which to build a house for his wife and family are fixed on the unimproved capital value of the land which in turn is based on comparable sales that have taken place in the area. [More…]
I occasionally go to the supermarkets with my family, and I know that it does. [More…]
Those things are essential for young couples if we are to promote what we should promote in this country, that is, a good family life. [More…]
Everyone knows that the standard of living of any nation, or for that matter any family, is dependent on the income derived or brought into the nation or the home. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party is a Party which believes in the family and which believes in maternity leave. [More…]
The Government reminds me of a young fellow who inherits from his family a very sound business proposition which for years has been properly conducted, which has reserves behind it and which is a viable proposition and who says: ‘Now that I have it I will begin to spend’ and ignores the bases from which wealth has been generated in that business. [More…]
I do not question the difficulty of the average Australian family at the present time adequately to provide for its needs in food and other essential commodities. [More…]
But it is obvious that the Australian consumer realises the protein value of meat as an essential family item. [More…]
The average consumer also realises the nutrition that is given to a family diet through the purchase of meat to the extent that the family budget will allow. [More…]
Sometimes a family arrangement or something else debars such documents being tabled. [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…]
As I have stressed previously, rather they should provide a means by which people can maintain their normal family life during periods of personal difficulty or, alternatively, provide a means by which people have an opportunity to learn some skill that will assist them in making their way and contributing to the community generally. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Treasurer noted that in its Budget announced yesterday the New South Wales Government lifted the death tax exemption for members of an immediate family from $30,000 to $50,000? [More…]
They are members of a family which has been continuously associated with Queensland newspapers since 1 874. [More…]
He is a man who, of his human experience, ought to know; a man who has suffered psychological and physical tortures from his people; a man who has spent some 8 years inside the prisons of Russia and has known the privation and starvation of imprisonment in that country; a man who has been in the infamous Lubyanka gaol in Moscow; a man who has presented to the world 3 unique books, namely, ‘Cancer Ward’, ‘The First Circle’ and ‘August 1914’; a man whose publications are banned in his own country; and a man who says to the world today: ‘I have my life at risk; indeed, the life of my family at risk ‘. [More…]
I am not allowed to see my family. [More…]
As Devic’s family has contacted me and advised me that the Victorian Police have no knowledge of Devic’s whereabouts, will the Attorney-General ask the Commonwealth Police, as an exercise in humanitarianism, to pass a message to Devic asking him to contact his parents as they are afraid that he may have been kidnapped by the Yugoslav secret police? [More…]
Because this Bill is woven around the framework of the National Library it brings into its family operation other libraries which may probably be better known in the future as resource centres or centres where information is collected and from which information is disseminated. [More…]
Every man and woman wants security for himself or herself and family, and wants and expects a reasonable share of the affluence that Australia can offer. [More…]
He said also that the average Australian worker wants his family’s economic life maintained and not disrupted; he does not want the hardship that strikes cause any more than he wants the hardship that unemployment causes. [More…]
I am hoping that Queensland will join the family. [More…]
We battled on through the depression with thousands of our people unemployed for years and with family and personal disasters spilling over the whole face of the country. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that an average family paying off a home or acquiring a motor vehicle and one major domestic appliance on hire purchase is now faced with an increased monthly interest payment of between $30 and $40, a huge drain on family purchasing power and a savage increase in inflation? [More…]
Again purchases are often made from private collectors and estates and there can be personal family reasons for preserving a measure of confidentiality. [More…]
This should facilitate family reunions. [More…]
If one came from a reasonably well-off family and went to a poor school apparently on this basis one would be all right; but if one came from reasonably poor family and for some reason went to a better school one would need additional facilities. [More…]
Will the Minister consider lifting the invalid pension to a higher level, so that young persons who are unlucky enough to be invalided will be better assisted in establishing a home and family. [More…]
Early diagnosis and treatment, social support and followup will be closer to the approach of the old village doctor, parish priest or other traditional family friends. [More…]
We have seen the emergence of the new styles of family life, the economic changes and the new place of older people in our community. [More…]
Initially, it is necessary to develop community-based systems with a network of services to which people may be linked if they have family, health, educational or personal problems. [More…]
It is interesting to note that 70 per cent of these people are living alone, 87 per cent either own or have access to a refrigerator, 38 per cent are able to do some shopping for themselves and there is quite a large number where the family contact pattern is not evident. [More…]
We are finding that in many areas of large cities children are becoming socially deprived not because of the income that is coming into the family but because of the fact that parents are becoming particularly busy in their own workaday world and children are being left to fend very much for themselves. [More…]
So, early in the day and late in the afternoon the children must fend for themselves or else be brought up by the other children in the family. [More…]
So, quite clearly, in that Declaration and in the philosophy of the Opposition it is implied that the right must be real and not theoretical and that, therefore, it is the duty of government to ensure that if a student desires, or his parents desire him, to attend a non-government school lack of finance in the family will not preclude attendance at the school. [More…]
Farming has become more mechanised today and is now not so much a labour intensive industry or one which is reliant on the labour which can be provided by a farmer’s family. [More…]
The public should understand that it does so at a time when, by a variety of measures including many savage measures, it seeks to cut back, and is in fact succeeding in cutting back, the private sector of the community and the expenditure of every family throughout Australia. [More…]
This is a government which believes that at a time of record inflation it is good for the Government to increase its spending but bad for the ordinary family in Australia to do so. [More…]
Today every family which seeks to buy a home and finds that it cannot do so because loans for building have fallen some 20 per cent or more, because the money is not there, or because the costs are too high, must understand that this situation has been deliberately contrived by the Government. [More…]
My own family has had particular problems in its dealings with one particular Minister. [More…]
In a home there is usually not only a couple but also very often a family. [More…]
One night I was at a reception with my brother and his family. [More…]
One honourable senator has recently become connected with this art, through the family. [More…]
I ask: How many meetings of the Committee have been held this year for the purpose of considering the reference by the Senate on 7 December 1971, namely, the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters. [More…]
They can be dealt with adequately only by a Commission fully in touch with the effects on the student, his family and the community of education policies. [More…]
As Senator Rae will be aware this provides under the amendment which was carried in 1946 that the Australian Government is able to make provision for benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
Incomes are high, and there may be 2 cars in the family; there are swimming pools in many homes, and there are trips overseas, particularly for young people. [More…]
It can be shown very easily that where someone who is suffering from diseases which this Bill encompasses is motivated back into normal civilian life it is of great benefit not only to the community and the country but also to the family to which those formerly sick persons belong. [More…]
I am sure the honourable senator will agree with me that there are many working class people who have quite clever sons and daughters who go to their sixth year level of secondary education and who, unfortunately, because of the financial circumstances of the family, often are barred from going on to higher tertiary level examinations. [More…]
The full allowance was payable where the adjusted family income did not exceed $4,200 per annum. [More…]
Will the Minister indicate to me the justification for absolving tertiary education assistance of any requirement as to merit or age and then tell me whether I am correct in understanding that this assistance is to be distinguished from a scholarship by there being no basic allowance, and that tertiary education assistance consists simply of a living allowance which, of course, in the case of a 40-year-old who has a family of four may be a very considerable sum. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 November of this year of the honourable John Johnstone Dedman, a member of the House of Representatives 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 widow and family in their bereavement. [More…]
I associate the Opposition with the words of the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and his message of condolence to Mrs Dedman and her family. [More…]
I am pleased to associate my Party and myself with the motion of condolence, and I extend sympathy to Mrs Dedman and her family. [More…]
I would like to pay a tribute to the dedicated service that he gave to his fellow men and to the nation, and to express my very deep sympathy to his widow and his family. [More…]
I pay tribute to his great work and express my sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
The focus should be on the child as a total person, living in a. family and a community. [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 States 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 reorganisation, education, family planning, research and other special programs. [More…]
What will be the scale of weekly charges for (a) a single person; (b) a family; and(c) widows’ providers after the death of the spouse who have been paying under the scheme. [More…]
(This is in the context that a family consisting of a man, wife and one child and earning the minimum wage (currently $60.10 a week) should not be liable to pay the levy; [More…]
The levy will be charged on taxable incomes and accordingly it will be the level of this income, rather than one ‘s marital or family status that will determine the level of contribution. [More…]
I feel that these comments are an injustice to my privilege as a free Australian Citizen, and, as lies, are detrimental to not only my personal character, but also to the welfare of my wife and family. [More…]
It has to be said- the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ says it on page 1 of this morning’s issue- that 55 companies with which the Barton family was associated in New South Wales have collapsed and $2 5 m of money invested by the public has been lost. [More…]
The self-same family has skipped the country. [More…]
It has been indicated in Press reports that the family does not intend to come back to this country to face the music. [More…]
Mr McCaw has not answered, nor has Mr Ryan answered, the very serious charge that Mr Pengelly has made in the statutory declaration, and this is that section 40 sub-section 5 of the Companies Act of New South Wales was breached by the companies associated with the Barton family. [More…]
There could be cases of family illness and family responsibility which may well have to be taken into account in determining some cases as against other cases. [More…]
I have always thought that a lesser rate was imposed on private companies because they were generally conceded to be those smaller family organisations in the community. [More…]
Overall, aged people will pay less tax than a young couple which is bringing up children and which is earning the same amount of family income. [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…]
I think that from memory the defamation law in Queensland makes it possible to defame a person by defaming a member of his family who may be dead. [More…]
I think that in this day and age when somebody has to wait into his second pay period for compensation payments it could well mean, in the average family, that things can be pretty tight. [More…]
So now, in pretending to have a policy on health insurance, they are proposing a $300m first aid job to patch up the low income family and pensioner sections of their scheme. [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…]
It disregards the special problems of large families on low incomes, because assistance is pegged to family units of 2 persons. [More…]
The tapered assistance to low-income beneficiaries would be discontinued and full assistance provided to all eligible persons, whose eligibility would be determined by the number of dependants in the family, as recommended by the Nimmo Committee. [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 effect of all this will be the payment of an extra $80 to $125 for a family man in Australia if he wishes to have the coverage which is at present available to him for private wards. [More…]
The outcome will be that members of the average family in Australia who would like to exercise a right of choice and be able to go, if they wished for one reason or another, to a private ward will receive that service only upon the payment of virtually double the present costs. [More…]
The publication says that the Government’s health scheme will cost the family more. [More…]
The resulting rates will be such that it will be cheaper for a family receiving the average income and below to enter a private hospital than it is at present. [More…]
No family planning. [More…]
I pay $90 for my family. [More…]
We have recognised that to earn an annual income an individual needs bodily health, that whatever he spends on maintaining the health of his body is spent on maintaining the health of the tax producing agent, that without his health he cannot produce the income on which he has to pay taxes and that without his health he cannot rear the family that will pay the future taxes of this nation. [More…]
Let us hope that his wife does not work; let us hope that she too is not a recipient of $8,000 a year, otherwise they will be up for about $500 before they are finished to get free medicine for the family. [More…]
The cost of ill health is a burden on the family, and the startling advances made by medicine in the past 25 years have steeply increased the cost There is, therefore, a logical case of spreading it over the whole of the community so that those that are fortunate to remain in good health may help those who temporarily fall out of the ranks. [More…]
I was interested to find that 37 per cent of all taxpayers comprise husband and wife combinations, both of whom are contributing to the family income. [More…]
Of the 3 1 per cent in the latter group in which only one person in the family contributes to the family income, about half will be better off and half worse off. [More…]
In fact, the additional estimated cost for 1974-75 for the average family for intermediate ward accommodation in a public hospital would be $1.25 a week; accommodation in a private ward would cost an additional $1.96 a week; and accommodation in a private hospital would cost an additional $2.50 a week. [More…]
The service that the Office will provide, broadly stated, will be: first, a general problem solving service of advice and assistance short of litigation to persons with an element of financial need- this will, in my view, take care of some 90. per cent of all problems that worry the ordinary citizen; and secondly, the conduct of litigation, particularly family law, environmental and other litigation in areas of special concern to the Australian Government, on behalf of persons who cannot afford the cost of representation in court. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to repeal the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959-1966 and to replace it with an up-to-date, comprehensive set of provisions dealing not only with divorce but also other areas of family law. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that in November 1971 I moved a motion, which was carried by this Senate, that there be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry the matter of ‘the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters, with particular regard to oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices ‘. [More…]
During my time as a member of that Standing Committee I heard and saw a great deal of oral and written evidence put before the Committee which persuaded me that very substantial alterations to the family law of this country were necessary. [More…]
The Californian Family Act, 1969 contains only 2 grounds. [More…]
However, a thrifty wife will presumably have done more to conserve the family resources than a spendthrift, and should therefore receive more than the spendthrift- when the family splits up- not in maintenance, but in the division of the matrimonial property. [More…]
If conduct in relation to financial matters is to be relevant, it should be at the point of dividing the family assets shortly after the marriage is dissolved. [More…]
I have decided against setting up separate, federal family courts. [More…]
I propose instead that there will be a Family Law Division of the Superior Court, which will have jurisdiction in all matrimonial causes. [More…]
I propose that the judges of this division of the court will be selected for their personal suitability for family law work, and that the division will have attached to it appropriate supportive staff, such as marriage counsellors and welfare officers, so that it will in fact be a family court as generally understood. [More…]
The Government has embarked on a scheme of massive legal aid, particularly in family matters. [More…]
This will extend to family law proceedings. [More…]
Then no one should be deprived of a family law remedy merely through lack of ready funds. [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 so under the stresses and strains of modern life- persons will be encouraged to adjust their transition from married life with the minimum of bitterness and animosity. [More…]
The Bill is a Government Bill only to the extent of facilitating its being debated and put to a vote, but the Government supports the reform of the law and administration of divorce, custody and other family matters in the light of modern standards and sociology and especially so as to remove oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
The Public Service Board has informed me that an officer of the First or Second Division moving with his family to take up an appointment in Canberra may on occasions be provided with an unfurnished Government house for rental. [More…]
by payment of a continuing allowance to cover excess costs arising from the officer and his family occupying temporary accommodation until suitable unfurnished premises are available; and [More…]
We hope that he enjoys very much the companionship of his family and the rural pursuits which he is following assiduously. [More…]
While I regret his leaving us in his retirement I wish him good health and the comfort of having his family about him on his farm. [More…]
He has left behind a large family. [More…]
-On behalf of the Liberal Party of Australia, I join with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) in expressing condolence to the family of the late J. [More…]
I was able to attend his funeral service where I made the point to his family that I was representing the whole of the Senate. [More…]
We express our sympathy with his family. [More…]
We would all want it to be recorded that in peace and war he gave service to his country of which his family can be mighty proud. [More…]
I wish to associate my Party and myself with the remarks of previous speakers and to extend our sympathy to his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Government I ask the Senate to recognise his distinguished service and to extend its sympathy to his family. [More…]
As a fellow Queenslander, as one who campaigned with him in his first election and as one who had a very high regard for him personally and as a member of the House of Representatives, on behalf of the Liberal senators I join with the Leader of the Government in expressing very sincere sympathy to Donald Cameron’s wife and his family. [More…]
I associate my Party with the motion of condolence and on its behalf extend sympathy to Mrs Cameron and the family. [More…]
-The members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party desire to be associated with the motion of condolence, and in a particular way I personally desire to express my sympathy to Mrs Cameron and the members of Dr Cameron’s family in their very great loss. [More…]
On my own behalf and on behalf of the Democratic Labor Party, I join in this motion of condolence to Mrs Cameron and the members of her family. [More…]
I ask: What action has the Labor Government, which allegedly champions the cause of dissenters in Australia, taken to express its disapproval of the brutal action by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his family from Russia? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister consider extending to Solzhenitsyn and his family, on behalf of the Australian Government, an invitation to reside in Australia and continue his literary work in a free society? [More…]
Immediately that happened Mr Grassby, the Minister for Immigration, said that Solzhenitsyn and his family could come to Australia to live. [More…]
Are not those the price increases that must affect the ordinary worker and his family? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Media: Is it a fact that individuals and groups are making their voices heard in protest at the fact that some television programs seem to be spearheading the decline in moral standards which can undermine the very fabric of individual, family and national life? [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…]
Senator Greenwood’s leader made an agreement that this Address-in-Reply debate would continue tonight and that any difficulties would be overlooked because it had been expected that the Senate would rise early and some people had made family commitments. [More…]
I mentioned earlier that the Prices Justification Tribunal had been provided for in Government policy and had been stated by the Government to be responsible for some of its handling of price movements in respect of many of our essential commodities which are part of the normal family budget. [More…]
The family income is showing signs of strain. [More…]
I refer particularly to the inadequacy of the one-family income in dealing with the increase in the essential goods which every family requires. [More…]
He contented himself by saying that his Government would concentrate on family reunion. [More…]
Family reunion was going on anyway, side by side with active and responsible recruitment. [More…]
A nation is little different from a home or family unit. [More…]
The standard of living of a family unit is dependent on the income that the breadwinner brings into the home, not on what else he does, whether he grows a few vegetables out the back, does his own plumbing or builds his own furniture. [More…]
What a strange thing it is for the Whitlam Government, with its Rabelaisian tastes, a Government which will spend millions of dollars to race around the world in chartered aircraft, taking 70, 80 or 90 people along, including family, relatives, and loads of champagne, to suddenly say that we must not have elections because they cost money. [More…]
We have been assured that there will be a Family Law Bill. [More…]
So far from this being purely window dressing and far from suggesting that we merely want to make a pretence of conferring powers on the States in order that they might see fit to confer powers on the Australian Government with respect, for instance, to such matters as family law and defamation, I point to this offer of the Prime Minister which I respectfully suggest to honourable senators is an earnest of our sincerity and our genuineness in wanting to make this a 2 -way traffic. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the members in Parliament assembled will see that the powerful communicator, television, is used to build into the nation those qualities of character which make a democracy workintegrity, teamwork and a sense of purpose by serving- and that television is used to bring faith in God to the heart of the family and national life. [More…]
Is the program ‘Class of ‘74’ still to be shown in family viewing time? [More…]
I am informed by the Board that agreement was reached that a statement should be issued stating that the station had agreed with the Board that it, the station, had produced a program which was not in accordance with the Board’s family viewing time standards and that the station would drastically revise the program accordingly. [More…]
Does it give any encouragement to a man who is working, supporting his family and paying his taxes when he knows that there are other people living on social security benefits who never do a day’s work? [More…]
It is then to be divided into some 6 divisions of its functions- administrative, bankruptcy and insolvency, commercial, family, general, and industrial. [More…]
I instance, for example, the subject matter of family courts. [More…]
I think it would be fairly accepted that the creation by the Commonwealth of family courts in the sense that persons other than judges will have a right to exercise judgment in those courts is not possible unless the members of the tribunal are to be given judicial work and, therefore, appointed for life. [More…]
Family courts can be created in the State jurisdictions. [More…]
We would not be able to develop a system of matrimonial or family law in which family courts play their part unless we were to have a system in which the State courts and the State jurisdictions were complementary, because it is only in that way that a family court structure could be established. [More…]
I notice- I do not think the matter can be clearly resolved by an examination of the terms of this Bill- that it is proposed that there should be a family law division. [More…]
But that family law division will not be consistent with what is hoped for in terms of an ultimate structure in which family law courts will play their part if the superior court is to be established in its present form. [More…]
But, as yet, in relation to those areas there has not been a delineation by this Parliament of what will be the ultimate form of the legislation, what rights will be defined and what will be the form and content of family law. [More…]
Let us look at family law. [More…]
Then we have the Family Law Bill which is before the Senate. [More…]
It seems to me to be completely logical that we should not establish the superior court until we comprehend an inclusive Bill on family law and know what will be the new approach, if any, to matrimonial causes. [More…]
I hope that everybody who supports the Labor Party and everybody who supports democracy will have a look at Federation Insurance Ltd and see that it is the type of organisation which, no doubt while it pays money to people who prate about democracy and freedom of speech, is prepared to deny a man and his family their livelihood because the man belongs to a legal political organisation and wishes to exercise his democratic rights as a candidate for Parliament. [More…]
Its loss is bound up with such imponderables as loss of status, lack of equipment and training, problems in housing, confusion in postings, unnecessary disruptions to normal family life. [More…]
Is Senator Withers saying that when a man is serving his country in isolated places away from his family his next of kin is not entitled to similar benefits? [More…]
The Department of Defence and the Services had been forced to bring forward the list at a moment’s notice without proper analysis and, indeed, with less consideration being given to it than the average family would give to the purchase of a new washing machine. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that towards the end of the last parliamentary session I introduced the Family Law Bill 1973. [More…]
The purpose of that Bill was to repeal the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959-1966 and to replace it with an up-to-date, comprehensive set of provisions dealing not only with divorce but also other areas of family law. [More…]
I have been criticised because the Human Rights Bill I introduced last year did not repeat certain provisions relating to the family to be found in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
It was said that I had ignored the family. [More…]
The Human Rights Bill contained a specific provision to protect the family against unlawful and arbitrary interference. [More…]
It explicitly recognised the right to marry and to found a family. [More…]
No account was taken by those who said I had ignored the family of the provisions in the Family Law Bill for marriage counselling and the services of welfare officers, or the special obligation laid on the courts and on those who will represent parties to proceedings under the Bill to consider the possibility of reconciling the parties. [More…]
I believe it to be in support of the family that there should be provisions to enable a marriage that has irretrievably broken down to be dissolved and proper provision made for any children of that family, for fair adjustment of property interests, and for equitable maintenance on the basis of need, all in proceedings that are intended to avoid exacerbating relations between the parties. [More…]
I believe this is the way in which legal effect can best be given to the declarations of principle concerning the family in the International Covenant. [More…]
The Bill does not necessarily go so far as I personally would have liked to go in reforming the present family law. [More…]
I think there are a number of areas for reform that have yet to be explored in the field of family law. [More…]
Finally the Bill makes provision for the establishment of a Family Law Advisory Committee, to consist of persons appointed by the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
The Committee is to consist of a Judge of the Family Division of the Superior Court of Australia and of such other judges, magistrates, public servants, representatives of marriage counselling organisations and other persons as the Attorney-General thinks fit. [More…]
The function of the Committee will be to advise the AttorneyGeneral on the working of the Act and on other matters relating to family law. [More…]
However, as I said when introducing the previous Bill, the Government supports the reform of the law and administration of divorce, custody and other family matters in the light of modern standards and sociology and especially so as to remove oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
I propose that the Bill, without technically leaving the control of the Senate, might be considered by the Committee in accordance with its reference, which is to report on the law and administration of divorce, custody and other family matters with particular regard to oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
However, I should say this: It had been the intention of the previous Government that it should await the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs after its consideration of the terms of reference dealing with divorce, custody and family law before presenting any Bill relating to matrimonial causes. [More…]
I have stated publicly that I think there is a great deal in the Bill which has been introduced which is constructive and which provides the basis for consideration of an appropriate divorce and family law in this country. [More…]
Patients will be perfectly free, just as at present, to choose their own family doctor. [More…]
We have put together a Family Law Bill, and even that, I think, received some favourable comments not only throughout Australia but also inside this chamber. [More…]
In the middle of last year the Minister for Defence went overseas in a VIP jet along with his family and friends. [More…]
This Minister in June went abroad on a junket flight at the taxpayers’ expense, along with his family and friends, saying that he was going to get replacements for the Mirage aircraft. [More…]
Finally, he gave them away altogether and after a 12 months period decided that he would introduce a Family Law Bill. [More…]
I have also stated before that I am reluctant to intervene on the speaking time of an honourable senator, but the honourable senator must concede that to introduce these other matters of family law and trade practices is going very wide of the mark and the subject matter before the Senate. [More…]
I am pointing out to the Senate that in relation to family law, the Government introduced Bills which were useless, threw them out and introduced new ones. [More…]
It means that the Commonwealth Government will pay for every pensioner, every unemployed person, every disadvantaged family and every new Australian who has not heard about the scheme a contribution to the present medical benefits scheme so that they will get an equal service to everybody else, a service which the Minister admits is satisfactory and of which he says the only reason for the change is the number of people eliminated under it. [More…]
If, as applies in most households today, his wife happens to be working and, being intelligent Australians, the family claims on the husband ‘s salary for the dependants, then the wife can claim no dependants at all. [More…]
Well, I suggest that the honourable senator go to the Australian Democratic Labor program and he will find that people on that sort of income- if that were their total family income with 2 children- would pay nothing at all. [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 4 or 5 times higher than his, but precisely because of my higher income. [More…]
This Government proposes to deduct $121.50 a year from a family receiving the average income, and with one million working wives - [More…]
At the present time that same family is insured as a whole family by one payment. [More…]
If that family insures under the highest scale in the medical and hospital benefits scheme, for private hospital wards and for the highest medical scale, it will cost $120 a year, and that is tax deductible. [More…]
Under the Government scheme a family receiving the average weekly wage will pay $121.50 a year, and under our scheme that family pays $80 a year. [More…]
So at the present time the Government scheme would cost infinitely more, but for a poorer service, because under our scheme for $80 a year a family gets cover for private ward treatment. [More…]
Under the Government scheme that family would get cover for standard ward treatment for $ 1 2 1 . [More…]
Today, under our scheme a single person pays half the family rate of $ 120 a year, which is $60 a year. [More…]
Do the people of Australia all want to get in a queue in order to get, as somebody pointed out earlier tonight, a service which in some instances is too quick to be effective and where there is no service by a family doctor at all? [More…]
The pensioner receives wonderful treatment from his own family doctor through a scheme which is subsidised to a degree by the Government. [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…]
It is whether all power shall go to Canberra and whether supreme power over State rights, family rights, workers rights and every other right in the community shall be dominated by Canberra and the bureaucracy. [More…]
I repeat: This election must be fought on one issue- the issue of all power to Canberra, the issue of the defence of the rights of the States, the defence of the rights of the family and the defence of all the other rights which are essential in any community such as ours. [More…]
Grants of up to $2,200 for a single person and $3,000 for a family for the relief of personal hardship and distress including emergency repairs to houses to make them habitable and secure. [More…]
Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield comes from a distinguished South Australian family. [More…]
In 1955 he became the fifteenth and latest member of the British Royal Family to be appointed a fieldmarshal. [More…]
He represented his family at the 50th anniversary of Anzac in Australia in 1965. [More…]
The Duke was a man who disliked many of the social tasks which necessarily fall upon members of the Royal Family but he manfully showed a sense of public duty worthy of his high station throughout his long life. [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…]
The Duke of Gloucester undoubtedly was better known by personal contact in this country than was any other member of the Royal Family before the last decade, and especially before the visits of Her Majesty. [More…]
It gave this Parliament power to legislate with respect to the provision of maternity allowances, widows pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, and medical and dental services but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription, benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 April 1974 of Nicholas Edward McKenna, a former Senator for the State of Tasmania from 1 944 to 1 968, a Minister of the Crown from 1946 to 1949, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1949 to 1951 and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1951 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…]
I did not leave it until this occasion respectfully to enable him to understand the sympathy which I had for the sadnesses of his family lifesympathy which we have and express today- seeing the death of his wife and his son, survived by his daughter and other relatives. [More…]
On behalf of my Party and myself I extend sympathy to his family. [More…]
I was glad that Senator Wright made reference to Nick McKenna ‘s tragic family life which I do not think was widely known outside Tasmania. [More…]
I had the honour to represent the President at ex-Senator McKenna ‘s funeral service and was able to speak to his family. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 22 April 1 974 of Joseph Clement Sexton, a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Adelaide from 19S8 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…]
On behalf of my Country Party colleagues, I extend sympathy to his family. [More…]
He was a true family man, and I join with my colleagues and the Parliament in offering sincere condolences to his family. [More…]
We took steps to encourage them to become citizens, to join the family of the nation. [More…]
As part of a family, I knew unemployment. [More…]
The fact that a man tried to keep his family on $10 or $15 a week, which was the miserly rate of unemployment benefit paid at that time, also did not matter at all to them. [More…]
In view of the fact that pensioners tend to move from place to place among members of their family, perhaps as much as or maybe even more than other members of the community do, has any thought been given to reexamining the requirement of the payment of a mail redirection fee which has applied since last October so that pensioners in this situation can be relieved of the additional cost? [More…]
I do not think that the Leader of the Australian Country Party in the other place, or any of his supporters on the Opposition benches in this place, will question the accuracy of what I am about to say because at the time referred to this newspaper was owned by his family. [More…]
The family to which that young woman belonged was not a member of any medical benefit organisation, but in her home city one of the many doctors who have a humane outlook on life, who treat people as patients and who remember their sacred oath, treated this young woman under the pensioner medical scheme. [More…]
It will be, because a doctor has to live, he has to raise his family and send his children to school. [More…]
Instead of making these people fight for acceptance of certain disabilities due to war service, simply put returned ex-servicemen into the higher scale of medical benefits and let him and probably his family be covered for all illnesses. [More…]
They were family friends and confessors. [More…]
I think that doctors are entitled to some free time for family life and recreation. [More…]
Today a married man can go to a medical and hospital fund and insure the whole family. [More…]
If his wife is working, he can insure himself, his wife and his children for one family payment for treatment in the top private hospital, all for about $130 at this moment. [More…]
I think anything that forces a working family to pay more money in this inflation-ridden country which the honourable senator and his colleagues have inflicted upon the people is wrong and wicked. [More…]
Here we have a proposition that the husband, the bread winner of the family, pays one sum for all and it is tax deductible. [More…]
-The fund charges a single person 50 per cent of the family rate and it is tax deductible. [More…]
Does anyone say that under the scheme all working people in a family shall pay? [More…]
Already people have pointed out that the 1.35 per cent super tax will not be imposed on only one working member of a family; it will be imposed on every working member of the family. [More…]
I personally believe that general medical practice is a specialty in itself and I also believe that specialists would be far more effective if they had some basic knowledge of family medicine. [More…]
If not, will it mean that there will be a serious cut-back in the Government’s family reunion program or a cut-back in the selection of people with any special skills which are in particular need at this time? [More…]
I and my family much appreciate their sympathy. [More…]
I know many purposeful people who have spent years in training and who get $6,000, $7,000 or $7,500, and are rearing a family on that salary. [More…]
I do not know what Senator Hall’s income is, but I do know that he is a member of a 2-income family and I also believe that he has a farming property. [More…]
The amount of $4,100 is almost absorbed in the first place by the purchase and maintenance of his motor vehicle, or even two motor vehicles if his wife and family are particularly active in the ordinary course of events in the pursuit of his career. [More…]
For instance, Senator Carrick referred at some length to some of the problems that are encountered by a member of the Parliament in relation to the performance of his duties and in relation to that aspect of his duties which bears very much upon what happens in his family and in his general family life. [More…]
The points which Senator Carrick made and which appealed to me were those which referred, for instance, to the family life aspect, which I have just mentioned. [More…]
The family of a member of Parliament becomes involved not only in the general political atmosphere of the home but also physically and actively in what the member is doing. [More…]
Yet other members of Parliament are supplemented in their income by other members of their family, such as a working wife. [More…]
have a little time with my family. [More…]
They have already contacted 2 children who come from a family in Canberra. [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Treasurer whether he will give serious consideration in the Budget to enabling taxpayers to claim as a tax deductible item fees for the use of ambulances, as these fees can and in many instances do impose severe financial hardship on an injured person and/or his or her family? [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, and 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…]
If this type of disadvantaged family were embraced in a government program of social concern and social assistance, it would assist many fathers who are attempting to care for preschool age children and younger children who are in a financially disadvantaged position at present. [More…]
It was owned by the Cox family, of whom New South Wales historians would be fully aware. [More…]
Bills we are having to make a decision which will affect every person and every family in this country. [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 63 cents (single) and 51.25 (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, ‘ Mr. Hayden said. [More…]
Let us ask the many hundreds of thousands of Australian wives who are working as part of a family team how they are going to enjoy having to pay 1.35 per cent of their net income as a levy for something which can now be obtained as a benefit by the breadwinner in the family at a family rate. [More…]
Under the proposed scheme they will pay more than they are paying now; and, if other people in the family group are earning money, they will have to pay the levy as well. [More…]
I should remind the Senate, as has been done frequently before, that there is compelling evidence that the scheme that the Government now seeks to project will cost infinitely more for the ordinary family and will provide a dearer and inferior service. [More…]
The ordinary family is to be robbed 2 ways- by monopoly levy on the pay packet and by a raid upon taxation. [More…]
Today the husband of a family can insure the whole family under a family rate. [More…]
The husband can cover himself, his wife and children on the one family rate. [More…]
Having paid that family rate, that rate is then tax deductible to the husband and therefore is considerably reduced, even for Mr Whitlam ‘s driver. [More…]
I should add that under the existing scheme today a single person pays one half the family rate and that rate is tax deductible. [More…]
If they join a fund as a family and insure themselves they can put the whole family under cover for private hospitals at the current and future rates, put in a claim for tax deductibility and end up paying less than a net $ 100 for the whole family for a year- and for private ward treatment. [More…]
If it is modern and trendy to tax the working wives, to rob the working family, then Mr Minister, you can be modern and trendy on your own. [More…]
Senator Carrick said that a family would have to pay another $60. [More…]
Does the Government accept the Opposition’s view that home ownership is a vitally important part of family life and that, given the incentive of home ownership, the pride in the area is greater, the belonging is greater and the whole venture would be more durable and more enriched? [More…]
From the report of the Prices Justification Tribunal on the price of butter-on this occasion the butter does not melt in one’s mouth- one finds the bureaucratic Tribunal in accepting the costs of dairy farms in this year 1973-74, attributing to family labour $2,369 and to the operator’s allowance $3,001, making a total for family labour, as assessed, $5,370- less than the salary paid to any clerk in this outfit, who gets in addition maternity or paternity allowance and 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to repeal the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959-1973 and to replace it with a greatly improved, comprehensive set of provisions dealing not only with divorce but also with other areas of family law. [More…]
I first introduced the Family Law Bill into the Senate in December 1973. [More…]
These are the main reforms introduced by the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Honourable senators who were present in this chamber when I introduced the earlier Family [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the contribution of a family for the standard public hospital benefit will increase from 82c to $1.16; for the intermediate ward benefits, the contribution will increase from $1.28 to 1.80; and for the private ward benefit the contribution will increase from $1.52 to $2.14. [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…]
It will also be easier to offer any consular assistance to members of the Baltic communities in Australia to visit their family homeland. [More…]
I have instanced company law, the law of defamation, shipping and navigation, legislative controls with respect to pornography, criminal law and family law. [More…]
Once this person comes into the hands of certain people, whether it be the Russian consul or other people who are involved, and he is isolated from those to whom he originally went and sought residence in Australia- he told them he wished to stay in Australia and he gave the reasons why he wished to stay in Australia and they were not political reasons- he will then come under the pressure of the consul and because his own family is in Russia he will be threatened. [More…]
The family will be dealt with. [More…]
-Senator Douglas McClelland has reminded me of what the members of my family do for a living. [More…]
1 ) That notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs be empowered on its re-appointment to consider the clauses of the Family Law Bill 1974 during its consideration of the matter previously referred to it. [More…]
namely the Law and Administration of Divorce, Custody and Family Matters. [More…]
In addition $17,424 of an approved research grant of $20,904 to help establish a Family Day Care program at Knox and to compare the operation of that program with the one conducted in Fitzroy by the Brotherhood of St Laurence has been paid to the Council. [More…]
She spent some time with the Family Welfare Bureau and in Melbourne with the Australian Imperial Forces Women’s Association. [More…]
I am sure that all members of the Senate will join with me in expressing our deepest sympathy to Sir John Kerr and his family in their bereavement. [More…]
That the Senate 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…]
All Australians regret the tragedy that has befallen the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and his family. [More…]
During the war years, she worked with the Family Welfare Branch and the AIF Women’s Association. [More…]
All Australians will extend personal sympathy to him and his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I extend our sympathy to Sir John and his family. [More…]
On behalf of my Party I offer deep sympathy to Sir John and his family. [More…]
We extend our sympathy to his wife and family, to the New Zealand Government and to the New Zealand people. [More…]
That the Senate records its sincere regret at the death on 31 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…]
All Australians will join the people of New Zealand and his family in mourning him. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition senators I extend our deepest sympathy and concern to his family. [More…]
On behalf of my Party we offer to Mrs Kirk and to her family our deepest sympathy. [More…]
In the main, his love was his family and those people whom he represented, particularly the less fortunate people in Western Australia and in other parts of this nation. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I extend to Mrs Leslie and her family the deepest sympathy. [More…]
He said that the Senate may be invited to proceed to debate the second reading of the Bill before 17 October when presumably this Committee will present its report on the clauses of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In that way the Senate, in debating the second reading of the Family Law Bill, would have the advantage of the matter which has been considered by the Committee up to date on the general philosophy of matrimonial causes legislation. [More…]
I take the opportunity also to inform the Senate that I have taken note of the proposal that the Family Court, which under the Bill is included in the Superior Court, be taken out of that Court and that a separate Family Court be established. [More…]
It should not be very difficult to provide for a Family Court outside the structure of the Superior Court. [More…]
Perhaps the question will be resolved before we get to the Family Law BUI. [More…]
Then there is the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I do not know how the passage of the Family Law Bill, or the debate on it, is going to cure the great national problem of inflation. [More…]
When I was practising law there I had as clients a Latvian family who had come to this country as refugees. [More…]
This lad and his family for the rest of their lives must walk in fear of duress, of torture and of intervention by the Russians. [More…]
I repeat what has already been said on this side of the Senate today: There is a long arm of memory in relation to these people, and there is always the uncertainty and the question mark relating to his freedom and that of his family. [More…]
They may be family, divorce, custody or maintenance problems or financial problems of one kind or another. [More…]
I present an interim report and transcript of evidence from the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on its inquiry into the law and administration of divorce and related matters and the Family Law Bill 1974.I move: [More…]
Senator JAMES McCLELLANDHonourable senators will recall that yesterday in my capacity as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs I tabled an interim report on the law and administration of divorce and related matters and the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
This is the body which pays the bills, which puts up the bond for the house which the woman eventually finds and which looks after the family. [More…]
That the Senate 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 1 93 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…]
On behalf of the Government I extend our sympathy to his wife and family, and I commend the motion to the Senate. [More…]
The expressions of sympathy that were conveyed at that State ceremony yesterday to Lady Harrison and her family, and the widely representative groups that attended to convey their respects to the memory of the man who had passed away, made it a very moving occasion for us all. [More…]
He had integrity not only in his home life and family life but also in his parliamentary life. [More…]
He loved his family life. [More…]
He had a love of nature and an eagerness, right until his final illness, to serve Australia as he did as a citizen, as a family man, as a parliamentarian, as an ex-serviceman and as a diplomat. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable senators of the Liberal Party join in supporting the motion moved by the Leader of the Government to express our sincere sympathy to Lady Harrison and her family and our profound admiration of one who served Australia so faithfully and well throughout his adult lifetime and made a tremendous contribution in this time to our history and to the progress and development of Australia. [More…]
My colleagues and I extend deep sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
I will not precisely spell out the situation but Mr Watson has been a consultant in connection with the drawing up of the Family Law Bill and the various amendments. [More…]
It stops the depriving of a family of the income of the breadwinner who is in gaol when he has done no more to society than enjoy himself and have too much to drink. [More…]
Nothing is said about spouses, about family trusts or about the methods whereby a person can set out deliberately as a member of the Parliament to hide his income but retain control as well as the ownership of his assets. [More…]
They are places where young married people are able to mould their lives along the paths of their own choice; they are places where they can mould the lives of their young children and where the love within a family can develop without the hindrance of pressures that intrude unless people have their own homes. [More…]
I say unquestionably that under this concept of the new family life where for various reasons women return to work after a period of years, the provision of pre-school child minding facilties is a must. [More…]
This decision, in common with many other actions of the Government, seems to have been dictated by pressures from within the trade union movement which seems not to want to appreciate, or is unable to appreciate, that the whole family in rural areas is often involved 7 days a week for up to 12 hours a day. [More…]
Last weekend Dr Cairns, on a trial run for Acting Prime Minister before going to see Chou En-lai with his family and others in a VIP aircraft, visited Tasmania. [More…]
They are paid a lump sum to invest as they think will best benefit themselves and their family responsibilities in their old age. [More…]
I will mention just one of them: The Family Welfare Bureau is the only family counselling bureau in Sydney for a large number of people from poor areas. [More…]
I do not need to remind you how dangerous and destructive inflation can be for the worker and his family. [More…]
But in relation to that review, he has given an undertaking that family reunions will be given the highest priority, that applications which are presently being processed will not be affected, that generally the objectives to which the honourable senator refers will be maintained and there will be no departure from those objectives. [More…]
This matter is of vital importance to what is, or has been, a major family organisation business. [More…]
Mr President, I present the report of the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on the law and administration of divorce and related matters and the Family Law BUI 1974. [More…]
In the result, the Committee has recommended many amendments ranging from small suggestions for more exact drafting to such major innovations as the proposal for the setting up of a totally new and separate family court of Australia. [More…]
This proposal involves the assimilation of all family matters into one court, with active pre-divorce and post-divorce counselling not merely to assist reconciliation but also to provide for the reduction of bitterness and distress and alleviating ongoing post-divorce problems. [More…]
Firstly, I imagine that the report will be of considerable assistance to all honourable senators in the consideration of the clauses of the Family Law Bill when it comes on for debate. [More…]
I also believe that the report will be of some assistance to persons outside the Parliament who are interested in the provisions of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The first is that part of the misapprehension which exists at the present time is due to what I have ascertained to be a fact, namely, that copies of the Family Law Bill were not easily obtainable and in some places frankly were not obtainable until some steps were taken to have increased supplies made available. [More…]
The law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters with particular regard to oppressive costs, delays, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
I think it will be recalled that throughout 1972 the attitude of the previous Government was not to proceed with its own inquiry into what were the necessary reforms in the area of divorce, custody and family law generally but to await the report of this Committee. [More…]
We now have a report, which I am sure will be valuable, on the clauses of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
But we do not have a report on the whole question of the philosophy and the objectives which family law legislation should be recognising and endeavouring to achieve. [More…]
The reference of the clauses of the Family Law Bill to this Committee stated: [More…]
That notwithstanding anything contained in Standing Orders, the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs be empowered on its reappointment to consider the clauses of the Family Law Bill 1 974 during its consideration of the matter previously referred to it, namely the Law and Administration of Divorce, Custody and Family Matters. [More…]
What we are denied by this report is the consideration by this Committee of all the submissions which it received prior to 1973 in terms of what should be the objectives of family law legislation in this country. [More…]
The Committee did not ask for any general submissions from the public as to the clauses of this Family Law Bill. [More…]
They are familiar with the material involved in family law. [More…]
Senator Missen spoke on the subject of the presentation of the report by my colleague, Senator James McClelland, from the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs relating to its consideration and its recommendations after its deliberations on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It is possible that this question is related to a misunderstanding of the nature of the Family Medicine Program of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, under which some resident medical officers may attend such centres as part of their training. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974, would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Family Law Bill 1974 should not be further considered by the Senate for a period of at least 6 months, in order that- [More…]
I ask this question in the light of a statement in the Senate yesterday that the Committee limited its work on the Family Law Bill as follows: [More…]
What we are denied by this report is the consideration by this Committee of all the submissions which it received prior to 1 973 in terms of what should be the objectives of family law legislation in this country. [More…]
The second leg of the question was: Was the specific reference on the Family Law Bill made to the Committee only on 16 August 1974? [More…]
We chose practising lawyers, including a judge of the only family court which exists in Australia, namely, Judge Burnett of the South Australian court. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself, and all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Yesterday during question time questions without notice were directed by Senators Chaney and Sir Kenneth Anderson to Senator James McClelland, Chairman of the Senate Committee inquiring into the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the right of the Control Board to determine the times during which children’s and family programs may be televised has been the subject of challenge by at least one commercial station? [More…]
Board’s right to determine the times when children’s and family programs may be televised also has been subject to change. [More…]
Probably in recent weeks the honourable senator has seen reports that the Board requested the deletion of certain matter from a television episode being shown in family and children’s viewing time. [More…]
The points system was designed to enable the stations to bring about a diversity of programming having regard to their choice and also having regard to the time slots for children’s viewing time, family viewing time and matters of that nature. [More…]
I went through the Bill with them and asked them whether they could make any suggestion for an alteration of the existing law, such as to the grounds for divorce, whether they wanted to retain the particular grounds of adultery, desertion and so on, or whether they wanted a change in any of the particular matters contained in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I could not get any proposal of any kind out of them, notwithstanding the fact that several months ago that organisation circulated, no doubt at considerable expense and after a lot of effort, what purported to be an analysis of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and further marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore, humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effect of such a Bill upon our Australian society, [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1 974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill will be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
I therefore join with you Mr President, on behalf of the Liberal members of this Senate in expressing very sincere condolences to the family of ex-Senator Harris. [More…]
All Family Matters must come out of the Legal System. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
All Family Matters must come out of the Legal System. [More…]
Only the breach of Agreement should incur Legal Process and the Family Law Bill used as a last resort, with family courts for enforcement only. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
All Family Matters must come out of the Legal System. [More…]
Only the breach of Agreement should incur Legal Process and the Family Law Bill used as a last resort, with family courts for enforcement only. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1939. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
All Family Matters must come out of the Legal System. [More…]
Only the breach of Agreement should incur Legal Process and the Family Law Bill used as a last resort, with family courts for enforcement only. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 19S9. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
All family matters must come out of the Legal System. [More…]
Only the breach of Agreement should incur Legal Process and the Family Law Bill used as a last resort, with family courts for enforcement only. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]
Petition to register objections to the introduction of the Family Law Bill into the Australian Parliament. [More…]
We, the undersigned persons, interested in the welfare of the family life in Australia and the maintenance of community standards, desire to bring to the notice of the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled, the registration of protests to the principle contained in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We consider that the proposed legislation does not support the principle laid down by United Nation’s Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State”, in that: [More…]
The present law provides that consideration is given to the support of wife and children; it would seem that in the proposed law it will be far more difficult for the family to receive just consideration in the event of a dissolution of the marriage. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled should be informed that the attached pages 1 to 54 be considered as supporting the statements contained above as objections to the introduction of the Family Law Bill into the Australian Parliament. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill (1974) is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill (1974) is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill (1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill (1974) is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that ail sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1 974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1 974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the ‘Family Law Bill 1974.’ [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself, and all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage as the sole ground for divorce, as set down in the Family Law Bill 1973 based on one year’s separation. [More…]
-Has the Attorney-General had an opportunity to study the amendments to the Family Law Bill proposed by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and, in particular, the amendments which would defer the right to commence proceedings for dissolution of marriage until after a period of 12 months separation has actually occurred? [More…]
Has he also studied the recommendation for the setting up of a separate family court? [More…]
In relation to the proposal for the family court, I think it has a lot to commend it. [More…]
In the Family Law Bill provision is made for a family court to be established within the Superior Court. [More…]
It was intended that the family court should be a separate division with judges especially selected for it. [More…]
If it will assist in the passage of the Bill and stop attention being distracted from the other great issues, that is, having a family court whether inside or outside the Superior Court and having these other important improvements in the area of family law, I would favour the acceptance of the separate family court. [More…]
On 27 September 1974, at La Trobe in Tasmania, the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Cairns, assured people at a public meeting that the capital gains tax would not apply to a property left by a farmer to his family. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that this is yet another example of a punitive impost on the people of non-metropolitan Australia, that it is excessive and is likely to prevent the farmer and his family from availing themselves of a telephone service? [More…]
We think it is important, because of the very limited degree of development of this industry, that a person from a small family company or in an owner developing type of situation should not be precluded from becoming a member of the Commission. [More…]
I suggest we have a discussion on the proposition that the wording of the section would preclude a film producer who in the past may have made films and had a small family company in which he was involved. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
All family matters must come out of the legal system. [More…]
Only the breach of agreement should incur legal process and the Family Law Bill used as a last resort, with family courts for enforcement only. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]
On behalf of Senator Chaney and myself I give contingent notice of motion of an amendment to the Family Law Bill as follows: [More…]
That, contingent upon the Family Law Bill 1974 being considered in Committee of the Whole, I shall move the following amendment: Page IS, clause 26, sub-clause (2), line 5, leave out ‘twelve months’, insert ‘two years’. [More…]
Has the Minister noted that this rise means that the price of bread- a staple part of family diet- has risen by 32 per cent since the Federal elections in May? [More…]
I present the transcript of the in camera evidence from the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on its inquiry into the law and administration of divorce and matters related to the Family Law Bill 1974. [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 ofT 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…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage as the sole ground for divorce, as set down in the Family Law Bill 1974 based on one years separation. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONWhile recognising that the order of business is the prerogative of the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and the Manager of Government Business in the Senate (Senator Douglas McClelland) and without in any way reflecting upon what I may subsequently do in respect of the Family Law Bill in an entirely different context from the present context, I suggest to Senator Murphy that having regard to the tremendous concern and interest as borne out by the number of petitions to the Senate in respect of the Family Law Bill, and also having in mind the nature of reporting of Senate proceedings, I ask him to consider bringing the Family Law Bill on tomorrow instead of today. [More…]
Excise)- It was arranged last week that the Family Law Bill would be brought on today and I do not see that those arrangements ought to be altered. [More…]
It was agreed between us that debate on the Family Law Bill, as a result of constant representations brought to me by Senator Murphy, would take place today. [More…]
It has also been arranged that, subject to Senator Wheeldon being here at 8 o’clock, the debate on the Family Law Bill will be interrupted so that Senator Wheeldon can have the Repatriation Acts Amendment Bill 1974 and the Social Services Bill (No. [More…]
-The Family Law Bill 1974 is a Bill of the greatest importance to the Australian people. [More…]
During the debate on this Bill we must bear in mind that there is also in existence the Marriage Act which covers many areas that are complementary to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
They may be very necessary to complement the changes which will be made in the family law as provided in this Bill. [More…]
I think it must be said early in the debate that the family as we know it in Australia is not broken, as some people seem to think; it is in fact a greater institution than it has ever been in this country. [More…]
The history of divorce legislation indicates that harsh laws have frequently been introduced and retained not because they were considered meritorious in themselves but because they were considered a safeguard to the stability of the family. [More…]
A high divorce rate will weaken the structure of the family in society. [More…]
Since society is based on the family unit, society itself will therefore be threatened. [More…]
Divorce can thus be seen as actually contributing to marriage stability, by rechannelling conflicting partners and their children into more viable family settings. [More…]
It is designed, as the AttorneyGeneral has said, to alleviate the high costs, delays and indignities of divorce and other aspects of family law. [More…]
In that State a successful family court is operating and that may be the reason why it is not found necessary to use the power of imprisonment. [More…]
The first of these proposals, which I consider the most important, is to recommend the establishment of a family court of Australia. [More…]
The judges who will go around the countryside sitting in one provincial city after another and doing most of the hard work of a family court should not be old judges or ‘geriatric judges’ as they have been described by one of our Senate colleagues. [More…]
Thereby we can have younger judges who are particularly suited to the work which a family court requires. [More…]
Occasionally he might do a little family court work, very often disliking that sort of work because it is not the matter on which he has spent most of his legal career. [More…]
In a very detailed study which he made of the family courts of America and Canada he came to the conclusion that such a court was a very suitable facility for this country. [More…]
I have reached the conclusion that family courts would be a desirable improvement to Australia’s legal system, provided they have this ancillary function of counselling. [More…]
I also feel that the gathering together in the one court (or in 2 courts along the lines suggested by the Sydney University Law Graduates Association) of all the family matters mentioned in paragraph 4 above would be attractive to the legal profession and public alike. [More…]
It recommended that a family court be adopted and that there be co-operation with the States so that it will work with success. [More…]
In addition let me refer to a report from certain Canadian specialists who were asked to consider the question of a family court. [More…]
We believe that these problems of conflicting and fragmented jurisdictions, and the advantages of consistency in philosophy and approach, expertise in dealing with the family relationship, and practical use of social services, can best be dealt with by the creation of one Court with exclusive jurisdiction in the field of Family Law . [More…]
As a blue print for the future, this kind of scheme is being given very serious consideration in Canada, and indeed a pilot Family Court Conciliation scheme has recently been set up by the Canadian Federal Government in Edmonton, where its success is exceeding all expectations. [More…]
In Australia the one family court which has been set up in South Australia, which unfortunately is dealing only with those jurisdictions below the Supreme Court level, has been an outstanding success in the last year. [More…]
The Committee considered many other aspects of the Bill apart from the family court. [More…]
That Synod urgently commends to the Australian Parliament that the Family Law Bill 1974 be amended in the interests of the preservation of the family as the basic unit of our society to provide that no application may be made for divorce under the Bill until the parties have lived separately and apart for at least 12 months. [More…]
We on the Committee see that we are dealing with a completely new ‘ball game’ in the sense that a family court will make a tremendous difference to all areas covered by the legislation and that proper operation of that family court will mean that throughout the year of separation there will be a helping, on-going 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 it is a different situation if there is an active, operating family court operating during the period of the separation. [More…]
We bear in mind again the effect which a family court would have in filling out and giving substance to these provisions. [More…]
We hope that the provision of a family court will make them matters of reality. [More…]
There may be such special circumstances where a wife is not by law entitled to any family property which she owns. [More…]
One major recommendation of the Committee is the upgrading of the advisory body recommended in the Bill into a Family Law Commission. [More…]
I believe that any family law must be strong, useful and constructive. [More…]
The other matter which, in my view, will make this divorce law an enlightened, humane and dignified proceeding is found in the suggestion that has come from our Committee for the institution of a Family Court. [More…]
I am pleased that the Attorney-General has been persuaded that the suggestion that has come from the Committee for the institution of an entirely separate Family Court of Australia is a good one. [More…]
The notion of a Family Court is well established in some parts of the world. [More…]
We had the benefit of some evidence from a judge of the South Australian Family Court. [More…]
We suggest that a court should be set up which deals with nothing but family matters. [More…]
The assimilation of all family matters into one court, with active pre-divorce and post-divorce counselling not merely to assist reconciliation but also to provide for the reduction of bitterness and distress and in alleviating on-going postdivorce problems. [More…]
In the present circumstances it is unreasonable that she should have to wait until a circuit Family Court visited Bourke or some neighbouring large town, or that she should have to go to Sydney or even to Dubbo or some place like that. [More…]
This is what we have in mind as a development of this Family Court. [More…]
We imagine this Court being a court which goes to the people, which travels around the country and, indeed, which travels to places like Bourke and not at long intervals, so that the atmosphere of the family court which we regard as so important will be available not only to dwellers in the big metropolitan centres but also to people in far-flung, small towns and isolated localities throughout the country. [More…]
We believe in a combination of this humanitarian ground of irretrievable breakdown provable by 12 months separation and a Family Court- an exclusive, specialist Family Courtstaffed by carefully selected judges and assisted by experts such as welfare officers, counsellors, psychologists, accountants and other people such as accountants who might advise those whose marriage is in difficulty primarily because they cannot handle their finances on how to get their affairs in order. [More…]
But in reply to Senator Baume ‘s question, there must be grave doubt at this time whether this sort of thing could be taken within the purview of the family court. [More…]
In his report to the Swedish Government one of its Ministers, in talking about the overhaul of legislation on family matters in 1969, put it in this way: [More…]
A family’s options are also frequently limited by a lack of child day-care centres and nursery schools. [More…]
Finally I would like to say just this, that the illusion that tightening up divorce laws is the best way to counter the disintegration of the family is something that we have to face squarely. [More…]
We are discussing the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
Once again the members and the public are staggered that the Senate appointed a Committee of Lawyers to provide amendments to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I shall limit my contribution to some of the social areas; to discussing what we mean by marriage, what we mean by divorce and what we should mean by family law. [More…]
The people who have been looking at the Bill and who have been lobbying us have a valid point if they say that it is only in the past 2 weeks- it is less than that actually, because this document has not been on sale for the past 2 weeks- or during the period that the report has been on sale in the bookshops that they have been able to analyse the new, new, new Family Law Bill, depending upon which model we look at, to analyse the amendments and to work out what they might want to say in reply. [More…]
It would be wrong if we saw the Family Law Bill solely in terms of the legal framework of marriage. [More…]
No matter what new ideas come, we must try now to protect the stable bonding of man and woman and provide a stable situation in which children can be brought up and protected and in which family life can be established. [More…]
There is more stress on people as individuals; less of our needs are met from within the family; more things are done in schools; more of our needs are met from outside; people turn less to the family for their recreational needs. [More…]
The family structure itself has altered. [More…]
The family is less supported and less extended. [More…]
It made a large number of comments relating to family life, family structure and family stability. [More…]
If we are thinking about family law and family law Bills we are thinking about a situation in which one-fifth or one-quarter of the marriages in our society will break down and end in the divorce court. [More…]
It is not good enough for us to start talking about buttressing the family at the point of divorce. [More…]
I am very keen to ensure that under this Bill we do not create the situation where a whole generation of women who have contributed to family life and to the bringing up of children are now left with nothing but the chance to go back and work for subsistence. [More…]
We have a situation where conduct comes back into the field of family law and no one society should think of a family law situation where conduct is not relevant. [More…]
In a family law Bill- not necessarily this Family Law Bill but an ideal Bill- we should be seeking a way of creating better marriages and in some way of maintaining those marriages. [More…]
I believe it would be better if the counselling services were provided separately from the family courts. [More…]
My view is that the family courts will use these facilities well- there is no question about thatand they will be extremely valuable to their functioning. [More…]
Looking at what the Americans have done, I remind the Senate that they set up an ad hoc committee on a Standard Family Court and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency. [More…]
It is not really a family law Bill in the sense that it takes in the measures which I would like to have seen to support and strengthen marriage. [More…]
It is only secondarily a family law Bill of the kind I would like to see. [More…]
But to the extent that the Bill does not work to hold families together or to strengthen the family unit in our society, the Bill fails. [More…]
I hope to see some consideration given to whether counselling services might better exist outside the family court, though still working closely with it. [More…]
I also hope it will be followed by the other measures which are so necessary to strengthen marriage and to buttress family life. [More…]
I think it is true to say that the attention of many thousands of people throughout Australia is focused on the Senate as it debates the Family Law Bill and that that attention will continue to be given to this debate until the Committee stage has been concluded. [More…]
It is therefore to me pleasing to observe, if I may do so, that the debate on this Bill, which by now has extended over some hours, has been of an extremely high standard, free from the acrimony which is often associated with debates in this chamber and, I believe, indicative of the fact that it is the wish of all honourable senators to ensure that the best family law legislation can be enacted without undue delay. [More…]
Proposals of reform have ranged from the suggestion that marriage should be a 5 -year renewable contract, recently put forward by an American social worker, Mrs Virginia Satir, to more sophisticated proposals for including breakdown of marriage as a ground for divorce and the introduction of family courts and courts of domestic relations. [More…]
I say without hesitation that a vast amount of the money that has been paid to lawyers over the years under the present system would have been far better spent in being applied to the proper purposes of the family, including the children. [More…]
So long as the present system remains and so long as present procedure remains, the payment of sums that ought to be kept within the family or within one or more members of the family will go on. [More…]
It would, of course, be true to say very simply that the 2 principal amendments that are proposed to the existing law are, firstly, with regard to the ground for dissolution of marriage and, secondly, with regard to the family court, and I propose to deal with each of those in turn. [More…]
During its sessions a Resolution was carried in relation to the current Family Law Bill, August 1974. [More…]
Resolution: ‘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…]
The second basic feature of the Committee’s report which one understands will be accepted by the Government is the institution of the family court and the making of the family court the kernel of the administrative processes of the system established by this Bill. [More…]
I will not pause to delay the Senate on that other than to say 2 things: Firstly, at the time of the Committee’s deliberations the South Australian family court system was beginning to be regarded as the model on which the States could well base their systems. [More…]
Under the Act no application need be made if the Committee’s recommendation is adopted before the counselling procedures of the family court can be set in train. [More…]
The Committee certainly did not envisage, so far as I am aware, that the only source of counselling should be through the family court. [More…]
So it is not a case, if this was what Senator Baume had in his mind, where the family court counselling procedures would be in any way exclusive. [More…]
I know of cases in which thousands of dollars has been expended on legal procedures which, as I said earlier, could much more properly have been put at the disposal of members of the family. [More…]
The remaining matter I want to mention relates to the Family Law Council which is dealt with on page 35 of the report of the Committee. [More…]
Even if this Bill is passed, I doubt whether we have seen the last of the efforts of the Australian Parliament to pass a completely proper family law Bill. [More…]
I think the Family Law Council has to be brought into the on-going consideration of the propriety of our legislation in a very vital and very concerned way. [More…]
I see this Bill, if it is passed in substantially the form recommended by the Committee, as introducing for the first dme a benign, nationalistic approach to a matter which either affects or potentially can affect any family in the community. [More…]
Writing this account of my life has given me no pleasure at all and it goes without saying that if I had my time all over again I would have gone about things very differently, lt is to be hoped that the new Family Law Bill will go a long way to eliminating this humiliating and degrading exercise and make settlements fairer and less traumatic. [More…]
I rise to speak very briefly in relation to the Family Law Bill- perhaps, Mr Deputy President, I should warn you of that fact in view of the state of the Senate- because much of the ground which one might cover has already been covered so competently by Senator Missen, Senator James McClellend and Senator Everett among other honourable senators who have already spoken. [More…]
Not only does that undermine for all time the relationship between the 2 parties to the marriage but it seriously undermines, in my view, the possibility of a proper relationship being arrived at after divorce by the parents with each other and with their children so that some degree of family fabric and a proper relationship may be maintained for the benefit of those children. [More…]
It involved not only the parties to a particular marriage but also a whole network of relationships with relatives of various kinds in what might properly be called an extended family. [More…]
However, in the 1970s the extended family relationships which existed and which, I believe, may have been a very strong bolster to the institution of marriage, no longer exist to the same extent in urbanised societies. [More…]
Its people are alienated from each other, and its family units are no longer of an extended nature in that they are alienated by distance and by the complexities of travel in large cities and so on. [More…]
Today engagements tend to be of shorter duration and are part of a much more anonymous society than the one which existed when marriage was a truly viable institution of the extended family. [More…]
It has been suggested that this legislation in fact constitutes an attack on the institution of the family. [More…]
As I said earlier, the family as an institution is under attack, and it is under attack because of the pressures of urban life, the alienation of citizens one from the other, and an inability to cope with the pressures and complexities of life generally. [More…]
In their concern to preserve the institution of marriage, for reasons which are expressed in that document, they set out a number of considerations which they regard as important in the institution of the family. [More…]
I think it is proper to say that the institution of the family must be seen in its historical context and as subject to change under contemporary pressures which cannot be relieved or even improved upon by legislation of this kind. [More…]
For example, one claim made by a body known as the Foundation for the Family in relation to the fault ground is as follows: [More…]
That may be a shallow analogy because divorce may be said to affect in some way the fabric of our society if one accepts the view, which I think we must subject to critical analysis, that the family is not itself a changing institution and that the tendency in our society is for relationships to develop outside the marriage extra-marital relationships- in a way to which we might not have been used some 20 years or 25 years ago. [More…]
This legislation does direct itself in a positive way to trying to grapple, insofar as man-made institutions can do, with the preservation of family relationships and of human relationships in a much more meaningful way than I believe the existing legislation does. [More…]
The first of those relates to the provision of a family court. [More…]
This legislation proposes a family court. [More…]
I wish that all honourable senators had had the opportunity to hear the views of the witnesses who gave evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and particularly the evidence of Judge Burnett of the South Australian Family Court. [More…]
We heard the views and experience of a very distinguished South Australian legal practitioner, now a judge, who after years of almost despair and synicism, as he put it, over the operations of divorce law and its effects in Australia, is now a judge of the Family Court of South Australia. [More…]
We gained the impression from him- and I hope that some honourable senators will have an opportunity to visit the South Australian Family Court and to observe it- of a court which deals with problems which come before it with great dignity, humanity and compassion. [More…]
I commend the family court proposals to the Senate, without dealing with them in any detail, as a new and desirable social concept. [More…]
The Committee’s report recommends a substantial improvement in this situation so that future family problems will not be determined in part by the availability of finance to the parties involved. [More…]
Clause 9 1 of the Bill provides for the establishment of a Family Law Advisory Committee in respect of which a new draft section has been suggested in the report of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. [More…]
The suggestion to establish a Family Law Advisory Committee to see family law legislation as a continually evolving and growing thing is a very important recommendation of the Committee and a very important provision in the Bill. [More…]
But I must say that I am deeply concerned at the implications which go with and are part of family law legislation generally and, in particular, that legislation which is before us now. [More…]
That is just what this Family Law Bill does; it provides for a separation of a couple for 12 months as absolute grounds for a divorce. [More…]
We all know that the area of family law has become the object of increasing concern to the whole community. [More…]
Therefore a thorough contemplation of the Family Law Bill is very necessary, but to look at the proposed Bill solely from the viewpoint of divorce is, I think, irresponsible. [More…]
I refer now to the other group which looks at the Bill in the light of what the Australian community understands by marriage and the family. [More…]
The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 23(1), with which we have declared ourselves to be in agreement, says that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
If we accept these 2 definitions, I cannot but have serious doubt about the consequences of enacting the Family Law Bill 1974 as it has been presented to us. [More…]
Those who take the marriage contract seriously and those who verify the importance of a stable family life within society point to these facts: The Bill is not related merely to divorce. [More…]
The family is the centre of our way of living, and I can see more and more that this will be broken down unless some amendments are introduced to the Bill. [More…]
This could well call for an amendment to clause 26 of the Bill which would increase the period of separation to 3 years in the case of a family in which there are children under the age of 18 but retain the period of 1 year where the children have been brought up and are over the age of 18 years. [More…]
It changes fundamentally existing marriages, continuing marriages and the family which develops about those marriages and, as I have said, our whole society. [More…]
It is true that the Family Law Bill does attempt to improve reconciliation and counselling procedures. [More…]
So if one weighs the arguments for and against the proposed Family Law Bill; if one takes into account the fact that the majority of people have not been in a position to study the Bill and do not have a clear picture of the implications of the Bill; and if one has serious doubts whether the Bill promotes marriage and the family as stable institutions guaranteeing the healthy nurture of children, one cannot but have feelings of grave doubt with respect to the enactment of this Bill in its present form. [More…]
I believe that family law should at all times be beyond any reasonable doubt of benefit to the members of our society. [More…]
The Family Law Bill certainly will benefit those who wish to break the marriage relationship in a speedy and convenient manner but it does not benefit those who seek the legal protection of their marriage relationship and their family and who are prepared to do their part by living up to individual and communal responsibilities. [More…]
I think that there is no doubt that the Committee, in the course of its work in relation to this Family Law Bill, was a very great credit to the Senate indeed. [More…]
It was a deep, involved and complex matter concerning the most intimate human relationship- that is the relationship which exists between a man and his wife in the intimacy of the family. [More…]
We support the inclusion in this year’s Budget of $ 10 a week as a payment to parents or guardians of physically or mentally / handicapped children under the age of 16 who are cared for in a family environment. [More…]
Yet I am sure that those who work within the social welfare field acknowledge that there is deprivation in the emotional sense in a one-parent family and that there is deprivation in those families who reach the poverty level because of the problems of single parenthood. [More…]
In terms of the overall scheme of the Australian family, in terms of the overall total population, both adult and child in Australia, that is not a large number. [More…]
In any event, I would think, and I would imagine that everybody would agree with me, that the stable family life is the one we wish to see all Australian children enjoy, and I think putting the emphasis on the effect of this type of situation on this admittedly comparatively small number of children is what we should be concentrating on. [More…]
I do not think it has done the women of Australia any good to have this special privilege in the area of widows pensions because it makes it look as though it is a problem germane only to women in Australia instead of what it truly is, namely a family problem in Australia. [More…]
I make a strong plea to the Government that, in these inquiries and considerations that it appears to be undertaking, it look at just the simple facts, and that is that we have a family situation in which there is only one parent. [More…]
I was of the understanding- I thought it was a fairly clear understanding- that no pensions were available for Australian family men in this situation. [More…]
Reference was made particularly to the absence of the mother’s care because the mother was in hospital or she was temporarily absent from the family. [More…]
I do not suppose there would be one of us in this chamber who has not at some stage come face to face with the reality of the problems of marital relationships in some part of his family. [More…]
I accept unreservedly the tremendous value of what has been put to us up to the present time, but it is necessary for those of us who have had experience in family relationships, as many of us have, to relate to this chamber our own experience and to bring a fullness to the debate which will enable us to make a quiet, dispassionate judgment on the merit of the legislation. [More…]
But the great attraction that this Bill has for me is the provision of a Family Court and also the understanding which I have that proper procedures will be laid down and proper attention will be given to the economic circumstances of families or parts of families who are so seriously disadvantaged as a consequence of the dissolution of a marriage. [More…]
If there were not the provision for the Family Court in this legislation, my attitude to it would take a different course altogether. [More…]
If anybody asked me to support a situation which took people into open court, where they took their place in the line among the felons, the thieves and the villains of the community, to get a resolution of this deep, emotional and complex family problem, I say here and now that I would never do it. [More…]
But in my experience of adopting the role of a quasi-counsellor in relation to those deep, perplexing, distressing and troubling sorts of problems, I found that where there was a sincere desire on the part of both partners to get away from those influences in the community which seemed to want to perpetuate the difficulties between them- often times family, friends, acquaintances and associates in the community- by getting them to talk like sensible, reasonable, fully developed and intellectually developed human beings one could get some sense into the situation. [More…]
I have very sincere reasons for saying that when people are compelled to present a facade of a relationship together, my goodness, it can have a damaging effect upon members of a family. [More…]
I know of one situation- I will not go deeply into the circumstances of it- in which a husband and wife were compelled by all sorts of social conventions, family urgings and that sort of thing to stay together. [More…]
Eventually they wrecked the mental health of the 3 children of the family. [More…]
I want to see the removal from the ordinary courts of the land of any process for the resolution of family problems, whether it is divorce, maintenance or anything else. [More…]
I suggest that emphasis will be placed upon that aspect of human behaviour as a consequence of this Billfamily courts, counselling. [More…]
I think that in those circumstances we must do all we can to assuage the grief of people who are caught up in these matters and apportion a reasonable degree of responsibility to people who have accepted an economic responsibility of raising a family. [More…]
In such an important area as marriage and matrimonial law or, as it is called in this Bill, family law, we certainly find a great deal of interest shown by members of the Senate. [More…]
If one were to apply that comment to the Family Law Bill, as Senator Murphy has named it, one could readily recall what has happened since the introduction of the first Family Law Bill some years ago. [More…]
Senator Murphy has progressively introduced several Family Law Bills- I think that this is the third. [More…]
The title of the Bill, the Family Law Bill, is an innovation in terms of its objective. [More…]
I do not agree that the Bill is correctly cited as the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Indeed, it can well be argued that some of the provisions of the Bill make it possible for the family to be broken up earlier than would be the case under the existing matrimonial law. [More…]
If one looks at the nature and structure of the family, one can certainly refer to ouselves as being a signatory to the United Nations International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
The family is a natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and by the state. [More…]
If we are a signatory to the Convention, we must uphold with law the family group in our society. [More…]
Whether it is from the point of view of the development of the economy, whether it is from the point of view of the development of the citizen himself or whether it is from the point of view of the upbringing of children and their gradual enrolment in our society, one sees that the basis of the family unit is something which we in this Senate must uphold. [More…]
The California Family Act of 1969 contains only 2 grounds: irreconcilable differences which have caused the irredeemable breakdown of marriage, and incurable insanity. [More…]
He is quoted as saying that the California Family Act of 1969 is obviously an attractive precedent There was an English Law Commission which suggested that an explicit agreement that the 2 criteria adopted by the English Law Commission should be the grounds for good divorce law. [More…]
From my reading of this Bill, this legislation is creating the situation in which one partner, should he or she so desire, can leave the family bed for a period of more than 12 months. [More…]
I refer to Part III which states that reconciliation is to be a vital part of the proposed new family law. [More…]
As the Attorney-General is here I think I should say that he has attempted in many ways during his term to place among the statutes of this country acceptable matrimonial law, irrespective of whether it is called family law. [More…]
Whilst it is not authenticated I believe that the Minister is likely to agree with the proposal for family courts. [More…]
After 30 years of marriage during which she faithfully served her husband and family she may find that her husband wishes to dissolve the marriage. [More…]
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage as the sole ground for divorce, as set down in the Family Law Bill 1 973 based on one year’s separation. [More…]
We support the introduction of Family Courts and the single non-fault ground for divorce based on 12 months separation. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We urge the Parliament to debate and implement the Family Law Bill, at the earliest possible time. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay, [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay, [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving9 their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
We support the introduction of Family Courts and the single non-fault ground for divorce based on 12 months separation. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We deplore the tactics of the opponents of the Family Law Bill in seeking further delays for its implementation. [More…]
Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We support the introduction of Family Courts and the single non-fault ground for divorce based on 12 months separation. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray thai the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should not delay the Family Law Bill. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That we support the concept of no fault divorce in the Family Law Bill because: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed at the earliest possible opportunity in the interests of the many thousand people in [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1 974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
All family matters must come out of the legal system. [More…]
The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since I9S9. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally alter the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said BUI does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
We, the undersigned, wish to lodge our objection to the passing of the New Family Law Bill, suggesting- Easier Divorce, No Innocent Party as regards Court Costs, or Maintenance for the Wife. [More…]
Children of all ages should be able to feel the security of a complete family and we should be looking to this most of all. [More…]
-The debate on the Family Law Bill is resumed from last evening. [More…]
I paid a compliment to Senator Murphy last evening for his persistence in pursuing the introduction of a new matrimonial law, which he has called a family law, to the Senate. [More…]
Submissions have been made to me which suggest that this Family Law Bill must not be delayed. [More…]
Of course, that was the position in 1972 and early 1973 when the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) first laid down those regulations which were supposed to be essentially to revise family law. [More…]
Indeed, I understand that the Attorney-General himself is taking advantage of the opportunity to alter the Bill which he presented originally as the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
One could readily argue for some time about that clause which is the basis upon which this new family law wishes to upgrade existing matrimonial law. [More…]
In past times the woman was really the servant of the family. [More…]
Having got over the first flush of marriage and finding herself tied down to the management of a family and faced with many of the problems which go with the haste of life today, such as her partner finding the work in which he is involved a great strain- and there are many parts of marriage which are the cause of frustration- she realises that all this can be avoided under different marital circumstances. [More…]
The relationship between man and woman and the development of a home and family still bind us to the best institution there can be for people in our society. [More…]
In the law that is proposed there is the idea of marriage counselling for parties that come before the family law court, but that counselling may be applied only to those who are seeking at the court door some change in their marriage status. [More…]
There is marriage guidance on the general problems of living together, the family relationship and sexuality in the community. [More…]
Let no one say that this Family Law Bill should be passed through this Senate quickly. [More…]
In general the Family Law Bill has my support. [More…]
I feel that it was unfair of the many people who have sent letters to honourable senators saying that they must not oppose the Family Law Bill, but I feel that in many areas it needs amendment. [More…]
Indeed the many recommendations which have come forward as a result of the excellent work done by those associated with the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs suggest that a great deal of variation is required to the Family Law Bill which is before the Senate. [More…]
Out of that our hope is this concept of a family court. [More…]
It generally involves the creation of a special court (or division of a larger court), the assimilation of all family matters into one court, with active pre-divorce and post-divorce counselling not merely to assist reconciliation, but also to provide for the reduction of bitterness and distress and in alleviating on-going post-divorce problems. [More…]
I am pleased to see that- should be chosen for their experience and understanding of family problems and should be drawn from existing Judges, members of the bar and solicitors, according to their particular suitability. [More…]
They contribute to the family welfare and still have 2 jobs. [More…]
For people to write that, one can imagine the sort of bitterness there is in this area and the very real job that a family court, a family law commission and those who give post and pre-divorce advice will have to do. [More…]
Young women are abandoned when the pressure of supporting a family forces husbands to desert them. [More…]
I am very much in favour of a family law court and a family law commission which will work to the greatest advantage of all concerned and do away with the spite and bitterness as much as possible. [More…]
I think that a number of honourable senators have pointed out that this Bill, although it is styled the Family Law Bill, does in fact fundamentally alter, in their opinion, the nature of marriage. [More…]
However, I must emphasise again that I reject any concept of marriage other than the one man, one woman, one family institution. [More…]
It has rationalised the bases on which the scheme rests and it will be for the Senate Committee to do in this case what it did in relation to the Family Law Bill, that is, to consider all the material, to take evidence from such persons or groups as it considers appropriate and to submit to the Senate a report on the clauses of the Bill in, I imagine, very much the same way as it did in relation to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In particular the submissions which weighed heavily with me were the one from the National Council of Women and the one from the Family Life Movement of Australia. [More…]
I wish to move on from the question of grounds for divorce to another major provision of the Bill, and that is the establishment of the Family Court. [More…]
The Bill itself does not provide for the Family Court, and that is, I think, perhaps its major deficiency. [More…]
Of course, the Senate Committee has recommended the establishment of the Family Court, and I am pleased to find now that the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) has accepted that recommendation and has already submitted to us a detailed amendment which is designed to set up the Family Court in the way in which he envisages it. [More…]
One can argue whether it ought to be a Federal court, a State court and so on, and I do not want to get into that argument now, and I think it would be unfortunate if that argument took over one’s consideration in relation to the Family Court. [More…]
But one absolutely fatal deficiency in the proposal to set up a purely Federal Family Court is the requirement in the Constitution that all judges appointed by the Federal Government under the Constitution have to be appointed for life. [More…]
I just cannot conceive that we ought to have a Family Court system where the judges could be in their 80s. [More…]
I think it would be ridiculous to have a family court composed of people of this age who will have to deal with these very sensitive personal issues, changes in social attitudes and so on. [More…]
The only way in which that can be done is the way which was suggested in the Senate Committee’s report, namely, that the Family Court should be set up under a co-operative arrangement between the Federal Government and the State governments so that a majority of the judges of the court will be appointed by the State governments and will be subject, as State judges can be, to retirement at a suitable age. [More…]
It should start talking immediately with the State governments to set up by a process of co-operation the type of family court which we all envisage as desirable. [More…]
That family court according to the amendment prepared by the Attorney-General is envisaged as a court which will be well serviced by experts in behavioural science and counselling activities. [More…]
-I wish to speak briefly on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The most distressing side effect to me has been the bitterness and personal hatred, which has split family and friends, arising out of the legal and psychological warfare which seems to have been associated with prolonged divorce proceedings. [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 role of opportunities for women have all made marriage a more stressful situation. [More…]
The setting up of a family court, which Senator Durack mentioned, will, one hopes, remove the sort of stigma of criminality which was associated with divorce proceedings in some people’s minds. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSON (New South Wales) (9.35)-The Family Law Bill 1974 is a Bill in relation to which any honourable senator will, as we say in parliamentary language, have a completely free vote. [More…]
However, the heart of the Family Law Bill is weak, even dangerous. [More…]
We wish to draw attention to certain basic changes which will be made to the nature of the marriage contract if the Family Law Bill 1974 becomes law. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, by sections 26, 27 and 28, effects a fundamental alteration in the nature of the marriage contract by making it voluntarily terminable by either party to the marriage, even when one party abandons the other against his or her will. [More…]
For these as well as other reasons, we are opposed to the Family Law Bill which has been introduced to the Senate by the Attorney-General and hope that it will be rejected by both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
I would support strongly suggestion to defer consideration of Family Law Bill for 6 months to enable interested people to examine report of Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs presented 2 weeks ago. [More…]
However we must, in good conscience, speak out against the radical changes proposed in the new Family Law Bill 1974, and ask for six months’ delay in any further debate on it, so that the clauses of the Bill and the extensive amendments proposed by the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, can be properly and responsibly assessed. [More…]
The letter continues: the evidence taken by the Standing Committee with regard to the Family Law Bill, 1974, appears to have been taken in camera, thus putting it out of the reach of Parliament and the public, and therefore being inconsistent with the concept of Open Government. [More…]
the full implications of the setting up of the Australian Family Court are not yet realized. [More…]
Mr Justice Selby, Chief Judge of the Family Law Division of the N.S.W. [More…]
In the main the family unit- the combination of husband and wife- is responsible for both the procreation and the rearing of children. [More…]
It is clear that the pattern of our community, the social attitudes of the individuals comprising the Australian community are the product of family influences- both good influences and bad. [More…]
I think that it is in the light of those facts that this Bill has to be consideredfirstly, the importance of the family to the community and, secondly, the fact that marriages do break down. [More…]
We must ensure that the Family Law Bill when it is passed- if it is passed by us- meets those criteria. [More…]
But I take the time of the Senate to remind honourable senators of the proposals for a family court; the proposal that proceedings for dissolution should not be commenced until the ground for dissolution has arisen and the proposal that counselling should be brought in before dissolution proceedings, if possible. [More…]
All these are positive suggestions which go to the family strengthening aspects of the Bill. [More…]
I believe that honourable senators have to take account of the fact that provided reasonable protection is given to any party to a marriage which has broken down, we have to acknowledge the fact that social mores are changing and that more and more women in fact are undertaking lives which are independent of the home, of their family and so on. [More…]
I refer those people who believe that the Bill is inadequate because it does not deal with the whole range of family law to page 35 of the report of the Senate Committee. [More…]
It deals with the proposals for the Family Law Council. [More…]
I believe that it is in this area that we get the final rounding off of the legislative provision of family law at this moment. [More…]
The Committee has recommended that the Family Law Council be strengthened and given extensive powers to advise the Parliament on the improvements which are required in the law in this area. [More…]
The first proposal of the Committee is that the body which is established in the Bill, as it stands at present, should not be merely an advisory agency but should have a broad and continuing role in reviewing the operation of the Act and directing attention, in a formal way, to all matters which are relevant to a sound family law system. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘to all matters which are relevant to a sound family law system’. [More…]
I do not think that in any case there is any disrespect or lack of feeling for the family or for marriage- quite the reverse. [More…]
I trust that it will be the first of further measures which will look to the strengthening of the family in Australia. [More…]
It assisted me, a senator encountering the Family Law Bill for the first time, enormously in my appreciation of the problems, of the need for change, and of the potential of this Bill. [More…]
I will agree that in some ways it cannot truly be called a Family Law Bill. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1 974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon pur Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Sill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
I know that reports of committees are scheduled to be presented that day and that the debate on the Family Law Bill 1974 is continuing. [More…]
My understanding, after consultation with Senator Douglas McClelland, is that had the Family LawBill passed the second reading stage the debate on the Superior Court Bill would have commenced yesterday. [More…]
For a start, it has been proposed to take one division out of it- that is, the family law division. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family courts only to be used for enforcement at a last resort. [More…]
That we support the concept of no fault divorce in the Family Law Bill because: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1 974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That we have examined the Family Law Bill and substantially support the provisions therein. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
1 ) That we have examined the Family Law Bill and substantially support the provisions therein. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill (1974) is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill (1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill (1974) is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill (1974) is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
A taxpayer in similar family circumstances earning $140 a week would be liable for an annual tax of $1,160 on the basis of the 1973-74 rate scale. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1 974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplifications of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1 974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destory the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1 974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill 1 974 is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April 197S. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill 1974 is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April 1975. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the “Family Law Bill 1974.” [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the Institution of Marriage itself, and ALL existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does NOT provide or protect the legal or social rights of Women and Children in the family. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
To the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled: We, the undersigned, wish to express our grave concern at the following aspects of the Family Law Bill, as read in the Senate on 1 August, by the Attorney-General. [More…]
1 ) That we have examined the Family Law Bill and substantially support the provisions therein [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the Bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we are concerned at letters in the press inferring that the Family Law Bill should be delayed. [More…]
We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and.believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we support the concept of no fault divorce in the Family Law Bill because: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we are concerned at letters in the press inferring that the Family Law Bill should be delayed. [More…]
We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we are concerned at letters in the press inferring that the Family Law Bill should be delayed. [More…]
We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1 974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1 974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate, [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage as the sole ground for divorce, as set down in the Family Law Bill 1973 based on one year’s separation. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 is causing grave concern to us and it is only to be expected that it is causing the same concern to a vast number of others right throughout the nation. [More…]
As some, if not a considerable number, of the petitions which have been presented refer to the current debate by name and definition concerning the Family Law Bill I should like to have your ruling, Mr President, if possible as to where those petitions stand. [More…]
The Australian Legal Aid Office has accepted responsibility for legal aid in all family law matters in Tasmania and in matters arising under Federal law generally and in matters on behalf of persons for whom the Australian Government has a special responsibility, such as pensioners. [More…]
Does the magazine published for the Australian Labor Party of New South Wales state in an article by Dr Everingham on page 8 that financial assistance to the extent of $1,1 36m is to be provided this financial year to the family medicine program of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners? [More…]
There are certain organisations in Sydney, for example the Smith Family and the Sydney City Mission, which operate centrally but operate throughout areas of need in Sydney. [More…]
I refer to the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Sydney City Mission, the Smith Family and agencies of this kind that at the present time are quite unhappy about the setup of the Australian Assistance Plan and about the possibilities of their participating in it. [More…]
It is a matter of grave concern and of some distress to me that this great family of Australian people which is spread right across the country is placed in the hands of a Minister who could not care less about it. [More…]
For some time now I have been making a series of representations to the Minister on behalf of a family in the United Kingdom who wanted a second assisted passage to Australia. [More…]
He said that arrangements would be made for his Department to get in touch with the family in the United Kingdom, and that in due course arrangements would be made for the family to travel to Australia. [More…]
I was so pleased with the result of my representations that I arranged with my office in Adelaide to send an urgent telegram to the relatives of this family in Adelaide acquainting them of the good news. [More…]
Within an hour my secretary received a telephone call in which she was advised that the family from the United Kingdom had been in Australia for a month. [More…]
When the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) came to Adelaide to speak at the 25th anniversary of the Good Neighbour Council in South Australia he laid great emphasis on the fact that family reunion was to be the great cornerstone of Australia’s immigration policy. [More…]
For 3 years I have been working on a case concerning a family reunion, but nobody knows now where the papers are. [More…]
That we support the concept of no fault divorce in the Family Law Bill because: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we are concerned at letters in the press inferring that the Family Law Bill should be delayed. [More…]
We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
There must be urgent reform and the Family Law Bill must be presented to Parliament forthwith and accepted without further delay. [More…]
1 ) That we have examined the Family Law Bill and substantially support the provisions therein. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That the inclusion in Sub-section 54(2) of the Family Law Bill of the Clause recommended in paragraph 67(f) (2) of the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, which will allow ‘any fact or circumstance’ to be taken into account when considering maintenance, completely alters the whole concept of specific guidelines, as now set out in Section 54, and we oppose it. [More…]
That the removal of the word ‘exceptional’ in Subsection 92(2) of the new Family Law Bill, will result in a high level of bitter and costly litigation in ancillary matters, which the present proposed sharing of costs, with legal aid available, would otherwise minimise. [More…]
That the inclusion in sub-section 54(2) of the Family Law Bill of the clause recommended in paragraph 67(f) (2) of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, which will allow ‘any fact or circumstance ‘ to be taken into account when considering maintenance, completely alters the whole concept of specific guidelines, as now set out in section 54, and we oppose it. [More…]
That the removal of the word ‘exceptional’ in subsection 92(2) of the new Family Law Bill, will result in a high level of bitter and costly litigation in ancillary matters, which the present proposed sharing of costs, with legal aid available, would otherwise minimise. [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That there issuch urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill 1 974 is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Par-, liament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April 1975. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill 1974 is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill 1974 is a matter of public importance; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1 974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1 974; [More…]
That such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
We are very concerned about the proposals in the Family Law Bill 1974 which [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian Society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself, that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months; that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to the low placement on the Senate notice paper of the further consideration of the Family Law Bill and the higher priority to be given to some other Bills of lesser urgency recently received from the other place. [More…]
As soon as it is possible, having regard to Government legislative priorities the Family Law Bill will again be brought to the Senate for debate. [More…]
That is, the Australian Legal Aid Office - will provide, broadly stated, will be: first, a general problem solving service of advice and assistance short of litigation to persons with an element of financial need- this will, in my view, take care of some 90 per cent of all problems that worry the ordinary citizen; and secondly, the conduct of litigation, particularly family law, environmental and other litigation in areas of special concern to the Australian Government, on behalf of persons who cannot afford the cost of representation in court. [More…]
It is recognised in the amendments to the Family Law Bill that are before the Senate. [More…]
If the Office took over responsibility for matters arising under Federal law, also Family Law matters, or Matrimonial Causes Act matters, as the title now stands, and matters in relation to persons for whom the Australian Governmet concedes it has a special responsibility, and if Victoria got a fair share of the cake so far as the $1.3m is concerned, where would there be any continuing basis for obscurity? [More…]
It involves an Aboriginal family in my own district which moved into a house some 4 to 41/2 years ago. [More…]
The family had hoped, in fact they were told at the time, that when they wanted to purchase the house they would be able to purchase it. [More…]
In addition, this family had to find some $2,000 for a deposit. [More…]
But it is doubly hard for Aborigines who almost invariably come within the lowest income group and frequently have to provide for a family larger than average. [More…]
There is an Aboriginal living in the Townsville area- I am prepared to make his name available if anybody wishes to know it, although I do not wish to mention it publicly because it might embarrass him or his family- who for a long period of time under the Act was able to put money away in a bank account. [More…]
It can do nothing more than create further emotional and family disruption and probably destroy the painstaking work of years on the part of the families, the Presbyterian Church and my Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, who have done all possible to assist in the transitional stage of urban living which the people voluntarily undertook. [More…]
It appears to me that when Labor comes to power not only is it jobs for the boys and jobs for the kids but also trips for the family. [More…]
Your petitioners pray that the Senate will speedily pass the Family Law Bill with its provisions for irretrievable breakdown based on one year of separation as the only ground for divorce. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life, which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
That we are concerned at letters in the press inferring that the Family Law Bill should be delayed. [More…]
We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that Committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible [More…]
That there is such urgent need for reform that there must be no delay in presenting the Family Law Bill 1974 to Parliament for debate. [More…]
That dissolution of marriage must come out of the legal system with people resolving their family matters between themselves according to guidelines and with assistance of a mediator. [More…]
Family Courts only to be used for enforcement as a last resort. [More…]
-We are all, I think, most anxious to spend the balance of our life on the Family Law Bill, but I wanted briefly to thank the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) for giving me some additional information on the financing of the Australian National Airlines Commission. [More…]
I suggest to the Senate that for all that many honourable senators have said, women in Australia today are not equal and it is not the province of the Family Law Bill, this Bill being basically a divorce BUI, to determine the status of women. [More…]
I said a minute ago that in fact the Family Law BUI can only reflect the situation of women and children in society today. [More…]
But so long as governments have not taken all the necessary measures to make that possible then we must not, via the Family Law Bill, abandon those individuals who have been brought up to be dependent, who have been expected to be dependent, who have been conditioned to be dependent and who are capable of being nothing but dependent because of all those pressures. [More…]
Our society officially rates the economic contribution to the family of the wife and mother at home at $7 a week. [More…]
The woman who stays at home and who contributes to the family and to the economy of the family through what we call home duties occupies an economic role far greater than that which is given official recognition through the laws of our land. [More…]
It has some effect on the taxation situation of the family but a relatively minor one when we are talking about a deduction that is worth only $7 a week. [More…]
In fact, all families find that the price to the family in money terms of the mother or the wife going out to work is much higher than it is to keep her at home. [More…]
The cost of feeding the family where the wife and mother goes out to work inevitably rises. [More…]
The cost of clothing that family inevitably rises. [More…]
The cost to the family of the woman working outside the home is very high. [More…]
The fact is that she has made enormous economic sacrifice during the years she has been out of the work force for the sake of the family and she will continue to make an economic sacrifice, whether she wishes to or not, by virtue of having been out of the work force through those years. [More…]
Those are the facts of working life in Australia and, in justice, they must be considered by the Family Law Court or whichever court considers this Bill or any future Bill. [More…]
It was considered quite normal in those days for girls to work in the home and assist their mothers to bring up the rest of the family until such time as they married- the assumption being that all girls married wisely and well, an assumption which has never been borne out by the facts. [More…]
In the past, although there has been some provision for the protection of the weaker members of the family, before the courts or the police would act a man would virtually have to break his wife’s leg and all but kill her before anybody would move. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that a broken home, a home in which divorce has taken place, in which there is only one parent, leads to problems for the children of that family. [More…]
Above all else, because it is the key to anybody’s concern with a Bill relating to the family or divorce, we have to give the means for justice and a decent life to the really innocent parties- the children of those broken down marriages. [More…]
The Senate is debating the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
In every society throughout this world the family is the natural and the fundamental unit of that society. [More…]
Indeed, every society seeks to maintain and to strengthen the family by a wide range of laws laying down the duties and responsibilities of the spouses of that marriage. [More…]
The decisions as to what shall constitute marriage, what shall constitute the family and what shall constitute the dissolution of marriage and as to the other clauses are decisions that should be made in a sociological sense and not primarily, or totally in this case, in a legal sense. [More…]
Therefore I give notice that at an appropriate time I will move that a Senate select committee should be set up to inquire into all methods of maintaining and strengthening the family. [More…]
This Bill purports to strengthen the family. [More…]
If honourable senators on both sides of the chamber are really sincere about wanting an opportunity to look at marriage, even before it is contracted, and to look at the family in all its affairs in life they will support the setting up of such a select committee. [More…]
That select committee would be enabled to call upon the whole community- the whole community; not just lawyers- and invite the whole community to come forward with sociological, religious and other ideas to buttress the family. [More…]
Because in my judgment this Bill does not do that- it is in itself a dissolution Bill and not a family law Bill- I propose in due course to move for the setting up of such a select committee. [More…]
Family law in its great bulk is not a Commonwealth matter. [More…]
Family law in its great bulk is to be found in the great body of State laws. [More…]
With respect, it is humbug and hypocrisy to give the title ‘Family Law BUT to a Bill which does not seek to mention more than a fraction of the ingredients of family law and which is in itself a marriage dissolution Bill. [More…]
If so, let us call it by its proper name; let us call it a divorce law BUI and not a family law BUI. [More…]
Family law, as I have said, is basically a matter for the States. [More…]
In West Germany the Family Law which was published in 1971, provides for a divorce on the application of one or both parties if the marriage has broken down. [More…]
That is just a run round of the kind of society which in our view and thinking might look to our valuesthe Roman law, the Judeo-Christian ethic; the kind of values of home and family which we have grown used to. [More…]
I have said that in every society the family is the key institution, that every society recognises marriage, that every society makes laws to strengthen marriage, and that the test of our marriage laws or our divorce laws should be how it operates in that context. [More…]
As I have said, when time permits I will move for the setting up of a Senate select committee to inquire into all means of maintaining and strengthening the family so that we can really have an honest look at buttressing the family rather than fragmenting it. [More…]
I believe and accept the fact that if a marriage can be proved conclusively to have broken down irretrievably, it should be dissolved as quickly as is possible, with the minimum of bitterness and with the maximum of equity to the rest of the family. [More…]
I want to do some very heavy thinking in terms of the Family Law Court. [More…]
The Family Law Court has about it the same enticing sound and seductive ring that the Family Law Bill has in title, but to give something a title does not give it an effective function. [More…]
What is this Family Law Court? [More…]
We are going to fumble along, clause by clause, considering this Family Law Court without being able to make a thorough test of it. [More…]
We think, of course, that it is a good and trendy thing to talk about family law courts. [More…]
Therefore if we are, to use a quaint Australianism, fair dinkum about wanting good family law, wanting conciliation, wanting to restore marriages, wanting to help families, we will clearly have to make a new and vigorous study of all phases of the family and we will have to look to see how we can help the family from its very earliest stages, even from premarriage. [More…]
We will have to look so that fewer people come to the court, whether a family law court or otherwise. [More…]
That yardstick must be the evaluation of the legislation in terms of its contribution to the dignity and the security of the family unit in the Australian society. [More…]
But no matter how important and how true those phrases may be, and no matter how impressive they may be, in the consideration of this Bill we must not let them override the matter of ultimate importance which relates to the contribution of the legislation to the strength of the marriage contract and to the strength of the position of the family in the Australian society. [More…]
It must be the province and objective of legislation which we ultimately approve to firm the position of the family, to preserve the position of the family as basic to our society. [More…]
It is in that area of family law that we must view the real importance of the legislation before us. [More…]
We must not tend to drive the thin edge of a wedge into a situation that may destroy the concept, perhaps unwittingly, of the family unit as being a supreme unit in the Australian society, as indeed it is in many societies around the world, and as it has been for some thousands of years. [More…]
The Bill concerns itself with what it describes as family law. [More…]
I have no query about the suggestion that there should be family law in our community- I believe there is- and that it is a most important area of law in Australian society. [More…]
The yardstick in this circumstance must be the promotion of marriage and the family as the basic facets of a free society. [More…]
Mrs Whitlam referred to children of that time as being brought up in a kibbutz style situation, as children of the community rather than as members of a family. [More…]
It will make, I believe, a fundamental alteration to the very nature of the marriage contract and in doing so it must change the entire pattern of family life in the Australian society and such major issues ought to receive the careful assessment of all the members of our community in the light of the best possible research and evidence. [More…]
The Senate is debating a very important measure described as the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The Bill sharply challenges us all boldly to examine all the circumstances relating to family life and to recognise that as problems arise they should be examined and, what is more, they should be examined frankly and properly. [More…]
They should under no circumstances be disguised or overlooked and there should be no pretense that the problems that arise in family life and in family law do not exist. [More…]
This measure is described as a family law Bill. [More…]
Family law, as I understand it, is the law which governs the relationships between men and women and parents and children and particularly when that relationship is governed by the institution of marriage. [More…]
It would be true to say that family law should be more concerned with relationships and their retention than, say, with individual issues which might happen to be in conflict. [More…]
So I suppose the areas covered by family law legislation could be said to include the establishment of marriage and the dissolution of marriage, the wellbeing and the protection of children and the maintenance of affected persons in this relationship, the arrangements connected with property and all of the legal consequences that are similarly connected with these matters. [More…]
Anyone making any study of this Family Law Bill and its related areas turns naturally to what any one or any group of Christian churches might say on this matter. [More…]
When there are children in the family, their welfare in all its aspects becomes the prime consideration in any decision regarding the marriage. [More…]
It is the responsibility of civil authorities to provide an ordered procedure for the dissolution in law of a broken marriage and to ensure that such a dissolution will be effected only after all possibility of reconciliation has been exhausted and after satisfactory arrangements have been made for the welfare of any children in the family. [More…]
This document is being revised at present, but I set out this selection, which is only a selection, because I believe that in looking at this Family Law Bill we should promote the qualities of judgment, pardon, direction and promise, as well as encouraging the spirit of repentance and the virtue of forgiveness. [More…]
So the Bill before us demands the very closest scrutiny because nothing affects the nation’s life and happiness so much as laws governing marriage and family. [More…]
Concern has been expressed that the attitude of society to marriage may change if divorce is made too easy and that the stability of marriage and thus of the family may be seriously undermined. [More…]
Reconciliation provisions should be an integral part of a good family law Bill. [More…]
I am greatly attracted by the reference in the Standing Committee’s report in relation to the Family Law Bill to the evidence given by Mr Justice Burnett of Adelaide. [More…]
In his submission he referred to the establishment of a family court. [More…]
He spoke about the first 12 months of a family court in South Australia. [More…]
I have taken the opportunity of visiting the family court in South Australia. [More…]
I do not suggest that the family court as it exists in South Australia is the kind of court envisaged in the reference of the Standing Committee but on the other hand, in the first 12 months of its operation it has provided a very good pattern of how family courts may proceed. [More…]
The surroundings of the family court in Adelaide are particularly attractive and they provide for informality. [More…]
The Family Law Bill is one of very great importance. [More…]
In a day when we are entering strongly into discussions upon economics, social welfare, foreign affairs and things of this kind, time spent on discussion of marriage, divorce and family welfare may seem a little out of context for this Parliament. [More…]
The home may refer to a family, large or small. [More…]
But in the matter of the Bill the stability of the home unit, represented either by a couple or by a family, is essential. [More…]
However, there are many aspects of home stability, and one of these may be laid at the door of personal and family relationships. [More…]
If family relationships are sound and known to be sound, the influence they extend will also be sound and beneficial. [More…]
A sound family relationship certainly starts with love and affection but, as the years develop, the situation can change and alter. [More…]
I think that there must be an accelerated and intensified program of education in studies of marriage, studies of successful home and family life and studies of human relations. [More…]
I think that we have then to find a way of communicating to people before marriage that in addition to being husband and wife they also must be friends for, as the years mature and success or disappointment occur or the interests of the family extend, changes in relationship can occur and, as adulthood influences behaviour, this characteristic of friendship between one person and another, in addition to their being husband and wife, will undoubtedly preserve the marriage. [More…]
I come finally in my contribution to this discussion on the Family Law Bill to Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s amendment. [More…]
All of those indicate a variety of views on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I submit that if the Family Law BUI is to go onto the statute book it should go on with as wide an acceptance as possible. [More…]
I believe that this debate on the Family Law BUI has been one of the most important exercises undertaken by this chamber. [More…]
I rise to support the motion for the second reading of the Family Law BUI not because I happen to be a member of a political party or a representative of a political party in this place but because of how in my lifetime I have come to understand human relationships and the need for marriage and divorce to be dealt with in such a way as to remove the areas of unhappiness, frustration and indignity which have been a characteristic of such human relationships in time. [More…]
I think that the Family Law BUI is a humane and important piece of legislation. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in 1971 Senator Murphy was able to persuade the Senate to refer to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs the following matter: The law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters with particular regard to oppressive delays, costs, indignities and other injustices. [More…]
Therefore, it was not until the first session after the double dissolution that the Family Law Bill was presented to this Parliament for its consideration. [More…]
Senator Murphy has throughout insisted that our work upon the Family Law Bill and other reforms reflect the well known criteria set down in England in 1966 which I slightly paraphrase to state- [More…]
A good family law should buttress, rather than undermine, the stability of marriage; where a marriage has irretrievably broken down, the legal shell should be destroyed with the maximum fairness, and the minimum bitterness, distress and humiliation. [More…]
This Bill is about family conflicts- not divorce; it therefore deals with the welfare of children, maintenance, property, protection of the marriage and the people involved therein (by injunction if necessary), marriage counselling, on going help in custody and access problems. [More…]
Hence its true title, a Family Law Bill. [More…]
The message that is being told from the pulpit and amongst groups of Christians, particularly in the Sydney region, is that the Family Law Bill will basically alter the whole concept of marriage in our society. [More…]
That indicates the politicisation that took place at a meeting that we called for the purpose of discussing the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It does no good to the community or to those who have a reasonable and logical position to express in respect of the far-reaching consequences of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Yet we are being led to believe by the campaign that has been waged that we are making divorce easier and that in fact we are about to destroy the family unit and the sanctity of the marriage contract. [More…]
I rise to speak in support of the amendment to defer the Family Law Bill 1974 until the autumn sitting. [More…]
Until recently our way of life has been support for the free enterprise system, the family unit and individual freedom. [More…]
The family is being attacked. [More…]
The basic security of the family is now gone. [More…]
No longer can a father afford to clothe, house and feed a family out of his earnings, so the wife has to help. [More…]
I would like to tell the Senate about family life under the socialist system. [More…]
There is a little bit of background information that honourable senators should know in order to understand family life in that country. [More…]
She is allowed to visit the child on Sunday, which is not our idea of family life. [More…]
The father may be sent to one part of the country to work and the mother to another part, so family life is disrupted. [More…]
On the occasions when a child is allowed home, the child comes home not only for perhaps the joys of whatever family reunion there is but also to criticise the parents to ascertain whether they are backsliding against the Party line. [More…]
I am talking about family life in a socialist state. [More…]
Young people want instruction in such knotty matters as insurance whether it be health, personal or property, budgeting, taxation banking, existing welfare services, family planning. [More…]
I do agree that it will alter our whole outlook on the institution of marriage and family life but I think we must have the courage to face up to that. [More…]
Although the provisions of the Bill have been extended by the 3 lots of amendments on the 3 occasions it has been submitted and debated and now covers a lot more ground, it still can hardly be called a family law Bill. [More…]
-This Bill is without doubt one of the most important pieces of legislation that have come before this Parliament because it deals with the basic structure of our society, that is, the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
I have discussed this aspect with many clerics and people associated with family counselling in my State of South Australia. [More…]
Perhaps there could be an amendment to provide for greater opportunity for family counselling by experts. [More…]
This could well be brought within the concept of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The Committee emphasises that provisions must be drawn in such a way as to encourage parties whose marriages or family lives are in difficulty to come and take advantage of the marriage counselling facilities of the Family Court at any time - [More…]
Unfortunately these children can be badly hurt and embarrassed by the exposure of the traumas and the tragedies of their family life over which they have no control. [More…]
-I desire to say a few words about the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The family is the basis of our society. [More…]
It is all very well to call the Bill a family law Bill, but its commencement and completion is in relation to divorce- the breaking down of marriages. [More…]
If this Bill, even with many of the suggested amendments, becomes law- family law as it is calledfamily life, the family unit, will be greatly altered. [More…]
Parliament will be culpable or praised for the results on family life in Australia in future years. [More…]
The family unit is our strongest link with happiness, prosperity and development of the Australian population. [More…]
Secular interests of a variety of types will be affected by, and are interested in, the results of the decision ultimately of this Parliament in respect of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Because I am not a conservative in social legislation I do admit that every 15 to 20 years legislation such as this- we called it ‘matrimonial causes’ earlier, now we call it ‘family law’needs to be amended to change with the mores of the people, and the mores of the people change as the years roll on. [More…]
The mercurial mind got busy and we now have the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Rarely in my 20 years of parliamentary life have I had more unemotional and considered representations from a greater variety of people and from a greater variety of interests than I have had in respect of the Family Law Bill, and I presume this would apply to all other honourable senators. [More…]
There is another important reason why the Senate’s attention should be taken away from considering the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I say this because I think it is relevant in a debate such as this to indicate what the policy of the Liberal Party, as expressed in its platform, states with regard to matrimonial law, family courts and the family. [More…]
With regard to the family, the Liberal Party, in the platform which has recently been canvassed by all sections of what is a grass roots organisation throughout Australia, states: [More…]
The family is a cohesive force in society and the Liberal Party recognises the necessity for strengthening its influence. [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…]
Recognising the effect of adverse or changing economic circumstances on the performance of this role, the Liberal Party advocates by consultation and co-operation between the Commonwealth and States the following means of assisting the family to meet the stresses and challenges of modern society- [More…]
Then there are set out 8 items which represent the ways in which the Liberal Party would seek to assist the family. [More…]
Education for marriage; guidance on family planning and the responsibilities of family life to give effective support for the harmony and continuity of marriage. [More…]
Encouragement to the family to ensure the full development of each child. [More…]
Provision of a suitable environment, the development of community amenities, education and health services, and the opportunity to obtain suitable housing as essential prerequisites of a sound family life. [More…]
Child care and other suitable facilities to supplement family care when necessary. [More…]
Fostering community spirit and activities to enable the family to be part of a living community rather than finding itself isolated in populous urban areas. [More…]
With regard to the question of matrimonial law and family courts, this is what the Liberal Party platform states: [More…]
The Liberal Party recognises the importance of the family and the value of the personal relationships involved in marriage. [More…]
Such laws must be just and effective and give due consideration to the needs of all members of the family involved. [More…]
Foster community organisations which assist people to prepare for and understand the complexities of married life, and to resolve marital difficulties with a view to maintaining family life. [More…]
Establishing, in co-operation with State Governments, uniform family law throughout Australia. [More…]
Establish and develop well staffed family courts to deal with marital disharmony, divorce and all ancillary matters, with primary emphasis on reconciliation and the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]
Remove disabilities imposed on children born outside marriage and establish just entitlements for parties to longstanding family relationships outside marriage. [More…]
The family is the fundamental group unit of society. [More…]
Stated starkly in those terms I think the importance of the family is scarcely recognised. [More…]
The family, throughout mankind’s history, has been the focal point and the stimulus for the development of succeeding generations. [More…]
The family of today, styled in the modern day language as the nuclear family, is not the family of yesteryear. [More…]
We have, with a complex interdependent society, evolved the concept of a smaller family essentially consisting of a mother and father and 2 children. [More…]
But that is not the family which comprised the living antecedents and the living decendants of an essential family core whether it be matriarchal or patriarchal family of yesteryear We have today a family which, I believe, is the absolutely essential core of our JudeoChristian tradition and I believe that that family ought to be preserved and that as far as legislation is able to sustain the family, legislation should enable that family to provide for those who are part of it all that our society can provide. [More…]
Having accepted that view of the family I believe that marriage in our society is fundamental to the family. [More…]
It is the cornerstone of the modern day family. [More…]
Weaken respect for marriage, regard it as easily and opportunistically dissolvable, remove the lawful backing for the mutuality of obligations and promote the independence or separateness of the parties to the marriage and their children and I believe that we are threatening the institution of the family and its stabilising influence in our society. [More…]
All I say for my part is that we will have a totally different society if we undermine the institution of marriage and if we challenge the fabric of the family and put in its place not a concept which has been developed or which is understood by those who I believe are breaking down what we have at present but simply a society in which there are no stabilising elements and in which there are none of those fundamental characteristics which I have always believed to characterise our present society. [More…]
The children are the persons who derive most benefit from the family unit. [More…]
They suffer most in the breakdown of a marriage and a family. [More…]
As I understand it, there have been in support of the Family Law Bill some 99 petitions representing approximately 11,000 signatures, and against the Bill, or seeking a delay of the Bill, there have been 133 petitions with almost 20,000 signatures. [More…]
Divorce and family law are a matter upon which everybody has some experience and an issue upon which everybody feels more or less capable of expressing a view which ought to be listened to. [More…]
If ever Parliament ought to give time for consideration of measures it is on a family law Bill or a divorce Bill such as this. [More…]
We have, of course, the original Family Law Bill introduced on 1 August. [More…]
We have with that Family Law Bill a useful explanatory memorandum. [More…]
We then have at some later stage- I think it was the end of October or the beginning of Novermber- a document entitled Family Law Bill 1974, Consolidation of Amendments and New Clauses (To be moved by the Attorney-General).’ [More…]
As other speakers have said, it is a document which contains 92 amendments to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
It is entitled ‘Family Law Bill 1974, Statement by the Attorney-General, Senator the Honourable Lionel Murphy, Q.C., on amendments to be moved by him ‘. [More…]
Then we had a tremendously useful document headed ‘Showing differences between the Family Law Bill 1 974 as introduced in the Senate on 1 August 1974 and that Bill as it would appear if the amendments to be moved by the AttorneyGeneral were incorporated in it. ‘ [More…]
Then finally we have a useful document headed ‘Revised memorandum showing the differences between the Family Law Bill 1 974 as introduced in the Senate on 1 August 1974 and that Bill as it would appear if the amendments to be moved by the Attorney-General were incorporated in it’. [More…]
The amendment 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…]
The Committee is of the opinion that the establishment of such a Court is an essential supplement to the change from a concept of ‘fault’ in divorce grounds to one of irretrievable breakdown evidenced by separation and that the ultimate well-being of all involved in ‘family ‘ differences, including children, will be fostered by such a judicial institution. [More…]
I say that because I would welcome the concept of family courts- not a family court in the Commonwealth sense but family courts in the State sense in which to the one body one could go with problems and questions prior to marriage, problems which arose during a marriage and any one of the many problems which arise in regard to the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
The concept was elaborated in the final report of the Committee when at pages 16 and following reference was made to a family court of Australia. [More…]
The Committee is firmly of the opinion that this Part requires substantial redrafting to incorporate the creation under the Bill of the Family Court of Australia, a family court of record, being invested with the full jurisdiction of the Commonwealth under section 51 of the Constitution (viz. [More…]
marriage, divorce and matrimonial causes) and dealing exclusively with family law matters. [More…]
It is proposed that the new Court exercise not only the remedies in relation to matrimonial causes now exercised in State Supreme Courts and Territory Courts but maintenance, custody and family property jurisdictions presently exercised in a variety of State courts. [More…]
If in some way this issue as to whether there is constitutional power can be raised for consideration before it is acted upon- supposing that the clauses go through- I think that a lot of the problems in the future can be resolved, because it would be absolutely disastrous to have a family court established as a Commonwealth court of record in which the decisions made by that court were not sustained by the High Court. [More…]
People who relied upon the decision they had received in that family court would find that they could not rely upon it. [More…]
It seems to me that if family courts were created by the States that problem would not arise. [More…]
I would have thought from a host of considerations that the concept of State family courts is a much better concept than that of a Commonwealth family court. [More…]
If the concept of a family court is derived from American experience we ought to look at what America has done and in particular, because I see him as an adviser in this chamber at the moment, at that admirable report made some years ago by an officer of the Attorney-General’s Department, Mr Yuill, in which the various family courts and the differences in concept from State to State in the United States were elaborated. [More…]
We do not have the same constitutional framework as America has but we ought to recognise that there are different types of family court structures. [More…]
The concept of a ‘family court’ is well established in the United States of America, Canada and Japan though there are variations in the proceedings and powers. [More…]
It generally involves the creation of a special court (or division of a larger court), the assimilation of all family matters into one court, with active pre-divorce and post-divorce counselling not merely to assist reconciliation, but also to provide for the reduction of bitterness and distress and in alleviating ongoing post-divorce problems. [More…]
The Committee is concerned with the effect on the creation of the family court and the appointment of judges of Section 72 of the Commonwealth Constitution, which in general requires judges of the Family Court created by Parliament to be appointed for life. [More…]
If, as I read elsewhere in this report, the family court is to be a superior court of record, there is no question of in general judges being appointed for life; it is a matter of law and constitutional requirement that every judge of a Federal Court should be appointed for life. [More…]
What we would then be faced with would be a family court with I do not know how many extra judges. [More…]
I have adverted to this aspect of the family court structure because the Attorney-General has by and large, as I read his amendments, accepted the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
In place of his own initial views he now believes that there should be a Commonwealth family court. [More…]
I have had it assessed to me that approximately one-quarter or more of the existing work of the supreme courts of the States would have to be vested in this family court under the provisions which are contemplated by Senator Murphy, which would mean that there would be an excess of judges in the State courts with not sufficient work to occupy them full time. [More…]
1 ) That we have examined the Family Law Bill and substantially support the provisions therein. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Family Law Bill be debated and passed as soon as possible. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
However, we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, 1974 would fundamentally change the institution of marriage itself; that is all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]
1 ) That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon all practicable ways of strengthening family life in Australia. [More…]
Should a Jew manage his escape, the Syrians take vengeance on his family. [More…]
He is now to have another trip for his Christmas holidays and will see his own family in London at a cost of half a million dollars to the people of Australia. [More…]
For one thing, in the long run it establishes a very real asset for the family concerned. [More…]
It gives the family an opportunity to take pride in possession. [More…]
It builds, however small, a modest capital for that family. [More…]
-The Family Law Bill. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society; [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
Although the Bill was introduced on Tuesday no urgency was given to the matter and the day was taken up by the Family Law Bill despite my request on behalf of the Opposition that urgency be given to the Local Government Grants Bill. [More…]
Today the Bill has been listed to follow the Committee stage of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
If the Government is willing to adjourn the Committee consideration of the Family Law Bill at 6 p.m. and will give the Opposition from 8 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. the Opposition undertakes to pass the Local Government Grants Bill tonight. [More…]
-One of the things that is curious is that the honourable senator asks that the Family Law Bill be postponed until after consideration of these other measures. [More…]
The Government’s decision is that the Family Law Bill should be dealt with and if the endeavours of some members of the Opposition to try to frustrate the progress of this measure are persevered with, at least the country will be told just what they are about. [More…]
I would ask those opposite not to persevere with some kind of endeavour to filibuster on other matters or protract the business of the Senate to prevent the Family Law Bill being dealt with. [More…]
The proposition was put not to deal with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
My proposal is that it is understood that at 9 p.m. we would adjourn the Family Law Bill and deal with the Local Government Grants Bill. [More…]
This Act may be cited as the Family Law Act 1974. [More…]
In Clause 1, Leave out ‘Family Law Act 1974’. [More…]
I think that to use the name ‘Family Law Act’ is humbug. [More…]
This is not a Bill to preserve and aid the family within the framework of marriage. [More…]
‘Family Law Act’ seems to me to be a singularly inappropriate name. [More…]
It is nonsense to have a Bill which enables the quick and easy dissolution of marriage tied to the family concept. [More…]
To link family life in the concept of a family law Bill with divorce seems to me to defame all that is good in marriage. [More…]
In essence marriage is tied to the family. [More…]
Family life is the greatest gift that God has given to mankind. [More…]
Family life, of necessity, has a whole wide perimeter and the very least of it seems to me to be the easy and quick, almost by the press of a button, concept of the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
The Bill only touches the fringe of family life. [More…]
It is not right for the innocent to be able to look at the BUI and think that it deals with the whole concept of the family. [More…]
Senator Carrick, when speaking at the second reading stage of the Bill, said that all the various laws concerning the family are to be found almost entirely in State laws. [More…]
It is beyond doubt that the description of this Bill as a family law Bill is completely confusing to all because the great bulk of family law lies within the individual States, and will remain so. [More…]
If the Bill was called the ‘Family Life Bill’ they might have a point. [More…]
The Bill certainly does not cover all aspects of family life; it deals with the aspects of law. [More…]
I think honourable senators will find that it is what is known as ‘family law’ when studied in universities. [More…]
But in no way is that the complete essence of this Bill or is it a fact that it is incorrect to call the Bill the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Family law covers the areas where the law has to intervene. [More…]
-About making the facilities of the family court available to people? [More…]
As I said during the second reading debate, family law is the law which governs the relationships between men and women and parents and children, and particularly when those relationships are instituted by marriage. [More…]
I think that, as we embark upon the Bill and the many amendments to be debated, it should always be kept in mind that the ultimate aim of the Bill is the protection and preservation of the family according to law. [More…]
Therefore, I think that the title ‘Family Law Bill’ meets the needs of the situation and I oppose the amendment. [More…]
They were concerned with family life. [More…]
The Bill has been discussed in public and it is known as the ‘Family Law Bill’. [More…]
People know what they are talking about when they refer to it as the ‘Family Law Bill’. [More…]
I must say that I find myself in a difficult position because I do not think the Bill is aptly described by the title ‘Family Law Bill’. [More…]
Why I object to the expression Family Law Act’ is probably the reason that it was considered in the first place. [More…]
In those circumstances I imagine the description ‘Family Law Bill’ has been chosen. [More…]
But on the other hand I think it has at the present time features which I regard as not exactly destructive of marriage and the family but certainly conducive to weakening the impact in society and the acceptance in our society of marriage and the family. [More…]
There is no power to make laws with respect to the family. [More…]
They might have to make separate applications under the new Family Law Act- a de novo type of application- for maintenance or custody. [More…]
Australia’ includes Norfolk Island; court’, in relation to any proceedings, means the court exercising jurisdiction in those proceedings by virtue of this Act; court of summary jurisdiction’ includes a Family Court of a State or Territory, not being a court that may be constituted by a Judge of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory; decree’ means decree, judgment or order, and includes a decree nisi and an order dismissing an application or refusing to make a decree or order; financial matters’, in relation to the parties to a marriage, means matters with respect to- [More…]
In sub-clause ( 1 ) insert the following new definition: Family Court’ means the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
If there were objection to the Family Court we could come back to this clause. [More…]
If the Committee took the view that it did not want a Family Court we could come back and delete the definition. [More…]
I regard the definition of the Family Court, as contemplated by Senator Murphy’s amendment, as, in my judgment, probably the most significant provision of all the provisions in this Bill. [More…]
I think I indicated in the course of my contribution to the second reading debate that I am totally opposed not to the concept of family court but to the concept of a family court established under Commonwealth law, with judges appointed for life. [More…]
In referring to the title of the Family Law Bill, I think that my Tasmanian colleague, Senator Everett, read out the long title which states: [More…]
We are dealing with all sorts of family situations. [More…]
It is just a contradiction in terms to say that marriage according to law in Australia is a union for life when, in fact, the Family Law Bill into which we now propose to insert this definition provides for dissolution of marriage. [More…]
It seems to me that we could have, for example, what is called a testator’s family maintenance application- the question of whether or not a proper will has been made under which the surviving spouse or a child has an appropriate order. [More…]
It is cautious legislation in a federation such as ours not to assume- particularly in the matter of family relationshipstoo much power where there is doubt as to whether that power exists. [More…]
It would remove what is desirable, namely the power for persons to be able to approach the court- let us hope that it is a family courtwithout having to start matrimonial proceedings for divorce. [More…]
The attempt to take maintenance out of that jurisdiction and to put it into, I hope, a family court- I hope that there will be both Federal and State involvement- would be lost if this amendment were carried. [More…]
I suggest that there is very little reason for thinking that these powers will be denied by application to the High Court, and we should not fear to tread in the directions in which this Bill is pointed and in which common family law should prevail. [More…]
A very valuable work on this precise subject- the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to regulate family relations- by Professor Sackville, who is known to all honourable senators, and by Professor Howard, who is the General Counsel to the Attorney-General, is reported in the 1974 Federal Law Review at page 30. [More…]
It is referred to in the text of ‘Family Law in Australia’ by Finlay, Bishop and Johnson. [More…]
The broad and bold concept of this legislation is that at the appropriate time all such proceedings would come under the jurisdiction of the Family Court or any variant of the Family Court as it is at present conceived. [More…]
If it is felt that under a family court set-up there can be greater benefit for the party for whom the solicitor or counsel is appearing, undoubtedly these provisions will be availed of. [More…]
As far as State courts are concerned, it has still to be decided how a family court set up by the Commonwealth can live with State family courts. [More…]
I know that Senator Missen has an amendment to the effect that there shall be State family courts. [More…]
If there are to be State family courts, surely they would be able to handle matters which arise out of the marital relationship, whether they are matrimonial causes or not. [More…]
That is the advantage of having State family courts instead of a Commonwealth family court. [More…]
If this wide definition which covers maintenance cases now heard by State courts is not included there is no guarantee that the States will put such powers into the State family courts. [More…]
Therefore I suggest that all these powers should be put within the ambit of matrimonial cause and should be transferred, in my opinion and the opinion of some members of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, in many cases to the State courts, which are to be known as family courts. [More…]
I refer to a passage from the text which I mentioned earlier, ‘Family Law in Australia’ by Finley, Bissert and Johnson. [More…]
That is family law- on the ground that laws on marriage and divorce and allied matters are of national rather than merely regional importance. [More…]
It cannot be a cause of complaint that someone may raise the issue of whether matters are to be dealt with in a family court or elsewhere. [More…]
Here we are taking the bold step of moving family matters- matrimonial causes- into the family court. [More…]
If someone says: ‘I contend that this is a family court matter, ‘ I suppose it is the same as in any other area, such as in relation to industrial matters which would be taken in the industrial court and not elsewhere. [More…]
What will be the court in which proceedings are to be taken for such a matrimonial cause if, for example, the parties reside in a country centre where there is no available supreme court, where there is not likely to be a Commonwealth family court and where a State family court may not be constituted. [More…]
It was the argument on the last provision that there will be a court, be it a Commonwealth family court or a State family court, which will contain within its scope the means of dealing with all these matrimonial causes. [More…]
As time goes on one hopes that the family court, or whatever it may be, will be the one which will have jurisdiction in those areas. [More…]
What is the relevance or justification of a case which has been urged by so many people today- that to have the Family Court structure and to have the ability to go to these Family Courts is going to open up something new in this area if what people have to do is to go to the ordinary courts as they always have done? [More…]
If the honourable senator would let me have a few moments to speak I could point out to him that there he will find that the Committee, whilst expressing the wish that all matters involving matrimonial causes should be heard in a Family Court, faced the fact that for reasons of geography and manpower this desirable state will not emerge overnight. [More…]
We hope, when this scheme gets off the ground, that magistrates will be excluded from matters concerning the family, that we will have a two-tiered judicial system and that the court will be a circuit court. [More…]
The intention is that those courts be replaced by a family court which will be phased in even to isolated spots. [More…]
In sub-clause (3) leave out ‘Superior’ insert ‘Family’. [More…]
I draw attention to the fact, for instance, that the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau would like to start a training course in marriage counselling. [More…]
In fairness, and not in any way to stir up controversy but because I think I ought to tell the Senate, one of the complaints made to me by those who were associated with churches is that despite the expressed concern of a number of churches about the necessity to preserve the family it has been very difficult for their marriage guidance organisations to get any real financial assistance from the churches. [More…]
If the debate can help to make those who have funds pay out a little of those funds in accordance with what they see as the necessity of preserving the family it may be of benefit. [More…]
Honourable senators will notice that I have suggested- perhaps it is in line with Senator Carrick ‘s proposal, if I may be permitted to refer to it, and with other suggestionsan institute of family studies. [More…]
It may well be that through such an institute some attention can be given to these topics, in addition to family counselling. [More…]
For example, I am aware that the Family Welfare Bureau went out of business in Sydney recently and many of its assets were taken over by the Smith Family. [More…]
The Smith Family has many diverse activities, only one of which is counselling, and I am sure that it is deserving of support. [More…]
I am well aware of the Smith Family case and the difficulties there. [More…]
The collapse of the Family Welfare Bureau, which was mentioned by the honourable senator, is an illustration of what I referred to a little earlier. [More…]
A lot has been said in the community over the last 12 months or so about the family. [More…]
Yet the Family Welfare Bureau, which was a well respected institution, gave plenty of notice that it was in grave financial difficulties and was allowed to collapse. [More…]
Just what are they doing in some of these areas, apart from talking about their fondness and concern for the family? [More…]
One of the things we also had in mind, in addition to the point raised by Senator Button on this matter, was that this family court should be set up as an institution which will be different from traditional courts in which matters of this kind are heard. [More…]
It could be particularly valuable if the Family Law Court is established with a different method of operating in a more informal way because in the existing Act 3 things can happen. [More…]
I think that in fact if the parties are litigating some matter in the court whether it is the Family Court or the existing court and they want that decision then to force them unwillingly to enter into a discussion with the judge is hardly a likely way to effect a reconciliation. [More…]
The Committee did hear evidence from Judge Burnett of the Family Court of South Australia. [More…]
We think that although the judge will be steeped in the family atmosphere he is really there as a judge to decide the things that cannot be resolved. [More…]
Sensible judges who are steeped in the family atmosphere will suggest that. [More…]
The Family Courts are there to help with good sense. [More…]
The Committee recommends the insertion into Part III of the Bill of a provision to the effect that where an application for principal relief discloses that the parties to the marriage have been married for less than 2 years, the Registrar or other proper officer of the court must refer the application to a Judge of the Family Court. [More…]
I 4a (1) A party to a marriage may file in the Family Court a notice stating that the marriage has broken down. [More…]
Where such a notice is filed, the Director of Counselling and Welfare of the Family Court may arrange for the parties to the marriage to be interviewed by a marriage counsellor for the purpose of assisting the parties with a view to a reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. ‘ [More…]
The Director of Counselling and Welfare of the Family Court may arrange for the parties to the marriage to be interviewed by a marriage counsellor for the purpose of assisting the parties with a view to a reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other or to the children of the marriage. [More…]
1) a party to a marriage may 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…]
Firstly, as the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) has said, the amendment is in accordance with the general view of the Standing Committee that the counselling services of the Family Court should be available at as early a stage as possible and- this is most important- without necessarily invoking the jurisdiction of the court in respect of any particular proceeding. [More…]
It says that a party to a marriage may 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…]
The second point I make is that the Committee considered that amendment was desirable in order to increase the constitutional strength of the power contained in the proposed new clause 14a- in other words, that the availability of the counselling facilities should be pursuant to a formal filing of a document invoking those facilities in the Family Court. [More…]
If a person wants to use the facilities of the Family Court or of the Marriage Guidance Bureau he can do so under a subsequent proposed new clause which suggests that the Director of Counselling and Welfare is to advise where facilities may be obtained. [More…]
In the view of the Senate Standing Committee, one of the incidental benefits of having proposed new clause 14a ( 1) in the Bill is that there will be taken a legal step which will bring matters before the jurisdiction of the Family Court. [More…]
If we are to spell out what the purposes of counselling are, should we include a few extra words to take in the meaning, say, ‘or for purposes of offering personal counselling which may be necessary to cope with the problems resulting from a disturbed family relationship’? [More…]
Secondly, I believe that it must be a long time in actual development because we are told that the Family Court may be some time in actually being established. [More…]
I think that there will be people in remoter areas, removed from a Family Court, who will not have the facilities which are offered by this clause readily available to them. [More…]
Family Court may advertise the existence and availability of the counselling and welfare facilities of the Family Court and of other courts having jurisdiction under this Act. [More…]
A party to a marriage may seek the assistance of the counselling facilities of the Family Court and when such assistance is sought the Director of Counselling and Welfare shall, as far as practicable, make those facilities available. [More…]
b) the counselling and welfare facilities available within the Family Court and elsewhere. [More…]
Proposed new heading ‘Part IIIa- The Family Court of Australia ‘. [More…]
I want to indicate at the outset that I am opposed to the concept of a Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I will oppose any insertion in the Bill relating to a Family Court of Australia and that would mean I object to this heading. [More…]
Naturally, if the concept is accepted by the Committee the issue becomes whether or not the provisions to give effect to the Family Court are provisions which are appropriate. [More…]
Perhaps the appropriate place to speak on this issue of the Family Court is when we are dealing with this particular question. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs recommended that there should be a Family Court of Australia which was to be a superior court of record, and that the jurisdiction ought to be vested in it. [More…]
I then notice that 3 members of that Committee who have subscribed to the concept of the Commonwealth Family Court also are putting up amendments which will facilitate the creation by the States, in co-operation with the Commonwealth, of State family courts. [More…]
As I understand the situation, there also is provision under their amendments whereby the jurisdiction may be vested in those State family courts. [More…]
I understand that their view is that the Family Court will exist alongside the State family courts. [More…]
Taking up Senator Everett’s point, if agreements are not reached between the Commonwealth and the States, obviously there will not be State family courts but there will be a Commonwealth Family Court. [More…]
My fear is that there will not be State Family Courts under this concept because this Commonwealth Government would not be interested in establishing State Family Courts. [More…]
I would have thought that was a retrograde step and not as efficacious as State Family Courts would be, constitutionally and practically, in giving effect to the purposes of the Committee’s report. [More…]
I referred yesterday to some aspects of the Committee’s report which I felt indicated that there was, if not a misconception, a view which I did not think was constitutionally sound and that was the view that in some way you may have judges of a Family Court constituted by the Commonwealth who were not appointed for life. [More…]
I said then, and I think it is indisputable, that judges of a Commonwealth court, be it a Superior Court, be it the High Court, be it the Industrial Court or be it a Family Court, are appointed for life. [More…]
The idea of geriatric judges being judges of a Family Court I think is totally inconsistent with the objectives which are sought in this legislation. [More…]
Is the Committee discussing the establishment of a Family Court or is it widening that discussion much further than I would have anticipated? [More…]
We are discussing the Family Court but part of the problems which one can get involved in when one discusses this concept of a Family Court is the ability of the equipment of the judges who comprise the court, because there is a fear to which expression is given in the report about the age of judges and how desirable it is to avoid that situation developing. [More…]
Yet I think that to establish a Family Court is to create that situation and whilst various other means by other legislation may provide inducements by which judges might be persuaded not to continue their judicial role beyond a certain age, there is no guarantee whatever that judges will accept such inducements. [More…]
We have a number of judges who, I think with general acceptance, perform their duties even though they are in their late seventies and some are in their eighties, but this is a concept which in the Family Court area is not desired. [More…]
A second aspect which I think is important is that a Commonwealth Family Court would in essence be another name for a Commonwealth Superior Court with all the arguments against a Superior Court being able to be argued against a Family Court. [More…]
It would require a separate type of Family Court circuit which would provide services as readily available to people in country areas as would be provided by existing Supreme Court circuits. [More…]
It is important that the Government is willing to spend day after day on the Family Law Bill but will graciously allow about 90 minutes on this Bill. [More…]
-Can the Minister for the Media inform the Senate whether the ViceChairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Mr J. E. Neary, holds shares in any companies having an interest or involvement in the broadcasting and entertainment media or whether any members of his immediate family hold shares in such companies as a result of recent transfers by Mr Neary or prior issue? [More…]
If the Family Law Bill, which took up 1 or 2 days, had not intruded into the debate last week I believe that when we went home at 10.30 p.m. last Thursday the notice paper would have been almost cleaned up. [More…]
If one examines the notice paper at present, apart from the Family Law Bill- which I understand will take some time to deal with- the rest of the Bills would not necessarily occupy much of the time of the Senate. [More…]
I propose to say a few words on this matter because undoubtedly the creation of the Family Court, whether it be Federal entirely or State and Federal, is of great interest to the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, lt was, of course, a major part of the recommendations that that Committee put forward- that there certainly should be a family court taking up all the jurisdictions which were otherwise spread in a great mass of courts, in different ways, and which were a constant cause of jumping from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and the cause likewise of cost and of frustration for litigants. [More…]
A second aspect which I think is important is that a Commonwealth Family Court would in essence be another name for a Commonwealth Superior Court with all the arguments against a Superior Court being able to be argued against a Family Court. [More…]
I do not think the Commonwealth Family Court means in any way the same thing as a Superior Court. [More…]
Apart from anything else the proposal for a Superior Court, which I strongly oppose, is a suggestion that we would merely put a certain part of the jurisdiction into one section of the Superior Court which would be called the ‘Family Law Division’. [More…]
It might be given certain powers and certain facilitiesthe sort that we would like to see given to all parts of the Family Court. [More…]
Apart from anything else one of the proposals of the Superior Court Bill was that judges could be interchangeable between divisions of the Court and that they could move from one division- Family Law- into another division. [More…]
That is completely contrary to the concept which the Committee had of a Family Court because what is designed is that the people who will be appointed to a Family Court will be those who have a special touch for that sort of work. [More…]
It is well known to the Senate that I and other members of the Committee propose to seek the creation of not only a Commonwealth Family Court but also of State courts that will operate along with the Commonwealth courts. [More…]
That requires us to have the uniformity which a Federal Family Court will bring because it will bring together on appeal and in other ways the concepts which are desired to be found in family courts. [More…]
I want to say that I certainly support the concept of a Family Court being created as proposed in this Part. [More…]
If a family court is not set up as a new concept, as a new court moving into a new field, it will be complete defeat for this Bill. [More…]
As I indicated in the Senate on 1 7 September 1 974 I proposed to put before the Senate certain clauses for the setting up of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I fully endorse paragraphs 33, 34 and 35 of the Standing Committee’s report and, in particular, the concept of the Family Court as a ‘helping court’. [More…]
It is obvious that the quality of justice in family law matters should be even-handed across Australia. [More…]
I will not go further into the matter except to say that a separate Family Court away from the ordinary court buildings will provide a better atmosphere for the resolution of family problems. [More…]
The judges of the Family Court will need to be men and women of compassion who have a deep understanding of the subtleties of human conduct and marital relationships. [More…]
I believe, along with Senator Missen, that the concept of an Australian Family [More…]
I believe such a Court will provide justice, compassion and help and put Australia in the forefront of family law reform. [More…]
One cannot help feeling that some of those cases have been dealt with in almost the worst possible way, and certainly not in the manner in which these family affairs ought to be handled. [More…]
I hope the Committee will endorse the heading of this part and therefore the concept of the Family Court. [More…]
Senator Greenwood asked why we wanted a Commonwealth Family Court instead of having merely State Family Courts. [More…]
I reply to that question by saying that if the Committee accepts the idea that it is desirable that there should be a Family Court to administer this area of law, the fact is that the only court that this Parliament can definitely establish is a Commonwealth court. [More…]
If the States choose not to accept that invitation the Parliament is left with the proposition- this is if we went along with what Senator Greenwood said- that we are going to allow matrimonial causes to be administered by courts other than family courts. [More…]
Therefore I would say, in answer to Senator Greenwood, that the situation is that we need to set up a Commonwealth court if we are to be certain that we are going to be able to have a Family Court. [More…]
During the second reading debate I. made a comment about the place of family courts and Senator James McClelland indicated by way of interjection that some of the things I was hoping family courts could achieve probably had no constitutional head of power. [More…]
What were concerning me at that time were matters relating to juvenile delinquency and cases of that kind which ideally should be within the ambit of a family court. [More…]
If one looks at the structure of family courts throughout the world, the best of them seem to take in not just matrimonial causes but many other matters affecting children. [More…]
If there is a constitutional limit to what can be done by the Commonwealth I think we have a pretty strong argument for inviting the States to be involved in the setting up and operation of family courts. [More…]
There are other matters which should be dealt with in family courts but this can only be done if the States are involved on a partnership basis. [More…]
I visualise the development within Australia of what I choose to call family courts but they would have a wide range and adjudicate not only on matters arising out of the family relationship; they also would have the function of providing advice and counselling in regard to family matters. [More…]
I think a family court is really a useful centre pin upon which a lot of advice facilities for the community at large will develop. [More…]
But the real problem arises as to whether the Commonwealth has the power constitutionally to set up such a family court with or without those additional facilities. [More…]
I stress what I have said before, that there is no consolation in being able to say some years hence that these points were adverted to in the course of the Senate debate1 on the Family Law Bill and those who were cautious find that they were right, if that should happen to be the case. [More…]
I have read and re-read what the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs said about this matter of a family court. [More…]
I find, with all respect to members of that Committee, that the argument and the logic are confused because it seems to me that the concept of a family court is well expressed. [More…]
It is to be a Commonwealth Family Court. [More…]
Then it appears to me that there is the development of a concept of State family courts. [More…]
He accepts only the concept of a family court. [More…]
I do not think it is good enough for Senator Missen to say that he is quite certain that a Commonwealth Family Court and the State family courts will work together and to assert that proposition without explaining how they will work together. [More…]
But certainly, as far as court structures and functions are concerned, it is obligatory upon Parliament to lay down the functions of a Commonwealth Family Court and the functions of a State Family Court. [More…]
In that journal there is an article by Professor Finlay on the family court concept in the light of the absence in the original provisions of the legislation of such a family court. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the tenor of Professor Finlay ‘s article was one of criticism of the omission of a family court from the original legislation. [More…]
The tentative picture of a new ‘Family Court’ which emerges, however, is somewhat confused. [More…]
He is talking here about the family law division of the Superior Court which was the original concept proposed. [More…]
Apparently the Superior Court whose work at first instance is to be the routine task of granting decrees of dissolution in undefended divorce proceedings will have attached to it the sophisticated apparatus that a Family Court should have. [More…]
I interpolate that from my recollection that is what the Attorney-General said was a fair substitute for a family court and that was why he did not, in his first Bill, establish a family court. [More…]
On the other hand the courts dealing with the really contentious aspects of family conflict seem likely to remain the state courts of summary jurisdiction. [More…]
In this way the Commonwealth could encourage the setting up of family courts on a co-ordinated basis at State level. [More…]
Anyone looking for a ‘Family Court’ will therefore be disappointed. [More…]
Not only will the probable division of labour between the Superior Court and courts of summary jurisdiction be in inverse relationship to the intricacy of the respective subject matters with which they will be dealing, but important areas of family law will, for constitutional reasons remain outside the scheme. [More…]
Drawing support from what Professor Finlay has said I emphasise that he recognised this constitutional limitation upon this concept of family law which the Bill is not prepared to recognise. [More…]
I know that the Bill asserts a jurisdiction for this Family Court in matters of adoption and the guardianship, custody or maintenance of children. [More…]
He talks about the problems relating to testator family maintenance. [More…]
He uses the same example which Senator Baume used of juvenile courts and the fact that they cannot be within the area of the Family Court. [More…]
I believe that all of these factors are indications of some limitation upon the efficacy of a Commonwealth Family Court on a constitutional basis and in the area of jurisdiction. [More…]
To set up a Commonwealth Family Court and to visualise that as the court in which all these problems will be resolved must surely mean that people in country areas will be given the same facilities as people in city areas. [More…]
Why a Commonwealth Family Court with lesser jurisdiction than the Superior [More…]
Surely the concept is to provide that access to the courts whether for family matters or for other matters is reasonable and easy for the citizens. [More…]
As to this excellent article titled ‘Family Law, Family Courts and Federalism’, Senator Greenwood has read many excellent parts of that article but he neglected the conclusion. [More…]
Such courts could be established as state family courts and invested with all matters of family law within both federal and state power. [More…]
The Superior Court of Australia could be entrusted with appellate jurisdiction in family matters within federal power, leaving only appeals in state family matters to be dealt with by State Supreme Courts. [More…]
The establishment of a system of state family courts administering predominantly federal law would have a twofold effect. [More…]
We have a federal family court proposed under this new Part and State courts proposed along the lines that Professor Finlay has advocated for some considerable time. [More…]
We in this country tend to neglect it in the civil sphere, in the criminal sphere especially, and most of all in the area of family law. [More…]
I do not think anyone should be concerned about the almost trivial price one would have to pay if this proposed legislation can achieve a useful result in these family matters. [More…]
All those who have been expressing great concern for the preservation of the family ought to be in support of the proposal to establish a family court to deal with those matters. [More…]
Listening to what was put by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Senator Greenwood) I gathered that substantially he was saying: ‘Let us leave things as they are and deal with family matters in much the same atmosphere as you deal with other matters’. [More…]
I suppose that one of the things a family court would want to do would be to get right away from the area of the other courts. [More…]
One could imagine a family court in a building which was away from the criminal and civil courts and away altogether from that atmosphere without us having even to build new premises. [More…]
I was asked about matters which were not capable of being dealt with by the family court. [More…]
In any event this is a large step forward and that is enough without having to tackle the question, which has not proved easy of solution elsewhere, whether we should combine juvenile delinquency with other family matters. [More…]
Other matters such as the testator’s family maintenance matters, are traditionally, even in the States which have made some progress in dealing with family matters, not dealt with in a family atmosphere but in equity courts. [More…]
Certainly that is so in New South Wales and these cases may be regarded only marginally as family matters. [More…]
I leave aside the question raised by Senator Missen and invite him to reconsider the passage he read from Professor Finlay ‘s article because clearly what Professor Finlay is there saying, and also says in the final paragraph of the article, is that he looks for a State family court as part of the co-operative federalism which he believes is important. [More…]
He refers to ‘a State family court administering Federal law’, which is the argument which I feel ought to prevail. [More…]
This proposed new clause of the Bill establishing a Commonwealth family court is not what Professor Finlay is there looking to. [More…]
I imagine that he never visualised that there would be a family court set up by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The report of the Senate Committee stated in a passage I read during the second reading debate that it was concerned with the effect on the creation of a family court and the appointment of judges and of section 72 of the Commonwealth Constitution which, in general, requires judges of the family court created by Parliament to be appointed for life. [More…]
I understand that much of the work which the Family Court, as set up by the Commonwealth, is proposing to do will not be within the concept of an exercise of judicial power. [More…]
As this concept of a Commonwealth Family Court develops so matters will go into that Family Court. [More…]
I understand also that this concept of a Family Court, coming as it does as an amendment at a late stage- it is only within the last fortnight to 3 weeks that the amendment for this Family Court has been circulated- has not been worked out in co-operation with State or Territory judges. [More…]
I believe, from what I have been told, that this will envisage some 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the work which is currently exercised by the State supreme courts moving into the Family Court area. [More…]
I invite him again, if he would, to address himself to the point which Senator Baume raised and which I raise and which I think is an important matter- the matters which ought to be the concern of any Family Court will not be able to be the concern of any Family Court. [More…]
(1) A court, to be known as the Family Court of Australia, is created by this Act. [More…]
(1) A court, to be known as the Family Court of Australia, is created by this Act. [More…]
Is that a proper basis on which to decide what the size of the Family Court will be? [More…]
I see a situation in which it may be necessary to appoint an additional judge of the Family Court at fairly short notice. [More…]
It seems to me that 6 judges- it is only one per State- would be a completely bare minimum, so far as the Family Court is concerned if it is to achieve the purposes that the Attorney-General has conceived for it. [More…]
I regret that for other reasons I was not in the chamber when the Committee discussed the previous amendment, the result of which now is that the AttorneyGeneral can proceed to establish the Federal Family Court with a chief judge and 6 other judges, but he must prescribe by regulation what other judges will be necessary. [More…]
The question of how many judges will be necessary is linked also with the question of State Family Courts, if they are created, and so on. [More…]
by reason of training, experience and personality, he is a suitable person to deal with the matters of family law. [More…]
A person may hold office at the one time as a Judge of the Family Court and as a judge of another court, or of two or more other courts, created by the Parliament but, if a judge of another court or courts created by the Parliament is appointed as a Judge of the Family Court, he is not, while he receives salary or annual allowance as a judge of that other court or courts, entitled to salary or annual allowance, as the case may be, under this Act except to the extent that the salary or annual allowance that would be payable to him under this Act apart from this sub-section exceeds the salary or annual allowance payable to him as a judge of that other court or courts, but his salary and annual allowance under this Act shall not be diminished during his continuance in office under this Act. [More…]
The proposed sub- clause (4) states that a person who is a judge of the Family Court may be a judge of another court or other courts. [More…]
That seems to me to be totally inconsistent with the concept which has been argued for by those who urged the Family Court some time ago. [More…]
That, it is said, is the vice of the present system and what is wanted are judges of the Family Court who will concern themselves totally and exclusively with Family Court matters. [More…]
That was urged very strongly as a reason why we should have a Commonwealth Family Court, against arguments which I raised that the State Family Courts system ought to be preferred. [More…]
Now we find in this proposed sub-section a provision that a judge of the Family Court may hold office as a judge of another court or of two or more other courts created by the Parliament. [More…]
Only judges suitable to be Family Court judges would be appointed to the Family Court, but if such a judge were in some isolated area, or in the case of some kind of emergency, he might be able to deal with a bankruptcy notice or something like that and thereby save the community money. [More…]
It is not intended that regular judges from these other jurisdictions would be judges of the Family Court but it may be that the Family Court could deal with some of the other matters. [More…]
If Senator Greenwood wants to tie the Government to the words ‘totally and exclusively deal with Family Court matters’ 1 will not press for the inclusion of sub-clause (4) of proposed new clause 17C. [More…]
If Senator Greenwood is now so agreeable to the concept of the Family Court that he does not want the slightest blemish on the concept, I am pleased. [More…]
I fear that a sort of dilution of functions which is against the spirit of an exclusive, separate Family Court could occur in the future no matter what was the intention of the draftsman in framing this sub-section. [More…]
I feel strongly that the judges of the Family Court should be exclusively judges of the Family Court, with no other functions at all. [More…]
For that reason I support the deletion of the words which would confer functions on judges of the Family Court other than those of the Family Court. [More…]
A judge shall, before proceeding to discharge the duties of his office, take, before the Chief Justice or a Justice of the High Court of Australia or a Judge of the Family Court or of another court created by the Parliament, an oath or affirmation in the following form: [More…]
, do swear thatI will well and truly serve in the office of the (Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will. [More…]
I understand there are 2 significant changes in regard to the oath or affirmation which a judge of the Family Court has to take. [More…]
I, , do swear that I will well and truly serve in the office of the (Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to ail manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, So help me God.’ [More…]
I , do swear that I will well and truly serve Her Majesty the Queen of Australia, her heirs and successors according to law, in the office of (Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will. ‘ [More…]
Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will. ‘ [More…]
The statement is clear enough, lt is relevant to modern times when taking an oath or affirmation for the person to use the words well and truly serve in the office of the Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge of the Family Court of Australia and do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, So help me God’. [More…]
Before we put the remainder of the clause that deals with the Family Court I wonder if the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) or the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs would inform me whether the proposed amendments with regard to the establishment of the Family Court have embraced some of the comments that were made in the Senate Committee’s report with regard to the functions and activities which we would hope would be envisaged in the service that this Court would give. [More…]
( 1 ) The Family Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine- [More…]
b) appeals from judgments of the Family Court, constituted otherwise than as a Full Court, in the exercise of jurisdiction otherwise than under this Act. [More…]
The Family Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals under section 73 except where the Supreme Court of a State has jurisdiction to hear such appeals. [More…]
in the case of an appeal from a judgment of the Family Court constituted by a single Judge, or of the Supreme Court of a State- the judgment appealed from shall be affirmed; and [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…]
Marriage Act 1961-1973 by a Judge or magistrate as defined in sub-section 5 ( 1 ) of that Act shall be exercisable by any Judge ofthe Family Court who is appointed by the AttorneyGeneral to be a person authorized to exercise that power or function, and that Act applies in relation to the exercise of a power or function in accordance with this section as if references in that Act to a magistrate or Judge included references to a Judge of the Family Court so appointed. [More…]
A request may not be made under section 17 of the Marriage Act 1961-1973 for a rehearing of an application that has been dealt with by a Judge of the Family Court. [More…]
Subject to this and any other Act, the Family Court has the same power to punish contempts of its power and authority as is possessed by the High Court in respect of contempts of the High Court. [More…]
This is another novel step inconsistent with the practice of courts and, 1 would have thought, inconsistent with the proper functioning of a Family Court. [More…]
My point is that to create a family court which is to have the character of flexibility about it, to give to the judges a competence to deal with matters as they arise and to require that there be regulations is, I think, to limit the judges’ operation. [More…]
They can alter the rules so much more speedily and consistently with the type of flexible operation which the Family Court necessarily requires. [More…]
I urge upon the Attorney-General that to require regulations in this area is to put a proscription upon the operation of a Family Court which is inconsistent with all the virtues which are claimed for it. [More…]
I suggest also that if we carry the amendment to be moved much later for the creation of a family law council, and I am confident that we will, that will be a council which will have judges and a lot of organisations represented on it and it would be inappropriate to consider such important things as changes of regulations that will come up being taken to the judges from that council. [More…]
In sub-clause (1), paragraph (a), leave out ‘Superior’, insert ‘Family’. [More…]
leave out ‘Superior’, insert ‘Family’. [More…]
in such family Courts as may be created in the States which the Governor-General by proclamation declares to be family courts for the purposes of this Section. ‘ [More…]
I have no doubt as to the outcome of this amendment, but I desire to place it before the Senate because it seems to me the only sensible way in which one can really raise the issue of whether there are to be State family courts. [More…]
The jurisdiction at present is to be in the family court of the Commonwealth or in the Supreme Court of a State, and there is no provision under which State family courts could even be given jurisdiction. [More…]
There is a necessary further amendment which I will move, if by some chance this amendment were carried, vesting the Supreme Court and the family courts with Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
There is no provision in the Bill or in the contemplated amendments which would enable State family courts to be created and this is why I propose this amendment. [More…]
This formal amendment enables the Family Court to deal with interstate enforcement of affiliation orders. [More…]
One may say that if we are to have a Family Court ultimately that must be the result, but it seems to me to have a curious ring about it that people may go to one court and be met not with an answer on the merits but simply with the rejoinder that they are in the wrong court and have to go to another court. [More…]
I cannot understand why the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) cannot leave the option open so that people who want to utilise the provision of the Family Court can do so and people who want to go to the summary court, the court of petty sessions, may likewise do so. [More…]
I think this is a provision which will enable people in the metropolitan areas to have all the advantages of a Family Court, supposing the court develops as is proposed and people in the rural areas will be denied those facilities. [More…]
The Standing Committee was quite aware of the fact that particularly in distant parts of some States it will take some time for family judges to be involved entirely in the area. [More…]
In sub-clause ( I ) leave out “Superior” and insert “Family”. [More…]
In sub-clause (2) leave out “Superior” and insert “Family”. [More…]
In sub-clause (6) leave out “Superior” (wherever occurring) and insert “ Family “. [More…]
After all, this deals with family matters. [More…]
the Australian Government shall take steps with a view to the making of agreements with the governments of the Stales providing for the creation of State courts to be known as Family Courts, being agreements under which the Australian Government will provide the necessary funds for the establishment and administration of those courts. [More…]
a State has created a court known as a Family Court, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare thai, on and after a date specified in the Proclamation, this section applies to that court. [More…]
Judges appointed to that court are by reason of training, experience and personality, suitable persons to deal with matters of family law and cannot hold office beyond the age of 65 years; and [More…]
arrangements have been made under which full use will be made by that court of the counselling and welfare facilities that are available to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The amendment inserts the provision forecast in debate today and before, of the opportunity for State Family Courts to be created to operate and to have Federal jurisdiction conferred on them. [More…]
the Australian Government shall take steps with a view to the making of agreements with the governments of the States providing for the creation of State courts to be known as Family Courts, being agreements under which the Australian Government will provide the necessary funds for the establishment and administration of those courts. [More…]
It is also suggested that one of the conditions should be that judges who are appointed should by reason of training, experience and personality be suitable persons to deal with family law. [More…]
Of course, that is something that is already to be laid down in the Bill itself with respect to the Federal Family Court. [More…]
made of counselling and welfare facilities, so that it is not just the Family Court of Australia; the State courts should have equal access to those facilities. [More…]
I also put to the Committee that it would involve a constant interest by the State in the family law area and that this is desirable. [More…]
We must face the fact that social welfare matters will continue to be an extremely important State function and that therefore their interest should be maintained in the State courts which are dealing with family matters. [More…]
It has been suggested that there are some doubts about the powers of the Family Court. [More…]
I think it would be agreed that if the States, by creating the State Family Courts, confer the right to deal with these matters on the State courts, this will remove a great deal of the fear, and I think that it would be preferable to do that. [More…]
But so that it can be fully understood it is necessary, I believe, to analyse what the Committee has already determined that the law should be, because of votes earlier this afternoon the Committee has established the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The scheme of the Bill, as expressed in some of its provisions, is that the Family Court will gradually absorb the jurisdiction of the State Supreme Courts and of courts of summary jurisdiction. [More…]
Yet in the light of that there is the proposal from Senator Missen to set up alongside the Family Court- not in lieu of it- a number of State courts with, in effect, concurrent jurisdiction. [More…]
I emphasise the word ‘concurrent’ because nowhere does Senator Missen ‘s amendment seek to oust the jurisdiction of the Federal Family Court which this Committee has agreed ought to be established. [More…]
Yet because of constitutional limitations and other limitations which flow from the very provisions of this Bill, the State Family Courts must be inferior, they must be second class compared with the Federal Family Court. [More…]
In the first place, judges of State family courts could never be members of the Full Bench of the Federal Family Court. [More…]
Secondly, their salaries and allowances would not necessarily be the same as those of judges of the Federal Family Court. [More…]
It may be part of the arrangments but a moment’s glance at the various differences in the structure of judicial salaries throughout Australia would prove, I suggest to Senator Durack, that if State family court judges, other than the chief judge and the senior judge, were put on the same basis as Federal Family Court judges it would throw the financial structure as far as salaries were concerned out of kilter in the States. [More…]
One just could not do it because one would reach a situation in which a judge of a State family court in some cases would be getting more than a Supreme Court judge. [More…]
The third illustration that the State family courts would be second class can be seen in the fact that under Senator Missen ‘s proposal there would be 2 concurrent streams of appellate jurisdiction from courts of summary jurisdiction. [More…]
A fourth point is that judges of State family courts could not, because of constitutional limitations, exercise the jurisdiction which would be conferred on the Federal Family Court under proposed sections 17m(1), 17m(2), 17ma and 17n because those proposed sections deal with a jurisdiction which flows from the Marriage Act and that could not, except by the leave of this Parliament, be conferred on State courts. [More…]
Fifthly, I suggest that it is not likely that legal aid would be available in State family courts, as it is under this Bill. [More…]
The 6 Family Court judgesthat is what we are limited to at the moment; there is no licence for any more by virtue by the vote of the Committee- will try to get this enlightened legislation off the ground. [More…]
Secondly, most States have shown very little interest in family law matters. [More…]
Thirdly, I would submit that the Family Court needs single direction. [More…]
Under Senator Missen ‘s proposal State judges would not be answerable to the chief judge of the Family Court, nor would they form part of the directorate. [More…]
I say that a State family court would be a second class court also for the reason that the best judges would not be attracted to State family courts. [More…]
They would naturally seek Federal Family Court appointments. [More…]
I think that it was purely conceived, but it is being mutilated in the course of its gestation and it will produce not a robust child but a very second rate child, in the shape of State family courts that will be only a shadow of the national court which the Senate has already agreed should be established. [More…]
As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, it seems to me that this section departs from the whole notion of a family court as that Committee saw it. [More…]
The point about that passage is simply this: In approaching this whole question of the Family Law Bill the Committee was seeking to bring a new concept into the resolution of matrimonial problems in Australia. [More…]
We want to avoid confusion over jurisdictional matters- the sort of practical confusion which would arise, using Senator Missen ‘s own example, in entering a building in which the finger post points in one direction to the Federal Family Court and in the other direction to the State Family Court. [More…]
The amendment is dressed up in the guise of providing a limitation on the age of judges who will deal with family court problems. [More…]
1 thought that the Committee was unanimous in the view that judges as geriatrics should not deal with family law problems. [More…]
The other thing that concerns me particularly about this proposal is that it involves the whole concept of a Family Court, for which people in this community have been waiting anxiously, with a whole hassle of delays and a whole hassle of different situations which would arise from State to State, as my colleague Senator Everett said. [More…]
What we would have would be a situation in which the money for the Family Court was provided by the national Government, the whole concept of the Family Court was provided by the national Government- indeed, by the Senateeverything was provided by the national Government except the sop to this motion of cooperative federalism- misguided as it is in this context- that we should say that there should still be State family courts. [More…]
The position is that unfortunately State parliaments and governments have, as I think Senator Everett has said, been rather slow in introducing reforms in this field of family law and family law administration. [More…]
However, there are 2 examples, of which I know, of family law and family law administration which are already in existence. [More…]
There may be others but the prime example is the Family Court of South Australia. [More…]
Members of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs will recollect that it was a judge of that court- Judge Burnettwho I think probably persuaded the Committee more than any other witness, of the value and importance of a Family Court exercising jurisdiction under this type of legislation. [More…]
It seems clear that the Family Court of South Australia is a well conceived, well staffed and well run institution. [More…]
In Western Australia moves were made many years ago- not to the same extent as in South Australia- to establish a court at magistrates’ level which deals in the metropolitan area of Perth exclusively with family matters under a State law. [More…]
In Perth there is specialised jurisdiction and although the courts are not as well staffed and assisted as is proposed in this Bill there have been the rudiments of a family court. [More…]
It seems to me that if in the States family courts existed as they do in South Australia then we in this Parliament would be investing those courts with jurisdiction under this Act. [More…]
I do not think the proposals would then be contained in this Bill- proposals which are so strongly supported by Senator Everett and Senator Button- to set up a purely Federal Family Court. [More…]
The reason I believe that a move has been made to include in this Bill the provision for a purely Federal Family Court is that there are not existing courts in other States. [More…]
As I have said, the only proper Family Court exists in South Australia. [More…]
All we are trying to achieve is an exercise in co-operation between the Federal Government and the State governments whereby the model of the South Australian Family Court can be adopted- with perhaps some modifications, if necessary- by negotiation and agreement in all the Australian States. [More…]
By such process of negotiation we would achieve an ideal arrangement and, as I have said, if such an arrangement existed at the moment we would not be speaking about setting up a purely federal Family Court. [More…]
We have not had Family Courts in Australia as yet, apart from those in South Australia and the smaller model in Western Australia. [More…]
Clause 1 8 of the Bill, which we have already supported, states that a person may institute a matrimonial cause under this Bill in the Family Court or in the Supreme Court of a State. [More…]
I am not prepared to accept the notion that any appointment can be made to a Family Court and the judge may be there until he is in his eighties, lt is all very well to say that we can overcome that matter easily, that all we have to do is amend the Constitution. [More…]
I believe it is a fundamental objection to the establishment of a Federal Family Court, indeed, of many Federal courts, that the judges have to be appointed for life. [More…]
That is why I have been a party, as a member of this Committee, and now in support of Senator Missen ‘s amendment, to the idea of establishing these family courts primarily at State level. [More…]
I support entirely the idea of having a few Federal judges because I believe there ought to be a Federal court of appeal to keep the administration of family law throughout the States on the same basis. [More…]
I do not think the High Court is suitable in any way to do this and I do not think that these matters should be dealt with by Full Courts comprised only within each State of Family Court judges within that State. [More…]
Senator Everett made an assumption that a proclamation had been made, and upon that assumption there were problems which would exist in having State Family Courts as envisaged co-existing alongside a Federal Family Court. [More…]
I fear that there will not be any State Family Courts created. [More…]
I come now to what I think is the fundamental problem here, that is, that unless there is a proclamation there will be only a Federal Family Court. [More…]
If there is a Federal Family Court I think that what Senator Durack has said is probably pertinent. [More…]
I think that is a fundamental objection to a Federal Family Court so constituted. [More…]
1 believe that members of the Committee who have supported the concept of a Federal Family Court know it is a flaw in the idea. [More…]
We will not have the State Family Courts because I cannot see any proclamation being agreed upon, either because a State government will not accept the terms or because a Commonwealth Government is not interested in creating the State Family Courts. [More…]
In that particular situation we will be left with a Federal Family Court and I suspect that the argument we have passed between ourselves about potentially geriatric judges is the least important of the arguments I have raised against such a court. [More…]
1 would like to think that if this amendment is not disposed of before the sitting is suspended, Senator Missen will give some consideration to amending some of the clauses to endeavour to make the State Family Courts a true alternative, by not making it a matter which depends upon proclamation but making it a court to which persons have a right of access alternatively with the Federal Family Court. [More…]
He might endeavour to ensure in that way that a State Family Court can be meaningful. [More…]
I sense that once the Federal Family Court is established the arguments which Senator Everett has raised will be persuasive to those who have clients to advise. [More…]
-AU I say is that there is no provision for the South Australian Family Court to be availed of under the provisions of this proposed Act. [More…]
There is absolutely no provision in this Bill which will enable people to continue to go to the South Australian Family Court and to utilise the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
If the Attorney-General can obtain an agreement between South Australia and the Commonwealth Government under which South Australia will concede to the Federal AttorneyGeneral a veto power over the judges appointed by South Australia then maybe the Commonwealth Government will get some access under the terms of this amendment, if it is carried, to the South Australian Family Court. [More…]
-The States have nothing to do with the situation which is established by a Federal Family Court. [More…]
But in a State Family Court I suspect that they would want to have the power of appointment even if that power of appointment were in some way to be constrained by a requirement of consultation. [More…]
Is there to be a Federal Family Court? [More…]
In that case it seems to me there is no place for State family courts. [More…]
Or are there to be State Family Courts? [More…]
In that case a Federal Family Court is redundant. [More…]
I hold strongly, even though the numbers are against me, to the concept of State family courts for a variety of reasons. [More…]
This offers some prospect that in some way under a subsequent government the State Family Courts might get a leg in. [More…]
The Family Court needs a single direction, a concept of helping out and a developed team work between judges and ancillary staff, including counsellors and welfare officers. [More…]
The Family Court itself is to consist of judges appointed in the normal way through the Australian Government. [More…]
This amendment would have the effect only of carrying on that unfortunate tradition by having the judicial administration split in this way, so although there is a welcome step towards the family court there would be added to it this kind of State court machinery. [More…]
I think there is common ground in this debate to the extent that it is generally agreed we ought to have a family court which will administer the law in this area. [More…]
I think it is also common ground that if that family court is to succeed it will wind up exercising not only Commonwealth jurisdiction but also some areas of State jurisdiction. [More…]
If the States and the Commonwealth can come together on this concept of a family court I think in the future it will be far easier for the States to ensure that this one family court in the States is given all the appropriate jurisdiction, both State and Federal. [More…]
The situation is that the appointees will be exercising jurisdiction in fields which will be the concern of both the State and Commonwealth, so why should not the 2 jurisdictions get together and agree on appointees being people who are appropriate, assuming that they can agree on the common concept of a family court. [More…]
In fairness to those supporting this amendment I point out to the Attorney-General that he is in the situation where if a State will not co-operate with him and go along with the idea of a family court within these guidelines, he will be free to go ahead and develop his Commonwealth court. [More…]
The problem of establishing a family court- which is however a matter of essential importance to the Australian Government. [More…]
We have not yet approved a vast Family Court of Australia which will sit as some big brother up against little State courts which will have some lower status. [More…]
In fact we would then have a system of family courts around Australia which would be State courts and the Family Court which we have approved under clause 17 of the Bill would simply be required as an appellate court, as a court perhaps to fill gaps where the States were not able to provide facilities. [More…]
If Senator Missen ‘s amendment is accepted we can have within the States the creation of family courts which fit the pattern the Committee seems to be agreed is required but which exercise virtually the whole of the jurisdiction within each of the States subject only to the appellate jurisdiction of the Family Court “of Australia. [More…]
I am sure that all members of the Committee would agree that the Family Court of South Australia is an example of the sort of court that we are anxious to see established around Australia. [More…]
I suggest that, in an area where we do want the States ‘ cooperation to get the remaining areas of jurisdiction vested in the Family Court, the sort of proposal which is put forward by Senator Missen deserves support. [More…]
We should not compromise the basic concept of the Family Court. [More…]
Under that clause appeals from the Supreme Court go to the full Family Court and the provisions of sub-clause 3 of my amendment make it clear that references in the various clauses, including clause 7 1, to the Supreme Court of the State are to be taken as references to the Family Court of the State. [More…]
Consequently appeals will go from the new State Family Courts to the new full [More…]
Federal Family Court. [More…]
He put the proposition that there is no provision to allow parties to go to the South Australian Family Court and to utilise it. [More…]
There is no legislation creating that Family Court. [More…]
The Family Court shall, in the exercise ofits 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…]
In sub-clause (1), paragraph (6), leave out ‘Superior’ insert ‘Family’. [More…]
Amendment 65 is consequential upon the establishment of the Family Court and merely replaces a reference to the Superior Court with a reference to the Family Court. [More…]
The court must look at all those things before it implements the provisions of the Family Law Bill in relation to the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
Senator Missen went on to say: ls not the real problem, which you do not advert to here, (hai under the present Bill you may not be able to prove separation in any real sense, you have a small family, in a small house, living obviously, apparently together, and even what has been written into the Bill at the present time which says that you can have separation under the one roof, but you have no real separation? [More…]
I hope that if this is not so the members of the Family Law Committee which is to investigate this matter will be the people who should put up a proposal if it changes thought. [More…]
What is more, if people read the Family Law Bill they will not find the grounds within it. [More…]
We are going hopefully to have a Family Law Council which will keep these matters under close watch and advise the Parliament in regard to the way the proposed Act is operating. [More…]
That, we, the undersigned, are not opposed to the simplification of divorce proceedings, but have serious objections to the Family Law Bill 1974; [More…]
That, such a concept of marriage will destroy the contractual nature of marriage, undermine the total commitment of two persons to each other and threaten the integrity of family life which is the basis of our society: [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote against the Bill in its present form, allow public consideration of amendments and then vote to so amend the Bill as to strengthen and support marriage and the family in a manner accept to the people of Australia. [More…]
Is it not appropriate that the visit is timed so that the Prime Minister might have Christmas in England with his family? [More…]
Senator Wood suggests that this trip may in some way be connected with the Prime Minister’s personal problems or desires to see his family. [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…]
FAMILY LAW BILL 1974 [No. [More…]
The Family Law Bill is not the only place in which that should be done because the Marriage Act is also a greatly responsible aspect in that respect. [More…]
I see the Family Law Bill as sound, imaginative legislation which fills a long-felt need. [More…]
There are arguments in favour of the Family Court now envisaged in this Bill. [More…]
To be fair to him, what he really said was that in this Family Law Bill we have some proposals which in one context he described as revolutionary and in another as far reaching, and I agree with him. [More…]
I agree with Senator Missen when he says that the relevant period must be looked at in the light of other proposals made in the Bill- for example, the almost instant availability of counselling facilities and the whole structure of the Family Court. [More…]
So it could well be that after a 12 months period has elapsed and an application for dissolution is filed, the counselling procedures of the Family Court would ensure that a reconciliation did take place, and if it did take place in some cases that would be all to the good. [More…]
It permits sufficient time for there to be retained within the marriage contract, within marriage itself and the concept of the family, a real measure of responsibility. [More…]
From time to time the wife had taken meals with the rest of the family, especially when common acquaintances were present. [More…]
Before the sitting of the Senate was suspended I was saying that the definition of what constitutes a separation for the purpose of this one ground which will now apply in the family law legislation is a matter of great consequence. [More…]
-The attitude ofthe Government Party senators is that they must get this Bill through, because it is common talk in the lobbies of this Parliament that there has been a constant wrangle day by day as to whether or not the Family Law Bill is to be the subject for debate in the Senate. [More…]
We have on the list at the moment some 40 Bills which have been introduced into the Senate during the past fortnight and which have been held up because of the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I refer to the volume Toose, Benjafield and Watson on family law, which 1 concede was written in 1968, but on my researches the position has not significantly altered in the intervening years. [More…]
Leave out sub-clause (2) and insert the following sub-clause: (2) The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the registration in a State or Territory in a court having jurisdiction under this Act (including the Family Court) of custody orders made by a court in another State or Territory. ‘ [More…]
I think it is quite absurd to use the family law in this regard, particularly that aspect of it directed to maintenance of children, to deal with the position of an adult who happens to need maintenance while undergoing education or some kind of training. [More…]
I certainly hope that the wise judges who will staff the family courts and even the young judges who may, if the wishes of some people come true, staff the State courts will not have a bar of this nonsense which allows a person who has been divorced and gone on to marry someone else to turn back to the former partner and seek maintenance from the former partner. [More…]
( 1 ) A person aggrieved by a decision of a Judge ofthe Supreme Court of a State exercising jurisdiction under this Act or of the Family Court exercising original jurisdiction under this Act may, within the time prescribed by the regulations, appeal from the decree to the Full Court ofthe Family Court. [More…]
In sub-clause ( I ) insert before the word ‘may’ the following words: or a Family Court established under clauses 19a and 20 of this Act ‘. [More…]
This amendment will enable appeals to go from the Family Court to the Full Court of the Family Court. [More…]
upon a certificate of the Full Court of the Family Court that an important question of law or of public interest is involved. [More…]
In sub-clause ( 1 ) leave out ‘Superior ‘and insert ‘Family’. [More…]
In sub-clause ( 2 ) leave out ‘Superior’ and insert ‘ Family”. [More…]
In sub-clause ( 1 ) leave out ‘under this Act’ and insert ‘in the Family Court, or in another court when exercising jurisdiction under this Act. [More…]
This will be a great improvement in the Bill and will greatly widen the Family Court’s power to make orders irrespective of divorce proceedings. [More…]
1 ) The Attorney-General may establish a Family Law Advisory Committee, consisting of persons appointed by him in accordance with sub-section (2 ). [More…]
The Committee shall consist of a Judge ofthe Family Law Division of the Superior Court of Australia and such other judges, magistrates, 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 function of the Committee is to advise the Attorney-General on the working of this Act and on other matters relating to family law. [More…]
(I) 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 ofthe Public Service of Australia or of a State, representatives of marriage counselling organisations and other persons as the AttorneyGeneral thinks lit. [More…]
a ) the working or 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…]
( I ) There is established by this Act an Institute by the name of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
and development of understanding of, the factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia, with the object of promoting the protection of the family as the natural and fundamental group unit in society: and [More…]
They refer to the employment of persons to assist the Institute of Family Studies, terms and conditions of employment, certain matters about members of the Public Service who might happen to be employed by the Institute, and technical matters. [More…]
The name of the body to be established has been changed to the Family Law Council in accordance with the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee in paragraph 82 (b) of its report. [More…]
The functions of the Council have been extended to include advising and making recommendations to the Attorney-General, not only at his request but also of its own motion, on the working of the Family Law Act and on other matters relating to family law, and on the working of legal aid in proceedings in family law as recommended by the Senate Standing Committee in paragraph 82 (c) of its report. [More…]
The Council is to consist of a judge of the Family Court and of such other judges, public servants, representatives of marriage counselling organisations and other persons as the AttorneyGeneral thinks fit. [More…]
The new clause 91a provides for the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies which will have the functions of promoting research into the factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia and advising and assisting the Attorney-General in relation to the making of grants of money for the purpose of such research and the supervising ofthe employment of grants so made. [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…]
The regulations may make provision for or in relation to the practice and procedure to bc followed in the Family Court and in other courts exercising jurisdiction under this Act, and for or in relation to all matters and things incidental to any such practice or procedure, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the conduct of any business in those courts. [More…]
providing for the manner of service of process of the Family Court or another court exercising jurisdiction under this Act, and for dispensing with such service; [More…]
the enforcement and execution of the judgments of the Family Court and other courts exercising jurisdiction under this Act: [More…]
the time and manner of institution of appeals in and to the Family Court; [More…]
the duties of officers ofthe Family Court; ( 0 subject to the Constitution, authorizing an officer of the Family Court or of another court exercising jurisdiction under this Act to perform and exercise powers and functions, on behalf ofthe court or otherwise, in relation to proceedings instituted in the Family Court or proceedings tinder this Act, and enabling the court concerned to review the decision of that officer in relation to the performance or exercise of any function or power: [More…]
the seals and stamps to bc used in the Family Court and in courts having jurisdiction under this Act: [More…]
In sub-clause ( 1 ) insert the following definition:- “Family Court” means the Family Court of Australia’. [More…]
Insert the following new clause: 17c A Judge shall, before proceeding to discharge the duties of his office, take, before the Chief Justice or a Justice of the High Court of Australia or a Judge of the Family Court or of another court created by the Parliament, an oath or affirmation of allegiance in the form in the Schedule to the Constitution and also an oath or affirmation in the following form- [More…]
I, , do swear that I will well and truly serve in the office of the (Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that 1 will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or illwill, So help me God.’ [More…]
The clause would require the judge to take an oath of allegiance as set out in the Constitution and would also require him to say: ‘I do swear that I will well and truly serve in the office of Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, So help me God.’ [More…]
One is the oath of allegiance and the other is the form of oath which a judge of the Family Court should take. [More…]
In relation to the amendment circulated yesterday by the Attorney-General concerning the oath of allegiance to be taken by a judge of the Family Court I drew attention to 2 important omissions. [More…]
of the Family Court and do right to all manner of people according to law without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, so help him God. [More…]
A judge shall, before proceeding to discharge the duties of his office, take, before the Chief Justice or a Justice of the High Court of Australia or a Judge of the Family Court or of another court created by the Parliament, an oath or affirmation of allegiance in the form in the schedule to the Constitution and also an oath or affirmation in the following form: [More…]
, do swear that I will well and truly serve in the office of the (Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or illwill, So help me God ‘. [More…]
I , , do swear that I will well and truly serve Her Majesty the Queen of Australia, her heirs and successors according to law, in the office of (Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that I will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear of favour, affection, or ill-will.’ [More…]
, do solemnly and sincerely promise and declare that 1 will well and truly serve Her Majesty, the Queen of Australia, her heirs and successors according to law, in the office 01(Chief Judge, Senior Judge or Judge, as the case may be) of the Family Court of Australia and that 1 will do right to all manner of people according to law, without fear of favour, affection or illwill.’ [More…]
I believe that it is right and proper that judges of the Family Court should swear allegiance to a person because that is the form. [More…]
Any statement or report that proceedings have been instituted in the Family Court or in another court . [More…]
I think that most credit for this Bill must go to the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) for his doggedness and his persistence in bringing this Bill forward, for his willingness to accept amendments and suggestions for change, and for his flexibility and his general sincerity in attempting to get a better Family Law Bill before this Parliament. [More…]
It is a Bill which will have a significant effect upon family law in this country. [More…]
Also certain amendmentstremendously significant amendments, including one involving the concept of whether there was to be a Family Court of Australiawere introduced about the time at which the Bill came before the Committee of the Whole for consideration. [More…]
In those circumstances, there was no opportunity for persons who were interested in the concept of whether we should have a Family Court or State family courts to give consideration to it. [More…]
The point I make in conclusion is simply that when the Bill was introduced I said that it was a basis for the constructive development of good family law in this country. [More…]
In the Bill there are provisions for an on-going examination by the Family Law Council and also a provision for an Institute of Family Studies to study the problems of the family. [More…]
This is a serious matter affecting morale and family relationships, and the Committee regards a substantial number of these houses as being of unsatisfactory standard. [More…]
When I see him going around the world preaching brotherly love, I wish that he would apply some of that feeling towards the running of Australia in a better sense of the full family responsibility of the nation. [More…]
The assistance my Party had in mind was aimed at members of a family who care for their elderly relatives. [More…]
As one honourable senator in this chamber I presented a number of petitions in relation to the Family Law Bill with which we have just dealt. [More…]
I believe that the Board has a responsibility to determine what it regards as family viewing programs, as prime time viewing programs or a program which features violence, and I believe that someone other than those who provide the programs should determine those things. [More…]
I consider that the Australian people want to ensure that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has the power to determine what type of advertising should be allowed, for instance, during children’s viewing time and during family viewing time and so on, and that they believe there is a responsibility on the Board to determine how much programming should be of Australian origin. [More…]
Henceforth when I get letters of complaint about the time slotting of particular programs on children’s viewing time or in family viewing time, complaints about excessive advertising on television or the type of advertising on television during children’s viewing hours I will be able to say that because of the Opposition in this Senate the Control Board has no power to act. [More…]
Only within the last week attention was drawn to the fact that the oath that was to be taken by judges of the Family Court was not an oath which affirmed the allegience of the judges to the Crown. [More…]
We are grateful that the Attorney-General after representations saw fit to reinstitute that oath of allegiance as one of the oaths which judges of the Family Court would take. [More…]
In the case of an applicant with a large family on a low or moderate income where the Director or his delegate is satisfied that it would cause hardship to the applicant if he were required to pay in full the amount of the instalments based on a repayment term of 32 years; and [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…]
Even when we debated last week the Family Law Bill, it had to be done through the States. [More…]
There has been debate on estate duty in this Senate and therefore I will not speak at length on the subject other than to say that once again we have the example of a tax which is striking at the ordinary family in Australia. [More…]
-We have had various Bills such as the Family Law Bill and the Trade Practices Bill. [More…]
I refer to violence in children’s programs, the number of advertisements that are shown in children’s viewing time, what programs should be shown in children’s viewing time, family viewing time, or adult viewing time and the Board’s powers generally. [More…]
Many properties left by a deceased person to his family will have to be disposed of to meet all these heavy imposts. [More…]
The house that was purchased for around $9,000 he now wants to sell to an Aboriginal family for $ 1 7,000 odd. [More…]
The rent which they paid for over 4 years was to have been taken as the deposit, but in addition to that rent he now wants another $2,000 odd in cash before that Aboriginal working class family can obtain possession of that house. [More…]
I will not mention the name of the family but if any member of the Opposition wants to look at the document he is free to do so. [More…]
I asked the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to conduct an investigation as the family wanted their baby girl back. [More…]
That family does not come from way out in the top end of the Gulf somewhere. [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 his family. [More…]
( I ) Subject to sub-section (2) of this section, a district officer who is maintaining the management of the property of any person, having regard to the best interests of that person and of any member of his family who should be supported by him, may - with that person’s consent do certain things. [More…]
The Queensland law in force on 1 November 1974 contained provisions which authorised, firstly, the continued management under the present legislation of property managed without the consent of Aborigines and Islanders under earlier Queensland legislation and, secondly, prevented an Aboriginal or Islander from terminating the management of his property if a magistrate were satisfied that termination of management would be detrimental to the best interests of the Aboriginal or Islander or any member of his family. [More…]
Senator Missen will recall that he was one of those who, during the proceedings of this sessional period, was anxious to see the Senate spend a fair amount of its time on debating and discussing the Family Law Bill. [More…]
As Manager of Government Business in the Senate I think I estimated that some 3 weeks of debate in this Senate in this sessional period were taken up discussing and debating the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The fact that the House of Representatives chose to deal with matters of the nature of this legislation and not debate, in the sessional period which has concluded on its part, the Family Law Bill was a matter for its decision and not a matter for the Senate. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s requirements, and indeed in accordance with a Senate decision, that there should be discussion and debate of the Family [More…]
Family Planning [More…]
In the development of Family Planning initiatives there has been a reluctance, to date, to include Family Planning facilities in the Australian Government funded State Health facilities in Western Australia and Queensland. [More…]
During question time yesterday Senator Drake-Brockman requested that I table the file relating to the entry into Australia of the Dungca family. [More…]
Patients will be perfectly free, just as they are at present, to choose their own family doctor. [More…]
Family Law Bill 1974 -Passed by Senate; further consideration by House of Representatives deferred until 1975. [More…]
Family Law Bill. [More…]
But one could imagine the position more in relation to a Bill such as the Family Law Bill with the different sides pressuring honourable senators. [More…]
It has been traditional, and I believe it should still obtain, that we talk about the breadwinner of the family. [More…]
In many cases the only possession that is left to a Darwin family is the land upon which their dwelling previously existed. [More…]
The Family Law Bill really was a divorce Bill. [More…]
The essential thing for family life and for the reconstruction of Darwin is to get on with the job. [More…]
However we are very concerned about proposals to alter the law in the ‘Family Law Bill 1974’. [More…]
The Family Law Bill 1 974 would fundamentally change the Institution of Marriage itself, and all existing and future marriages. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of Women and Children in the family. [More…]
Increasingly, a citizen’s real standard of living, the health of himself and 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, his ability to participate in the decisions and actions of the community are determined not by his income, not by the hours he works, but by where he lives. [More…]
This boy had been severely injured, his parents were battlers and the further delay involved in invoking this century-old jurisdiction, as it is, would have been personally intolerable to that family. [More…]
Having placed that on record I hope that Mr Dunstan will have the decency to correct what can only be described as a gross inaccuracy and to apologise to me and to my family for the inaccuracy and for the distress which has been brought to me personally and to my family. [More…]
These are the Administrative Division, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Division, the Commercial Division, the Family Divisionthis new distorted term that is being used to try to bemuse people into thinking that current legislation is for the promotion of the family, whereas of course it is a camouflage for its destructionthe General Division and the Industrial Division. [More…]
We have the Federal Court of Bankruptcy, the Industrial Court, the Family Court- established under the Family Law Bill as this Senate agreed to it; it is not law yet- 6 separate State supreme courts, the supreme courts of the 2 Territories and a host of courts too numerous to count, such as courts of summary jurisdiction which exercise judicial powers under laws passed by the Australian Parliament, and courts which have to be taken, according to a decision of the High Court, as they are found for the purpose of the exercise by them of Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
We already have three of them if we include the Family Division, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Division and the Industrial Division. [More…]
It names them as bankruptcy, taxation, trade practices, family law, industrial property and matters arising out of parliamentary law. [More…]
The divisions are: Administration, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Commercial, Family, General Division and Industrial Division. [More…]
They include the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Division, the Commercial Division, the Family Division, the General Division and the Industrial Division. [More…]
Clause 20 deals with matrimonial causes jurisdiction which has been the subject of debate in this chamber in connection with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of the debate we have already had in this chamber in connection with the Family Law Bill where the view was expressed by many honourable senators that it was desirable that the full power of the Commonwealth in relation to matrimonial causes and marriages should be exercised by the same court and that the full jurisdiction of that court should relate to those matters. [More…]
The family law area is an excellent example of the failure of Supreme Courts to deal with matters arising from Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
I will give a similar reference to the Family Division, which is likewise in a most curious situation, further on in my speech. [More…]
You know why this Bill becomes even more inappropriate at this time when we have passed through this Senate a Family Law Bill which creates a Court and takes a completely different course from what was contemplated in this Bill. [More…]
The first is in regard to the family law area which is one of the divisions of the Court as now proposed. [More…]
It is proposed to set up in the Bill a separate Family Law Division which would deal with a certain amount of the matrimonial jurisdiction. [More…]
This is in complete contrast and contradiction to the terms of the Family Law Bill which was passed by the Senate and which is yet to be dealt with by the House of Representatives. [More…]
It means that if we were to pass this Bill, we would be passing something in complete contradistinction to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We would not be saying as we did say in regard to that Bill that we did not want a judge who would move from one jurisdiction to another to preside over that court but that we wanted judges who were experienced primarily in the family area. [More…]
I understand Senator Missen’s interest in the family court aspect of this problem and I will deal with it before I finish my speech. [More…]
He asks why it is being debated now, especially as the Family Law Bill which cuts across some of the terms of the Superior Court Bill is being debated at this moment. [More…]
I constantly urged him not to have the Superior Court Bill debated while the Family Law Bill was still in abeyance, and for much the same reasons as those advanced by Senator Missen. [More…]
The concept of a family court which the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs came up with I believed should be decided upon before we proceed with the Superior Court Bill. [More…]
I am still hopeful that the Family Law Bill will be passed but I am by no means certain that it will be passed. [More…]
Bill now and amending it later, in the event that the Family Law Bill is carried, in the light of amendments which will be necessary when the Family Law Bill is carried. [More…]
Dealing with the philosophical grounds, suddenly the Opposition has found that it cares about some of the people of Australia- the pensioner patients, the migrant groups, the lower income groups and the family groups; the people that this Opposition forgot for 23 years when it was in government. [More…]
I wanted to go back to be with my family and to try to get the legal way out of Russia with the family to Australia. [More…]
I made a mistake and now I find that the best way to go back is to go with all my family to Australia. [More…]
He said that he was ‘grateful to Mr Whitlam’ for having helped his son to return to the Soviet Union since only in this way could the family have been reunited overseas. [More…]
I know the way the honourable senator treated his dairy farm and the family that had to support it but some people get involved in proprietary limited companies. [More…]
Despite the growth of financial institutions catering largely for the middle income earners, there never has 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 we 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 profit-seeking 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 Australian Consitution, and it will also make loans to those other specific categories of home-seekers for whom the Australian Government has a constitutional responsibility. [More…]
Frankly, if it was a throwaway newspaper, and this is not an opinion I have formed because of this afternoon s episode, I would not buy it, firstly, because it is 40c a copy and until recent times I would not have been able to afford that- I have not got that increase anyway but I hope it will come in due course- and, secondly, even if it were a throwaway newspaper I would not allow my family to look at it. [More…]
I have said that it was governments of Liberal faith in Australia, and specifically in my own State, which gave the great start and impetus to the building society movement in this country and gave to the ordinary working family the means of financing a home. [More…]
By way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances. [More…]
provide for it, but it can be covered adequately by law or regulation under clause 3 (c) by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances’. [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 is the pertinent point- family allowances. [More…]
by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances; [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that under the Homes Savings Grant Act the grant could not be paid to a person who intended to marry because the power of the Commonwealth was limited to the provision of family allowances; so the grant could be made only after the marriage. [More…]
The monthly desertion rate, which rose to a record 24 000 in the month preceding the offensive, speaks volumes on the state of morale which had been slowly undermined by warweariness, prolonged separation from the family and, in particlar, the galloping inflation that heightened the misery of poorly-paid soldiers. [More…]
But so there was in relation to the Trade Practices Bill and the Family Law Bill. [More…]
If we were to talk of other Senate committee work and have regard to the Family Law Bill which was processed through a Senate committee, we would surely expect - [More…]
First, I refer to the Family Law Bill which, although not nearly of the size or complexity of this Bill, was a Bill dealing with very fundamental questions that needed virtually word by word scrutiny. [More…]
I am not concerned about making comparisons with the Family Law Bill or with any other piece of legislation. [More…]
I hope that the honourable senator would not expect any of the unfortunate members of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, who are already busily traversing the length and breadth of this great continent to inquire into the National Compensation Bill, having recently completed their Herculean labours on the Family Law Bill, should be required now to set their minds to repeating the exercise at which so many of us laboured for so long and for so many years. [More…]
One family group, because of some misunderstanding, may be feuding with another Aboriginal family and quite a deal of fighting goes on. [More…]
Has the Minister noted from today’s Press that the Vh per cent rise in sales tax on 1 May will mean a further $70 rise in the price of the average family car? [More…]
My wife and family have been pestered and harmed by continuing vilification in the Press and harassed by telephone calls by persons purporting to be representatives of the Press. [More…]
He is a qualified accountant, Managing Director of an extensive timber and hardware company, a Director of a substantial public company in Melbourne, and a Director of a family farm which has interests at Yuroke and Broadford associated with whole-milk, beef and wool production. [More…]
Do the Australian Legal Aid Offices that have been established throughout Australia assist people in the field of family law? [More…]
Subject to a means and needs test the Offices also provide assistance, including assistance in litigation, in matters arising under Federal law, including family law, to all persons and under State or Federal law to persons for whom the Australian Government has a special responsibility, such as those in receipt of social services, Aborigines, ex-servicemen, students and newcomers to Australia. [More…]
In the field of family law, the Offices conduct undefended divorce proceedings, ancillary proceedings and other family law proceedings arising under Federal legislation. [More…]
They do not engage in conveyancing work, except in special circumstances, for example, in conjunction with a family law matter. [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 provision will also apply if the name ‘suggests a connection with the Royal family’. [More…]
The only things in the Bill to stop that are things that no honourable senator would disagree withobscenity, using the name of the Royal family and so on. [More…]
I have had a long association with them both as a candidate over many years and, indeed, in my own family. [More…]
A member of my family has been faced with this situation on 2 occasions when he stood for Parliament. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government, as a result of its tariff policy, has introduced income maintenance schemes for workers displaced because of the influx of cheap goods into Australia and has, I believe, made substantial grants of money to some big industries hit by this policy, will he inform the Senate whether small family businesses that can show that they have had to close down because of this policy can claim any compensation or financial assistance from the Government? [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration, if that is the appropriate ministry, to examine the feasibility and desirability of extending the present arrangement for bringing out Vietnamese orphans to embrace a plan whereby, in the case of the loss of the male parent, a mother with a child or children can be assisted to come to Australia and be provided with such facilities and opportunities here as are necessary to start a new life as a young family unit in this country? [More…]
If there are any particular characteristics about an applicant’s family which are of some medical interest they will be studied. [More…]
I have met his family and I regard them as my close personal friends. [More…]
I am personally distressed that he has been put through such a shocking experience over the last few weeks which has caused him and his family irreparable personal suffering. [More…]
The word ‘unwittingly’ was used and I have no doubt that Senator Webster had absolutely no idea that sales made to a government department by his family organisation in the normal and open course of business could be in contravention of the Constitution and place him at risk so far as his position in this Parliament is concerned. [More…]
His family business has been in operation for 3 generations and has been marked by a high tenor of honest dealing and service to the public. [More…]
It has received public acceptance which alone enables any family organisation to carry on successfully from generation to generation. [More…]
The Family Law Bill, which was the subject of lengthy debate in this chamber last year, is at present before the House of Representatives. [More…]
As I understand it, the House of Representatives will sit on some Mondays, admittedly to deal with the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In reply to a telegram I sent to the Secretary of the Board asking for more accurate definition of the times, Mr Connolly specifically stated that there would continue to be a complete embargo on this type of advertising during the times set aside for family and children’s viewing. [More…]
Such advertisements will not be permitted during family viewing time. [More…]
There could be more than one claim for a household where there was more than one family that happened to be sharing the house and somebody was staying there, or something like that. [More…]
The lack of communication between the eastern and western shores of the Derwent River is creating tremendous problems, which Senator Everett referred to in a speech he made about a month ago, to those people who have some of their family on one side of the river and some on the other side. [More…]
The fact that that male relative may have been already fully committed to his own family or that he may in fact have been unemployed, or even that the sole male relative available to put his signature on a piece of paper may have been an alcoholic, did not make the slightest bit of difference. [More…]
She ultimately loads the trolley with household goods for a week for a family of perhaps five or six. [More…]
They are put out by ‘Family Power: Families United for Australia’. [More…]
It is still under the headline: ‘Family Power- Families United for Australia’. [More…]
A father killed by a drunken driver, or an industrial accident, or ill health, leaves a family to battle it out. [More…]
be strongly based, able to raise families property- and prepare their lives on an equal basis with every other Australian born working family. [More…]
I think that sufficient attention has been paid to ‘Family Power’, and perhaps it might be appropriate for me at this stage to mention another little document which came into my hands the other day. [More…]
-We are discussing the Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 but after hearing that speech by Senator Coleman we could be forgiven for falling into some confusion because for all we know it could have been a discussion on a Bill on discrimination on the grounds of sex, income level, drugs, family power- anything but racial discrimination. [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…]
The advantages of home transfusion are prompt treatment of bleeding; reduced hospital attendance and admission; reduced need for joint aspiration; improved school attendances; reduced cost to family; and greater self confidence and independence of the boy with haemophilia. [More…]
We talk about a family of nations, and I think the present Prime Minister has referred to special relations between the United States and Australia. [More…]
The matter on which she sought advice was an application to have her family of 6 children declared neglected. [More…]
I must say that as I have heard that put forward both in this chamber and out of the chamber my mind has gone back to the Family Law Bill which we debated at some length only last year. [More…]
Honourable senators recall that many people bitterly opposed the changes that were being made to family law in this country on the basis which I accepted, namely, that the state of divorce law would indeed affect the community’s attitude to marriage. [More…]
We should think of the whole program of Aboriginal culture, of tribal welfare as against our family welfare system. [More…]
The practice of ‘Pull up the ladder, I am all right, Jack, and the family is all right’ never happens in Aboriginal tribal communities. [More…]
Because the family welfare system is corrupt we pay child endowment, deserted wives pensions, widow pensions and invalid pensions. [More…]
I think it is rather interesting to note that in this regard the HBA is proposing that to get these benefits people who subscribe at present to the HBA continue to pay the present family rate of $ 1 .82 a week even after Medibank commences, despite the fact that the Minister for Social Security has said quite clearly that the Government would refuse to register any private health insurance fund which provided this socalled medical gap insurance of more than 1 5 per cent. [More…]
Is it also a fact that Mr Lam ‘s wife and family are resident in Australia? [More…]
Is the reason that the Prime Minister is more concerned with currying favour with Hanoi than the humane and decent treatment of Mr Lam and his family? [More…]
Mr O’Neil has expressed to me the view that he believes Western Australia, with the Australian Government’s support, has now housed every Aboriginal family in that State that meets the tenancy requirements of the Housing Commission of Western Australia. [More…]
We have had in recent times a long and extensive and detailed debate devoted to the Family Law Bill which Bill is on the Senate notice paper and this is an area in which society is reviewing the relationships that exist within it. [More…]
I suggest that Senator Bunton should ask the Myer family how they will get into the Melbourne Club. [More…]
There were advertisements in the papers about a manager required for a farm or for a family to work a farm. [More…]
If one of those funded houses is sold or if a European family lives in one of those houses, another house has to be provided. [More…]
The Loans Commission will lend an Aboriginal family 95 per cent of the value of the home. [More…]
If the family income is 110 per cent of the average weekly earnings or less a loan at 2 per cent interest is granted. [More…]
If the family income is between 1 10 per cent and 125 per cent of the average weekly earnings, adjusted quarterly, the loan is granted at 5 per cent interest. [More…]
If the family income is in excess of 125 per cent the loan is granted at normal bank interest. [More…]
-Has the Minister for the Media seen a report which I understand appeared in the ‘Daily News’ in Perth yesterday, and possibly in other newspapers throughout Australia, regarding advertisements on family planning soon to appear on radio and television in Canberra? [More…]
-These advertisements were developed by my Department for the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Family Planning Association as a result of the Association being funded in this regard by the Australian Department of Health. [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Control Board has been in touch with me about the matter and has advised me that advertising copy for the Family Planning Association of Canberra has been examined by it. [More…]
In every walk of life- be it medicine, science or day-to-day family problems- the second opinion is sought and valued. [More…]
For example somebody has a bright idea and says that to cure the problem we need family day care, but to see that as the cure is inappropriate to the pre-existing structure. [More…]
It should be a clear objective that pre-school education should be complementary to the family unit. [More…]
I have already mentioned family day care. [More…]
There is a low capital investment component, but against this there is a need to have a developed system of supervision, as family day care implies, in the decentralisation of care into small units. [More…]
Again we say that whilst we believe that all of these avenues are avenues to be explored and developed there is, in relation to family day care, a need, in consultation with State governments, with local governments and with any of the groups involved, to ensure that adequate standards are maintained and that there is a sufficient degree of assistance and supervision to those who are providing the family day care facilities. [More…]
Accordingly, believing that the family unit is of fundamental importance to our society and that steps should be taken to encourage mothers to be able freely to exercise a choice and to stay home to look after their children, we believe that steps must be taken by this Government to facilitate that choice and that so far as the child care program of the Children’s Commission is concerned adequate emphasis must be given to that aspect which, if one reads the Bill, one gets the feeling is not intended to be part of the function of the Commission. [More…]
We wish to stress the importance of continuing research, as I mentioned earlier, into the best method of providing child care, the expansion of family day care programs, subject to suitable supervision and regulation. [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…]
A family is just like a little company, with the mother as the managing director. [More…]
Of course, family disruption is one of the effects of socialism, and obviously it is the purpose of this Government to disrupt families. [More…]
The Federal Government intends to move into the fields of full day care, family day care, preschool education, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, play groups and any other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
Pre-schools could also be used as a base from which to operate a family day care program which eligible children could attend on a sessional basis and where care givers could come together for discussions, seminars and the like. [More…]
I know that Senator Brown, Senator Poyser and others will agree with me when I say that it makes inroads into one’s family life when one has to attend small sub-branch meetings and so on to get the feel of what the membership is thinking. [More…]
The average working man is a decent, honest Australian who wants to support his family. [More…]
I have committed myself to various things- a new car or something else for the family. [More…]
I know the judges have been straining to facilitate divorce and certain groups of judges have been eagerly awaiting judicial appointment to this Family Court. [More…]
My recollection is that in the Family Law Bill we have provided the same general provision that conversations which take place at conferences in the presence of welfare officers should not be used in subsequent legal proceedings. [More…]
The amendment is similar to the provisions of clause 1 17 (4) of the Family Law Bill that was passed by the Senate and clause 58(2) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Bill that has been passed by the House of Representatives and will soon be considered by the Senate. [More…]
We have argued during the debate on this matter that if there was a desire expressed by the councils of the Aboriginal communities that they should have the right to determine who can enter and who can remain on their reserves in their communities then that they ought to have that right just as every Australian has the right to determine who shall come into his home, who shall come into the normal family unit, as we understand it, in the average urban community. [More…]
That exclusion could be a very severe punishment to the person or the family of that person. [More…]
I hope that the Minister, having accepted this amendment which leaves a very substantial area of possible discrimination, can convince me that there is some means of appeal against a decision by a council which could exclude or separate a family or a group of friends. [More…]
I do not think that we ought to let this occasion go by without paying some tribute to a previous member of this Senate on this historical day when the Family Law Bill finally passed through this Parliament. [More…]
These agencies include the Spastic Centre, the Family Planning Associations and the Red Cross blood banks. [More…]
Only if Press reports attack members of my family, or something like that, do I ever worry about Press reports. [More…]
For the last 10 years all other members of the Royal Family have arrived in Australia by RAAF, RAF or chartered Qantas aircraft. [More…]
Specific reference to the Australian Legal Aid Office already exists in legislation passed by this Senate, namely, the Family Law Bill, and I cannot help thinking the objection to the specific reference to the Australian Legal Aid Office in this Bill, as with the Racial Discrimination Bill which was before us a few days ago, is based on Senator Greenwood’s recently aroused antipathy to the Australian Legal Aid Office and is not soundly based in any particular principle. [More…]
I made reference to that aspect as being an essential quality of adjudications when we were dealing last week with the so-called Family Court of Australia, which is to operate in camera. [More…]
This Superannuation Bill surely must have one claim to fame in that a total of 95 amendments are proposed, which almost equals the number of amendments moved to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The authorities and experts involved are making a thorough study of the overall superannuation and family benefits provisions in this State. [More…]
The Committee recognises that within the community an increasing number of family units are becoming dependent for their continued support upon the joint incomes of husband and wife. [More…]
Had it not been for those requirements, some changes would have been made now to the Bill, 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…]
Family Health Insurance cards have been prepared by Medibank from records supplied by the Department of Social Security, relating to all children for whom Child Endowment is currently being paid to a parent or guardian. [More…]
Children who are not living in a family, or who in the opinion of their parent or guardian should have a personal card, may have an application for a card completed on their behalf by the parent, guardian, person or authority responsible for them. [More…]
He says that there are to be family courts following upon the passing of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
I should have thought therefore that the family courts are not truly to be regarded as part of any Superior Court structure. [More…]
Indeed, the Family Law Act, as I understand it, leaves open the possibility of State family courts existing alongside or in substitution for a Commonwealth family court, and that is a matter still to be finally determined. [More…]
The Government had in it a division of the Superior Court, the Family Court. [More…]
Since then this legislature has passed the Family Law Bill. [More…]
How it could do so, I do not know, but it has passed it and has created what the Government calls the Family Court. [More…]
The garbage can that is kicked into the Senate has in it the Superior Court which still has as one of its divisions the Family Court. [More…]
I think that the second reason was that there are large areas of Federal jurisdiction that the Government felt had to be handled by federal courts, areas such as bankruptcy, taxation, family law, trade practices, industrial property and matters arising out of parliamentary law. [More…]
The divisions are administrative, bankruptcy and insolvency, commercial, family, general and industrial. [More…]
Had it not been for those requirements, some changes would have been made now to the Bill, to take account of the creation of the Family Court of Australia under the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Senator Wright and I find ourselves in a happy alliance tonight on the Family Law Bill because here we have a Bill which is admittedly out of date, which tries to create a Family Law Division in this Superior Court, well knowing that this Parliament and every member of the chamber on the opposite side has voted for a Family Law Bill which creates a completely separated court, a court in which the whole idea of a Family Law Division of the Superior Court was anathema because we did not want judges jumping from one jurisdiction to another. [More…]
We all agreed that what we needed was a separated court- a family court which would deal separately with this- and yet before us on this occasion is a Bill which repeats the nonsense, which in clause 20 once more refers to the Matrimonial Causes Act, shortly to be put to its last resting place, and wants to resurrect it and create a Division in this court. [More…]
We are told that because the Government wants to have a double dissolution issue- that is all there is in this Bill- it wants to inflict upon this Parliament and upon the people of this country a Bill which none of us wants, which in regard to family law is not the desire of any members of this Parliament, Senator Georges wants to interject. [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 prodecures [More…]
There, with the greatest nerve- he has some excellent nerve, I must admit- Senator James McClelland tells us how we are going to have these separated courts yet he is asking us at the same time and in this document to vote for a Superior Court Bill which goes in the opposite direction and which would destroy the provisions we made for the family court in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Those divisions do not include the free votes that were taken in relation to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 30 June 197S of Bertie Richard Milliner, Senator for the State of Queensland, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and her family in their bereavement. [More…]
Mr President, on behalf of all senators I express our deepest sympathy to the late Senator Milliner’s wife and family. [More…]
I join in offering to his wife, Thelma, a very beautiful woman, and to his lovely family- 2 sons and 2 daughters and his grandchildren- and to all other members of his family the condolences of myself, my wife and my family in the great loss that they have sustained in the passing of our esteemed colleague. [More…]
On my own behalf and that of my National Country Party colleagues deep sympathy is extended to Mrs Milliner and to her family. [More…]
I join with the previous speakers in extending to his wife, Thelma, and his family, my deepest sympathy. [More…]
I conclude by saying that my family and 1 pay tribute to the work that Bert Milliner did as an Austraiian and as a member of this Parliament. [More…]
I join with the other speakers in extending sympathy to his widow Thelma and her family. [More…]
I have not had the pleasure of knowing his family, but tributes have been paid to his family. [More…]
Our sympathy goes to his family. [More…]
I join in the motion that has been moved for a vote of sincere sympathy to be passed on to his wife and family. [More…]
Sir, I wish to proffer my deep sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
The firm of Dalamal and Sons of which he is manager, was stated by Morgan Guaranty to the Treasury to be linked in ownership to the second wealthiest family in India. [More…]
The Office will conduct undefended divorce proceedings, ancillary proceedings and family law proceedings arising under federal legislation on behalf of persons who do not have adequate means to pay for the cost of representation. [More…]
The woman’s name is known to me and she was described to me by Egan as a former Roman Catholic nun and a family friend of his employee Laurie Brereton. [More…]
Among these were the President, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, most of his family and several of his relatives. [More…]
I refer to the recent statement by the AttorneyGeneral concerning the establishment of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I refer particularly to his statement that all State governments, apart from Western Australia, have agreed that the Federal Family Court should have full jurisdiction in the States. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government, in establishing the Family Court of Australia, that the Court will exercise full jurisdiction under the Family Law Act, or initially will the new Court be confined to administering the traditional matrimonial causes areas of that jurisdiction and not be extended to the areas of maintenance and custody which have been exercised traditionally by Courts of Petty Sessions in the States? [More…]
He had only recently received a reply from all the State Attorneys-General to whom he had written concerning their intention about whether the States should set up family courts or whether that should be left to the Australian Government. [More…]
I think that the Family Law Bill was a far better Bill - [More…]
We got far more effective legislation because of the fact that the Family Law Bill was considered by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]
The Government claims that the new taxation system will benefit the average family man. [More…]
Shifting the taxation burden away from the married couple with young school-age family to young single taxpayers and affluent mature taxpayers who are exploiting tax avoidance techniques. [More…]
I can remember years ago listening to Dame Enid Lyons- she came from a great Labor family as do many honourable senators- when she said: [More…]
The young fellow suddenly finds himself in control of an organisation which has been built up over a long period of family endeavour. [More…]
I can appreciate that it will provide a temporary benefit to a few people, particularly where there is no multiple family income. [More…]
Possibly the Treasurer’s most noteworthy achievement in this Budget is the introduction of a radical new tax system which will give the average family man $5 a week extra in his pay packet and will allow him to keep much more ofthe wage increases that he will receive in the future. [More…]
We in this country over the years have fought an economy which requires two pay packets in a family, and because people are willing to go out and work to try to create a financial base for the upbringing of their families the Government is hitting them with a heavy tax. [More…]
Like other aristocracies, Australia’s top families and landed gentry are dynastic; some like the Baillieus have their own family Coat of Arms, the power and status of these families have been nurtured over generations and reinforced by an intricate web of relationships forged by business links, and marriage. [More…]
Without going into a mass of details, what the taxation reforms really mean is that for the typical family- the single income family consisting of a man with a spouse and 2 dependants- there will be a reduction in tax paid of the order of $8 a week plus, it should be noted, the saving of contributions to medical insurance funds of an additional $3 to $4 a week, these contributions of course having been rendered unnecessary and obsolete by the introduction of Medibank. [More…]
The Budget should be considered in conjunction with Medibank in respect of its impact on the typical family. [More…]
So it provides effective assistance of around $ 10 to $ 1 1 a week for the typical family. [More…]
The Budget is a wideranging document, and tonight I intend to make just a few general observations and perhaps refer more particularly to the rural and export sector of the economy, for it is in that sector that we find the greatest number of small business operativesthe family farmer, the corner storekeeper, the garage proprietor, the electrician and the plumber. [More…]
If ever we needed to provide incentive to the family, to the individual, to private enterprise, we need to do it now, and this is one simple area in which we could make a start. [More…]
With regard to family reunions, because of the budgetary situation we have been reluctantly forced to cut down on the amount which will be available in the current year for assisted passages, but persons in Asia who wish to be reunited with relatives living in Australia will strike no more impediments than will people from other countries. [More…]
There is another pamphlet entitled ‘A guide to storing food’ and another entitled ‘Don’t poison your family’. [More…]
He has said, in effect, that Australians have to get out of their heads the idea that the average person or the average family can in future own their own home and they have to get out of their heads this idea that they can live in a home of 1 11/2 squares. [More…]
When I talk of the small producer I talk of the battling farmer with a family who has always had it tough. [More…]
If honourable senators examine the Henderson report which came into the Senate last week, if they examine who are the people who make up the groups in poverty in Australia, they will find that the aged and the single parent family- in other words, people on pensions- are those who make up the largest groups in poverty. [More…]
Against the background of Senator Cavanagh ‘s answer regarding the publication of the names of any organisations or persons who receive money from the Government, I ask: Does this mean that it is Government policy for political purposes to state publicly the names of persons who receive Government social service pensions, widows pensions, family endowment payments, repatriation and unemployment payments and means tested student allowances? [More…]
It will not forget the consumer protection legislation, the Trade Practices Act, which the Opposition would abolish, the Racial Discrimination Bill and the Family Law Bill, which although not a Labor Government Bill was passed during the term of this Government. [More…]
What of the fate of those businesses which are run as family concerns or partnerships and are not registered as companies? [More…]
I refer to a question which I asked the Minister representing the Attorney-General on 26 August concerning the establishment of the new Family Court of Australia. [More…]
He asked me a question on 26 August concerning the extent to which the Government intends jurisdiction to be exercised by the Family Court of Australia under the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Family Law Act provides for the Family Court of Australia, State supreme courts and State family courts to exercise jurisdiction in all matrimonial causes under the Act. [More…]
However, the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia is not to be exercised except in accordance with proclamations which may extend that jurisdiction either by area or by class of proceedings. [More…]
Thus, the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia can be phased in and the jurisdiction of the supreme courts and courts of summary jurisdiction can be phased out. [More…]
The Attorneys-General of all States except Western Australia have now informed my colleague, the Attorney-General, that their respective governments do not propose to establish State family courts pursuant to section 41 of the Act. [More…]
In view of this the AttorneyGeneral hopes that it will be possible for the Family Court of Australia to be established in those 5 States by the date the Act comes into operation, which has now been fixed by proclamation under section 2 of the Act as 5 January 1976. [More…]
The extent to which jurisdiction will be given initially to the Family Court of Australia and taken away from existing courts has not been finally decided because it depends on progress in the build-up of staff, equipment and premises for the Family Court. [More…]
However, since much work has already been done at this stage I can say that it seems probable that the Family Court will be ready to exercise jurisdiction in all matrimonial causes in the metropolitan areas of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Launceston at the commencement of the Act. [More…]
The extent to which the courts of summary jurisdiction in these metropolitan areas will exercise jurisdiction in maintenance and custody concurrently with the Family Court also has not yet been finally decided and is still under discussion with the States. [More…]
I think that they should be upright enough to indicate the benefits that have flowed out of the public purse into their own family pockets. [More…]
They claim to the public at large that they wish to see a more even society and that they wish to see the poor in the community uplifted but at the same time they see that very great financial benefit is brought to their own family’s pockets. [More…]
I did not know how far back the honourable senator was tracing my family tree. [More…]
At one time it was very rare to hear of a mother leaving her children to the support of the husband, but today it is becoming common and the father of a young family has only 2 alternatives: He can either give up the children and let them go into the custody of the state, or he can give up his employment. [More…]
The point is that inflation has been self-induced by this Government’s almost maniacal encouragement of industrial wage claims and inflation now is such that it is absolutely driving the workman to destruction because of the fire that it is burning through interest payments, rates, income tax, travelling expenses and every item of food, drink and clothing that the workman has to provide for his family. [More…]
I am able to inform the Senate that after 10, 20 and 25 years of service TAA employees are entitled to 2 free travel tickets for return flights of 800 kilometres, or to the nearest capital city from which they are based, and there are also related family concessions. [More…]
I think the effective increases in family allowances which aid the large family are very important, because it has been demonstrated by every inquiry in this country that in this area lies the greatest need. [More…]
They still will have a considerable advantage over the single income family at the same level of income. [More…]
I would remind honourable senators on both sides of this House that until 4’/2 years ago I was a bridge carpenter- and proudly one- bringing home a pay packet from which I provided the then accepted every day necessities of life, admittedly with a few luxuries for a family that I had to rear. [More…]
But under a coalition government and the stable economy which it engendered I provided- and, I submit, provided adequately- for my family. [More…]
This economic evil which forces both parents to work to make ends meet is one of the main causes of the breakdown of the family unit as we once knew it and it throws open the doors to those numerous social evils which beset our present day society. [More…]
Where are the increases in child endowment which are long overdue- those benefits which would ensure that the woman who wishes to stay at home and raise her family in the age old tradition is not disadvantaged. [More…]
The tax on beer, wines, spirits and cigarettes is estimated to take $600m from the taxpayer- the average worker- the man who has contributed through a long life of hard work to rear a family. [More…]
I suppose I am a little more conscious of this than most because one member of my family was a geologist working on that field but he has been sent to America because the company said to him: ‘We have no use for you here, boy’. [More…]
Only two of the Islands are inhabited: Home Island by the Clunies Ross family and 500 Cocos Malays; and West Island by the Australian Administration employees and their families- about 130 people. [More…]
The Cocos Islands were settled in 1 827 by the Clunies Ross family, which imported labour, mainly from North Borneo, to improve the coconut trees already growing there. [More…]
In 1857, following a number of representations from the Clunies Ross family, the Islands were formally declared part of the British Dominions. [More…]
His departure from the Islands scene would remove some of the islanders’ reluctance to accept changes- a reluctance, he said, caused by loyalty to himself and his family’s long involvement in Island affairs. [More…]
Mr Clunies-Ross informed the Committee that, as a result of economic and governmental pressures, he had decided to sever the family’s connections with the Islands and to negotiate the transfer of his assets to a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]
A proper measurement of the suffering caused by alcohol goes far beyond this, taking into account the disruption of family life and altered relationships, child abuse, beatings and other kinds of morbidity. [More…]
These kinds of programs could mean less suffering, less morbidity and less family disruption and these are the programs that are affected. [More…]
From the people I have talked to there- mainly young family people- it is quite clear that they want to stay in Moranbah. [More…]
It recognised that there are many women in the community who have much which is worthwhile to contribute and who have opinions which are valuable, particularly in the area ofthe needs of the family in our community and who do not necessarily, as a direct result of those commitments, have the time to become heavily involved in community groups. [More…]
A full-time consultant in Family Planning has been engaged for a period of 12 months at a cost of $20,000 and a part-time consultant on Aboriginal Health was engaged for a period of 12 months at a cost of $ 10,800. [More…]
An appropriate message of sympathy has been sent to the late member’s family. [More…]
As the report maintains that the decision is denying family reunion, will the Minister investigate the claims and the report and give the maximum humanitarian consideration to any problems? [More…]
Mr Nazor went to Yugoslavia in the early part of this year with his wife and family. [More…]
I have written to his family about the matter and I understand that officers of my Department have talked to his family. [More…]
I wrote to members of his family in Perth only recently telling them of the latest moves and sympathising with them in the great worry that they must be suffering. [More…]
Does not include Family Law Bill 1 974 [No. [More…]
In Howrah, the suburb of the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wriedt, the survey found that 67.5 per cent of people are finding that the bridge collapse is making things worse for family life. [More…]
With a family of four, I enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. [More…]
I speak with a bit of knowledge on this subject, being a member of a family organisation which for many years has persistently and necessarily ploughed all moneys back into the company for the promotion of that company, the betterment of our whole set-up in the industry in which we are engaged and the betterment of our employees. [More…]
The honourable senator’s attention is drawn to the press statement made by the Prime Minister on 24 July 1 973, in which he said that the introduction of flexible working hours in the Australian Public Service would have both social and efficiency advantages and was a further step in the formulation of an employment policy which would help people to reconcile domestic and family responsibilities with a career. [More…]
At the request of the prosecution and defence lawyers, and at the behest of Mr Nazor’s own family, the trial was closed to the Press and public. [More…]
Economies are expected in family law and other areas. [More…]
The Office has the statutory responsibility under the Family Law Act for providing legal aid in family law matters. [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 multiincome 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…]
The petitions refer simply to the Bill, and as other honourable senators have said, the Family Law Bill was for months the subject of petitions, the majority of them, I imagine, emanating from the Opposition side. [More…]
That seems a suggestion that private funds from the Saudi royal family, which also dominates the Saudi government, might have been involved. [More…]
It would mean particularly that the family man would benefit considerably from the tax concessions proposed. [More…]
I pay tribute to their courage in pursuit of their profession and offer the sincerest sympathy of myself and my family to their families. [More…]
As the report maintains that the decision is denying family re-union, will the Minister investigate the claims and the report and give the maximum humanitarian consideration to any problems? [More…]
To name three or four of those areas, I refer to Medibank, family law, legal aid and the Children’s Commission. [More…]
The Family Law Bill- a monument to the former Attorney-General, 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…]
Secondly, we have some objection to the manner in which the Fund has asked for a contribution of $1.86 a family for the theatre fees in private hospitals. [More…]
I refer to the Family Law Bill which also was referred, to a Senate committee and in respect of which the then Attorney-General, Senator Murphy, acknowledged the good work done. [More…]
Why, his own uncle was reported in the Brisbane Sunday Mail as having said on his birthday a few months ago: ‘We have never had a Labor man in the 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 multiincome households. [More…]
The Australian family man with a dependant wife and 2 children is able to earn more than $100 a week free of tax. [More…]
The examples relate to a family man claiming for a dependent spouse and 2 children. [More…]
So one can see that for a family man claiming for a dependent spouse and 2 children the benefits flow up to a weekly income of $200. [More…]
I am sure that there would be people in all of those categories who could show justification for the reduction of tax on the single income family and the reduction of tax for those with low incomes. [More…]
I think that that taxable income level is the one in which we would want to see relief in the tax payable because that person on a single income with those family responsibilities is the person who is feeling the real effect of the inflated costs of those essential family items that need to be purchased. [More…]
These are the tax burdens that have been shifted from the family to the single income earner. [More…]
It is true, thirdly, that the emphasis of these proposals and the proposed re-scheduling favours the family man with children. [More…]
Might I refer briefly to some figures indicating the situation of a family man with a dependent wife and 2 children. [More…]
As I have said, the benefits are there for the family man with a wife and 2 children. [More…]
Those benefits are substantial- less substantial, I suppose, if he is a drinking or smoking family man, but nonetheless they are there. [More…]
It has had a part in encouraging the women of the community to go into the work force so that there are 2 wage earners in the family. [More…]
Now the Government is proudly saying that when there are 2 income earners in the one family they are the ones who must pay. [More…]
Because of some family affairs of the Premier, the papers got mixed up and the announcement was garbled or delayed. [More…]
The third matter that I thought should have been omitted from Senator Wright’s speech was his slighting reference to the family affairs of the Premier causing some apparent error. [More…]
My question arises out of” a very deep concern over the past weekend of a resident of Devonport about the welfare of members of his family in Beirut. [More…]
I know that such a move would find warm support in Australia, especially among our fellow citizens- there are many of them- who have family or other connections in Lebanon. [More…]
On behalf of myself and my family, we thank you for your condemnation of Mr Fraser for his attempt to overthrow our elected government. [More…]
We can add to that other important proposals that are contained in the legislation: The rebate for sole parents- deserted wives or deserted husbands or persons bringing up a family on an individual basis and without the assistance of a married partner; the increased dependants’ allowance, which is over and above the rebate system; and the home mortgage interest rebate which has been maintained in the Budget. [More…]
The Australian family man with a dependent wife and 2 children will be able to earn more than $100 a week free of tax. [More…]
The Australian family man with a dependent wife and 2 children- the worker- is able to earn more than $ 100 a week free of tax. [More…]
Can the Minister give me a pledge that he is maintaining close liaison with Senator Willesee, the Minister responsible for passport control, to ensure that at least one of them, Mr Buckley, does not seek to emulate the Barton family? [More…]
The policy is, as was explained to the Senate Estimates Committee in which Senator Sheil raised the matter, that medical benefits are not payable when the medical service is rendered by a medical practitioner to his family or to his partners or their dependants. [More…]
I have always had a greater affection, I must say, for the literary branch of the senator’s family than I have for the legal branch, but I hope the honourable senator will bring the best of both of those worlds to this very important office. [More…]
That the Senate 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 tender sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
I join with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) and the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) in expressing condolence to his family and to the nation of Malaysia. [More…]
That the Senate 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 tender sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
Clearly he played a significant part in convincing even his own colleagues of the need to lead his country back into the family of nations. [More…]
For example, pharmaceutical benefits, the Family Law Courts, consumer affairs and legal aid were all affected by the $360m expenditure cuts. [More…]
He feels that the pleasure of the nearness of his family is not sufficient reason for the burden he and his wife are placing on their two immediate generations. [More…]
In view of your representations I will arrange for a reexamination of Mr Alberto’s case to see if the financial and family circumstances have changed to such an extent as to permit restoration of special benefit payments. [More…]
A scathing attack was launched on our policy of reducing the Budget deficit, but I submit that no family can operate if it draws up a budget, overspends and then just prints the rest of the money it needs. [More…]
If they all decided to come back into the work force tomorrow and, by continued effort, were successful in finding jobs, because we cannot use our total work force their efforts would result in the displacement of men who at present are in comfortable positions and are providing for a family. [More…]
The second matter I want to mention in relation to the Governor-General’s Speech is the statement made in it concerning the implementation of the Family Law Act which I regard as one of the major pieces of legislation of the former Parliament. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech states that the Government will continue to implement the Family Law Act. [More…]
if the Government was returned to office on December 13, it would give top priority to setting up the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I have had the opportunity in the last couple of months to observe very closely the development of the Family Law Court and also the very concerned interest which the new Attorney-General, Mr Ellicott, and Senator Greenwood before him have taken in the development of this new Court. [More…]
There are some difficulties at the moment because some cases are dealt with in the various State supreme courts and some are dealt with in the Family Courts. [More…]
I am sure that there will be no legislation such as the Family Law Bill. [More…]
The Minister would be aware that the Family Planning Association in Western Australia has been funded by both State and Federal government grants. [More…]
Will the Minister advise whether it is the intention of this Government to continue funding the Family Planning Associations in each State and, if so, to what extent? [More…]
When we moved to the Senate gardens to take some cool drinks and general refreshments a measure of the protest and insult had suddenly dissipated, because out there where the drinks were on and the sandwiches were around we found the former Prime Minister, most of his family and indeed many of his colleagues. [More…]
These facets relate to the dignity and security of the family unit which is basic to our Australian society. [More…]
He worries about such things as making sure that his family is fed and housed. [More…]
The Family Planning Association which operates in Western Australia and which I mentioned at question time this morning, knows that it has funds until only June 1976. [More…]
The Family Planning Associations throughout Australia are doing a tremendous job. [More…]
People have to rely on the facilities that are available to them through such organisations as Family Planning Associations. [More…]
The Minister has also confirmed that the previous Government’s policy of providing 75 per cent of the cost of salaries of agreed staff in pre-schools will continue on the provision- I emphasise this pointthat they integrate their activities to cover other areas of family need such as occasional and day care facilities. [More…]
Marymead family day care scheme, for the Woden Community Association family day care scheme and for assistance to the Young Men’s Christian Association ‘children in need’ program. [More…]
In the short time left at my disposal I wish to refer to a couple of social matters, the first being the importance of the family as a basic unit of society. [More…]
It has always been my belief that the maintenance of the family as a basic unit of society is essential to our way of life in our Australian democracy. [More…]
I acknowledge, of course, the need for the Government to provide the economic support to the family unit by way of child endowment, child minding centres and various other aspects of social welfare programs to buttress the economic welfare of the family unit. [More…]
Many of the farmers who had employed labour for many years could no longer do so and were returned to the family farm situation. [More…]
When the trade union movement- nobody else, but the trade union movement- won the true equal pay case in 1973, a situation developed where, because minimum wages had not been raised to acceptable levels many of those women remained in the workforce simply to maintain family economic standards. [More…]
At this time it is estimated that the extra cost to contributors of these organisations will be small- in the region of 10c to 12c per week family contribution. [More…]
So that became the surname of a whole family tree. [More…]
This became the surname of an Aboriginal family and the family name down through the years. [More…]
I refer to regulations introduced last year permitting the Government to appoint, I think, up to 30 judges to the new Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I ask: How many judges of the Family Court is the Government intending to appoint in the present financial year? [More…]
I think there is provision under the regulations for up to 30 judges to be appointed to the Family Court. [More…]
I am not sure how many Family Court judges have been appointed but in recent times they have been proliferating at a great rate. [More…]
An example which comes to mind most is the family with asthmatic children. [More…]
The burden of this legislation may well present a considerable economic strain to such a family. [More…]
For a family which is on the subsidised health benefit the increase will be very considerable. [More…]
The cost and the inconvenience of gelling patients lo such a clinic create an impossible situation for the parents or the mother of such a family. [More…]
This again, in the case of a large family or in the case of a low income earner, may be a considerable burden. [More…]
In fact, there will be a minimal increase, estimated to be about 10c or 12c a week, in the family contribution. [More…]
In this area there are people who cannot help the position in which they find themselves; there are people who have a child or a family of children with chronic complaints; and there are grown-ups who have chronic complaints and who, through no fault of their own, do not have the income to deal with the costs involved. [More…]
At this time it is estimated that the extra cost to contributors of these organisations will be small- in the region of 10c to 12c per week family contribution. [More…]
The increase from $1.50 to $2 for prescription fees will disadvantage the person who is on a low income, the person who has a large family, the person who is chronically ill or the person who has chronically ill people in his family. [More…]
Some of them were women who were on their own and who were going to have the responsibility of raising their family and some of them were women who knew that, because of the type of man to whom they were married, they would always have to accept part of the responsibility of looking after their families. [More…]
The legislative action a rising from committee reports is hard to identify, except in the case of Bills such as the Family Law Bill, on which there was considerable debate in the Parliament last year. [More…]
Those reports related to death duties, the Family Law Bill, a national compensation Bill, television and broadcasting, teacher education, Japan, Indonesia and a whole host of other subject matters. [More…]
I listened to a lot of the debate on the Family Law Bill which, as we know, was a matter of substantial report and agreement by a committee of the Senate. [More…]
Mention has already been made of the reference to the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the Family Law Bill when it was introduced into the Senate. [More…]
I am sure he will agree that the work carried out by that Committee in relation to the Family Law BUI provided the foundation for the passage of that highly controversial piece of legislation through both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
After all, I think that Senator Missen and Senator Durack would agree that the finest hour of Senate committees could be related to the work that was done on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We extend our sincere sympathy to his wife and other members of the family. [More…]
It is also undeniable that the continuance of a stable society means stable citizens- and stable citizens come from a stable family background where the love of a mother for her child is of paramount importance. [More…]
If they choose to stay at home and rear a family they can do so without detriment. [More…]
As I understand the position at present with regard to family planning clinics, since the introduction of Medibank those clinics are able to provide their services free of charge to patients because of the health benefit grants which are made available to the organisations which provide this service. [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, by saying that no doubt the Minister is aware that a family with 4 children would receive child endowment of $5.75 a week and yet if, due to divorce, the family were divided into 2 groups with each parent looking after 2 children, each group would receive only $1.50 a week- a total of $3. [More…]
What has been stated is largely accurate, although it should be stated also that if there were a separation of a temporary nature with a family of 4 children an amount representing endowment on the children who remained with the parties would be paid to them. [More…]
In the Attorney-General’s Department legal aid is to be scaled down by $2m and $1.5m is to be taken from the budget of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Their theory was to arrange the economy so that it would be just about impossible for a family to subsist on one wage and, by doing so, men and women would be discouraged from having children. [More…]
This idea was based, of course, on the fact that if a woman has to take a full time job and has to take the full family responsibilities that she might have if she did not hold a job she would be discouraged from having children because children would be a burden to her and would be a burden to the family. [More…]
That was, of course, the Family Law Bill. [More…]
That Bill providedand we have put into law- that the contribution of the woman in the home ought to be considered a contribution to the family economy and ought to be considered as some sort of contribution to the assets of a family and, in the case of marital breakdown, a woman should have a claim as of right to have the assets assessed on the basis of the job that she has done. [More…]
The previous Government proposed that there should be no duties on the family home, up to a certain value, as it passed from spouse to spouse. [More…]
It completely overlooked that basis of claim to property on the grounds of a contribution to the family’s economy which we recognised in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
We make it possible for an individual, man or woman, but specifically in this instance a woman, to get some sort of just economic recognition for his or her contribution to the family at the point where a couple recognises that their marriage has broken down and at the point where they have decided not to continue with their marriage. [More…]
It obviously costs more for 2 parents of a family to go out to work. [More…]
It costs more because there are certain contributions that the woman is unlikely to be able to continue to make to the family economy. [More…]
She is giving other forms of economic support to the family. [More…]
There is a tremendous risk to the low income family in a very high level of child endowment payments. [More…]
In that position, a woman in the low income family, particularly if it is low income related to a general low level of education of both parents, is put severely at risk. [More…]
I believe that such a woman is put in a position where quite unbearable pressure can be brought to bear on her to procreate as a means of bringing in family income. [More…]
However, I think governments must find some way of making an equitable recognition of the contribution that women do make to their family economy and thereby to the economy of the nation. [More…]
I suggest that at present many Australian women are not truly free to choose; they need to go out to full time employment in order to keep their family decently and to educate them to the point which is so necessary in this modern society. [More…]
I would suggest that, if the Government truly regarded the family as the important unit of society, as everybody keeps on claiming it is, it would do something a little more positive. [More…]
Frankly, the suggestion which appeals to me is the one of income splitting for the purpose of taxation, a recognition that the income earned by one partner in a family and his potential for earning income is substantially contributed to by the other partner. [More…]
We recognise this in the Family Law Act. [More…]
The obvious example that comes to mind here is the man trying to raise a family on his own with the enormous difficulties he meets trying to do that, the enormous limitations which that role places on his earning potential and the consequent difficulties which families in that situation fall into. [More…]
The supportive role of the second parent- in most cases it is the woman- is important for the family’s economy and we ought to recognise that. [More…]
If we split family incomes ibr the purpose of taxation governments will end up collecting less taxation. [More…]
Whereas before the one parent family was disadvantaged, now provisions are made which make it easier for such families. [More…]
At the same time other things are happening in our society which are making it more and more difficult for the 2 parent family where one parent is caring for the children. [More…]
With regard to the attached application for admission to Australia of Mr Fernando Savtana Marques, who is sponsored by his family in Marrickville, N.S.W., vide Immigration file No. [More…]
It is in that context that I strongly advocate that a review of this case he made,mindful of the role that the applicant would play in the Australian workforce, quite aside from the current political turbulence, and the fact that the entire family, outside the applicant, have permanent residence in Australia. [More…]
Not only have I been in that position but also another member of my family has been unemployed. [More…]
I mention the 2 instances of unemployment in my family with which I have had experience. [More…]
For a long time my family suffered because my father had to receive unemployment benefitsbenefits which barely kept us living. [More…]
For my family’s welfarefor the welfare of my wife and my young son- it was necessary for me to take the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Again, because of the expenses I had incurred as a candidate and because I had been off work for a long period before the election I was forced, because of family responsibilities, to take unemployment benefits. [More…]
It is obvious that this surplus of $5,820 is quite inadequate to meet the normal living expenses of the farm operator, his wife and family without taking into consideration other factors such as the interest on borrowed money. [More…]
One would hardly expect a man with a wife and family to survive on such an income. [More…]
Over some years it had started family planning which was having some degree of success. [More…]
Does the Minister accept that there are many women who are not receiving supporting mother’s benefit but whose domestic circumstances are such that they also need qualifications to enable them to earn a living that will cover the responsibilities, which they have taken on, of raising a family? [More…]
What has been suggested with regard to training programs for supporting mothers or for other women who have family responsibilities is also consistent with our attitude towards the personal development of the individual with the opportunity to take part in the mainstream of activity in our community. [More…]
It was from many tragic experiences where women involuntarily were subjected by visiting specialists to forms of birth control that were totally alien to their values of family and child rearing and child bearing that opposition to Western-type population control grew to the extent that there was a massive political rejection of these programs at the Romanian conference. [More…]
It was the view of those women, women who were intimately involved in what is happening to their sisters in the Third World countries, that if population control is to be successful, it must bc something that the women themselves want and understand and which does not destroy their whole fabric of family life. [More…]
But the Government can still take the eggs off the kids in the Central Australian settlements; it can still cut out the breakfast programs in other settlements; and generally, by dismissing people who probably will not receive social security payments, it can take the money away from a man and his family. [More…]
People talk a lot about suburban neurosis, about the problems of the nuclear family, about the problems of women from other countries who do not speak English and who are isolated in outlying areas of our major cities. [More…]
By the same token, women who because of their domestic difficulties, because of overworkthere will be more of them- have broken down and have found that they cannot stand the pressure of working, keeping a family and looking after a house, need some place where they can go after the first violent reaction so that they can find their way back into the community, talk to their fellows or their peers, talk about ways to manage their lives and ways to manage the seemingly endless problems that come up. [More…]
Once upon a time it was the family doctor. [More…]
These days there is not the large family unit where there were grandmothers, mothers and aunts to whom a woman could talk. [More…]
It did not give a damn what happened to them after that period of producing a family had passed. [More…]
When some of them stagger out of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning, get children off to school, do the chores, go to work, come home, look after the family and then fall into bed, it is time unions, employers and governments looked at what amounts to not much more than slave labour for a great percentage of this community. [More…]
For the life of me, I cannot understand why a system should exist where husband and wife are supposedly a team, contribute equally to the wellbeing and finances of home and family and life and out of their joint income the husband pays superannuation and then if the husband dies the wife gets only a percentage of the superannuation entitlement for which they have paid for so long, whereas if the wife dies first the husband receives his full superannuation entitlement. [More…]
At least in this area people pay lip service to the fact that a woman who does not go out to work may still contribute much to the family home, the family property and even the family business and are seeing that she is a partner in or a part of that circumstance. [More…]
The decline in the number of births recorded in Australia in each year since 1971 is now generally accepted as the continuation of a long-standing 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 long-standing decline in completed family size in Australia from an average of over 6 children in the 1 880s to about three in the 1 940s and to below three more recently. [More…]
Finally, and perhaps most remarkably of all, Mr Fraser stated that consumers must overcome their unfounded reservations about the future and that when a family buys a washing machine or a new car it is providing jobs- a statement which is true in itself, I suppose. [More…]
There is doubling up of housing with sometimes 4 or 5 families occupying a place which has been built for one family only. [More…]
I am prepared to say that because of my parliamentary and community duties it is necessary for me to employ a housekeeper for the welfare of my son and my family but that the Commissioner of Taxation has seen fit not to allow me a $364 deduction in respect of that housekeeper. [More…]
One could find that if the unpaid housekeeper of a family unit is incapacitated for any length of time necessitating the employment of a replacement it may be necessary to employ a person with one or more children who would be solely dependent on the taxpayer. [More…]
On a number of occasions it is the female who is going out to support the family. [More…]
With the change in life style it will be most interesting to see what the Commissioner of Taxation will determine in regard to the woman who decides to go out to work and become the bread winner, and the male who remains at home and looks after the house and the family. [More…]
In this day and age, we all know that the existing legislation has a discriminatory effect on widows, owing to most family assets being in the husband ‘s name. [More…]
Whereas a widow usually has to pay death duties on most of the family assets, which means that she would have to live at a reduced standard of living once she becomes a widow. [More…]
After all, a divorced spouse does not have to pay a divorce tax on the portion of the family asset passing to her or him. [More…]
I ask: Can the Minister say whether this proposal might be considered, particularly as it would expand the degree of choice for womenand in some cases for men- as to whether they work in employment outside the family and home? [More…]
As I understand it, the suggestion from Dr Hughes was that child endowment for a family with 3 children should be increased to $30 a week. [More…]
I refer to a report appearing on the front page of today’s Melbourne Age alleging that the Federal Government has scrapped plans to finance a centre in Melbourne to give young people contraceptive advice and sex counselling and that the Family Planning Association of Victoria which was to run the centre has been so informed by the Federal Government. [More…]
Does it relate to the family planning ‘action centres’ which the previous Government proposed to establish in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane? [More…]
The traditional family structure has to some extent broken down. [More…]
It was from many tragic experiences where women involuntarily were subjected by visiting specialists to forms of birth control that were totally alien to their values of family and child rearing and child bearing that opposition to Western-type population control grew to the extent that there was a massive political rejection of these programs at the Romanian conference. [More…]
It was the view of those women, women who were intimately involved in what is happening to their sisters in the Third World countries, that if population control is to be successful, it must be something that the women themselves want and understand and which does not destroy their whole fabric of family life. [More…]
The whole fabric of family life in Indonesia is based on the system that perhaps we would do well to look at in part. [More…]
I wonder whether the answer to the question that I asked some weeks ago relating to family planning centres and specifically those in Western Australia will in actual fact be that they are not to be continued or that they are not to continue receiving funding from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Society in Indonesia is based on the family unit as a whole, which is a slightly different concept from that which we have in Australia. [More…]
The matter is rather urgent, not only because the family can’t find work in the present situation in Chile but because the son is due to be called into the army. [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that this widow, now living in Adelaide and having no family in Australia, as she was a citizen of Singapore prior to her marriage to the Australian seaman, has been living on unemployment benefit as her only means of financial support? [More…]
-I believe the centre in Melbourne has been the subject of some comment in particular by the Government of Victoria because of its interest in a centre of this nature and because of its program in family planning and contraceptive advice. [More…]
I refer to an article appearing in the Australian Financial Review of 6 April which claims that the Department of Social Security is seeking to remove the maintenance provisions in the Family Law Act that require the court to take into account the entitlement of an applicant to a pension from the Department of Social Security in making maintenance orders. [More…]
If so, is the Department aware of the salient arguments, based on principle and reduction of expense to the Government, which were advanced in favour of this provision by members of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and other speakers in debate on the Family Law Bill and which are written into the Family Law Act? [More…]
The inescapable fact is that I am not so much interested in the Family Law Act as I am in the Social Services Act, for which I am responsible. [More…]
I believe that the honourable senator will recognise that those 2 maintenance provisions of the Social Services Act are in conflict with section 75 (2) of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The matter which was the substance of the honourable senator’s question with regard to my seeking to amend the Family Law Act is not a matter on which I shall comment. [More…]
But I do take the opportunity to point out those 2 provisions of the Social Services Act and to point to the inconsistency that does arise between them and the Family Law Act. [More…]
As far as having given consideration to the Family Law Bill is concerned, I sat in the Senate throughout the debate on that Bill and I am very well aware of the matters that were raised during that debate. [More…]
You’re the family farmer’s pal, [More…]
That particular petition was concerned with a senator from Chile and members of his family who had been arrested and who had not been brought to trial. [More…]
Professor Geismar, who is director of the Social Work Research Centre of Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A., is to research ‘The Structure of the Australian Family and the Roles Individuals may take within it’, and ‘The Social Functioning of the Australian family- particular welfare aspects. ‘ [More…]
But priced as they are on the domestic market at this time, it is impossible for a person in receipt of an average weekly wage of, say, $70 with a family of perhaps 4 children to be able to afford to provide the children with one egg a day, plus the eggs that are used in cooking. [More…]
If we take those figures into account, such a family would be paying in the vicinity of $3 a week for eggs alone. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, concerns the Minster’s recommendations to alter the Family Law Act. [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the Family Law Act amendment she has suggested is considered by many professional welfare workers to be inhumane? [More…]
Will the Minister tell the deserted women and children in Australia why she felt it necessary to return them to the Draconian preFamily Law Act times? [More…]
The 3 segments of the question related I presume, to some Press reports that have mentioned that I have shown interest in an inconsistency between the Family Law Act and the Social Services Act. [More…]
It has been said at some stage of the debate in one of the chambers that the 1968 benefit which enabled payments to be continued for 12 weeks, for a surviving member of a family was in some way an answer to this matter. [More…]
After the purchase of a house and a car, a funeral probably represents the next most expensive item to be paid for by any family. [More…]
Most aged people will find now that the value of the family house or other assets will not debar them from receiving some pension. [More…]
It could not write a Family Law Bill that did not need plugging later. [More…]
A previous speaker in the debate said that because of the provisions of this Bill aged people will not be debarred from receiving a pension because of the value of their family home. [More…]
It had always been my impression that the value of the family home was not taken into consideration in the pension means test. [More…]
Activities undertaken by the Department of the Northern Territory are related to an integrated social welfare service including probation, family and community welfare and child care institutions controlled within the Social Development Branch. [More…]
Construction of Family Flats in Turner, A.C.T. [More…]
and their neighbours respectfully showeth that they object most strongly to the proposed development of between one hundred and one hundred and fifty family flats on the site between Condamine Court flats and Construction House. [More…]
Secondly, does this situation apply to family reunions where some of the family who are of African and Asian descent reside permanently in Britain? [More…]
Has the Minister seen publicity referring to the arrival in Adelaide of Mr and Mrs F. Aoukar who fortunately came to Australia via Cyprus after a rather spectacular exit from Lebanon and who were met here by Mrs Aoukar’s brother who brought them to South Australia but who, on arrival in South Australia, said that their sister Vivienne and her family had been refused visas to come to Australia? [More…]
I am a member of an allergenic family. [More…]
One sister has 5 allergenic members in her family and another sister two allergenic children. [More…]
As things are now my family would be just as well off if my husband went on the Invalid Pension with time to sit around and wait for free drugs. [More…]
The Prime Minister will be with his family at his residence at ‘Nareen’ on a significant number of occasions each year and the needs of his office as Head of Government mean that official communications facilities will be in regular use on these occasions. [More…]
Is it a fact that at that time the cost of living for the average family on Cocos Islands was approximately 4 plastic rupees a week? [More…]
Can he say whether the estate provides free housing, free light and power, free medical treatment and free education for 2 children in the family and whether it also provides material to enable those who wish to do so to build their own outrigger canoes which were valued at that time at about SA800? [More…]
But, as they are referable to the great Australian wheat industry, I believe it is proper that we should have a slight look at those people who are the basic members of the industry, namely, the farmer himself and his family. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that these reports allege that the Government intends either to abolish child endowment, to means-test it, or to review eligibility depending on the number of children in a family? [More…]
To the already dramatic problems of a person who is genuinely unemployed are now added the psychological and social problems of discrimination from neighbours, family and acquaintances, based on the dole-bludger campaign waged so successfully by some elements of the media in conjunction with some members of the present Government. [More…]
Then there is Home Island on which there are the Clunies Ross family and about 500 Cocos Malays. [More…]
Rightly or wrongly, I am told that the pill is compulsory for all young girls upon reaching the age of puberty and that there is a system of education- this matter was mentioned by Senator Jessop by way of question the other day- which provides education for only 2 children in each family. [More…]
A related issue concerns the continued presence of the Clunies Ross Family in the Islands. [More…]
As a result of economic and governmental pressures, Mr Clunies Ross informed the Committee of his decision to sever the family’s connections with the islands and to negotiate the transfer of his assets to a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]
I refer also to the innovations relating to women public servants, particularly the introduction of equality of benefits and the preservation of benefits while the career of a public servant is interrupted for such reasons as the rearing of a family. [More…]
Under what conditions did a person known as ‘Bluebells’, who was alleged in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph of 4 January 1976 to be a member of the Manson Family, enter Australia and at which overseas post was she interviewed before being given such permission. [More…]
Australian Capital Territory and their neighbours respectfully showeth that they object most strongly to the proposed development of between one hundred and one hundred and fifty family flats on the site between Condamine Court flats and Construction House. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Here again, we have a man who has a wife and family. [More…]
I, and I think every other senator, feel that tonight our regrets surely must go to the widow of Sir Shane Paltridge in her retirement and to his family. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Attorney-General: Is it a fact that the Family Law Court is now the only statutory authority dealing with maintenance proceedings insofar as persons who have been married are concerned and that it is the duty of the officers of the Court to take proceedings for the enforcement of maintenance orders when necessary? [More…]
-The questions asked by the honourable senator, particularly with regard to the operation of the existing State maintenance Acts in the light of the passage of the Family Law Act, concern one of the more intricate, complex and difficult sections of the whole field of matrimonial causes. [More…]
In regard to the other questions raised by the honourable senator as to the effect of the maintenance regulations which have been made recently under the Family Law Act and to which the Attorney-General has recently adverted, I suggest that if precise questions were put on the notice paper that would be the best way of obtaining answers. [More…]
My question concerns the apparent anomalies between provisions for widows pensions payable to divorced women under sections of the Social Services Act and provisions under the Family Law Act. [More…]
The first part of the question relates to a matter that was reported in the Press, namely, that 2 Government members’ committees are looking at the inconsistencies between the Family Law Act and the Social Services Act. [More…]
I am sure that the AttorneyGeneral would have given the same sort of directions to the Government members’ committee with which he would be more concerned and which would be looking perhaps more closely at the matter from the point of view of the Family Law Act. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organizations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organizations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Palmerston House offers no more security than a normal family home and is so constructed that it is virtually impossible to make it anything else. [More…]
Before engaging a staff member, Ministers provide me with details of the employment history, academic attainments or other qualifications, and any personal, family or relevant connection of which I, as the Minister responsible for administrative matters relating to ministerial staff, should be aware. [More…]
Paragraph 1 refers to articles for the official use of the mission and for the personal use of a diplomatic agent or members of his family. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Under the new family law provisions, there is little chance that she can have her maintenance payments increased. [More…]
There is a nice judgment to be made about how much a parent should be involved and how much a family can gain in benefit by the State easing the burden on the parent. [More…]
Does this indicate that family reunion was not a major consideration in deciding which Vietnamese refugees were permitted to come to Australia on that occasion? [More…]
If so, will special emphasis be given to family reunion, and what other major criteria will be applied in assessing such applicants for entry into Australia? [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 annual cost of the new family allowances scheme in a full year is almost exactly the same. [More…]
So, in effect we could have a very wide ranging debate over all the issues canvassed in the appropriation Bills, Senator Cotton’s statement, Senator Carrick ‘s statement and the Bill dealing with the new family allowances. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, relates to the Government’s announced intention to make financial assistance available by way of family allowances on a scale of generosity not previously seen in Australia. [More…]
It is a fact that the statements that have been made by the honourable senator are accurate and that the family allowance system which has been announced will be a major source of income to families. [More…]
Equally, the tax indexation which the Government has set about, together with its very enlightened family allowances, should bring about a situation of resisting the upward spiral of wages. [More…]
The four options available mean that a person will be paying a maximum of $150 in the case of a single person or $300 a year for family coverage if he decides to remain in Medibank. [More…]
If a person chooses to take out approved private hospital and medical insurance with a private health insurance fund the amount payable, which is yet to be determined by agreement with the private health funds, is expected to be approximately $350 a year for family coverage. [More…]
There is much benefit in that, particularly to the large family. [More…]
It will never cease to be a matter of amazement to me that the Whitlam Government did not take any notice of the Henderson report as it dealt with family allowances. [More…]
Why it chose to overlook the family allowances it never chose to explain. [More…]
It is interesting that it has taken a couple of days for some political commentators to realise one of the most important effects of the family allowance. [More…]
They will be receiving the family allowance for their children free of tax. [More…]
The previous tax deduction system was of no benefit to the low income family. [More…]
It makes far better sense to introduce non-taxed family allowances of a substantial nature, as recommended by Professor Henderson, to make sure that the poor families really do get some benefit. [More…]
Another aspect which took the political commentators a little while to recognise- it was recognised after a couple of days- is that the Government has given some measure of recognition to the role of the woman in the one-income family where there are 2 parents. [More…]
In that situation it averages out; the loss of tax deduction is about equal to what is paid in family allowances. [More…]
Since family allowances are paid to the woman, it is income for her. [More…]
This is particularly important in the case of the many families in Australia where young children are being reared and where the wife and mother decides that the best role she can play, in relation to the welfare of her family, is to remain at home and not go out into the work force. [More…]
I am glad that the Government did not just chose to increase the dependant’s allowance but to give some recognition to the meaningful role played by the woman in this situation by introducing the family allowances system. [More…]
Although I was proposing to deal with them anyway, ibr Senator O ‘Byrne’s benefit I turn to the family allowances. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for recognising the family as the basic unit of society. [More…]
Our Government stands for the preservation of the family. [More…]
In respect of family allowances the Government has dealt generously with all people in Australia on low incomes, including Aborigines. [More…]
Under the family allowances his wife- I agree that she is the person to whom it ought to go- will receive in respect of her 4 children $20.50 a week instead of $5.75. [More…]
If the husband is on the breadline which, I suppose, today we would call $100 a week, the rebate is no good to him; so in terms of hard cash that family will be $15 a week better off. [More…]
Families with 6 children will be $23 a week better off, which means that the family with $100 a week coming into the household will have a further $23 or 23 per cent more money coming in. [More…]
Basic medical cover plus intermediate ward care in a public hospital will cost 2.5 per cent of taxable income plus about $2.80 a week for a family, payable to a private health fund. [More…]
The increased family allowances announced by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and their effect on underprivileged families, I feel, are one of the most important steps that this Government or any government has taken. [More…]
If 800 000 children will benefit by the increased family allowances, that means that 200 000 children of migrants will be among them. [More…]
In summary, the significance of that statement is increased unemployment and increased hardship of one kind or another for every family and for every resident of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Unfortunately, and I say that genuinely, the higher expenses for every family as a result of these measures will undermine to a great extent the benefit of increased endowment. [More…]
The family man, the working man, has found that his wage cannot buy the goods that it used to buy. [More…]
What has this meant to the family? [More…]
It has meant that the more money it has earned the more tax the Government has taken and less money has gone into the family pocket. [More…]
In many cases it was found that one income in the family was insufficient. [More…]
So the wife went to work and there has been this continuing chasing of sufficient money to keep the family going. [More…]
In many thousands of cases this has meant tensions and pressures within the family. [More…]
That the Family Planning Associations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Will it be assessing the changes on family income structure following the recent announcement by the Government, and the disabilities suffered by those families whose incomes have been diminished as a result of the Medibank levy and health fund payments, the removal of tax deductions on mortgage loans, probable cost increases arising from the slashing of Government programs and foreshadowed indirect taxation? [More…]
It is looking at all matters that relate to family income and to the benefits that are applicable from my Department. [More…]
Medibank levy proposals a family of three with a total income of $450 a week will be $6 a week better off as opposed to a similar family whose total income is $120 a week and gains less than $ 1 a week extra as a result of the changes? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security noticed an article in a Sydney newspaper alleging that social service benefits were not paid to the family of Mr Frank Mialo of Minto, whose wife Gwen is dying of cancer? [More…]
Is the newspaper report correct when it alleges that benefits properly due to this tragic family have been or are being withheld? [More…]
Will the Minister please instruct her Department to arrange for an immediate payment of the benefits to allay the sad situation of this family? [More…]
Finally, is the Mialo family in receipt of all proper benefits? [More…]
I am aware of the tragic situation of the Mialo family as mentioned in one of the Sydney newspapers today. [More…]
I made inquiries about the family to determine how we would be able to assist it and found that Mrs Mialo was granted an invalid pension from 1 April this year at the rate of $67.90 per fortnight. [More…]
May to offer any assistance he could to the family. [More…]
This means that as from 20 May the Mialo family will be eligible to receive $182 per fortnight from the Department of Social security. [More…]
I do not like having to make personal details of any family as public as this but I believe that the treatment of the article in the newspaper suggested that benefits were being withheld or not being granted to the family concerned. [More…]
I think we all share the concern of those who printed such a matter because of the difficulties which this family is experiencing. [More…]
I assure the senator that my Department is aware of the situation and is giving whatever support it can to the family. [More…]
The new family allowances are not taxable nor are they taken into account for the purposes which have been mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]
Yesterday, in response to questions asked of a Minister in another place about the suggestion by organisations that Medibank could well cost a family man another $10 a day and, in addition, that many officers of the health benefit societies would be dismissed, the Minister stated that the position was still obscure and that he could not tell people about it. [More…]
There has been a great increase in child endowment but more important than that is the fact that it will be a non-taxable family allowance. [More…]
I have not heard members of the Labor Party say that they are opposed to the new family allowances. [More…]
It took a Liberal federal government to embark upon significant redistribution of income from the male spouse to the female spouse, that is, redistribution of income to the mother to help her with her responsibilities for supporting the family. [More…]
I have not heard the Labor Party say that it is opposed to the new family allowances. [More…]
Is the Labor Party opposed to the new family allowances? [More…]
Let me ask again: Are honourable senators opposite opposed to the family allowance? [More…]
We have introduced a family allowance and tax indexation. [More…]
I was saying that, amongst the great reforms together with tax indexation, the family allowance and education growth, was the introduction of an entirely new deal for local government. [More…]
One is tax indexation which the Labor Party says it supports and another is family allowances which the Labor Party also says it supports. [More…]
It is in favour of family allowances. [More…]
Instead of doing that, this Government has recognised that there are people who wish to make their own choices, represented in the spending that they undertake, and that through tax indexation and the family allowances personal spending will be considerably enhanced in the next few months. [More…]
Consistent with this philosophy, the new system of family allowances will give great assistance to the families in this country. [More…]
It is based on giving large non-taxable increases in family allowances to all families. [More…]
The new family allowances scheme will cost $ 1,020m a year. [More…]
This is an increase in family allowance of $785m, which is the amount that was represented broadly by the tax rebate system. [More…]
The recommendations of Professor Henderson have been very significant in the way in which we have developed our system of family allowances. [More…]
In future they will be treated on the same basis as other children in the family. [More…]
Whereas at present endowment for a student child is $ 1 .50 a week, in future it will range from $3.50 to $7 a week depending on the position of the child in the family and the number of children in the family. [More…]
It shows the basic pension, the non-pension income, the taxable income, the non-taxable allowances and the family allowances under the new program. [More…]
Very shortly, charts are to be produced and will be available to everybody so that people can easily see what options are available to them and so that they can pick out which form of cover suits them and their family best. [More…]
Equally, we want to protect and as far as possible to increase the major areas of government activity, including spending on pensions, family allowances, education and defence. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well being of a great proportion of the Australian people, both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
The honourable senator takes me back into my own family history. [More…]
In addressing my question to the Minister representing the AttorneyGeneral I refer to the growing delays in the hearing of applications under the Family Law Act, particularly in Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
In view of the removal of some doubts by the High Court and the establishment of the basic validity of the Act, can the Attorney-General give an assurance that there will be additional appointments of judges to the family courts at an early date to meet the present critical situation? [More…]
They deal with aspects of the better and fairer system of family assistance, and reductions in Government expenditure, that are elements of this 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…]
1 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…]
The cost of $20.55 a day is some $143 a week and is what the average lawabiding tradesman gets to take home to make the same provision for himself and family. [More…]
Re: Application for admission to Australia for Pietro La Rossa (single) and Salvatore La Rossa and Family [More…]
I am writing in reply to your representations concerning the nominations for the admission to Australia of Mr and Mrs Salvatore La Rossa and family and Mr Pietro La Rossa from West Germany, submitted by Mr Donato La Rossa of 5 Rowley Road, Five Dock, and which had not been approved. [More…]
I should explain that the existing family reunion policies cover spouses, minor dependant children and aged or dependant parents of persons already living in Australia. [More…]
I have been associated with the eradication program since the very early 1930s when my own family was dairying. [More…]
My family farmed one of the first 3 farms in Tasmania, I believe, to go into voluntary test and slaughter. [More…]
It will do this by substantially increasing family allowances for families. [More…]
Another significant change proposed is that students will be brought into account in the assessment of the total amount of family allowance payable, as if they were children under 16 years of age, and the rate payable for them will be determined according to their position in a family. [More…]
$1.50 a week flat, will be increased to a minimum of $3.50 for the eldest or only child in the family; if there are two student children in the family the rate payable for the second student will be $5.00 a week. [More…]
In addition, the age limit beyond which family allowances cease to be payable for students is to be increased from 2 1 to 25 years. [More…]
The new rates of family allowances will apply from 1 5 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 payasyouearn schedules of tax instalments are adjusted to take account of the withdrawal of rebates for children and students. [More…]
Payment of a family contribution will provide exemption for each member of a 2-income family. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
No doubt the Minister saw the front page news headlined in the Sydney Morning Herald last Friday reporting that 2 persons had been committed to prison by the Family Court operating in secret. [More…]
But I would say to the honourable senator that the matter of whether family courts could meet in closed session, if one could put it that way, was specifically decided in a recent High Court judgment. [More…]
Whether that decision went only to matters dealing with family law proceedings as such and did not necessarily deal with contempt proceedings I could not answer, but I will bring this matter to the notice of the Attorney-General and ask him whether he can put an advising down in this Parliament. [More…]
-My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, relates to the AttorneyGeneral’s statement of 20 May indicating that the commencement date for the Institute of Family Studies would be deferred until the end of the 1976-77 financial year. [More…]
Does the Minister recall the concern that a number of people within the community expressed that the philosophy behind the Family Law Bill would strike at the concept of the family being the basic unit of society? [More…]
Does the Minister recall that as a result of that concern the previous Attorney-General inserted into the Bill in July 1974 a provision for an Institute of Family Studies? [More…]
Does he also recall that the Institute was established to promote, by encouragement and co-ordination of research and other appropriate means, activities directed towards the protection of the family as the natural and fundamental group in society? [More…]
Does he further recall that the introduction of that particular part of the Family Law Bill gave rise to an expectation on the part of those persons concerned in the community that it would take effect immediately the Bill was proclaimed? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, relates to the new and increased family allowances which, following on the existing system of child endowment, will be paid to the mother of the child or children. [More…]
Where a child is living with the mother or within the family, the payment will be made to the mother. [More…]
The woman is the family breadwinner and she applied for sickness benefits. [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 of 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…]
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 the 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 appointed- is $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 Senate provides for the increases to be retrospective to 5 January 1976, the date of commencement of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that one of the most significant provisions of the Family Law Act is the establishment of Family Courts. [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 $150 a year for a person without dependants and about $300 a year for a family. [More…]
Firstly, he knew that full tax indexation would be introduced in 1976-77; secondly, that there would be major cuts in specific purpose grants, particularly on the capital works side; thirdly, that the Commonwealth would be raising revenue through the Medibank levy from which the States were excluded and, fourthly, that the Commonwealth proposed to abolish rebates for dependent children and to substitute a system of family allowances. [More…]
To be absolutely fair and objective, I also mention that that quite significant increase in taxation paid will be offset or slightly more than offset by the payment of the family allowances; that is, by the increased family allowances which the Government has forecast its intention to pay. [More…]
On 20 May, I announced the extension of family reunion provisions to include non-dependent workforce age parents and their dependent children. [More…]
While there are ‘family reunion’ considerations present, they are no different from such considerations applying in respect of many other applications and nominations outside the eligible criteria. [More…]
Does this indicate that family reunion was not a major consideration in deciding which Vietnamese refugees were permitted to come to Australia. [More…]
Is the Government planning to bring to Australia further Vietnamese refugees, for example from Thailand; if so, will special emphasis be given to family reunion. [More…]
They were the only Vietnamese with close family relationship with Australian residents who could be contacted by the Australian Immigration Selection Team in Thailand. [More…]
The group of 568 Indo-China refugees from Thailand who arrived in Australia included 28 Cambodians and 1 10 Laotians who have close family relationships with Australian residents. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
The Government has wiped out tax savings, which could amount to $10 a week for a family with a housing loan of approximately $20,000. [More…]
The annual contribution rates to Medibank are expected to be about $ 1 50 for a person without dependants and about $300 for a family. [More…]
But I do believe that the objective of the Government is to have a cost of about $300 a year for a family and $150 a year for a person without dependants. [More…]
We have been told that the Medibank premium for a family will be in the vicinity of $300 a year and for a single person $ 1 50 a year. [More…]
I think the Senate is entitled to an answer as to whether the premiums are going to remain at $ 1 50 a year for a single person and $300 a year for a family or whether they are going to to keep pace with the increases in premiums that we know the private funds will impose now that they have a free hand to enter the scheme. [More…]
In making an explanation to the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) in another place on 27 May the Minister for Health said that the premium of approximately $300 that was set for the standard Medibank package, as it is called, will provide a family with public ward accommodation in a public hospital and also with benefits covering 85 per cent of the scheduled medical fee. [More…]
If 2.5 per cent of a person’s annual income exceeded $300 in a year- this might particularly be the case in a twopaypacket family- it would pay him to buy into the Medibank package for $300 a year. [More…]
Exemption from the levy can be obtained by paying a Medibank premium which the Government thinks- I repeat the word ‘thinks’- will be $300 per annum for a family and $150 per annum for a taxpayer without dependants. [More…]
The third alternative is to pay the levy plus a premium estimated at $135 per family to obtain intermediate ward cover as well as Medibank cover. [More…]
At this level it defeats the purpose of tax indexation and the new family allowance scheme for the vast majority of wage earners who are on or about the average weekly wage. [More…]
No Australian family will pay more than $300 a year to remain in Medibank. [More…]
It will ensure that no Australian family will need to pay more than about $300 a year for a total Medibank cover. [More…]
One could have been paying contributions for year after year but when one had the misfortune of oneself or a member of one’s family becoming very seriously ill with an illness that went on for month after month one received no assistance from the private health insurance funds, despite the amount of money that one had paid in. [More…]
Indeed, if one looks at the much maligned pamphlet which was issued yesterday, I think, a single person or a family if they wish to stay in Medibank do not have to do anything if their income is below $12,000 a year. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that people on low incomes- up to $4,300 in the case of a family and up to $2,604 for a single personwill pay no levy. [More…]
Senator Baume said also that approximately $300 per annum will be the cost for a family to stay in Medibank. [More…]
This compares very favourably with the expected $350 premium for the private family insurance. [More…]
The private family insurance premium will give private hospital care with the doctor of your choice with 85 per cent cover for the scheduled fee of the doctor in a surgery. [More…]
I have quoted $350 as the premium for private family insurance. [More…]
This gives the lie to the distorted and exaggerated claims by some Labor Party members, such as Mr Farquhar, the Minister for Health in my State of Tasmania, that Medibank will cost in the vicinity of $1,000 a family. [More…]
The third is staying in Medibank, paying the levy and an additional estimated $2.60 a week for private health insurance for hospital cover for a family. [More…]
As I have said, that will cost roughly $350 a year for a family cover. [More…]
For a one-income family the critical point is an income of $8,600 a year. [More…]
The same applies to a 2-income family. [More…]
The amendments that are being made to the system must be considered in the context of tax indexation, family benefits and allowances, and the effect on the family taxes both now and in the foreseeable future. [More…]
The family premium cover under Medibank is $300. [More…]
I repeat that the total cost of Medibank cover for a family is $300 plus $135 in private health insurance for intermediate cover, making a total of $435. [More…]
This is to be payable by Australian residents who do not have appropriate medical cover for themselves and their family with a registered private insurance fund or through payment of a premium to Medibank. [More…]
2) 1976 provides for increased child endowment or family allowance payments to mothers or, in some cases, fathers of children. [More…]
It recognises it as an advance in the evolution of family and income support services in the community. [More…]
Neither do we oppose the change in the tax rebate system to the family allowance payment system. [More…]
There has been much publicity to this change in our system of family allowances. [More…]
Along with these measures there needs to be an increase in child care and family support services in general as well as an increase in the mother’s and guardian’s allowance. [More…]
I would not like a sense of complacency to arise amongst members of the Government parties or amongst the community about the provision of family support services now that we have had this change in family allowances. [More…]
So many of our large families and single parent families live in areas devoid of family support services and the extra money supplied to mothers in this way will not buy the services. [More…]
If it does there will be another $250m to be found to pay for this family allowances program. [More…]
One would hope that in the investigations of the difficulties between the Family Law Act and the Social Services Act some way would be found to allow these people to get a decrease in their maintenance payments in line with any increase in endowment the supporting parent may get. [More…]
Professor Henderson recommended that supportive family services of all types should be made available on a local basis to allow more independence and to give an increased range of choices to such families in terms of allocating times between earning and staying at home. [More…]
2) deals with the new system of family allowances. [More…]
That is to say, the breadwinner of a large family tends to earn in general terms the same as the breadwinner of a small family. [More…]
It merely shows that the resources, the wages, the cash available to large families is inadequate for their needs and that the size of a family tends to be the determinant of poverty in that family. [More…]
Professor Henderson and his group pointed out that child endowment or family allowances are more useful to poor families than to wealthy families; that the allowances are more critical in providing the cash resources available to poor families; and that the provision of family allowances is the appropriate way to increase the cash resources of poor families. [More…]
We know that a child allowance or endowment is paid irrespective of the income of the family. [More…]
Next I look at the paper entitled Chronic Poverty: City and Country Families which refers to a guaranteed family income as being one means of alleviating the poverty which is recognised in the paper. [More…]
Through many of these papers the quest for income security and family cash support runs as a common thread. [More…]
If we then look at the whole question of family allowances we find that the Party which I represent and the Coalition Parties in general have a fairly proud record in this regard. [More…]
This Bill looks at the general and social purposes of family allowances to determine whether they are adequate and what kind of changes are needed. [More…]
We have taken the view that child endowment will flow to family units. [More…]
The Government’s proposed action in changing the amount and structure for family allowances is a forward step towards social justice in Australia. [More…]
But at the same time we have denied that family enterprise has any productive value. [More…]
I would refer Senator Georges and other honourable senators to the written works of Patricia Apps in the University of Sydney who has explored this matter in depth and who has shown quite clearly that the preservation of, and caring for, the family is productive in economic terms and should be seen as productive. [More…]
-I point out to Senator Walters, if she will give me a chance, that the benefit depends entirely on what is determined as a low income family. [More…]
As I understand it, the national average of children in a family is 2.7 children. [More…]
I can never understand how a family can have seven-tenths of a child; so I will take the case of a taxpayer with a dependent wife and 2 children. [More…]
I would be interested to know how the Government sees this Bill as a compensation for the new young family in the outer suburbia which spring up outside every major capital city in Australia. [More…]
Having been a labourer all of my life until becoming a member of this Parliament and having reared quite a large family, I know the problems at first hand. [More…]
When one looks at the scale one sees that a family with one child will receive $3.50 a week and that the amount received by a family with 2 children jumps up to $8.50 a week. [More…]
She will be able to say to her husband: ‘That money is mine to do for our family as I see fit’. [More…]
The family income is not enough. [More…]
Some radical liberationists preach that the freedom of women is the eradication of family responsibility. [More…]
At a women’s centre in Hobart the words ‘A Family is Woman’s Bondage’ depict this attitude better than I can describe it. [More…]
The Government of the day recognised that in times of crisis it is the mother with a family who is in need of help. [More…]
A family with one child will receive $14 a month; with 2 children $34 a month; with 3 children $58 a month; with 4 children $82 a month, and with 5 children $110 a month. [More…]
Senator Lajovic would know the Svigelj family. [More…]
I do not think that as an Australian he should have his family appear on ASIO records as being subversive. [More…]
The only impression that I can gain from the answer to my question of why delay occurred is that the family must be considered to be subversive. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, give urgent consideration to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations thoughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well being of a great proportion of the Australian people, both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Attorney-General whether it is fact that the Government has decided not to appoint a second Family Court judge in Tasmania. [More…]
Has the Minister received complaints that the present judge has an excessive work load and that because of this family law proceedings in northern Tasmania are being delayed? [More…]
health/welfare centres, mental health, rehabilitation, and family planning services. [More…]
He was asked to investigate social-medical aspects of poverty including the community services where persons involved in health and social welfare meet to work together, for example, health and welfare centres, mental health, rehabilitation and family planning services; the relationship between poverty and major illnesses in the community of a socialmedical nature; and any associated matters relevant to the above and to the general objectives of the inquiry. [More…]
Mr Martin’s report deals with the more important community services at the health and social welfare interface and covers such major issues as community health services, mental health services, disability and poverty, alcoholism and drug dependence, the health of newborn children and infants, family planning, and dental health services. [More…]
It applies to judges appointed to the Family Court because they have to be appointed for life under the Constitution. [More…]
That has been one of the problems which, when the Family Law Bill was considered by the Senate Committee and by the Senate this was recognised as one of the difficulties and was one of the reasons the provision for State courts was inserted. [More…]
If a mother has a spouse who is a middle income to high income earner that family will get no benefit because, once again, they will lose their tax deduction. [More…]
Clearly, this increased participation in the work force has been going on ever since the end of the Second World War and is to be explained by a number of complex sociological factors, not the least of which, I suggest, is the consumerism and materialism in Australian society, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, which were encouraged, aided and abetted by a Liberal business-orientated government which set fairly unrealistic standards of consumerism for the average family. [More…]
Of course I love my family; but the idea that women produce children purely for their own pleasure is a fallacy sponsored by an affluent and short-sighted society intent on genocide. [More…]
The traditions of child-care and domestic management formerly passed on within the security of an extended family circle are now frequently entirely lost. [More…]
Girls, in particular, on whom the major responsibility for founding a family most inescapably rest, often take on the job with an abyss of ignorance which is frightening- and not made less so by the equal ignorance of their partners. [More…]
Women with family responsibilities, particularly those with young children, should be able to stay at home if they so wish. [More…]
Women with family responsibilities, particularly those with young children, should be able to stay at home if they so wish. [More…]
But even before I had a family I was, both on the Social Welfare Committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and on the ACTU Executive itself, in the forefront of the campaign to have child endowment payments raised. [More…]
He acknowledged that it is a step forward in family support that we have been able to give at this time. [More…]
It is understood by everyone that, through the abolition of certain income tax rebates, we have been able to restructure the way in which assistance is now given to families in the form of the new family allowances. [More…]
The support services of adequate housing, health and so on are important to the way in which a family is able to give security to the children who are its responsibility. [More…]
I do want to take up the points that were made by Senator Harradine with regard to family allowances and the needs of families as distinct from their wants. [More…]
I believe that in calling our new assistance ‘family allowances’ we are talking about assistance that is able to be given to families with children in this country. [More…]
I agree with the remarks of Senator Harradine that it is important to emphasise the security of the family and the support that can be given to it, but I also want to say that the responsibilities for the security of the family do not rest only with government. [More…]
They are responsibilities that should be accepted by the parents of the family itself and they are responsibilities in relation to which government is able to give assistance but which can only be shared with parents. [More…]
-Mr President, you may recall that at question time this morning I raised the subject of the appointment of the second Family Court judge for Tasmania. [More…]
The situation is that after we passed the Family Law Bill into law the proposal was for the appointment of 2 judges in Tasmania, one to be located in the southern part of Tasmania- in Hobart- and a second to be appointed to serve the area of northern Tasmania and the north-west of Tasmania. [More…]
In due course a very eminent man of the law in Tasmania was appointed as the first Family Court judge in the southern part of the State. [More…]
From the information which was passed to me today, as appearing in the Press, the appointment of the second Family Court judge was imminent. [More…]
I certainly hope that the Government will take a very quick look at this matter because the whole system of Family Court law, I believe, is slowing down and must continue to do so with the welter of work that the Court has been asked to undertake. [More…]
The cost of his operations must be increased substantially without achieving the purpose of the Family Court, namely, to deal with all those matters that come before the Court. [More…]
This will impede the excellent function of the Court, which received a very high level of support throughout the Parliament when the Family Law Bill was passed into law. [More…]
This is because he is dealing with family affairs and the personal affairs of people at the most sacred level of family life. [More…]
I suggest that the present situation- the failure to appoint that second Family Court judge -is a false economy. [More…]
If it is noi, the purpose of the law and the will ofthe Parliament in establishing the Family Court will be defeated and the whole system will reach a condition approaching malfunction. [More…]
Since we have made the laws, I think that the people are entitled to have access to the Family Court. [More…]
I strongly urge the Government to proceed with what was intended at the outset, namely, the appointment of the second Family Court judge for Tasmania. [More…]
Senator Devitt talked about the appointment of a second judge to the Family Law Court. [More…]
When it comes to the Family Court I will be expanding at greater length on this question of the absolutely unsatisfactory condition of the federal judiciary. [More…]
Bearing in mind that 40 per cent to 50 per cent of trade unionists are breadwinners in any family, it seems to me that this legislation is in the interests not only of the nation but also of the individual unionists. [More…]
Preliminary negotiations have already taken place with the University which, since 1972, has had a family research unit funded through the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Honourable senators 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…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
Honourable senators 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 Emits 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 matters relating to family law cannot be realised under a law of this Parliament. [More…]
Under present constitutional limitations, this concept can only be realised 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 exnuptial children. [More…]
As the High Court decision means that the closing of State courts when exercising federal jurisdiction is a matter for State law, the adoption of the principles of section 97 (1), so far as closing their courts when exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act is concerned, is a matter for the States. [More…]
Although the jurisdiction pf the State Supreme Courts over new proceedings under the Act has now been terminated- at the request of the States- State courts of summary jurisdiction are expected 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 4 1 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…]
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…]
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…]
Might I say, firstly, in respect of the Family Law Amendment Bill that the Parliamentary Labor Party has considered this matter and decided, insofar as its members are concerned, that there should be a free vote on the Bill. [More…]
The Bill puts into effect the decisions of the Remuneration Tribunal in respect of judges of the Family Court who at this stage, as I understand it, are being paid at a lower rate than they should be. [More…]
As I have said, the Family Law Amendment Bill is a non-Party Bill and members of the Opposition are to be given a free vote on it. [More…]
As I understand it, the High Court held in its decision in that case that the Family Law Act is valid but that there are certain sections of it which are deemed to be invalid. [More…]
I strongly oppose the Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Bill which relates to the remunerations and allowances payable to judges of the Family Court. [More…]
The present allowance fixed by law when the Family Law Bill was passed by the Parliament is, I think, about $7,500 less than that. [More…]
Due to the imbroglio in which this Family Court was brought into being- almost an abortion- in January - [More…]
As I was overseas when the Family Law Bill passed through this place, I just wish to observe that, vicious though it is I now regard the principle of the Family Law Bill as not in issue. [More…]
I think we will have to have some little more ex- perience on an extended operation of the family aw legislation to see the true extent of the damage that it will do to this community. [More…]
I think that it will be completely subversive to family life, as we know it, and within the next quarter of a century will have revolutionised the whole social basis of our civilisation. [More…]
The next point to which I wish to refer is one which I tried to put before the Senate when I returned from overseas last year and when we were involved in the Committee stage of the Family Law Bill. [More…]
To my complete dismay 1 found that this Bill had provided for a Family Court especially set up to exercise jurisdiction in this field under the Family Law Act- an Act the very name of which offends me. [More…]
It is called the Family Law Act, just as the communists call guerrilla activity a peace movement. [More…]
This is an Act for the destruction and denigration of the family. [More…]
It does not provide for the legal protection of the family. [More…]
Subject to sub-section (2) and to the regulations, all proceedings in the Family Court, or in another court when exercising jurisdiction under this Act, shall be heard in closed court. [More…]
Although I have not had an opportunity fully to peruse the judgment, as I read it the question as to the validity of this provision in relation to the Family Court, a Federal Court set up by this Parliament, was not in issue. [More…]
Although the jurisdiction of the State Supreme Courts over new proceedings under the Act has now been terminated- at the request of the States- State courts of summary jurisdiction are expected to continue to exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the Family Court for some time to come. [More…]
In the first place, he refers to the provisions of the Family Law Act which relate to social service entitlements and the taking into account of those entitlements in the fixing of maintenance orders. [More…]
Anyone who has had a long experience with family law and its operations over the years would know that where there is all this publicity there is no justice, there is no fairness, there is the scarifying of children and innocent persons because of newspapers and others- I do not need to name them- which over the years made a lot of money out of the embarrassment of people; and that was a very deliberate thing. [More…]
In regard to custody it has long been realised that it would only be with the support of the States that we could get a situation where exnuptial children would be treated in the same way and with the same facilities of the Family Court available to them as are enjoyed by children of a marriage. [More…]
They could be children of a wife and not the husband, but have been supported and treated as members of that family for years. [More…]
The wife may have difficulty and not be able to get an order for custody from the family court. [More…]
This Bill means that people will have to go through divorce proceedings and that property proceedings can take place in the family court only if they are ancillary to a divorce. [More…]
When the original Family Law Bill went through it was one of the measures designed by this Parliament to get away from the necessity to jump from State courts and Federal courts and to avoid the tactics and the costs which are involved. [More…]
This would prevent, for example, a situation where custody proceedings are undertaken and the family court can make no arrangements to give custody to an aunt or a grandparent. [More…]
Today in the Sydney Morning Herald Mr Malcolm D. Broun, President of the Family Law Practitioners Association of New South Wales pointed out the physical difficulties which judges have to undergo. [More…]
This was said by Mr Malcolm D. Broun, President of the Family Law Practitioners Association of New South Wales. [More…]
The last thing I want to say in respect of this Bill which is concerned with the administration of family law is to pay a tribute to the AttorneyGeneral, Mr Ellicott, because since the beginning of this year I have seen the way in which he has taken an absorbed and constant interest in this very difficult area. [More…]
Any family of the persons below are required to pay the Company tariff for accommodation. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death 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 GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia from 1963 to 1969, a member of the House of Representatives from 193 1 to 1940 and from 1949 to 1960, and Minister of the Crown from 1935 to 1940 and from 1949 to 1960, 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…]
The Australian Labor Party is saddened by his death and expresses its sympathy to his family. [More…]
He left school at 16 years of age to work in the Mount Vischoff tin mine on the west coast of Tasmania to help support his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Labor Opposition I extend my deepest sympathy to his family. [More…]
He had to leave school at the age of 16 years and worked in tin mines to support his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I extend my sympathy to his family. [More…]
The passing of Tom Bull is a loss to his family. [More…]
We who knew him well, particularly the National Country Party senators, share the loss with his family and express our sympathy at his untimely death. [More…]
He and his family were friends of mine. [More…]
In the first place, I believe, he was significant because he had a very real understanding and commitment to the family unit as the basic unit of our society. [More…]
Anyone who knew Tom Bull knew the strength of his convictions and his concern for the welfare of his family and, indeed, of all families in our community. [More…]
To his family I express my sympathy and condolences. [More…]
I join with my Leader, Senator Withers, the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Wriedt, and the Minister for Science, Senator Webster, in extending condolences to his wife and family in their sad bereavement. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to comments made by Judge Demack of the Family Court of Australia in The Courier Mail, of 21 May 1976, that the present premises of the Court in Brisbane are inadequate: if so, (a) what efforts are being made to obtain adequate accommodation for the Court in Brisbane; (b) if alternative accommodaton is not envisaged at this stage, what is being done to ensure adequate privacy for court hearings and counselling sessions; (c) is it planned to appoint another Judge to the Court in Brisbane; if so, when; and (d) is it planned to appoint additional counsellors to the Court in Brisbane; if so, how many additional counsellors are to be appointed and when are the appointments to take place. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to comments made by Mr Justice Demack of the Family Court of Australia in The Courier Mail of 2 1 May 1 976 concerning the inadequacy of the temporary premises of the Court in Brisbane. [More…]
Space has now been allocated for permanent accommodation for the Family Court of Australia in Brisbane, and architects from the Department of Construction have commenced the necessary detailed planning. [More…]
I announced recently that I will soon recommend the appointment of additional Judges to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
full day care, occassional day care, sessional pre-schools, family day care, residential care, play groups, parent education programs, holiday programs, toy libraries, mobile pre-school units and any other areas concerned with the total development of the child. [More…]
I refer to the Budget proposal to impose a fee of $60 on the issue of applications for divorce and certain other remedies under the Family Law Act. [More…]
I do not now canvass the advisability of this impost or the purpose of its application which, I trust, may be for better facilities and services for the Family Court. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether the Government has considered methods of avoiding the setting up of bookkeeping, accountancy and auditing services in the family courts required to handle this single impost. [More…]
The fee for the application for divorce is also part of an increase in fees in Federal courts and in the Family Court so the imposition has to be looked at in relation to an increase in fees in other Federal courts as well. [More…]
Family allowances have been increased. [More…]
It has brought in a revolutionary scheme of family allowances that was recommended by the Committee of Inquiry into Poverty- the Henderson Committee- which was set up not by the Whitlam Government but by the McMahon Government. [More…]
We have transferred to the poor, from the more affluent, family allowances of a major type. [More…]
Finally, in June, the head of the All Soviet OVIR, Vladimir Obidin, explained that the Soviet competent organs would be thoroughly influenced by the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference, in an issue of visas for emigration, but would give out visas only for re-unification with the family, and that the family is only regarded as husband and wife and their unmarried children. [More…]
In addition, the activities of the Soviet Governments are inconsistent with their own explanation of the question concerning the unification of families, since there are cases of refusal to emigrate to the members of families who are recognised as such by the Soviet code relating to the marriage and family (see Document No. [More…]
Contrary to the rules laid down by the Helsinki Declaration, the instigation for approaches for exile, as before, leads to the changes in the status of applicants, and the members of his family (dismissal from work, dismissal from institutions, army call up, and so forth). [More…]
Already very rare visits of the family members to the political prisoners have been greatly diminished. [More…]
Another example- Article 52 of the Code regarding Marriage and Family in R.S.F.S.R. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organizations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organizations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
I assure the honourable senator that family allowance payments are not being delayed. [More…]
Those who have chosen to have a 4- weekly cheque approximate 43 per cent of the people who are entitled to family allowances, a 4-weekly credit has been elected by about 3 per cent and the 12-weekly credit, which will be due on 7 September, has been the way in which 54 per cent of the people have elected to have their payments made. [More…]
The Cocos Islands were first settled in 1827 by the Clunies Ross family which imported labour mainly from North Borneo in order to improve the coconut trees which were already growing there. [More…]
In 1857 following a number of representations from the Clunies Ross family the islands were formally declared part of the British dominions. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Budget makes provision for $750,000 to be provided through the Department of Social Security for family planning purposes? [More…]
What provisions are made for country people to have easy access to family planning advice? [More…]
Has any consideraton been given to making mobile clinics available for the dissemination of family planning help to country people? [More…]
It is a fact that the Budget makes provision for $750,000 to be spent on family planning but this money is distributed through the Department of Health and not through the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The purposes for which funds are provided under this program are education, research, support of national family planning bodies- the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and the Catholic Social Welfare Commission- and for the non-clinical costs of State family planning associations. [More…]
A project was funded by the Commonwealth in 1975 to investigate the need for family planning services in outback areas. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report that a group of French people, who apparently are well informed on these matters, have addressed an inquiry to the leader of the French Socialist Party, Monsieur Mitterrand, to the effect that Prince Norodom Sihanouk and members of his family have been murdered by the present Cambodian Government? [More…]
Is it the Government’s intention that low income earners who have no dependants and who receive more than $2,605 a year or who are married with a family income of over $4,300 a year will have to pay the Medibank levy? [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 that 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…]
Many 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 premarital 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…]
By a curious coincidence, on the two occasions when this 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 1961 and the Family Law Act of last year preceded this Bill. [More…]
In another technical area of the law, namely, the determination of a person’s domicile, the Bill inserts a provision in the Marriage Act corresponding to the domicile provision of the Family Law Act. [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 related issue concerns the continued presence of the Clunies Ross family in the Islands. [More…]
As a result of economic and governmental pressures, Mr Clunies Ross informed the Committee of his decision to sever the family’s connections with the Islands and to negotiate the transfer of his assets to a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]
At that time, honourable senators will recollect, threatening gestures were being made for the acquisition of the land of Mr Clunies Ross and his family. [More…]
The Mission found that the isolation of the Cocos Malay community from the outside world and the predominant forces of influence of the Clunies Ross family had adversely affected the cultural life of Home Island. [More…]
The Minister stated in her second reading speech that the Government had approved som> projects such as the Family Services Committee and the various research projects and fellowship and they would be absorbed by the Department after the Act was repealed, but until that hap pened they would continue with the Com mission. [More…]
It brought out a paper entitled Community Development and Community Development Training and papers on family welfare, participation and participation patterns in Australia and regional funding. [More…]
What I am referring to, and perhaps I should make myself a little clearer, is the fact that we hear again and again- this matter has been raised in this chamber- that the eligibility of a single mother for support from the Government for her family seems somehow to be connected with her personal and sexual relationships. [More…]
Much as many of us may regret the passing of the biologically extended family with several generations under one roof or close by, I think we must accept that it is a fact of life. [More…]
The Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty has derived the kind of data which makes it quite clear that aged persons do not have the resources to care for themselves in terms of money, they do not have the family support and their health is inevitably going downhill. [More…]
It is inescapable now that the extended family has gone in Australia; if it has not gone it is rapidly disappearing. [More…]
The normal way of life no longer provides for a 3- generation family. [More…]
One important matter is that of the family farm. [More…]
This person is still being penalised when compared with the 2-income family. [More…]
I am a married taxpayer who is a member of a single income family. [More…]
I am, however, bitterly disappointed to find that the revised tax scales for 1975-76 and thereafter still fail to recognize the value of a single income family to the community. [More…]
On the contrary the present tax scales blatantly discriminate against one income family units such as ours. [More…]
The first column deals with a family taxable income of $6,000. [More…]
In the case of a family taxable income of $8,000, the married taxpayer who is the head of the household pays $1,320 tax, whereas the husband and wife combination with income evenly divided pays only $800, or $520 less. [More…]
Previously we have had debates in this place on the family allowance, and that is important to the Australian female consumer. [More…]
They will rise in the area of the disadvantaged family which, as I said earlier, will now receive the family allowance and will not be taxed out of existence. [More…]
On Ann Street there are 12 housing units- I refer to them as housing units only because any other description defies mewith 16 family units and over 100 people. [More…]
The One Mile reserve has 4 houses, 6 family units and 39 people. [More…]
The Hill, so named because there is nothing else that one can call it because all that is there is a bare hill, has 1 1 houses, 14 family units and 82 people. [More…]
Morgan Camp has 7 family units, 3 1 people, no accommodation. [More…]
At the back of the meatworks there are 8 family units and 23 people. [More…]
Mummabulangine has 6 family units and 32 people. [More…]
Just to make it quite clear, there are 27 so-called houses accommodating 57 family units and 332 people, and we are living well into the twentieth century. [More…]
In the past this duty has made a significant contribution to the liquidity shortage of small family businesses where one or other of the partners or shareholders dies. [More…]
The family allowances scheme, which has been well canvassed since 20 May, will bring benefit to 300 000 low income families. [More…]
It is no good people like Senator Martin coming here tonight and explaining to us how the family allowance will lift the level of spending in the community when there is not one tittle of evidence to support that proposition. [More…]
This measure will benefit thousands of people who previously were disadvantaged because through their thrift they had invested in a family home. [More…]
As Senator Martin said, we have assisted through our new family allowance scheme those 300 000 low income families, with their 800 000 children, who previously just did not have sufficient income to benefit from tax rebates for their children. [More…]
Under our new scheme, while the breadwinner will lose his small rebate the mother of the family will collect the full family allowance which is equivalent to that rebate and more. [More…]
This Government, which quite rightly is concerned with development and reform, has seen fit to make the most wide-sweeping changes to family endowment that have occurred in the history of this country. [More…]
That can be seen only as something which will further secure the family unit in the Australian scene. [More…]
I have mentioned the enormous gain to the family unit by the new scheme of endowment payments to mothers. [More…]
I had further indicated the dramatic measure of change which was relevant to the child endowment policies and which must increase the stability and security of the family unit in the economy. [More…]
We have the new family allowance. [More…]
In the areas of pensions, family allowances and assistance to the handicapped, reforms have been proposed. [More…]
Under the new family allowance arrangements, allowances have been increased substantially. [More…]
Services are falling well below standard in the areas of family welfare, child welfare, rehabilitation and parole. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Where there are 2 wage and salary earners in a family- that is, husband and wifeand they choose to take out Medibank at standard rates, will the 2! [More…]
He may remember that 2 weeks ago I asked him whether the Government had any information as to the fate or the whereabouts of Prince Norodom Sihanouk and members of his family, who it has been reported have been murdered by the present Cambodian Government. [More…]
As I recall it, the information was that as far as our Foreign Office knew the reports that Prince Sihanouk and his family had been murdered were not true and that as at a certain date, which was stated in my answer, he was still alive. [More…]
That in framing the 1976 Budget presentation that the Treasurer gives positive consideration to ways and means of assisting the wage earner with family responsibilities. [More…]
The family wage earner is Australia ‘s greatest asset and he should receive encouragement over and above people who receive unemployment benefits. [More…]
This country and in particular the National Party should be facilitating ‘Family Population growth ‘not Zero Population Growth. [More…]
Every effort has to be made at this stage to preserve the family farm. [More…]
I mention firstly family allowances, which were introduced in the last session of this Parliament. [More…]
The first table deals with 273 units and includes family partnerships. [More…]
There is a move away from the traditional consumer durables, such as the family saloon car, to the more unusual type of goods. [More…]
I realise that in her family the car comes from Germany but I point out that the cars of many of her husband’s colleagues come from Sweden. [More…]
The family allowance and the taxation indexation schemes which were introduced before the Budget are the reforms most talked about. [More…]
We point out, however, that the Government has used the family allowance changes to excuse cuts in other vital areas such as the supplementary benefits which go to the very poor people. [More…]
The Prime Minister even had the gall to say that the new family allowance scheme would make up for the reduction in expenditure in Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The difficulty is that the benefits which would have flowed from tax indexation and the family allowance changes have been counteracted by the introduction of the Medibank levy- an unnecessarily high Medibank levy. [More…]
There was a somewhat slighting reference to the family allowance by Senator Grimes who has responsibility in this area for the Labor Party. [More…]
They do NOT try to destroy family life. [More…]
It is equivalent to an expenditure of $ 165m annually and it affects particularly adversely the community health program, the school dental program and the family planning program. [More…]
The family planning services budget has been reduced in real terms by one-half. [More…]
The man in the street, whether he is an employee or an employer, has been beset by rapidly increasing living costs, food costs, clothing costs, the cost of a house, the cost of rearing a family, etc. [More…]
It can be assumed that a considerable amount of the blame for the collapse of the young married couple and of family life is the result of the pressures and strains which are products of these inflationary years. [More…]
The fact is that for the first time in a very long period the family has been recognised. [More…]
For too long the Australian family has been ignored. [More…]
While I certainly have no quarrel with our immigration program I believe that in these days when we are nearing zero growth and when our population is nothing more than static, the natural Australian family must be encouraged. [More…]
Why should not the Australian family be assisted in providing our future citizens? [More…]
Firstly, let us look at the family allowances which were presented to the community in May. [More…]
This is costly to the taxpayer, destroys confidence and involves heavier costs in the long term, lt has been demonstrated elsewhere that once the ‘take-off’ point has been reached in a new centre the cost per head of housing an Australian family is considerably less than is the case in housing that family in a capital city. [More…]
That the Senate records its sincere regret at the death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, expresses to the people of China profound regret and tenders its deep sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
Therefore, I should like to join with all honourable senators and world leaders in paying tribute to Chairman Mao Tsetung, in expressing the condolences of the whole Senate to the Chinese people and to his family and in putting on record our appreciation of his contribution to mankind. [More…]
On behalf of all Government senators, I extend our sympathies to his family. [More…]
What I said last night and repeated on a radio program- I hope Senator Wriedt will understand it and I commend to him a second listening to that programwas that when tax indexation and the family allowances scheme were set off against the change in the tax rebate system, something like $ 1 , 000m increased purchasing power was in the hands of the people. [More…]
The scheme will pay actual fare costs based on economy class travel associated with a person and his family exploring a prospective job in the new location and subsequently moving to it. [More…]
It also applies to the applicant and /or family moving to the new location to take up residence. [More…]
It provides- I think this would be of great importance to people in the outback- if the applicant moves to his new place of employment ahead of his family, for 2 return visits to the family. [More…]
I refer the Minister for Social Security to a report in the Australian Financial Review today relating to negotiations with the banks to credit family allowances to accounts monthly. [More…]
What is the position of a family which wants to receive family allowance payments more frequently than on a quarterly basis? [More…]
The article with regard to family allowances is not correct in all its detail. [More…]
The statement that the Government may pull out of negotiations with the banks to credit the monthly family allowance payments unless the dispute over fees is resolved fairly soon is not accurate because the Government is negotiating with the banks with regard to crediting to accounts, on a monthly basis instead of on a 3-monthly basis, the increased family allowances. [More…]
Senator Maunsell will agree with me that in some locations, such as in some of the provincial cities where young people are locked into an area because of the need to keep the family together, it is as high as 600 to 1 . [More…]
Speaking from my experience with my own family, my son who has completed a university course and has 2 degrees with honours in zoology is still unemployed. [More…]
I also believe that when the results of tax indexation and the family allowances, which amount to about $ 1,000m, begin to show in the community we will see a rise in consumer spending which is necessary to gear up the productivity of the nation and to gear up the industries so that they can employ more people. [More…]
In fact, the only Housing Commission allocation ever made to the area of Cooktown, which has about 1000 people a large number of whom are fairly elderly, has been for one home and that was for an ordinary working family. [More…]
As we could not obtain a public bed for him at that time, that little family group of father and daughter was in the situation where she had to use all her wages, plus the family savings, in order to keep her father in a private ward. [More…]
Where the student is faced with the problems of adjusting to living in a larger town and attending a large school without the benefit of family kin support. [More…]
Once again, however, the young student, a long way from home and without family support, has a very difficult road to success. [More…]
Lack of this sort of suitable accommodation at an affordable cost often deters Aboriginal people from seeking medical attention which they or their family require, and if they do receive such medical assistance it does happen that these patients are kept in hospital for longer than is necessary purely because of the lack of suitable accommodation in which aftercare medical treatment and full recovery can be effected. [More…]
Without temporary accommodation the mother and her children are sometimes unable to avoid these difficult circumstances, the continuity and security so essential for any family is often disrupted. [More…]
Aboriginal people, as do many others for a variety of reasons, often choose to seek employment opportunities away from their original area, or family home. [More…]
Many of such people are forced to sleep in unsanitary and hazardous conditions in parks, railway stations, culverts and abandoned cars at some personal and health risk or are forced to overcrowd family or kin resident households possibly causing anxiety, financial difficulties, and stress for all concerned. [More…]
Family tariff associated with an income earner is 50 per cent of the normal gross earnings up to a maximum of $56 per week. [More…]
Dependents of Hostel Managers/House Parents are required to pay the equivalent of tariff charges for migrant hostel accommodation for family dependents. [More…]
Following this Government’s establishment of increased family allowances, particularly to assist the low family income earner, the Company is in the process of revising its tariffs to take account of family allowances within total income assessed for tariff purposes. [More…]
The Government’s decision to introduce a new system of family allowances paid to wives will provide a substantial increase in income for many Aboriginal families and reduce the demands on some programs that were necessary for Aborigines in the past. [More…]
This still results in a net cost to the family of about $3,800. [More…]
This family cannot afford the cost of converting from manual to automatic. [More…]
The family to which I referred, Mr and Mrs Green of Lock, is in a fairly awkward position because Mr Green does not enjoy good health. [More…]
He has made suggestions to overcome the problems of this family. [More…]
If the Green family were able to do some of the work- I have already said that due to sickness this is not possible- their commitment could have been reduced to about $1,000 over 3 years, which is an expenditure of approximately $300 a year. [More…]
We only have to look at Carrington ‘s private shipyard at Newcastle, owned by the Lavarack family, which builds small ships, does not attract the bounty and does not even have on-shore engineering works. [More…]
In Cairns, the North Queensland Engineering and Agency Co., another private show, run by the Fry family, has a shipyard about half a kilometre from a Chinese, Mr Hing who builds one ship a year about 100 feet long. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security advise the Senate whether family allowances are in some cases payable to Australian citizens who, together with their families, are temporarily overseas? [More…]
If they are payable, what are the circumstances in which persons remain eligible to receive a family allowance? [More…]
The question refers to the fact that a single parent will be made to pay the Medibank levy at the family rate. [More…]
As it is acknowledged that the single parent family faces greater financial difficulties already, will the Minister investigate this matter further to see whether a more equitable rate can be struck for the single parent in line with statements by the Minister for Social Security that special groups will be catered for under new Government legislation. [More…]
When introducing the National Health Amendment Bill 1976, 1 indicated to honourable senators that the cost of this hospital-only insurance for a person remaining in Medibank standard was estimated at $ 1 35 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…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
Will the Minister 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 Office? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that a number of amendments were made to the Act by the Family Law [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 Australia- the Bill provides that the fees are to be paid to the State. [More…]
At the request of Western Australia, the Bill will enable the Commonwealth Attorney-General to delegate his power of intervention in proceedings to the AttorneyGeneral of a State having a State Family Court. [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…]
I think that we often lose sight of the fact that the health scheme is part of a three-fold economic package including the family allowance and tax indexation. [More…]
Both of these latter measures will in the long term greatly assist the family man. [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…]
High Quality Health Care for You and Your Family. [More…]
-The family contribution for this accommodation is $2.60 a week and the single rate is $ 1 .30 a week. [More…]
The Labor Party decided that both husband and wife who work hard and save their money for their family and their home should both pay the levy. [More…]
We believe that there should be a combined income and that the combined income should have a ceiling of $300 for a family. [More…]
If I want my private doctor, my family doctor who has taken care of me, my wife and my children, my doctor who I am confident will be able to look after me when I am in hospital, I have that right. [More…]
I refer to the new family allowances. [More…]
I hope that I will not be imposing on your leniency, Mr President, by saying that since the introduction of the family allowances I have had the opportunity of seeing the difference this has meant to many families throughout my State of Queensland. [More…]
As a matter of fact I have seen the effects of it even on my own quite large family structure. [More…]
But it does appear that if a man chooses to pay the Medibank levy, the $300 family cover, his wife if working will have the $150 levy for a single person deducted from her - [More…]
The level of income at which the single parent- usually a single mother- will have to pay the levy is lower than the level of income at which a family with a dependent spouse will have to pay the levy, even though the single parent is likely to have a lower overall income and has a family to support, just as has the 2-parent family. [More…]
Another example of this is the operation of the family planning clinic. [More…]
Under the Labor system, because everybody was covered by Medibank, family planning services were able to be offered free, that is, without direct charge to the person seeking those services. [More…]
This was an extremely useful technique because a lot of people, particularly women, seeking family planning advice are without an income. [More…]
A lot of them are young girls who are seeking family planning advice without the knowledge of their parents and the family planning service was able to offer proper services without demanding fees. [More…]
The situation now for family planning services is that either they will have to require a cash payment, which many of the patients will not be able to provide, or they will need to know what sort of health insurance scheme the patient is insured with which will be a breach of confidentiality as far as some wives and daughters are concerned. [More…]
It was suggested that the introduction of tax indexation and family allowances would improve the living standards of people. [More…]
I should restate that the maximum contribution to Medibank Public is $300 a year for family cover. [More…]
Those with taxable incomes below that amount will pay less than $300 for a family in each year. [More…]
Even though they need to pay more for private insurance, people are prepared to take that cover as an alternative to the Medibank cover which would cost the family less. [More…]
The Treasurer stated that the schedules of the pay as you earn deductions released to the Press and published on 1 September last referred to this situation and stated that a husband whose pay is significantly more than $1 15 a week, the point at which the single rate of ceiling starts to apply, has an option to have the levy deducted at the family rate. [More…]
Where a working wife satisfies the Taxation Office that her husband has exercised the option and that his income is such that he will be liable to pay the full family levy at the end of the year, the Taxation Office will, on her application, authorise the wife ‘s employer not to make any deductions on account of a levy from her pay. [More…]
If one member of the couple takes out family private insurance, both of course are entitled to lodge an exemption claim with their respective employers and to have the levy component excluded from their pay as you earn deductions. [More…]
To be eligible for the sole parent rebate of $350 the single parent must have the sole care of a dependent child or children, that is, there must be at least 2 people in the family. [More…]
It follows for levy purposes that, just as the family ceiling rate of levy applies to a married person because there are two or more people in the family, so the ceiling levy for a sole parent is at the family rate. [More…]
As we understand it, this is consistent with private insurance practice and a sole parent, like a married person, for full cover with a registered private fund would have to take out insurance at the family rate. [More…]
Another matter raised relates to family planning services. [More…]
I want to assure the Senate that there will be no breach of confidentiality in respect of wives and daughters who seek family planning services. [More…]
It is hoped that the family planning organisations will bulk bill the funds. [More…]
Levy payers and those eligible for Medibank benefits will not be charged and the family planning organisations will receive health program grants. [More…]
These are the dependants of the family contributors. [More…]
In these non-billable cases, the Government will pay health program grants to cover the costs of the family planning clinics. [More…]
The guidelines for these services are at present being established and I believe that the confidentiality of the service that is given to persons within a family is protected by the arrangements that I am announcing. [More…]
But probably the worst result of all flowing from the Government’s action- and I base my claim on the Government’s figures produced after 20 May and the figures produced as a result of combining the effects of this action on tax indexation, the family allowance scheme and adding the Medibank levy- will be that the vast majority of wage earners who earn from $110 a week to $ 1 90 a week in this country will be out of pocket. [More…]
It has misled because it has told them with one voice that they will gain by tax indexation but with another voice it has said that they will gain from the new family allowance scheme. [More…]
But the Government is not telling them and did not tell them that the combined effect of the loss of the children ‘s rebate, which we accept along with the family allowances scheme, plus the Medibank levy in fact will put them out of pocket. [More…]
The Herald’s point is that if a man does not pay the health insurance levy his wife is denied her right to free Medibank insurance, because, as Mr Lynch admits, the rule is that, for exemption from levy to be available to anyone with a family, the family must be covered by private insurance.’ [More…]
I remind the Senate that health costs are considerable and that each Australian will see his or her family doctor on an average of about 40 times between birth and adulthood. [More…]
The effect of this would have been that every 2-income family in Australia would have paid the full levy no matter what total effect that had on the family earnings. [More…]
Mr Hawke would have had them paying to the sky with no remittance for a family rate. [More…]
Every 2-income family in Australia should ponder the fact that had Mr Hawke had his way their levy would have been higher. [More…]
The ceiling will help those Australians who have more than one income in the family. [More…]
Senator Walters interjected and said that there was no provision in the Labor Party’s legislation at that time for a ceiling such as we have now of $150 for a single person and $300 for a family. [More…]
The memorandum does state that a lone parent will pay the common levy of 2.5 per cent up to a maximum of $300, which is the same is a family unit will pay. [More…]
The lone parent is exempted from the Medibank levy if his or her taxable income is less than $3,790 a year; but the exemption from the levy for the family unit is a taxable income of under $4,299 a year. [More…]
The cheapest health care available today is the standard Medibank care which can be obtained for a maximum, I think, of $2.90 for a single taxpayer and $5.80 for a family unit. [More…]
I think we have proved that with the family allowances and other social welfare legislation which we have introduced. [More…]
Every 2-income family under the Hawke scheme would have paid more. [More…]
Every family in which the husband and wife both work would have been worse off than under our scheme which, of course, has a ceiling of $300. [More…]
A husband and wife who each have a taxable income are to be separately assessed for levy on their own taxable income but are to be entitled to share in the one family ceiling of $300. [More…]
The Government has taken very much the same action with family allowances. [More…]
If one examines the Budget Papers in relation to family allowances it is clear that about $700m extra will be spent on family allowances this year but, on the other hand, about $700m will be saved because dependent children will no longer be allowable as a tax deduction. [More…]
The first point was tax indexation, the second was the improvements in the family allowances, and the third was the introduction of a Medibank levy. [More…]
Senator Harradine was concerned as to why the family allowanceindexationlevy package was not introduced on the one day. [More…]
The improved system of family allowance started from 1 July to benefit people with families. [More…]
We felt that it was the consensus amount the majority of the members of the Senate when the family law legislation was passed that fees should not be imposed; that the whole question of costs should be put on the basis that each party should bear his or her own costs; and that it was desirable to remove as much as possible from the family law legislation any friction which might arise at the time of the dissolution of a marriage from the imposition of fees or the payment of costs or arguments about those matters between the parties. [More…]
We do not find that, in the context of the family law legislation, a very persuasive reason. [More…]
That has been a very real problem in the family law jurisdiction in a number of States. [More…]
There is also a provision giving the Commonwealth power to delegate the right of intervention of the Attorney-General to the Attorney-General of a particular State where there is a State family court established. [More…]
We have always taken the view that the least messy way to handle family law legislation is for the Commonwealth to ask the States to refer powers in matters associated with divorce such as the custody, maintenance and ancillary matters of those kinds to the Commonwealth. [More…]
There would not be problems that conceivably could arise by the creation of State family courts, different decisions about the meaning of the Act and even the principles of the Act given in various State courts and consequent confusion. [More…]
-This is the second Bill this year which seeks to amend the Family Law Act. [More…]
Suggestions have been made to the AttorneyGeneral that this fee should be imposed in some way by stamp and that it should not be something requiring the setting up of some financial organisation in the family courts at considerable expense. [More…]
Having in mind the facilities provided by the Family Court, a fee of $60 is not regarded as excessive. [More…]
In general it is necessary to have the family court operating in the best possible way, as I think this Bill provides. [More…]
There is the problem that one can no longer say that custody can entirely be dealt with in the Family Court. [More…]
There is a split between the Family Court and the State courts. [More…]
Despite all the facilities which are being provided by the Family Court I believe that there is a need for more courts and for more judges to go out into the country and provide services closer to home. [More…]
It goes on to say that this is an attempt to offset the high costs that are borne by the community in respect of family law proceedings. [More…]
The second reading speech states that in this year’s Budget a total of $9.5m has been provided for payment to private professions for legal aid and the approximately 80 per cent of this figure will represent payments for family law legal aid. [More…]
Either the community pays through taxation on the basis of capacity to pay or the people who utilise the family law proceedings for divorce have to pay on the basis of their capacity to pay. [More…]
The Government ought to have a good look at the operation of the Family Law Act to see how much of the tab the taxpayers of this country are picking up for those who wish to indulge themselves in respect of this matter. [More…]
in reply- I am pleased that the Senate is supporting all the provisions of this Bill except for the one which enables fees to be levied by regulation in the Family Courts. [More…]
The position is that the Family Courts this year will cost $1 lm. [More…]
I think it is quite proper that the increased cost of legal aid- particularly the increased amount in this year’s Budget for legal aid- should be taken into account when dealing with this question of the imposition of a fee for the Family Court. [More…]
The only other matter to which I think I should refer is the suggestion as to how the Government should cope with some of the problems which have been presented by the recent decision of the High Court which has reduced the jurisdiction of the Family Court in certain significant matters. [More…]
It is the Government’s hope that the States which, unlike Western Australia, have not set up their own State Family Courts will be prepared to do so. [More…]
We are impressed with the way in which the Family Court of Western Australia is operating. [More…]
It was a court that was in contemplation by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs which made recommendations on Family Courts to this Senate which ultimately were incorporated in the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Generally speaking, we believe as a government that it would be far better and far more consistent- with our notions of federalism- if the States were to set up their own Family Courts on the overall terms laid down in the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Opposition rejects the tying of the fee concept in the Family Court to the financing of legal aid for the reasons given by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Durack) in his second reading speech. [More…]
In fact, 80 per cent of the provision for legal aid is being spent on family law matters. [More…]
It is simply another reason advanced for the need to receive some contribution from those people who are litigating in the Family Court. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [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 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…]
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…]
Are my two sons being held hostage for George Fernandes whose whereabouts or condition my entire family is totally unaware of? [More…]
Is it morally right that my family should be so harrassed and tormented for the political views held by my son George Fernandes’ [More…]
Whatever I have stated here is on the basis of what the family could gather from Lawrence during the visits to him in the cell. [More…]
I also urge that he should be transferred to a good hospital and specialist medical and psychatric treatment be given to him and daily visits to him by the family allowed so that he may regain his mental and physical health and become a human being. [More…]
That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that urgent consideration be given to a favourable decision on the continuation of Federal Government finance to enable the activities of the Family Planning Associations and like organisations to proceed unimpaired throughout Australia. [More…]
I refer to the recent remarks of the South Australian Attorney-General, Mr Duncan, to the effect that the delay in hearing maintenance applications in South Australian courts is the fault of the Federal Government because it has not allowed these applications to be heard in the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Has Mr Duncan raised this matter with the Minister and/or officers of the Family Court? [More…]
Would not the provision of the facility of the Family Court for these hearings increase the backlog of other divorce matters before that Court? [More…]
He has apparently alleged that the Federal Attorney-General has refused to agree to these applications being heard by the Federal Family Court in South Australia. [More…]
The Family Court of Australia continually hears applications for maintenance in South Australia, as it does in all States in which it operates. [More…]
It does not do so, of course, in Western Australia because that State has its own State Family Court. [More…]
As I have said, the Family Court of Australia is hearing many applications in South Australia. [More…]
I remind the Senate that there is concurrent jurisdiction under the Family Law Act for the Family Court of Australia and the ordinary State magistrates’ courts. [More…]
I am informed that the delay in the hearing of applications in the Family Court in South Australia- that is, the Federal Court- is 6 weeks, but, of course, urgent cases would be heard much sooner. [More…]
In another search for cents, the maximum adjusted family income which attracts the full allowance will be increased by only $600 to $8,200 a year, again despite high inflation. [More…]
In the case of the secondary allowance scheme to assist families to keep children at high school the maximum allowance has been increased by only $100 whilst the maximum family income to attract the full allowance has been increased from $4,300 to only $5, 1 50. [More…]
Two per cent of all family heads in Australia are unemployed. [More…]
For 2 families in every 100 the state of affairs is disastrous because the breadwinner is not able to earn the weekly income needed to sustain the family. [More…]
The other important new initiative by the Government in this area is the increase in family allowances. [More…]
Such a practice would reinforce employer attempts to make the dual income the norm and would make it much harder for the family wage earner to make ends meet. [More…]
He did not say to the Dunlop workers or to the workers in the rubber industry in New South Wales: ‘You must uproot your family and move to Victoria’. [More…]
It is not always possible in the crossfire to get a point across but I say sincerely that quite a lot of husbands and wives, probably with family co-operation, decide that both of them will work so that by the age of forty they will have paid off a home, unlike the parents of a lot of us who had not paid off their homes before they were in their late fifties. [More…]
We have introduced the family allowances scheme this year- a significant and important reform. [More…]
It was of some interest to me that at the recent census the question had been raised as to whether there was an intrusion on the privacy of an individual in being asked whether he or a member of his family suffered any handicap. [More…]
Restoration of the income tax rebates to divorced men who are paying maintenance for their children would result in the Government paying double assistance in respect of the children, as the mothers would also be in receipt of enhanced family allowances. [More…]
There is, of course, a fundamental difference, and that is that it is recognised in the first place that some dependence is accepted by the family. [More…]
It substantially upgraded the rate so that the student, in his or her position in the family, now attracts a substantially greater student allowance. [More…]
The Aboriginal people live in an extended family situation, and their right to do that should not be taken away from them. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death, this day, of Senator the Honourable Ivor John Greenwood, Q.C, Senator for the State of Victoria from 1 968, a Minister of the Crown from 1971 to 1972 and from 1975 to 1976, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1972 to 1975, 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…]
It is a tragedy for all of us but particularly for his family. [More…]
I would like also to be associated with the condolences to Mrs Greenwood and the members of Senator Greenwood ‘s family. [More…]
The notable thing is that as I have been moving around Australia during the past months I have been asked about him by people at meetings I have attended-people who might not have known him personally but people who said that their prayers were with him and his family. [More…]
His personal life was based, I think, fundamentally on the fact that he came from a very fine family. [More…]
They and other members of his family helped to make him the man he was in the community and the man he was in politics. [More…]
I wish also to express my deepest and loving sympathy to his wife, Lola, his children and to his other family, including his mother. [More…]
I extend my sympathy to his wife and family. [More…]
I express my sympathy and join with the expressions of sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
I would like the Senate and his family to know that in the last three or four months, when going around my State, many people asked about Senator Greenwood’s health. [More…]
Mrs Greenwood and her family shared and are now sharing in a very real sense that spirit of dedication and self-sacrifice. [More…]
Is it a fact that delays in the hearings of applications by the Family Courts are increasing and that the number of unheard applications is increasing in Melbourne at the rate of approximately 60 a month? [More…]
Is the same situation developing in other Family Courts? [More…]
What is the Government proposing to do by way of further appointments to the Family Court of Australia to alleviate this situation? [More…]
As the Senate would know, the Attorney-General is negotiating with the State governments which have not established their own State Family Courts, as has the State of Western Australia, to ascertain whether they would at this stage be prepared to establish such courts. [More…]
I think that while those negotiations are going on there may be some question about the desirability of appointing additional judges to the Federal Family Court. [More…]
In those cases where that situation occurs with a student 16 years of age or older, will that student’s family allowance continue to be paid until the school leaver becomes eligible for the unemployment benefit? [More…]
The family allowance continues for the children in a family while those children are dependent children. [More…]
It is not necessary for them to be attending school, because the family allowance continues to be paid for student children until they are 25 years of age. [More…]
The family allowance would continue to be paid in the case of a 16-year old dependent child. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Can he say why it is that in the case of divorced parents, where the father is paying maintenance to his exwife and contributing towards the upkeep of the children of the marriage who are in the mother’s custody, the father is obliged under the law to pay the family rate Medibank levy whilst the exwife, if she is in receipt of an income above a certain level, has also to pay the family rate levy? [More…]
This, in effect, is forcing people in the circumstances I have stated to pay double the amount of levy they would otherwise be expected to pay if they were not divorced and were still living together as a family unit. [More…]
Those counted as ‘dependent children’ comprised all family members under 1 5 years of age and all family members aged 15-20 who were fulltime students. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Attorney-General aware of an increasing backlog of cases before the Family Court in Tasmania and that cases now being registered at the Court cannot be listed for hearing before January or February next year? [More…]
Has the Attorney-General considered the appointment of a second Family Court judge for Tasmania? [More…]
I appreciate that there is only one Family Court judge in Tasmania and no doubt that would cause some special problems in that State. [More…]
In view of the desirability of preserving and fostering contacts between families overseas and their relatives here, some of whom they have never seen, such as young people born in this country, could there not be a relaxation of this requirement, which adds considerably to the costs of these presents and is damaging to the preservation of family contacts which are so important to these people? [More…]
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…]
I recently met a family from the United States which had every right to dispute their country’s policy on Vietnam. [More…]
Last week Senator Wriedt and Senator Missen asked me questions concerning delays in the establishment of the Family Court. [More…]
In particular, Senator Wriedt asked me a question concerning a problem in relation to the Family Court in Tasmania. [More…]
I have done so and he has authorised me to inform the Senate that it is his intention to appoint an additional judge of the Family Court based in Victoria. [More…]
He further informs me that in view of the situation in Tasmania, where there is only one judge of the Family Court resident in Tasmania, it has been the practice where there is a bank-up of unheard cases to send one of the judges in Victoria on circuit to Tasmania. [More…]
One of the major actions taken by this Government has been to put into operation the Family Law Act and to establish the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
The point I was making was that this Government put into operation the Family Law Act. [More…]
His exemplary family life and challenge to Queenslanders to maintain health of mind and morals- [More…]
His love of God and family, the Crown and the Constitution, his concern for the people of Queensland and Australia- [More…]
Reference was made by Opposition speakers to the Family Law Bill as being a measure of the previous Government. [More…]
This is to establish under a means test whether a student is genuinely independent or whether he is sub rosa being supported by his family and therefore should not be supported by the taxpayer. [More…]
I think this is another matter of concern to all of us who wish to see that women are able to exercise their own choice in the way in which they determine their own lives consistent with their family responsibilities. [More…]
Not so long ago we were told Darra mining company was going to move into our small town and start mining and we believe it will be a tragic end to a dream my husband and I both have shared and worked all our lives to achieve something for our family. [More…]
In fact I am the third generation of the Brady family to live here. [More…]
Why should my family and myself be told by two people making an ‘environmental study’ for Darra tell us, in our own home, that we ‘took the land from the blacks’ and were given to understand that it was therefore OK for a company to take it from us. [More…]
One case which is a particularly disgraceful one concerns a family of two brothers, one of whom is a dwarf. [More…]
These people appreciate and enjoy the family life, the country living and this is not possible in the towns where families are split up each day for work reasons. [More…]
My name is Willie Adams and I was on Palm Island on the 30th June 1 945.I left the Island when I was about 4 years old with my family and we went to live in Woorabinda Mission. [More…]
I left the Island when I was about 10 years old and I went to Mackay with the rest.of my family. [More…]
The reason why we left was because my family were kicked off in 1957 after we had some trouble there and a few other families were also put off the Island. [More…]
Our family went to Mackay. [More…]
I was born and bred on Palm Island and I was a small child when I left with my family. [More…]
For instance, when the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty made recommendations concerning family allowances it equally as firmly recommended the provision of further proper child care services. [More…]
Arguments have been put, I know, that the new family allowance scheme somehow makes it unnecessary to increase dependent childrens allowances. [More…]
The argument suggests that the family allowances make everything all right. [More…]
We know that the new family allowances scheme which we did not oppose does help people in this situation. [More…]
This year we have introduced family allowances, which the Labor Party was reluctant enough to acknowledge. [More…]
The full implications of the family allowance scheme, the income test and the automatic adjustment of pensions will make a major difference. [More…]
We understood the need for family support. [More…]
I can only conclude with what we have always known to be true, namely, that from the days of Alfred Deakin to the time of the introduction of family allowances, it has always been the Liberal Party which has introduced the major initiatives, that most major welfare benefits in this country have come from our side of politics and will continue to do so. [More…]
It is all very well to say that they have one income in the family. [More…]
They have accepted cuts in expenditure on family planning. [More…]
They had done very little about family planning before and are not, under the influence of groups such as the Womens Action Alliance, likely to do anything about family planning in the future. [More…]
Another amendment in this Bill relates to family allowances. [More…]
Now the mother in that family gets the full advantage. [More…]
They will benefit greatly from the family allowances. [More…]
It is the sort of organisation which has written on its walls, ‘Lesbianism is beautiful’, and ‘The family is woman’s bondage’. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that the Family Planning Association in Western Australia is in danger of closing because the Federal Government will not renew annual grants. [More…]
and (2) I make it clear to Senator Coleman that the Federal Government did not state that it would cease to provide financial assistance to the family planning associations. [More…]
My Department undertook a comprehensive examination of both the family planning program (which provides funds for non-clinical expenditure) and the health program grant (which provides funds for clinical expenditure). [More…]
The Government will continue to provide adequate financial assistance to the family planning associations. [More…]
An amount of $750,000 has been included in my Department’s 1976-77 budget under the family planning program for research and educational programs, for support of the two national family planning organisations and for support of the non-clinical activities of the family planning associations. [More…]
From 1 October 1976 the family planning associations will continue to receive health program grants on the basis of a deficit funding of clinical services after allowing for medical benefits and other related revenue received until 30 June 1977. [More…]
Each Association will be charging a fee-for-service for scheduled services for those patients who are privately insured, except where recourse to fund benefit is not possible because the clients are ‘unbillable’ through reluctance to utilise family cover etc. [More…]
Reports in Western Australia that the Government would not renew financial assistance to the family planning association are therefore inaccurate. [More…]
family be required to depart. [More…]
On 26 May, without having received any representations from a member of Parliament, the Minister made a decision to allow a family to stay in Australia. [More…]
Before the Family Law Act came into operation the Australian Legal Aid Office was referring almost 3500 people each month to private practitioners for legal aid under the scheme, and it was expected that the new Act would more than double the demand for the services, which of course it did. [More…]
There is another development in the area of legal aid to which the Government has not given proper recognition in its allocation, and that is the implementation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
When the Labor Government set up the Australian Legal Aid Office the Family Law Act had not been passed and people were not coming to the Legal Aid Office to seek assistance under that Act. [More…]
The Family Law Act has now been passed and people are seeking assistance under that Act from the Australian Legal Aid Office to such an extent that now the majority of the funds allocated for legal aid is being used on family law cases. [More…]
In South Australia 80 per cent of legal aid funds are now going for Family Law Act cases. [More…]
In New South Wales 70 per cent of legal aid funds are now going for Family Law Act cases. [More…]
I do not wish these remarks to sound as though I am in any way critical of the fact that people can now have access to low cost or free legal advice and assistance under the Family Law Act. [More…]
But whereas the Labor Government would have anticipated the increased demands on the Australian legal aid office services through the Family Law Act, the present Government has made no such recognition and has not allocated funds accordingly. [More…]
The Government has ignored the special needs arising from the passage of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Any housewife can tell honourable senators opposite, if they will listen, the position when she went about trying to keep her family. [More…]
But in fact the drift was much more than that because 2302 votes went to the Family Action Movement, 474 went to the Democratic Labor Party and 233 went to the Workers Party. [More…]
A certain family arrived in Australia from Italy in 1937. [More…]
Two more children were bom to that family in Australia during the war years. [More…]
He and his family then have to be sustained from the public purse anyway. [More…]
One man with 8 children in his family went in to the powder magazine. [More…]
This is where my family grew up. [More…]
One low income family with 6 children had a rent increase from $19.40 a week to $29.40 a week. [More…]
So we have a very low income family with a lot of children which is faced with a 50 per cent increase in rent. [More…]
Another low income family earning $126 a week with an unemployed husband has had its rent increased from $16.20 to $32 a week- nearly a 100 per cent increase. [More…]
Nevertheless, they have told me that they intend to send me evidence of particular cases in which they think that because of family circumstances an ex-serviceman should have been admitted by the medical officer immediately, as was the case formerly. [More…]
Are the refugees family groups or single persons? [More…]
For benefits of up to $76 a day in a private hospital, which will cover accommodation charges in most private hospitals, the additional premium costs with Medibank Private are 80c a week for a single person or $ 1 .60 a week for a 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…]
As many honourable senators would know, there are some ethnic groups in which the women of the family are not allowed to go out to classes. [More…]
She goes on to advise Medibank levy payers to take out intermediate hospital cover with Medibank Private and assures them that it will cost them only $135 a year for family cover and $67 a year for single cover. [More…]
He does not know my family. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Attorney-General been drawn to a Press report concerning delays in the hearing of applications under the Family Law Act in Victoria? [More…]
The Family Court judges in Melbourne are certainly faced with a very heavy volume of work. [More…]
The Attorney has already indicated- I think I have already said this in the Senate on his behalf- that he is considering the appointment of further judges to the Family Court in Melbourne. [More…]
The accommodation which was arranged by the previous Government for the Family Court in Melbourne provided space for only 6 judges. [More…]
We all know that there are those within the Australian community who say that there should be 2 incomes in a family in order to overcome the shortage of funds in that regard. [More…]
In the public sector housing insufficient priority is given to the old, the large family groups, the low income groups and the desertees- those who are unable to cope. [More…]
It then goes on to talk about State guarantees of loans, the encouragement of cooperative housing societies, repayments being geared to incomes, the deposit home scheme and the reduction of weekly payments, geared to income and family commitments, exempting couples from stamp duty on their first home, and so on. [More…]
The breadwinner of the family could buy a home without requiring the assistance of a second wage. [More…]
My name is Luis A. Coronado, Chilean, married, three children, 29 years old, anthropologist-rural sociologist, living in Honduras for a period of 14 months, We came to Honduras hired by a private agency, and we though that in this country we could work and we could give our family a certain tranquility, but after a while we realized that this goal was impossible to achieve. [More…]
The consequences of our political activities have been quite dangerous for us and for part of my family: after the coup d’etat happened a warrant for my arrest was issued. [More…]
One of those shares was, ironically and oddly enough, held by the Premier of Western Australia in his family company. [More…]
Yet with that $2 share he was able to exercise complete control over the assets and income of that family company and to appropriate, if he chose to do so, the entire assets and income of that company for himself. [More…]
I imagine it is purely coincidental that this provision happens to provide precisely for the sort of business arrangement which Sir Charles has worked out for his own family company and, no doubt, for many of his friends. [More…]
They have to sell the family home to pay probate, estate or succession duties, call them what you will. [More…]
I remember, when returning from a visit to some of the fruit growing areas during the last winter recess, drawing my family’s attention to the fact that farmers were not even bothering to remove the fruit from the trees when families were paying 10c, 12c or 14c each for apples and pears. [More…]
We do not like to see a man lose his property but it is fairly obvious that in some areas, particularly in the Centre, some properties will have to combine so that one family can have a decent living and others can be given assistance with retraining and support to help them move elsewhere. [More…]
The allowance is described as a series of regular, periodic payments made directly to a family or eligible individual unable to afford a decent home in a suitable living environment. [More…]
The amount which will be paid will be determined on family need- I assume that that is family size and family income- in relation to the cost of a standard existing house or flat in a modest neighbourhood. [More…]
The professed aim of the scheme is for the family to be allowed to choose its house or flat, for the family to be given assistance by the Government and for the Government to have a secondary or what is called an enabling role. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Australian Parliament do everything in its power to persuade the Government of Yugoslavia to free this honest man and return to his family in Australia. [More…]
As the normal waiting period for the assessment of special benefit is some weeks, will she advise the young people who need a sustainable family or personal income to register now and submit their circumstances to the Director-General for a quick decision? [More…]
I think Senator Lajovic would have a shrewd idea of the family about which I am talking. [More…]
-My question to the Minister for Social Security relates to the family allowances paid to mothers and the whole range of benefits for dependent children paid to pensioners, supporting mothers or recipients of unemployment and sickness benefits. [More…]
Family allowances are paid in respect of dependent children. [More…]
Whilst a student is a dependent student or is a student child the family allowance is payable to the mother or in some cases to the father if he is the person who has custody, care and control of the child. [More…]
Imagine the person with a young family and all the associated expenses who cannot get into a house of his own or a house that he is going to pay off, and therefore has to pay for rented accommodation. [More…]
If he has to pay for rented accommodation his outlays with all the other outlays for his family are very high and he is going to be hard pressed to save at all. [More…]
-During question time yesterday Senator Donald Cameron asked me a question about family allowances. [More…]
He asked whether family allowances and additional pensions and benefits for student children ceased when a student left school. [More…]
The response is that family allowance payments to school leavers who are not permanently employed will be continued during the school vacation and there is therefore no inconsistency with the Government policy not to regard school leavers as unemployed for unemployment benefit purposes until the end of the school vacation. [More…]
But in view of the practice adopted in relation to family allowances, payment of additional pension and additional benefit in respect of school leavers will now be continued until they commence permanent employment or become eligible for payment of unemployment benefit. [More…]
What has been happening up to now is that when a son wishes to build a home on the family farm he has to survey a block of an acre or one and a half acres. [More…]
I suggest that the legislation is designed primarily to assist in the fatherson situation on a family property. [More…]
It is a family allowance. [More…]
There is one house that has electricity and a water supply and it is occupied by a white family. [More…]
He then started bringing other things into the conversation like throwing off at the Barry family and I also started doing the same thing. [More…]
The sort of matters to which I am referring include the Racial Discrimination Bill, the Administrative Appeals Bill, the Family Law Bill and the Ombudsman Bill, which we dealt with just a few days ago. [More…]
I refer to a decision of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, of which I was advised by letter dated 25 May 1976, that Mr G. O. Stewart and his family could enter Australia as permanent residents. [More…]
There is also the type of Aboriginal who receives welfare housing because of his family income or the lack of opportunities making it impossible for him to pay rent. [More…]
Some other attitude has to be taken in respect of that class of Aboriginal family. [More…]
Has the Department of Aboriginal Affairs investigated the claims made by the Campbell family in September 1976 that it owns Huskisson, a town south of Nowra in New South Wales, because they are the direct descendants of the Duke of Argyll -who originally owned the land. [More…]
His question was related to family allowances and the additional pension and additional benefit for student children. [More…]
I subsequently answered his question by saying that family allowance payments to school leavers who are not permanently employed will be continued during the school vacation. [More…]
I informed him that it was not formerly the practice to make a payment of additional pension or benefit to a child over the age of 16 years who has left school, but in view of the practice that we have now adopted in regard to family allowances, we will in future ensure that the payment of the additional pension and the additional benefit in respect of school leavers will be continued until they commence permanent employment or become eligible to receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Following the inquiry made by Senator Donald Cameron this matter was investigated because it could have caused an inconsistency between our treatment of the payment of family allowances and dependant allowances. [More…]
The next telegram was sent by the Bertossi family of Dunwich in Queensland, and it reads: [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 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 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…]
Can the traditional family farm survive? [More…]
It is all very well for Senator Wright to poohpooh and carry on but he is not concerned about the future of the dairy industry if he is still thinking in terms of the traditional family farm. [More…]
If he knew anything about the industry he would know that the family farm is a dying institution and that if farmers are to survive, particularly those in the dairy industry, some other pattern must be evolved. [More…]
That means that we have kindergarten programs, so called family comedies, educational programs put forward by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and some other little programs designated as ‘education for children’ programs. [More…]
From them all we have cartoons for an hour at a time; we have family comedies- I am not sure whether honourable senators opposite watch television but McHale’s Navy and Gilligan’s Island, both of which must be 4200 years old, are the sorts of programs that go into that family viewing time- we have half an hour of documentary, with a question mark, and a half hour deemed children’s educational programs’. [More…]
These measures include: the automatic adjustment of pensions for inflation; the family allowance scheme; and full personal income tax indexation. [More…]
These measures include: the automatic adjustment of pensions for inflation, the family allowance scheme, and full personal income tax indexation. [More…]
In a number of decisions, such as the introduction of family allowances, full personal tax indexation, the investment allowance, and the allocation of moneys to Aboriginal and welfare programs, the Government has moved to help the sectors of the community hit hardest by inflation, and to encourage activity. [More…]
If inflation had been the only priority then there would have been no family allowances, no indexation, and no increases in money for social programs. [More…]
In May, a package of fiscal policy decisions was introduced- tax indexation, $2, 600m savings to forward estimates, family allowances. [More…]
As the crisis on the land had deepend we have seen the farmer and his family turn to off-farm sources of income in an endeavour to stay on their properties. [More…]
This is a new and very worthwhile provision which, in the terms of the agreement, will 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 they decide whether to adjust out of farming. [More…]
The test of eligibility in this case, as provided by the agreement, is that the applicant must be assessed as nonviable in the long term, must be unable to obtain financial assistance from any normal source, as I mentioned earlier, and will suffer personal or family hardship. [More…]
The immigration program operates on a global basis and Australia’s involvement at the present time is limited to the normal family reunion or occupational criteria. [More…]
Arrangements were recently made to interview in Portugal some 205 persons who are believed to have immediate family in Australia. [More…]
family allowances (child endowment); [More…]
Numbers given for persons accompanying Ministers are in respect of family and personal staff only. [More…]
It concerns a matter which I think is of growing concern to every family in the community and which I believe has special relevance to the Tasmanian consumer. [More…]
Can the Minister give any reason for the fact that, despite freight subsidies, commodity price equalisation and the tight wage restraints and other forms of restraint that are now being applied, the prices of groceries and a whole range of other essential domestic commodities continue to rise week by week in such a way as to make family budgeting impossible? [More…]
It includes a Head of State and any member of a collegial body performing the functions of a Head of State under the Constitution of the State concerned, a Head of Government or a Minister for Foreign Affairs whenever any such person is in a foreign State, as well as members of his family who accompany him. [More…]
The method of funding family groups at Papunya is based on per capita calculations designed to ensure equitable distribution of funds. [More…]
It is equally true that I am under strong family instructions to get the 50c piece which has been struck for the Queen’s visit, for my grandchildren, otherwise there will be a divorce. [More…]
It is not unusual for families to find when they arrive at Derby that there is room on the aircraft, which is under charier to the company, for the husband but not for the wife and family. [More…]
But the wife and family may need to stay an extra day in Derby while the husband is returned to work because he is required on duty. [More…]
It involves social, family and community factors as well as economic factors and we are looking into them. [More…]
This includes 7 on the High Court, 19 on the Federal Court of Australia and 27 on the Family Court of Australia [More…]
When the Family Law Bill was passing through Parliament in 1975 the view was taken that Family Court Judges should be required to retire on attaining the age of sixty-five years. [More…]
Provisions were in fact included in the Bill 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…]
On occasions of visits by the Royal Family and heads of state it has always been the practice to have an officer of the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority stationed in the building, but this would not have averted the problem which occurred last Thursday night. [More…]
Do Aboriginal and Islander women living on reserves in Queensland not receive family allowance. [More…]
Aboriginal and Islander women living on reserves in Queensland are entitled to receive family allowance payments under the same conditions as all other women with children. [More…]
If the honourable senator is aware of instances where Aboriginal and Islander women living on reserves in Queensland entitled to family allowances are not receiving their correct entitlement, I would be grateful if he would inform the Director of Social Services for Queensland or myself of the details so that further consideration may be given to their case. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 3 March 1977 of Hartley Gordon James Cant, a former senator for the State of Western Australia from 1959 to 1974, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
All I can do is extend to his family on behalf of my colleagues our deepest and most sincere sympathy at their very great loss. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I would like to associate the ALP with the remarks of Senator Withers and express our sorrow and great sympathy to the members of Harry Cant’s family. [More…]
But worse, not only is the sum of $169 an average but also, in many cases, it is a family wage. [More…]
It has always been my belief that the maintenance of the family as a basic unit of society is essential to our way of life in our Australian democracy. [More…]
The happy family life of Her Majesty the Queen affords us an opportunity of restating those sentiments. [More…]
However, in Australia today there are ominous signs that we are moving or that we have already moved to a serious situation in the breakdown of the family as a unit in society. [More…]
I stress these things because, without appearing sanctimonious, I point out that from the biblical days of Sodom and Gomorrah history is strewn with the wrecks of civilisations which failed to recognise the fundamental necessity for selfdiscipline in matters which touch on the sanctity of the family and on the maintenance of the family as a unit in society. [More…]
Although precise figures are not yet available it has been stated that following the proclamation of the Family Law Act Australia can expect a divorce rate of some 60 000 a year. [More…]
So if we accept the 1975 figures for marriages celebrated we are looking at a figure of up to 50 per cent of those marriages which are celebrated in Australia being dissolved by the Family Court, in many cases a short time after they have been celebrated. [More…]
These figures indicate that the family as a unit in society may well be on the way to complete disintegration. [More…]
A straw sample of parents, which bears no relationship to the number of children a family, shows that in a number of working families no arrangements were made for the care of 43 700 children; 53 200 children were left in the care of friends and relatives while other arrangements were made for 13 500 children. [More…]
The statistics which I have quoted in some detail are all the more alarming when we look at them in terms of preserving the family unit as basic to the welfare of our democracy. [More…]
A great deal of juvenile crime, drug addiction and criminality generally can be traced to the almost physical disintegration of the family as a functioning social mechanism. [More…]
Indeed, in the current climate of unemployment one would think that women with family responsibilities should be discouraged from entering the work force unless doing so is a matter of economic necessity. [More…]
Some more positive steps could be expected from government by way of allowances to a family where the wife and mother is not engaged in outside employment but is totally absorbed in her duties in the home. [More…]
The extension of government activity into the social services field has been precipitated by the breakdown in family life and by the increasing necessity to provide social service amenities for the products of broken homes. [More…]
This should alert the Government to contrast the increasing costs in this area with its financial commitment to those fortunate children and parents who have the advantage of a contented and happy family background, which fortunately is still the case in the majority of families in Australia, and who do not cost the Government one cent apart from the universal family allowance payment. [More…]
I acknowledge the great step forward by our Government in providing the family allowance which help families in the lower income group who previously, because their incomes were so low and families so large, did not get the benefit of taxation deductions. [More…]
The family allowance is a definite step in the right direction. [More…]
I now urge it to investigate the payment of an allowance to the woman who chooses to devote all of her time to her vocation of wife and mother, particularly in cases where the family is in straitened economic circumstances. [More…]
When a man is genuinely unemployed and has a family to support, I believe that he is entitled to social security benefits. [More…]
I recall that a young man I know very well from a family I know very well applied for a job as a labourer. [More…]
The first was the family allowance scheme which was introduced last year and which we did not oppose. [More…]
Perhaps my final comment should be that one of the big difficulties has been that in Aboriginal families, including the extended family, there is no study orientation to impel the child from the home to school. [More…]
In regard to people who elect to be unemployed, it is much more beneficial to society to have such people unemployed than to have them employed in industry and taking the place, perhaps, of an individual or of a married man with family responsibilities who does not wish to be unemployed. [More…]
Has he ever seen a person who has been unemployed look throughout the day for a job and at the end of that day not only have to queue up for a meal but take his family as well so that they can have a decent meal? [More…]
The constitutional monarch in the Australian context stands as a symbol of unity and as a symbol of the strength of a family. [More…]
As Senator Tehan and others have said in this debate, the family unit is, hopefully, still the basic unit of the Australian society. [More…]
I indicated that in my view the development of marketing corporations of massive capacity was one move which would see the survival and growth of the family farm, the small unit and the small business in Australia. [More…]
It is important to recall that some 96 per cent of primary industry in Australia is in the hands of family and small company operations. [More…]
As I said earlier, this matter concerns mainly the family units. [More…]
In fact, 96 per cent of Australian primary industry is conducted by the family unit or is a family operation. [More…]
The abolition of estate duty and the establishment of marketing corporations are significant and necessary prerequisites for the continuing development of primary industry, the family farm and the small business operation in Australia. [More…]
My National Country Party colleagues join me in extending sympathy to Mrs Armstrong and her family. [More…]
My sympathy is extended to his widow, Joan, and to all members of the Armstrong family. [More…]
I knew him closely in his family life. [More…]
I knew his wife’s family. [More…]
I knew him and his wife when they were first married and I saw their little family come along. [More…]
To his wife Joan and to his family I offer my very deepest sympathy in the great loss they have sustained. [More…]
The reply I received from that woman was symbolic of the attitude of the Armstrong family. [More…]
The debate was on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
When the Family Law Bill was being debated in the other chamber I was driving my car in Melbourne. [More…]
He spoke of the decline in the income of the man on the land, the decline in his living standards and his need to be assured that there is a future on the land for him and his family and that they can plan with confidence for that future. [More…]
This benefit was increased to realistic proportions only last year by this Government with the introduction of the family allowance scheme which was designed particularly to help low income families, large families and the families of the unemployed. [More…]
This was a great step forward in providing support for the family unit. [More…]
There were no age or invalid pensions and no family allowance benefits. [More…]
This philosophy may be all very well when it is applied to the wealthy but when it is applied to the thrifty, to the family which has gone without over the years, to the family which has provided for its own home, for better opportunities for the children, for retirement and generally for their priorities, and when 50 per cent of the interest their savings earn is taken in income tax, there is no justification for supporting those who will not work or the spendthrifts who live for the day with no thought of their responsibilities for tomorrow. [More…]
The new family allowance scheme places in every mothers hands an allowance to spend as she thinks is best for the welfare of her family. [More…]
We have introduced a family allowance scheme which, one would gather, Senator McAuliffe does not support or approve but of which we are very proud as it is one of the most radical and necessary social welfare initiatives introduced in this country in a quarter of a century. [More…]
where the occasional honours and glories, which may be rich, are often bought at the cost of painful sacrifice: sacrifice of leisure, sacrifice of family life (attested by the growing toll of broken Westminister marriages), and finally- too often- sacrifice of health and strength. [More…]
He referred to the abuse of drugs, abuse of alcohol, family breakdown, delinquency problems and the high suicide rates. [More…]
Senator Durack probably has not faced the problem in his family. [More…]
In referring to the monarchy, it is interesting to note that the strains put on the position of Governor-General by the matters that led up to the dismissal of the Government in 1975 have so made that office one which can be put under great political pressure as to make it completely untenable in the future for a member of the Royal family. [More…]
The list of accomplishments from personal tax indexation to family payments to Aboriginal land rights, referred to in the excellent speech that Senator Baume gave to the Senate, stands as a tremendous record accumulated in a very short time in office. [More…]
No questions are asked of the penalised person- whether the employer provoked the departure, whether it was for family reasons or any other legitimate basis. [More…]
She is dedicated as a Monarch and as a family person. [More…]
Senator Tehan gave us a very sensible approach to the problems of the family today. [More…]
Hand in hand with this problem, this crisis which is coming forward, this breakdown in the family which Senator Tehan has outlined, is a new cult which is developing in Australia. [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 man who stays at home all day on unemployment benefits, even with a wife and family but with the odd moonlighting job round the corner, may be better off than the man who goes to work every day. [More…]
On the last figures that I have been able to obtain, there were approximately 3 800 000 working family units in Australia and over 2 million of them were 2-income families. [More…]
The changing roles of men and women in our society make it less unthinkable than it once was for a man to contemplate trying to bring up a family on his own. [More…]
Recently there has been much more discussion about fathers who have to bring up a young family on their own. [More…]
They put it away to provide for their family. [More…]
Senator Walters again got on to the subject of family allowances and the question of putting money into the hands of women. [More…]
The new family allowance scheme places in every mother’s hand an allowance to spend as she thinks is best for the welfare of her family. [More…]
If a family does not have enough money to go around, it does not matter in whose hands the money is; the family cannot buy the goods and services it needs and the family cannot be looked after properly. [More…]
Anyone who believes in family life believes that 2 people work as a team. [More…]
Under the previous Government the husband of a family with 2 children received $8.70 tax rebate and $1.50 child endowment, which adds up to $10.20 a week. [More…]
Under this Government’s scheme such a family receives no tax rebate and receives a family allowance of $8.50 which, from what I learned when I went to school even though I did not learn new mathematics, is less than $10.20 a week. [More…]
A family with 4 children under the previous Government received $17.40 tax rebate and $5.75 child endowment, which adds up to $23.15 a week. [More…]
Under the new scheme of family allowances the family gets $20.50 a week which is less. [More…]
All the Government has really done is divide a real family into two. [More…]
He forgot to realise that as the Family Law Act came in there was bound to be a backlog of divorces to handle. [More…]
It is outside their life style to register, because they do not get unemployment benefits even though the family depends very much on the money they bring in. [More…]
Although Senators Kilgariff and Harradine were busy complaining about abortion lessening the number of people we have in this country to protect us, I was amazed that they and Senator Walters did not raise the matter of family planning centres. [More…]
We had petition after petition in this place asking the Government to fund family planning centres, to close the stable door before the horse got out, if that is a suitable metaphor, which I doubt. [More…]
There was no money for family planning centres. [More…]
If I may read some of the relevant figures, the centre opened on 6 December 1976 and up to 27 February 1977 it had given contraceptive advice to 230 people and pregnancy counselling to 62 people, leaflets were taken by 120 people, family planning appointments were made for 181 people, adolescent counselling was given to 77 people and parent counselling was given to 43 people. [More…]
I think a great deal of needless anxiety is caused by those who speculate on programs, as people did about this time last year with regard to child endowment which was replaced by the family allowances scheme and as people did a week or two ago with regard to the indexation of pensions. [More…]
I refer to recent reports that there are serious delays in the hearing of defended cases before the Family Court in Victoria. [More…]
However, it is not as long as it was in the Supreme Court of Victoria under the Matrimonial Causes Act before the Family Law Act came into operation. [More…]
This case was transferred from the Supreme Court of Victoria to the Family Court. [More…]
Presumably, the case could have been dealt with in the Supreme Court under the transitional provisions of the Family Law Act. [More…]
One chap said: ‘Well, I want to join the rest of the family who came here’. [More…]
Our selection officers had taken 13 people from the one family. [More…]
With this kinship element, this chap is the fourteenth member of the family to apply to come here. [More…]
If so, would the Minister consider a review along the lines of the Government’s family allowances scheme so that more of the taxpayers ‘ money goes directly to the needy instead of in salaries to so-called experts? [More…]
As to whether we will amend the Act in line with the family allowance scheme, there is no real comparison between the family allowance scheme, which is a universal, non-taxable benefit to families and all Australian children, and the organisations which conduct services under the Child Care Act. [More…]
It bought a house at 12 Moramy Street, Bairnsdale, for $27,000 and then took out the floor, the bath, the stove and some of the internal walls at a cost of about $8,000 and made the house all electric despite the plea by the Aboriginal family to leave a slow combustion stove in it. [More…]
There is no sewerage, no power and the water comes from the river, or three or four families are jammed into a small house which was built for one small family. [More…]
He has forgotten what it is like to be an alcoholic or a drug abuser or to be a member of the family of those people. [More…]
There is no social security officer to handle pension and family allowance matters. [More…]
I take the opportunity of speaking on the first reading of the Apple and Pear Stabilization Export Duty Amendment Bill 1977 to bring before the Parliament the situation of the administration of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The concept of a ‘family court’ is well established in the United States of America, Canada and Japan though there are variations in the proceedings and powers. [More…]
It generally involves the creation of a special court (or division of a larger court), the assimilation of all family matters into one court, with active pre-divorce and post-divorce counselling not merely to assist reconciliation, but also to provide for the reduciton of bitterness and distress and in alleviating ongoing post-divorce problems. [More…]
It is of the essence of our recommendation that the Judges appointed to this Court (men and women) should be chosen for their experience and understanding of family problems and should be drawn from existing Judges, members of the bar and solicitors, according to their particular suitability. [More…]
That article in the Sun was written by Mr Ian Kennedy who is president of the Family Law Association of Victoria. [More…]
That Association has been formed only recently and family lawyers have been joining it at a very rapid rate. [More…]
More Family Court judges and court staff are needed. [More…]
The two extra judges who were added to the list at Christmas, bringing the number of Family Court judges in Victoria to nine, are obviously not enough. [More…]
Further additions to the judicial ranks are needed, and needed urgently, if the high hopes held of the Family Law Act are to be realised. [More…]
I refer to a statement prepared by Mr Ian Kennedy to whom I referred earlier and who is president of the advocates association in the Family Court in Melbourne. [More…]
FAMILY COURT DELAYS [More…]
The following figures were extracted from the records of the Family Court at Melbourne as at the 1st day of March, 1977. [More…]
At present there are 2 defended lists in the Family Court, one being a list entitled the “Defended List” in which there are now 700 cases. [More…]
Various estimates have been made as to the numberof additional Judges required by the Family Court and the most conservative estimate appears to be 5 additional Judges appointed immediately would enable the total Court to just keep abreast of the business being carried out on a daytoday basis in that Court, without in effect reducing the delays [More…]
Prior to the commencment of the Family Law Act there were 48 Magistrates spending an average of 2 full days each week hearing family matters (maintenance, custody etc. [More…]
In summary, the foregoing means that prior to the Family Law Act 17-18 courts were at any one time engaged in hearing matters now dealt with by the Family Court. [More…]
The Family Court Judges are now sitting from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily and often longer, and if they adopted the Supreme Court hours, the lists would be immeasurably worse. [More…]
On Friday last Mr Philip Ruddock, the member for Parramatta, and I spent the day at the Family Court at Parramatta. [More…]
I formed the impression that what was happening in the Parramatta Family Court constituted the type of helping court, the type of unit operation, which was in accordance with the ideas which the Senate Committee had when it started its inquiry. [More…]
Before leaving the Family Court at Parramatta I obtained some statistics as to the cases which have been held there and the extent to which counselling and conferences have occurred. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to the fact that there is some difference of opinion between the judges of the Family Courts. [More…]
a court which actively intervenes on its own motion to protect the interests of the parties and their children, is not supported by the Full Court which, more cautiously, takes the traditional approach that the Family Court acts as an arbitor between disputing adversary parties. [More…]
It is doubtful whether the Family Court as yet possesses the necessary expertise. [More…]
Whatever might have happened in some appeals I believe he is pursuing the type of approach which was intended in the Family Court. [More…]
Today there are not nearly as many judges dealing with family matters as there were under the provisions of the old Act. [More…]
It is said that on any day 1 7 magistrates or judges in Victoria were handling family work. [More…]
Those of us in the Parliament who passed the Family Law Bill and who had an indea and, I hope, a vision of what it could involve must ensure that it does not become just another matrimonial course on the dreary pattern of the past. [More…]
Dental and optometric services are also provided and counselling on family planning and nutrition. [More…]
Arrangements are made to obtain claims and pay appropriate benefits including family allowances and special benefit as soon as practicable after arrival. [More…]
Small group meetings concerning employment and transport, Australian life-style, family planning, housing, sponsorship, family reunions etc. [More…]
Contact with smaller informal groups, usually extended family constellations to reinforce knowledge provided in the more formal setting. [More…]
The Committee has considered aspects of the resettlement of refugees where particular problems have arisen with respect to large single parent family groups, isolated aged and those refugees suffering physical or other handicaps. [More…]
As multiple sclerosis tends to become manifest in the early 30s and as this severely affects the family as well as the patient, can the Minster say whether any special welfare provisions apply for people suffering from this chronic condition? [More…]
Our best wishes go to Mr Atkinson and his family, and certainly Victoria is securing the services of a highly competent printer and public servant. [More…]
Several such meetings have now taken place, and progress is being made towards finalising the arrangements which will have to be made for the family reunion of persons concerned. [More…]
Are women, who are in receipt of family assistance allowance from the Queensland Department of Children’s Services, eligible for any benefit from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Family assistance allowance provided through the Queensland Department of Children’s Services is ordinarily paid during this six months waiting period. [More…]
Recipients of family assistance allowance may receive at the same time, family allowances, double orphan’s pension, or handicapped child’s allowance from the Department of Social Security. [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…]
Is the Minister not concerned that such an imposition could discourage many persons with low disposable incomes from seeking medical treatment, particular/y if they have one or more members of the family chronically ill? [More…]
We ought not to forget, in the process of observing all these things that institutions are all very well and they do a tremendous job, the Australians who person by person, family by family, go out and do things in under-developed countries as individuals. [More…]
These families and clans are gradually breaking away from the settlements and going to live once again in family or clan groups on what are called outstations. [More…]
Further, the comment that at present there is a backlog of one month’s work in the family allowances section is not quite correct. [More…]
The essential family allowances work is being processed. [More…]
They relate to the extent to which the applicant’s previous income and any other income the person or his family is currently receiving should limit the level of income support that would be paid in unemployment benefit. [More…]
If we examine that as related to a family, we would need to remember that support is added to that for a wife and for children. [More…]
If refers to the different positions of people involved in offering family day care and those who own private day care centres. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that certain anomalies in legislation are putting the private centres at a disadvantage compared with the family day care centres? [More…]
Is she aware, for example, that no equipment subsidy is provided for private centres but is provided- in fact, everything is provided- for family day care institutions; that the needy parent subsidy applies in the case of children in family day care centres but not in the case of private centres; that no standards are set by State legislation for family day care centres- for example, not even a telephone is required to deal with an emergency; and that no safety regulations at present apply in the case of family day care centres but private centres and the community subsidised centres are covered? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that to some degree this is as a result of there not being State legislation to cover family day care centres? [More…]
Will she please take up these anomalies and will she indicate, if the States are unwilling to act, that the Commonwealth Government is prepared to look at these areas with a view to determining future planning in relation to family day care centres? [More…]
Different types of grants are given to family day care programs under the children services program; there are equipment grants and operational assistance grant. [More…]
Family day care was an innovation of the former Government to provide a means of caring for a very limited number of children. [More…]
In one family there may be 4 people of working age and another person who is denned as a septuagenarian who would be in receipt of some form of superannuation from the Portuguese Government. [More…]
As Senator Guilfoyle would know, the incomes of those people say, between the ages of 25 and 35 are lumped together when assessing social security rights of another member of the same family. [More…]
The point I take up with Senator Guilfoyle is that in cases like this, which will be intensified with family reunions, we ought to have a clear cut understanding with the Portuguese Government that if people come to Australia who are more than 65 years of age their cheques will continue to flow from Lisbon or, conversely, if that is not satisfactory I think we should examine further the formula whereby we lump together three or four people in a family who may be working as domestics and whose salaries are not very high. [More…]
I hope that the immigration criteria will not be confined merely to what may be described as the close family relationship criteria which we use in respect of so many other migrants to this country. [More…]
I hope that these criteria will be interpreted in a wider fashion because of the responsibilities which people will have for elderly members of their family who may be more distant relations than a mother or a child. [More…]
The diary is now in the hands of his family in Australia. [More…]
Can we bring out our family? [More…]
They are very much family people. [More…]
I presume that the child endowment, or family allowance as it is now called, is paid to his wife and not to him. [More…]
(g) family allowance, (h) orphan’s pension, (i) widow’s pension, (j) domiciliary nursing care benefit, (k) nursing home benefit, (l ) handicapped child ‘s allowance, ( m ) maternity allowance and (n) student allowance were dealt with in each State by Social Security Appeals Tribunals in the December quarter of 1976. [More…]
It is even more obnoxious because the Government is aware of the strong ties Aboriginals have with their traditional land and with their traditional tribal and family structures. [More…]
They stressed to me very strongly the concept of the extended family which is so important to the Chinese people. [More…]
They expressed the view that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) surely could not understand what the Chinese meant by family when he had made a limitation to what we understand perhaps in Australia as the nuclear family. [More…]
It has been estimated that between 450 and 1000 people might want to come to Darwin under the nuclear family situation. [More…]
nominated immediate family members of Australian residents, i.e., spouses, dependent children, parents and fiance(e)s, [More…]
When will permanent residence be granted to the Santos family so that it will be able to receive the same rights as other East Timorese refugees now residing in Australia? [More…]
I arranged for an officer of my Department to go to the community involved to facilitate the registration of persons for unemployment benefits, family allowances and other things. [More…]
Infections through family pets such as dogs, cats, tortoises and caged birds are comparatively rare. [More…]
What of the fate of those businesses which are run as family concerns or partnerships and are not registered as companies? [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications: What restrictions apply to advertising on the electronic media and in newspapers of contraceptives and of such other matters which would assist in family planning in Australia? [More…]
-I understand that the current situation with regard to the advertising on radio and television of contraceptives and other aspects of family planning services is that such material may be transmitted provided it is confined to periods outside children’s viewing and listening times. [More…]
for the applicant and/or family to move to take up residence in the new area; [More…]
if the applicant moves to employment ahead of his family, to allow him or her two return visits to the family. [More…]
The estimated costs of relocating a four member family over a distance of some 750 km are: [More…]
After making all the arrangements, after having his hopes built up about having a job and a house to which he could take his family, he was told: ‘No, you are not entitled to the assistance because there are other unemployed persons in the vicinity of Nairne and Brukunga’. [More…]
I raise this matter to enable the Minister to correct the injustice that has been done to this family which was desperately seeking employment in South Australia. [More…]
The effect on employees in terms of social and family disruption is of course quite considerable, but the point which has to be made is whether in the free market society in which Senator Cotton believes we live, companies should be able to operate to the detriment of the social welfare of individuals employed in an industry such as this and should be able to behave in the manner in which this company has behaved. [More…]
It is almost as though this wealthy family, centred on the United States, is treating GM-H in Australia as some sort of a poor relation. [More…]
We talk very glibly about the nuclear family and the family unit. [More…]
These people take the responsibilities of a family seriously. [More…]
In other cases the responsibility of looking after aging parents was too great for the members of the family. [More…]
When referring to aged persons in relation to the nuclear family, I believe that we are not perhaps as attentive to our parents as we should be. [More…]
As far as 1 understand the position, a claimant is issued a cheque in his or her name but there is an eligibility test related to the family income. [More…]
As late as this week I got a letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, which indicated that an application could be successful where somebody is sponsoring a migrant to come to Australia on the basis of family reunion. [More…]
I have known cases- without going into the ethnic groups concernedwhere a man has a wife and a large family of eight or nine children. [More…]
I refer to the Nathala family. [More…]
In many of these low wage groups the wife works to help the family to get out of the inner suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
some refugees will be capable of meeting normal migrant criteria concerning family reunion or occupational skills. [More…]
3 ) other refugees will not fall within the normally acceptable degrees of family relationship or have skills within currently acceptable criteria. [More…]
It is equally true that concern has been expressed by the ethnic communities as to the number of people designated as political refugees and as to whether the number of people allowed into Australia in a year for family reunions will be affected. [More…]
When they insist on coming here with other members of their family they reduce the opportunity for people who have no avenue to come to Australia except as strictly political refugees. [More…]
Just about every Australian, regardless of colour, has at some time been confronted with personal worries but when it is a continuing saga, when one does not know how one is going to clothe one’s kids, feed one’s kids, educate one’s kids and house one’s kids, this is the greatest morale breakdown that a human family can face. [More…]
Ah like a nigra in a nigra ‘s place and that ain ‘t next to my family … Ah don t mind mah boy playing ball with a black kid after school, but ah don’t want him mixing socially with them as he grows up. [More…]
What I propose to say tonight concerns the telephone bills of the Fancher family. [More…]
These companies were subsidiaries of Mt Mulgrave, a company of which Fancher bought into in Mid 65. rancher’s partners in Mt Mulgrave were the Livingstone family (all of whom have now died, the last Livingstone died in April 1977). [More…]
Corporate Affairs showed on 1 December 1971 that Fancher was appointed Director of Hamen and Sons Pty Ltd and at that time three members of the Hamen family resigned as shareholders as a result of Mt Mulgrave purchasing that Company. [More…]
value of improvements to Rand property by Fancher which are repayable to Fancher by the Rand family -in monies owed to Fancher by Mobil Oil $3,300 (note: Mobil have no record of this.) [More…]
Fancher indicates that the lease was being leased on behalf of Yarraden Pastoral Holdings however all correspondence between the Gunn family and Fancher was on Fancher’s personal letterhead. [More…]
A draft purchase agreement was drawn up between Yarraden Pastoral Holdings Co. Pty Ltd and the Gunn family. [More…]
Fancher indicates that the property surveyed adjoined Strathmore Station and as such half the bill should legally be met by the owners of Strathmore Station who are the Boyer family. [More…]
Parliamentary Pension: Family of late Senator Greenwood (Question No. [More…]
1 ) What parliamentary and ministerial pension will be paid to the late Senator Greenwood’s family. [More…]
) Can that allowance be reduced if the widow or family is in receipt of other income. [More…]
Present immigration policy applies in a nondiscriminatory way to applicants who satisfy the entry criteria relating to family reunion, occupations in strong and continuing demand in Australia and refugee and other special cases. [More…]
It refers to the application for permanent residence by the East Timorese leader, Mr Chris Santos, and his family. [More…]
I refer to reports in a news sheet issued by the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra and reporting that Indonesia has agreed to an Australian immigration team visiting East Timor to contact East Timorese who may wish to be reunited with members of their family now living in Australia. [More…]
We suggest that no consideration was given to the family hardship and the levels of family income of the people who were deprived of these benefits. [More…]
A poor family- a very poor family with perhaps one wage earner who was on unemployment benefits himself- was expected to support a school leaver, despite the fact that that school leaver was desperately trying to find work, was available for work and was fulfilling every criterion under the Act but was knocked out, firstly, by the restrictive definitions of ‘eligibility’ which were introduced by the Government and, secondly, by the ludicrously hard hardship conditions, the absurd hardship conditions which were applied to unemployed school leavers before they could receive special benefits. [More…]
He insists on equating a deficit with a family overdraft. [More…]
As recently as 6 April in his message to the nation the Prime Minister said that a government is like a family, and that a family which spends too much finishes up in debt to the bank. [More…]
Of course, this analogy between a deficit recorded by a government and an overdraft or money borrowed from a bank by an individual or a family is a favourite analogy of the Prime Minister. [More…]
This covers such areas as family reunion and refugee policies, which I have already mentioned. [More…]
Secondly, it presents the option of restricted intake of refugees and family reunions categories. [More…]
Before dealing with those I think it is important to highlight, with regard to education in a debate of this kind, that in the developments in the structure of education and the growing interest in new concepts and new styles of education- open education, recurrent education, retraining and the growing importance of the recognition of technical and further education- there is the whole matter of the relevance of education to a person’s working life, social life and family life. [More…]
So when they interject let them look to their record which is a record of destruction of the ordinary Australian family. [More…]
It is quite ludicrous to look only at wage levels in assessing living standards, thereby neglecting, for example, the fundamental influences acting to increase family incomes such as the new system of family allowances and tax indexation. [More…]
My letter to Estimates Committee D specified: ‘Department of Health (Capital Territory Health Commission) Division 332.1- Grants in aid to other organisations (Family Planning Association, Community agencies engaged in health activities, Canberra Women’s Refuge).’ [More…]
If that is done with 4 houses in some of the country towns in Victoria the cost involved could provide another home for an Aboriginal family. [More…]
I extend my sympathy and the sympathy of all those here to his family, who bear the greatest burden and sorrow at his loss. [More…]
I add to those sentiments that have already been expressed my very deep sympathy to the family he has left behind and who have lost such a wonderful father and citizen of this country. [More…]
That is a humiliating experience for a man who has provided for his family all his life. [More…]
As a family man with 4 children he was being paid $107 a week unemployment benefits. [More…]
It would have cost the Department only $ 1 84.50 to transport him and his family and belongings to the place of permanent employment. [More…]
One never hears about this from the moralists who keep talking about the family unit, the breakup of the nuclear family or the problems of zero population growth. [More…]
It gave to the average working person and working family in Australia the first practical way in the co-operative building society movement - [More…]
It gave the average working family the first opportunity to gain its own home. [More…]
I welcome the day when, interest rates being under control, we can return to the situation in which the average family can buy a home on the wage of the main wage earner and not on the collective wage of the family. [More…]
This is affecting people in the community who depend on the payment of unemployment benefit, in some cases on the payment of pensions and particularly on the payment of the family allowance. [More…]
Up to the date of mailing of this letter to me last week that lady still had not received the family allowance for her eldest child. [More…]
Here is a woman with 4 children still waiting to receive that family allowance which she had been receiving for her eldest child. [More…]
I do not intend to deliberate too long on this matter tonight because I think the Minister is well aware- I am pleased that she is in the chamber tonight- of the problems that are being experienced by many people in the community, not only the recipients of family allowance payments but also the recipients of other social service benefits. [More…]
In the meantime she has to suffer the inconvenience of not being paid the family allowance for her oldest child. [More…]
Senator MsLaren raised a matter relating to my own Department and the difficulties and delays with regard to family allowances in Mount Gambier. [More…]
If the matter to which Senator McLaren referred specifically is given to my office I will see what can be done to facilitate a family allowance payment for the person mentioned in Mount Gambier. [More…]
I mention in passing that the Department makes about 2 million family allowance payments and about 325 000 student endowment payments to families at either 4-weekly or quarterly intervals. [More…]
This is a heavy load of family allowance cheques and payments. [More…]
That increase in staff is aimed at providing additional resources to relieve pressures being experienced in the Department in handling heavy work loads in the pensions, family allowances and unemployment and sickness benefit areas. [More…]
-Senator Lajovic would be well aware that the first generation of many a migrant family has been sacrificed. [More…]
Examples of these exclusions are grants to manage counselling organisations under the Family Law Act, to international conferences under the scheme to assist such conferences to be held in Australia, and various research grants and scholarship schemes. [More…]
On the basis of the information and advice obtained in these discussions, I have agreed that a further review of the question of Australian participation be made in 1 977-78, in the light of fertility data that will become available from various sources including the 1976 Census, a survey of binh expectations conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in November, 1 976, and a family survey soon to be conducted by the Department of Demography of the Australian National University. [More…]
Such a person and his family would be imprisoned for life, or the family of the person involved would be impoverished for life because of the great amount of compensation which could be awarded. [More…]
Many family concerns have been built up over a number of years of hard work by the principal who started them in the first place. [More…]
I pay a tribute to that Committee, which avoided what would have been endless dialogue on the Family Law Bill in this place by the considerable work it did in that area and in one or two other areas. [More…]
He has continued the unremitting vendetta which members of the Australian Labor Party, both State and Federal, conduct year in year out against people who live on the land, who invest money in the land, who continue a family farming enterprise without any proper return on the capital involved in that enterprise, who continue their vocation simply because it is what they like personally and what they are trained for. [More…]
His family will know that his life and service stand as a monument. [More…]
-The question asked by Senator Archer is of great significance in terms of the home ownership capacity of the ordinary Australian family. [More…]
About 80 per cent of the money now spent goes into Commonwealth areas of responsibility, mainly the family law area. [More…]
I wonder how the scheme will operate with a commissioner of that age when 80 per cent of the cases being handled by the Australian Legal Aid Office in most States, and especially in Western Australia, are family law matters. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Social Welfare wrote to me on 27 April 1977 enclosing a copy of his statement announcing the planned introduction of a Victorian Family and Community Services Program through which assistance will be made available for community service projects which are developed in conjunction with local government, self-help groups and voluntary agencies. [More…]
How many officers of the Department are fully engaged in the processing of family reunion applications from Timorese refugees in (a) Portugal, and (b) Australia. [More…]
As at 28 April 1977 there were 7 officers in Australia involved full time on nominations of East Timorese for family reunions. [More…]
It is not considered necessary to seek the involvement of any international agency or body in this family reunion operation. [More…]
What conditions apply and what time period must transpire before a family must vacate premises on Cribb Island, Queensland, after having received a notice to quit. [More…]
Some relaxation of the normal standards may b< possible where reunion of immediate family members is involved provided adequate safeguards are available ant observed to protect the health of the Australian community and of persons with whom the people from East Timor migh travel to Australia. [More…]
If an employee is redundant and cannot be assimilated into the Northern Territory area and is obliged to return to the southern States, will he receive a travel allowance to cover expenses for the family, furniture, personal goods, etc. [More…]
How many persons residing in (a) The City of Nunawading, Victoria; (b) the City of DoncasterTemplestowe, Victoria; and (c) the City of Ringwood, Victoria were receiving on 1 March 1977 (i) unemployment benefits (stating how many of those people are registered at the Box Hill Commonwealth Employment Service Office, the Ringwood Commonwealth Employment Service Office and any other and which Commonwealth Employment Service Office), (ii) sickness benefits, (iii) widows’ pension, (iv) age pension, (v) child endowment (family allowance), (vi) handicapped childrens’ allowance (stating the number of children for whom the same is paid), (vii) double orphans allowance (stating the number of children for whom the same is paid). [More…]
1 ) and (2) Statistics of pensions, benefits and family allowances, by Local Government Area, are not available. [More…]
The following tables show, for certain postcode districts, the number of unemployment benefit recipients (Table1 ) and the number of widow and age pensioners and families in receipt of family allowance (Table 2). [More…]
Is it a fact that the Federal Government’s new scheme of family allowances, which was introduced in 1976 to replace child endowment, ‘effectively means higher taxation for most family men’, as was claimed on page 100 of Taxpayer, the national journal of the Taxpayers Association, dated 23 April 1 977. [More…]
When announcing the measures to replace tax rebates for children and students with increased family allowances in his comprehensive economic statement on 20 May 1976, the Treasurer said that one effect of the new system would be to bring about some redistribution of income within families. [More…]
He pointed out that the family allowances would continue to be paid to the mother. [More…]
Those counted as ‘dependent children’ comprised all family members under 15 years of age and family members aged 15-20 who were full-time students. [More…]
Opposition I extend our deepest sympathy to his family and relatives. [More…]
To his family and relatives I extend the deepest sympathy of Opposition senators. [More…]
He was a very good family man and a good friend to all those who came into contact with him. [More…]
I join with my collegues in supporting the motion generally and in particular I express sympathy to the surviving family of the late Theo Nicholls. [More…]
I would like also to express my sympathy to his family. [More…]
With the best intentions in the world, Australians and even members of the ethnic communities sponsor migrants, but the difficulty is that within 18 months or two years the linchpin of a family might find himself in a totally different situation. [More…]
There are the problems which Senator Mulvihill and others have raised in the Senate from time to time in regard to the degree in which health care is effectively transmitted from various sources to the new settler in this country, the way in which he uses the legal services which are available to him and the way in which he can best express himself in the courts to obtain justice for himself and his family. [More…]
It maintains the thrust towards economic stability without sacrificing any of the major social reforms of our first Budget such as the family allowance system. [More…]
What plans does the Commonwealth Government currently have for the future administration of (a) the Family Court and (b) the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that the Queensland Justice Minister, Mr Lickiss, has publicly indicated that he favours a State takeover of the administration of the Family Court and the Australian Legal Aid Office: if so, (a) has the Queensland Government made a formal submission to the Commonwealth relating to either, or both, of these matters and, (b) have any other States indicated their views on either, or both, of these matters; if so, what are the details. [More…]
1 ) (a) No firm plans for changes in the existing administration of the Family Court have yet been adopted, but questions relating to the administration of all Federal Courts are under active consideration. [More…]
As to State Family Courts: Except for Western Australia, No. [More…]
1 ) What is the backlog of cases before the Family Law Court in each State. [More…]
1 ) I am informed that applications filed but not finally disposed of in the registries of the Family Court of Australia as at 13 May are as follows: [More…]
With reference to regulation 19 of the Regulations made under the Family Law Act 1975 and the document referred to in those regulations known as ‘Advice to Effect of Proceedings’, what representations has the AttorneyGeneral received regarding the need to have this document translated into various foreign languages for service on respondents overseas. [More…]
Was there an announcement made in the Family Court last year stating translations of this document would be made available in a variety of languages. [More…]
1 ) Senator Missen has made representations to me on two occasions on behalf of Mr K. C. Haines, solicitor, Melbourne, who has also himself made separate representations to me relating to the need for foreign translations of the documents prepared under regulation 1 9 of the Family Law Regulations on the effects of proceedings and the availability of counselling and welfare help. [More…]
An anouncement was made in error in each registry of the Family Court of Australia last year that translations of the document referred to in (2) had been received. [More…]
In fact, the translations received were of an explanatory pamphlet entitled ‘Family Law in Australia’. [More…]
Copies of translations of the document referred to in (2) into both Greek and Italian are now available in Family Court registries, and translations into several other languages are expected to be available very shortly. [More…]
The necessary amendment to the Family Law Regulations is likely to be among a number of amendments to the regulations which are expected to be made and to take effect shortly. [More…]
That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend the Family Law Act 1975 to fix the maximum age forjudges of the Family Court of Australia and for related purposes. [More…]
Such sites play a part in their ceremonies and their family life. [More…]
In view of the Commonwealth’s undoubted responsibilities in the Federal area, in particular, in family law matters, has the Attorney-General considered whether an appropriate scheme of legal aid might comprise joint Commonwealth and State Commissions in each State and a Commonwealth advisory and co-ordinating Commission; if not, why not; or if so, has he rejected such a scheme, and why. [More…]
1 ) The factors were that Mr Salemi was a prohibited immigrant as his temporary entry permit had expired, he was not eligible under amnesty and he was not eligible on occupational or family re-union criteria for the grant of resident status. [More…]
This is a Bill to amend the Family Law Act 1975 to fix a maximum retiring age forjudges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
This BUI 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…]
Honourable senators who were members of this chamber in 1 974 will recall that the 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 to the Family Law Bill moved by Senator Missen and carried by the Senate provided 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 4 1 , have a retiring age of 65. [More…]
Honourable senators 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 Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on a retiring age for federal judges, which led to the Constitution alteration, specifically recommended 65 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 Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) made known his preference for a retirement age of 65 years forjudges of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Senators 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 Court of Australia were appointed before that date, the maximum retiring age prescribed by the Bill will apply only to future appointees to the Court. [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…]
I see no reason why, even with our present technology, the second family car should not be an electric vehicle. [More…]
If every member of this chamber and every family associated with them used one electric light where now five or six electric lights are burning at night, used one gas jet where now two or three gas jets are turned on, and if we set out on a real energy conservation campaign, we would cut drastically the amount of liquid fuels that we are using at present, particularly the derivatives of fossil fuels. [More…]
It relates to a family man who was sentenced to nine months’ gaol by a magistrate in South Australia because he gave wrong information in obtaining unemployment benefits. [More…]
He was receiving unemployment benefits from August 1975 until June 1976 when his unemployment benefits were suspended because he would not accept employment under a scheme which meant that he would be separated from his family for a quite considerable time. [More…]
I draw to the Minister’s attention a case which has come to my notice where the breadwinner of the family is the wife, a school teacher. [More…]
The family has made the decision that the husband will remain at home to care for the children and keep house while the wife works. [More…]
The problem is that when the wife made application for the allocation of a government home she was refused on the ground that the male is regarded as the breadwinner, regardless of any decision made by the family. [More…]
The Department of the Northern Territory follows the well established practice of regarding the male of the family unit as the breadwinner. [More…]
Exceptions to that rule could result from a variety of factors, ranging from physical incapacity of the male through to a break-up of the family unit. [More…]
Reginald Francis Xavier Connor, a member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales from 1950 to 1963 and a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Cunningham from 1963 and a Minister of the Crown from 1972 to 1975, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
On behalf of the Government senators I express our deepest sympathy to his family. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I indicate our sympathy to members of his family today when we grieve the loss of a great Australian. [More…]
Those who relied on him, those who knew him so well, the members of his family, his friends and colleagues will miss him greatly but remember him with pride and affection. [More…]
He was a great parent to his family and a great husband to his wife whom unfortunately he lost earlier this year. [More…]
On an occasion like this when we all feel so sad about his passing, we can feel assured that if there is such a thing as everlasting life it comes when a man writes his name into his family and into the affairs of his fellow men. [More…]
I do not wear them myself, but on given occasions members of my family do so. [More…]
Our handling of refugees from Lebanon was criticised, especially in the area of family reunion. [More…]
However I think we must realise that different standards apply, especially to family reunion of these people. [More…]
I do this so that he and his family will not be caused any embarrassment. [More…]
Would this situation not have been overcome if family allowances had been increased? [More…]
Why did the Government not increase family allowances in the present Budget? [More…]
The family allowance system was not indexed in the present Budget. [More…]
It was not a commitment of Government, when the family allowance scheme was introduced, that it would be indexed. [More…]
That raises quite serious problems in terms of family relationships and matters of that kind. [More…]
Yet the same Treasurer and the same Prime Minister are on the record as having attacked the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for applying the principles of full indexation, and in this very Budget tax indexation is to be halved for the 1978 financial year, no steps are being taken to index the spouse allowance in respect of the current year, and family allowances have not been indexed either. [More…]
The greatest failure of all is their leader, the economic neanderthal man who believes that deficits must be paid back like an overdraft, who believes that a nation which runs a deficit Budget, to use his own words must go without for the next few years while it pays back the deficit just like a family that establishes an overdraft. [More…]
Limits for a family include an allowance of $15 for a wife, $13 for each of the first three children and $ 1 5 for the fourth and fifth children. [More…]
The Family Centre Project, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Never Had a Chance’, N. Haines, ‘Non-Participation in Continuing Education’; J. Dennison, ‘The Concept of the Community College’: in Lifelong Education and Poor People: Three Studies (AGPS, Canberra, 1 977 ). [More…]
Mune, ‘Social Worker Referral of Clients to Family Planning Clinics’; W. Salter, T. Selwood and J. Leeton, Non-Attendance among Post-Natal Women at a Hospital Family Planning Clinic’; T. Murrell and J. Moss, ‘Health Care for Infants and Mothers’: in Family Planning and Health Care for Infants and Mothers (AGPS, Canberra, 1977). [More…]
Krupinski and A. Mackenzie, ‘A Study of the Effects of Psychiatric Hospitalisation Upon the Weil-Being of the Family’; A. D. Liddy and M. L. Basser, ‘A Survey of Conditions of Ex-Patients of a Psychiatric Hospital ‘; in Poverty and Mental Illness- With AGPS. [More…]
The question refers to the proposed East Timorese family reunion operation. [More…]
The organizations associated with the United Nations in its system or ‘family’ can generally be classified as UN organs (if established by one of the principal organs and not by independent legal treaty) or as a specialised agency if established by inter-governmental agreements. [More…]
I wish to say something about this Bill which, of course, amends one particular aspect of this legislation, the Family Law Act. [More…]
It is the opportunity which the Parliament now has under the Constitution to fix a retiring age of 65 years for Family Court judges. [More…]
This was recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs three years ago, and it was applied and put into force with respect to the establishment of State family courts. [More…]
As a result of the constitutional amendment of May 1977, this is something which can be done so far is the Federal Family Court is concerned. [More…]
It is in accordance with opinions expressed some years ago when the Family Law Act was passed and views which have been expressed since. [More…]
It seems to me that one should say a few things about some other aspects of the administration and current state of the Family Court in Australia while a Bill of this type is being discussed. [More…]
There is now a Family Law Council which is in a position to make recommendations to the Parliament. [More…]
During the first reading stage of that Bill I made a speech about family law administration. [More…]
In that speech I endeavoured to say something about the situation at that time concerning the operations of the Family Court. [More…]
I have had the opportunity of speaking recently to the family law practitioners in New South Wales, particularly those who are associated with the Parramatta court. [More…]
As I have said, I had the opportunity of talking recently to the family law practitioners in New South Wales and of obtaining detailed information. [More…]
Of course, this runs completely contrary to what the Family Law Act was intended to achieve. [More…]
I have here two letters, one dated 9 February 1977 from the Family Law Practitioners Association of New South Wales to the AttorneyGeneral, the Hon. [More…]
THE FAMILY LAW PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES [More…]
Delays in the Family Court of Australia [More…]
We write to place on record the very serious problems that are becoming apparent in the Family Court of Australia by reason of the inadequate number of judges. [More…]
In the course of his honor’s call-over his honor declined to fix more than 3 days for a case, even though in practice a ‘day’ in the Family Court means only 2 hours to 2Vi hours, and most defended custody matters would take 10 to 15 hours of hearing, and frequently more. [More…]
There is a rumour widely circulating that the government is considering appointing 3 more judges of the Family Court for NSW within the next few weeks. [More…]
The Family Court of Australia started with a clean slate in January 1976. [More…]
We would submit for your urgent consideration that the number of judges for the Family Court sitting in New South Wales needs to be increased to 20 immediately. [More…]
I refer to your letter of 9 February 1977 on behalf of the family Law Practitioners Association of New South Wales concerning delays in the hearing of cases in the Sydney Registry of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
I share your concern at the amount of work with which the Family Court in Sydney is confronted and the resultant time people have to wait for their cases to be heard. [More…]
This is so despite the fact that a total of 30 Judges have been appointed to the Family Court so far, including Mr Justice Cook and Mr Justice Yuill to the Sydney and Parramatta Registries since the date of your letter. [More…]
Because of my concern at the delays, I have recently completed a review of the judicial workload of the Family Court, with a view to expediting the disposal of matters before the Court. [More…]
As a result, the Family Law (Judges) Regulations have just been amended to allow the appointment of up to 6 more Judges, who I expect would be appointed in the next 6 to 1 2 months. [More…]
Accordingly, action is currently being taken to recruit further court counsellors and legal officers to the major Family Court registries. [More…]
The additional legal officers will share the work of the Registrar in conducting conferences with parties to attempt to reach a settlement under regulation 96 of the Family Law Regulations, and in conducting financial inquiries under regulation 99. [More…]
I have recently received a report on the matter from the Family Law Council, and have asked my Department to prepare for my consideration amendments to the Family Law Regulations that would enable the courts to dispose of cases in this way. [More…]
Family Law Practitioners Association, c/0 Mr P. 1. [More…]
The number of judges that can be appointed to the Family Court has been increased from 30 to 36. [More…]
Those figures sound extraordinarily high but one must realise that, before we had a Family Law Act, in New South Wales there was the Family Law Division of the Supreme Court with five or six judges and magistrates were doing much more substantial family law work throughout the State and now they are doing much less. [More…]
In Victoria before the Act came into force there were something like 20 judges or magistrates working on family law matters on any one day. [More…]
Whereas there had been perhaps 20 people dealing with family law matters now there are nine judges in Victoria at the present time handling or trying to handle this work. [More…]
There is, of course, an increase in the Family Court expenditure but there is another aspect which I think is somewhat regrettable. [More…]
Reference is made to the Family Law Council which in 1976-77 had a Budget appropriation of $25,000, of which only $5,949 was spent. [More…]
The Family Law Council is an important body. [More…]
It does not cover all the extremities of views of organisations that are connected with an interested in family law but it is a body which is important. [More…]
Likewise, the Institute of Family Studies is a professional body, designed to look at the statistics and at the situation of family life in Australia and to try to assist not only the Family Law Council but also, I presume, the Government in the administration of this Act. [More…]
There may be explanations for this situation but I suggest that, at a period when there is quite a considerable crisis in the family law situation in Australia, it is regrettable to see reductions of that sort. [More…]
There is one other aspect I want to raise at this stage in this preliminary debate about the family law situation. [More…]
The position is that people who practise in the family law jurisdiction do not know what their situation is at the present time, what their entitlements are, and their clients do not know what are the amounts that should be charged. [More…]
But I wonder why this matter has not been given the clarification which is needed by the people who practise, and who are specialists in the family law jurisdiction. [More…]
It does not increase the status of the Family Court. [More…]
The Family Law Act is, I think, standing up well under very considerable pressure. [More…]
It is however, a very disappointing Act to this stage because of the great delay in the hearing of cases, the inadequate number of judges and staff and the inability to achieve the potential which it has and the potential which should be achieved by those organisations, the Family Law Council and the Institute of Family Studies, of which I have spoken. [More…]
Many other things in connection with the Family Law Act shall need very close attention. [More…]
Senator Missen raised a number of important matters concerning the administration of the Family Law Act. [More…]
This Bill which provides for the retirement at 65 years of age of judges of the Family Court will facilitate the appointment of new judges. [More…]
I think the very high level and the maintenance of that level until well into this year was a surprise although I agree it was to be expected that there would be a great increase because of the new provisions of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Government has told us that it wants to see family units settled in Australia. [More…]
Some people believe that she should be reunited with her family. [More…]
Due to the illness and subsequent death of members of their family in India, the couple returned to their native land. [More…]
One would have thought that on the basis of reuniting a family group a residential permit would have been made available, particularly as one daughter agrees to go guarantor for fares, accommodation and living costs in Adelaide. [More…]
Mr Seed is very anxious to have his son nearby as he needs family support to help him cope with the strain of caring for his wife Lily. [More…]
I consider that it would help her greatly if her son and his family could be reunited with her and her husband. [More…]
I consider that this would help to restore their family unity and it would certainly help Mrs Seed to build up her general selfconfidence which she needs to do. [More…]
Mr and Mrs Seed do not qualify for entry under the family reunion policy, which provides only for the entry of spouses, dependent children and parents of persons already resident here. [More…]
Applicants who do not qualify under the family reunion policy may be considered for entry only if they are in occupations for which there is an unfilled demand within Australia. [More…]
In the present economic situation, I can only come to the conclusion that the possibility of attaining the economic viability which would enable the family, as an independent unit, to live at an acceptable standard without recourse to government assistance can only be rated as poor. [More…]
An Aboriginal family will always take him in. [More…]
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-by leave- Mr President, I would like to take the opportunity of expressing to the family of Dr Felix Dittmer the deep regret that my colleagues and I from Queensland have after hearing of his death. [More…]
To his family, a very large and devoted family, I express my sympathy in their time of loss. [More…]
-by leave-I join my colleague, Senator Georges, in expressing regret at the death of Felix Dittmer and in expressing sympathy to his family. [More…]
His family, as Senator Georges has said, was very devoted to him. [More…]
It was a fairly large family. [More…]
I reiterate my sympathy for the family of the late Dr Dittmer and my regret at his passing. [More…]
I join with my colleagues in expressing to the members of his family my deepest sympathy in their sad loss. [More…]
Is there a national program in Australia directed towards the continuing detection of hypertension and towards notification to the family doctors of those members of the Australian community suffering from unsuspected hypertension. [More…]
Mrs A. Pittaway; The Smith Family [More…]
Mr Rappell and his family bought into it in about 1973 and now substantially own it. [More…]
Australia’s immigration policy which is nondiscriminatory on grounds of race or nationality gives priority to the reunion of close family relatives with Australian residents. [More…]
Not only was Mr Haylen a member of this Parliament for the Division of Parkes for 20 years from 1943 to 1963, but proudly I state that he, his wife Sylvia and his sons, Ron and Wayne, were close personal friends of mine and of my family. [More…]
I think Senator Douglas McClelland would agree with me that in the vital national election campaigns in 1969, 1972, 1974 and 1975-I think this is the nicest comment that I can personally apply to Les Haylen- Les Haylen did not feel it infra dig to be out on the street corners in the electorate of Evans where his family lived putting a point of view to the people on the kerbside. [More…]
-I should like to associate myself with the expressions of sympathy and condolence to the wife and family of Leslie Haylen. [More…]
I grieve with his wife and his family, who were so close to him, in their tremendous loss. [More…]
To his family, who lived with him in Summer Hill for a great number of years, I extend not only my own personal sympathies and condolences in their sad loss but also those of all members of the Parliament and certainly all members of my own party. [More…]
I can only express the hope that the members of his family will draw some consolation from the fact that the prestige which Les enjoyed in the Parliament has been recorded today in the expressions of condolence. [More…]
That is done upon the death of certain heads of state, Governors-General, members of the Royal Family, former Prime Ministers, whom I think fall within this category, and sitting honourable senators and honourable members. [More…]
It is housing that they want to design for themselves in conformity with the way in which they live in the extended family situation. [More…]
They applied to have eight houses built by themselves, designed to suit their needs and their extended family lifestyle. [More…]
The family allowance scheme and personal tax indexation, at a cost of some billion dollars, were the first of these moves forward in the taxation field which is extraordinarily important in a free enterprise society because, basic to it, is initiative and reward for ininativethe capacity of people to have sufficient money left to them to exercise their choice. [More…]
Of course speakers on this side of the House have indicated today the types of things which we claim have been of great value in an economic sensethe investment allowance, the various changes in the law and the family allowance which has been a contribution to expenditure by - [More…]
The change from the extended biological family to the nuclear family which has occurred this century and the apparently irreversible but regrettable failure of people to be willing to care for their aged relatives has led to the situation in this country of aged people too often being placed in institutions such as nursing homes. [More…]
I am referring to flats that can be added to houses which provide the aged person with accommodation near his family but not in the family home because most family homes in Australia are just not suited to take extra people. [More…]
In many cases aged people, I repeat, are looked after by family and by neighbours. [More…]
Dremmel family, of which 1 am sure the Minister is well aware- a family with many children and many problems. [More…]
As the Minister has now widened eligibility for the handicapped children’s allowance to assist low income families, does she envisage this extending to families like the Dremmel family which has children with heart troubles, asthma and other physical problems? [More…]
Are there any situations where such a family in which the father is working can receive special benefit under the discretion available to the Director-General of Social Services, or is special benefit merely restricted in all cases to families which have almost no income? [More…]
As we are talking about one particular family, I inform the Senate that if any member of that family were able to be considered for the handicapped child’s allowance under the new criteria it would certainly be open to the family to apply and the DirectorGeneral could consider whether the child fell within the new terms of that allowance. [More…]
However, I would assure Senator Grimes that any children in the family which he mentioned who may be eligible for the handicapped child’s allowance could be considered if an application were received. [More…]
Together with my wife and family, I have camped in a car on a stormy night and woken up occasionally because I was feeling most uncomfortable and opened a door and put a hand into the black soil of the road to see whether it was drier than it was when I woke up previously. [More…]
I refer to the facts that the 1976-77 appropriation for the Institute of Family Studies, to be set up under the terms of the Family Law Act 1975, was almost entirely unspent in that financial year and that the proposed appropriation for 1977-78 has been reduced from $80,000 to $50,000. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the Senate what steps have been taken to secure the appointment of a Director and suitable staff for the proposed Institute and to enable it to perform the important duties assigned to it by the Family Law Act? [More…]
-The Government attaches great significance to the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
There is no pension for men comparable with a widow’s pension yet the family needs are the same. [More…]
Lone fathers are thus forced to work, even during times of crisis, and have less chance of keeping the family together. [More…]
It may be one used by him as an interim to rearrange his own affairs so that he can have that security of income whilst he either nursed or got other members of his family from another State or changed his employment to suit the changing needs and so on. [More…]
Married women, whether their income is required in their family unit or not, are not able to receive unemployment benefits if their husbands are working. [More…]
It teaches them about modern living facilities, health and education, welfare, population control and family planning. [More…]
They are relative to the security and dignity of the family unit; they are relative to equality of opportunity; they are relative to an acceptance of the profit motive within the law as being something that satisfies human nature more closely than anything else yet devised. [More…]
The family allowance of which the Government purports to be so proud has not been indexed at all. [More…]
There has been no increase in the family allowancethat is the allowance which was substituted for the previous child endowment payments. [More…]
Orisa be released on bail to receive medical care according to his and his family’s choice’. [More…]
They are concerned about the problems of families and family relationships; the problems of living in big cities; the problems of crime and, more particularly, the problems of drugs. [More…]
The tragedy of unemployment is the personal hardship involved; indeed, the complete destruction of a family’s living standards as jobs become harder to get. [More…]
It refuses to investigate the effect on family relationships, the attitude of school leavers and so on. [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 35 cents per week. [More…]
For the sake of people listening to this debate, I should like-to clarify the claim that somehow the family allowance should satisfy supporting mothers who are seeking to rear children alone. [More…]
Any mothers who are listening to the debate will be aware that the family allowance in the case of a mother with two children amounts to the princely sum of $8.50 a week. [More…]
No longer was one income enough for one family; there had to be a two income family in order to keep pace with the incredible materialism that was inflicted on this community during the 23 years of Liberal- Country Party rule. [More…]
What happens when a two-income family, a low income family, is deprived of one income? [More…]
What I find most appalling is that this Government, which is so pleased to spout constantly sentiments about the importance of the family unit, the importance of the family home and so forth, does not recognise the difficulties when a dual low income family is deprived of one income. [More…]
During the Labor Administration, if a migrant woman worker with a lot of family commitments or mortgage commitments lost her job, she could move into a training scheme and earn much the same sort of income from that training scheme. [More…]
1 ) A privately owned motor vehicle may be imported without payment of Customs duty and sales tax (on the basis of one vehicle per family per three years) as part of a passenger’s personal goods, provided: the passenger has come to Australia with the intention of forthwith taking up permanent residence; and the passenger has personally owned and used the vehicle overseas for the whole of a period of IS months immediately preceding departure for Australia. [More…]
The question refers to the proposed East Timorese family reunion operation. [More…]
Just as the family allowances introduced by the Budget last year were designed to assist people on low incomes, so in this Budget, by reason of the taxation exemption to $3,750 a year for a single taxpayer or in the case of a taxpayer with a dependent spouse, a taxation exemption to $5,480, some 225,000 Australians now paying tax, many of them being pensioners and young people, under our scheme will pay no tax at all. [More…]
It is noted that family allowances, a very valuable initiative introduced in the previous Budget, are paid universally and without a means test and amount this year to $ 1,049m. [More…]
The working man’s family could not afford to do that. [More…]
As I have said, any person can reduce a deficit or reduce his budget expenditure by not providing essential services for his or her family. [More…]
I heard Senator Tehan say a while ago that the Government had done a wonderful thing for the family man by increasing the family allowance. [More…]
The Government certainly increased the family allowance, but a husband cannot now claim a rebate in his taxation return for his dependent children. [More…]
Refugees receive special Social Security benefits until family breadwinners obtain employment. [More…]
I remind the Minister of several questions asked of her in the autumn session relating to a visa application by Mr Chris Santos and his family. [More…]
As I have not received any reply to my questions relating to the Santos family, I now ask: What stage of consideration has the case reached? [More…]
When will the Government make a decision on this case and end the months of concern of the Santos family due to the delay? [More…]
-I recall the questions that were asked with regard to the Santos family. [More…]
For my part, I hope we will be able to expand it because it is the one way in which we can generate very genuine concern for those people who are under privileged and, at the same time, learn ourselves where the community, the family and the education system are in defect. [More…]
When one considers what this Government has been doing in its period in office in increasing family allowances, in helping people with large families, in helping people who are really in need and in helping people to pay rent and provide them with housing and so forth, one realises the enormous increases. [More…]
He talked about the responsibility which he felt the family should share in and said, I repeat: [More…]
The reason, of course, is the right of every person to independence … we need to determine a basic philosophy concerning the nuclear family or a society of individuals . [More…]
But maybe one parent should- either to care for the younger members of the family and/or to make way for the younger person in the workforce. [More…]
Fortunately, in my State of Victoria, there has been created in its place a family and community services program which is now getting under way. [More…]
This year, about $2m is to be spent on developing and expanding in a decentralised way and working with local government, while enabling people in voluntary organisations to be elected to regional councils and to be active in the determination of expenditure on various family and community projects. [More…]
The Government has also relaxed the means test by increasing the marginally adjusted family income for tertiary education and related schemes and for the additional boarding allowance for isolated children from $8,200 to $8,700 in 1978. [More…]
These wildcat strikes are hitting right at the roots of the family unit. [More…]
I would say that the family of such a trade unionist is in a destitute situation and is looking for money to buy a meal. [More…]
I am not talking about the family person who needs a second position to bring more money into the family to keep it going. [More…]
Specifically, I would like to exclude from my remarks the one-parent family. [More…]
I believe that the one-parent family falls into a special category which ought to be dealt with under the social welfare provisions. [More…]
I intend my remarks to be about the one-income family, which is the most common arrangement in Australia under which dad works on a taxable income and mum works at home for no taxable income, caring for the home and the family. [More…]
However, for centuries the division of family labour in our world has been for mum to stay at home and care for the family while dad goes out to work. [More…]
But today it seems to me that many forces within our community are endeavouring to discourage this form of family structure, and one of them happens to be our taxation legislation. [More…]
I congratulate Mrs Adamson and the people in this organisation on their work in connection with this matter and other problems in respect of the one-income family. [More…]
It is my Party’s philosophy to encourage family life. [More…]
The family is a cohesive force in society and the Liberal Party recognises the necessity for strengthening its influence. [More…]
Liberals acknowledge the vital contribution of the family in the development of the individual . [More…]
That happens in business when family partnerships are created but that faculty is not available to the wage and salary earner. [More…]
If my Party wishes actively to encourage this form of family life I believe it should treat marriage as a partnership for taxation purposes. [More…]
When the wife has a child and decides to remain at home to care for that child the family income would be his income only which would be only $8,000. [More…]
In my view, far from offering wives any real advantage to stay at home, in fact it actively encourages them to go out to work, It would be bad enough in the normal family life if they were on a par, but on this basis they are way behind scratch. [More…]
All I am asking for is a fair go for the family which decides that Mum should stay home and bring up the kids. [More…]
But a wage adjustment is not an appropriate method of doing equal justice to the single person and the family. [More…]
But I urge this proposal for the sake of the family, not so much for the sake of soaking up the work force. [More…]
It is a job that should be adopted by both husband and wife in a family. [More…]
Under the present legislation a wife and mother may feel some pride in her occupation but she will have the lingering worry that while she is not earning a separate income she is a financial burden to her family. [More…]
The two income family has a considerable tax advantage. [More…]
I point out to Senator Lewis, although he was not in the Parliament at the time, that the Party to which he belongs was strongly in favour of the present system of advantages to the two-income family when we debated the Medibank levy as it was originally proposed by the Labor Party. [More…]
This problem will be solved I believe by a reformation of the taxation system, by a resolution of the problems in this community and an acceptance of the views of the community as to who is dependent and who is not dependent in the family set-up. [More…]
A third reason is the failure to increase the family allowances under the new scheme. [More…]
The introduction of the new family allowances scheme was hailed in this House and other places as the greatest triumph of the last Budget. [More…]
But it pointed out repeatedly that unless regular increases were made m the new family allowances to cope with inflation many people- those people with children- would suffer. [More…]
The failure to increase the family allowances has resulted in those people having a lower disposable income. [More…]
When the responsible Minister was asked why the family allowances were not increased to cope with indexation his only reply was that it was not a Government promise to increase these allowances when they were introduced. [More…]
The failure to update the family allowances may cause problems. [More…]
The result of this, together with the Government’s system of industrial confrontation, its determination to cut real wages, its failure to increase payments to those who are in real need such as pensioners with children, and its failure to increase the family allowances in fact will reduce the living standard. [More…]
To me this Budget will continue to constrain inflation, restore another further measure of stability to business and family groups, and provide an incentive to the production areas to benefit from some inducements. [More…]
1 ) In view of the judgment of McTiernan, J., that, in the context of the Constitution, ‘marriage’ referred only to monogamous marriages (Attorney-General of Victoria v. The Commonwealth, 1961-62, 107 CL R., page 549) is section 6 of the Family La w Act 1 975 a valid enactment. [More…]
Section 6 of the Family Law Act deems polygamous unions in the nature of marriages that have been entered into outside Australia to be marriages only for the purposes of proceedings under the Act The intention was to enable parties to such unions who have the required jurisdictional connection with Australia to be able to obtain matrimonial relief under the Act. [More…]
In so doing I must say to the Government that I accept that it is concerned about the unemployment and it is concerned about the unemployment of young people in this country, as it has to be because unemployment of young people is creeping even into its ranks in that even in areas where people were always assured of jobs, such as in companies, family companies, firms or with friends, young people now are finding some difficulty in obtaining employment. [More…]
Apart from the purely economic impact of unemployment, other effects included ‘disturbance of the person’s relationships with his family, other people and the community at large, and apparently severe effects on psychological and even physical well being’. [More…]
The situation of the family is similarly quite intolerable. [More…]
The following is a letter from a person supporting a family: [More…]
Another family has complained that they have been in a house for seven years and the rent was recently raised from $10 a fortnight to $70.80 a fortnight. [More…]
I sincerely hope that it does because small businesses, especially small partnerships or small family business concerns, have been in a very bad way in the last couple of years. [More…]
A national advertising campaign ought to be conducted to encourage children, through the schools and in the family home itself, to turn the lights off. [More…]
The difference between one-fifth of the family income and the economic rent would be rebated. [More…]
Naturally, a family which requires a rental rebate will have to disclose its income, but this is quite reasonable, considering the large sums of money involved. [More…]
The sort of sociological changes I refer to include the very high incidence of two income families, smaller family units, the greater mobility of people generally, the fact that the aged are cared for far less at home than they were in 1945 and thereafter, and the fact that a lot of units accommodate young people who would never previously have been away from home. [More…]
I noticed in an article earlier in the year that a family with an income of $500 a week was paying $25 a week rent. [More…]
The system of rebating has to take account of the size of the family and the total income of the family. [More…]
Family Law Court counselling service; education programs- including after-school care - [More…]
child care and other family care programs; health care services- including Medibank, community health centres, womens’ refuges and domiciliary care services; housing- in particular housing for aged and invalid people; programs and allowances for the handicapped; pensions and benefits (and proposed transfers of responsibility for these); the Legal Aid Commission Bill: Aboriginal Affairs; Australian Government Printing Services; and grant-in-aid services for migrants and interpreter services. [More…]
The tragedy of unemployment is the personal hardships involved; indeed, the complete destruction of a family’s living standards as jobs become harder to get. [More…]
-Is the Attorney-General aware that there is a need for the appointment of another judge to the Family Court in the State of Queensland? [More…]
The Senate will be aware that the Parliament quite recently passed amendments to the Family Law Act to enable commissions to Family Court judges to provide for their retirement at 65 years of age. [More…]
The regulations also have been amended to enable the appointment of another six Family Court judges, and I am proceeding as quickly as possible to make those six appointments. [More…]
The appointment of the Director of the Institute of Family Studies is being considered at present. [More…]
It consists of the Chief Judge of the Family Court, Justice Elizabeth Evatt, Mr Lloyd Phillips of the National Marriage Guidance Council, Dr Jean Martin, Senior Fellow in Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian. [More…]
National University, Mr Carnsew an officer of my Department and an expert in marriage guidance administration, and Mr Creswell who is the officer in charge of the family law section in my Department. [More…]
1 per cent of Greeks and 70.6 per cent of Yugoslavs had not undertaken English language courses, and that the percentage was likely to be worse for other family members, particularly women. [More…]
On behalf of myself and my family, we thank you - [More…]
He had also been told of a vendetta against one aboriginal family, and of members being knocked to the ground as they stood in the street. [More…]
In this particular incident, Mr S was involved in a family quarrel with two other persons. [More…]
I take this opportunity to say that some of that exploitation of Karen Green by persons for their own motives has been of distress to Karen Green and her family to the extent that she has asked members of the Government parties to see that no further personal publicity is given to her. [More…]
Against all the pressure of a distressed family they voted not to go back. [More…]
The one and only job I had before I went to work in a family business was a job for four years with a company in Sydney. [More…]
One and a quarter million Australians are affected personally or in their family situations by the abuse of alcohol, and more than a quarter of a million can be classified as alcoholics. [More…]
Some 1,200,000 Australians are affected either personally or in their family situation by the abuse of alcohol. [More…]
The reasons given for regular aspirin ingestion were related to age and social class, daily headaches, tension, habit and to cope with the family. [More…]
The second answer was given on 21 October when the Minister referred to claims that Miss Green and her family had approached members of the Government parties to see that no further personal publicity was given to her case. [More…]
Sometimes this is provided through a family support scheme or whatever term may be used to describe the immediate assistance that is given in cases of hardship. [More…]
Family Court in Victoria. [More…]
The Government was, in accordance with the regulations, appointing six new Family Court judges. [More…]
Of course, the six judges had to be apportioned throughout the States of Australia, except Western Australia, which has its own State Family Court. [More…]
Although there have been, and continue to be, great delays in disposing of Family Court matters in Victoria, there are delays in all other States as well. [More…]
A further consideration is that Mr Justice Butler has been appointed as a Family Court judge resident in northern Tasmania, and that hitherto judges of the Family Court in Victoria from time to time rendered assistance in that State. [More…]
Let me refer honourable senators first of all to the case of the Deputy Prime Minister of this country (Mr Anthony) who, through a very substantial family interest in a company known as Northern Star Holdings Ltd, has a controlling interest in television stations NRN11 and RTN8 in northern New South Wales. [More…]
His family has a controlling interest in radio stations 4GG on the Gold Coast, 2MW in Murwillumbah and 2LM in Lismore, and in a dozen commercial newspapers in the area between South Brisbane and Coffs Harbour. [More…]
That is a substantial interest which the Deputy Prime Minister of this country, through his family, has directly in companies which could bring him in conflict with his public responsibilities as a Minister of the Crown and about which there has not been disclosure presumably to anybody other than to the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
Because of his family holdings perhaps he should have declined to take part when the [More…]
Some family groups, few in number I am pleased to say, have 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…]
He said there was ‘no way we’d be adopting the picture shown by further analysis of this Budget- namely that family people are taking the cost of some alleviation from tax given to single people and high income earners’. [More…]
On behalf of myself and my family, we thank you for your condemnation of Mr Fraser for his attempt to overthrow our elected government. [More…]
From memory, it involved a family company owned by the same individuals. [More…]
In the fourth paragraph under the heading ‘Courtesies of Debate’- which I think is a particularly apt heading because matters of courtesy in respect of this subject seem to have gone by the boardafter reference to the use of the name of the sovereign, members of the Royal Family and the Governor-General, the following statement is made: [More…]
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 [More…]
The third point that is made in the amendment is that the Government has failed to index family allowances. [More…]
In fact, the Opposition has denied entirely that the family allowance system is of any value to the community. [More…]
The honourable senator mentions, in the third part of his proposed amendment, the question of family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances are paid outside the taxation area. [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…]
When the Labor Government introduced the Homeless Persons Assistance Bill in 1974 no Commonwealth assistance had ever been made available for organisations to help the homeless and destitute in the community- those people without secure family backgrounds, without means and frequently without self esteem. [More…]
First, it extends the eligibility for the handicapped child ‘s allowance to a low-income family with a less severely handicapped child when the care of that child, in the words of the Act, is a severe financial handicap to the family. [More…]
-The Social Services Amendment Bill is concerned primarily with assisting the family and righting in some of our legislation anomalies which exist at the moment in relation to women. [More…]
Instead, we have quitely and practically set about passing legislation which will assist the family and women in particular. [More…]
I refer to a couple of instances in our legislation, such as the family allowance, which have assisted the low income families, large families. [More…]
They are to be rehabilitated so that from now on they can resume their role of mother and wife in the family. [More…]
The handicapped child’s allowance is a piece of legislation which affects the family. [More…]
However, in a lot of cases a lesser handicap is still a tremendous financial burden on the low income family. [More…]
The degree of handicap in providing shoes of this type would depend on the family’s income. [More…]
I have said that it depends on the family’s income. [More…]
Phenyl ketonuria, as Senator Grimes knows, is a great expense to the family. [More…]
The treatment of the disease is a very expensive business for the family. [More…]
I ask whether the Government or the Minister has considered the social cost of introducing this provision, whether it has considered the cost to the low income family that needs some income from its school leaving children by way of wages or, in the case of unemployed children, by way of unemployment benefit. [More…]
Has it considered what will happen to those low income families which have a lot of children to support- perhaps there is sickness in the family- and which need to send their teenagers out into the work force. [More…]
In the case of a low income family with two incomes, when the husband becomes ill and has to leave his employment he will not be eligible for sickness benefit if his wife is working. [More…]
The overall income of the family would be reduced to about $88 a week. [More…]
That seems to me to be an extremely harsh circumstance to visit upon a dual income family in which the husband and wife are both working hard to keep up their payments and meet their commitments. [More…]
Suddenly, because of the sickness of one party, the whole family is reduced to living on $88 a week, with perhaps a supplementary benefit later on. [More…]
I remind the Senate that when a working wife does have to give up her job to support her husband her whole family goes on to the social security benefit. [More…]
It seems to me that a much fairer way of reconciling the anomaly that existed under the old provision would have been to introduce some sort of provision which would permit either partner to retain eligibility if the family income was very low. [More…]
I mention that figure to demonstrate to the Senate that the dual income family is a fact of life in our community, particularly in the low income areas. [More…]
Many honourable senators present tonight might be able to afford not to have a working spouse, but for the low income workers in our community the dual income family has become a necessity. [More…]
So these provisions which discriminate against the dual income family or take no account of the hardship which flows to them when unemployment or sickness prevents one partner from continuing to earn his or her wage are, I think, quite irresponsible. [More…]
It is not long before the average Australian young couple commences to have a family. [More…]
I venture to say that it will create family breakups. [More…]
Sometimes this is provided through a family support scheme or whatever term may be used to describe the immediate assistance that is given in cases of hardship. [More…]
Of course, if it were not for organisations such as the Smith Family, the Salvation Army and many others that I could mention, there would be a great number of people suffering day in and out. [More…]
He described as ‘inhumane’ the Federal Government’s changes to the payment of unemployment scheme under which a newly unemployed family man was given one pay in five weeks- on the 18th day of unemployment, then on the 35th day. [More…]
When Senator Walters spoke to the Bill she tried to recite chapter and verse concerning what this Government had done to help the family man. [More…]
She mentioned the family allowance as assisting the family income, but when recently I spoke on the Budget I mentioned the fact that that allowance penalised certain people in the community. [More…]
Certainly, the family allowance is of great assistance to people on very low incomes, but other people also live in the community. [More…]
An allowance will be payable to a parent or guardian where the family income does not exceed the adult minimum weekly wage plus $6 for each child or student child of the family. [More…]
It could be of assistance if such a benefit is paid to cover the continuing expenditure which may occur in such a family. [More…]
A low income family can be assisted by the payment of a handicapped child’s allowance to cover these matters. [More…]
Application may be made for special benefit by any student who is in necessitous circumstances or whose family is dependent upon his immediately gaining employment. [More…]
Another matter raised, although not in the context of the Bill before the Senate, was that of family allowances and the difficulties encountered by some fathers who are paying maintenance for children who no longer are in their custody, care and control. [More…]
At the time that the family allowance scheme was introduced this problem was known to us. [More…]
That is one means of reviewing the maintenance that he pays in order to take into account the loss of rebate in the form of a taxation deduction which he previously had but which no longer exists because of the introduction of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
But we still have vague expressions in proposed new section 105 ja where a handicapped child’s allowance is not paid if the family is ‘by reason of the provision of that care and attention, subjected to severe financial hardship’. [More…]
As I stated earlier, this allowance will be payable to a parent or guardian where the family income does not exceed the adult minimum weekly wage, plus $6 for each child or student child. [More…]
I think if we look at the way in which the change has been made, and that is to test the family income, I think we could agree with some of the claims made by Senator Ryan in her speechthat there is no real difference in the way in which a woman will be tested for the sickness benefit. [More…]
There is now no difference between the sickness benefit, the unemployment benefit or any other pension administered by my Departmentthey are now all tested on a family income basis. [More…]
I can only say that the eligibility requirements for a married woman will not change except that eligibility will be subject to a family income test. [More…]
Where as a male previously had access to a benefit regardless of the income of his wife he will now be tested on a family income basis. [More…]
The family allowance about which Senator Donald Cameron asked also would be continued during that period. [More…]
If it were a family allowance for a student child, that would be continued until the period of non-payment of the unemployment benefit was covered. [More…]
When one considers that a child of a person receiving the unemployment benefit is going to be considered by the Government to be satisfactorily paid if his or her parent receives the children’s allowance plus the family allowance, which might add up to about $7 or $8 a week, one can imagine what sort of restrictions are going to be applied before anyone will be eligible for special benefits. [More…]
It was my understanding it was the family of one, I think, perhaps the wife or a trust organisation of Mr Phillip Lynch. [More…]
The Treasurer appears to have used the legal devices of nominee companies and family trusts to screen his involvement. [More…]
Finally, I ask these questions: Is it a fact that Stumpy Gully Estates, the land in which the Treasurer or his family company had a financial interest, was zoned for conservation or as an area of special significance by the Westernport Regional Planning Authority prior to Mr Peter Leake taking up his position as chairman of Mr Lynch ‘s electorate committee on 6 October 1972? [More…]
I know his family. [More…]
It is traditional around the Christmas period at the end of the year for Aboriginals, particularly those who are engaged in seasonal work, to return to the place where their family roots have been sustained. [More…]
The statement then goes on to make certain claims about the introduction of the new family allowance scheme- certainly a worthwhile reform; certainly something which the Opposition did not oppose. [More…]
But we pointed out at the time of its introduction that if the family allowance were introduced in this way and if tax rebates for children were abolished, if justice was to be maintained, it was essential that that family allowance should be regularly upgraded. [More…]
We have produced tables, never questioned in the Parliament, which demonstrate that with the introduction of the Medibank levy and of the family allowance and with the scrapping of the children’s rebates which would have been indexed, what has happened is that anyone earning $120 to $200 a week who has more than one child has less disposable income now than he would have had under the old tax scheme. [More…]
The family allowance recommendations of Professor Henderson were only part of a recommendation. [More…]
I have pointed out on numerous occasions in recent weeks that any housewife can cut down her budget expenditure if she does not provide the necessary needs for her family and her children. [More…]
She can cut down her budget if she makes her family go without. [More…]
What will it do about their commitments on their homes, about their children’s education which will be disrupted and all the other things that go to making a happy family? [More…]
The Minister spoke about how the Government by way of the family allowance, had put a great deal more money into the hands of those who normally bear most of the day to day responsibility for children. [More…]
Before the family allowance was introduced the husband in well regulated families used to budget and allocate so much out of his pay packet to the wife and mother on which she had to run the household. [More…]
So what the mother is getting on the one hand by way of family allowance her husband is keeping out of her weekly housekeeping allowance in order to meet his weekly commitments because he has to put so much aside for council rates, house payments and those sorts of things. [More…]
Despite this the Minister in her speech boasted about the introduction of the family allowance. [More…]
First, it introduces significant improvements to the reversionary benefits arrangements of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits schemesthose benefits which are extended to the family of a contributing or retired member upon his or her death. [More…]
-On 24 August 1977 (Hansard, page 451) Senator Grimes asked me, as Minister representing the Treasurer, a question without notice concerning the family allowance scheme. [More…]
The main reason for abolishing tax rebates and introducing family allowances for dependent children and students was a redirect assistance towards families most in need, namely those with insufficient taxable income, and therefore insufficient gross tax liabilities, to take full advantage of the former tax rebates. [More…]
The Treasurer indicated that any land transactions with which he was associated were conducted by a family trust company and not by him. [More…]
Would a grant of special benefit still leave the family approximately 10 per cent below the Henderson poverty line, estimated at $240.80 per week for this family. [More…]
1 ) The Federal Government funds two types of day care services for children under school age, viz: centre based day care and Family Day Care. [More…]
At 30 June 1977 there were 238 centre based child care services operating and receiving Federal Government recurrent assistance (including multi-functional centres); 114 Family Day Care Schemes operating and receiving Federal Government recurrent assistance. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death of Edward William Mattner, M.C., D.C.M., M.M., a senator for South Australia from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1968 and President of the Senate from 1951 to 1953 and that the Senate places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders it sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
The Opposition joins with the Leader of the Government (Senator Withers) in extending our sympathies to the family of the late Edward William Mattner. [More…]
He lived in the district around Woodside and Oakbank south of Adelaide which adjoins the Strathalbyn area to which my family belongs. [More…]
We, along with others, extend our condolences to his immediate family and to his only brother, Mr Leo Mattner, of Oakbank in South Australia. [More…]
Lastly I want to pay a tribute to Ted Mattner as a family man. [More…]
He had a remarkably successful family whose talents are unusually gifted in the extreme. [More…]
He was proud of the members of his family and they gave him affection, as I have been a happy witness to on many occasions during their visits here. [More…]
On this occasion we pass on our esteem and our condolences to the members of his family with a very deep sense of feeling. [More…]
He loved his family, he loved his garden and he loved the outdoors. [More…]
As a matter of fact, his family told me that even a few days before his death he asked that he be put in a utility to be driven around the property. [More…]
I join with the Senate in expressing condolences, particularly to his family- a great family and one which, right down to his grandchildren, loved Teddy Mattner as we did so much. [More…]
That the Senator expresses its deep regret at the death of the Honourable Sir John Armstrong Spicer, Q.C, a senator for Victoria from 1940 to 1944 and from 1950 to 1956, Attorney-General from 1950 to 1956, and Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court from 1956 to 1977, and that the Senate places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
I am sure that his family will find consolation in knowing that he had a fine life, one deserving of great credit and favour from the Australian people. [More…]
I therefore join in the expression of condolence to his family and relatives. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death of the Honourable Allan Nicoll MacDonald, former Senator for Western Australia from 1935 to 1947, and Minister of the Crown from 1 937 to 1 939, and that the Senate places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
I believe I was also asked a question with regard to family allowances, and I gave a general assurance that the period would be covered with regard to family allowances until such time as eligibility for the unemployment benefit was attained by a person. [More…]
It should be understood in respect of student children that the Social Services Act specifically provides that family allowance payments cease from the end of the four-weekly payment period in which the full-time education ceases. [More…]
The procedure of the Department is to post a review form to parents and on the undertaking given by parents the family allowance is either resumed or deferred until such time as the parents advise what action will be taken by the student child in the following year. [More…]
At the time I made the statement in November I believed that the closure dates of schools were such that before the following payment of the family allowance would be received a student child over the age of 16 years would be eligible to receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
But if we look at the general picture of family income over the period of that vacation we see that the gain of the unemployment benefit after the 6 weeks deferment would mean that a family would be in better financial circumstances than it would have been if the family allowance had been the only payment received. [More…]
At a seminar on the future of the family farm that was held last year in Roma by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries one of the extension officers had this to say of primary producers: [More…]
As we know, most of these services are provided by what is basically known as small business, the one-family outfit that has been in the community for some considerable time. [More…]
There is heartbreak in a situation where a selection that has been in a family for generations has to go under the hammer and a sense of failure, albeit not justified, goes with it. [More…]
Some people say that it was brought in to raise money for wartime funds; other people say that it was brought in to break up large family holdings. [More…]
There is a famous story from the 17th century about an obstetrician who invented one of the first obstetric forceps and kept it secret in his own family for the family’s profit and fame. [More…]
The only people who benefited from the use of that appliance were those who could pay to go to that practitioner or his family. [More…]
No charges have been made against Peter John Browne; nor have any charges been made against a woman who in 1961 was Esther Grace Stevens and is now Mrs Crichton-Brown, and who was granted 2,000 shares in the company at the same time; or against Norma Rosa Stevens, her mother, who was allotted 2,000 shares in the company at the same time; or Malcolm Scott Holdings Pty Ltd, the family investment company of ex-Liberal Party Senator Malcolm Scott, which was granted 1,000 shares in the company at that time. [More…]
All he wants is that he and his family can live in the particular lifestyle they have chosen, without harassment, and secure in the knowledge that because of that lifestyle and because they have not done anything wrong they do not have to worry about being deported from Australia, where they have chosen now to live. [More…]
Yes, he did get into trouble with his family trust, but he does not have as much financial trouble as have many of these families in Mannum who have been existing on benefits provided under the State Unemployment Relief scheme instituted by the Dunstan Labor Government. [More…]
In order to pursue the objectives of family reunion and the rehabilitation of Timor, Australia will need to continue to deal directly with the Indonesian Government as the authority in effectual control. [More…]
What will be the view of the unemployed in this country who are visited by inspectors to see whether they are entitled to the $36 or $49 a week that they are getting when they learn that a senior Minister’s family uses tax avoidance schemes, however legal they are, to avoid contributions to the public revenue? [More…]
The tragedy of unemployment is the personal hardship involved; indeed the complete destruction of a family’s living standards as jobs become harder to get . [More…]
As a result the family income is cut in half. [More…]
Until you can get some justice let them do it all themselves and let them pay your husband the sort of wage that will cover the needs of you and your family without you being sold into slavery all your life. [More…]
Stay home and let one man ‘s wage pay for all the family necessities as once it did ‘. [More…]
Trade unions, governments, and employers have let one man’s wage drift so far back that it will no longer keep a wife and family and so we have the family income made up of two people’s wages, and in my opinion one of those people gets less than justice in the market place. [More…]
What is it doing about the effects that these problems have on the health of the family and the community. [More…]
But what will be the result of the worry caused if they are unemployed and the family income is halved? [More…]
What of the worry caused by the collapse of his morale and the lack of family income? [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…]
This reform will be of considerable assistance to farmers and small businesses which are run on a family basis. [More…]
It will enable assets to be transmitted from generation to generation without the necessity of selling part of the assets or part of the family farm which are essential for the running of the business or the farm, as the case may be, to meet the demand of the federal estate duty assessment. [More…]
I conclude with a few words about the role of women in society and the importance of the family as a basic unit in society. [More…]
As reported at page 2 1 7 of the Senate Hansard of 25 February 1976, which I shall not read, I made reference to the importance of the family as a unit in society and mentioned the important role of both parents with the father being equally as important as the mother. [More…]
On 9 March last year, after the opening of the Parliament, when I was privileged to second the motion for the adoption of the AddressinReply, I used the example of the happy family life of Her Majesty the Queen as a basis on which to re-state those sentiments. [More…]
The family has been called the primordial unit of society: Man, woman and their offspring- the greatest influence in all our lives, for good or evil; the source of our hereditary characteristics; and the first model on which our behaviour patterns are built. [More…]
Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner, who is regarded as a world authority on the welfare of children and who wrote a magnificent article on the family entitled ‘The Origins of Alienation’, which appeared in the Scientific American, has said: [More…]
The evidence indicates that the family is the most effective and economical system for fostering and sustaining the development of the child. [More…]
The evidence indicates so far that the involvement of the child’s family as an active participant is critical in any intervention program. [More…]
Without such family involvement, any effects of intervention, at least in the cognitive sphere, appear to erode fairly rapidly once the program ends. [More…]
It is good economy and essential for effective social services to have families fully involved and for a family to be regarded as the basic unit of society. [More…]
Whilst one does not quarrel in any way with the statement made by the Attorney-General, one has to look at the figures for the years prior to the introduction of the Family Law Act to gain the correct perspective. [More…]
The point I make is that in a happy family situation- a responsible situation- the State is spared these costs. [More…]
It is trite to say that a continuing and happy family with both parents accepting their responsibility for the love and care of the children of the marriage is in the long run a saving to the state. [More…]
The Family Law Act does not really protect the children of a marriage for the trauma of a breakdown in that marriage. [More…]
Putting on one side the consequences to the young child of divorce legislation which protects the irresponsible partner in the marriage, when the concept of guilt is removed from consideration in the dissolution of a marriage- I am happy to concede that that has happened in the family law context- all that happens really is that the concept of guilt is considered at the child-custody level. [More…]
Whilst the Family Law Act has made it very easy for a marriage to be dissolved, the custody of the children and the property settlement are still matters over which the parties argue, very often to the distress of the children of the marriage who, I think, are the major concern of all of us. [More…]
One has only to look back some 20 or 30 years to find that the care of the young, the sick and the old were family responsibilities. [More…]
I do not think anyone would argue that the therapy received by institutionalisation is better than the human companionship of the family, even the so-called bad family, and the cost to the nation of institutionalisation is enormous. [More…]
It is this weakening of the family as a functional social mechanism which is at the heart of the matter. [More…]
Time does not permit me to go into greater detail so I will conclude on this note: Next year, 1979, is the Year of the Child and, whilst we are all gravely obsessed with the economic problems which confront the nation, in the long term the preservation of the family as a unit in society is vital to the future of the nation. [More…]
One of his criticisms of the Family Law Act concerned a matter which is now the responsibility of his own Government. [More…]
The same men are not too proud to set up family trusts that allow them to understate their taxable incomes legally, and to dodge tax amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. [More…]
When you have kids, a mortgage and HP, money has to come from somewhere and what could be more reasonable than her supporting the family for a change while Wally got back on his feet? [More…]
The financial effects of unemployment can range from having to whittle your $2000 savings away to supporting a family on the Commonwealth Unemployment Benefit of $87.50 a week. [More…]
A man grows up with the expectation that he will be able to earn enough to support his wife and family. [More…]
It was as if they were saying they couldn’t pay for the family nest but at least they would have a go at putting it in good shape. [More…]
The Petersen family have extensive interests in the area. [More…]
Unemployment does have an effect on children in a family where unemployment is prevalent. [More…]
This person, the mother of a young family, said that the ABC was the only broadcasting service that they could get in their area. [More…]
If they wanted to listen to the radio at that time on a Sunday afternoon- obviously a fairly popular time for family listening- the ABC was the only program they could listen to. [More…]
If the mail run and exchange go, it is likely that the local railway family will be transferred. [More…]
That family also has several children. [More…]
The families in the beef-raising areas of Queensland, certainly parents in this area who have a fairly young family, cannot afford to send their children to boarding school. [More…]
I can tell the Senate of a family in Kalgoorlie which would rather suffer hardship than allow their daughter, who is 17 years of age, to go to a town 50 miles away where work is available. [More…]
What is the position of a man who lives with a teenage family in a rural area? [More…]
He has failed to notice that the family allowances, which the Australian Labor Party rejected as part of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, have made the most massive transfer of finance from the rich to the poor that has occurred. [More…]
The Grant is made to assist this organisation to provide an emergency care and family support service for Aboriginal children in the Brisbane metropolitan area. [More…]
The other point that I think should be made is that during the whole period his wife has been employed by the Education Department, so it is not as though the family is without means. [More…]
Every one of us knows of the drain on our private and family lives. [More…]
The other two are family reunion and refugee, and these two have been expanded considerably. [More…]
They brought a higher cost of living to the working family, to the business man, to the carrier and in particular- I have noticed this in the last two years- a higher cost of living in those isolated settlements on our northern coast. [More…]
Because of the various matters that have arisen within the last few weeks, I feel that whilst I would like to speak about the situation in Timor- I will speak on that at a later date- I would also like to speak on what I would term the ‘Pacific family’. [More…]
For example, the program ‘The Family’ that was the subject of some controversy was in fact developed and supervised by the Headmasters’ Conference of New South Wales. [More…]
I refer to several questions I asked last year concerning the application for permanent residence by Timorese leader, Mr Chris Santos, and his family? [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister aware of the considerable hardship caused to Mr Santos and his family by this inordinate delay? [More…]
Will Mr Santos and his family be granted permanent residence? [More…]
The fees that have been paid to the Family Court are not paid by those who get legal aid in that Court. [More…]
That is the principle we have adopted in the Family Court area, and I should imagine it would apply generally. [More…]
The conservatives continually claim- I put Senator Messner in that category- that South Australia had the highest charges when putting a family car on the road. [More…]
The Government believed that he had earned the right to serve the 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 part of my term as Governor-General, and now in prospect through a term as Ambassador to UNESCO. [More…]
I suggest that the first of the basic facets of a free enterprise democracy may be the diginity and security of the family unit. [More…]
It is within the family unit that a great deal of the character of a nation and the basic strength of a free society are formed. [More…]
If we were to encourage such conservation it would encourage Australians to increase their productivity, to increase their capacity to employ people and to increase their capacity to serve a useful purpose in the family of nations. [More…]
I would have thought that, in talking about its belief that there should be a better society, the Government would have said something about the fundamental unit of society, namely, the family. [More…]
I note with a great deal of pleasure that many honourable senators who have spoken before me and, indeed, many members of the House of Representatives have used the occasion of the Address-in-Reply debate to talk about the family and the fact that the family is under pressure and the Government is doing very little about it. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested; rather, the solution lies in Government financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker, contribution to family support programs and thus reverse the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
Furthermore, there are thousands of young married women who want to leave the work force and start a family but cannot do so because of housing finance problems. [More…]
From this advice are policies for family support coming forward? [More…]
The point I am making is that the Government must have a balance in the advice that it receives on family matters and women ‘s issues. [More…]
If I understand correctly what I hear from my constituents they are concerned about what is happening to the family. [More…]
The advice coming from these sources is destructive of the principles of family life. [More…]
Certainly, as she realises and as I realise, there are problems for women who have performed their family responsibilities and want to get back into the work force. [More…]
As the descendant of a family which was one of the pioneers in the New England district of New South Wales I have great sympathy for the plight of the rural producers. [More…]
It was necessary for me to go to Boreen Point with Paul because I am an alcoholic and I need family support and assistance with my problem. [More…]
If I had stayed in Brisbane without any family support or assistance with my problem, I am sure that my alcoholic disability would have been made much worse. [More…]
He did not fit into the family well because of his problem and his brother just did not want to have him in the house. [More…]
He went so that he would have family support. [More…]
He has overcome this problem of alcoholism provided that he has family support. [More…]
He is able to work but he has to move to seek the support of his family and because of that he is denied the unemployment benefit. [More…]
It is an unusual reference, because it has occurred in regard to a partisan measure, not a non-party matter such as the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Many of them are family companies. [More…]
I might add that the plight of women who encounter this sort of difficulty in any country is made much more difficult in the Timorese people by the particular relationship between the father and the Timorese family. [More…]
He is in a sense a patriach, the titular head of the family, and is responsible for all those practical activities in respect of which he most sadly missed in the kind of situation I have described. [More…]
In that report ACFOA had something to say firstly about the notion of family as it applies to the Timorese community and other communities of a non- Western culture. [More…]
1 do not want to touch on that in any detail, but some hardship is caused by the very strict application of the notion of family in the nuclear sense as we understand it in a country such as Australia. [More…]
Many Timorese refugee families in Australia, therefore, are suffering by having rip head of family. [More…]
In Timor among our close relations, we find our husbands, sons, parents, brothers, and other families still suffering the anguish and horrors of a cruel war that has sown death and destruction among our people, respecting neither age, nor sex, family ties, nor friendships. [More…]
Apart from the family reunion aspect, the main reasons they gave for wanting to come to Australia were: better prospects for employment and resettlement; their desire to live in a climate more akin to that of Timor; and a general wish to live not very far from Timor, with a view to re-establishing contact with friends and relatives when access to the territory is eventually permitted by Indonesia. [More…]
We should not be imposing a strict definition of ‘family’ or ‘family relationships’ and saying that because people who do not have family in Australia should not be able to come here. [More…]
In that document the Council speaks of family units and family reunions and points out that a degree of affinity has to be permitted, but that in general there might be good reasons for limiting entry to parents and single children. [More…]
Nevertheless in view of the widely acknowledged and demonstrable importance of family support systems in times of crisis ACFOA urges that in the case of refugees: [More…]
in later stages of resettlement and integration sympathetic consideration should be given to family reunion whether from the country of origin or elsewhere, even when such family members are nondependent. [More…]
He is here in Australia without the members of his family and he wants to go back to Timor. [More…]
His family want him to stay here and be educated in Australia. [More…]
He is here with an uncle and other members of his family. [More…]
His family want him to stay here but the Department has rejected his application and has indicated that there is no great hope that he will be allowed to remain. [More…]
These obviously are cases where the sooner the husband can come out to Australia and the family can be re-united the better it will be for all concerned. [More…]
I am personally aware of representations made to the Indonesian Government with regard to a visit and with regard to family reunions about which we all feel so strongly. [More…]
We stressed the strong feelings of the Australian Government concerning family reunions. [More…]
I am also aware of our Foreign Minister’s representations and continued statements with regard to family reunions. [More…]
I am hopeful that following the elections in Indonesia this month an early visit can be made to overcome the difficulties that have been outlined in the Senate this evening with regard to finalising what ought to be a very compassionate reunion of family members as early as possible. [More…]
As I said earlier, family reunion is a foremost aim of the Government and it is one that will have our close and active attention until we are able to fulfil what we had anticipated at least a year ago as being a matter of some urgency. [More…]
An instruction has gone out to the company that it is not to carry that man in or out of the area where his family is now settled. [More…]
Aspects of the report discuss the needs of families for assistance during the phases of family development through to the point at which children leave home and the family comprises adult members only. [More…]
However, honourable senators may be aware that we have already established, through the children’s services program which is administered by the Office of Child Care, a three-year pilot program to develop family support services. [More…]
Arrangements are in hand for States and Territories to establish welfare programs aimed at assisting parents to improve their child-rearing practices and thereby improve family functioning. [More…]
I address to the Minister for Social Security a question concerning the family support services scheme about which announcements have been made recently. [More…]
It is called a family support services scheme. [More…]
There is a 3-year funding program through the Office of Child Care to provide funds for voluntary community organisations which are engaged in activities of support to families such as family counselling, financial counselling, advisory services, and services relating to ethnic groups, Aborigines and lone parents. [More…]
I might add that his interests extended beyond the circle of his work in the Senate and his devotion to his own family. [More…]
I thought therefore that you, Mr President, would welcome the opportunity- I hope I will be supported by other honourable senators- to express on this public occasion the sadness we feel that one who was in reality a part of our Senate life has died so quickly and suddenly and to convey our sorrow and sadness to his wife and family. [More…]
I am sure that other honourable senators who knew Alan and the work he did here and who enjoyed his pleasant personality would, like you, Mr President, to place on the record of the Senate, through the medium of this adjournment debate, our appreciation of his work and our very deep sympathy to the members of his family who are left behind to mourn. [More…]
1 ) What progress has been made in securing the agreement of State Governments to transfer or refer power to the Commonwealth to enable the Family Courts to make necessary orders with respect to children who are not the legitimate children of a marriage. [More…]
When will action be effected to ensure that all children can be treated with equal justice by the Courts and that other deficiencies arising in Family Law legislation through recent decisions of the High Court can be eliminated. [More…]
1 ) A reference of constitutional power to the Commonwealth to enable it to confer jurisdiction on the Family Courts over children not covered by the Family Law Act necessarily depends entirely on the willingness of States to make such a reference. [More…]
Amendments were made to the Family Law Act following the decision of the High Court in Russell v. Russell to bring it within the limits of constitutional power as determined in that case. [More…]
In so far as the action referred to in the question can only be taken if the Commonwealth acquires additional family law powers, it must await the outcome of the initiatives that has been taken in the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General referred to in ( 1 ) above. [More…]
Reports of the speech that I made in Sydney on Monday morning at the opening of the new Family Court premises indicate that I proposed to ask the States to hand over to the Family Court the power in relation to custody matters which has been denied to it as a result of decisions of the High Court, a situation which leads to considerable problems that have been previously canvassed and are well known. [More…]
The Australian Government’s suggestions that the recognition would improve the future progress of family reunion and the rehabilitation of Timor were spurious. [More…]
In order to pursue the objectives of family reunion and the rehabilitation of Timor, Australia will need to continue to deal directly with the Indonesian Government as the authority in effective control. [More…]
By way of explanation of why the Government gave de facto recognition, the Minister tried to justify the Government’s action on the basis of future family reunion and the rehabilitation of Timor being important ingredients in a practical contribution to the peace of the area. [More…]
As I have already said the quality of life of the family in the outback has deteriorated. [More…]
Consider the position of a family living on an Aboriginal settlement or a pastoral station out in the bush. [More…]
-I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Did Justice Elizabeth Evatt hold talks in Brisbane with the six judges of the Family Court bench of Queensland last Friday? [More…]
I know that she conferred with judges of the Family Court in Brisbane on the discussions which have been taking place about an agreement between the Queensland Government and the Commonwealth concering the establishment of a State family court in Queensland. [More…]
Did the Queensland Government reject an invitation to establish a State family court when the Family Law Act was first passed? [More…]
When did the Queensland Government change its mind and make known its interest in a State family court? [More…]
What is the current state of negotiations between the Queensland and Commonwealth governments regarding the establishment of a State family court in Queensland? [More…]
As the Senate is awarethis really arises out of the matter on which Senator Colston asked me a question yesterday- the Family Law Act contains a provision which enables an agreement to be reached between any State government and the Commonwealth Government to establish State family courts on terms set out therein, and to exercise jurisdiction thereunder. [More…]
As is well known, the Western Australian Government decided that it would enter into negotiations, and subsequently arrived at an agreement for the establishment of a State family court. [More…]
The then Attorney-General for Queensland, Mr Knox, informed the Commonwealth that the Queensland Government had considered the matter and had decided against the establishment of a State family court, adding as a rider that this was its position for the time being at least. [More…]
In January 1976, after the Family Court was set up, the present Prime Minister wrote to the Premiers of all States including, of course, Queensland and invited them to consider the establishment of State family courts. [More…]
On 21 January 1976 Mr Knox, who was still AttorneyGeneral for Queensland, notified my predecessor that his Government had decided not to create a State family court at that stage. [More…]
In March 1977 the present Queensland Attorney-General, Mr Lickiss, publicly announced that he favoured the establishment of a State family court but that there had been no government decision in that regard. [More…]
I might say that the question of now establishing a family court in Queensland, after the Family Court of Australia has been functioning very satisfactorily in Queensland for more than two years, does present some major difficulties. [More…]
I should emphasise, however, that if a State family court were established in Queensland it would be exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act and, as happens in Western Australia, would be administering the family law as it applies throughout Australia generally. [More…]
The State family court of Queensland would have that obligation. [More…]
Also, as in Western Australia, appeal could be made from the State family court to the full court of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Just as I was told during my brief visit with you to Kowanyama that there are many cattle outstations from Kowanyama, the proposal is that family groups will manage cattle on their traditional land under an overall integrated management scheme. [More…]
One advantage that can be seen by some of these families of living out on their own land is that inter-family tensions at Aurukun seem to be much reduced. [More…]
Not many people live there; one family and two or three old people live in three dwellings. [More…]
The community is the family. [More…]
The family is on its home land. [More…]
However, in any well organised family there are always differences of opinion. [More…]
The men were given jobs and the whole family or clan was tuckered by the properties. [More…]
We are therefore grateful to Senator Martin for bringing before this House documented evidence that Mr Killoran had known about this since 1975, had had frequent correspondence with the Uniting Church about it since 1975, had frequently expressed his disapproval of such action and at one stage had declared, quite wrongly as was shown later, that the outstation movement and the development of clan and family groups away from the settlement was illegal because it was against the policy of the Queensland Government. [More…]
If they have lost income because of illness or injury, and if the family income is below certain limits, sickness benefit is paid. [More…]
I refer to a report in the Melbourne Sun on 10 April of the weekend meeting between Commonwealth and State AttorneysGeneral and in particular to the statement that all State governments except those of Queensland and Western Australia are prepared to transfer family law powers to the Commonwealth to enable the same laws and facilities to apply to the custody and welfare of ex-nuptial children and to all matrimonial property in order to overcome the effects of High Court judgments in 1976 which limited the effectiveness of the Family Law Act. [More…]
The meeting considered the form of a Bill to refer certain family law matters to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that it is estimated that emission controls on motor vehicles cost $150 per normal family car and can cost as much as $500 on some cars and that fuel consumption is increased- with about 9 per cent drop in miles per gallon- and also that fuel costs increase by some 7 per cent? [More…]
I ask: Is there any substance in the statement reported in today’s Age newspaper, that many marriages unnecessarily end in divorce because the Family Court does not refer these couples to marriage guidance counsellors? [More…]
-The Family Law Act, which established the Family Law Court, has established the position of counsellors attached to the Court. [More…]
This has been a major advance in the administration of family law, as the court itself does not have to proceed on purely legal grounds but has the facility of expert guidance from people skilled in marriage counselling. [More…]
We have sought advice through the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) and we feel that there is a need for some provision in this legislation to ensure that the interests of individuals in these cases are protected, because as far as we are able to ascertain they are not fully protected under the provisions of the Family Law Act. [More…]
I believe that in the Superannuation Act if there is a situation in which under other laws such as the Family Law Act a person is left in a clearly disadvantaged position despite the fact that he or she may have contributed, even indirectly, over many years to the benefits which that spouse assumes would be available- if necessary on the ground of relative needs, as is the existing case for a legal spouse and de facto spouse- there should be some similar provision for a former spouse, a divorced person, and the legal spouse at the time of death or subsequent to the death of the contributor. [More…]
I do not think that any honourable senator or any married person would quibble that, where there is one income in the family and a contribution is made to a superannuation fund, the wife certainly helps contribute to that fund. [More…]
She goes without, perhaps in a personal and a family way, along with her husband in making that contribution. [More…]
I believe that this anomaly is not dealt with fully in the Family Court and could be considered under this legislation. [More…]
The family law situation is such that she can go off and get a divorce. [More…]
Perhaps they do not say: May it please your Honour ‘in the Family Court. [More…]
The point I make about that original assessment of $120 a week is that the judge is commanded by the Family Law Act, in fixing alimony, to take into account any superannuation rights either accrued or accruing to either spouse. [More…]
Now Senator Walters says that although the judge has taken that situation into account as commanded by the Family Law Act, under this Bill we should make it possible for the wife to get the full superannuation payment if her husband dies tomorrow or in eight years’ time, despite the blithe and easy divorce of which she has taken the benefit. [More…]
We are just at the beginning in relation to the working out of family law, not just in relation to the terms of an appropriate Family Law Act, but also in relation to its effects and implications in other areas of law and administration, such as social services. [More…]
The Family Law Court has no power to deal with payments to be made under the Superannuation Act after the death of the particular contributor concerned; such payments are solely governed by the provisions of the Superannuation Act. [More…]
Unfair treatment by Superannuation Act 1976 (Cth) of wives of contributors divorced under Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) [More…]
In an address delivered at Melbourne on 17 May 1977 on the occasion of opening new Family Court premises there, the then Commonwealth Attorney-General (Mr R. J. Ellicott, Q.C.) [More…]
made reference to the impact upon society of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) as follows: ‘We are just at the beginning in relation to the working out of family law, not just in relation to the terms of an appropriate Family Law Act, but also in relation to its effects and implications in other areas of law and administration, such as social services. [More…]
One of the most serious repercussions of the operation of the Family Law Act has been the creation of a new disadvantaged minority, namely divorced wives, and more particularly those divorcees who unfortunately happen to be the ex-wives of deceased contributors under the Superannuation Act 1976 (Cth), which constitutes the new superannuation scheme affecting the hundreds of thousands of Commonwealth public servants in Australia, and which will also be a pace-setter for other superannuation schemes, both new and revised. [More…]
At the root of the matter lies the concept of no-fault divorce reflected in the Family Law Act, more especially in s. 48. [More…]
That either party to a marriage, thus subject of an irretrievable breakdown, can proceed to a divorce in the Family Court of Australia by a relatively painless path, and, depending on the venue, within days untie the marital knot by a tenminute hearing before a Family Court judge has been a matter of comment not only in the local press, but in overseas newspapers (see, for example, article bearing the title, ‘NoFault Divorce Law in Australia’, in the New York Times, 7 May 1977). [More…]
It is this possibility of obtaining relatively speedy no-fault divorces under the Family Law Act 1 975 that nas created the problem affecting superannuation rights of divorced wives as dependants under the Superannuation Act 1976 ( C,h). [More…]
On her ex-husband ‘s death, the surviving divorced wife, who may have lived with him for a period between twenty and thirty years, while he was contributing and building up superannuation entitlements, will be entitled to nothing under the Superannuation Act, while the second wife, who may have lived with the deceased for only one year or two years, will as his surviving legal wife receive the whole of what would otherwise have gone to the divorced wife had a divorce under the Family Law Act not been obtained by the deceased. [More…]
The Family Law Court has no power to deal with payments to be made under the Superannuation Act after the death of the particular contributor concerned; such payments are solely governed by the provisions of the Superannuation Act. [More…]
Indeed the absence of provision for a divorced wife in the Superannuation Act is inconsistent with the approach of the legislature in s. 79 (4) (B) of the Family Law Act, under which, in proceedings relating to the property of parties to divorce proceedings, such as the matrimonial home, the Family Law Court is enjoined to take cognisance of the contribution made directly or indirectly to the acquisition, conservation or improvement of the property by either party, including any contribution made in the capacity of home maker or parent; a wife who has lived for many years with a contributor under the Commonwealth superannuation scheme may be said to have contributed as a homemaker to the building up of her husband ‘s entitlements. [More…]
It is also paradoxical that the legislature, which has purported to make provision for a no-fault, no-guilt divorce in the Family Law Act 1975, should by the absence of the necessary provision for a divorced wife in the Superannuation Act 1976 virtually penalise her as though she were the guilty party. [More…]
I simply ask that it be given serious consideration in view of what seems to be a limitation in the application of the Family Law Act and what is acknowledged to be a limitation in the Superannuation Act. [More…]
The general community looks to the Family Law Act to provide the basis for the financial support of divorced parties. [More…]
This would be difficult to refute as the Commonwealth has determined community standards through its family law legislation. [More…]
It must be a reflection on the community, on the family and on the schools that such a stream of people has come through the system without achieving the necessary minimum skills. [More…]
I suppose that one of the most important issues as far as the people of Australia are concerned was the Family Law Bill. [More…]
One of the first very interesting Bills which was introduced in the Senate after my election in May 1974 was the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
I hark back to the Family Law Bill and I remind Senator Gietzelt that the Bill which was introduced in 1974 was the third version which was introduced into the Senate by the then Attorney-General, Senator Murphy. [More…]
This survey excluded women who had alcoholic or sick husbands not earning an income and so had to be the bread winners in the family. [More…]
The trade union movement in this country has done precious little about the fact that it now takes two people’s wages to keep a family and the days when one man’s wages were sufficient to keep a wife and family and women did not have to work have gone. [More…]
What has he done to make sure that counselling on family planning and information on how to cope with family responsibilities is available? [More…]
5-Maternity, Paternity and Family Leave. [More…]
I take exception to an accusation that I have done nothing within the trade union movement to support a wage that is capable of sustaining a family unit. [More…]
Senator Bishop and others in this chamber also supported for many years the view that there should be a wage sufficient to provide for the needs of a family unit. [More…]
However, I almost sought advice from the Family Court because there seemed to be a wide spread of claims in respect to the parenthood of the legislation in this situation. [More…]
Does the proposed legislation relating to the so-called Curran scheme come within the usual objections to retrospective legislation where taxpayers have arranged their family affairs and incurred substantial expenditure on the basis of long-standing laws and fully accepted tax principles? [More…]
I realise that this controversial section is a very small percentage of the total family area, but I do consider it an important one that needs to be treated very sensitively. [More…]
-In order that there should be an understanding of this matter, let me first say this: The part of SEMP that deals with the family is the one that would contain the section on alternative life styles. [More…]
I suggest that it be looked at as a whole and if the family section of SEMP is looked at as a whole, it will be found to be balanced. [More…]
The Smith Family, the St Vincent de Paul Society and other groups have had to render assistance to people who are suffering hardship and to destitute families. [More…]
I do not think that anybody could reasonably say he would want his family travelling on the same aircraft as a Prime Minister. [More…]
There is concern about the effect that that will have in frustrating the objectives of the Family Law Act in particular. [More…]
Where a patient is in a nursing home which charges a fee above the statutory fee upon which we have based our support, there is a gap, and it needs to be met either by the family of the patient or by arrangements with the nursing home concerned. [More…]
The gap would need to be covered by the next of kin or family or by special arrangements because the government subsidy is at the level I have mentioned. [More…]
By this time I believe that this man was in fairly desperate straits trying to keep his family. [More…]
To Lady Henty and the family of the late Sir Denham we extend our deepest sympathy. [More…]
That the Senate expresses its deep regret at the death on 9 May 1978 of the Honourable Sir Norman Henry Denham Henty K B E., a senator for the State of Tasmania from 1 July 1950 until 30 June 1968, a Minister of the Crown from 1 956 to 1 968 and a former Leader of the Government in the Senate, 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…]
I am sure that neither he nor his family would mind my recalling the fact that in Launceston there is a very fine airport terminal for which the people of Launceston can thank, I think in a very large degree, the efforts of Denham Henty. [More…]
I therefore wish to be associated with the expressions of sympathy which have been made to Lady Henty and the family on this rather sad occasion. [More…]
I am certain that the years he had in retirement were a great comfort to his wife, Lady Faith, and his family. [More…]
I would like to be associated with this condolence motion and offer my very deepest sympathy to Sir Denham ‘s widow and family in the great loss that they have sustained. [More…]
I am sure all honourable senators 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…]
My question, which is directed to the Attorney-General, relates to regulation 162 of the Family Law Act 1975 which makes it necessary for members of Parliament, as it does for members of the public, to obtain leave of a judge or magistrate or the Registrar of the Family Court before transcripts of evidence and information that may be helpful to them in determining an inquiry made on behalf of a constituent can be obtained. [More…]
The reason for the problem mentioned by Senator Coleman is the fundamental difference between the procedure of the Family Court and procedures of other courts of Australia in that the Family Court is not open to the public. [More…]
That was a very firm policy decision of this Parliament when the Family Law Act was passed after a lengthy debate here and in another place in 1974 and 1975. [More…]
I am aware also of a good deal of opposition to it, but I do not want to express a personal view in relation to the matter, particularly as the Family Law Act may well be reviewed by a parliamentary committee in the near future. [More…]
It is rather interesting to note that during the whole of the time that we spent in that area he and his family were the only Aboriginal persons we saw. [More…]
The company can even determine, as happens in some company towns in Western Australia, whether the members of a person’s immediate family can visit that person and, if they do visit, how long they will stay and at exactly what point of time they will leave. [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…]
And tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and the members of his 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…]
On behalf of the Opposition I express my sympathy to Dame Pattie and family. [More…]
That phrase spoken by a member of the Royal family, to whom Sir Robert was so proud to look as the pillar of democracy, was as appropriate as it was simple. [More…]
I extend deep sympathy to other members of the Menzies family. [More…]
Senator JANINE HAINES (South Australia) It is with considerable regret that I rise today to extend my sympathies and those of the Australian Democrats to the widow and family of the late Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
To his family I extend my sympathy. [More…]
Whilst Australia has lost a man who is an integral part of her history the members of his family have lost not a hero but the man they loved. [More…]
Fellows such as Senator Sir Robert Cotton, who is in the chamber, will dearly remember that Sir Robert Menzies talked about how he detested the petty bureaucracy which bedevilled the ordinary family; how much he felt that government ought to be designed to free the ordinary person and to help him to fulfil himself. [More…]
In those years I saw the family man. [More…]
Anyone who knew the Menzies with the young familythe Menzies who walked so often from the Lodge across to this House- will recall seeing him with his daughter Heather laughing and joking together. [More…]
I recall the delightful sense of humour of the two and the obvious enormous affection which pervaded the family. [More…]
It is a sad time for the family, for Dame Pattie, for his son and his daughter. [More…]
I want to join in expressing the hope that the gentleness of time will soften the sorrow of the Menzies family, and to acknowledge with thanks the contribution that he made. [More…]
Thank God on this occasion that he gave those talents to the service of his country, much to our admiration and the admiration and affection of his family, whose service to him, especially during the last few years of his affliction, is something that we will always remember with the deepest affection. [More…]
As a Queensland senator, I think that on this occasion I should speak some words of condolence to Dame Pattie Menzies and the other members of Sir Robert’s family. [More…]
I express my deep and sincere sympathy to her and other members of her family. [More…]
For her, for Sir Robert’s son, daughter, brothers and other members of his family, there is a great respect in Victoria. [More…]
On behalf of the people in Liberal politics in Victoria I wish for his widow and family happiness in their lives ahead. [More…]
I am sure they will have the feeling that although they have lost a great family man and a fine friend, they have given to the nation someone who was worthy. [More…]
Few people have commanded such respect and love from a cross-section of the community- from the man in the street to Queen Elizabeth herself- and this must be of great comfort to Dame Pattie and her family. [More…]
I would like to extend my sympathy to Dame Pattie and her family. [More…]
Faith and time are the only healers and, whilst it may be hard for the members of his family to recognise that at the moment, I am sure that over the years their sorrow will be lessened and they, too, will realise that we are all the better for his having lived amongst us. [More…]
I offer my condolences to the members of his family. [More…]
1 ) Family Allowances have not been increased since May 1976, [More…]
Unlike pensions, family allowances have not been indexed to take account of movements in the Consumer Price Index, [More…]
The failure to index family allowances means that as at November 1977, the family with one child is 70 cents a week worse off, the family with two children is $ 1 . [More…]
70 a week worse off, the family with three children is $2.90 a week worse off, the family with four children is $4. [More…]
10 a week worse off and the family with five children is $5.50 a week worse off. [More…]
Restore the real value of family allowances, [More…]
Index family allowances in the same way that pensions have been indexed. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Health, refers to the changes to Medibank and, in particular, to a Press report this morning which indicated that the Minister for Health had told a Press conference that the changes to the health insurance scheme should bring about a reduction in family health insurance contribution rates of about 46c a week and that the health funds would be made to pass on those savings to contributors, if necessary. [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…]
Is the Minister aware that the Belconnen Family Day Care has a waiting list of more than 400 children; if so, can the Minister assure the Belconnen Community Service that priority will be given by the Child Care Office to finding a solution to this problem. [More…]
including Jervis Bay, and to encourage the coordination of Commonwealth Government programs in the child care field with other children ‘s services and family welfare programs in the Australian Capital Territroy. [More…]
There are two family day care services conducted by that organisation; each has a capacity for 100 children and recent advice from the organisation indicates that the child capacity of these services has not been reached. [More…]
Is it further a fact that several hundred phone calls have been received by an innocent, certainly unconnected, Sydney family who have had to redirect them to the correct number? [More…]
I can understand that some unsuspecting Sydney family received many calls expressing great interest in the invitation on which its telephone number was printed. [More…]
I shall certainly refer the matter to the Minister for Home Affairs to see that an appropriate apology is given to the family concerned. [More…]
I shall draw his attention to the gesture which has been suggested by Senator Rae, namely, that all members of the family be invited to this splendid opening which I am sure has been of such interest to that family over the past week or so. [More…]
It is extremely unfortunate that the case of Mr Wood has been made a public issue and that he and his family have had to be the subject of claims and counter-claims in the Press and in this Parliament. [More…]
I have been heard before on the question of family trusts and I will be again. [More…]
The program represented an expansion of the earlier policy and included family day care, day centres, pre-schools, play groups, out-of-school care, emergency and occasional care, toddlers’ groups and baby-sitting pools. [More…]
I would like to point out that the former Government’s policy of providing 75 per cent cost of salaries of agreed staff in pre-schools, provided they confirm that they extend and integrate their activities to cover other areas of family need, will continue. [More…]
75 per cent cost of salaries of agreed staff in preschools, provided they confirm that they extend and integrate their activities to cover other areas of family need, will continue. [More…]
Times were a little better when I reared my family, although they were not anywhere near as good as they ought to have been. [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…]
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…]
These negroes have been robbed of their land, their lore, their language, their family, their tribe, their culture and their customs. [More…]
It certainly has been the case in past years where a surviving spouse has often been placed in a very difficult situation through the imposition of death duties on the value of the family home. [More…]
On the decease of the principal of the business the surviving members of the family sometimes in the past have been placed in a crippling position as a result of the imposition of death duties. [More…]
What in fact we are talking about under these four Bills- this is why it is appropriate for them to be linked together- is the imposition of some form of tax on the passing on of an estate from a deceased person to those closely related members of his family who are dealt with in the Bills which are before us. [More…]
It is the view of the Australian Labor Party- I would have thought that this is a view which is held not only by socialists but by a number of people who believe in the equality of opportunity and in a more egalitarian society- that there should not be an unrestricted flow of capital from one member of a family to another member of a family. [More…]
For example, this legislation provides that the family of a man who might happen to fly over Western Australia in an aeroplane, see a lump of iron ore and as a consequence amass a multi-million dollar fortune- one could make some comments about the personal effort involved in acquiring that sort of fortune- could on that man’s death become beneficiaries of that fortune without any portion of it coming to the Commonwealth of Australia in the form of estate or death duty. [More…]
In view of the earlier damaging references about inheritance being some form of evil I ask whether the Senate considers inheritance to be relevant to the concept of the family. [More…]
The family unit is still the basic unit of this free society and we tend to guard it in that capacity. [More…]
It is my view that inheritance, the family unit and the abolition of death duties are virtually one and the same concept; that one is significant and definitely referable to the others. [More…]
In the lifetime of this Government it has introduced tax reform in clear areas- the family allowances system; the full indexation of income taxation, which was righting one of the rip-offs of the Whitlam era; the tax cuts of February 1977; and the total indexation of pensions to the full consumer price index. [More…]
Such is the nature of the individual in this society, who seeks to protect beyond his death the assets that he has accumulated, having made no provision in his own time for the protection, education and support of members of his family who have had to survive themselves by their own efforts. [More…]
So much for the protection of the family, Senator Scott. [More…]
I do not doubt that Mr Iwasaki would like those assets to flow, without any limitation whatsoever, to his family. [More…]
I know of one family of three sons who worked on a dairy farm with their mother and father. [More…]
I know of another family where, when the husband was alive, he and his wife farmed their property very effectively. [More…]
In any event at least she is being generous to that extent, but what about the children in the family? [More…]
Does the Government intend to cut the family allowances, about which it has boasted so much over the past two and a half years, or does it intend to cheat the unemployed again, as it did in the previous Budget. [More…]
About six months ago there was a good deal of publicity about family trusts which were established by senior Ministers of the Government for the explicit purpose of evading tax on incomes. [More…]
Do your private family companies, family trusts have the effect of lowering the rate of tax that you pay? [More…]
Family trusts are designed to help keep the family’s assets together, yes. [More…]
So, contrary to Senator Scott’s naive assertion, income largely escapes taxation if one does as most of the senior Ministers of this Government seem to do and establishes a family trust for the explicit purpose of evading tax on income. [More…]
At the same time, last November, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) was also challenged publicly on his family trusts. [More…]
Because you have a family operation, because you want to keep it in the family name, because you do not want to be forced to liquidate your property when you pass on and not enable your children to take it, then you try to make other arrangements. [More…]
But what he is claiming, if one studies the answer very carefully, is that his family trust was established not for the purpose of evading tax on income, but for evading probate duty. [More…]
If that is true, now that this Government is proceeding to abolish probate duty, I assume that we can expect the rapid dissolution of the Anthony family trust if, in fact, Mr Anthony was telling the truth at that time. [More…]
I have no coal interests, or my family have no coal interests. [More…]
Even in Mr Bjelke-Petersen ‘s tortured English, it is perfectly clear that he unequivocally denied that he or his family had any interest in coal mining. [More…]
Well the whole situation in relation to what one might hold, or my family might hold, has got nothing to do with the whole subject that you may wish to debate. [More…]
However, it came through very clearly that Mr BjelkePetersen issued an unequivocal denial that he or his family had interests in companies supplying coal to the Government of Queensland. [More…]
Much has been made of the effect of inheritance taxes on family farms. [More…]
If it is held to be a sacred principle or an inviolable principle that farming properties should pass from generation to generation within the one family- I do not necessarily hold that view- the abolition of inheritance tax does not go nearly far enough to ensure that. [More…]
In those situations where inheritance taxes impose a liquidity squeeze on a family farm or, I suppose, on many family businesses, I think that significant improvements can be made to the position. [More…]
I remind the Senate, in order that we will know the substance of the vote taken at the second reading stage, that the first change that is made by the Bills relating to estate duty is that estate duty will not be payable by the estate of a person who died on or after 2 1 November 1977- that was part of the election policy promise- in respect of” a family property that is passing to the surviving spouse, a child, a grandchild, a parent or a grandparent of the deceased person. [More…]
So, as from 2 1 November 1977, abolition of duty within a family will apply and after 1 July 1979 abolition of probate or death duty in general terms will apply. [More…]
The one wish that the heads of the ordinary Australian family want is the chance to build a home; to get to own the home over a lifetime; to put some furniture and possessions together and to get a car- the Labor Party obviously does not want this- and then upon their death to be able to set up their children with a few thousand dollars here and there to help them along and to be a little better off than they were. [More…]
It was going to get right to the heart of the small home, the small family. [More…]
According to common practice in Japan the workers family were entitled to compensation by the employer but Iwasaki refused payment, blamed the driver of the truck and the case is now being fought in court. [More…]
A Kaunas newspaper printed a photocopy of a letter from the parents of Kalanta: ‘A great misfortune has befallen our family- the suicide of our son. [More…]
The greatest comfort to our family would be to be left in peace.’ [More…]
A similar occurrence took place at Bundaberg, where a family was evicted, and in my own city of Townsville a week or two ago an Aboriginal man was found lying injured beside the main [More…]
Mr Lynch and his family did not have to pay tax on whatever they earned because of the setting up of a family trust. [More…]
For working odd hours, disrupting their family life and travelling all over this continent while serving this Parliament, serving the Australian community, they receive no benefit. [More…]
How many appeals relating to: (a) unemployment benefit, (b) sickness benefit; (c) age pension; (d) invalid pension; (e) supporting mother’s benefit; (f) special benefit; (g) family allowance; (h) orphan’s pension; (i) widow’s pension; (j) domiciliary nursing care benefit; (k) nursing home benefit; (1) handicapped child’s allowance; (m) maternity allowance; and (n) student allowance, were dealt with in each State by Social Security Appeals Tribunals in the March, June, September and December quarters of 1977. [More…]
However, this is an innovation and, in defence of it, it should be said that there is a tendency now for younger people to enter parliamentary life and because they are younger they have younger families and more direct family responsibilities than do older members. [More…]
It is essentially for the protection of a member and his family. [More…]
But if a person can convert his $ 1 8,000 into $50,000 or $90,000 as a lump sum and now without gift duty, distribute it among his family, that is a handsome way in which he can privilege his family if he is a politician. [More…]
Other of the Senate Committee’s recommendations dealing with follow-up welfare work, English language training, welfare benefits, family reunion, etc., are being carried out under the supervision of the Standing Committee, and the Determination of Refugees Status Committee. [More…]
Family Planning Projects in Korea, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bolivia and Yemen are also being funded on a ‘matching grant’ basis by the Australian Government and Non-Government Organisations. [More…]
Community Aid Abroad, DGI (Council of Churches Indonesia), Family Planning Program, $5,500. [More…]
For Those Who Have Less, Bhola Island Family Planning Program, Bangladesh, $ 10,000, Extension: $7,000. [More…]
Save the Children Fund, Family Planning Program, Nepal, $25,000. [More…]
Save the Children Fund, Family Planning Program, Yemen Arab Republic, $7,000. [More…]
It is a Department which deals with two million pensioners and beneficiaries and two million people who receive family allowances. [More…]
This Bill makes it possible for works of art which have been in a family for many years to be donated to the areas I have already mentioned. [More…]
What happens when a family company is formed or a family trust is created? [More…]
I have suggested to them previously that they ought to look at the possibility of allowing families to be taxed on the basis of a family partnership. [More…]
that the Government prepare a detailed scheme for an elective family unit system for public examination. [More…]
Firstly, he argued that if the result was an aggregation of the family income, that would not be acceptable because the tax would be too high. [More…]
I say to the Government and its advisers that the Government ought to be looking at some such family unit scheme. [More…]
In my view, if the Government allowed families to average their income the nonsense about the creation of family partnerships, family trusts and family companies, which all are designed to spread income among husband, wife and children, would no longer continue. [More…]
Before the sitting was suspended I had asked that the Government and its advisers consider the possibility of providing for a scheme along the lines suggested by the Asprey committee- an elective family unit system of taxation. [More…]
There are many ideas that one can put forward about such a system, but the one that appeals to me is that of a family partnership. [More…]
As a Liberal thinking about liberal philosophies, I believe that one of the things we should encourage is marriage and family development. [More…]
If we were to introduce some kind of family partnership taxation system, one could imagine a situation where a couple, when they married, would have the total of their incomes averaged and would pay the average income tax rate on that basis. [More…]
This would mean that if a wife wished to stay at home and mind her children, the family would not be financially disadvantaged by her so doing. [More…]
I would go further: I believe that when a couple have their first child the family should be taxed differently again. [More…]
Because there would be three people in the family, its gross income should be divided by three and each should be required to pay tax on one-third of that income. [More…]
The result of its adoption would be to minimise greatly the prevalence of taxation schemes, all of which are directed to apportioning the gross income of the family among as many members of it as is possible. [More…]
That would be the answer: It would simply be a matter of devising a rate scale which would be appropriate to the change in circumstances as a result of bringing in the family unit, instead of the individual, as the taxation unit. [More…]
In response to Senator Missen, I think it is extremely naive to expect a government led by senior ministers who have publicly proclaimed the existence of their own family trusts, explicitly designed to avoid tax, to be motivated by any consideration of morality or equity when introducing this legislation. [More…]
A question was asked of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) on 9 May in the House of Representatives by my colleague the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) in which among other things he asked whether the Treasurer recalled the Prime Minister’s statement of 23 November and whether the Treasurer had included amongst his recently announced proposals amendments to prohibit this practice, that is, avoiding tax through family trusts. [More…]
He came to the point here- the Government has under consideration tax avoidance measures dealing with family trusts as a broad category, the answer is no. [More…]
On the AM program on 23 November 1 977, after there had been a good deal of publicity of the fact that the former Treasurer and the present Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party had set up family trusts for investment purposes for the explicit purpose of minimising tax payable, just like the people who operated the Curran racket- the purpose is the same- the Prime Minister was asked a question and he said: [More…]
I think it is entirely appropriate for people to have family trusts. [More…]
If, however, we were to impose a higher effective rate of tax on trust income or even the same effective rate of tax as is applied to income received by individuals I expect that there would not be too many family trusts left, and I do not expect that you, Senator, would expect too many either. [More…]
Do your private family . [More…]
Family trusts are designed to keep the families assets together, yes. [More…]
I have already mentioned gifts to charities, family trusts and other fairly well known devices by which the individual taxpayer can minimise the amount of contribution he has to make to revenue. [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…]
One honourable senator reproached the primary producers for devising family trusts to avoid income tax. [More…]
It may be so in large capital enterprises, carried on by companies such as Amatil, or large families that have amassed fortunes, millions; but the idea of creating family trusts, for whom trustees carry on the business and profits flow to the beneficiaries, has gone into the metropolis and has corroded and corrupted. [More…]
Family trusts are formed for the purpose of carrying on a business. [More…]
The reintroduction of the superphosphate subsidy, the introduction of family allowances, the encouragement given to oil and mineral research and development are all matters which are contributing to the revival of the economy and the community. [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…]
About 55 years ago a house in which my family lived in South Brisbane was resumed by the railways because it wanted to connect the southern suburbs with the northern suburbs by rail. [More…]
As I have said, the railways resumed that property 55 years ago to the disadvantage of my family and all our neighbours. [More…]
Students permitted to receive benefits on their own behalf in previous years included orphans, a few married students, and students who could provide the evidence that (a) they were living apart from their families as a result of a permanent breakdown in family relationships, or (b) they had been supporting themselves over a period of at least 1 8 months. [More…]
The change in medical benefits is expected to lead to a reduction of 46 cents a week family rate in medical insurance contributions, reducing the average rate to $4.54 a week. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that if a family with only two children needed to get three prescriptions for each of those children, which is not an uncommon occurrence, that family would be up for $15. [More…]
Thirdly, what action has been taken to implement all or any of thu recommendations of the Family Law Council concerning family law legislation and administration, which recommendations have been in the hands of the Attorney-General since mid- 1977, and which are described in detail in the Council’s 1977 annual report? [More…]
Fourthly, what success has been achieved in solving the chaos and conflict of State and Federal family law jurisdictions, on which negotiations have proceeded now for more than two years? [More…]
The recommendations of the Family Law Council also have been under consideration and some of them are a subject for the preparation of legislation, which again has had to take its place in the queue in this sessional period. [More…]
Clearly, that is the stable basis for the Australian family. [More…]
I am bound to say that whilst not in any way retreating from the responsibility of education, the primary responsibility in these very important matters is that of the family and the community. [More…]
The organisations which were invited represented state schools, pre-schools, independent schools, the Child and Family Welfare Council, the Country Women’s Association, the National Council of Women of Australia and a great number of co-ordinating bodies. [More…]
The Opposition obviously supports the principle of increasing repayments as family circumstances improve. [More…]
This will mean that the low income groups of people, those with sickness in the family or those who know that the family will require a series of medical treatment, will be forced back into Medibank. [More…]
Again we fear that this reduction from 85 per cent to 75 per cent will impose hardship on doctors, health centres, family planning clinics and services of those kinds where the percentage of the fee that they regain from the funds is the only payment they get for their services. [More…]
Sir Magnus and my family are very close. [More…]
Senator Cameron comes from a distinguished South Australian political family. [More…]
At one time I had a rather nasty patch and I will never forget the assistance that was afforded to my wife and family. [More…]
On the matter of East Timor family reunions, in February this year the Indonesian Government advised that final arrangements for a visit to East Timor by an Australian immigration team would be discussed after the Indonesian presidential election which was held in late March. [More…]
On what date in 1977 were review forms forwarded for family allowance for students, in each State and Territory, continuing their studies in 1 978. [More…]
On what date were 1977 family allowance payments for these students terminated pending receipt of completed review forms. [More…]
Does the Department of Social Security intend to send review forms earlier in future so that payment of family allowance for students will be continuous. [More…]
Family Allowance review forms for students were despatched to endowees over the period 1 2 December to 1 9 December 1977. [More…]
Family Allowance for students was paid up to 26 December 1977, being the last instalment due in 1977. [More…]
An approach has been made by a Brisbane community group to the Department of Social Security suggesting the publication of a booklet to be entitled Preparing for a Death in the Family but the Depanment has at this stage made no commitment to such a publication. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and seeks clarification of the changes to the family allowance scheme whereby children’s incomes are indexed. [More…]
Do these changes mean that if the son of a widow earns $10 to $15 a week selling newspapers to supplement his mother’s income her family allowance will be reduced? [More…]
Do these changes mean that if the daughter of a lowincome family works in the local McDonald’s hamburger shop and earns $20 a week, again the family allowance will be reduced? [More…]
Will children such as those who now do not have to put in tax returns have to put in income statements or similar statements so that family allowances can be adjusted in their cases? [More…]
Senator GUILFOYLE A change to the family allowance system was announced in the Budget Speech last night. [More…]
An income test is to be applied to a child to determine the eligibility of parents to a payment of a family allowance. [More…]
The provisions that were announced last night state that if a child is in receipt of income above a certain level there will be a withdrawal of the family allowance. [More…]
The figures given in the instances referred to by Senator Grimes show that the family allowance would be withdrawn. [More…]
When introduced, the family allowance scheme took into account the tax rebates which were given for dependent children in addition to the then child endowment payments. [More…]
It should be recognised by honourable senators that the separate net income can arise from splitting a family income, from trust accounts, from partnership arrangements and from various other sources. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security whose answer to the Opposition spokesman on social security matters, Senator Grimes, did not explain in any way the statement at page 86 of the Budget Papers that the new family allowance income test would save $90m. [More…]
Does this proposed new scheme mean that every child who earns over $6 a week will thereby prevent his or her mother from receiving the full amount of the family allowance to which she is entitled? [More…]
I indicated that income of such a nature earned by a child would reduce or eliminate the amount of the family allowance that would be paid to the families involved. [More…]
The announcement last night by the Treasurer was clear, I believe, to all who read it, and stated that in future family allowances will be income tested on the basis of a child’s income. [More…]
I mentioned to Senator Grimes in response to his question that later this year a form will be sent out from the Department to every recipient of the family allowance. [More…]
Later this year the Department will send a form to every recipient of the family allowance explaining the effect of the change and requesting details of the income earned by each child during the 12 months ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
Continuing entitlement to the family allowance will be assessed when the forms are returned to the Department. [More…]
Senator Harradine referred to the fact that the family allowance that is paid to the parents of children who are earning pocket money would be reduced. [More…]
As far as the Government is concerned, the family allowance scheme did relate to the child rebate scheme- that is, the tax rebate at the time it was introduced- and the previous child endowment scheme. [More…]
This year almost $ 1,000m will be spent on the family allowance scheme. [More…]
I can say only that I am sure that the effect of the Budget in its entirety and the effect of the almost $ 1,000m that will be paid in family allowances next year will show that this Government has been very responsive to the needs of Australian children and the strengthening of the Australian family. [More…]
This proposed change to the family allowance scheme will have the effect that children who are in receipt of a separate net income of over $312 will have a reduced family allowance paid on their behalf. [More…]
I can give no explanation other than that at present over $ 1,000m is paid in family allowances and in the forthcoming year under $ 1,000m will be paid. [More…]
The Premier’s son, who has gained distinction for showing no inclination ever to serve with the civilian organisation Volunteers Abroad, is the third generation of the family to have carefully avoided becoming involved in war. [More…]
The example that was bandied about between Senators Durack and Georges was no doubt the securities and exchange report, but another example is provided by the family law report, which took years to complete and required follow-up. [More…]
I have never described figures as rubbery, but perhaps I could say that Senator Wriedt did not bounce very well on his predictions with regard to family allowances. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, concerns the means testing of family allowances. [More…]
Was the introduction of a means test on family allowances aimed principally at wealthy children who receive an unearned income through inherited property or through devices such as income splitting by trusts? [More…]
What would be the cost to revenue of exempting from the family allowance means test any income earned by the personal endeavour of the dependent child? [More…]
The Government introduced the means test on children’s income after reflecting on the fact that the family allowance scheme replaced the tax rebate which had previously been given to parents for a dependent child. [More…]
How much longer will Mr Ruberto and his family have to wait for a decision in this not excessively complex matter? [More…]
-The Family Law Act has now been in operation for more than 2!6 years, having commenced on 5 January 1 976. [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…]
Before that, the Family Law Bill had been examined by the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs as part of its examination of the reference on the then existing divorce law. [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 [More…]
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 stronger 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 ofthe Act to a parliamentary committee. [More…]
Some honourable senators 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…]
I should like to 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 that make up the Family Courts. [More…]
The Family Law Act, when before the Senate, was the subject of a non-party debate. [More…]
the provisions, and the operation, of the Family Law Aci 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…]
-by leave- I indicate briefly that the Opposition supports the establishment of this joint select committee to review the Family Law Act. [More…]
Those of us who were associated with the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs at the time it dealt with the family law legislation when it was before the Senate will recall that many of the issues which now re-emerge in the terms of reference of the select committee were gone over fairly thoroughly by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. [More…]
I think it is a matter of regret that because the family law legislation was not voted on along party lines in the Senate the Government did not see fit to consult with the Opposition regarding the terms of reference of this joint select committee which, as I said, canvasses much the same grounds as the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee canvassed in 1974 and 1975 and indeed members of this Senate canvassed in the debate that took place when the legislation was considered on totally non-party lines. [More…]
The Family Law Act as it was adopted in 1975 was basically dealt with in the Senate. [More…]
I want to make one other comment: That relates to the constitutional difficulties which have occurred since the Family Law Bill became law, particularly those which have occurred in relation to custody and maintenance matters. [More…]
They were problems in the administration of the Family Law Act relating to custody and maintenance. [More…]
I agree with the Attorney-General that the functions of this committee of inquiry need not in any way derogate from the functions of the Family Law Council. [More…]
If there had been a Committee stage I would have liked to hear from the Attorney-General how he thinks the Family Law Council is operating. [More…]
It seems that it would not be necessary for the select committee to impinge on the proper functions of the Family Law Council and vice versa. [More…]
The fact that it is impossible to obtain a cancellation of Yugoslav citizenship is well-illustrated by correspondence in Attachment (C) by Martin and Barker, Solicitors, who have been trying, since September 1 976, to find a way of cancelling citizenship for a family living in Canberra. [More…]
Mr Marko Nazor, 3 1 , of Downer, who returned to his family in Australia this month after three years in a Yugoslav jail, said yesterday that he had been subjected to psychological torture and threatened with the death of his wife and three children while a political prisoner. [More…]
He had been taken from his family’s home and imprisoned and been subjected to periods of interrogation lasting anything from eight to 16 hours before being put on trial in October. [More…]
The fishing industry has been traditionally a family type of operation with sons following fathers down the line. [More…]
As we move down the list we find some very substantial consumer items which concern the every day family, including woven shirts, knitted undergarment shirts, babies napkins, women’s blouses, knitted coats, female outer garments, dressing gowns, swim wear, men’s shorts, men’s trousers. [More…]
1 ) To which part of the Social Services Act 1947 was the Minister referring when she said (Senate Hansard, 22 February 1978, page 20) that ‘the Social Services Act specifically provides that family allowance payments cease from the end ofthe four-weekly payment period in which the full-time education ceases’. [More…]
and (2) Section 103 (1) ofthe Social Services Act 1947 specifies the circumstances where family allowance ceases to be payable in respect of a child or student child. [More…]
I am aware of the concern that is expressed in the community with regard to the means testing of family allowances to take account of the basis of a child’s income. [More…]
I say again, as I said last week, that, in taking this decision, the Government had in mind circumstances where, as a result of trusts and other income-splitting devices, children receive separate income whilst their parents continue to receive the family allowance. [More…]
Is it a fact that such a distinction would ensure an equitable result in the application of the Budget announcement relating to family allowances? [More…]
If these devices arc used the Government believes that family allowances should not be paid and that a means test should be applied to such an income received by children. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, follows an answer she gave earlier during Question Time to the effect that there was a good deal of confusion about the Budget proposals for income testing of the family allowance and that a review of the legislation in relation to the family allowance was being undertaken to ensure the elimination of any unintended consequences of the Budget proposal. [More…]
Was it intended by the Government, when it introduced the Budget, that family allowances would be income tested on the basis of income derived from the personal exertions of children? [More…]
If so, will the Minister now give an unqualified assurance to the people of Australia that family allowances will not be income tested on the basis of income derived from the personal exertions of children? [More…]
If the Minister cannot now give that assurance to the people of Australia, can she provide a break-up of the $90m referred to at page 86 of the Budget Papers as being a saving due to the new family allowance arrangements? [More…]
With regard to the second part of Senator Harradine ‘s question in which he mentioned the $90m that was referred to in the Budget Papers, of that figure I think some $37m was the estimate of the saving that would be made as a result of the means testing of the family allowance. [More…]
1 may be imprecise, but something like $37m or $38m relates to the means testing of the family allowance. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and arises out of replies that she has given in respect of family allowances. [More…]
Is the Senate correct in drawing the conclusion that the family allowance proposals contained in the 1978 Budget were badly conceived and that arising from the public outcry the Government has changed its mind? [More…]
In response to questions today about family allowances I have indicated that the Government was concerned at the reaction in the community with regard to this decision and that it has reviewed the decision. [More…]
Originally in the mind of the Government was the fact that family trusts are set up and income splitting occurs. [More…]
It believed that where a child could not be regarded as a dependent child the family allowance would be means tested. [More…]
I adverted to the fact that when the family allowance scheme was set up the original tax rebates for dependent children were used as part of the source from which funds were able to be drawn. [More…]
There are any number of schemes for youth, the middle aged and the family man. [More…]
To me this Bill represents a real threat to a great number of people who have chanced their arm and have had the guts to risk their capital, their family and income to make Australia better. [More…]
That we are totally opposed to any reduction to the Family Allowance now being paid to parents. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the House will request the Government to maintain the Family Allowance in its present form. [More…]
-When did the Minister for Social Security first realise that the tax to be imposed on a child’s income in excess of $312, which was announced in the Budget last week, would affect families other than those whose children’s incomes are derived from family trusts, partnerships, et cetera? [More…]
Already there are signs of a modest increase in the money provided for housing from the savings banks and a significant increase in the outflow of money through trading banks revealing a basic movement towards the restoration of the capacity of the Australian family to purchase a home. [More…]
We will restore, and we are on the way to restoring, the capacity of the Australian family on the average weekly wage to own a home. [More…]
Rising unemployment- especially in the areas in which women work- and so many women being out of jobs, mean that the family income has been cut in half. [More…]
Those who are worse off are the weak and the unorganised, the poor, the retired, the small businessman and the farmer, the school leaver and the family man. [More…]
The Prime Minister has claimed that the Liberal Party is concerned with the preservation of the family, but the actions of this Budget are contrary to that statement. [More…]
Frequently he uses the analogy of the family budget and talks about balancing it. [More…]
The family budget is rarely balanced because of massive commitments, and for most people the Fraser analogy is quite meaningless. [More…]
I make it quite clear that it would not include normal family possessions such as the home, motor car, and so on. [More…]
We would act positively against the use of family trusts as devices for tax avoidance. [More…]
We would remove the means test on the family allowance, a measure which was in line with our pre-Budget predictions that the Government proposed to tamper with the family allowance. [More…]
It looks at the question of family trusts and thinks that somehow it is an outrageous rip-off on the community. [More…]
They do not appreciate that it is merely a vehicle to achieve some sort of equity in the taxation system and that in fact many people organise their affairs in that way in order to protect their family interests in the long run. [More…]
It is a vital element in preserving the free enterprise economy by virtue of businesses being able to preserve capital within the family. [More…]
We note that Senator Wriedt was saying that a Labor Government would wipe out the means test on family allowances. [More…]
The point about this is that the Government has said already that the means test in respect of children’s income for family allowance purposes will not apply to children ‘s income by virtue of the moneys that they earn from newspaper selling and so on. [More…]
The very thrust of this son of legislation that will be included in the Budget is to stop any abuses in respect of family trusts and family allowances. [More…]
There is a total inconsistency on the part of the Opposition in terms of its approach to the problem of family trusts. [More…]
But in fact here the Opposition is adopting a double standard by trying to let off the hook the person who is abusing the family trust system. [More…]
I might add that these figures relate to the period before the family law legislation came into operation. [More…]
Countless others who would work if they could, particularly to supplement the declining real income of the main family breadwinner, have simply been forced to give up the task as hopeless and to join the ranks of the hidden unemployed. [More…]
As the worker delved more deeply into the Budget, certainly until a couple of days ago, he would have thought that his wife’s family allowance could have been reduced because some of his children earn money through part time work. [More…]
Over recent days, statements have been made here in the Senate by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) and statements have been made in the House of Representatives that some changes will be made in the means test for children’s earnings in relation to the family allowance. [More…]
The Government believes that maternity allowances have been superseded by health care and family allowance arrangements and has therefore decided to abolish this benefit for births occurring after 3 1 October 1978. [More…]
I wonder how anyone expects to be able to obtain from the health care arrangements that we have all the items that are needed after a birth in a family. [More…]
Surely the family allowance arrangements that we had were to provide for something far different from the actual birth because we had maternity allowances for so long. [More…]
He sees greater prospects of unemployment making life difficult for him as the breadwinner of a family, and for his children too as they approach the time to leave school. [More…]
I must say that it is often par for the course for a person who leaves his family overseas to disown them and to disappear. [More…]
If he is prepared to come clean about the existence of his wife and children, I think that his family should be admitted to Australia. [More…]
I am-led to understand by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that Mr Moussa ‘s application for the entry of his family has been refused because of the deception he practised in gaining entry to Australia. [More…]
The information I have from the Minister quotes the history of the applications that were made by Mr Moussa for entry, and declarations he made with regard to his single status and his subsequent application with regard to his family. [More…]
In view of her answers to questions asked earlier this week, can the Minister give an estimate of the number of mothers who will not receive the family allowance next year because of their children ‘s separate incomes from family trusts and partnership arrangements? [More…]
I am not able to give any figures on the means testing of the separate income of children from family trusts or from income splitting devices that may have been established. [More…]
Due to this incident, the minister was forced to transfer his family to the capital of Bataan, and to accept another assignment. [More…]
The Minister announced a change to the means test on the family allowance. [More…]
No longer will the pocket moneys of newsboys- the income they earn from selling papers- affect the amount of the family allowance received by their mothers. [More…]
It would have increased the national debt by $1,000 for the average Australian family. [More…]
We turn to yet another Budget miscalculation- the family allowance means test which has since been abolished or considerably watered down and which was to yield $90m, as I said previously, for the six months period from 1 January 1979 to 30 June 1979. [More…]
1 as resulting from the new family allowance arrangements. [More…]
But I point out to the Senate that this legislation was introduced into the House of Representatives before the announcement by the Government of its review of the family allowance arrangements and its statement that to test eligibility for family allowances on the basis of income derived from the personal exertion of children would be an unintended consequence of the Budget proposals. [More…]
If the words ‘unintended consequence’ mean that there is to be an adjustment of the results in the outlays for social security payments and family allowance payments, there seems to be no amendment at all to this Bill. [More…]
1 it is stated that a number of changes will be made to the family allowance scheme. [More…]
Parents will not be eligible for a family allowance in respect of children receiving student allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme and other educational scholarships. [More…]
The changes also exclude invalid pensioners and persons living abroad from receiving family allowances. [More…]
We can subtract the TEAS adjustment of $2 1.7m which I have just mentioned as representing what the students will lose under the family allowance scheme and what they will be compensated for through the increased TEAS and other payments. [More…]
During the last financial year $ 1,038m was spent on family allowances. [More…]
I say a minimum because the average calculations are based only on those who would have been excluded totally from receiving the family allowances because they had an income of over $20 a week. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested but rather by implementing the Government’s financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker and contribute to family support programs, thus reversing the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
Furthermore, thousands upon thousands of young married women want to leave the work force and start a family, but they cannot do so because of housing finance problems. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Australian Government’s involvement in the 1979 International Year of the Child should pursue, as a major theme for action, the position of the child in the context of the family. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) is aware of the interest of many members of the Parliament, indeed I assume all members of the Parliament, in the preservation of family life. [More…]
A meeting of Ministers responsible for family affairs or their representatives from 1 9 European states was held in Bonn from 7 to 9 September 1977 to discuss ways of promoting the educational role of the family. [More…]
The discussions concentrated on the particular situation of today’s family, the need to stimulate the educational abilities of the family, and the concept of family-related counselling. [More…]
The European Ministers hope that this event will stimulate a better understanding of the positions of the child in the social and family context in every country of the world, taking into account the conditions, needs and priorities of each country, and that it will make it possible to develop measures designed to foster the physical, mental and social well-being of all children, and in particular those of the third world. [More…]
The Ministers refuted criticism that had been directed towards the family and particularly towards the education of children within the family context, and I agreed with that. [More…]
Honourable senators know as well as I do that there is no institution within society which is more capable or better equipped than the family to provide educational or a social welfare and health delivery system. [More…]
Although the rapid social changes of recent years have led to questioning the previously undisputed acceptance of existing institutions, there is no doubt that, even today, the family should be considered the basic element of society. [More…]
The difficulties it must face in today’s society have undoubtedly become more serious, and they still increase in number when the image of the family, on the one hand, and the social concepts of life in society, on the other, become divergent. [More…]
In no country, the Ministers found, is there doubt as to the viability and irreplaceable role of the family. [More…]
Even today’s nuclear family assumes tasks which cannot be assumed by other social groups- or, if so, only partially. [More…]
On the other hand, stresses within the family due, for instance, to the change from hierarchical family relationships to relationships based on equality of spouses and a greater autonomy of children, or problems in relations between parents and educational institution, or specific educational problems, such as sex education, may be found in all countries. [More…]
The Conference acknowledged that State and society have a duty to assist the family in fulfilling its manifold tasks: however, they believed that, in principle, the State should not challenge the basic rights of parents to educate their children. [More…]
The Ministers gave priority to parents’ education and family-related counselling services- particularly parents’ education because they believed that preventive measures should be given preference over curative measures. [More…]
I quote that to illustrate the direction that is being taken in the European countries, at least by the European Ministers responsible for family affairs, in relation to the 1979 International Year of the Child. [More…]
Many people within the community will be looking to the attitudes of the committees to see whether they are supportive of the child within the family context particularly. [More…]
Senate who think about the matter that family planning associations should have anything to do with abortions. [More…]
After all, the attitude of some family planning associations that abortion is an acceptable or desirable form of fertility control really condemns those family planning associations for the fact that they are not doing the job for which they were established. [More…]
Nevertheless, there are a number of family planning associations in the various States that receive substantial financial assistance from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
In 1976-77 grants totalling $514,264 were approved by the then Occupational and Social Health Projects Branch of the Department of Health for disbursement to the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and the Melbourne Action Centre. [More…]
In 1977-78, the grants totalled $525,364, including - and I want to emphasise this-$ 149,095 for the New South Wales Family Planning Association. [More…]
Those members of Estimates Committee D will remember that last year I asked questions of officials of the Department of Health about the attitude of family planning associations to abortions. [More…]
In reply to another honourable senator, the officials stated that family planning associations did not offer facilities to perform abortions, but that they did offer advice on abortion. [More…]
Therefore there is not very much dispute about the fact that some family planning associations offer advice about abortion in the context of family planning. [More…]
The major objective of this motion is to draw the attention of the Senate, and indeed of the people of Australia, to the development of an attitude in some family planning associations, that attitude being that abortion is an acceptable and indeed a safe method of birth control, fertility control or even of conception. [More…]
The development of this attitude within government-funded family planning associations is something which raises the question of continued funding of these bodies if there has been a change from their policies when the grants were first initiated. [More…]
As I have mentioned previously, to me, a family planning association which advocates abortion as an acceptable form of fertility control is a damning indictment of its own effectiveness. [More…]
There are some family planning associations which have recognised the danger of being caught up in this new approach. [More…]
The Family Planning Association of Tasmania is one such organisation which recognises the danger of being caught up in this new approach. [More…]
To relieve poverty, to prevent ill-health in the special field of family life and to reduce the incidence of abortion. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to contrast this with the views of people associated with the New South Wales Family Planning Association who appear to be adopting an attitude which is heading in a different direction altogether. [More…]
I refer firstly to the comment by Professor Charles Kerr on 7 February 1978, soon after his election to the post of President of the Family Planning Association of New South Wales. [More…]
But another official of the New South Wales Family Planning Association has gone further. [More…]
The New South Wales Director of the Family Planning Association, Judy McLean, was interviewed on the ABC Broadband program in March 1977. [More…]
If it was done for instance like Family Planning Clinics that are dotted right throughout the metropolitan area the cost of it would go down and it would be a feasible method of birth control . [More…]
I am not unaware of the fact that shortly after I raised that matter in the Senate Estimates Committee hearing, the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations, at its annual general meeting declared: [More…]
The Government might reply by saying: ‘We certainly provide money to the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and they redistribute it to family planning associations’. [More…]
It is up to the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations to apply its own policy to its constituent bodies. [More…]
That is the situation of the family planning associations. [More…]
If the Senate passes this motion then it will serve notice on the family planning associations that they can continue to receive public moneys, that is government grants, for legitimate activity in the family planning area but once they cross the line and become merely abortion referral agencies under the guise of family planning, they will receive no further support. [More…]
But let us not forget that that argument is advanced by the director of the New South Wales Family Planning Association which receives massive financial support from the taxpayers’ pockets, that is from the Government. [More…]
I believe that if this motion is passed by the Senate it will go a long way to ensuring that family planning associations do the job for which they were established and that they do not engage in acting as referral agencies for abortions. [More…]
His unbelievable and totally unwarranted attack on Mr Bruce Goodluck, MHR over the sale of the ferry pontoons; his recent incredible predictions about alleged alterations to the Family Allowance Scheme, and now the fact that within four days he has apparently forgotten how he voted on motions at a mass public meeting in Hobart, all give cause for grave concern. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government, through public pressure, has been able to reverse some other decisions made in the Budget- Senator Guilfoyle who is in charge of the Senate tonight as recently as Tuesday told us that she would introduce amending legislation to the Budget in respect of the decision to stop the payment of family allowances in cases where children earned income- I hope that the Government in its wisdom will do the same in this case. [More…]
It should be understood that the only family reunions which can be arranged are those which fall within the terms of this agreement. [More…]
Is the $98,000 which has been allocated to the family research project at the University of New South Wales for 1978-79 intended to have particular reference to the stated objectives of the International Year of the Child, that is, to raise the level of services to children? [More…]
I further ask whether this research project, which was initiated in 1972 and has received a total allocation of $314,000 since then, has published the results of its research into the family. [More…]
This year’s Budget allocation of $98,000 for the family research project at the University of New South Wales was provided for the purposes set out in the terms of reference for the project. [More…]
The terms of reference of the family research unit include a study of the incidence and demography of family breakdown, the possible causes and consequences of family breakdown, the emergence of new family patterns and structures and the community services available to the Australian family. [More…]
The family research unit has undertaken an extensive survey of Australian and overseas literature on the family. [More…]
It has published three research bulletins entitled ‘The Australian Family’. [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics undertook a national family survey in 1975. [More…]
Information from that survey has now become available to the family research unit and it will publish ‘Families in Australia- A Profile’ in November of this year. [More…]
I must say that in our family we were anxious to have fluoridation even before the Sydney water supplies were officially given this additive. [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…]
1) Are single students who claim the full independent allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) because of ‘difficult conditions at home ‘ required to provide a detailed floor plan of the family home; if so, why. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Education not concerned at implications to Australian research programs of provisions in the 1978 Budget which would reduce payments to Commonwealth research grant scholars with families to little more than what a man with similar family responsibilities would receive on the dole? [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security advise the Senate whether in Queensland last year family allowance was paid for school leavers up to 27 December? [More…]
I will inquire into the matters which relate to the dates of the payment of family allowance and any instructions that may have been given. [More…]
I will have investigated the matter with regard to family allowances that was raised by Senator Colston. [More…]
I do not know what that means in terms of a Greek migrant child in the inner suburbs of Melbourne who is told that Senator Carrick is concerned about quality in education, but I know that it is very important for that Greek migrant child to have the benefit of multilingual teaching in the school, to have the benefit of teachers who can speak in his language and in that of his family, who can speak to his parents, and who can help him to assess his identity in a difficult situation and in a difficult environment. [More…]
I must place on record my thanks to my wife and family for their encouragement and help, and especially for their inspiration. [More…]
This is a time when the Australian people are being subjected to hardships and uncertainties, resulting in many cases in the breakdown of the family structure. [More…]
These people have learned to value constructive work and to value family life, not in a wowserish reaction to the distorted radicals of recent years but by positive search for fulfilment and enrichment of life and by encouragement of those things which are strong and lovely and of good report. [More…]
In general this is true, as is evidenced principally by the temporary measure to raise income tax rates by 1 lA per cent for all incomes rather than to concentrate the new tax burden on only one section of the community, as would have been the case if the family allowance had been reduced significantly. [More…]
Its effects are not just confined to the person unemployed, but they are felt throughout the whole structure of family life. [More…]
Family allowances are also looked after in this country by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Welcome as the Government’s withdrawal was, this diversion should not cloud the important fact, that by not increasing family allowances since their introduction the value of these allowances has been eroded. [More…]
The payment of family allowances was not an increased government expenditure; it was a transfer of moneys from the old tax rebate system. [More…]
The extent of the erosion of family income, which has occurred since this Government came to power, was demonstrated in a table prepared by the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
It showed that families with children which had one bread winner earning an income on or below average weekly earnings were up to $ 1 1 a week worse off as a result of the present Government’s tax policies and family allowance changes. [More…]
It makes no mention of restoring maternity allowances, indexing family allowances, indexing additional pensions for children or of increasing those pensions below the Henderson poverty line to the poverty line. [More…]
There is a totally unexpected attackonthemostseverelydisadvantaged people in our community through the decision to cut back the indexation of age pensions from a six-month to a 12-month frequency; by imposing new tax burdens on other recipients of social security pensions; by taxing family allowances through the mechanism of taxing children’s incomes; by abolishing the maternity allowance, which was a very minor form of assistance to families; by imposing a totally inequitable form of increased taxation through indirect taxes which, of course, fall more heavily on the poor than on the rich; and by failing entirely to raise new and proper sources of revenue from the very rich and fruitful enterprises which are carried out in the minerals and energy sector of the country. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs refers to the arrest this week of Mr Steve Biko ‘s family in South Africa, on the first anniversary of Biko’s controversial death in detention in that country. [More…]
Will the Australian Government protest to the South African Government and call for the immediate release of the Biko family and others similarly detained? [More…]
To be able to respond to that, one would need to know the circumstances and the alleged claims which have given rise to the arrest of the Biko family. [More…]
There is no contact with family or friends. [More…]
How many hundreds and thousands of women and children who have got into difficulties through the problems associated with nuclear families in this country, who have become split away from the nuclear family, and who have had nowhere to go, have been helped by women’s shelters in the various States. [More…]
The family had to do everything. [More…]
Brought down in the Budget was the so-called newsboys’ tax under which the parents of a dependent child who received an income above a stipulated level would be ineligible for a family allowance. [More…]
Their perception of reality and the incomes of dependent children is of course related to children who receive income from family trusts set up for the purpose of evading taxation. [More…]
But instead of doing the logical thing and tightening up on the tax laws on family trusts which have enabled people such as the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and no doubt virtually all the senior Ministers of this Government to evade taxation, they thought it would be a better idea to phase out family allowances for dependent children who have incomes. [More…]
A tightening up of the laws on family trusts would have affected them. [More…]
The Government decided that instead of doing the logical thing and tightening up the provisions which enable people to dodge taxes through family trusts, and because that taxdodging potential provides more money than the family allowance for the Prime Minister and others, they decided to knock off the family allowance instead of tightening up on the taxation laws. [More…]
Senator Walsh, who led for the Opposition, took us through a rather circuitous bypath of family trusts and other matters which were challenged by honourable senators on this side as being somewhat irrelevant. [More…]
I think that most primary producers are familiar with the concept of family partnerships, family companies, and, in some cases, family trusts which are used to arrange their affairs in a businesslike manner. [More…]
This takes on added importance when senior people are in good health, active in mind and body, close to community affairs and close at hand to family. [More…]
Professor Henderson said it would also cost an immeasurable amount in human hardship, family breakdown and psychological stress. [More…]
We should always recognise that the problems they face mainly are personal ones which have kept them apart from family and friends, and that their way of life without a settled environment adds to the problems. [More…]
Unemployment and near poverty- actual poverty in many cases- puts the most terrible strains on family life. [More…]
I think it starts with people who are forced to live in small flats, perhaps going back to the family home, and leads to baby bashing. [More…]
People cannot be expected to go on living in caravans and to carry on a happy family life. [More…]
It is almost inevitable that at some time during the life of such a family one of the children will reach the stage of becoming homeless. [More…]
An additional $100 is payable for the first child in each family qualifying for second home allowance assistance. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, deals with the means testing of family allowances. [More…]
Will the Minister now give an unqualified assurance to the people of Australia that family allowances will not be income tested on the basis of income derived from the personal exertions of children? [More…]
I recall that in August we discussed the income testing of family allowances on the basis of income in the hands of children. [More…]
Following our party meeting today, at the Press conference which is held subsequent to each party meeting I advised the Press that last night the Cabinet had made a decision that family allowances would be means tested on the basis of income received by children at a threshold of income in excess of $1040 a year. [More…]
That is, if a child is in receipt of income of $20 per week the means test will be applied to the family allowance. [More…]
The income that will be exempt from family allowance testing will be maintenance payments received on behalf of children, scholarship income including Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances, superannuation compensation, pension income, and trust income derived from deceased parents. [More…]
There is a free area of income of $20 per week on means tested pensions, and the same threshold is now to be applied to the income testing for family allowances. [More…]
That figure is based on a threshold of $1,040 per annum and a $ 1 for $4 withdrawal rate; that is, that a first child may earn $20 a week and indeed will continue to receive some family allowance until his income has reached $34. [More…]
A chart is available which shows the abatement of the family allowance on that basis of $1 for $4 withdrawal. [More…]
I should make it quite clear that the income testing of the family allowance is to be on the bas,is of the child’s income. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that when the family allowance scheme was introduced, two factors were put together- the old child endowment scheme and the taxable rebate scheme for dependent children. [More…]
It is not an income test on the family income. [More…]
Family allowances, orphans pensions, handicapped child’s allowance and additional pensions or benefits for a child will generally no longer be payable in respect of children who are classed as living abroad on a permanent basis. [More…]
No change is contemplated in the conditions under which family allowances, the double orphans pension and the handicapped child’s allowance are available to people, including Australian Government employees, who are temporarily absent from Australia. [More…]
I should explain that the general purpose behind the proposal is to prevent the payment of family allowances, the double orphans pension or the handicapped child’s allowance and the additional pension or benefit that is paid on behalf of children who are unlikely to come to Australia, regardless of whether they have been here before. [More…]
The statement I just made in response to a question from Senator Harradine outlined the detail of the Cabinet decision which was made last night with regard to the family allowance income test on income held in the hands of children. [More…]
Previous discussion in this place in regard to family allowances occurred as a result of the statement in the Budget that an income test would be applied to family allowances at the level of an income of $3 12 per annum. [More…]
The review did take place and in response to a question from Senator Harradine I announced that the Cabinet had decided that an income testing arrangement would be introduced for family allowances, taking into account a threshold income of $1,040 per annum. [More…]
On the matter of whether the decision will be revenue producing, in response to a question asked by Senator Grimes I did state that it is estimated that there would be a saving of some $3 lm in a full year on an income testing arrangement of this type if the family allowance were to abate on a $ 1 for $4 withdrawal over an income level of $20 per week. [More…]
I now tell the Senate that on review the Cabinet has decided that income of $20 a week or $ 1 ,040 per annum will be the level at which the family allowance will be income tested. [More…]
The situation has been reviewed and $20 a week is the level at which from 1 January next year family allowances will be income tested. [More…]
It is true that as a result of a second thought by the Government the family allowances have been reconsidered but it cannot be denied by the Government that in its original Budget Speech the newsboy who was selling newspapers or the kids who were running messages and perhaps earning a few dollars a week had to fill in an income statement. [More…]
Depending on the amount of money they earned by running messages or selling newspapers their mothers’ family allowances would have been reduced accordingly. [More…]
It is indeed my conviction that most Australians believe in the system of free enterprise democracy which is based on the family unit, which admits the profit motive within the law as being satisfactory to the desires and the dictates of human nature, which admits equality of opportunity, which admits that freedom is a relatively meaningless concept unless it is experienced within a properly conceived and majority held and enforced discipline. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Social Security aware that on 22 August she answered questions from Senators Harradine and Gietzelt by giving assurances that income derived from personal exertion of a child would not be included in an income test for family allowancesassurances quite unrelated to any specific amount? [More…]
I recall the previous answers that I gave to questions from several honourable senators with regard to family allowances. [More…]
At that time we were talking of the Cabinet decision, as announced in the Budget, that income over $312 per annum received by children would be subjected to means testing for family allowance purposes. [More…]
The review that was undertaken subsequently by the Cabinet of the family allowance scheme and the means testing proposal resulted in the conclusion that a means test should be applied if income were received in excess of $20 a week or $1,040 per annum. [More…]
About two million families receive family allowances and in order to apply a means or income test it will be necessary to ask all of them to return information to the department. [More…]
It must be borne in mind in seeking to means test the family allowance at a level of income of $1,040, that that is the level at which pensions are means tested for receipt of the full pension. [More…]
We believe that to use the same level of exempt income can be accepted as appropriate in means testing for family allowances. [More…]
At present we have no record of the income of children or of families because of the universal nature of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
In other words, will the family allowance be withheld, or partly withheld, from mothers of those children who between June 1977 and June 1978 earned and spent income of more than $20 a week, unaware that a mother would be penalised for the whole of the next year because of what had been earned in the previous year? [More…]
This is means testing of a family allowance system. [More…]
Secondly, is she saying that two million Australian families will now be under continual scrutiny by this Government as to how much any child in a family may earn? [More…]
Thirdly, what sanctions does the Government intend to use against any family that may be, or may be said to be, in breach of the new Government policy? [More…]
The decision that I have announced on the means testing of family allowances is a Government decision. [More…]
I refer her to the Senate Hansard of 22 August of this year and in particular to page 230 where, in answer to a question by Senator Harradine relating to the means testing of the family allowance, she said: [More…]
I refer the Minister further to page 234 where, in answer to a question from Senator Gietzelt again on the matter of the means testing of the family allowance, she is reported as saying: [More…]
I am aware also of the fact that at the time the answers were given the Government was reviewing the decision which had been announced in the Budget- that at an income level of $3 12 per annum an income test would be applied to the family allowance. [More…]
In a situation where there is insecurity one gets family arguments and family problems. [More…]
I predict that, because of the excise that has been imposed and because the growers in the Riverland area cannot sell their grapes, there will be great pressures on families there and family breakups will occur. [More…]
This is the first opportunity that the Opposition has had to comment on the Government’s newproposals for the family allowance. [More…]
The second, and equally important, matter is what will happen to the family allowance scheme when the changes are introduced. [More…]
I shall start by pointing out that the family allowance was introduced in August 1976 as a replacement for the child endowment scheme and the tax rebates which were available in respect of children. [More…]
Under any system the rebate would have been indexed and increased according to the increase in the rate of inflation, and the Opposition pointed out at the time that the family allowance similarly should be indexed and should increase at the same rate as inflation if it were to be a reasonable replacement for the tax rebate. [More…]
Another important factor is that these family allowance payments, except in the few cases where there is no mother, are paid to the mother. [More…]
It was recognised by the Opposition and the Government at the time of the introduction of the new family allowance. [More…]
Much was made in that debate of the fact that the new family allowance was a recognition of the work of the mother in the home- inadequate as that recognition may have been- and was an important part payment to a mother to assist her in rearing a child. [More…]
It has never been suggested, since child endowment was introduced or since the family allowance scheme was introduced, that these payments should be considered a pension in any sense of the word and available only to those who pass a certain means test. [More…]
In August 1976 when the family allowance scheme was introduced there was much fanfare and backslapping but we on this side of the chamber had some suspicion that it was being introduced to avoid the indexation of the tax rebates. [More…]
We also had some suspicion that the family allowance would not be increased regularly. [More…]
It was quickly recognised, on both sides of the House, outside the Parliament, in the media and by various organisations- one could go on endlessly naming the organisations which recognised this fact- that this was going to be unfair and would produce the ridiculous situation whereby paper boys and kids who work in milk bars, chemist shops and so on, would be deprived of family allowances because they were earning a few dollars. [More…]
At the same time I want to concentrate on another important aspect- the injustices and the administrative difficulties which will arise following the introduction of this new family allowance scheme. [More…]
One could call it the family allowances scheme mark III in view of the changes we have had to it since it was introduced in 1976. [More…]
The matter of the Minister’s answers to questions asked in the Senate is important and will be taken up later, but the Government should not be allowed to cover up the fact that the family allowance scheme has lost much of its benefit and that the changes will have serious effects on those who come under this legislation. [More…]
In future if they earn sufficient money they will be torn between having these little extras and taking away from their mother the family allowance money she needs to feed, shelter and clothe them and to assist in providing them with the normal necessities of life. [More…]
If one of her children earned $30 a week by working weekends in a supermarket, which many children do- I know children who do this- she would in fact lose her family allowance for that child, she would be forced further below the poverty line than she was before and the child’s efforts to assist his mother to achieve a more reasonable level of income would be defeated. [More…]
If the first child earns sufficient money to cause the family allowance received by his mother for him to be eliminated, it would seem from the answers given by the Minister in the past that the second child will attract a family allowance of only $3.50 a week instead of $5 a week and the family allowance for the third child will be reduced to $5 a week. [More…]
Therefore, a mother of three children who has one child who becomes ineligible for the family allowance will lose not only the $3.50 a week in respect of that child but also $2.50 a week in respect of the next two children, who will become respectively the first and second children instead of the second and third children. [More…]
She will forego some $6 a week in family income. [More…]
In other words, from July 1977 to June 1978 a child may have been earning $20, $25 or $30 a week completely unaware that in the 1978-79 Budget the Government would introduce a proposal which would deprive his mother of part or all of her family allowance in 1979, depending on what was earned from July 1977 to June 1978. [More…]
What happens to the child who earns, say, $30 or $25 a week when he is 15 and who at the end of that year leaves school, earns an income and therefore is not eligible to attract a family allowance? [More…]
Does this mean that the family of the child who is in his last year at school will get the full family allowance when he is 1 5 years of age and that the following year that family would not be affected because the child would no longer be eligible for the family allowance? [More…]
If so, that child ‘s family would have a considerable advantage over the family whose child continues at school for two or more years. [More…]
The third difficulty is that this proposal would well force back into dependency single working parents who, without the family allowance, are better off receiving a pension. [More…]
It is quite wrong to deprive single parents, widows or any other low income people in the community of a family allowance on the basis of what their children earn. [More…]
Payment of the family allowance is made to the mother. [More…]
To deprive a family of the family allowance on the basis of what the children earn in an effort to assist that family’s income is quite wrong and may well put it back into a situation of dependency on the Government which it does not want and in which it need not be. [More…]
In many cases, the drop in the family income, as I demonstrated with the case of the widow, will be such as to cause people to drop below the poverty line if they are not already there now. [More…]
The child may not be able to earn the same amount of income in 1979 or he may consider it better not to do so if his mother is to lose the family allowance in 1 980 as a result of his earning income in 1979. [More…]
The family may decide to forgo the family allowance because of the child ‘s income. [More…]
Alternatively- this unfortunately will happen- the family may decide not to declare the child’s income. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in the Budget documents an increase of only five staff was allowed in the family allowance section when the previous proposals were introduced. [More…]
Will they be automatically refused a family allowance? [More…]
Are poor migrant families or poor families of any group in the community who through no fault of their own do not get their income statements in on time to be arbitrarily deprived of family allowances for which they are presently eligible? [More…]
It is also worth mentioning in passing that the Minister gave as the reason for putting a limit of $20 a week on a child’s income before he or she will lose any family allowance that this would bring the amount into line with the limit for pensioners. [More…]
Will the parents of these children really be deprived of their family allowances in 1979 on the basis of something their children earned in 1977 and 1978? [More…]
As I have said, the introduction of family allowances was welcome and was not opposed by the Opposition. [More…]
The proposal will also affect some women in the community who sometimes find that the only income or personal money they receive is the family allowance payment. [More…]
-Far be it from me to try to improve on Senator Grimes’s criticism of the Government policy but it seems to me that there is a central issue on the subject of family allowances which is unacceptable and which he has not chosen to emphasise. [More…]
I did not put my name on the list of speakers in this debate with an intention to speak on family allowances. [More…]
The central issue of government policy on family allowances is: What is a family allowance? [More…]
When family allowances were introduced by our Government they were justified as a transfer of income from husband to wife. [More…]
A family allowance is the mother’s income. [More…]
Now to reduce the mother’s income because of the child’s income seems to be the most hopeless muddle of thinking on what a family allowance is about. [More…]
I reiterate that the family allowance was income for the mother and a transfer of income from husband to wife, from father to mother. [More…]
The Government has rightly decided that it will try to do away with a tax dodge, a system of spreading family income across all members of a family, including dependent children, so that the tax that would otherwise be payable on the income, in most cases of the father, cannot be reduced by an artificial spreading of his income across his children and possibly also his wife. [More…]
The family allowance is so easy to pick on because it is a government payment. [More…]
As I said, many of us applauded the Government’s decision to split income between the father and mother by taking away the rebate which went to the father and paying it in the form of the family allowance- not means tested- to the mother. [More…]
If the Government wants to get at family income which is being artificially spread it ought to get fair dinkum about its methods. [More…]
The family allowance provision, as I saw it, was a first step towards some sort of proper distribution of income in the community. [More…]
The payment was a recognition of the fact that the mothers of Australia make a real contribution to the economy of the family. [More…]
It made sure that the mothers got, in their own names, an income related to their family position, namely, that of being a mother. [More…]
I looked forward to the next step being taken by which we would have rationalised further the concept of family income. [More…]
I looked forward to the Government’s pursuing that first step and, recognising the value of the mother to the family in Australia, taking a rational next step. [More…]
What the Government has done has completely cut across the original rationale for the family allowance. [More…]
The family allowance is not income for the child. [More…]
Certainly it bears no relationship at all to the original rationale for the family allowance, and that is the point that I think we have to pursue. [More…]
I feel it is important, if we are to resolve the problem satisfactorily, that we get off this angle and back on to the original rationale for the family allowance and require the Government to justify its actions in the light of the original rationale for the family allowance. [More…]
I want to say just a few words on the controversial issue of the family allowance and on the attitude of the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) to the whole matter. [More…]
Firstly, I congratulate Senator Martin on the whole of her address, but particularly on her remarks concerning the family allowance. [More…]
Although I have never accepted the payment of the family allowance as being a salary paid to the mother, nevertheless I think that Senator Martin made a good case for this being so. [More…]
Recognising that the family allowance has been accepted as such by the Government, I agree that it is unfortunate that the mother should suffer because of the income received by someone else. [More…]
But to make myself conversant with this whole matter of the family allowance, I have read every question that has been asked, every answer that has been given and every statement that has been made on the Budget. [More…]
We have heard today that the assurance that income earned by children through personal exertion would not affect eligibility to receive the family allowance would have applied only if the income ceiling had remained at $3 12 per annum. [More…]
If we go back further than 22 August, which is the date that has been the subject of most of the discussion, we find, firstly, that it was announced on the Tuesday night that the Budget was brought down that the Government would be taking into consideration the reduction of family allowances where the income of a child was in excess of $312 a year and that it would be done on the basis of income in the previous year. [More…]
It should be recognised by honourable senators that the separate net income can arise from splitting a family income, from trust accounts, from partnership arrangements and from various other sources. [More…]
The whole concern of the Minister was that we should take into account income received from trust accounts and splitting family incomes. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, concerns the means testing of family allowances. [More…]
Was the introduction of a means test on family allowances aimed principally at wealthy children who receive an unearned income through inherited property or through devices such as income splitting by trusts? [More…]
What would be the cost to revenue of exempting from the family allowance means test any income earned by the personal endeavour of the dependent child? [More…]
The Government introduced the means test on children’s income after reflecting on the fact that the family allowance scheme replaced the tax rebate which had previously been given to parents for a dependent child - [More…]
Senator Hamer ‘s question related to the justification of applying it to the child of a wealthy family who is receiving an income from family income splitting, from trust accounts and from investments. [More…]
I say again, as I said last week, that, in taking this decision, the Government had in mind circumstances where, as a result of trusts and other income splitting devices, children receive separate income whilst their parents continue to receive the family allowance. [More…]
The words ‘unintended consequences’ express the Government’s intention that the means test should not apply to incomes other than incomes received from the splitting of family incomes, trust accounts, et cetera. [More…]
The Minister recognised that it covered income from personal exertion but the Government’s aim, she stated, was to cover income from family splitting arrangements and trusts; therefore instructions had been issued to draft legislation which would ensure that the Government’s intention, to take into account income from trusts or family splitting arrangements, would be carried out. [More…]
Is it a fact that such a distinction would ensure an equitable result in the application of the Budget announcement relating to family allowances? [More…]
As we see, Senator Knight’s question also followed that of Senator Hamer in the previous week, in reply to which the Minister had said, We do not want the legislation to have unintended consequences ‘, the consequences being to take into consideration income other than from family wage-splitting arrangements and trusts. [More…]
If these devices are used the Government believes that family allowances should not be paid . [More…]
I would have thought- perhaps again due to my inability to interpret properly an answer- that the whole attitude of the Minister was such as to lead this Senate to the belief that under the new arrangements, when the legislation was brought down it would cover incomes in excess of $312 from the splitting of family income and from trusts. [More…]
If so, will the Minister now give an unqualified assurance to the people of Australia that family allowances will not be income tested on the basis of income derived from the personal exertions of children? [More…]
Whilst the Budget did say that all income above $312 would be taxed, it would cause such hardship and inequity, and there had been such an adverse public reaction to it, that the Government had now changed its view and she could give an unqualified assurance that the legislation which she was having prepared would apply the provision to income from trust accounts and family splitting devices only. [More…]
In view of her answers to questions asked earlier this week, can the Minister give an estimate of the number of mothers who will not receive the family allowance next year because of their children’s separate incomes from family trusts and partnership arrangements? [More…]
I am not able to give any figures on the means testing of the separate income of children from family trusts or from income splitting devices that may have been established. [More…]
Now the Government is saying that it will apply only to family income splitting arrangements, trust funds and other such practices. [More…]
She was present at the Cabinet meeting which made the decision about family allowances because she told me so in answer to a question. [More…]
Only a simple change was necessary to make family allowances liable to a means test if a child or children received UNEARNED income above a certain level, as would be the case with a trust. [More…]
I do not think that the Government was aware of the implications of means testing family allowances when it included the provision in the Budget. [More…]
This matter has been dealt with in the past, when the proposition was that any income over $315 a year earned by a child by selling newspapers, collecting a few bottles, doing odd jobs at the local store or working on Saturday morning would deprive his mother from receiving in full the family allowance. [More…]
The matter has been debated here in such a way that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) was forced to retreat from that position and say fairly clearly in this place that income earned from personal exertion would not be considered when assessing the family allowance and that the family allowance would remain protected from such earnings. [More…]
Personal exertion on the part of children in order to support their families in difficult circumstances is in some way to limit the family allowance. [More…]
Many children participate in some activity to support the family income and $20 a week is really only a small amount. [More…]
The Prime Minister has shown extreme disloyalty to one of his Ministers who gave a clear assurance to the Senate that the policy of the Government was not to persist with the proposal to take into account when calculating the family allowance the earnings of children derived from their personal exertion. [More…]
Surely they will look at the money they have earned and the manner in which they have earned it and say: ‘Why should someone take any of this away from me when the family to which I belong has a need for it?’ [More…]
It is an attack on the family allowance of a mother through her child. [More…]
A Minister has given a clear assurance to the Senate that the policy of the Government is that if it is clear that the income of children is earned by personal exertion it will not be taxed and it will not in any way affect the family allowance. [More…]
Let us see what happens when the legislation is introduced and the Government has to take a vote on this change in policy which proposes that the income that a child may earn without affecting the family allowance is to be increased from $6 to $20 a week. [More…]
The genius of Sir Thomas Playford in this regard was that he recognised that most of the component of the cost of living for the ordinary average family derived from the cost of housing. [More…]
He is a married man with a family and a man steeped in his own traditions and culture. [More…]
Have the representations and protests by various organisations within and outside the Parliament had any effect on the Government’s Budget proposals to income test family allowances and to tax invalid pensions and allowances payable to rehabilitees? [More…]
Senator GUILFOYLE The Government has reviewed all aspects of the proposed changes that were announced in the Budget and subsequently with regard to family allowances. [More…]
In view of the administrative complexities and the inequities which could arise between families with regard to the means testing of family allowances, it has been decided that the present arrangement for family allowances will continue. [More…]
That is, the family allowance scheme will be a universal benefit on behalf of Australian children. [More…]
As announced in the Budget, there will no longer be dual payments of the TEAS allowance and the family allowance, but the TEAS allowance has been increased to take account of that change. [More…]
My understanding of the effect of these changes on the Budget is that it was expected that some $16m would have been saved in the family allowance area and some $3m in the other pension area. [More…]
Following publication of the family services report, has the Federal Government, as the largest single employer in the nation, been able to increase opportunity of employment by the use of flexible working hours to enable parents, particularly lone parents, to combine as a choice work and caring for their children? [More…]
Do I understand the position to be, as I gathered from Senator Guilfoyle ‘s reply, that any earnings of school children will not be taken into account in respect of family allowances? [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle has given an answer with regard to family allowances. [More…]
Is it further the case that one of the major drains on funds has proved to be the separate representation of children in Family Court proceedings, as directed by judges of that court in the exercise of their powers under the Family Law Act? [More…]
At the very least, will the Government consider making an urgent separate allocation of funds to cover the Family Law Act cases to which I have referred specifically? [More…]
It is a transfer payment from the average taxpayer, frequently a young married man with a family, to enable an employer to pay a young teenager more than the employer thinks he is worth, and it occurs at a time when that teenager has more money to spend on himself than he will have for most of the rest of his life. [More…]
I accept that there are some days- Christmas Day, for instance- which are such strong family days that those people who have to work on them should be compensated. [More…]
It was the case of a prominent motel on the north coast which used to employ 25 permanent girls and five barmen as well as a family of four who were the owners. [More…]
I do not want to go into this subject in depth; I simply want to say that family groups like to stay together, but they like some space between their group and the next. [More…]
The Government is no longer going to put a ceiling on the family allowance as regards the taxation of children who pick up a bit of pin money by working. [More…]
The current so-called crackdown on tax evasion certainly lacks credibility, as the editorial of the Australian Financial Review pointed out again today, when we consider that again it is a matter of public record that several, if not most, of the Ministers of this Government have tax dodging family trusts on which the Government has no intention of cracking down. [More…]
One Victorian Minister has been forced to resign; a Premier of Western Australia in 1968 accepted for his family company a private placement of Comalco shares when he was Minister for Industrial Development in the North-west in the State Government; and a Premier of Queensland who did the same thing at the same time, who has done much worse since and who, although he is not a member of the Liberal Party, is kept in power by the Liberal Party. [More…]
Specifically Peter John Browne of Merredin, the brother of Noel Ashley CrichtonBrowne, held 3,250 shares; Crichton-Browne himself, then of Marble Bar, held 5,000 shares; Norma Rosa Stevens, who is now his motherinlaw, of Box 15, Marble Bar, held 2,000 shares; Esther Grace Stevens, who is now his wife, then of Flat 3, 57 Swan View Terrace, South Perth, held 2,000 shares and 1,000 shares were allocated to Malcolm Scott Holdings, which is the family investment trust of a former Liberal Party senator. [More…]
Malcolm Scott Holdings Pty Ltd- the family company of Malcolm Scottcare of Lindquist Stacy and Fountain, had 1,000 shares. [More…]
Obviously he was looking to protect the family as far as possible. [More…]
In this year’s Budget- and this is by no means an exhaustive list- the deficit has been cosmetically reduced by $35m by changing the timing of family allowance payments in a way which effectively deferred the payment of one week’s family allowance from the current financial year until the next financial year. [More…]
This last week of this three-week sitting has been the period in which the Government has recognised that to undermine an allowance such as the family allowance, even by the suggestion of means testing a mother’s family allowance by taking into account the income derived from the personal exertion of children, is an attack on a fundamental institution which, rather than being undermined, needs support to overcome the very problem with which this country is faced- the unemployment problem. [More…]
The Government’s response to that situation has always been to say: ‘Well, in 1976 we instituted the family allowance scheme which provided substantial increases in family allowances. ‘ [More…]
As Senator Martin pointed out in her speech last week, the family allowance scheme was simply a trade-off for the loss of tax rebate and child endowment scheme. [More…]
In fact in the year in which family allowances replaced the tax rebate and child endowment scheme, it was estimated that the new system of family allowances would cost an additional $785m a year but that that amount would be balanced by the wiping out of the tax rebate and child endowment scheme. [More…]
I would like to have incorporated in Hansard a comparison between the tax rebate and child endowment scheme and the family allowance scheme. [More…]
Even under the old scheme which was inadequate and when the child endowment had not been indexed, a family with six children would have been $7.43 a week better off than under the new family allowance scheme. [More…]
Thus I was very surprised when, during the parliamentary recess, the Leader of Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) and Senator Grimes suggested that the Government intended to income test or tax family allowances. [More…]
I was concerned that this would be a furphy and that it was a smokescreen to cover up the Government’s failure to index family allowances. [More…]
I am talking about family allowances. [More…]
I ask the honourable senator to commit his party to the full indexation of family allowances. [More…]
I accept now that the official policy of the Australian Labor Party supports the indexation of family allowances. [More…]
Let us see where the indexation of family allowances will take us. [More…]
All of this to-ing and fro-ing of tactics with regard to the income testing of family allowances because of the personal exertion of children, I believe, was a smokescreen to cover up the fact that a family with five children is now $8.55 a week worse off because of the erosion of the family allowance as a result of price increases since 1976. [More…]
Family Allowances [More…]
Family Allowance Scheme introduced May 1976. [More…]
I believe that if realistic family allowances and homemakers’ allowances were provided a great many of our social and employment ills would be overcome. [More…]
Now we have a situation in which a post-graduate scholar with a familysome 40 per cent of such scholars are married- is earning very little more than a man with similar family responsibilities who is on the dole. [More…]
During Senator Harradine ‘s speech he said that the claim made during the winter recess that the family allowance for the first child was to be abolished in the Budget was a furphy. [More…]
Senator Harradine should refer to where Senator Ryan said that she was opposed to the indexation of family allowances. [More…]
The Canberra branch of the Women’s Action Alliance (a national body of concerned women) sent a questionnaire to all ACT election candidates, seeking their views on indexation of family allowances . [More…]
Senator Ryan replied no to our question: ‘Do you support removing the present economic discrimination against single-income families by (1) indexation of family allowances?’ [More…]
He was engaged because in physique he was suited to the job, because he had had some experience of kitchens, and because he was a married man with a family. [More…]
If lifting bins is involved, then I think we do a disservice in giving such a heavy manual job to a married man with a family. [More…]
I do not know whether suitability includes his physique and consideration of whether he is married with a family, but we may find that he is better suited to a job where he will not be tempted to repeat the mistakes that have occurred. [More…]
I say that with some feeling because I am dealing at the moment with a family reunion case involving a woman of 8 1 years of age. [More…]
The years are not on her side, and as the weeks go by that woman may be precluded at the latter end of her life from being with her family. [More…]
There are exemptions from payment for those people who are under the age of 18 years, and I think that someone mentioned that where a family finds the payment to be a burden it would be appropriate to exempt the family. [More…]
1 ) That the Senate concurs in the following modifications to the resolution of the Senate relating to the proposed Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act contained in message No. [More…]
I have some qualifications about the terms of reference of the select committee being enlarged to include a consideration of the effects of the Family Law Act 1975 on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
I would have thought that there was really no data, just a host of subjective value judgments about what the effects of that legislation have been on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
I probably have some reservations similar to his own as to the widening of the terms of reference of the proposed joint select committee on the Family Law Act, although I think that surely this is a matter which the members of the committee should very much have in mind in their own determination of the matters before it. [More…]
I have felt that there has been perhaps a somewhat inadequate interest in the subject of the family law legislation in the House of Representatives in recent years. [More…]
Senator Button raised the matter of the addition to the terms of reference of the following paragraph: its effect on the institution of marriage and the family; [More…]
A massive amount of evidence was called about the position of the divorce grounds and the effect on the institution of marriage of the Family Law Act. [More…]
If this committee is to proceed to come up with practical working suggestions as to the way in which the Family Court should operate, obviously it will not want to be delayed by having a very long investigation, a sort of rehearing of evidence already given to the Senate before the family law legislation was introduced in 1975. [More…]
It is very significant that the Family Law Act provided for the creation of an institute of family studies. [More…]
The Family Law Council has been in operation and it has before this Parliament recommendations that have not been dealt with yet. [More…]
The Institute of Family Studies has not really got underway. [More…]
I hope that the committee will not go through the exercise of reinvestigating the Family Law Act, which I believe is a substantially excellent Act. [More…]
I join with Senator Button in hoping that the widening of the terms of reference, which naturally is a matter that ought be within the compass of the committee to consider, will not take the major aspect of the Committee’s attention, but that the committee will be a practical, useful working committee that comes forward with some fairly quick solutions to the problems which are bedevelling family law at present. [More…]
I have been more than interested to hear what Senator Button and Senator Missen have said in relation to the variations to the committee that will look at the Family Law Act as proposed in the message that we have received from the House of Representatives and the addition to the terms of reference of paragraph (ia) concerning the effects of the Act on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
However, I hope that there will be a response from the community to this widening of the terms of reference to include the effects of the Act on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]
Whilst I am not sure at this stage what the mechanical movements of this Committee will be in relation to its review and its hearings, I hope that an opportunity will be provided to those organisations that are concerned with the institutions of marriage and the family to make their representations, whether they be in the form of evidence, in writing or in the form of interviews. [More…]
I hope that concerned organisations, such as community organisations, church, religious and other social organisations within our society, will take note of this opportunity which is now being provided and that in the comparatively short time the Family Law Act has been in force they will have been able to review what its effects have been and give the Committee the benefit of their experience, observation and advice. [More…]
Family allowances have not been indexed since they were introduced and thus their value has fallen by over 27 per cent since 1976. [More…]
Funds for family planning services have been reduced by 6.3 per cent in real terms. [More…]
I was confused, for instance, about the means test which was to apply to the family allowances of families where the children receive an income. [More…]
If the Government wants to tax family trusts- I understand that this was the purpose of introducing this legislationthere are to my mind two opportunities for it to do so. [More…]
One is when the trust is set up and the other is when the trust can be used because with a family trust there is either an age limit or a time limit set for when the money can be used. [More…]
My argument is: Why should a female parent have her family allowance penalised when she cannot touch the trust? [More…]
There is no way she can touch any of that money and it is generally not available for some years after she has lost the use of the family allowance anyway. [More…]
How many of them were in similar family circumstances to Mr Aper? [More…]
As Mr President stated this morning, Mr Aper had a physique which was an indication to the employing officer that he would be capable of carrying out kitchen hand duties and, in addition, he was married with a family. [More…]
I believe that if those two things are the qualifications for a kitchen hand then it is likely that other members of the public who applied for that position were also of a similar physique and also could have been married with family responsibilities. [More…]
Senator Grimes spoke earlier of the social worker who pointed out that a family was delighted because the daughter was not now smoking cannabis but was on alcohol and getting drunk every weekend to a marked degree; at least she was not smoking cannabis. [More…]
This is the very point I was making last night, that these particular people have no confidence in or respect for family standards and values and desire to see that the family standards and values which are needed for the strength of this country are undermined. [More…]
That interjection concerned the Labor Party policy in respect of family allowances. [More…]
I am talking about family allowances. [More…]
I ask the honourable senator to commit his party to the full indexation of family allowances. [More…]
Did you call for the indexation of family allowances? [More…]
Senator Harradine should refer to where Senator Ryan said that she was opposed to the indexation of family allowances. [More…]
proved that so far as a national organisation of women in this country is concerned Senator Ryan was opposed to the indexation of family allowances and that she had replied to it in respect of that. [More…]
It includes a statement of a questionnaire which was forwarded to all members of parliament in the Australian Capital Territory in respect of a number of family issues. [More…]
1 is: ‘Do you support removing the present economic discrimination against the single income family by indexation of family allowances?’ [More…]
Furthermore, because Senator Ryan is not present tonight I am restrained in saying other things which I feel should be explained to the Senate and to the people of Canberra as to her attitudes about the questions which are vital to the future of family life in this nation, including the fact that of everybody in Australia she was selected to open the Fourth Homosexual National Conference in Sydney this year. [More…]
The problem would then confront that senior Minister and the Government might have to re-think all of its economic and family support policies. [More…]
The court is bound to ignore any effect on family, employment or society at large. [More…]
Last evening in this place a mild exchange took place between Senator Harradine, Senator Wriedt and myself about an issue relating to family allowances. [More…]
I do not intend to canvass the issue of family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances, of course, have a lot to do with that. [More…]
They enable a family to have the right sort of economic independence so that women who choose to make a career of being a full time wife and mother are in a position to do so and are not pushed out into the work force. [More…]
Pope John Paul was a humble man who came from a poor family. [More…]
Is the Government aware of how much taxation revenue it loses through the use of family trusts? [More…]
Government is as concerned as the Treasurer says it is about the loss of revenue it suffers through tax dodging, why has it done nothing about such abuses as occur through the use of family trusts? [More…]
Has Senator Carrick himself ever made use of such a family trust arrangement? [More…]
I have never had the occasion or the opportunity to resort to any use at all of family trusts or to any form of tax dodging. [More…]
I understand that the Deputy Leader of the Federal Labor Party has said that he has family trusts and has revealed them. [More…]
I take it that Senator Evans is saying that there must be some good family trusts and some bad family trusts. [More…]
I am not aware that the Treasury has any information as to what loss to revenue is incurred from family trusts. [More…]
If he or any of his colleagues will give me a definition of what the Labor Party regards as bona fide family trusts and what it regards as tax dodging arrangements I will ask the Treasurer to give that information. [More…]
How many permanent settlers in the following categories: (a) family reunions; (b) political refugees; and (c) people possessing trade skills listed in the Minister’s monthly schedule, entered Australia from 1 January to 30 June 1978. [More…]
9,072 settlers entered Australia under the family reunion category”, [More…]
1 ) How many Aboriginals are being paid family allowances in the Northern Territory, and what is the total annual amount [More…]
How many Aboriginals living on missions and settlements receive family allowances. [More…]
No special surveys of Aboriginals in receipt of family allowances are conducted by my Department. [More…]
When will 1978 family allowance payments for students in each State and Territory terminate pending receipt of completed review forms. [More…]
When will family allowance review forms be forwarded to students, in each State and Territory, who will be continuing their studies in 1979. [More…]
Where the review form is returned in time to be processed prior to 26 December 1978 indicating that the child will be continuing full-time education in 1979, there will be no interruption to family allowance payments. [More…]
However, if the review form is not returned in time to be processed by 26 December 1978, payment of family allowance will then be suspended but arrears will be paid back to 26 December if the form is subsequently returned indicating that the child will be continuing full-time education in 1979. [More…]
Is it possible that mothers of some students who complete their full time secondary education in November this year will not receive family allowance payments for those students in December? [More…]
If the answer to both questions is yes, will the Minister investigate whether some family allowance or other assistance can be provided over this transition period1? [More…]
I intend making a statement with regard to unemployment benefit and family allowances in time for the conclusion of the school year. [More…]
Had it not been for the pressures- I might add they were pressures from the Opposition and also from a whole range of community groups throughout Australia- the Government would have attacked family allowances much more severely than it did and would have means tested income earned by children; what has become widely known as the ‘newsboys’ tax’. [More…]
It is very difficult for a single migrant- or even a married migrant- living in Australia if his relatives overseas with whom he has strong family and emotional ties are suffering as a result of poverty or distress of some kind or another. [More…]
He would probably be in receipt of family allowance in addition. [More…]
But I guess we cannot expect taxation justice or any taxation morality from a government of which nearly all the senior Ministers, despite all their public posturing about cracking down on tax evasion, participate directly in tax dodging family trusts. [More…]
For the average, or the large family, those increases represent a considerable impost upon their budgeting. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hayden, endeavoured to show in the House of Representatives that a resource tax would bring in $ 1 50m, a tax on windfall gains of the oil companies could bring in $340m, a capital gains tax on those people who make such gains over and above $200,000 could raise $300m, a tax on the highest level of personal income could raise another $200m and that closing exery tax avoidance scheme, whether it be family trusts or otherwise, and taking punitive measures against those people who persist in this form of avoidance would bring in $100m. [More…]
I now find at the end of the Income Year in which I married, and after paying $190.40 to Medibank Private, that husbands and wives living together are defined as ‘dependent upon each other’, and that as he therefore has a ‘dependent’, the husband must pay the Family Rate under the Health Insurance Levy. [More…]
Will the Australian Government protest to the South African Government and call for the immediate release of the Biko family and others similarly detained? [More…]
I can confirm that a number of members of Steve Biko ‘s family and several of his close friends were arrested prior to the anniversary of his death last year in security police detention. [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 have received letters from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition nominating Mr Lionel Bowen, Mr John Brown, Mr Kevin Cairns, Mr Falconer, Mr Holding, Mr Katter, Mr Lusher, Mr Martyr, Mr Ruddock and Mr Stewart to be members of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act pursuant to the resolutions agreed to by both Houses. [More…]
Why does Senator Rae not have some sympathy with taxpayers as a whole when people set up family trusts to avoid taxation? [More…]
As a matter of fact one of the Treasurers lost his job because he had family trusts. [More…]
Senator McLaren has been talking about family trusts. [More…]
Because he does that so often, I would like to ask him what his Party did in the three years it was in government to rule out family trusts. [More…]
If he thinks they are so unjust- he espouses that view vehemently so frequently in this chamber- why did not the Government of which he was a supporter rule out family trusts? [More…]
Why did he not have a go at the family trusts? [More…]
1 ) Amniocentesis tests are offered to all pregnant women of 40 years and over and younger women with previous or family histories of birth defects. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to a recent speech by Mr Justice Muirhead in which, when discussing the Family Law Act, he said: ‘The judges are undertaking unacceptable work loads, counsellors are at their wit’s end, the welfare officers despite best endeavours find it almost impossible to keep up to date ‘? [More…]
Mr Justice Muirhead described the family law counsellors as a vital arm of the system and drew attention to the fact that the system is understaffed by at least 30 per cent in this area. [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 payments 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 orphans 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 1 976. [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 President, the following table shows 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 TEAS 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 Government believes it is inappropriate for the Australian taxpayer to contribute to the support of persons who are permanently resident overseas, who have never been resident in Australia and who may never come to Australia; 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 amendment is contained in clause 13a, and enables Commonwealth and fund medical benefits to be paid, after 1 November 1978, for charges made by family planning associations and, where applicable, other organisations receiving health program grants under the Health Insurance Act. [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…]
many of the people on Goulburn Island have family and ceremonial links with the Aboriginal people of the Alligator Rivers and Oenpelli areas; [More…]
1 represent the Croker Island community and they are very interested indeed in the land the subject of the agreement as many of the people there have family and ceremonial and language ties with the Aligator Rivers area and the Oenpelli people. [More…]
An Australian citizen who was born into a family that had been Christian for generations and who changed his or her religious beliefs to the Jewish faith would come under this blanket discrimination by the Syrian Government. [More…]
It was intended to introduce an administratively difficult and unjust means test on family allowances which would partly have the effect of penalising poor families whose children helped out by earning small amounts. [More…]
When the family allowance system was introduced it was pointed out from this side of the House that unless the payments were indexed for inflation their value would drop. [More…]
The people who were so reliant on them and the people who were initially advantaged by the introduction of the family allowance scheme, the low income earners, would suffer unless there was a regular upgrading of these payments. [More…]
In this legislation the children of pensioners or beneficiaries who manage to get one or other of the tertiary scholarships available in this country will not have family allowances paid on their behalf. [More…]
We will have the situation, once this legislation comes into being, where the children of those who are well off, who have no scholarship, will attract the family allowance while the children of the poor, those in the lower and middle income groups, who have a scholarship, will attract no allowance. [More…]
These people will not in fact receive a family allowance. [More…]
It does not make up for it and it does not get away from the argument, Senator, that your children and my children- separate children- who may not have scholarships will attract family allowances whereas the children of the poor - [More…]
Added to these thingsthat the family allowance is eroded in value, that the allowances for pensioners’ children and the allowance for rental assistance have been eroded because they have not been increased, and that children who get a tertiary allowance of some kind will not have the family allowance paid in respect of them- other things have been done without warning, such as the maternity benefit being abolished. [More…]
Their family allowances, supplementary benefits and rent allowances have been eroded in the last three years. [More…]
As Senator Baume knows, I will accept a means test; I will accept an efficient means of distribution; I will accept an abolition of a maternity benefit and the introduction of proper family support paymentsanything he likes. [More…]
Leaving the family, a further reason for our opposition to this Bill is the Government’s complete about-face on pensions for people over 70 years of age. [More…]
The migrant community, rightly or wrongly, is deeply suspicious of the restrictions introduced on the payment of family allowances and other benefits overseas. [More…]
The West Australian of Saturday, 14 October, points out in its editorial, in talking about the decision to change from twice yearly to once a year indexation of pensions- it had previously talked about the changes to the family allowances scheme from which the Government withdrew: [More…]
He berated the Government for what might have been- about the fact that the Government, in the Budget, decided to tax some income earned by children by reducing the family allowance paid to the parents. [More…]
However, Senator Grimes went on to say that the family allowance had been abolished for those parents whose children were getting a Tertiary Education Assistance scheme allowance. [More…]
He claimed that this, according to me, would make up for the non-payment of the family allowance. [More…]
The Government has extended the eligibility for the handicapped children’s allowance to include lesser handicapped children, substantially handicapped children, where the family income is low. [More…]
It was done not for the wealthy but for cases where the family income is low. [More…]
The family allowance was introduced and this, despite what the Opposition could possibly say, was the biggest boon to the very low income families that it was possible for any government to introduce. [More…]
The rebates were taken away from the father when the family allowance was introduced, but previously the low income father with a large number of children was never able to claim all the rebates. [More…]
Because of that this Government introduced the family allowance and the full amount that he would have been able to claim had he been on a higher income was given to his wife. [More…]
The family allowance was not of any greater assistance than the previous arrangements to higher income families. [More…]
But the family allowance certainly assisted people on lower incomes. [More…]
We also introduced the family support services program, which was announced earlier this year. [More…]
We have continued what was a remarkable new policy with regard to the new family allowance introduced in 1976 and it will be paid monthly- a small change in the previous situation from when it was formerly paid every four weeks- but this will not make any difference at all to the amount of money received in a full calendar year. [More…]
The family allowance will not be paid in future to students who are recipients under the student tertiary education scheme but the TEAS allowance will be increased to take care of that disability and will be increased to compensate completely for the loss of that benefit. [More…]
That was evident in the since-abandoned move to trim family allowances. [More…]
We all know what happened with the scheme to trim family allowances, as it is delicately put here. [More…]
The changes to family allowances will make an enormous difference to a large number of people throughout Australia because they have to budget from week to week. [More…]
One question arises in my mind on this matter: On my calculations, the change in the method of payment of family allowances from a four-weekly basis to a monthly basis will mean that parents with four children will receive $32 less in a full year. [More…]
Recipients under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and recipients of adult secondary education allowances will be precluded from receiving family allowances. [More…]
A person receiving a family allowance and a supporting mother’s benefit also receives additional benefits which are not available to that person if he or she happens to be a single parent in receipt of a TEAS allowance. [More…]
Its effects are not just confined to the person unemployed, but they are felt throughout the whole structure of family life. [More…]
-We are discussing a Bill that gives effect to the Government’s proposals in respect of changes to social service pensions and benefits, such as the unemployment benefit and family allowances. [More…]
She did not really say that the Government was wrong but she intimated that perhaps people might receive less by way of family allowances now that family allowances were being paid every month. [More…]
Although the family allowance is to be paid monthly now, it is my belief that families in receipt of an allowance will receive exactly the same amount in any one year as they would have received previously. [More…]
It was going to income test family allowances and to tax the blind and the handicapped. [More…]
The third point I raise is that the Minister said in her second reading speech that the Government will continue the new scheme of family allowance which it introduced in 1 976 and that this allowance will not be subject to any income test or to taxation. [More…]
Nevertheless, as I understand it, the fact remains that of all the allowances and benefits, the family allowance is the only one which is not indexed. [More…]
That is totally unjust to the large numbers of families who are receiving the family allowance. [More…]
I incorporated in Hansard on 27 September 1978 figures which show the erosion of family allowance rates since this allowance was introduced in 1976. [More…]
To cut a long story short, a family with five children is now worse off by $8 a week by way of loss of purchasing power than it was in 1976. [More…]
I know that the Minister is very conscious of this matter but I urge that she and the Government give urgent consideration to a renewed family allowance and family support scheme. [More…]
In the first place I believe that to take away anything which is supportive of the family is inconsistent with what I understand to be overall government policy. [More…]
It was suggested that the family allowance scheme has some disadvantages at this stage. [More…]
Senator Grimes questioned some matters with regard to the payment of the family allowances to those who are receiving the tertiary education assistance allowance. [More…]
I am able to advise him that tertiary education assistance recipients have had their tertiary education assistance payments increased by an amount of $5.25 a week which takes into account the fact that there will no longer be dual payments of the family allowance and the tertiary education assistance allowance. [More…]
Senator Grimes also required information for the Opposition with regard to family allowances for children living abroad. [More…]
I state briefly that family allowances will continue to be paid for children outside Australia where the child is temporarily absent or the child is living abroad pending migration to Australia and will arrive in Australia within four years. [More…]
Family allowances will cease to be payable for children who have never been in Australia and who do not intend to migrate to Australia within four years. [More…]
There will be no change in the arrangements for payment of family allowances for children who are already in Australia. [More…]
Briefly, that is the outline of the changes with regard to family allowances for children abroad. [More…]
There is no commitment in the Hayden alternative budget to index family allowances despite the impression that might have been created in the Hayden Budget debate speech. [More…]
There was a matter raised by Senator Coleman with regard to the payment of family allowances which by this Bill will now be paid on a monthly basis instead of a four-weekly basis, that is, that there will be 12 payments in future years starting from May of next year in comparison with 13 payments which are made at present. [More…]
As to the maternity allowance and the other things that were raised by him with regard to support for the family, of course, his remarks are understood and the Government acknowledges that benefits have been changed by this legislation; but, as I said, because of the nature of the Budget this year and the extent of the growth of social security expenditure some of these changes were deemed to be desired in this year. [More…]
So that they can establish themselves, the parents then send their children home for several years to their grandparents because family ties are very close. [More…]
However later in the Bill in the case of other benefits and family allowances, people are deprived of those benefits. [More…]
The clause has been introduced because the family allowance scheme is a family allowance for children living within Australia. [More…]
It is a family allowance scheme of the Government for Australian children and it will continue to be paid in cases of temporary absence or where the child will arrive within four years. [More…]
That seems to us to be a way in which the family allowance scheme can reasonably be applied. [More…]
There are no changes in arrangements for payment of the family allowance for children already in Australia. [More…]
We are taking this opportunity to say that it is a family allowance scheme for the benefit of children who are in Australia. [More…]
From our point of view that is quite consistent with the family allowance scheme and it is an amendment which we seek at this stage. [More…]
My understanding is that this provision does not refer only to family allowances; it refers also to allowances for children of pensioners. [More…]
Such payments come out of what is normally described as family allowances in this scheme. [More…]
It is a payment that was never made to children in this category until 1976 when the family allowance scheme was introduced. [More…]
Let us assume that two parents with their children are resident in Australia, the family breaks up- there is a divorce or they just separate- and the mother goes home with the children to their country of origin. [More…]
I understand that if the wife has a pension entitlement she loses that pension entitlement after the break-up of the family. [More…]
However, I am talking about the woman who does not rely on social security because she has against her husband a court order from the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
In a situation where the wife stayed in Australia with the children she would receive a family allowance. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) what would happen in the case of a migrant family settled in Australia which has left one child in its home country because of an affliction of some kind. [More…]
For example, the child may be blind and the family did not wish the child to leave its environment. [More…]
Would the family be penalised in any way or is there an allowance paid in circumstances such as this? [More…]
Senator GUILFOYLE (Victoria-Minister for Social Security)- (2.45)-If the child had not been to Australia the family would not be able to receive an allowance for him. [More…]
It sought not only academic views from people in ivory towers but also the view of the Salvation Army, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Catholic Family Welfare Bureaux, the Australian Council of Social Service, the Victorian Council of Social Service, other councils of social service and many workers in the field. [More…]
The abolition of this benefit, combined with the failure to increase the allowances for pensioners’ children and other beneficiaries’ children and the failure to index the family allowances will contribute to the difficulties of low income families. [More…]
However on the basis of permanent staff, and inclusive of storage and general areas, but excluding conference facilities, the ratios are: 3rd floor 14.8 m2 per person; 2nd floor (Pensions Examinations) 9.17 m2 per person;5th floor (Computer facilities) 31.4 m1 per person; 6th floor (Finance Section) 8.4 m2 per person; 9th floor (Family Allowances) 7. [More…]
-My question of the Minister for Social Security follows from a question I asked earlier about the family research project at the University of New South Wales. [More…]
Is it intended that this project will continue indefinitely in order to provide the Government with a continuous data base for the formation of an adequate family welfare policy in Australia? [More…]
The family research project was established in 1 972 because of growing concern about the growing numbers of oneparent families in Australia and about the social and other implications of this trend. [More…]
The research project has published three bulletins and would have published more but for some delay in obtaining statistical material from the national family survey undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics between May 1974 and February 1975. [More…]
This data is now becoming available progressively from the Bureau and the family research project expects to complete examination of it and to publish further reports by the middle of next year. [More…]
Despite the on-going nature of the family research project, it is not envisaged that it will continue for an indefinite period. [More…]
Because there is a percentage of visitors who do meet family reunion or occupational criteria which make them eligible for migrant status- and would be eligible for it if they applied themselves- this body is able to imply that it has been successful in influencing the Department’s decision.’ [More…]
Victoria- 1975 (i) Family group home; (ii) Campsite complex; (iii) Staff quarters for ‘Camp Jungai’; (iv) Boys hostel together with office accommodation; (v) Girls hostel; (vi) Departmental residence; (viii) Hostel for Secondary School Students; (viii) Boarding House for Young Workmen. [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 I believe 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 Law Act; that is, custody, access, injunction and property settlement matters. [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…]
He went on to say that the need for aid in this area is not as urgent as it is in other family law proceedings, such as custody, access, maintenance and property settlement. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the priorities in relation to aid in the family law jurisdiction are quite clearly spelt out in the Minister’s statement. [More…]
In dealing with the question of legal aid for dissolution of marriage proceedings in the Family Law Court, the Minister went on to say that legal aid will not be granted unless circumstances exist which, in the opinion of the Australian Legal Aid Office, render it imperative that the marriage be dissolved. [More…]
In referring to the next paragraph of it I simply make the point that although the divorce procedure is now very simple and people can get assistance from the Family Law Court staff, no commitment has been made about increasing the size of the Family Law Court staff in relation to these matters. [More…]
Again that matter is in an area of great concern to citizens who are involved in family law proceedings. [More…]
It appears that it will cost roughly $2.50 a week for a family and half that for a single person. [More…]
1 would like to warn any family man who is thinking of not taking out medical insurance for his family that perhaps just one visit to a general practitioner could reveal an illness that might require several visits to the doctor, X-ray treatment, pathology treatment and, finally, a consultation with a specialist. [More…]
I say to them: Insure yourselves and made sure that you are not gambling with your health or your family’s health. [More…]
Again it will be the small family man and the single person who will have to pay the bulk of the new taxation increases. [More…]
A family man who is getting almost double that- $300 a week- will pay only 5.6 per cent extra in tax. [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 establishes 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. [More…]
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 soon after I became Attorney-General I 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 to me by the Family Law Council. [More…]
Honourable senators 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, on studying the recommendations, I felt that there were several which should be implemented at the first opportunity, when the need to amend the provisions of the Act regarding the Institute of Family Studies arose, I asio obtained the approval of the Government to include several of those recommendations in the amending Bill. [More…]
In one of my first statements after becoming Attorney-General, 1 supported the idea of the review of the Family Law Act by a parliamentary committee, which has now been approved by resolution of the Parliament. [More…]
When I came to consider which of the recommendations of the Family Law Council could be implemented without delay, I had regard to the question whether implementation of any of the recommendations might pre-empt the findings of a parliamentary committee. [More…]
In the important area of enforcement of orders the Bill makes two minor or clarifying amendments, one of which implements a recommendation of the Family Law Council. [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 case decided on the ground of divorce under the Family Law Act. [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…]
Commonwealth Police can continue to be appointed as Marshal and Deputy Marshals of the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Finally, it 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…]
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…]
There are those who go to church on Sunday, but it is also a traditional hunting day for the family. [More…]
I think that this is a reasonable family reunion request because, as honourable senators know, it is the people under 55 years of age who are potential units in the work force about whom we are circumspect. [More…]
Let us take the situation of an ordinary family composed of a breadwinner, his spouse and a couple of children. [More…]
The total disposable income that that family could have in order to qualify for legal aid was thus reduced from the grand sum of $85 a week- bad enough, but that is what it had been- to the miserable sum of $65 a week. [More…]
In practical terms, that means something like 2,000 cases, many of them involving family law maintenance, property, custody and access matters and how distressing those matters are when they involve children. [More…]
It crops up in the context of the $100 fee which is now payable to the Family Law Court of Australia in dissolution matters, where it is provided that that fee can be waived if the applicant demonstrates what is described as ‘substantial hardship’. [More…]
Such are the procedural complexities that remain under the Family Law Act that it is still true that most people will require legal aid and assistance if they are to be able to manage the conduct of dissolution proceedings. [More…]
They certainly will not get such assistance from the understaffed personnel of the Family Court and they certainly will not be able to get it from the grossly understaffed salaried complement of the Australian Legal Aid Office, who have been forced by the present Government to operate under severely restrictive staff ceilings- so restrictive that the ceilings have not only been not increased over the years since the Fraser Government has been in office but in fact have been reduced from 442 to 364 during that period. [More…]
The major initiative which the Government has now taken on the expenditure cutting side has been in the area of drastically revising cost scales for lawyers in the area of Family Court proceedings generally. [More…]
But what the new cost scales would seem to amount to is, roughly speaking, a reduction of the return to lawyers in Family Court matters from the existing 90 per cent to something like 80 per cent of their normal fees. [More…]
At that mill there was a working environment that would be the envy of most industrialists because people were not regarded as cogs in a machine but as contributors to a joint working experience producing high quality products based on a pride in workmanship frequently handed down within the family circle. [More…]
In such a plaintive analysis, by merely examining the prefix ‘Mrs’ to a person’s surname, he did not account for the social implications to the divorced, the separated and the effective breadwinners often because of a strained domestic situation or because work was a means of supporting a family suffering tremendous financial hardship due to illness or accident or even a means for a mother to seek relief and companionship on a five-hour twilight shift while the husband handled the family pressures of a prolonged terminal illness of one of their children. [More…]
I do not know of any other words with which to describe the position than these: With 300 men, six 4.5 inch automatic guns and bofors one felt like a bully when bailing up a fishing boat with a Malayan family on board. [More…]
We know that today a court fee of $100 is payable to the Family Law Court. [More…]
This is not a new matter so far as I am concerned because when I made a speech on the Family Law Amendment Bill on 25 August 1977 I spoke about the confusion that was arising then in regard to the costs regulations which in their original formulation had mistakes and which needed redrafting. [More…]
The position is that people who practise in the family law jurisdiction do not know what their situation is at the present time, what their entitlements are, and their clients do not know what are the amounts that should be charged. [More…]
But 1 wonder why this matter has not been given the clarification which is needed by the people who practise, and who are specialists in the family law jurisdiction. [More…]
Not only do they not cover the real situations which are found in family law practice but also they do not take into account that the legal profession has been accepting a reduction of about 8 per cent per annum by reason of inflation over each of these years. [More…]
Another solicitor in Melbourne has written to me drawing my attention to what he describes as the total shambles of the family law costs regulations. [More…]
He has drawn my attention to the case of Schulsinger in which Mr Justice Fogarty, a judge of the Family Court in Melbourne, had to point out that the costs scales did not apply to party and party taxations but only to taxations between a solicitor and his client. [More…]
That the present guidelines are so regarded by the profession has been drawn to my attention very closely by the President of the Family Law Lawyers in Victoria, Mr Ian Kennedy, who has told me that the situation is not that 90 per cent of the costs are being paid but that the costs themselves have really greatly reduced because of not only the inflation to which I referred but also various other things which are not included in them. [More…]
Can the Minister for Social Security inform the Senate of the conditions under which family allowance and unemployment benefit will be paid in respect of student children and school leavers during the Christmas vacation? [More…]
The family allowance for student children aged 1 6 years and over will be continued up to 26 December of this year, in all cases under the usual conditions. [More…]
It should be noted that provided an application is made promptly students leaving school in December will be eligible for the unemployment benefit prior to the January pay-day of family allowances. [More…]
As in previous years family allowances are not payable on behalf of persons who are receiving unemployment benefit. [More…]
But there is no way that these people can say in all honesty and sincerity- I believe that the majority of these people are sincerethat the standards they have established for their children will prevail once those children get out from under the influence of the family. [More…]
Sometimes the reasons are purely and simply that women recognise that they cannot give the necessary emotional support either to a child or to another child in their family. [More…]
I am sure that we have all received letters from the family guidance people and from even the Catholic Church guidance people. [More…]
We have also had letters from the family planning associations, which would probably be in more contact with people in need of an abortion, counselling or something in that area than the majority of the people in the right to life movement. [More…]
It has also been mentioned by some of the family planning and abortion on demand groups who have written to me. [More…]
They included the Matrimonial Causes Bill 1959, the Marriage Bill 1961, the Death Penalty Abolition Bills of 1968 and 1973 and the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
Most recently, it occurred in relation to a motion moved in the Senate to establish a committee to examine the operation of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Further, I am an adopting parent with all that that implies for this debate and what it has meant for my family for me to have to take this stand. [More…]
Those of us who took the position that a breakdown in marital conditions should be dealt with in an enlightened way were criticised when the Parliament discussed the family law legislation. [More…]
One would hope that the same mature consideration would be given to this debate as was given to the debates on capital punishment and family law. [More…]
To my mind that shows a weakness in their position and in their ability to establish in themselves, in the community in which they live and within their family the standards which they spiritually support. [More…]
I would not like to see the process of abortion carried out on a member of my family, for instance. [More…]
Personally, I would not like to have a member of my family involved in the process of an abortion. [More…]
Whilst the plan in relation to skills and occupational levels might be acceptable, I draw the Minister’s attention to the very low weighting of family unity. [More…]
In a total point score of 50, family unity is given only 3 points and is mixed up with a number of other factors. [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…]
I was concerned that a Prime Minister, who does not care how much of the public money he spends upon himself and his family, was prepared to use his gold pass to get into a football match. [More…]
It depended greatly on the number of deductions a person had, the size of his income, the size of his family and so on. [More…]
I refer to the negotiations that have been proceeding for some considerable time now for the transfer to the Commonwealth of power with regard to family law in the areas where there is divided jurisdiction as a result of High Court litigation in the last few years. [More…]
In other words, there are very efficient and acceptable methods of family planning about which there have been international conferences and which only in recent yearsindeed, over the past 18 months- have been developed to a point which makes them easily understood and acceptable to the people who are in most need of that type of family planning education. [More…]
There are methods which are now acceptable in the types of communities which have a perceived need for the type of family planning education that is required. [More…]
A Chilean family meets our requirements. [More…]
In my question which was praised by these people I pointed out that in a total points score of 50 family unity is given only three points and is mixed up with a number of other factors. [More…]
I believe that in his question yesterday he mentioned family unity. [More…]
Three points are given in respect of family unity and six points in respect of family reunion. [More…]
Usually, the family reunion area scores additional points because there may be pre-arranged employment or economic support and a general viability that results from a family reunion. [More…]
Is that information transferred immediately to Canberra and is it available to the people who are sponsoring him such as a family? [More…]
I refer to the application of a Mr Van Gameren of Portland in Western Australia to bring his brother-in-law, Mr Mujeeb Chowdary and family, to Australia from India. [More…]
Following additional information received on this case, I recently carefully reconsidered Mr Chowdary ‘s application and I decided to approve the grant of resident status to him and his family provided they meet normal health and character requirements and Mr Chowdary is able to obtain a firm offer of employment as a tradesman tanner or clicker. [More…]
In a rather frustrated mood, as one could well imagine, Mr Chowdary travelled over a thousand miles by train from Madras to Delhi with his wife and family to get to the Australian High Commission to see what could be done. [More…]
However, applications were not resolved as the family withdrew their requests . [More…]
However, the Department suggested to the Minister, and the Minister signed the letter, that the family withdrew their request for residence and asked for the return of their passports. [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…]
I find it rather strange that members of your family aren’t hopping mad about it, and aren’t trying to get some of this money back. [More…]
All shareholders, except one minority shareholder in one family company, are in complete accord with this inquiry. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether she is aware that the Family Planning Association of the Australian Capital Territory, which is funded by this Government, was supporting the setting up of a public abortion clinic when the issue was debated in this place last week? [More…]
Can the Minister say whether abortion should be considered as a legitimate method of family planning? [More…]
If not, should not the Family Planning Association of the Australian Capital Territory condemn abortion rather than support its expansion and, indeed, concentrate its efforts on the necessary education of the community concerning the true family planning methods of contraception. [More…]
With regard to the first part of the question, may I say that the Minister was aware of the Family Planning Association’s support last week of the public abortion clinic. [More…]
The Government is of the opinion that the role of the Family Planning Association is in the dissemination of information on family planning and the provision of clinical services relating to acceptable methods of contraception. [More…]
The Minister for Health does not regard abortion as a desirable method of family planning and does not support the action of the Association in seeking to exert influence on honourable senators in respect of the debate which occurred in this chamber last week on this matter. [More…]
I am advised that a housing duplex consisting of two threebedroom family units has been purchased through the usual procedures of the Department of Administrative Services for use by staff employed at the office of the Department of Social Security at Kununurra. [More…]
The price which was paid represented $72,500 for each of these two family units and that price is in line with prices for comparable housing in the north-west of Australia. [More…]
I say it is not a free pass because although the employee gets a pass for himself, his wife and children he then must pay $100 for each member of his family plus the costs of the sleeping berths on the train and the costs of meals. [More…]
But at the same time the Government has decided to allocate $50,000 for flags, national anthem recordings and portraits of the Royal family. [More…]
He has no doubt consulted his deputy leader, Mr Bowen, on family trusts. [More…]
I am still waiting for Senator Evans to tell me what he regards as a bona fide family trust and what he regards as a bad one. [More…]
I refer to recent Press reports which in effect state that the Indonesian Government is unhappy with the whole idea of Timorese families being reunited with family’ members living here in Australia. [More…]
Why is the Indonesian Government reneging on family reunions? [More…]
It is well known that the Australian Government consistently has said that it places a very high priority on family reunions in this instance. [More…]
From our economic analysis of the costs of work in the Northern Territory carried out by the aborigines, we believe that a total house suitable for a family could be built for approximately $ 1 0,000.00 including the connection to services. [More…]
Has a Cabinet submission been circulated dealing with means testing of the whole family in the case of payments of unemployment and sickness benefits to those under the age of 2 1 years? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Social Security whether her Department has considered or is considering a proposal that there be a family means test for unemployment and sickness benefits for those under 2 1 years of age. [More…]
My Department is not considering a proposal for a family income means test for the payment of unemployment benefit. [More…]
He said that negotiations were under way for a team to be sent to East Timor in relation to family reunion. [More…]
How many East Timorese currently residing in Australia have applied to return to East Timor under the family reunion agreement made by the Australian and Indonesian Governments. [More…]
An estimated 300 seeking to come to Australia have been unable to obtain sponsorship on family reunion criteria. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Prime Minister and follows a question I asked yesterday concerning possible family means testing in the case of persons under 2 1 years of age who are in receipt of unemployment benefits. [More…]
2768 in the name of the Minister for Social Security dealing with options in relation to the family means test for unemployment and sickness benefits for people under 21 years of age? [More…]
2768 a submission in her name dealing with options in relation to a family means test for unemployment and sickness benefits for people under the age of 2 1 years? [More…]
I was asked a question yesterday about what was alleged to be the Government’s intention to impose a family means test for the payment of unemployment benefits to people under the age of 2 1 years. [More…]
I have no further comment to make on the subject except to state once again that the Government has no recommendation before it to introduce a means test on a family basis for payment of the unemployment benefit to persons under 2 1 years of age. [More…]
I refer to a question which I asked yesterday concerning family means testing of unemployed people and to her subsequent answer at the end of Question Time in which she said: [More…]
In order to assist Senator Wriedt yesterday, I was very frank in acknowledging to him that one of the options that was before the Government at Budget time was that a means test be imposed on family income for the payment of benefits to those under the age of 21 years. [More…]
Would the Minister contemplate establishing a judicial inquiry to report on the activities of these cults in Australia ensuring, firstly, that no intrusion into or harrassment of genuine and non-harmful groups by the inquiry is permitted and that true freedom to worship is not impaired in any way and, secondly, that the criteria of such an inquiry includes the following: Whether the sect requires from members compulsory financial contributions to the cult or its ‘spiritual’ leader; whether physical or mental damage is exerted or threatened to cult members or their families; whether undue influence is placed on family structures to induce family breakups; and any other associated matters which the Government in its wisdom considers appropriate? [More…]
I think that the emphasis on educational and employment qualifications is so great these days that any family which can possibly keep young people at school and support them to the end of their schooling and then into post-secondary training or education does so. [More…]
For many poorer families in our community the small payment of $36, which is the payment for the youth unemployed, makes a significant difference to the family income. [More…]
Although their expenses in seeking work can be just as high as those of people with dependants and although they may have fewer sources of family support- they may have to pay rent alone instead of sharing, as some people in family situations can do- the benefit paid to them will not be indexed. [More…]
For that family of six people the income is reduced to $135.76 a week. [More…]
The Government, despite its rhetoric about equality of opportunity, concern for the family and good intentions towards the public sector, demonstrates its bad faith in this Bill. [More…]
We have heard so much from the Fraser Government about its concern for families and its concern to support the family unit. [More…]
I believe that in those situations the one week that the father could take off to assist his family was necessary and I dispute the claim of the Minister for Education. [More…]
It was necessary to the well being of the family. [More…]
We do not wish our community in Canberra to suffer from all the social, family and personal problems that arise when a young family is without adequate support during difficult periods. [More…]
It was perhaps traditionally the case- it was certainly the case in my own situation- that another member of the family could assist. [More…]
However, that sort ot assistance is just not available to many Commonwealth employees, I do not think that it is ahead of community standards to say that a family experiencing the birth of a new baby should have some assistance. [More…]
If these people have the responsibility of a young family, mortgage commitments to meet and now greatly increased health insurance payments and everything else, they cannot possibly afford to give up a week without pay. [More…]
It is one that a government which is so keen on talking about support for the family unit ought not to be creating. [More…]
It seems to me that she must have had her tongue in her cheek when she was talking about a week’s paternity leave to allow the father to get to know his newborn child and at the same time look after the other children of the family while the mother is in hospital. [More…]
If the father cannot organise his holidays in that nine months so that he can have at least a week of his holidays shortly after his wife gets out of hospital or, if they already have a family, he cannot organise his holidays so that he can look after the children while she is in hospital there is something radically wrong with the system. [More…]
Yes, this Government has bad faith with the abusers of the system but it has not bad faith with the family, with the women of this society or with the Public Service. [More…]
I believe that they will encourage the woman who genuinely wants to stay in the Public Service and who wants also to raise a family. [More…]
How can he provide for himself if we tax him so that he cannot save, cannot house his family and cannot provide for his sickness and his old age? [More…]
The family is the fundamental unit of society. [More…]
Whilst governments have no place- within the family circle, they have an obligation to encourage the family group. [More…]
With the striking exception of the family allowance scheme of this Government, very little has been done in a financial sense to encourage families to raise children. [More…]
In addition, the Family Law Act has not contributed to the stability of marriage. [More…]
My quarrel with the Family Law Act is that it provides no incentive to couples who are faced with the difficulties which all relationships experience to try to resolve those difficulties before separating. [More…]
In particular I draw attention to the practice of tax avoidance through income splitting with family trusts. [More…]
We must also consider carefully and ruthlessly the use of family trusts as a method of tax avoidance. [More…]
When they are gone, the only obvious reasons for family trusts would be for income splitting as a method of tax avoidance. [More…]
After all, a recent decision of the Federal Court of Australia has held that partnerships may split incomes to assign incomes to family members who are not effective members of the partnership. [More…]
Along with Canada and New Zealand, Australia is one of the few countries to retain the system under which personal income tax is based on individual incomes and not on family incomes. [More…]
We will have to try again- possibly, heaven help us, through a new inquiry- to look at this single issue and to produce a solution to the problem of income splitting which does not involve lumping family incomes together. [More…]
This new inquiry should start from the premise that the chief purpose of family trusts is income tax avoidance, which certainly will be the case by the time it completes its report. [More…]
I am very glad as one who knew him very well to place this tribute in our Senate records tonight and to extend our condolence to Mr Harrison’s family. [More…]
That all hostels be planned on small family lines- not institutional lines- and that the emphasis be a relaxed informal continuance of home life within the community. [More…]
Dr Subandrio is permitted to leave prison to visit his family and relatives occasionally. [More…]
His family and relatives also visit him in Nirbaya. [More…]
I am advised that approximately 400 people residing in Vietnam have been approved for entry to Australia on the basis of family reunification. [More…]
He believes that we should continue on that course because therein lies the way to full recovery and prosperity for the individual Australian and his family. [More…]
The report of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission, tabled today, recommends changes in the procedures relating to family law proceedings. [More…]
It recommends in family law matters that some undefended divorce cases should be heard without the parties or their legal representatives having to attend the hearing and that in cases of access, custody, maintenance and property parties be obliged to attend counselling or a Registrar’s conference immediately after the commencement of proceedings. [More…]
Family Law Act by a Parliamentary committee. [More…]
In relation to the ancillary matters under the Family Law Act, it is not certain that the matters will be defended until the first pre-trial hearing in court on the first return date. [More…]
I personally feel a sense of deep deprivation as a result of serving on this Committee because my wife and I got rid of the family television set after the Committee had been meeting for a few months. [More…]
This is not my own personal view; it has been stated repeatedly by nuclear scientists in the United States who have pleaded with their Government to intervene and try to persuade the Marcos family, which is dominating ownership and control of this reactor, to move the reactor to a safer area. [More…]
But it will not do so because a reactor in close proximity to Manila means more money in the hands of the Marcos family. [More…]
There is mounting anger and frustration among the thousands of small family grape growers of the South Australian riverland as they face another year of poverty and hardship. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that it is the women especially who take the initiative in keeping in touch with the family and in planning the trip. [More…]
First, through a family gift and, second, through an extraordinary sequence of transactions speedily concluded in 1973 and 1974 with the Albert Shire Council and the State Lands Department, both subject to control by National Party figures. [More…]
The first section, A, was obtained through a family gift. [More…]
Block E is the site of the family farm. [More…]
This left Hinze with block E- the family farm-site- and block A (4.257 ha, 10.5 acres) situated on a low hill, wedged between a road junction. [More…]
But responsibility tugs hard at the person with a family and spouse to support. [More…]
The prospect of throwing away job security and all that means for one’s family must be too daunting for many public servants even to contemplate a possible parliamentary career. [More…]
in 1913, Mr Ingram migrated to Australia with his family in the mid- 1920s and their decision to live in the developing national capital enabled him, as a schoolboy, to witness the opening of Parliament House in 1927. [More…]
We say to Mr and Mrs Ingram and their family that we wish them good health and happiness for the future. [More…]
The article in the Sunday Sun of 22 October 1978 is not correct and there is no loss of family allowances in the situation mentioned. [More…]
Family allowances are payable in periods of 28 days and under the Social Services Act payment for a newly born child commences to accrue from the end of the endowment period during which the child is born. [More…]
Payments of family allowances therefore become due at the end of each endowment period but in order to avoid congestion at the banks one half of the mothers are paid a fortnight early (odd numbers) and the other half at the end of the period (even numbers). [More…]
When does the Minister intend to make the statement, relating to unemployment benefit and family allowances, to which she referred when answering a question without notice on 1 1 October 1978 (Senate Hansard, page 1 197). [More…]
Payment of unemployment benefit, sheltered employment allowance, family allowances, double orphan’s pension, handicapped child’s allowance is not made to patients of mental hospitals as it is not possible for those persons to meet all the eligibility criteria associated with these payments. [More…]
Payment of family allowances and double orphan’s pension may be made in respect of patients in mental hospitals subject to the parents meeting certain other conditions. [More…]
I join, as do all my colleagues, with Senator Webster and the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Wriedt, in paying tribute to Ellis Lawrie and in extending our sympathy to his widow and family. [More…]
I extend to his family my condolences on the loss of a person who faithfully served this chamber, this Parliament and also his party. [More…]
To her and her family I wish to express my deepest sympathies and my hope that, whilst they have lost him in this life, his memory will be a great comfort to them and to those who knew and loved him. [More…]
I join with the other senators in their expressions of condolence to his wife Margaret and the family. [More…]
As a fellow Queenslander I would like to be associated with this expression of condolence to Mrs Lawrie and her family, as Ellis Lawrie was one of the first Federal politicians I met. [More…]
He and his family made a politically active unit in the area. [More…]
I am proud to share in this expression of condolence to his wife Margaret and the family. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government any evidence of quota profit in respect of small to medium family cars? [More…]
Will any fall in imports as a result of the 12 per cent impost take place mainly in respect of small to medium family sized cars and hence remove the only source of competition to local manufacturers? [More…]
Wendy McCarthy (New South Wales)- Director, New South Wales Family Planning Association and home duties; previously a teacher, including teaching women re-entering the workforce; member of the Education Committee of the NSW Women’s Advisory Board; has also worked as a media consultant; Family Life Movement, Women’s Electoral Lobby and Childbirth Education Association. [More…]
An artisan is a handcraftsman or handcraftswoman who exercises a non-agricultural activity, revolving around the transformation of materials with his own handwork or that of his family. [More…]
Family allowances have not been increased since their introduction in the present form. [More…]
If we are really serious about talking of what has been promised and what has not been promised I should say that Senator Grimes made some note of the fact that supplementary assistance has not been increased and that the family allowance has not been indexed. [More…]
If one of the Opposition members would read what was said by Mr Hayden when presenting his alternative Budget- after all, we would have to accept that Budget as being party policy- we would see that other than the commitment for twice yearly increases and the indexation of unemployment benefits and, at that time the restoration of the family allowance which was later changed by the present Government, he made no commitments for further expenditure. [More…]
I suppose that in looking at social security we probably had to take a decision on whether to uphold our commitment to full tax indexation or whether to find $500m from the family allowance scheme. [More…]
The Government, in its wisdom and, I think, with the great support of the Australian people, decided to maintain the family allowance scheme. [More…]
Although I would agree with Senator Grimes when he says that pensioners, the people who are aged, invalid and sick, are the most vulnerable, I also need to recognise the needs of families- the single income family with several small children, the family with commitments to purchasing a house to give security to the family and the family with a woman who is unable to work and who has commitments at home to her own children and a desire to be at home with them. [More…]
In determining our social welfare policy we went to organisations such as the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Australian Council of Social Service, the Victorian Council of Social Service, various other social service councils around Australia, the society for the aging, the society for the crippled and pensioners associations. [More…]
Anybody who has had children, anybody who has any imagination, realises that when there are young children in a family the need for health care rises dramatically. [More…]
So the amount of money which that woman has to stretch to feed her family has been, of course, reduced. [More…]
This figure takes no account of the family allowance scheme which provides mothers with significantly higher benefits than the old child endowment’. [More…]
Another major and very familiar problem area is of course that of family law, where, as is quite well known, the High Court has held in the case of Russell and Russell that there are constitutional inhibitions on the Federal Family Court being able to deal with the full range of matters that can arise in matrimonial and particularly child custody cases. [More…]
Their grandparents made application for custody to the Court exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975. [More…]
The Court operating under the Family Law Act 1975 has no power to deal with their application. [More…]
He should have gone to the Family Court of Australia which could deal with it. [More…]
Well, it is true that most of the kinds of problems to which I have referred, both in the context of family law and in the earlier context of dual jurisdiction in trade practices and so on, could be coped with by less extreme measures, as Senator Missen indicates, than the integration of all Australian courts into a single centrally administered system. [More…]
Certainly the family law type situation could, as the honourable senator indicates, be solved by the State governments being much more willing than they hitherto have been to refer to the Commonwealth under the constitutional provision in section 51(xxxvii), the exercise of legislative power in respect of certain presently exclusive State matters. [More…]
That solution has been followed in the family law context in Western Australia where the Federal Government has vested its jurisdiction in matrimonial matters in a State established family law court. [More…]
There is in Western Australia a situation in which all family law and matrimonial matters can be dealt with by a single court and the New South Wales case to which I referred would not have turned out the way it did. [More…]
The guidelines at the same time narrow the scope of services by limiting assistance in the family law jurisdiction to urgent dissolutions and to real financial need. [More…]
He is prepared to see legal aid services used, say, in the family law jurisdiction for cases of real need, for cases of urgent dissolution and for the more difficult matters, which he sets out in his statement, of custody, maintenance, access and so on. [More…]
Family Court, which I acknowledge has been the subject of many endeavours on both the Government and Opposition sides of the Parliament to make a more informal tribunal. [More…]
As procedures now stand it is still necessary for such an appearance to be made in all family law matters. [More…]
It may be that the situation to which I have been referring could be coped with by the further simplification of Family Court procedures of the kind that have been recommended by the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission in its first report. [More…]
Certainly I hope that the Joint Committee on the Family Law Act, which is considering the operation of that Act, will given urgent attention to these matters. [More…]
Certainly it is true that the staff of family courts around the country are doing their best to provide that advice. [More…]
The second element in the ministerial package is the requirement that a $100 court fee is to be paid by people who institute dissolution proceedings on their own behalf, with the qualification that a registrar of the Family Court can waive that fee on the basis of considerations of substantial hardship. [More…]
We should remember who they are because under these guidelines the only people who are eligible for legal aid in the first place are, in the case of individuals, people whose net disposable incomes are a mere $52 a week or in the case of the ordinary average family of four with a breadwinner and three dependants, where the total net disposable income of the family is $87. [More…]
The fourth element in the package is the new cost scale for solicitors in Family Court proceedings, which cost scale represents certainly a drastic downward revision of the fees payable to the private legal profession on matters referred to that profession by the Legal Aid Office. [More…]
These have come about as a result of a number of firms of solicitors now refusing to take on legal aid matters in family law cases. [More…]
The firms that have been most conspicuous in this respect include some of the most specialised and expert firms in the family law area and firms which previously have handled quite a large bulk of the work load in this area. [More…]
Whatever one thinks of the attitudes of the firms in question- I offer no justification whatever for that kind of professional behaviour- the effect has been to place enormous additional pressures on the staffs of the Australian Legal Aid Office, both in the sense that they have had to do a great deal of extra work in trying to find firms willing to take on legal aid cases which, surprising as it may sound, I am informed has often proved difficult and lengthy, and in the even more obvious and significant sense as far as the staffs are concerned, has caused them to accept substantial additional burdens by way of the direct representation of legal aid clients in family law cases. [More…]
It is unfair to his family and to his commitments elsewhere. [More…]
In the course of this debate there has been mention of the fact that there is, of course, a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I feel that that is one of the appropriate and hopeful areas because when one looks at the whole scheme of family law- which takes up something like 80 per cent of the legal aid costs in this country- one must realise that it is a very important area. [More…]
For example, in the application of legal aid at the family court, only one of the courts in Australia has a legal aid service available at the court. [More…]
So one would expect that legal aid must loom large in the investigation being made by a committee of the Parliament into family law. [More…]
In case anyone thinks that the oil example is an isolated one, although I am sure everyone here knows that it is not, I will cite a second example- the handling of family allowances. [More…]
The Government had identified a problem with family allowances. [More…]
Practitioners do not use any non-prescribed drugs and a healthy married family life is encouraged. [More…]
In those terms there could be a lack of equity in comparison with those who are in full time employment and who have the same sort of family responsibilities. [More…]
As far as we are concerned our Family Law Act contains an appropriate provision. [More…]
It removed the democratically elected government in Iran and installed one of the most barbaric dictatorships to be found anywhere in the world- the dictatorship of that cowardly cur, the Shah of Persia, a man who flew around in aeroplanes apparently with gold taps and gold baths; the man who, according to some reports, in conjunction with his family has been able to ship $ 17,000m worth of assets out of the country. [More…]
On Thursday 8 February the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act held public hearings in Canberra, the principal witness appearing before it being the Department of the Attorney-General. [More…]
With the concurrence of the Committee the Chairman, Mr Ruddock, wrote to the editors of the Australian, 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 cooperation in ensuring that this was possible. [More…]
The number and 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 a committee 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…]
I make this statement as Deputy Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I am ashamed to see the way in which the activities of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act and the evidence given to it have been distorted. [More…]
I express the view, as I have often done in the past, that the Family Law Act is one of the great legislative achievements of this country in the last 20 years. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware of the concern held by thousands of newsagents throughout New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory about a recently issued restrictive trade practices draft determination relating to their industry which, if implemented, will have very serious economic implications for them, particularly those who have sunk the family’s life savings into the purchase of the business? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister see that all steps are taken to protect these small businesses which exist in every town, suburb and city of Australia and which, in the main, are family concerns? [More…]
I wonder whether the Government has devised any revision of its family reunion policy in regard to those Australian sponsors of Iranian origin who are seeking to bring relatives here who happen to be of nonMoslem belief and who are a bit apprehensive that the new Government will discriminate against those people who are not Moslems. [More…]
These are not just the unemployed, the parents of teenagers looking for work, one of the family of the breadwinner out of work or one of the growing number genuinely concerned that the danger lights are already flashing; the concern is widespread throughout the community. [More…]
Nor should any family be forced, by economic or other reasons, to have both partners of a marriage working in the paid work force if that is to the detriment of the family. [More…]
Why not consider the lifting of family allowances and the payment of a realistic homemakers allowance which would relieve the economic pressure and provide an opportunity for thousands of married women to leave the paid work force? [More…]
I believe that considerable recognition should be given to the woman who stays at home and looks after a family. [More…]
We can compare those people with the man with a family on the minimum wage. [More…]
A man with a family on the minimum wage earns only $183 each week and pays tax. [More…]
-The Family Law Amendment Bill 1978 seeks to amend the Family Law Act. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Senator Durack), in introducing this Bill and in a series of subsequent private discussions, has indicated that there are a number of amendments which might be regarded as being of a technical nature and which, in part at least, stem from the recommendations of the Family Law Council. [More…]
The major amendment, however, relates to the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies which was referred to in the original Family Law Act. [More…]
to promote, by the encouragement and co-ordination of research and other appropriate means, the identification of, and development of understanding of, the factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia, with the object of promoting the protection of the family as the natural and fundamental group unit in society; and [More…]
One hopes that it will be able to play a positive role in developing an understanding of what makes for satisfactory family relationships or, to use a somewhat tarnished expression, what makes for good marriages as distinct from bad ones. [More…]
I am concerned that the principles underlying the Family Law Act which seem to me to be sound should be maintained. [More…]
To be more specific, there is a reference to the protection of the family as the natural and fundamental group unit in society. [More…]
I think that there are some reasons for querying whether we are stuck with the notion of the nuclear family as the most natural and desirable group unit. [More…]
Perhaps the Institute should explore a great variety of factors which bear on the desirability of the nuclear family which I think most historians and sociologists would say is a sort of bastard child of the industrial revolution. [More…]
I think it would be desirable if in many of our policies relating to social issues more consideration were given to the situation which exists in more primitive societies than ours in which much more care and attention is given to the wider ramifications of family relationships than in the typical Australian family as it is sometimes described with a husband, a wife, two children and the television set. [More…]
The organisation and formulation of government policies- I make this comment irrespective of party lines- which bear on the family situation are very much structured towards encouraging the continuance of the nuclear family and against the possibility of encouraging wider and more supportive relationships in families which involve more than just a husband, a wife and two children. [More…]
I think that this is to be commended given the importance which must be attached to the family unit. [More…]
I am sure that a number of senators have had the opportunity of visiting family courts in their respective States or elsewhere. [More…]
From the time of the introduction of the Family Law Bill into the Senate and throughout the discussions of the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on the clauses of the Family Law Bill, there was great concern and emphasis that the counselling procedures offered by the courts should be as informal and as adequate as possible. [More…]
Many of the criticisms and frictions which have arisen in relation to the operation of the Family Law Act have done so from difficulties over maintenance and custody matters which might have been resolved by counselling. [More…]
It is unfortunate that much of that criticism has developed into criticism of the substantive grounds under the Family Law Act on which marriages are dissolved. [More…]
What I am concerned about is that the spirit of the original family law legislation should stand and that the more social aspects of the legislation and the aspects of the legislation which affects society as a whole should be constantly and more frequently examined in a constructive way. [More…]
One would hope that in years to come thousands upon thousands of Australians will benefit from the deliberations of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
I rise to support the amendments that are contained in the Family Law Amendment Bill 1978 and to welcome its introduction. [More…]
I refer to the establishment and the powers of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
The Family Law Council has met and, in its two annual reports, has made very substantial suggestions for amendments which, in the main, I think are useful to the legislation. [More…]
They are matters which may be of some controversy and they are, of course, also being considered by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Family Law Act which the Parliament set up. [More…]
I cannot resist saying that the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies is a matter about which I have moaned in the Senate on many occasions now for some years. [More…]
This Institute ought to be operating contemporaneously with the development of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Such research would be of inestimable value to the Joint Committee on the Family Law Act because it is impossible for that Committee to carry out investigation which requires very detailed and considered research. [More…]
The other amendments contained in the Bill originated substantially but not entirely from recommendations of the Family Law Council. [More…]
I note, for example, in regard to the matter of counselling, which is given emphasis in this Bill, that the Family Law Council had this to say in its 1977 report: [More…]
Counselling was regarded as a cornerstone in the unit operation which the Family Court of Australia is to use. [More…]
The part of that report concerning family law and family matters is a most excellent document. [More…]
I believe that the relatively small but useful amendments which this Bill provides will make the Family Court a more effective instrument than it has been already. [More…]
Together with Senator Button, I believe that the Family Court has been responsible for very great achievements and that it has worked remarkably well. [More…]
There is more that needs to be done, such as the matters which have been recognised by the Family Law Council and which I hope will soon come into legislative form. [More…]
The Bill’s major amendments affect the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies which was provided for in the original Family Law Act at the time of its passage. [More…]
Family Law Amendment Bill 1978 [More…]
To amend the Family Law Act in a number of respects, notably by establishing the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
The Bill’s major amendments affect the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies which was provided for in the original Family Law Act at the time of its passage. [More…]
The rest of the amendments are of a technical nature and do not substantially alter the spirit of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Section 116 of the Act, which establishes the Institute of Family Studies, is repealed (clause 19) and new provisions substituted by clause 1 8. [More…]
In line with a recommendation of the Family Law Council, the Bill extends slightly the authority of courts to set aside or discharge property settlement or maintenance orders under the Act. [More…]
But let me accept Senator Georges ‘s reasons for entering into the debate, as I hope he will accept mine, and that is that, like others, I am very concerned about the effectiveness of the family unit in the total building of Australian society. [More…]
In the second instance I am privileged to be a member of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
When a Bill relating to the Act, albeit only an amending Bill, comes before the Senate I like to indicate my stewardship in relation to that Committee as well as my interest in the wider ramifications of the family situation within Australian society by involving myself, albeit in a general and brief way, in the matter. [More…]
I think it is quite wise of us to have an amending Bill in relation to these issues because when we have a legislative act which impinges so much upon our community welfare, our social practices and indeed our family lifestyle, it is good that there is a review from time to time in relation to detail. [More…]
We recall very stongly the debate relating to the original Family Law Act in which there were a number of new initiatives. [More…]
A great number of these amendments revolve around a matter which has been referred to by earlier speakers today, and that is the Institute of Family Studies which has been set up as a national research and educational body and, as the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) said in his second reading speech it has an object which is to try to identify and disseminate information on negative and positive factors which affect family stability in Australia. [More…]
It is, therefore, not surprising that the Government attaches great importance to the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies as does the Parliament and the community. [More…]
In our work with the Joint Select Committee there is obviously great interest in and great importance attached to the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
Its principal function will be to promote, by encouragement and the co-ordination of research, the identification and understanding of the factors which affect marital life and family stability in Australia. [More…]
As I think the Attorney-General said in another context, the aim of the Institute will be to look at family life to see- as he stressed- not what destroys but what makes a good marriage. [More…]
I believe that it will assume great social significance in the years to come because, as this Family Law Act has been established within our community, and as the Committee which has been appointed by the Parliament to go into the Act brings in its report and its influence upon the Family Law Act, so the Institute of Family Studies will assume an even greater degree of importance. [More…]
As he said, they fill in the blanks and streamline the terms and conditions and other matters which relate to the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
This is a task which the Family Law Act has established, not only in the marriage guidance movement, but also for the Institute of Family Studies, to which I have already made reference. [More…]
It would be wrong to suppose that the only aim of the Family Law Act was to make divorce easier. [More…]
In the book The Family in Australia the authors Krupinski and Yule in relation to counselling and consultation have this to say: [More…]
So the Bill, with its emphasis on a series of amendments, is an important development in the legislative processes that are going on in relation to the area of marriage and family life. [More…]
The feature that is common to all of the amendments, including those that have been recommended by the Family Law Council and those concerning the Institute of Family Studies, around which so much of the Bill revolves, is that they are intended to facilitate the operation of the Act in the manner in which it was originally defined. [More…]
That amendment also is necessary because of some deficiency found in the Act in regard to the Family Court of Western Australia. [More…]
I assert, as a person who for some 10 years was director of the family advertising agency, that we thought we were in business to increase markets. [More…]
Since then the Government has, amongst other things, refused benefit to claimants who failed the work test on the grounds of their appearance or their demeanour in the office; obliged single persons over 1 8 years of age to move from home if work is available elsewhere; deprived school leavers of unemployment benefit for six weeks after completion of their studies; tightened the restrictions whereby skilled persons were forced to accept unskilled work; required income statements to be delivered personally to the office of the Commonwealth Employment Service; required persons voluntarily leaving their jobs to wait six weeks before becoming eligible for benefit; changed the identification procedures so that no longer could identification be established by bank book or driving licence- the recipients must supply a birth certificate more than five years old, an insurance policy, a rates notice or other suitable documents; required that the failure of the CES work test would result in the cancellation of benefit whatever the family or personal situation- in other words, the work test applied by the CES applied to the Department of Social Security no matter what other conditions applied; refused to accept post office addresses and terminated benefit if such an address was given despite the fact that many rural people travel from town to town; and refused payment of unemployment benefit to persons laid off during the Christmas-January shut-down in industries such as the motor vehicle industry even when they had no holiday pay. [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…]
My question, which is directed to the Attorney-General, relates to the closing in October last year of the child minding service associated with the Family Court in Brisbane. [More…]
Would the AttorneyGeneral agree that when family law legislation was debated in this chamber, heavy stress was laid on the need to remove the strains which had been associated with divorce jurisdiction in the past, with particular reference to the rights of children? [More…]
Has he had reports of unfortunate incidents in the precincts of the Family Court in Brisbane since this child minding service has been closed down, particularly when children have come into contact with parents from whom they have been separated for some time? [More…]
Is he considering the need for any action to amend the Family Law Act to take account of such a situation which could detrimentally affect the position of many women in the Australian community? [More…]
However, the law applicable to a situation of this kind in Australia is, of course, not determined by the United States Supreme Court but by the Family Law Act passed by this Parliament and interpreted by the Family Court of Australia or ultimately the High Court of Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister was asked a question relating to a loan believed to have been made by the Rural Finance and Settlement Commission of Victoria, a six-figure loan made to the Beggs family and believed to have been $250,000. [More…]
The Commission has not done anything for the Beggs family that it would not do for others similarly placed. [More…]
The Premier, however, then went on to deny that he had any financial links with the Beggs or Fraser families and, in his own words, ‘links of any kind with the Beggs family’, with whom he claimed not to be even acquainted. [More…]
But the immediate reaction, of course, as I assume the Premier intended, was a wave of sympathy for the Beggs family: How could anyone be so cruel, it was implicitly argued, as to criticise the providing of a bit of financial assistance by way of cheap money to a poor Western District family that had been burnt out of house and home by a natural disaster? [More…]
However, the whole story of the poor disadvantaged Beggs family who had been burnt out of house and home and had been given some compensation was blown apart by the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Nationwide program on Thursday night. [More…]
It was also revealed by the Prime Minister’s brother-in-law, Mr Hugh Beggs, that the family had applied to the Victorian Rural Finance Commission for a loan about mid- June, some four months after the devastating fire swept through the property. [More…]
We were also told that all the landholders contacted by the ABC, other than the Beggs family, were satisfied with the settlement. [More…]
We subsequently learnt that the Beggs family had in fact received $180,000 from the SEC. [More…]
Mr Hugh Beggs informed us via Nationwide that the loan obtained from the Rural Finance Commission had been used for what he termed as ‘restructuring the family’s substantial debts’. [More…]
But the crucial fact which emerged from the Nationwide program was that the Beggs family had been compensated by the SEC for its losses in the fire. [More…]
In the article we were told that these investigative journalists had ferreted around State Government departments in Victoria and discovered from somewhere or other that the Beggs family had suffered losses amounting to $300,000 in the fire. [More…]
That was a questionable figure but the important thing is that the ‘Insight’ team’s in depth investigation and its ferreting around in Victorian State Government departments failed to turn up the fact that the Beggs family had received compensation of $185,000. [More…]
Ironically, the evidence for all this has come mostly from the Beggs family itself. [More…]
We have it again on the authority of Hugh Beggs on Nationwide last Thursday night that the money received from the Rural Finance Commission was used to restructure the substantial debts of the family farm. [More…]
How do all the farmers who have been knocked back by this and similar authorities in all States feel about a sum of $100,000 being given to the Prime Minister’s family at concessional rates, apparently in breach of at least three provisions of the Schedule to the States Grants (Rural Adjustment) Act? [More…]
The Western District farmer who received $2,000 was the only farmer in the Western District affected by that bushfire other than the Beggs family who Nationwide could find who had received anything from the Commission. [More…]
This family received $ 1 80,000 from the State Electricity Commission in Victoria in full compensation for the losses sustained in that fire. [More…]
The fact that that loss was met by that Commission surely removes any just claim which the family could otherwise have had for financial assistance from the public. [More…]
They pay 18 per cent or 20 per cent interest and the Prime Minister’s family gets public money at 4 per cent and has the audacity to complain that it is ‘an unbelievable intrusion’ on their privacy when these facts are brought to light in the national Parliament. [More…]
In the Age the Insight article failed to turn up the crucial fact that the family had been compensated. [More…]
All the other landholders in the Western District whom the ABC could contact last Thursday night agreed that the compensation had been fair and from the ABC’s researches only the Beggs family claimed to have been dissatisfied. [More…]
So without the pasture, at most, the losses sustained by the family in the fire were of the order of $165,000. [More…]
If it is to be claimed- I do not know whether it is- that this was disaster relief compensation, the Beggs family in Victoria can get $100,000 apparently without any objections from the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, the Prime Minister or anyone else in the Liberal and National Country parties in this Parliament. [More…]
The people who will be most annoyed by this matter are the farmers who did not get the money, whether it was because they and the Beggs family were not similarly placed I do not know, but they did not get the money and they will be annoyed about it. [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 doubt very much whether Senator Walsh would know the particular family, farm or area. [More…]
If one takes the cost of the loss of fencing, very little funds would be left to the family once the fences were replaced. [More…]
The Government knows- perhaps Labor does notthat over the years some of the best family farming concerns have had a very hard time. [More…]
The particular transactions which give rise to the Opposition’s concern and this debate today are two loans of $50,000 each, one at 4 per cent and the other at 10 per cent made on the same day in 1977 by the Victorian Rural Finance Commission to the Beggs family in the Western District. [More…]
I shall summarise the questions which arise in respect of that matter: Firstly, conceding that there was substantial fire damage to the Beggs’ property in question in early 1977, was the Beggs family not sufficiently compensated for that damage by the $180,000 compensation moneys which it received in the first instance from the insurance company, which moneys have been subsequently reimbursed to that insurance company by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria which has admitted liability? [More…]
Secondly, how does the $50,000 which has been made available to the Beggs family for disaster relief, on top of that $180,000 compensation which it has already received, compare with the sums that have been made available to other farmers in the area as a result of damage to a similar extent caused by the same fire? [More…]
When they compare the $50,000 handout that has been made to the Beggs-Fraser family in the Western District with the money the family has been able to obtain from the same agency, how can they be blamed if they suspect that something has gone haywire in the administration and supervision of this aspect of Commonwealth rural funds? [More…]
Of course, the Victorian State Treasurer is Mr Hamer, whose financial connections with the Fraser-Beggs family are by now a matter of public record. [More…]
If this was the purpose for which the second $50,000 loan was being made- making a grand total of $100,000 being given to the Beggs family for disaster relief- how much stronger does that make the criticisms that I have already advanced about the doubts which surround the justice of and the justification for a loan being made at all to the Beggs family, given the $180,000 it received from the State Electricity Commission? [More…]
As Senator Walsh said, this was the kind of language employed by the Beggs family spokesman in explaining to the world at large how it was the family came to receive its loan. [More…]
Are we seriously to believe that this criterion was applicable to the Beggs-Fraser family in the Western District, one of the biggest and best known land owners and graziers in that area? [More…]
When the Prime Minister was asked subsequently whether a loan had been made available to the Beggs family in Victoria under the flow through provisions of the scheme, he said that the matter had been determined by the Rural Finance Commission of Victoria according to its own judgment and in accordance with its own circumstances. [More…]
It has been only in the last week, when Government Ministers have begun to realise the implications of their own policy on death duties and probate duties and they have begun to realise the implications of their own rhetoric about tax avoidance, that we have begun to get a situation where the Prime Minister, for example, has said to the people of this country that schemes such as family trusts are not appropriate for a person in the position of Prime Minister, or appropriate for a person in the Ministry of the present Government who is responsible for spending and directing the means of expenditure of Commonwealth money which is collected in the form of tax. [More…]
The Opposition is not concerned about the Beggs family. [More…]
I have seen in the newspapers that members of the Beggs family have described themselves as plain country folk. [More…]
The real point is not the Beggs family itself but the circumstances in which Commonwealth money has been administered. [More…]
When one looks at the situation as has been reported in a variety of radio and television programs, it can be seen quite clearly that the family in question was an exception in that district which had suffered from bushfires. [More…]
We suggest, quite frankly, that some of the money which was paid to this family was used to pay out a mortgage to a company called Ambulando Nominees, which is apparently a finance company carried on by a firm of solicitors in Melbourne in which Mr Strachan, one of the joint owners or tenants in common of the land in question, was in fact a partner. [More…]
As that is so, it seems that the people who received this loan, the Beggs family, were clearly ineligible under the Rural Adjustment Scheme on at least two grounds, and perhaps three grounds if they received compensation from the State Electricity Commission. [More…]
But, having listened to the three speakers in this debate from the Opposition side I realise that it is quite obvious that this is purely a vehicle, by bringing the matter into the Federal ambit, for muck-raking for political purposes as far as a particular family in Victoria is concerned. [More…]
He then assumed that the family did not need the loan and could pay it back. [More…]
Let us face it: A nation is like a family. [More…]
The breadwinner of a family determines the standard of living of the family and the breadwinner of this nation determines the standard of living of this nation. [More…]
I am quite certain that despite the grandstanding by the Opposition today in order to bring attention to one family in Victoria, the primary producers of this country will never forget what the Australian Labor Party did to them between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
I refer to statistics such as those measuring juvenile crime, family break-up, drug addiction and drug related offences. [More…]
Voluntary organisations in the Territory- for example the Women’s Refuge, the Smith Family and the St Vincent de Paul Society- are strained well beyond their resources in trying to cope and give some assistance with the social problems which have followed upon the Fraser Government’s economic strategy for the national capital. [More…]
The then honourable member for Richmond, Mr Anthony, stated that few of the taxation measures ever introduced into the House had had a worthier object, that is, the provision of funds to supplement the income of the family man. [More…]
In some cases, trusts are required to hold assets in perpetuity where a family has failed to organise its affairs many years ago and the trust is a vehicle for reorganisation and eventual dissolution of an estate. [More…]
However, as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has amply illustrated by his recent decision to dissolve his own family trusts, to retain his land holdings and to invest his funds in government securities, trusts are clearly not essential for the maintenance of the family farm or other family businesses. [More…]
I had an important family engagement that evening and I had no intention of spoiling my plans because of a belligerent police officer. [More…]
I have considered the position of the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the Right Honourable Phillip Lynch, M.P., in the light of his disclosure to me of his family’s financial interests and in particular, their interests in commercial arrangements entered into in September 1973 whilst he was in Opposition, and concluded in 1976 after he became Treasurer, concerning land at Balnarring in Victoria. [More…]
of the Melbourne Bar, who advised me that 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, and that the arrangements were normal commercial arrangements. [More…]
I very greatly regret the difficulty and anguish that Phillip Lynch and his family have experienced over recent weeks. [More…]
A far more satisfactory procedure must be found to resolve these situations which can have such an impact on an individual’s career and on the life of his family. [More…]
What I have heard- I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether I am correct- is that apart from a family law judge in Sydney, the beneficiary of the judges’ pension Bill would have been the royal commissioner who presided over the royal commission into the McPherson electoral fiasco. [More…]
The treatment of a story on the Beggs family and the Rural Finance Commission by the ABC radio program AM may be investigated by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Mr Staley. [More…]
In February 1978 the Government decided upon certain proposed amendments to the Judges’ Pensions Act, which included a proposal that judges who had served at least five years but less than 10 years, which is the existing qualifying period, should receive a pro rata pension if their retirement was due to the constitutional requirement, which was passed by referendum, of compulsory retirement at 70 years of age for High Court judges and Federal Court judges or 65 years of age for Family Court judges. [More…]
As far as I am aware only two judges, Mr Justice McGregor of the Federal Court, and a judge of the Family Court, will be affected by the amendments dealing with compulsory retirement. [More…]
As far as I am aware the decision made by the Government in February 1978 applies to two judges, one in the Federal Court and one in the Family Court, and to no other judges. [More…]
I am aware of public statements that have been made recently with regard to the income of single parent families and the difficulties which they have in sustaining the family on this income. [More…]
In view of the significant benefits which generally accrue to the individual from such education, the student and/or his family should bear pan of these cost. [More…]
I do not see why a person who undertakes tertiary education in circumstances in which there may be considerable poverty in the family should receive less than his brother, for example, who is on the dole. [More…]
A student’s income to that extent is almost continually eroded, apart from an increase, for example, in the last Budget which was set off by an adjustment to the family allowance in respect of students living at home. [More…]
There are a number of students under the age of 25 years who, for a great variety of reasons, cannot live at home because of parental pressures or other problems in the family. [More…]
1 5- the student must verify his or her claim with a signed statement of the problems which exist at home and include not only a statutory declaration from two people but also a detailed floor plan of the family home. [More…]
The family law courts in this country ceased to request that sort of information four years ago. [More…]
That seems to me to be a serious anomaly which probably in many social and family situations represents a considerable disincentive for students to apply for the allowance. [More…]
However, I put it to the Senate that in many cases, because of various matters relating to lifestyle, size of family and things of that kind, it is not safe to make that sort of assumption. [More…]
In this respect, the gross income of a middle income family, even after the family adjustment, is certainly not a measure of its capacity to pay. [More…]
I remind the Minister and the Senate that the Williams Committee recommended that the actual income tax paid should be deducted from the gross family income in applying the means test. [More…]
Perhaps that is not the right measure, but it is different from taking into account only the gross income of a middle income family. [More…]
I was left in some doubt as to precisely what he was saying but I do think that the level of the TEAS allowance does require some supplement to the income of students and that supplement will no doubt sometimes come from family sources and sometimes come from the student’s own earning efforts. [More…]
It is true that there was no increase in TEAS allowances last year, apart from the transfer of the $5.25 family allowance from the parent to the student. [More…]
The means test for dependent students applied on the gross income of both parents with deductions allowed for actual income paid for one parent in the two-parent family. [More…]
Australia wanted to further emphasise family reunion while ‘maintaining a proper standard of selectivity,’ Mr MacKellar said. [More…]
He was not allowed to return for years and, finally, as a result of representations from our office, he was allowed to go back on the morning boat to see his family for three or four hours but he was escorted by police back onto the boat and to the mainland in the afternoon. [More…]
Incidentally, the father of the family had a $50 note in his licence. [More…]
The Department is refusing this family’s application for a home on two grounds. [More…]
The family are former residents of Pensioners Reserve, due to the Ayr Council evacuating the area for the purpose of demolishing their homes for future development on that land. [More…]
Urgency for this family to be adequately housed was supported with letters to the Department from myself, the Aboriginal health Team and Health Department of Ayr. [More…]
Recently an Aboriginal family was evicted from a home. [More…]
When I say ‘from the Australian Government’ I mean that since July 1976 some 480 letters of authority have been issued to residents of Vietnam who have immediate family members in Australia. [More…]
These people, as I have just mentioned, have immediate family members in Australia. [More…]
I think it important that action be taken to encourage the Vietnamese authorities to act in a humane way and to enable these family reunions to take place. [More…]
They have been vetted by Australia, they have been provided with Australian Government letters of authority and they should not be subjected to the elaborate procrastination that has occurred and the consequent anxiety which has been caused between parents and children, between husband and wife, and between one family and another. [More…]
In this morning’s edition of the Melbourne Age I noticed a statement by the Deputy High Commissioner for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Mr Dale de Haan, who said that Vietnam had told him that it will reduce the number of boat people leaving its shores if other countries take Vietnamese refugees on a family reunion basis. [More…]
The motion was designed simply to highlight the situation concerning family group reunions. [More…]
I believe that the issue has been overtaken by the announcement of the Federal Government in January of this year concerning the cutting off of aid and the recent announcement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees concerning the apparent indication by the Vietnamese Government on family reunions. [More…]
This pensioner tells me that he cannot afford to lose the concession that he has and he is wondering whether he should be honest about the present circumstances of his family. [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. [More…]
I extend my personal condolences to his wife and family and to the party to which he once belonged. [More…]
I raised a family there. [More…]
They all have a wife and family on the Island and their own home and job. [More…]
The wife of a family- [More…]
She married my son and they have a family of six children. [More…]
Tommy raised a large family and the name of one of his sons appears on the petition. [More…]
Young Gabriel Thimble is another boy who was born on the island, but who moved away when his family also moved away. [More…]
His family wanted to go back to the island because they could not hack it in the broader white community. [More…]
It is affecting Michael Egan and his family right now. [More…]
Some families, because some members of the family are working, can support people through delays like this. [More…]
However, many of these people have no such family support and are living from week to week, from day to day. [More…]
I believe that every serviceman who served in the areas where defoliants were used in Vietnam owes it to himself and his family to seek urgent medical examination to make sure that he is not suffering as a result of the extensive use of that type of herbicide. [More…]
Is he aware of allegations by a former Adelaide gynaecologist, Mrs Stuart-Kregor, that her stepson has been so brainwashed by this sect that he now refuses to associate with his family because families are considered by the sect to be the work of Satan? [More…]
Certainly the integrity of our social institutions in educational, union, family, business, entertainment, government, judicial, executive and other areas, is best protected by persons of goodwill acting in concert to prevent these institutions being undermined. [More…]
The National Health Act falls into this category along with others such as the Income Tax Assessment Act and the Family Law Act. [More…]
He still had the loan from QBE Insurance Ltd and he was still involved with family trusts through a company established by his accountant who was on the board of Commonwealth authorities. [More…]
Mr Lynch was not forced to resign because of his family affairs; he was forced to resign because they became a public issue immediately prior to an election. [More…]
I cannot answer what family trusts representatives of the Whitlam Government had or that they now have in Opposition, as has been disclosed. [More…]
Senator Gareth Evans sought an answer from me on this matter of family trusts. [More…]
In turn I asked the Labor Party to tell me what it regarded as valid family trusts and what it regarded as invalid family trusts. [More…]
For example, Senator Wriedt sought to besmirch Mr Lynch by talking about his involvement in family trusts. [More…]
The world knows that Mr Lynch has no pecuniary interest in the family trusts. [More…]
I want to make it perfectly clear, and Mr Lynch has made it perfectly clear, that he has no interest in a family trust. [More…]
The family trust does not concern his own assets but those of his wife and children. [More…]
If we are looking at this then let us have the family trusts of the Labor Party exposed. [More…]
A declaration of family trusts has been made by every Labor member. [More…]
Although the Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party does not utilise family trusts for the purposes of taxation dodging, the existence of a family trust has been published. [More…]
Even if Mr Lynch received no benefit from the family trust, it was established for taxation purposes. [More…]
Rejection of parental standards leads to an equal rejection of family serials, but the strain experienced in managing such an identity results not only in a compulsion to view lone heroes, even though each episode is self-contained, but also in fairly frequent loss of identity when attending to a variety of media. [More…]
The local government legislation provides no security for outstations where Aboriginal clan and family groups have moved away from the government controlled settlements to establish a better economic base and greater independence. [More…]
He is able to make deals in land development projects with which he is associated and, on the side, borrow half a million dollars just for his own family organisation. [More…]
-In the course of his remarks in the urgency debate today, Senator Carrick repeated a challenge made to me towards the end of the last session to define the difference between bona fide family trusts and those which I would regard as tax dodging arrangements. [More…]
One class of family trust with which I would have no quarrel is that of testamentary trusts, those which come into operation on a testator’s death and are designed simply as a convenient means of administering the estate, in particular and most commonly as a vehicle for the keeping of family property together for the lifetime of the surviving spouse while still allowing the possibility of ultimate and equitable distribution among the testator’s children or whoever else he wants to benefit. [More…]
The most popular way of setting up a trust these days, particularly in the family context, is to use the flexible discretionary trust. [More…]
I acknowledge that certain trust arrangements and certain circumstances, particularly simple fixed trusts, can be a means for public figures to dissociate themselves from family businesses, either for reasons of propriety or perhaps for reasons of a simple lack of time. [More…]
The point about every single kind of inter vivos trust arrangement which is used today, and certainly every kind of family trust arrangement, is that, as the law now stands, they can operate and do operate in practice to confer very significant tax advantages on their users. [More…]
Indeed, the dismantling of these kinds of taxes destroys any real rationale that may be claimed for trusts in terms of keeping together family farms and businesses. [More…]
The third most obvious tax advantage of trust arrangements is in the case of the family business situation. [More…]
The example was as follows: Assume a family of father, mother and three children, with the business having a net income of $40,000 before deducting the proprietor’s wages, and then consider the following changes which can be rung upon that scenario. [More…]
You would have to be a real mug- perhaps even a socialist mug- not to set up a family trust in those circumstances. [More…]
The Opposition’s argument is not against trusts or even family trusts as such. [More…]
An alternative and quite different way that might be suggested- and was specifically suggested in the Asprey report in the specific context of family trusts- is to tax the income of the minor beneficiaries at a rate which takes account of the parents’ income. [More…]
If family trusts are to be defended by the legitimate purposes they can perhaps serve in marginal cases, those who use them should be willing to go on doing so even if the tax advantages now associated with them are stripped away. [More…]
I suspect that it is then that the true extent of the humbug that is so often talked in defence of family trusts will be starkly revealed. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether he recalls my asking him approximately a month ago a question in relation to the provision of child minding facilities at the Family Court in Brisbane. [More…]
-I wish to add to an answer to a question that Senator Martin asked me earlier today about the closure of a child minding centre at the Family Court of Australia in Brisbane. [More…]
It is a fact that the child minding service at the Family Court in Brisbane was withdrawn at the end of November 1978. [More…]
You were concerned with the application of the health insurance levy at family rates within your assessment, pointing out that both you and your wife were in receipt of income and that you elected to pay a single levy while your wife elected to obtain private hospital and medical cover. [More…]
You were concerned with the application of the health insurance levy at family rates within your assessment, pointing out that both you and your wife were in receipt of income and that you elected to pay a single levy while your wife elected to obtain private hospital and medical cover. [More…]
The levy payable by your wife is $70.32 to bring the total levy payable to $299.99 which is the family ceiling payable for the 1 977-78 year. [More…]
I am concerned, as is the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair, who has brought in this amending legislation, that we do something to benefit every egg producer- the family farmer, the person who makes his living on his own farm, and not the person who wants to become a great monolithic power, to have everything under his wing and to control the whole egg marketing system. [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to varying unemployment benefit to meet the circumstances of, firstly, retrenched employees, secondly, family men genuinely seeking work and, thirdly, single folk to take account of their domestic living costs? [More…]
It was raised, of course, in the context- if Senator Carrick has already forgotten it-of the $100,000 loans given to the Beggs-Fraser family through the auspices of the Victorian Rural Finance Commission. [More…]
It did not matter whether or not the Aboriginal family had a car. [More…]
It did not matter whether or not the members of the family had a licence to drive. [More…]
He could not remember that he had signed a document relating to a mortgage for the Beggs family. [More…]
Mr Bhutto, rightly, had tremendous support and his family has tremendous support amongst a great section of the people of Pakistan. [More…]
Mr Bhutto is now a martyr but his family lives on. [More…]
The Bhutto family is a family of significance and could well become a rallying point for dissent in Pakistan. [More…]
As I said in a debate on another subject, the standard of living of a family is determined by the income of the bread winner. [More…]
174 Family Law Council - Annual Report 1977-78-Paper.” [More…]
I hope that every ordinary family in Australia which is seeking to buy a home understands the effect of the Australian Labor Party trying, for its own selfinterest, to destroy government policy, by forcing up interest rates. [More…]
Unfair, intolerable pressures can be brought to bear on any individual in our society, perhaps through his family- anything can happen. [More…]
Francis Eugene Stewart, M.P., a member of the House of Representatives 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, 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…]
I am sure I speak for the Opposition and the whole of the Senate in extending sympathy to Frank Stewart’s wife and family. [More…]
I associate my Party with the sympathy extended to the family of Frank Stewart who died tragically at the young age of 56 years. [More…]
He came from a family that has made a most illustrious contribution to the political and sporting life of the community. [More…]
To his wife, Maureen, and his family I express my deepest sympathy. [More…]
With others I served with Frank Stewart on the parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
I join in the expressions of sympathy to his family. [More…]
I extend my sympathy to his wife and family whom I have known over the years. [More…]
I say to his wife and family that I pay tribute to their husband and father for the service he has given to Australia. [More…]
On behalf of the Government, I extend to his widow and family sincere sympathy on the passing of an outstanding Australian. [More…]
My colleagues in the National Country Party join me in extending to Lady Brand and her family our deep sympathy in their great loss. [More…]
I feel keenly a great sense of personal loss at his passing and I express sympathy, as I am sure the Senate will, to his widow and family. [More…]
I join other senators and the Senate itself in expressing sympathy to Lady Brand and to his family. [More…]
I extend my sympathies to his wife, Lady Brand, and his family, whom I know quite well. [More…]
-I refer the AttorneyGeneral to recent criticisms of the delays in the Victorian Family Court due to inadequate staffing and to the threat, as foreshadowed by some of the critics, of a breakdown in the system of the Family Court in Victoria. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General agree with his predecessor, Mr Ellicott, that the appropriate ratio of counsellors to judges in the Family Court is two to one? [More…]
-The adequacy of numbers of judges and staff and the problem of delays in the Family Court in Victoria or anywhere else in Australia are matters to which I give fairly regular attention. [More…]
The amount of resources that can be made available to the Family Court has to be looked at in the overall context of the allocation of resources and the willingness of people to pay extra taxes. [More…]
As far as the problem of the Family Court in Victoria is concerned, I am looking at the question of how we can obtain further counsellors and deputy registrars. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Social Security whether her attention has been drawn to the statement made last Sunday by the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, Mr Dixon, that the Liberal Party in Victoria, if re-elected, would index State family assistance payments on a six-monthly basis? [More…]
3) Mrs Fraser and the members of my family made the visit at the invitation of the Prime Minister of India. [More…]
1 ) What is the total amount of money which has been granted to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and its Family Medicine Program by the Department of Health since the first grants were made by the Federal Government. [More…]
1 ) During the years 1973-74 to 1977-78, inclusive, Commonwealth expenditure on the Family Medicine Program totalled $ 1 7.289m. [More…]
Under the conditions of approval attached to Community Health Program grants to national projects such as the Family Medicine Program, the recipient organisation is required, each year, to provide my Department with a statement of income and expenditure and a balance sheet. [More…]
The Family Medicine Program has complied with these requirements. [More…]
It should be noted that, within approved financial allocations to the Family Medicine Program, specific amounts are allocated for specific purposes. [More…]
Thus, there is considerable continuing Commonwealth control over the utilisation of funds within the Family Medicine Program budget. [More…]
The financial operation of the Family Medicine Program is also subject to examination by the Auditor-General’s Office, within that Office’s overall program. [More…]
The objectives of the Family Medicine Program, as described below, are such that it is impracticable to apply cost-effectiveness measures, as such. [More…]
When approving the 1978-79 grant for the Family Medicine Program, I also approved an overall review of the Program, commencing with a review of the reorientation sub-program, which is directed towards objective (b) outlined in part (4) of my reply. [More…]
The review of the reorientation sub-program is well under way and review of other aspects of the Family Medicine Program has commenced. [More…]
The initial grant to the Family Medicine Program in 1 973-74, and the grants in the following four financial years, were approved on the recommendation of the former Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]
to encourage recently graduated medical practitioners to enter family medicine; [More…]
b) to provide an opportunity for more mature graduates (mainly women) to enter or re-enter the practice of family medicine; [More…]
to encourage medical graduates to practise family medicine in areas which were under-served by family practitioners and thus to improve the distribution of family medicine services; and [More…]
) to up-grade the standard of family medicine by providing post-graduate vocational training in that branch of medical practice. [More…]
I am advised that the funding of the Family Medicine Program was commenced on the basis that it was desirable to pursue the achievement of these objectives. [More…]
However, the Family Medicine Program is basically a program of post-graduate vocational training in family medicine as a particular branch of medical practice. [More…]
I ask, and in doing so I expressly exclude visits by Her Majesty the Queen of Australia or Prince Phillip or Prince Charles: What has been the total cost of the parasitical wanderings of other members of the Royal Family to and within Australia? [More…]
Mr President, I can fully understand that a Labor Party which considered that its royalty lay in its disastrous former Prime Minister would not want to expend as much on the Australian Royal Family as it did on him. [More…]
Indeed, a little research will show that the wanderings of the erstwhile Prime Minister, particularly when looking at Grecian ruins, were far less productive than have been the very hardworking efforts of the individual members of the British Royal Family, including Princess Anne and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. [More…]
I repeat: Those who know of the sheer hard work of the Royal Family will reject out of hand the criticism he is making. [More…]
It rejects the Royal Family, preferring the psuedoroyalty it created for itself amongst the Grecian and Australian ruins. [More…]
Probate duty within the family has been abolished, and the Premier has promised to abolish the duty completely. [More…]
The Premier is aiming to remove land tax altogether from the family home. [More…]
He wants to double the per capita grant for the family and community services program. [More…]
It is envisaged that this program will take over from where the Australian family assistance program left off. [More…]
However, accepting that what Senator Walters says is a true reflection of the statement, I would commend any appeal to employers to allow students to undertake sufficient part time work to enable them to sustain themselves, particularly as a supplement either to their family incomes or to their Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]
It could be placed in the bedroom or loungeroom of a home and the domestic outpourings of a family unit would become the subject of some scrutiny by the Director-General and/or his agents. [More…]
We think that the use of such devices should be curtailed so that the rights of all people, whether they are part of an organisation or family or are present at a meeting place, are protected. [More…]
There must be something that can be done for my family and I beg of you out of humanity and compassion to bring this matter to the senate and have the Social Security act reviewed and to approach the Minister for Social Security Senator Margaret Guilfoyle to show some compassion for my children ‘s sake. [More…]
That the Senate 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 the House of Representatives 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, 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 believe that all honourable senators will join me in extending sympathy to Sir Charles’s widow and to his family and, of course, to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
The Opposition extends its sympathy to Sir Charles’s family. [More…]
I extend sincere sympathy to Lady Adermann and her family in their time of grief. [More…]
The Australian Democrats, like the other parties, would like to extend our condolences to Sir Charles’s family. [More…]
I extend my personal sympathy to Lady Adermann and members of his family. [More…]
My sympathies go to his wife and family. [More…]
Of this amount, more than 80 per cent will be spent on income security payments, that is, pensions and benefits; about 15 per cent will be spent on allowances, mainly family allowances; the rest will be spent on administration and programs for the handicapped, the aged and the homeless. [More…]
Family allowances are also under attack. [More…]
Statements have been made in the other House about the need to reduce family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances, as every mother in the community has noted, are worth considerably less than when they were introduced in 1976. [More…]
Family allowances are a recognition that it costs money to raise children. [More…]
Probably you could take the opportunity to clarify the paper that I understand you are circulating on proposals on the family allowance. [More…]
As I understand it, some papers have been prepared that would change the present family allowance system. [More…]
About two million people receive the family allowance. [More…]
In view of what Senator Grimes said about the need to index the family allowance and to maintain the benefit for the universal family allowance scheme, I think that some clarification of the paper circulated by him, which may change by $1 a week the family allowance paid to families on high incomes, is needed. [More…]
If we are to argue with respect to future security for those who receive either the family allowance or the benefit under the over 70 pension scheme, I think some clarification from the Australian Labor Party on its own policies would be beneficial if we are to have a rational discussion and debate on income security matters. [More…]
Indeed, it was a Liberal government that set the pace, as was the case with family allowances; it was a Liberal government that introduced family allowances. [More…]
That the Senate calls on the Government to introduce sixmonthly indexation of repatriation and social security benefits, in particular, pensions and family allowances. [More…]
I wanted to ensure that this Senate had the opportunity of debating and voting on this very important matter relating to indexation of repatriation and social security benefits, including pensions and family allowances, before the Government formulated the Budget. [More…]
My notice of motion simply calls upon the Government, before it formulates the Budget, to take note of the fact that the Senate is of the opinion that it should introduce six-monthly indexation of repatriation and social security benefits and in particular pensions and family allowances. [More…]
Among the most significant of these areas are: Commercial law generally; defamation law and other laws affecting the media; family lawoutside Commonwealth jurisdiction- and other laws affecting personal status; and road traffic, carrier’s and innkeeper’s liability and other laws affecting travel and tourism. [More…]
Dealing with the way in which the AttorneyGeneral is going to have to focus his mind upon a series of conditions which have to be met, such as those proposed by sub-clause 2 (a) and (b) of the Opposition amendment, I notice that, whilst it refers to an action that allegedly endangers the physical safety of the officer, employee or agent, it does not say anything about the right of privacy of the officer, employee or agent and it does not say anything about the physical safety of the members of his family, which I would have thought would have been a reasonable thing to include if one were concerned to afford real protection not only to the individuals concerned but also to the people who are dependent upon them, such as members of their family and other people who may live at the published address of the alleged ASIO agent. [More…]
Spouse income in the form of Family Allowance and income from bank interest or dividends of less than $300 a year does not affect the payment of spouse allowance. [More…]
Those stations have been submitting what they call ‘general family viewing programs’. [More…]
I believe in paternalism because I am the head of a family. [More…]
All I am saying is that one practises paternalism within one’s family and there is no reason why some kindness should not be shown to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
That the Senate calls on the Government to introduce sixmonthly indexation of repatriation and social security benefits, in particular, pensions and family allowances. [More…]
The Fraser Government is considering savage cuts in welfare spending, including a means test on family allowances and pensions for people over 70 . [More…]
To impose a means test on family allowances. [More…]
The evacuation from Iran of non-essential staff of the Embassy has resulted in a situation where only persons sponsored under family reunion rules are having their migration applications processed at this time. [More…]
I ask that this document be incorporated in Hansard because it tabulates the family tree and other kindred details. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser has assured the Greek community that if a case of family reunion exists that is not problem to bring relatives to Australia. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser has assured the Greek Community that if a case of family re-union exist that is not problem to bring relatives to Australia. [More…]
I am writing concerning your nomination of Georgios RIZOS and family whom you wish to have join you in Australia. [More…]
Unfortunately your nominee is not eligible for sponsorship within the limited provision for family reunion, and his occupation as an Electrician is not one that is currently included in the list of eligible occupations. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs a question, which I preface by asking the Minister whether he is aware that a tracker, Mr Tommy White, of Ti Tree in the Northern Territory, was killed in a motor accident about 5 miles north of Aileron and that two members of his family were injured. [More…]
Family trusts, which at the moment are on the decline in Australia because of the pending abolition of gift and estate duty on 1 July this year, have been most attractive as avoidance mechanisms on Norfolk Island- much more attractive than they are on the mainland. [More…]
Family Law Act 1975- s. 7. [More…]
Has research been undertaken in the Department of Social Security on an analysis of family allowances and where they are paid; if so, is there any reason why this research should not be released on request. [More…]
My Department collects, as a by-product of its administrative processes, a range of statistics in respect of families in receipt of family allowances. [More…]
Four-weekly statistics of families by number of children/students in family; family allowances paid to institutions; grants terminations and rejections of family allowances. [More…]
Quarterly statistics of families by number of children/students in family and children/students by age in postcode districts and Social Security regions. [More…]
Quarterly statistics showing the number of student allowees by total number of children /students in the family. [More…]
Selected statistics on family allowances are included regularly in the following publications prepared by my Department: Annual Reports, Four-Weekly Summary of Statistics, Annual Statistics, Ten Year Statistical Summary, and Recipients of Pensions, Benefits and Family Allowances in Postcode Districts and Electoral Divisions. [More…]
Visits by the Royal Family [More…]
Funds being appropriated in relation to visits during the current financial year by other members of the Royal Family are detailed in the Appropriation Bill No. [More…]
That does not take into account the social costs that the family will have to bear. [More…]
I remind honourable senators who seem to find this a surprising idea that a family on an average income, with three or four children, going through a period of illness, will find having to pay for every visit to the general practitioner or every referral to a specialist, an intolerable burden. [More…]
I am sure that everyone on this side of the House represents constituents who may do all right under this system just announced until such time as illness occurs in the family. [More…]
There is no person on a low or medium income who can, without receiving medical benefits, stand up to the financial pressure when sickness occurs in the family circle. [More…]
There are about 42 Family Court judges throughout Australia, 30 Federal Court judges, and the President and commissioners of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
He said, during a 2SM broadcast last night that it would be unjust if the family, the sick and the aged were chosen as victims of reduction in Government benefits. [More…]
Quoting the Australian Government Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, the Cardinal said that family life could be harmed by the stress and restricted opportunities created by low income. [More…]
We should work together to create a nation in which the needs of the family are always our prime concern. [More…]
Another omission which is the cause of great concern is the failure of the Government to do anything at all in the mini-Budget in regard to family allowances. [More…]
There has been no indexing of family allowances since they were increased and no attempt to compensate families for the loss of income which resulted from the abolition of the rebate scheme. [More…]
I simply draw the attention of the Senate again to figures which show that as at the end of the last financial year the following losses have been incurred by families as a result of the failure of the Government to index or increase the family allowance payment: For a family with one child the loss has been $3.50 a week, for a family with two children, $8.50 a week; for a family with three children, $ 14.50; for a family with three children with one student child, $14.50; and for a family with three children with two student children, $ 14.50. [More…]
It is quite clear that by the changeover to the family allowance system, which initially was of benefit to families, this has now become another area in which families are failing to keep up with inflation. [More…]
We on this side know that the effects of maintaining such high levels of taxation on the average family will be catastrophic. [More…]
Senator Ryan referred to the lack of indexation of family allowance payments. [More…]
I acknowledge that there has been no increase in the rates that have been given to family allowance payments, but $ 1,000m is spent on family allowances in this country and a factor that is not recognised is that in the 1976 Budget this Government replaced the Hayden tax rebates for children and child endowment with family allowances, and this initiative brought greatly increased assistance to some 300,000 families with 800,000 children who did not benefit from the Hayden scheme of tax rebates. [More…]
That additional number of the lowest income people who were not able to have the advantage of tax rebates-300,000 families and 800,000 children- are now receiving substantial family allowances, whereas they were unable to take advantage of the tax rebates because of the level of their income in previous years. [More…]
If we are to talk about policies, perhaps the only document which we could relate to the debate of today, where we are charged with withdrawing social security and health services, is the Hayden alternative budget presented at the time of the Budget last year in which we saw that family allowances would not be indexed. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) made some reference to family allowances in his speech, but when he put down figures to show that he too was economically responsible, he was careful to make no allowance to index family allowances. [More…]
1 know it is good for the Government if it can increase the infant mortality rate, because it will reduce the family allowance payments that have to be made and this will save money for the Government. [More…]
That might seem a hard thing to say, but the Government saved a considerable amount of money last year by not having to pay family allowances for Aboriginal kids who died. [More…]
I wish to elaborate slightly on a question I asked a fortnight ago in this chamber concerning visits of certain members of the Royal family to Australia. [More…]
When one has an hereditary head of state, one is really saying that access to decent living conditions, proper health care and a stimulating and full education for one’s children, depends on the family into which one is born. [More…]
After all, in Australia we believe that everyone, into whatever family he or she is born, ought to be given a fair go with access to living conditions of a decent standard, adequate health care and proper education, without regard to family ancestry. [More…]
Constantly, it would seem, we are being required to foot the bill for the travels of a much wider selection of the remnants of Queen Victoria’s family. [More…]
She was a vivacious girl who by her own effort and talent- not by virtue of the family into which she was born- had put herself in a position where she was working her heart out on behalf of handicapped children. [More…]
Angus Ogilvy, members of the Royal Family, who visited Australia for some 13 days. [More…]
In a somewhat different way, it is pleasant to see the Queen and some of her family. [More…]
What am I to say to a family man who faces an extra $3.50 a week for health insurance costs as a result of last Thursday’s mini-Budget’s breaking the Medibank promise? [More…]
Excluding the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles, who have a constitutional role to perform, the continued subservience of this Government to other members of the royal family symbolises its total loss of touch with the vast majority of Australians. [More…]
A national family survey conducted by the University of New South Wales has shown that nearly 320,000 children live in one-parent families, which families make up over 9 per cent of the nation’s families and a great majority of these children are dependent on parents who receive social security pensions. [More…]
If the latter is the case how does the Government justify discrimination against the family where the wife and not the husband is the invalid pensioner? [More…]
It would be understood that invalid pensions are tested on a family income basis. [More…]
They may have been turned away from two or three refuges or perhaps even four or five because when a woman is in a crisis situation all she is intent on doing is finding accommodation for herself and her family. [More…]
I think it takes a great deal of courage for women with family responsibilities suddenly to walk out of the matrimonial home. [More…]
The increase in interest rates that has occurred- even though the Government said that it would reduce them- has meant that housing has become dearer, that people are more in need of second mortgages, more in need of two incomes in the family. [More…]
He handed out family allowance to wives as he took extra money from the pockets of their husbands. [More…]
It concerns a judge of the Family Court of Australia in Brisbane. [More…]
But now it also applies to 42 Family Court judges, 30 Federal Court of Australia judges and the President and commissioners of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Miss Allebi arrived in the United Kingdom in January 1975 with her son and daughter having fled from the aftermath of the 1973 Chilean coup d’etat to Lima, Peru, where she and her family received protection from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
She and her family on arrival in the UK were received and resettled by the Joint Working Group for Refugees from Latin America. [More…]
The coup in Chile forced her to abandon her family, friends and job; many friends were killed in the aftermath of the coup or simply disappeared ‘. [More…]
Miss Allebi s family are resident in Australia- her widowed mother, two brothers and sister. [More…]
While bearing in mind that Miss Allebi ‘s case would probably not come under the categories currently eligible for permanent entry to Australia I trust that you can regard her case with humanitarian sympathy to enable her to re-unite with her family in Australia. [More…]
A number of projects within the Office of Child Care are designed to prevent child abuse and many of them come under the family services support programs. [More…]
People are accepted on the basis of family reunion or job category or because they are political refugees. [More…]
Her relationship with family members residing in Australia would not seem to bring her within the categories eligible for admission on family reunion grounds. [More…]
I am able to advise him that migration to Australia from Peking is governed by a family reunion agreement between the governments of Australia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Only persons coming within the family reunion categories are therefore eligible to emigrate from Peking or other parts of China to Australia. [More…]
I knew him briefly when we were both on the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act. [More…]
1 understand that members of his family have dissociated themselves from the Liberal Party because of its dedication to the mining of uranium. [More…]
Women who have the pills prescribed by their doctors or by family planning clinics will be given a warning leaflet with the pills. [More…]
They are therefore more seriously affected than is the average family, and their nutrition standard must suffer accordingly. [More…]
After pensions and family allowance, single parents with two children are $27.38 a week below the poverty line estimated by the institute. [More…]
It is not unusual for such a family to sit at the dinner table with very little conversation between children and parents. [More…]
An equally disturbing number of students reported that the family needed an extra breadwinner to supplement family income. [More…]
What should they do if they are told that it will never be any better, that it is hopelessly retarded, that it is a vegetable that they should put out of their family and out of their mind, and they have nothing else to do but rely on the people who give them that advice? [More…]
But apart from that person and his family 1 think for the most part one would call it a middle class area or an upper middle class area. [More…]
Included are St Vincent de Paul, the Salvation Army, the Smith Family, Red Cross, Jobless Action, the Indo-China Refugee Association, the Tuggeranong Community Service, Tuggeranong Family Action and the Woden Community Service. [More…]
The family man who is paying more of his wages in tax than ever before in our history. [More…]
All I can say is that it must be a long time since Mr Lynch tried to live off the dole if he thinks that anybody would try to support a wife and bring up a family on the sort of money unemployed people are paid these days, with the costs they have to face. [More…]
It has set out to reduce pensions, the dole, health insurance cover and family allowances. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that at the moment a single person pays $ 1 a week and a family $2 a week for cover of 75 per cent of the schedule fee and free public hospital service. [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…]
We’ve brought about family allowances. [More…]
‘You take away gasoline and you destroy the family. [More…]
I would have thought that once again we are a happy family ready to start the day. [More…]
I refer to the continuing high importance of the Government’s policy and record towards the family. [More…]
Should not tax be equitable in its effect upon a family whether the income of the family is derived from the direct earnings of one spouse or of both spouses? [More…]
-It is very clear that the Fraser Government’s policies are based on assistance to the family. [More…]
The family allowance programs, of course, are monumental in that regard. [More…]
They transfer public income to the mother of the family in a very significant way. [More…]
I invite the Senate to consider a comparison of the income of $120 a week with the income of $103 of a man with the same family responsibilities who is on the dole. [More…]
She must decide whether to keep her job and to move to another area- thus breaking up her family and perhaps her relationship with her husband- or whether the husband has to give up his job and find another job in the area to which his wife has been redeployed. [More…]
At the moment a single person will pay $1 or $1.20 depending with which organisation he registers and a family will pay $2 or $2.20. [More…]
So, a family which wishes to have the basic health care does not have to pay $12. [More…]
But the family will pay about- we do not know the amount yet-$1.50 to $3.00 for health care. [More…]
The legislation that is before us is a further blow to families, particularly to the single low income family. [More…]
These families and families as a whole have been reeling from the lack of attention given to them and from the failure of the Government to restore the value of family allowances which, as a result of cost increases, have been eroded by 32 per cent since they were introduced in 1976. [More…]
Unless the Government takes urgent action to do what it said it would do, that is, support the family, I certainly will be viewing my position. [More…]
I listened carefully to the last speaker, Senator Harradine, and I assure him that many of his colleagues in the Senate understand and share his concern for the family, for its place, and for the stresses under which families are operating more and more in Australia. [More…]
I have already indicated that at the moment I am considering the advice of the Public Service Board on staff ceilings in the Family Court. [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 would like to point out that the former Government’s policy of providing 75 per cent cost of salaries of agreed staff in pre-schools, provided they confirm that they extend and integrate their activities to cover other areas of family need, will continue. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, says that Australia wants to protect the social and economic future of all its citizens and that therefore it has to limit the number of migrants it accepts each year and give preference to those with close family ties, and with skills, professional qualifications or experience that are in strong demand. [More…]
His brother-in-law wanted to put up half the bail so that the family could spend Greek Easter together before he was deported, if he were to be deported. [More…]
Despite the fact that a woman who recently went back to the United Kingdom with her five children because she said she could not stand Australia has been backwards and forwards two or three times, it is interesting to note that authorities in Britain said that Australia House was very helpful in arranging for her and her family to be repatriated back to Australia when they had gone home to England before and then had wanted to return to Australia. [More…]
There will be no family reunions. [More…]
They sometimes have wider and deeper family feelings than we have. [More…]
I ask Mr Odgers to take back to his family our own admiration and respect for the work that he has done. [More…]
1 ) Was a tracker, Mr Tommy White, of Ti Tree, Northern Territory, killed in a motor accident about five miles north of Aileron, and were two members of his family injured. [More…]
-On 8 May 1979 (Hansard, page 1672) Senator Sibraa asked me, as Minister representing the Treasurer, a question without notice concerning the possibility of introducing a moratorium on home loan repayments where the major income earner of a family unit is unemployed. [More…]
Finally, it should be noted that if the criterion were solely whether the income-earner of a family unit were unemployed that would not take into account the overall income position of the family unit and hence not necessarily be closely related to the extent of any need. [More…]
A criterion based on family unit income would be difficult, if not impossible, to administer and would lead to anomalies. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, refers to a ruling which we have been told comes from Canberra and affects the payment of family allowances to parents of handicapped children. [More…]
It is a fact that recently one judge of the Family Court resigned to go back to his practice at the bar, but I think that, generally speaking, the argument about mobility in the labour force generally has little application to the judiciary. [More…]
I come now to family allowances, mention of which has been avoided very carefully in this Budget. [More…]
Family allowances have not been increased since 1976, when they were introduced to replace child endowment, which had remained unchanged for many years and had become fairly meaningless. [More…]
Family allowances have been eroded by inflation since that time, a factor which was admitted in a speech made to a recent social security conference by none other than the Director-General of Social Services, a man who is not known for wild statements on this subject. [More…]
Their only extra income has been the family allowances, and the value of those allowances has been eroded consistently since their introduction in 1976. [More…]
The power of the Attorney-General to intervene in proceedings in State Courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 (s. 91 (a) ) has been delegated to the Western Australian Attorney-General with respect to WA courts; [More…]
Child, family and social welfare; [More…]
How many of the 600 Timorese family reunions planned to take place in Australia had occurred as at 3 May 1979. [More…]
The first phase of the Timor Family Reunion Program permitted the entry to Australia of an initial group of 99 persons in January 1979. [More…]
Did the Minister say, on 29 March 1979, that there was a responsibility on the Commonwealth and State Governments to pay more attention to and allocate more money for family planning. [More…]
What funds have been allocated by the Commonwealth Government for the purpose of family planning education and training in each year since 1 972. [More…]
How many family planning clinics currently operate, (a) in each State and Territory; and (b) in Australia as a whole. [More…]
1 said and I quote ‘ 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…]
Commonwealth Government allocations for family planning education, training and information activities (including associated administrative costs but excluding funds allocated for family planning research) since 1972 were as follows: [More…]
(a) and (b) Under the Commonwealth Government’s Family Planning Program services embracing information, education and training programs, are provided by State and Territorial Family Planning Associations. [More…]
Family Planning Associations are non-governmental organisations which conduct two different types of activities, namely, clinical (i.e. [More…]
Clinical services provided by the State and Territory Family Planning Associations include counselling for pregnancy, infertility and sexual problems. [More…]
As mentioned, Commonwealth funding is made available under the Family Planning Program for information, education and training programs for health and health-related professionals, community groups and the general public. [More…]
The ACTION Centre (a pilot project which opened in Melbourne in December 1976) is funded wholly by the Commonwealth under the Family Planning Program. [More…]
The number of centres currently conducted by the Family Planning Associations and the ACTION Centre and the number of clinic (i.e. [More…]
Of the 37 1 immigrant doctors, 14 were refugees and 25 were admitted on the basis of family reunion. [More…]
In its nutrition education program, my Department emphasises the importance of family meals prepared in the home from basic nutritious foods- bread and other cereals, vegetables and fruits, meat and meat substitutes, milk and butter or table margarine. [More…]
I underline’ normal ‘, whatever it means holdings assembled over a lifetime by persons and family units’. [More…]
The Budget has not in any way disguised the fact that the increase in the crude oil levy will be an impost upon the ordinary family. [More…]
16.8.74- Family Law Bill 1974 referred to the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs at the second reading stage . [More…]
The Family Law Bill was referred to the Committee at an early stage before there had been any second reading debate, and before views had hardened. [More…]
Secondly, it should be effective in getting across the message that even if people know the pusher personally but he happens to be the son or daughter of a close friend of the family or is somebody they went to school with or somebody they have known for 15 years, nevertheless, as a pusher, one’s responsibility must be to turn him in. [More…]
We as parliamentarians know that people argue about the definition of family reunion’, about the trade categorisation of immigrants, and about the definition of ‘political refugees’. [More…]
Firstly, how far is it going to erode family reunion? [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…]
The Senate expresses its horror and shock at the violence which was perpetrated upon Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his family and condemns this type of action as a breach of all that is humane and reasonable in this world. [More…]
1 instance the case of the Tchia family in Timor. [More…]
The family was sponsored by a daughter in Darwin, an Australian resident of long standing. [More…]
The total request for sponsorship was denied by the Department as it believed that the father should not leave Timor and leave his family behind. [More…]
My view would be that if the father were eligible, that would be a decision which the family would have to make. [More…]
My comments will be directed briefly to the appropriateness of the decision to deny entry to the whole family. [More…]
I am not suggesting for a moment that the father is falling down on his job, but in our eyes a man of 66 is most likely getting past the age when he is able adequately to support his family. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), you, Mr President, and honourable senators would know that the interim measure adopted in these cases- what might be almost a stop-gap measure- is for Australian members of a family to send money to their families, whether it be to Timor, Malaysia or elsewhere. [More…]
They see the extended family unit- certainly this family is not an extended family- as being the responsibility of those members of the family who have sufficient capital to assist. [More…]
She has accommodation for the family and is prepared to accept responsibility for all six members of the family. [More…]
The proposal put forward by the sponsor, was, firstly, that the family should come to Australia to be accommodated by the daughter in her own home; secondly, that the mother and the elder child could give assistance in the home and perhaps in the business; thirdly, that the father could make whatever contribution was appropriate for his age; and, fourthly, that the younger children should attend school. [More…]
The first is that the family would be reunited, as is its wish. [More…]
Secondly, the members of the family in Timor would be allowed to leave that country, which again is their wish. [More…]
I do not want to dwell on this because I think that honourable senators would understand the attitude of people who would want to contribute and who would not want to be- as they might regard- parasitical on their family, although of course the family would not see this in any sense. [More…]
Another advantage would be that it would avoid the possibility of the family being stranded if the elderly father should pass away. [More…]
Another advantage would be that the money that is being sent to Timor to sustain the family would stay in Australia and would be spent in Australia and build up consumer spending. [More…]
I simply ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to investigate the special case of the wife as the bread winner, as represented by the Tchia family. [More…]
There seems to be two alternatives: The Minister either can use his discretion and allow the family in or, perhaps more appropriately, may wish to rule on this matter and to fill out the present guidelines to cover similar cases in the future. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Are these great differences a mistake on the part of the Government, or are they a deliberate attempt to destroy the family structure in our society? [More…]
In view of the recent horrendous bombings by an extreme fanatical and lunatic terrorist group which cost the lives of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and immediate members of his family, as well as the lives of 19 British soldiers, and also in view of a general upsurge in similar violent actions by this and other similar terrorist elements throughout the world, will the Minister inform this chamber as to the present position with regard to the training of the Australian antiterrorist squad? [More…]
-Senator Bonner rightly draws attention to the anguish of all decentthinking people in the world as a result of acts of terrorism against not only the Mountbatten family but also soldiers and others, and to the growth of terrorism around the world. [More…]
He described the Budget as anti-family. [More…]
These figures reflect, of course, the changeover to the family allowance scheme, which was introduced in 1976 by the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party apparently has never liked the family allowance scheme. [More…]
However, I note that Mr Hayden ‘s alternative Budget of last year, wherein he made a detailed effort to show what he would introduce as a program, no account was taken of the requirement to index family allowances. [More…]
One could hardly suggest that, in his speech last night, he made any commitment to increase family allowances. [More…]
In fact, Senator Grimes is on record as saying that the high cost of increasing payments to the 4.3 million children who are the subject of family allowances represents an inhibiting effect on any desire by the present Federal Government to increase them. [More…]
It is sheer hypocrisy for the Australian Labor Party to make such statements and adopt such a posture concerning the non-indexation of family allowances by this Government in view of what is said in a paper that has been released by Senator Grimes concerning an alternative to the present universal family allowances scheme. [More…]
It is a paper that calls for a reform of the family allowance scheme. [More…]
The family allowance scheme provides for the payment of a universal family allowance to every child in Australia. [More…]
Therefore, every child in Australia receives the same benefit regardless of his family circumstances. [More…]
Family Allowances, which replaced the old system of child endowment and taxation rebates for children, present a means whereby a start can be made to give a more equitable distribution of public monies to benefit those in need, while more basic changes in other areas are sorted out. [More…]
The fact that the Family Allowances are paid at the same level to the most wealthy and poor families has been the subject of question and debate since they were introduced. [More…]
Let honourable senators opposite tell that to the people who receive the universal family allowance. [More…]
The suggested modifications would result in a system with the following features- retention of the present non-income-tested payments paid as at present, at either a reduced rate or at the same rates if economic conditions allow; the introduction of a yearly payment in the form of a tax credit or a direct payment if desired, based on a family income test. [More…]
If it was considered desirable not to add to government spending, a reduction in the Family Allowance 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 $200,000,000 in 1 978. [More…]
Is that not an anti-family policy to the children of Australia who are receiving benefits under the universal family allowance scheme? [More…]
I am glad that I have had the opportunity to say something about the family allowance policy or proposals of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
There are 2 million people who receive these family allowances on behalf of 4.3 million children. [More…]
It is probably worth noting too that Mr Hayden was less than accurate in implying in his speech that the real levels of payment to disadvantaged family units were maintained by the Labor Government. [More…]
Perhaps he did not care to mention that when he was talking about a anti-family approach. [More…]
Perhaps the response that he is talking about is the redistribution of the $200m from the family allowance scheme that was mentioned at the conclusion of the quote that I made from the paper of Senator Grimes. [More…]
If his response is to abandon the universal family allowance scheme, let us hear that from him so that the people can judge which payment they prefer to receive on behalf of the children of Australia. [More…]
This should be of great assistance, particularly to those children who are suffering from chronic or repeated illnesses in relation to which the burden of cost on the family is a very grave one indeed. [More…]
It has doubled the assistance given to those families where children’s services are vital and where family support services are required for the strength of the family. [More…]
There are many anti-family aspects of the Labor Party program. [More…]
To have the sorts of statements made by Mr Hayden with regard to anti-family programs and to neglect to appreciate the effect of inflation on the security of the family is a significant omission from the speech of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
In 1979 in Australia it does not do to be old, to be sick, to be unemployed, to be a school-leaver or to be a family man with young children. [More…]
If in this country at the moment one is unemployed, married and has a family one has to keep that family on less than $ 100 a week. [More…]
If someone is unemployed, married and has a young family he is facing an enormous increase in doctors’ fees which he cannot afford. [More…]
At the moment, a person with a young family finds that costs are rising, unemployment is growing and wages are going down. [More…]
I come now to the family allowances. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle spoke glowingly about family allowances, which were going to give women freedom. [More…]
Family allowances have not been increased since 1 976. [More…]
It replaced them with family allowances, which have not been increased since 1976. [More…]
So much for this Government’s care for the family. [More…]
She talked about the magnificent moves this Government had made in relation to family allowances. [More…]
Of course, what she did not go on to tell the people was that with the introduction of family allowances the taxpayer can no longer claim children as a tax deduction. [More…]
Mothers have been in tears because Dad had cut from the weekly house keeping money the extra money that they received in the family allowance. [More…]
So in effect what the Government gave Mum by way of the family allowance, Dad took away to pay the accounts that he had to pay. [More…]
In lots of cases they are much worse off under this family allowances scheme. [More…]
I am advised that Mr Gordon and Mr Gyngell have had a long-standing personal association and that Mr Gyngell, at the 4 June meeting of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, notified the Tribunal that he would not participate in the inquiry into the WIN4 share transaction because it involved Oberon Broadcasters Pty Ltd in which Mr Gordon and his family were the chief beneficiaries. [More…]
At the public inquiry the Tribunal sought information about Mr Gordon’s personal, family and business interests and associations both in Australia and the United States, with particular attention given to Mr Gordon ‘s contract with Paramount Pictures which expires in September 1 98 1 . [More…]
In this instance, the Tribunal was given a great deal of precise information about Mr Murdoch’s personal, family and business life in this country and abroad. [More…]
All the shares in the licensee company are held by members of the Gleeson family, with Mr F. J. Gleeson holding 50.1% and the remainder being held by his wife, Mrs Joyce Gleeson and in various family trusts. [More…]
The sale of 2HD by the NSW Labor Party to NBN-3, dominated by the local Wansey and Lamb family interests, would give Newcastle the most concentrated media ownership of any major city in Australia. [More…]
I would not have referred to the matter but for the furore that was created when two Labor Ministers- I think on only two occasions- saw fit to take a member of their family with them. [More…]
As I recall it, the upshot was that they had to pay the fares of those family members. [More…]
If we turn to page 69 of this document we see a reference to the matter which I mentioned a while ago about the member of the family of a Minister. [More…]
It will also affect the low income family, particularly the single income family and the large families with children who frequently get ill and who frequently need prescriptions. [More…]
We should remember that the allowances for pensioners’ children have not been increased since 1975, despite inflation, and family allowances have not been increased since 1976, despite inflation. [More…]
The cost of family health insurance has risen to $6.77 and $7.10. [More…]
The contribution is $6.77 or $7.10 a week, depending on the fund, for family cover. [More…]
At the moment that cover costs between $2.68 and $2.92 for a family. [More…]
A number of current deficiencies in the Budget discriminate against people who are unemployed, people who have young children and who depend upon allowances for children, and people who depend on family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances have remained unchanged, as have children’s allowances and the supplementary assistance. [More…]
If the patient feels sick and feels that he needs the drugs, he or a member of his family could go and get a repeat. [More…]
I take it that there has been no real objection today to Australians who have an adequate income, who have an intact family, who are not in need and who are not special cases, paying the extra 25c. [More…]
For a family cover for 75 per cent of doctors’ fees she quoted a cost of between $2.68 and $2.92; and for the same cover- 75 per cent of the doctors’ fees- for a single person she said it was between $1.34 and $1.46. [More…]
HBA charged $3.50 a week for a family and $1.75 for a single person. [More…]
Medibank, for a cover of 75 per cent of the schedule fee, charges $3.38 a week for a family and $ 1 .69 a week for a single person. [More…]
On Senator Walters’ figures, a family will have to pay $2.68 for cover by a health fund, $10 for its share of each visit to the doctor and $5.50 to fill two prescriptions, which is the average these days after a visit to the doctor. [More…]
This means that a family will be paying about $ 1 8. [More…]
I wondered, in passing, whether the Government had done any costbenefit study on what increases would occur in the payment of family allowances resulting from the contraceptive pill being removed from the pharmaceutical benefits list. [More…]
I ask that, before the Government takes that action and removes the contraceptive pill from the list, it conducts a costbenefit study as to how much more it will pay out in family allowances if that happens. [More…]
The services include those of doctors, a welfare officer, a psychologist, a physiotherapist, a chiropodist, a dentist, an optometrist, a psychiatrist, a family planning clinic, a slimming club, immunisation, acoustic testing and pathology. [More…]
It will be seen in this report, for instance, that some attention is given to a particular example involving a matter of the law as it relates to families in which a judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court was able to draw attention to the fact that the operation of the law as it was, and even the operation of the law as it had been updated by the passage of the Family Law Act, nevertheless had brought about a situation which, from the community’s point of view, was entirely unsatisfactory. [More…]
Neither the Supreme Court of New South Wales nor the Family Court had the sort of jurisdiction that one would have expected after nearly 80 years of federal law affecting family matters and family relationships and which should have been solved long before this date. [More…]
Until then, he had assumed that he and his family were protected against medical expenses. [More…]
He paid $500 in good faith to a fund approved by the Federal Government and then paid $450 in medical expenses for himself and his family. [More…]
To a person on a low to middle income with a family to support it is a staggering sum. [More…]
He has now left the cult and returned to his family. [More…]
This lady was married with a large family. [More…]
Returning to the family to whom I have just referred, it might be asked why the husband did not cease providing money for this exercise. [More…]
The teaching of this cult is that if anything interferes with the cultist’s spiritual activities he must dissociate himself from that interference, which in this case obviously would mean that this lady would have to leave her husband and family, all of whom happen to love her. [More…]
The first rule is that members of the British Royal Family - [More…]
The first rule is that members of the British Royal Family, the Governor-General and the Prime Minister are their own approving authority and are responsible for approving persons travelling as members of their party. [More…]
The Prime Minister, along with the British Royal Family and the Governor-General, as the rules say, are their own approving authority. [More…]
Members of the British Royal Family [More…]
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…]
Family allowances, allowances for the children of pensioners and supplementary allowances have not been indexed. [More…]
I am not a whinger but a very disheartened Aussie wanting a better deal for my family. [More…]
If we are not going to index family allowances, if we are not going to index allowances for children of pensioners, if supplementary allowances are not going to be indexed, it is people like this, people who find it very hard to get by who are going to be the ones to suffer; people who tell us that they have two kiddies- both of secondary school age, by the look of it- and they sat down on Monday and Tuesday nights to have their dinner of 40c worth of bread and chips. [More…]
Family allowances, which benefit the poor most, are declining in real terms without adequate compensation being made for inflation. [More…]
The different levels of unemployment benefit take into account family responsibilities, the age or other responsibilities which may apply. [More…]
More particularly, I want to look at the question of what it means, after five years of Fraser Government, not only for unemployed people and the ordinary Australian wage earner but more particularly for the average Australian family. [More…]
I point out that the changes in the lowering of the value of the average family income in this country have been accompanied by, in the last year or so, greatly increased profits in the corporate sector amongst larger companies and a relative erosion of earnings of skilled manpower. [More…]
At the same time, I point out that, as the ordinary family is being burdened with additional health charges, there have been steadily and rapidly rising incomes for members of the medical profession. [More…]
In talking about an incomes policy in a country such as this, as I said before, the Government cannot on the one hand charge ordinary people more for health insurance, attempt to reduce real wages constantly, and reduce family income standards, and at the same time have insufficient guts as a government to stand up to a system which allows these sorts of incomes to be made without any firm hand or direction. [More…]
It changed the whole structure of child endowment and introduced a family allowance concept that brought about the greatest transfer of real wealth from the affluent to the poor. [More…]
We have brought in family allowances, an heroic change in concept, in order to transfer wealth to the mothers of the lowest income families and the largest families. [More…]
Unlike the Labor Party, the Fraser Government’s record in terms of the ordinary Australian family is unchallenged. [More…]
The continual decline in the real value of family allowances is another product of the Government’s policies. [More…]
On the secondary distribution of income- that is, net after taxation and after accounting for transfer payments including family allowances and so on- we find that there has been a very substantial and regressive alteration in the secondary distribution of income. [More…]
If we look at some specific examples of the effect of the Government ‘s 1 979 Budget taxation policy as against that for the previous year we find that over the year a family with an income of $160 a week pays 28 per cent more tax and a family with an income of $240 per week pays 16 per cent more tax but someone on the Prime Minister’s salary of $1,600 a week pays only 10 per cent more tax. [More…]
They show that 6 per cent of the low income family’s income is spent on petrol, oils and lubricants; for the middle income family the figure is 3 per cent; and for the high income family, only 1 Vi per cent is spent on those commodities. [More…]
If we look at the distribution of family income in Australia, we find that the bottom 10 per cent of income earning families receive only 2.2 per cent of income. [More…]
The top 10 per cent of income earning families earns 23 per cent of income- almost exactly 10 times as much per family as those families in the low income group. [More…]
The Chairman recently returned from a study tour of Europe and North America, during which he 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…]
Let us look at what is happening to the small people, to the family which is part of the union system. [More…]
These thousands of people on below average weekly wage, to use the term, along with family households and businessmen and women, are being penalised while the oil, coal and mineral exploiters of our country generally continue to be allowed a free hand as they slip their dividends from many areas to tax-free havens around the world. [More…]
Of these, 402,800 were not looking for work because of personal or family considerations, and 63,400 were discouraged job seekers, that is, they wanted a job but were not looking for work. [More…]
All children without any exception whatsoever shall be entitled to these rights, without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]
Society and the public authorities shall have the duty to extend particular care to children without a family and to those without a family and to those without adequate means of support. [More…]
Luckily, medical research has indicated to us various criteria, which I will not detail but which can indicate to the family doctor, to a social worker or perhaps to the principal of a school that a child is at risk. [More…]
What can the community do to support the family concerned? [More…]
I emphasise both parts of that sentence: What can the community do to support the family concerned? [More…]
The object must always be to maintain that family unit, however fragile, however desperately close it may be to breaking up. [More…]
This may require removing the child from the family for a time. [More…]
The agent for achieving a reintegration of the family must be the community itself. [More…]
It has emerged that in cases where a child is at risk of battery by the mother in particular all that is needed is a woman who herself bears some of the battle scars of bringing up a family- perhaps her children have now grown up- and who has the time for the endless cups of tea needed to help the mother come to an understanding and to experience, perhaps, the love and affection from that older woman who bears the battle scars, so that the mother in turn can show some affection and love towards the child at risk. [More…]
Many instances exist where, with access by the telephone to friends, relatives or the family medical practitioner, a crisis situation can be, if not resolved, then moderated. [More…]
The cost of installing such a telephone would be infinitesimal compared with the social cost endured and borne by society eventually when a battery occurs and where medical and social treatment is required for the child and the family. [More…]
The situation is highly inimical to the family unit. [More…]
Incest is highly disruptive of the family unit. [More…]
Not only does it impair the individual’s capacity for general social relationships but it also disorganises the relationships within the family, leading to a confusion of roles. [More…]
This could lead to a situation of a father, say, being convicted, shame being brought and, if the father is imprisoned, further fracturing of the family. [More…]
In fact, despite all the bluff and the various actions in the English High Court, there was no legal process by which the parents could take that company to court to get monetary compensation for the sheer financial loss they may have suffered in meeting the medical and other expenses in dealing with the child ‘s deformity, and of course no compensation or damages were available for the emotional shock and the continuing emotional situation which that family might face. [More…]
But as I say, there is no legal right inherent in the family concerned to recover damages for injuries suffered by the child while in the womb, which injuries become manifest upon the live birth of that child. [More…]
I think of the situation of a child whose family does not have a television set in the home and who at school the next morning is entirely out of touch with the peer group and with what is going on because he has not seen the programs of the night before. [More…]
After a little time they thought that that was ridiculous; they could have him at home with them and be a family again. [More…]
They told St Nicholas Hospital that they would like to take him out of the hospital and take him home where they could live as a family, and they would take him to the day centre. [More…]
They received a similar response from this hospital to that taken from an example of another family, who wrote the following letter: [More…]
This contrasts sharply with the typical pattern of development in Down’s syndrome children reared at home in apparently normal family circumstances but without the benefits of early educational intervention. [More…]
I feel a necessity exists for breaking up the huge hospital complexes with large and unsatisfactory wards into small homelike facilities which have adequate staff and services, where education is possible and where the children live as a family and do not have to be just one part of a huge mass. [More…]
Of course, the Commissioner of Taxation would need to have regard to ordinary family and commercial dealings when viewing transactions, but once the dominant intention of avoidance is established, all the sham should be exposed for what it is, a mere artifice of greed, and should have no effect against the revenue. [More…]
It includes not only the outrageous and blatant paper schemes such as Curran and its progeny, but also artificial income splitting arrangements of various kinds, involving family trusts, partnerships and the like, to offset losses against other derived income- an extension of the kind of Pitt Street farmer model. [More…]
That is a hesitantly arrived at guess made very much a guess by the failure of the Treasury, regrettably, to give us such information as is undoubtedly in its possession about the estimated losses that are associated with various kinds of family trusts, partnerships, superannuation and other kinds of schemes in that general category. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that for a single income family the first $3,893 only is tax-free, whereas the first $7,786 is tax-free where husband and wife work? [More…]
Many people are arguing that there ought to be quite major changes in the whole approach to taxation and tax deductibility so that that disadvantage is overcome and help is given to the family. [More…]
I think that in the first place one should look at their impact in terms of the family and the community before looking at the effect on productivity. [More…]
I ask the Minister what information his Department has on the average family income of those students whom it is proposed to make pay fees of $1,500 to $2,500 a year? [More…]
Can the Minister confirm or deny the accuracy of the reported survey of the Overseas Students Service that the average family income in question is of the order of only $A8,000 to $A9,000, and will he agree that if this is the case- or if he cannot deny it- the proposed fees represent an unjustifiable order of magnitude? [More…]
Anyone who undertakes these surveys of family incomes will know the difficulties involved. [More…]
The purchase of Mr Clunies-Ross’ interests in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (with the exception of his family home and an associated dwelling) was effected on I September 1978. [More…]
He has a take-home pay of $150 a week- the family’s only income apart from child endowment. [More…]
It can represent a saving to a family of as much as $20 or $30 a month. [More…]
That is not the picture of the Australian family. [More…]
The picture of the Australian family is one of sturdy independence, of people who have been able to handle hire purchase and all the various forms of credit over the years, and to handle them with solvency and with no need for lectures from doctrinaire socialists. [More…]
As one moves around the electorate- this is not perceived by Senator Carrick- one finds that there is nothing more terrifying for the average family than the failure of interest rates to decline as was promised and which seemed possible at some times. [More…]
Many people listening today would undoubtedly regret the passing of the local corner grocery store, where once upon a time a family was able to run up credit or, in cases of necessity such as illness, payment could be deferred. [More…]
They may include the impoverishment of the family, or there may not be anything other than justification for the injury. [More…]
Can it be said that because it was essential to have a specific wheelchair in view of the incapacity of the individual the sum should be paid, or is it to be based on the individual ‘s commitments or his family ties? [More…]
Cavanagh mentioned personal and family circumstances, or whatever may be required. [More…]
If ever a cause needed supporting in this chamber by the elected representatives of the people, surely it must be the cause of the injured worker who sacrifices his physical fitness, and perhaps the welfare of his family, through an accident at work, serving industry for the benefit of the nation. [More…]
There are people who may be entitled, on the basis of their incomes and their family responsibilities, to partial social security pension entitlements. [More…]
The only power that Parliament will have in the case of this legislation will be to disallow a regulation which gives an increased payment to injured workmen with family responsiblities. [More…]
Where there are more children in the family, increased Commonwealth payments are made, in contrast with some States where a maximum rate is payable. [More…]
If any honourable senator has known a family in which a child has died in unexplained circumstances in the first 12 or 18 months of its life he will know the trauma imposed on that family. [More…]
On 14 March the police raided their flat again after which a group of men with cameras rearranged the furniture, planted various objects and documents around the fiat and then made a film while the family looked on helplessly. [More…]
Your Family’s Future Depends on You’. [More…]
Regency Press, which as I said is a small family operation, has been pursuing a debt of $1,375.95 which it requires Mr Baker to pay. [More…]
Are these anomalies a mistake on the part of the Government, or an attempt to undermine the family structure in our society. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Department of Health has sent a letter to family planning clinics saying that they may use it as a contraceptive after obtaining the informed consent of the client? [More…]
It refers to the report this year of the Auditor-General which again alleges overpayments by her Department of pensions, benefits and family allowances. [More…]
The payment of family allowance and handicapped child’s allowance did create some difficulties, as the honourable senator has mentioned. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: Is it a fact that there is a six months delay in handling family allowance files in the Darwin Office of her Department? [More…]
Are family allowance files for the Alice Springs area handled by the Darwin office? [More…]
What action is being planned to ensure that those people who are entitled to receive the family allowance receive it on the due date? [More…]
It has not been brought to my attention that there is such a delay in the handling of family allowance claims. [More…]
I never saw my family again. [More…]
As the whole question of family trusts came out in Australia earlier this year, the Prime Minister flamboyantly announced that he had disposed of his own family trust. [More…]
He did so after family trusts had become useless vehicles for tax avoidance in Australia. [More…]
Many of them come in family groups. [More…]
I preface it by saying that the annual report of the Family Planning Association of Tasmania Incorporated states: [More…]
Has the Department of Health instructed the Family Planning Association of Tasmania Incorporated not to increase its clinic services? [More…]
-In 1975 approval was given for the Family Planning Association of Tasmania to receive a grant and, since that year, the Department of Health, through the Minister, has continued to support the clinical activities of the Association and has increased its grant therefor in each financial year. [More…]
I understand that early discussions regarding non-expansion and financial constraint took place in November 1 977 with the family planning associations in all States. [More…]
This policy restraint was applied also to grants for education, information and training activities supported under the family planning program. [More…]
On 29 March of this year, in the other place, the Minister for Health appealed to the State governments to support the development of a comprehensive Australia-wide family planning program. [More…]
However, State government support for family planning activities varies as between individual States. [More…]
It is not usual for State governments to provide to the Department of Health details of grants made to family planning organisations. [More…]
However, on the basis of the reports produced by the various State family planning associations, details of grants by the State governments to these associations in 1978-79, for information and education activities, are set out in a list which I have before me. [More…]
In response to the particular inquiry made by Senator Walters with regard to clinical activities, I draw attention to the discussions that I have mentioned, held in 1 977, concerning the activities of the family planning associations, which emphasised the need for financial restraint to be exercised in regard to these programs. [More…]
However, it is a matter of historical record that Simon Fraser was one of the people involved in floating land banks in Melbourne in the 1 880s and 1 890s and that the fortunes of that family were partially established at the expense of the depositors who lost their money in those banks; that that was not the only fortune in Melbourne that was established that way; and that Mr Fraser is not the only descendant of families which established their fortunes in that way who currently sits in this Parliament representing the Liberal Party. [More…]
I refer to a report on the Indo-China refugee situation which claimed that in the Vietnamese refugee position there have been major splits in refugee family groupings. [More…]
Speaking as one who has seen the work of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the refugee island of Bidong in the South China Sea, can the Minister indicate whether departmental officers have any specific instructions relating to the family distribution situation? [More…]
Finally, has the Minister any further information in relation to the refugee and family position? [More…]
The family responsibility would extend to their maintenance and upkeep. [More…]
If the students are at school they are part of the family responsibility. [More…]
Let me remind the Senate that the family companies of the Queensland Premier have commercial interests involving oil drilling in Queensland. [More…]
The new rules add that if a request is made for travel by a member of a VIP’s family other than his wife it will be referred to the Prime Minister for consideration. [More…]
Members of the British Royal Family, the GovernorGeneral and the Prime Minister- [More…]
The black marlin is one of the bill fish family, which includes sail fish, blue marlin, black marlin, striped marlin, white marlin, and the swordfish. [More…]
Has 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…]
Has 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 Senate Standing 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 us 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 according to the United Nations is ‘the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state ‘. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government is considering changing the method of payment of the family allowance and invalid pension? [More…]
I have no knowledge of any proposed changes to the family allowance, other than what is contained in the Social Services Amendment Bill which will come into the House shortly. [More…]
A change is proposed which brings in the matters raised by Senator Bishop with regard to the family allowance paid to parents for a period and to institutions for a period. [More…]
It will enable us to apportion the family allowance between parents and institutions when short term care is provided in both places. [More…]
It would have increased the national debt by $1,000 for the average Australian family. [More…]
Mr President, my question is about a very old financial institution in South Australia which must be very close to the concern of your family because of its long links with that State. [More…]
Revision of sections 62 and 63 of the Migration Act 1 9S8, 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 arc 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…]
Until these measures had been implemented the Ministers suggested that people who suspected their children may be removed from Australia by the other parent should consult a solicitor, or a registry of the Family Court of Australia, the Family Court of Western Australia or the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory for information on preventive measures. [More…]
The husband had remarried and had established a new family, wife and children. [More…]
She had had her passport renewed three times and each time she had been obliged by the passport authorities in Perth to go back and dig out her former husband, to intrude embarrassingly on the new long-established, family circle, and get the necessary signature from him. [More…]
In the Department of Aboriginal Affairs there is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; in the Department of Administrative Services there is a commission of inquiry into drugs; the Attorney-General’s Department conducts criminology research and family studies; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence; the Department of the Capital Territory has a nature conservation committee; the Department of Defence has a defence science and technology organisation; the Department of Education has the Curriculum Development Centre and the Education Research and Development Committee; the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs has the National Training Council; the Department of Foreign Affairs has all of our international agreements; the Department of Health has the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the National Acoustics Laboratories, and the Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, et cetera; the Department of Home Affairs has the National Library of Australia; the Department of Housing and Construction has the Australian Housing Research Council; the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the population study; the Department of Industrial Relations has the Trade Union Training Authority; the Department of Industry and Commerce has the Australian Manufacturing Council; the Department of National Development has the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Water Resources Council; the Postal and Telecommunications [More…]
Wool Testing Authority, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Australian Chicken Meat Research Committee, the Commonwealth Practitioners Board, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, the Criminology Research Council, the Curriculum Development Centre, the Environment Protection Commissioner, the Fishing Industry Research Committee, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Institute of Family Studies, the Medical Research Endowment Fund, the Metric Conversion Board, the National Health Act Committee, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian National Library, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the National Standards Commission, the National Television Advisory Committee, the Oilseeds Research Committee, the Pig Industry Research Committee, the River Murray Commission, the Schools Commission, the Supervising Scientist for the Alligators Rivers Region, the Tertiary Education Commission, the Therapeutic Goods Committee, the Whaling Inspector and the Wheat Industry Research Council. [More…]
Vanderlin Island, which is owned by the Johnson family, has on it a cattle station carrying some 900 head of cattle. [More…]
Tribal or quasi-tribal so that the single family unit is not their customary family group but rather an extended family numbering scores of humans and canines [More…]
Tribal or quasi-tribal so that the single family unit is not their customary family group but rather an extended family numbering scores of humans ‘and canines [More…]
That was in Sydney last week- on the question of private and family companies, and the signatures which are necessary on various documents. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs by reminding him that on 23 May 1979 I placed on notice a question regarding the late Mr Tommy White Jagamara of Ti Tree who was killed in a road accident in which members of his family were injured, and that subsequently parts of that question were answered. [More…]
The boarding allowances provided under this Scheme comprise a means-test-free basic allowance of $500 per annum, on average about $12 per week, and an additional allowance of up to a further $500 per annum, which is subject both to actual boarding costs and a means test on family income. [More…]
The maximum of this additional boarding allowance is paid where the adjusted family income does not exceed $8,700 per annum. [More…]
Very needy families may also qualify for a special supplementary allowance of up to $550 per annum, the maximum of which is payable at an adjusted family income level of $5,800 per annum. [More…]
It is precisely because of the social and family tragedies that go with unemployment that we have pressed, to the fullest extent, for wage and salary restraint in hearings of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I would like to stay on at Fitzroy Crossing working with the Aborigines if I can find a sponsor, but there’s not a lot of work around that pays enough to keep a family. [More…]
I might add that the change to the end of the school year was made upon the application of Mr Davey himself, who pointed out that he had a young family attending school in Fitzroy Crossing and did not want to disrupt the education program of his daughter. [More…]
Those people seek to benefit themselves, but they will put in jeopardy the livelihood of many family farmers in Australia. [More…]
I understand that Mr Fry directly and through his family was involved in the poultry industry. [More…]
In addition, there are the Family Support Services Scheme, the Community Health Program and the welfare housing programs. [More…]
Within one’s own family circle, when the idea is tossed around of whether the family can afford a new room or a new roof on the house, the idea has to be sold to other members of the family. [More…]
I know also that there is power in the High Court to ‘read down’ powers, as happened in regard to the Family Law Act, so that they fit within the constitutional framework and so that they can operate without defeating the law. [More…]
Her family is highly reputable. [More…]
I think there was a wedding involving the family which she wished to attend. [More…]
Let us go beyond the refugees and look at those people who come under the definition of family reunion’. [More…]
I will not name some of the ethnic groups involved, but sometimes a nod is as good as a wink and often a family will prevail on a person to overstay. [More…]
This could also apply to a family with a fruit shop. [More…]
But when family reunions are sought we are always a bit sceptical about the conditions which will apply. [More…]
A further point I would like to bring up is that it seems to discriminate against families, unless there is a family rate rather than the individual rate that is listed in the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
One can only assume from the list of charges that it is an individual rate and that each member of a family may be charged individually. [More…]
This Bill does extend the program, but neither the Bill nor the second reading speech tell us very much about the future of the program, except that some youth refuges will be established under the Youth Services Program in the Office of Child Care, that some homeless people already receive support under the Community Health Program- that is, women’s shelters, and they have done so for four or five years- and that other homeless people receive support from welfare housing and the Family Support Services Scheme. [More…]
In Victoria one hears estimates of between 15,000 and 20,000 people under the age of 1 8 who have no home, who are alienated from their family home. [More…]
The Victorian Consultative Council on Social Welfare has produced a report on the result of a survey which indicates that the major causes of youth homelessness are youth unemployment and family difficulties caused by unemployment among other members of the family. [More…]
This is an international program designed to expand Bangladeshi facilities for maternal and child health care and for family planning services. [More…]
In Thailand, Australia is provoiding an estimated $2.6m in a co-financing arrangement with the IDA for the expansion of family planning services and the extension of the Thai rural health network. [More…]
Since the World Population Conference in 1974, assistance to the population sector is no longer considered to be limited to family planning activities, but instead is considered to embrace activities in all areas that influence population- such as nutrition, sanitation, health, education, the status of women and economic factors. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the current family allowance scheme brought increased assistance to some 300,000 families with 800,000 children who, simply because of their low incomes did not benefit fully, or at all, from the previous system of tax rebates. [More…]
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…]
family allowance apply also to the double orphan’s pension and the handicapped child’s allowance, but the 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…]
I am very pleased that organisations such as the Smith Family and the Salvation Army do not adopt the attitude that Senator Bonner adopts. [More…]
They are assisted by voluntary agencies such as St Vincent de Paul, the Salvation Army, the Smith Family, the Jesus People and various city missions in this country. [More…]
I said, ‘Is this unemployment that they are affected by directly, or is this unemployment in their immediate family?’ [More…]
I was told that as a general rule it was their own unemployment that was the cause of their being homeless, because of the effect their being unemployed had on their own immediate family. [More…]
As well as what we consider are sins of commission in the legislation, there are sins of omission in regard to the unemployed without dependants, the level of family allowances, the level of supplementary allowances for rental paid to pensioners and beneficiaries and the level of allowances to pensioners’ children. [More…]
an increase in family allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation ‘. [More…]
The provisions in the Bill to which the Opposition has no objection are those which provide for twice-yearly indexation of pensions and benefits; those which provide an extension of income limits for pensioner fringe benefits; the extension of the wife’s pension to women in approved benevolent homes; the extension of the wife’s pension to women who are separated from their husbands because of illness or because they or their husbands are in benevolent homes; and the correction of the anomaly in the payment of family allowances and handicapped children’s allowances monthly which occurs when children are in institutions or away for a holiday. [More…]
They remain at the level of $36 a week that they were given in 1975, despite escalating costs, despite a great increase in their numbers and particularly despite the fact that, as was noted by all speakers on the legislation dealing with the homeless persons assistance program, they are increasingly joining the ranks of the homeless in the community because of their own unemployment and because of family stress caused by adult unemployment in their families and homes. [More…]
The second is a comparison of family allowances as they have been paid since they were introduced in 1976 and as they would have been paid had they been indexed to this time. [More…]
-The first table demonstrates that the single income family in this country is below the poverty line on $ 140 a week with three or more children; on $160 a week, with four or more children; and on $ 1 80 a week, with five or more children. [More…]
All those single income families with the head of the family working are below the poverty line. [More…]
Thirdly, family allowances have been allowed to deteriorate in value to the extent indicated in the second table which I have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
Since the initial benefit given to low income families by the introduction of family allowances in 1976, a family with three children is $20 a month worse off and a family with five children is $39 a month worse off in real terms. [More…]
Mr Dixon, who was the social welfare Minister in Victoria, telegrammed the Federal Government warning it not to introduce the proposal because it would increase the number of family breakdowns. [More…]
An amendment will also be made in respect of the payment of family allowance, the double orphan ‘s pension and the handicapped children’s allowance. [More…]
In such cases the family allowance and the double orphan’s pension has gone to that institution, even though the child might have been in the institution for only two days. [More…]
an increase in family allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation’. [More…]
I preface my question, which is addressed to the Minister for Social Security, by pointing out that Commonwealth support for the Children’s Services Program is by subsidy to selected child care and family day care centres and has the effect of creating competition between subsidised and unsubsidised private child care centres which operate in the same region; further, that the Commonwealth subsidy is designed to assist disadvantaged children, yet there are regions where only unsubsidised centres are situated, thus depriving disadvantaged children in that region of access to assistance. [More…]
I believe that my statements on family allowances have been deliberately misinterpreted in this place and another place during this debate and other debates. [More…]
I have no intention ever of introducing a policy whereby family allowances will be removed from anyone in the community. [More…]
I believe that family allowances are a recognition that it costs money to bring up children. [More…]
My suggestion-I make no bones about it- is that increases in the amount of money spent on family allowances should, if possible, be distributed more to those in need, the low income families which I spoke about and whose position was demonstrated in the tables which were incorporated in Hansard, and less to families on high incomes. [More…]
Therefore, if possible, I would introduce a family income supplement to complement the present family allowance scheme, not to replace it. [More…]
That would be the case whether one was seeking a family allowance, a widow’s pension, an age pension or whatever. [More…]
Firstly, the family allowance has been frozen since the new scheme was first introduced in 1976. [More…]
As Senator Grimes reminded us, the Age editorial- which I readsaid that the right of a person in a civilised society to be able to expect a reasonable standard of living for himself and his family is a right, not a privilege. [More…]
an increase in family allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation. [More…]
That the Senate calls on the Government to introduce sixmonthly indexation of repatriation and social security benefits, in particular, pensions and family allowances. [More…]
I believe that in addition to compensating families for the erosion of family allowances that has taken place the allowances should be taken out of politics and indexed every six months to avoid the difficulties that are being experienced. [More…]
If the Government does not do anything by the next election, every mother of five children will be told by me and others that the Government has taken away $500 a year from her because it has failed to index family allowances. [More…]
Family allowances have not been indexed. [More…]
The introduction of the family allowance scheme, as has been said in this chamber and elsewhere, was just a book entry scheme. [More…]
The old child endowment scheme and the tax rebate system were abolished and replaced with the family allowance scheme. [More…]
We then come to paragraph (6), which seeks an increase in family allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation. [More…]
If the family allowance to higher income families was limited, and a family income supplement was paid to lower income and larger families on the basis of family size and income, the distribution of such funds would be directed to those in need, and therefore do most good. [More…]
No one would argue with that proposition but it may be serious news to those who are receiving the present family allowances that those allowances will be limited for some people and that there may be a family income supplement on a means tested basis for other families. [More…]
If there is some expression of what the policy with regard to family allowances is, such an expression which allows for an increase in those allowances to compensate for their erosion by inflation may mean an increase for some people but not for all people. [More…]
It may mean a change in the universal system of family allowances. [More…]
Whilst there are those who talk of economic difficulties and those who talk of the responsibilities of the family, we need to look at whether these costs- be they $200m or $500m- are to be raised by increased taxation or by withdrawing from those over 70 years of age some of the means test free pensions which they have. [More…]
The Government clearly needs to strike a balance between the objective to improve real levels of income security assistance and the desire of the taxpayer in this country to retain resources to support the living standards of himself and his family. [More…]
I say to Senator Harradine that whilst it may provide some compensation to families to receive more in the way of family allowances, if as a result of those increased allowances a higher level of taxation is imposed on those families who are struggling to support themselves, this may be counter-productive and not the best way in which to assist them. [More…]
A married man with two children would have received, including family allowances, some 50.5 per cent of average weekly earnings at December 1978, compared with 48.4 per cent at the end of 1975. [More…]
The other matters that ought to be drawn to the attention of honourable senators include some of the comments that have been made with regard to family allowances in general, because this is now an important aspect of the social security system. [More…]
Whilst it is said that family allowances have not been increased, in social security matters we still draw attention to the fact that family allowances go to the lowest income families who did not benefit from the previous scheme of tax rebates. [More…]
If we consider that an important thing, I think that those who have urged that family allowances be indexed or increased would support what I believe was an important social innovation. [More…]
I can only say that the Government is committed to the family allowance scheme and that it finds that the Australian community supports this scheme very strongly. [More…]
Whilst it might be an argument to talk about giving an additional benefit to the lowest income families, I think there would be general alarm if this were done at the expense of other families who have received family allowances for some years now. [More…]
These figures are a little different from the Henderson poverty line figures which show that a family in which the head of the family was not working would receive $76.10 a week as against the $75.20 a week which I have just mentioned. [More…]
I draw attention to the fact that the figures for other family payments would show similar differences if the other allowances that are available to those with dependent children were included in the table. [More…]
In that instance, I think we could be looking at the figures for a family with four children on the table incorporated by Senator Grimes. [More…]
If we provide an income security system for redistributive purposes which imposes such a high level of tax on the family that is trying to support itself, we will find that very great difficulties would ensue and that new difficulties will occur. [More…]
On the other hand, if they did come from a wealthy family there would still be some discrimination. [More…]
For example, I hold a letter from a Tasmanian lady well known in the field of overseas student assistance, Mrs Margaret Eldridge, the convener of the Host Family Scheme for Overseas Students in Hobart. [More…]
All I can say is that the statistics of family incomes of overseas students have not been available to tertiary institutions or to the Government. [More…]
There can only be speculation as to the actual family incomes of the overseas students who will pay these charges. [More…]
Were fares from England paid for the Commissioner and his family? [More…]
Just concentrating on the programs and services for families and children, the Committee could have asked: Why do we not know who is receiving the benefits from the Children’s Services Program or from family allowances? [More…]
What do we know about the worth or effectiveness of the counselling services of the Family Court of Australia? [More…]
How is it that at State level we cannot compare institutional with family foster care for children, although the Commonwealth is extensively funding both? [More…]
Senator Baume said that we do not really know how effective the expenditure on children ‘s services or family allowances is. [More…]
I think it is worth while doing what Senator Watson has suggested- investigate the adequacy of the compensation for the cattle and the pigs that has been paid to Mr Antypas and his family. [More…]
One can expect rumours, but one should not expect the sorts of rumours that have gone around about this man and his family. [More…]
To my knowledge, as I have said in another place, he has supported a very poor family by feeding it and by helping clothe the children when others in the near community were not so concerned. [More…]
I deplore the attitude of some members of the community and hope that, by some of us speaking out and defending the family, that sort of rumour mongering will be squashed. [More…]
Has the Department of Health sent a letter to family planning clinics stating that they may use the drug as a contraceptive after obtaining the informed consent of the client; if so, how can the letter be reconciled with any refusal by drug control authorities, in particular the USFDA, to grant approval for the use of Depo-Provera for contraceptive purposes. [More…]
WHO studies or in family planning programs. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of Health enjoys a close liaison with the Medical Advisory Committee of the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations (AFFPA). [More…]
For the period to 12 October 1979 the Indo China Refugee Association has assisted family groups totalling approximately 170 people, and the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocesan Committee has assisted family groups totalling approximately ISO people. [More…]
1 ) How many applicants during the period from April 1978 to March 1979 have had the $100 Family Court fee waived on the grounds of substantial hardship. [More…]
1 ) For the period April 1 978 to March 1 979 it is not possible to obtain the required information for all Family Court registries. [More…]
However, statistics were kept for all registries since 1 March 1979 and for the four months ended 30 June 1979 the percentage of waivers of the $100 Family Court fee was 5.8 per cent of applications for dissolution received. [More…]
-No decision has been made to appoint a Family Court judge who would be permanently resident in Townsville. [More…]
The Government has made a decision to increase the number of Family Court judges by two. [More…]
I gave very close consideration to the question whether the appointment of an additional Family Court judge to Townsville could be made but in the end was persuaded that the additional costs involved and the demands of the Brisbane registry, and indeed other circuit areas related to Brisbane, were such that it would be a more efficient use of the additional judge if he or she were based in Brisbane. [More…]
I hope that in due course an appointment will be made to the Family Court in Townsville. [More…]
They raised a fairly large family on Palm Island. [More…]
They raised their family in much the same way as many Australian families are raised- to respect law and authority and all those things that most Australians hold dear. [More…]
Eric Kyle was raised in that kind of family environment. [More…]
I have not mentioned yet but will mention later the problems caused over the last four years by the obstruction by Indonesian authorities of the refugee family reunion program. [More…]
It is now five years since the Family Law Act was instituted and there have been a great number of expressions of concern in the community at the time span between the presentation of the Bill, the passing of it by this Parliament and the setting up of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]
Nevertheless we are disturbed at a general constant theme of submissions coming before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Family Law Act which has recognised the importance of such an Institute and at the dearth of information which is available in the community. [More…]
We hope that Dr Edgar will not only promote the encouragement and co-ordination of research but also that he will be responsible for bringing to the attention, not only of this Parliament but also to the people of Australia the very important things that are at issue with our family situation. [More…]
I welcome it very much and likewise with Senator Coleman, who is a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Family Law Act, I have had the opportunity to appreciate the loss which we have had in the lack of studies in this area and the lack of co-ordination. [More…]
I did not quite understand Senator Coleman in her fears that Dr Edgar and the Institute of Family Studies would not be doing the studies. [More…]
They are directed towards filling in the gaps and showing how we are going in this family law area. [More…]
As a Committee, looking at the Family Law Act and its operation, we cannot answer some questions. [More…]
It should not start off like, unfortunately, the Family Law Act which started off under-staffed. [More…]
After the couple moved in, the landlord or the agent discovered that there was a black partner in the marriage and every conceivable method was used to remove that family from that accommodation. [More…]
Is the Treasurer considering a proposal for income splitting for tax purposes between husbands and wives with a view to helping the one income family unit? [More…]
Is it a fact that such a scheme would be very regressive, of little value to a low income family, but worth more than $5,000 a year to a professional man with a taxable income of $50,000? [More…]
Accepting the desirability of ensuring equitable tax treatment for the single income family, as I am sure all on this side of the chamber do, could not this result be achieved more simply, more economically and more equitably by increasing the tax allowance for a dependent spouse and making the allowance a tax credit rather than a deduction from taxable income? [More…]
They now contain items of novel interest like the right to marry and found a family, the right to free education and the right to free elections although very few of them can enjoy any of those things. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that the Family Law Bill was supposed to be an advance at the time of its introduction. [More…]
As a result of what has happened under the Family Law Act, we have all decided that we want to have a second look at that legislation. [More…]
Work associated with the receipt, examination, assessment, determination and review of claims for pensions, benefits and family allowances- 357 additional staff. [More…]
I particularly ask concerning the reuniting of Vietnamese families when a member of the family is already in Australia. [More…]
The Government has been attempting to establish an acceptable arrangement for family reunion out of Vietnam for some time. [More…]
On its own admission virtually every member of the present Cabinet operates some sort of a family trust, the explicit purpose of which is to avoid paying taxation. [More…]
He had a family trust to dodge taxation of the proceeds of his ill-gotten gains. [More…]
Most important of all, there has been the abolition of gift and death duties and the removal of serious problems and serious loss in relation to family arrangements. [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…]
Three circumstances were recognized by the Senate Committee in its report where this approach was justified, namely, to achieve uniformity in the exercise of a particular federal jurisdiction, to provide as a matter of policy for informality in proceedings (as in Family Law proceedings) and where it is desired to set court fees on a particular basis is furtherance of a particular policy. [More…]
Upon what criteria does the Commissioner for Housing determine whether an Asian refugee family is allocated a pre-fabricated house in the ‘older’ areas of Canberra, as compared with new houses in the outer suburbs. [More…]
Every effort is made to find a house for such a family in the area of the sponsors choice. [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 varies between cities. [More…]
The main substantive change in this particular Bill is the removal of the power of a casting vote from the Chief Justice where there is an equality of judges, an evenly divided court, in appeals from the Federal Court, from Territory Supreme Courts, or from the Family Court. [More…]
It is absurd to suggest that that situation would be abused because I know that they are both family men who want to spend as much time as conceivable with their wives and families in their own homes. [More…]
One of the easiest ways of avoiding financial disclosure is simply to transfer assets within a family. [More…]
Interests of members of the person’s immediate family should similarly be disclosed. [More…]
Allotments included 1500 to Mrs M. I. Askin, wife of the NSW Premier; 1000 to Tom Lewis, the then NSW Minister for Lands and later Premier; 1500 to Queensland Treasurer and Acting Premier, Gordon Chalk, and another 1000 to members of his family; 15 16 to Sir David Brand, Premier of WA; and 1500 shares to Charrita Pty Ltd, a private company associated with Charles Court, the subsequent Premier. [More…]
A further 1,000 shares were allotted to Malcolm Scott Holdings, the family investment company of former Liberal Party senator from Western Australia and Federal Minister, Malcolm Scott. [More…]
What is the reason for the continuing delay in promulgating regulations under the Family Law Act 1975, s. 1 1 1, to enable performance of Australia’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance signed on 20 June 1956, which matter was the subject of House of Representatives Question on Notice Nos 233 of 1977, 121 of 1978 and 799 of 1978, by the Honourable E. G. Whitlam. [More…]
The increase in the family allowance scheme means that the low income earner with a dependent spouse will pay a greater increase in taxation than the high to very high income earners. [More…]
When the family allowance scheme was introduced in 1976, the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, promoted it as a great breakthrough for the families. [More…]
All that happened was that the allowances were paid to supporting parents instead of tax deductions being allowed to the family breadwinner. [More…]
Because family allowances have remained frozen since the 1976 levels, their value has become sharply reduced by inflation. [More…]
The weekly loss to a family with one child is $2.50; with two children it is $3.40; with three children it is $4. [More…]
That was the scheme that Mr Fraser said was a great breakthrough for the family. [More…]
All that we have is unemployment with its misery and insecurity that are continually destroying the family structure in this country. [More…]
We are prepared to build hospitals and to provide all other services but we do not look at what is happening to the structure of the family. [More…]
I believe that it is important for a family at least once a year to get away and have a break from what they have been doing for the rest of the year. [More…]
Another one affected by this decision was Henrique Simoes who lost his job with the Department of Finance and whose application to immigrate to Australia also did not meet the requirements laid down by the so called ‘family reunion ‘policy. [More…]
The Timorese wonder whether, when the Government decided on the present criterion, they based it on an Anglo-Saxon concept of ‘family ‘ whereby family ties do not appear to be as binding and complex as they are in the more traditional ways of these people. [More…]
Time and time again I have the question put to me as to whether, in accordance to Australian custom, once married a person is expected to consider as family the spouse and children solely, forsaking all other relatives. [More…]
They find it extremely difficult to relate the ‘family reunion’ bit to the Government’s attitude of consistently refusing to allow precisely that. [More…]
Since that time this estimate has been refined, to accommodate a more comprehensive operating plan which calls for extensive use of the aircraft on personnel and family movement and allows for the progressive assumption of maintenance responsibility by the RAAF in the long term. [More…]
As honourable senators know, the expenditure of the Queen of England is questioned in the House of Commons, as are the allowances paid to the whole of her family. [More…]
I think that we would all support what Senator Harradine said, knowing the difficulties facing the family law courts. [More…]
I bring up the matter of the apparent lack of judges, or commissionerswhatever they are called- in Family Law Courts in South Australia. [More…]
I rang the Registrar of the Family Court in Adelaide and spoke to his secretary, who advised me that if I got the solicitor of the person concerned to write to the Registrar the Registrar might put that man’s name higher up on the list. [More…]
I have a lurking suspicion that there is overlapping: that the inspectors go into a shop or factory that is reasonably organised rather than into these small establishments, even family places, which sometimes make amazing mistakes when they are compiling someone’s annual leave entitlements. [More…]
No person should be compelled to leave the paid work force, neither should any family be forced by economic or other pressures to have both partners working in the paid work force to the detriment of the family. [More…]
Again, when we consider the estimates for the Department of Social Security, I will make the point that there is a need to lift the family allowance and even to consider the payment of a home-makers allowance to relieve the economic pressure. [More…]
The only means we have in this country of redistributing income to those families under the current legislation is through the family allowance scheme. [More…]
We have the family allowance scheme which I believe we can reform quickly and reasonably to redirect funds to low income families. [More…]
In 1976 family allowances were introduced. [More…]
But even if they had been indexed under the present system across the board through all income levels, the increase in family allowances to the high income families would be meaningless because of their incomes and the increase in income to the low income families would have been inadequate to raise their income sufficiently to get them anywhere near the poverty line. [More…]
If we are to use the family allowances scheme we must look, I believe, at methods of redirecting some of the increased payments under that scheme to the low income families. [More…]
This does not mean taking away money from people who at present receive family allowances. [More…]
It means deciding that the amount of money in this country which is spent on family allowances can be increased. [More…]
I believe that this money should be directed as much as possible to those people as has been done in Canada and other countries through a family income supplement or whatever it is called. [More…]
If we are serious about redirecting income in this community to those in need we must look seriously at using the present amount of money we pay on family allowances. [More…]
The low income family of a person working for a wage in the community is completely left out of our present system. [More…]
They do not come into our social security or income support system in any way except through the family allowances scheme. [More…]
It can easily be adapted to pay a higher family income supplement to those who are in real need. [More…]
The Minister introduced the family allowance scheme in 1 976 with a great fanfare. [More…]
If a family income support scheme cannot be introduced which directs funds to low income families, certainly we should at least introduce indexation. [More…]
If we were willing to spend $ 1 billion on family allowances in 1976 we should be willing to spend at least $ 1 ,300m on family allowances in 1979 with the level of indexation we have had since then. [More…]
The number of divorcees in Australia appears to have settled at about 40,000 a year, following a high of 63,000 in 1976 which was the first full year after the 1975 Murphy family law amendments. [More…]
The message more directly conveyed by the figures I have just quoted is that the disintegration of the family unit in Australian society is now making significant inroads into the pattern of Government expenditure. [More…]
As the family unit comes under increasing economic and social stress, problems previously taken care of within the family are being passed on to governments. [More…]
The simple, fact, which I believe governments everywhere are failing to recognise, is that some caring functions are achieved more economically within the family unit than outside it. [More…]
Very often governments could save themselves much expenditure of effort and funds if they adopted a positive approach to protecting the family unit. [More…]
I support what other speakers have said in respect of the Social Security estimates on the question of family allowances. [More…]
Let me take the example of the emergence of the dual income family as an acceptable or desirable situation. [More…]
Those families have noted the disappearance of the maternity allowance, the 35 per cent erosion in the real value of family allowance payments, and the way in which they are regularly catapulted into higher taxation brackets. [More…]
The tragedy is, and I ask the Minister to comment on this, that if governments only woke up they would realise that a small amount of justice and equity today would remove the necessity in future years for massive expenditures in dealing with the end results of the disintegration of the family unit. [More…]
Senator Grimes and Senator Harradine have made reference to the family allowances and to the need for a review of the level of family allowances and of payments that are made under social security systems. [More…]
The Government has not been able to increase family allowances since their introduction. [More…]
As has been stated, over $ 1 ,000m has been paid by way of family allowances for children in Australia. [More…]
I will briefly comment on the reply made by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) particularly in regard to the family allowance. [More…]
In 1976, the family allowance scheme was introduced and we were willing to spend some $ 1,000m on it. [More…]
We aired our concern that the introduction of family allowance may well have provided for the Government a let-out to avoid the revenue problems which may have arisen by the indexation of the children’s rebate when the Government had a policy of full tax indexation. [More…]
What has happened is what we predicted would happen, that is the family allowance has remained the same and its value has been eroded by 35 per cent or 36 per cent because of inflation since then. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that we take a serious look at the family allowance scheme- a well understood scheme, an efficient scheme, a scheme which above all in almost all cases in the community pays money to mothers- so that we can redistribute some of the funds to those who need the assistance. [More…]
I know that redistribution of income is a dirty word to some people on the other side of the chamber but the only system that we have in existence at the moment which is administratively effective and administratively simple to redistribute money- and God knows everybody accepts that we need to redistribute money to some of these people- is in fact the family allowance scheme. [More…]
If we cannot graft onto the family allowances schemes a family income supplement by using this efficient, accessible system, we should at least index the allowance, as ineffective as that would be. [More…]
I refer to grants to family planning programs. [More…]
I have a notice of motion on the Notice Paper stating that payment should not be made to those organisations in the family planning area which regard abortion as a legitimate means of fertility control. [More…]
I have reviewed Mr Lee’s application in the light of information presented to me and have decided that he may be granted resident status provided he, and his family members overseas, are able to meet the relevant migration requirements. [More…]
ear Sir, I beg you to advise the Immigration to allow my family to join me & should a favourable reply be received from Irian everybody will be Happy. [More…]
Naturally this caused distress to the family. [More…]
Both means tests are based on the ‘adjusted family income’, viz. [More…]
The table below sets out the levels of adjusted family income (AFI) at which the maximum and minimum levels of allowance are payable in 1979 and 1980. [More…]
When it does make recommendations- as it seems to have done here- with regard to matters which come within my areas of responsibility, such as the Family Law Act, no doubt in due course I will be advised. [More…]
Without going into any detail, the Family Law Act does have provisions for the making of injunctions. [More…]
As Senator Chipp has drawn my attention to this matter, I certainly will seek advice as to what is recommended and also see in what way the proposals expand or differ from the provisions in the Family Law Act. [More…]
He would scrupulously, carefully and honestly go through them to see whether he would claim 8 to 10, as it then was, for chemist’s expenses for his family. [More…]
Pty Ltd has sought Government approval to acquire three properties, which it has entered into contracts to acquire conditional on Government approval being received, comprising a total area of approximately 833 hectares, namely: about 616 hectares in the County of Palmerston, Parishes of Woodlands and Rosslyn, extending west from the existing resort boundary to the Byfield/Yeppoon road, owned by Setu Nominees Pty Ltd; about 215 hectares in the County of Livingstone, Parish of Rosslyn, adjacent to the Byfield/Yeppoon road, owned by the Atkinson family; about 2 hectares in the County of Palmerston, Parish of Woodlands. [More…]
A single income family on an income below $ 1 5,000 a year is virtually excluded from the Scheme. [More…]
This expenditure covers a range of services designed to support children and their families, including centre and family based day care, pre-schools, toy libraries, children’s services field staff and playgroup support services. [More…]
The honourable Senator will be also aware of the two innovative programs that this Government has introduced under the Children ‘s Services Program: the Family Support Services Program, aimed at encouraging and assisting the development of a range of services to SUPport families in their responsibilities in the rearing and development of children; and the Youth Services Program, which provides support for emergency accommodation and ancillary services such as housing referral and counselling, in recognition of the problems of youth, including increasing disruption to family relationships and increasing homelessness problems. [More…]
Did an Australian Legal Aid officer inform the Fitzroy Legal Service by telephone that dissolution of married proceedings would only be considered imperative, and therefore receive legal aid, in circumstances where: (a) the applicant seeking ALAO aid for dissolution proceedings is living in a defacto relationship, there are children of that relationship and the applicant wants a divorce in order to marry his or her defacto; (b) the applicant, and only the applicant, is suffering from a terminal disease and wishes to order his or her affairs before death; (c) the applicant and his or her spouse dispute some aspect of the settlement of property between them and, because these matters can only be determined by the Family Court after dissolution proceedings have been undertaken, the applicant can be aided in the divorce proceedings, and after the property proceedings- in other words, aid in divorce is granted in order to speed up the hearing of the property dispute; or (d) there is evidence of extremely detrimental behaviour, which divorce may alleviate, on the part of the applicant’s spouse, for example, where the applicants spouse has ignored an existing restraining order because of the continuance of the marriage relationship. [More…]
children and unpaid family helpers. [More…]
The scheme will make advice on the conduct of dissolution proceedings more accessible to persons who do not reside close to the major propulation centres where a lawyer of the Australian Legal Aid Office or a Registry of the Family Court is located. [More…]
In general terms, needy persons who live outside metropolitan areas, more than SO kilometres from a centre where advice may be obtained from an Australian Legal Aid Office lawyer or from a Registry of the Family Court, will be able to obtain advice on the matters mentioned from a private solicitor practising in their locality. [More…]
In the short term, many ofthe programs already sponsored by the Government in respect of Aboriginal affairs have the capacity to meet the needs of discharged prisoners for transient accommodation, employment and employment training, personal and family welfare support services, legal advice and liaison services. [More…]
Those students may be at risk for a variety of reasons; maybe for family or community reasons. [More…]