federation - senate - 1970

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

I do not think this will be a new situation or the first time this has happened since federation. [More…]
It has always been a source of amazement to me that in 69 years of federation we have not had sufficiently determined where the sovereignty is. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister also investigate the Communist decisions made at the World Federation of Churches, again as alleged by this great peace loving champion of democracy from Boothby? [More…]
As a result of such investigations, will the Prime Minister inform the Senate as to which is the greatest danger to Australia’s way of life - the Communist Party, the Methodist Church or the World Federation of Churches? [More…]
However, 1 do not think that the rank and file members of the organisations that go to make up the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council should be left out of this decision. [More…]
Federation of Women’s Basketball and Netball Associations and that this condition of entry to South Africa, while not being specific, was well known to all members of the Federation. [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with the ACTU policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance wilh the ACTU policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the Average Weekly Male Earnings for all States, as ascertained by the Commonwealth Statistician, plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with Australian Council of Trade Unions policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation, and by doing so give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
Because of the excessive amount of wear and tear to our footwear caused by our occupation, we, the undersigned bread carters, being members of the Bread Carters Industrial Federation of Aus: tralia, petition and request the Commonwealth. [More…]
understand that a number of farmers’ organisations in Australia, including the Tasmanian Farmers Federation, have submitted lamb marketing proposals to the Australian Meat Board. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry any knowledge of a lamb marketing scheme, prepared by the Tasmanian Farmers Federation, aimed at obviating the existing position which compels Australian farmers to market lambs on the local market at or less than the cost of production? [More…]
The Government is committed in this Federation not to a policy of asserting Commonwealth power in concurrent areas to the complete exclusion of the States but to a policy of consulting the States. [More…]
On Friday I am to meet the North Shore Aero Club, the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs, the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales, the Association of Commercial Flying Organisations, the General Aviation Distributors Association, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. [More…]
Now that the union is part of the Waterside Workers’ Federation it is incumbent upon the Parliament to give effect to the change. [More…]
The Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia will take over the waterfront section from the North Australian Workers’ Union which section includes all registered waterside workers in the port of Darwin, numbering some 200. [More…]
Part of the union previously concerned becomes embraced within another union and another part becomes embraced with the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia. [More…]
No credit union has applied for approval or been approved to dale, but only yesterday the executive of the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues had a conference with the Department discussing conditions which will take their ordinary form of development. [More…]
How many oil tankers operated around the Australian coast during the past 12 months, and how many of them were owned by members of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation? [More…]
Which oil companies used oil tankers which were not owned by members of the Federation? [More…]
In referring to the metal trades federation I should have said $3m. [More…]
How many Judges have been appointed by the Commonwealth since Federation, and is it a fact that no woman has ever been appointed. [More…]
Eighty-four persons have been appointed by the Commonwealth since Federation as Judges of Federal and Territory courts, excluding persons appointed to act as judges. [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral forthrightly assure the Senate and the people of Australia that he will not make a decision leading to the waiver of fines imposed for such serious charges when the ground alleged is simply that the persons involved are members of the Builders Labourers Federation and that their case is being taken up by a trades and labour council on the assumption that a union supported government should favourably consider any such application? [More…]
I assure the Senate that the principle of stabilisation has not been rejected, lt could well be - 1 hope it will be - that following the further discussions I am having with the Wheatgrowers Federation on Monday night negotiations will commence which will lead to a stabilisation scheme which will be more in the long term interests of wheat growers than the present scheme has been. [More…]
This paper has been provided to the Australian Woolgrowers’ and Graziers’ Council, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation, the Australian Wool Industry Conference and the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders and these organisations have been invited to comment on the paper. [More…]
However, there are no flammability standards laid down for Australian carpets, although the Carpet Manufacturers’ Federation is currently working on a draft safety code in conjunction with the Standards Association of Australia. [More…]
I suggest that he, as a farmer, might consult the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and ask it whether I am likely to use blackmail on that organisation or this industry. [More…]
Tonight I am meeting the executive of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation to receive from it specific proposals on what it considers the new stabilisation scheme should be. [More…]
I wonder whether the Minister representing the Minister for Civil Aviation can reassure the Senate in the face of mounting discontent by the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations at the inability of nations to formulate a uniform code against hijacking. [More…]
Australian produced brandy has, together with all other Australian produced potable spirits been subject to excise duty since Federation. [More…]
I understand there have been representations from the Australian Farmers Federation, amongst others, about this matter. [More…]
A statement of the principal substantive issues raised by those who have supported opposing views on the matter was prepared by my Department after consultation with representatives of the Australian Wool Industry Conference, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers’ Council, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation and the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
The imposition by the Government of the highest and most onerous interest rates since Federation. [More…]
It is proposed now in this Bill that, for the first time since Federation, the Parliament should establish an amount for the salary of the Governor-General other than that provided in the Constitution. [More…]
To allay the concern of social security recipients as to their future when in 1975 the means test has been abolished and replaced by a National Superannuation Act that there be an assurance by the Australian Government that the said Act will provide a guaranteed minimum income to social security recipients based on the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation and that of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, namely, the payment of 30 per cent of average weekly earnings adjusted from time to time in accordance with figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician and published quarterly. [More…]
But we also suspect that the longer we sit the more Bills we will receive and if we are not careful we will be sitting on Saturdays until Christmas because every Minister in the House of Representatives will decide that his 10 Bills are the most important measures since Federation. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
that Pensioners transport be made free within the Federation where the Government has constitutional powers, to make all Government and Private transport free within the Federation to Pensioners and all other underpriviledged members of the community. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Media whether he has recently received a request from a coalition of groups based in Melbourne named the Community Radio Federation for an early decision on its application for a metropolitan AM broadcasting licence? [More…]
Can the Minister say whether this Federation can expect to gain a licence and, if so, when? [More…]
Nevertheless, I have indicated to the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation that I will place the matter before the Government again next year when there is a re-negotiation of the domestic wheat price. [More…]
Has the Minister for Agriculture received a recommendation from the Australian Wheat Growers Federation that wheat quotas should be suspended and, additionally, that the level of the first advance on wheat deliveries for the current season should be raised by 60c to $1.80 a bushel? [More…]
Can the Minis.terr indicate when he will be able to give a decision on the Federation’s request? [More…]
It is prompted by statements of disenchantment with the Labor Government which were made by union leaders at the weekend, specifically by the Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, Mr Fitzgibbon, who said that industrial relations in Australia were in a mess, and by the National Secretary of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia, Mr Peterson, who urged the Government to get off its backside and do something to alleviate the hardship that its policies are causing Australian workers. [More…]
Were they discussed with the leaders of the Australian Farmers Federation to obtain their views? [More…]
I have been given to understand that officers of the Attorney-General’s Department shortly will be meeting with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
Printing and Allied Trades Employers Federation that the Federal Government’s failure to pay its bills has caused printers to lay off staff. [More…]
-The Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasting Stations wrote to the Australian Broadcasting Commission about certain recordings that radio station 2JJ was using in its programming and provided me with a copy of the letter that it had sent to the ABC. [More…]
However, I think it is quite fair to say that the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasting Stations did not seek my intervention in the matter but merely sent me a copy of its letter for my information. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Media whether it is true that the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasting Stations has complained about material which the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s new young style outlet, radio station 2JJ, has used in its programs. [More…]
The Commission was advised by me that the claims for salary increases by the Federation of Air Pilots should be determined by arbitration before the Flight Crew Officers Tribunal. [More…]
Following this arbitration which resulted in a lower rate of increase than that agreed by Ansett Transport Industries and the Federation of Air Pilots, the Commission was informed that it should exercise its own managerial judgment and decide what changes in salaries and conditions it should agree with the Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is it a fact that the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, conferred with the New South Wales Teachers Federation recently on the action of the New South Wales Government in compounding teacher redundancy in that State by seeking to usurp the role of the Australian Government by engaging in migration excursions overseas for teachers, a function which should be solely that of the Australian Government? [More…]
The Bill is complementary to the Pigmeat Promotion Bill 1975 and makes provision for the increase in slaughter levy requested by the industry through the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
I think the Minister will have no difficulty with New South Wales where the Teachers Federation is virtually all-embracing. [More…]
The fact that you come from one of the less populous but nonetheless important States is significant for the future of the Federation. [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…]
Were the criticisms made, in the Age on 12 March 1976, by Captain Joe Salfass, a member of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots Technical Council, that existing air cargo regulations in Australia are inadequate and that hundreds if not thousands of violations go undetected each year. [More…]
I wish to raise tonight an issue which is of great concern to New South Wales members and officials of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation. [More…]
Earlier tonight I received a telegram from Mr Joe Thompson, secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, who informed me that the Borg- Warner (Australia) Ltd automatic transmission plant at Albury is under threat to possible closure. [More…]
Is the Commonwealth Teachers Federation in the Northern Territory concerned at the lack of suitable housing for its members in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Has the Federation requested that a survey be carried out to ascertain accurately teachers’ housing requirements. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister seen reports of a statement by the Director of the Australian Wool Selling Brokers’ Federation, Mr B. D. Purvis, that the current dispute between storemen and packers and wool selling brokers has tied up $30m worth of Australian wool clip ready for export. [More…]
I know of no reason why the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers’ Federation of Australia and the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia could not comply with the procedures for amalgamation set out in the Act provided those organisations and their memberships desire it. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation elects these people in its ballot situation, which is exactly the same sort of ballot situation as this legislation is designed to arrive at with all unions. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation is a classic example of that situation. [More…]
I have received no advice from the Federation on this matter. [More…]
I am not referring to the United Furniture Trades Union or to the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of criticism by the Australian Teachers’ Federation of the ‘rolling triennium’ concept for Commission funding [More…]
Did the Federation state on 9 November 1976 that The term ‘rolling triennium’ to be revised each year is a form of deception which in fact has no meaning other than that education will be funded on an annual basis . [More…]
The answer to the third question is that the National Country Party in this Senate and in the Parliament of the Commonwealth has never been stronger in the history of Federation. [More…]
However, I did not appreciate the particulars involved and have not been able to obtain any advice in regard to the discussions for amalgamation which have taken place, I gather, between the Health and Research Employees Union and the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, No. [More…]
1 ) I am aware that a New Zealand group comprising parliamentarians from both sides of the House and representatives of the Federation of Labour and the Manufacturers’ Federation visited the South Pacific in August last year. [More…]
I am saying that here was a clear indication- whether it is maintained in all respects and by other people is another matterthat there are rank and file members of the Builders Labourers Federation who are heartily sick of this campaign of guerrilla tactics which has been going on for so long. [More…]
Following on the result of the ballot, the secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Mr Norm Gallagher, said that a union organiser would be on the site from 7.30 a.m. on Tuesday to ensure that no work was done. [More…]
Has the Australian Federation of Air Pilots asked the Federal Government to approve the construction of at least one new runway at Brisbane Airport as a matter of urgency; if so, has the Government agreed to the request. [More…]
I am not aware of any recent direct approach to the Government by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots for the provision of a new runway at Brisbane as a matter of urgency. [More…]
However there have been discussions on a number of occasions between the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and the Department of Transport on the future development of the airport. [More…]
Senator Colston can be assured that in the current review by the Government on the strategy for the future development of Brisbane Airport the views of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots are being taken into account. [More…]
Has the Minister seen in the 12 October edition of Education, the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, an illustration of Idi Amin with the caption: ‘Idi Amin couldn’t make an atom bomb with our uranium if we left it in the ground ‘? [More…]
Will he confirm the admission made last night by Senator Chaney that the contents of his question yesterday relating to Waterside Workers Federation membership eligibility were grossly inaccurate? [More…]
-Can the AttorneyGeneral give the Senate any further information about the matter concerning the Waterside Workers Federation which I raised in Question Time yesterday? [More…]
Is he also aware of concern expressed by the South Australian branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation in relation to the funding of these degree nursing programs? [More…]
Is it a fact that such a version has been produced in the Postal and Telecommunications Department and has been made available to industry bodies such as the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters? [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister responded to the call by the Australian Teachers’ Federation for a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, the Treasurer. [More…]
The NAFTA Schedule B arrangement on furniture was agreed between the Australian Council of Furniture Manufacturers and the New Zealand Furniture Manufacturers Federation and approved by the two Governments. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations say how many builders labourers voted in the recent election for the position of Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation? [More…]
When we came to office the Teachers Federation and the parents’ bodies asked: ‘Will you give us a guarantee that you will keep up the progress of schools so that they will reach the Schools Commission target?’ [More…]
The increases in the maximum rates of levy have been requested of the Government by pig producers through the Australian Commercial Pig Producers ‘ Federation. [More…]
Did the Commonwealth Banking Corporation, or any other body for which the Treasurer is responsible, make any financial contribution towards the costs of the 1976 Olympic Games, either by grant to the Australian Olympic Federation, or any other forms of sponsorship; if so, what were the amounts involved. [More…]
I refer to the series of rolling strikes initiated today by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government gave $250,000 to the Australian Olympic Federation to assist with the costs of sending Australia ‘s team to the 1 976 Olympic Games. [More…]
Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations [More…]
Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware of the unique provisions of the Malaysian Constitution for the rotation of this office among the nine rulers of the States within the Federation of Malaysia. [More…]
), the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and the Royal Aero Clubs of Australia dealing with the effects of price increases on the aviation industry. [More…]
These were meetings arranged by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations to which the Tribunal was invited to be represented. [More…]
Were any undertakings given by any of the Tribunal members to any ofthe licensees or to the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations; if so, what are the details. [More…]
I have met the Honourable Assistant Secretary of the Australian Federation of Aquarium Fish Importers and Traders and I have made arrangements to meet a representative group of the aquarium fish industry. [More…]
The Minister has no information as to whether the Vehicle Builders’ Employees Federation was consulted over this matter. [More…]
The first volume of the Australian publication, which will cover the period from Federation to the outbreak of World War I (1901-1914), is in an advanced stage of preparation. [More…]
It being over three months since the Minister for Primary Industry received a submission from the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation on the proposed restructuring of Asia Dairy Industries Ltd, is the Minister in a position to say what, if any, parts of the ADFF submission have been accepted and when some announcement on the matter will be made? [More…]
Has the General Secretary of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations made statements concerning the alarming situation which has developed whereby many of Australia’s brightest graduate students are unable to gain sufficient funds for research work and are forced to find posts overseas; if so, what action is proposed to increase research expenditure in Australia. [More…]
Has the Australian Federation of Airline Pilots expressed serious concern about the lack of essential safety services at certain major non-metropolitan airports. [More…]
J have made inquiries into this matter and I find that in the twenty-six parliaments that have been held since federation there have been periods of recess of from 4 to 7 months on no fewer than thirteen occasions and on one occasion the recess was no less than 11 months. [More…]
In fact if Senator Maunsell, who talked about trade union bosses and complained about the nonacceptance of the umpire’s decision, will read what Mr Fowler of the Metal Trades Employers Federation said on the equal pay case he will see that this is a classical illustration. [More…]
Nobody knows what will happen in the next decade, but at least we know that there is a better chance in having the existing atomic powers joined in even some loose federation than by drifting out into the unknown while fearing that at any time China might achieve nuclear parity. [More…]
I do know that down through history since Federation and, indeed, more currently during the last 2 or 3 years when significant things have been happening at sea in Australian waters quite a lot of discussion has taken place between the Commonwealth and the States, notably in relation to Queensland, concerning marine life, the problem of fisheries around the coast and the search for oil. [More…]
Since federation the country has generated and strengthened its economy and has demonstrated, through the ability of the people who represent this country, that we must make our views known for the good of other areas of the world. [More…]
In the Australian Federation about 60% of outlay by the State-Local sector is now financed from funds which are provided directly by the Commonwealth or over which the Commonwealth exercises a decisive influence. [More…]
In consultation with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Federation of Commercial Television Stations it has been agreed that the events to be telecast direct to Western Australia should be the Queen’s arrival in Sydney and the Anzac Day ceremonies in Canberra. [More…]
ls there any conflict between that statement and the statement of Sir Henry Bolte in 1967, when the off-shore oil agreement was signed, that the Stales had had their greatest victory over the Commonwealth since federation? [More…]
But mindful of the fact that we have had federation for nearly 70 years and that the situation has not been resolved up to this point, that until now the States have largely accepted the idea that the off-shore areas were within their responsibility, we believe that there is a better way than a deliberate challenge through legislative action by the Commonwealth. [More…]
An examination of the history of Australia reveals that there would never have been federation had it not been agreed to by the States. [More…]
Since federation no Aboriginal child in the Northern Territory has completed high school. [More…]
In view of the Government’s enthusiasm for the imposition of court controlled ballots and penal provisions upon industrial unions of workers, will it consider having a court controlled ballot within the Australian Medical Association and, in the event of the Association refusing to carry out any decisions that may be made by the Government regarding a national health scheme, will the Government consider the imposition of penal provisions upon the Australian Medical Association similar to those imposed upon the Waterside Workers Federation and other industrial organisations? [More…]
Commonwealth public servants have not had a decent increase in their basic conditions since the days of federation. [More…]
Why does the Government reject a relationship which existed at federation? [More…]
One rather feels, with the International Civil Aviation Organisation and the international pilots federation, that this is becoming a matter of the greatest concern to operating air crew. [More…]
I think one might make the general observation that this is a federation and that the Commonwealth can do and does do certain things. [More…]
In fact the Government went to the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation - the grass roots of the industry. [More…]
Without any arm twisting, the Federation made recommendations to the Federal Government for the introduction of voluntary quotas. [More…]
The proposals for the introduction of quotas came from the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
I reply to Senator McClelland along these lines: The first wheat, industry stabilisation plan was negotiated by the Australian Wheat Federation, which represented the industry, with the Government of the day on the understanding that when agreement was reached on this first plan, it should be submitted to a referendum of growers. [More…]
The Government has taken action through the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation to try to dampen down plantings of wheat. [More…]
Is it a fact that commercial radio stations say that they will not make cash payments and that the President of the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters has said that no agreement now seems possible between the stations and the record companies? [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report published by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations which states, amongst other things, that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board is seeking to impose self censorship on the evening news programmes of commercial television stations and that commercial television stations have raised strong objections thereto? [More…]
and Queensland, the supplementary quota for Prime Hard wheats for 1970-71 has been increased by agreement between the Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation, the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
In view of a recent incident involving the Queensland Branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia and Brisbane radio station 4BH, in which the station manager refused to produce a tape, on request, of comments made by Open Line’ compere G. O’Dwyer. [More…]
This week the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations said that colour television should not be introduced in Australia until 1974 or 1975 in order to ensure that viewers get the best possible picture at a reasonable cost. [More…]
The General Manager of the Federation said that the Federation advised Mr Hulme early in 1969 that station managements considered the 18 months notice of introduction of colour television, which Mr Hulme had earlier promised, was not sufficient to train staff and secure equipment to ensure standards of operation measuring up to the needs of the Australian viewer. [More…]
That is the opinion of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
Whoever is right - be it the Federation, whose view I have put, be it Senator McManus or be it the manufacturers of sets - I think it is up to the Australian Government to announce immediately a firm date so that everyone will know what is ahead and so that everyone connected with the industry can make effective plans. [More…]
For May Day we will be meeting to change into our clothes at the office of the Builders Labourers Federation, 535 George Street, Sydney. [More…]
If they do agree it is notorious that since federation the representatives of the States report back to their own parliaments and their own parliaments then do not agree, lt would be a super-optimist who would believe that such a body composed of representatives of the Commonwealth and the States could give national leadership. [More…]
I am stating something that has been proved since federation. [More…]
Even the New South Wales Teachers Federation does not stand for that. [More…]
The Wool Industry Conference, contrary to what he said, is made up of 25 representatives from the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and 25 representatives from the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council. [More…]
Twelve months ago, or even before that, this organisation had to take this decision to the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and when the Minister announced that there would be a partial relaxation of this embargo he said that it would be reviewed annually. [More…]
I believe that the wool section of the Farmers Union is now making its decision to be taken to the conference of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and eventually to the Australian Wool Industry Conference.I believe that it will say: ‘We the representatives of the Farmers Union do not want to continue the partial relaxation of this ban.’ [More…]
Through the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
I wonder whether customs officials, members of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia or the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, or anyone else could tell the difference. [More…]
According to the Act, the AWIC has 25 members appointed by the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and 25 members appointed by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
When members of the Opposition denigrate the Australian Wool Industry Conference they denigrate the members of the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
This afternoon Senator Wilkinson said that members of the Farmers Union of Western Australia are not members of the Australian Wool Industry Conference because members of the Conference are appointed by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
They then go to the Federal Conference of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and there they are automatically made members of the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
If any of those West Australians are not accepted by their fellow members of the Farmers Union, those members have the right, every year at the annual meeting, to elect somebody else for appointment to the Australian Wool Industry Conference by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
If he is good enough and is accepted by the delegates for the whole of the State at the State Conference, he is appointed as a member of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
As a representative of his State, he goes to the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation where, because he has been elected by his State, he almost automatically becomes a member of the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
I represent the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation.’ [More…]
First there are the members of an organisation - whether it is the Graziers Association or the Wool and Meat Producers Federation it does not matter. [More…]
The Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues has recently renewed its request that savings with credit unions be acceptable for purposes ot the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
I think the amendment throws up one of the problems experienced in our federation when, by executive act, agreements are made by commissioners appointed under Acts of the various Parliaments. [More…]
But it does raise one of the problems which we have in our federation and what has been said in this debate highlights it. [More…]
-] would hope that the Government would accept the views of the Australian Wool Industry Conference as those of the whole of the industry because the Conference consists of 23 delegates from the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and 25 delegates from the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council - the 2 major Federal bodies in the wool industry. [More…]
Does she know that the Australian Teachers Federation approached the Postmaster-General in October last year asking that an Australian stamp be printed to mark the occasion of this assembly and that that request was refused on the ground that the programme for 1970 was overloaded? [More…]
I believe I would be justified in making the general comment that in the Australian Federation when one State feels that, because of a particular position or situation, it is disadvantaged as against the rest of the Australian community - its living standards are not as good and it does not have the resources to maintain an equality of opportunity - the body that exists for handling the problem is the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]
In the clamour that goes on from time to time about CommonwealthState relations I think it is well to remember that this is a Federation. [More…]
Many, many years ago the Waterside Workers Federation prepared very substantial cases for presentation to shipping companies, shippers and the Commonwealth Government and for many, many years these submissions fell on deaf ears. [More…]
I wonder what would have happened if the South Coast ironworkers or the South Coast branch of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia had put similar pressure on station 2WL? [More…]
My question was asked at the request of the Brisbane Branch of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
It is subject to the day to day, month to month or year to year pressures of the components of the Federation. [More…]
In the context in which we find ourselves in Australia at the present time, we are involved in the difficulties of trying to manage a federation, the most difficult of all forms of government. [More…]
The problem in Australia is I of managing a federation. [More…]
The development of economic understanding since Federation has made the factor* determining the level of employment and affecting the value of the currency sufficiently clear for governments to plan effective action to maintain a high level of employment. [More…]
To me there is no doubt, as has been demonstrated by the comments that have been made, that ever since we have had a federation and a Federal Parliament we have had a clear understanding in terms of practice of what standing order 64 means. [More…]
We have reached the stage when the motto of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots could be taken from that well known entertainer, Liberace: They cried all the way lo the bank. [More…]
In August 1969 Qantas received a log of claims from the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
Concurrently with the negotiations between Qantas and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots negotiations were proceeding between Ansett Transport Industries Limited and Trans-Australia Airlines, the domestic operators and the AFAP on a new contract covering salaries and conditions of service for pilots in the domestic field. [More…]
As a result the Federation of Air Pilots obtained from the domestic airlines settlement of a .19% increase in the first year, followed by increases of 3% in each of the 2 succeeding years. [More…]
The first thing 1 want to say about this is that the setting up of the Flight Crew Officers Tribunal was a recourse by the Government to settle the disputations which had occurred prior to 1967 between the Australian Federation of Airline Pilots and the Government. [More…]
The Federation of Airline Pilots claims that although many of its members are working minimal hours Qantas intends to employ a number of British pilots to fly aircraft which will be chartered to perform a job which Qantas has to do for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation has recommended and the Commonwealth and State Governments have agreed that wheat delivery quotas for the 1970-71 season should be set at 318 million bushels, lt is expected that the quota arrangements will be reviewed again early in 1971 and the Wheat Board’s export selling performance and the level of unsold stocks will be taken into account in any such review. [More…]
Is she also aware that the Australian Teachers’ Federation approached thePostmasterGeneral in October last year asking that an Australian stamp be printed to mark the occasion of this assembly and that that request was refused on the ground that the programme for 1970 was overloaded. [More…]
The Postmaster-General had already given his approval for 2 conference stamps for 1970 prior tothe first representations bythe Australian teachers’ Federation. [More…]
Party, have fought to create since federation - an orderly method of fixing wages and salaries. [More…]
But we are also conscious o[ the fact that this scheme must be accepted as being a major departure from a process of business that has been in existence in the Senate, with little or no alteration, almost since federation. [More…]
The main membership changes effected in the Advisory Committee on Vehicle Performance involved the reduction of State representation from two to one member each and the inclusion of an additional member nominated by the Australian Road Transport Federation. [More…]
Turning to the price provisions of the Bill, the change proposed is as a result of a further recommendation by the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
In September 1969 the Federation asked that the price provisions of the complementary legislation be altered to give the Wheat Board discretionary authority to sell wheat for stockfeed and industrial uses at a price below the going home consumption price of $1.71 per bushel for f.a.q. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate had drawn to his attention the report in the Australian National University magazine ‘Woroni’ that the Federation of University Liberal Clubs at its annual council meeting held in Melbourne last week passed a motion urging the Australian Government to withdraw its troops from Vietnam immediately? [More…]
national organisation, as disclosed in the letter forwarded to me from the South Australian Branch of the organisation, which is actively interested in this question, lt is followed up by correspondence from the Federation of Parents and Citizens Association of New South Wales, which also expresses the same concern. [More…]
Here in the establishment of a parliamentary process unique in this country after 70 years of Federation, Senator Murphy’s motion proposes that, without any experience at all, without any testing of the ground, wc immediately establish 7 committees which must be available for the references that may be made to them at any time: and if that is so then the committees must be standing by adequately stalled and with all Ihe administrative and office appointments that are required for the proper and immediate operation of such committees. [More…]
In 1967, an agreement was reached by a national conference, consisting of representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority and the Department of Labour and National Service on a scheme for permanent employment in the stevedoring industry. [More…]
However, a recent agreement on wages and conditions between the employers and the Federation to which the ACTU was a party includes a no-strike clause on these issues for a period of 2 years. [More…]
The employers and the Federation must realise that the future structure of the industry depends very much on their performance over the next 2 years. [More…]
This measure has been approved by leaders of the dairying industry, including the Australian Dairy Industry Council, the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation and the Federal Dairy Committee. [More…]
The dissatisfaction which exists amongst the States as a result of the treatment meted out to them by the Commonwealth probably is as old as federation. [More…]
In or about 1931 or 1932 the then Treasurer of Tasmania, the late Mr E. Dwyer-Gray, prepared a case setting out the disabilities under which Tasmania laboured under federation. [More…]
A. Lyons was Premier of Tasmania that Stale was always in trouble as a result, of its disabilities under federation, and its representatives always were approaching the Commonwealth to try to find a way by which its position could be alleviated. [More…]
This seems to me to bc vital to the future continuance of the federation as it exists today. [More…]
Senator Lillico said that this has gone on since the turn of the century or since federation. [More…]
One of the views of the union which is largely concerned wilh the innovation is that the Government should at some stage consider whether instead of having only a full time director it could appoint a directorship consisting of representatives from the Waterside Workers Federation and the waterfront employers. [More…]
They were the representatives of the Government, Mr Woodward, and representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Waterside Workers Federation and the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
He is a man who has never missed an opportunity to berate the tradeunion movement and its elected officers; a man who, on the discussion of the Stevedoring Industry Bill in 1965, said that he wanted to destroy ‘this wretched Federation’, referring to the Waterside [More…]
Workers Federation. [More…]
Suppose the Australian Builders Labourers’ Federation says: ‘We are after a SIO across the board increase.’ [More…]
Would not any law which operated to the serious disadvantage of any one State of the Federation, so as to adversely affect trade between that and any other State be in conflict with the spirit and intentions of section 92 of the Constitution? [More…]
This may have been good in the early days of federation, but now the tempo of political life and our way of living is such that we do not need to do it. [More…]
2 between representatives of the New South Wales Teachers Federation the New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, the New South Wales Federation of Pre-school Clubs and members of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Education Committee? [More…]
Are you also aware that when the delegates arrived at the entrance to King’s Hall they were refused admission despite their explanation to the attendant of the reason for their presence in Parliament House, and that subsequently the General Secretary of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, at the instance of one of the attendants, completed a form explaining the reason for the presence of these citizens at Parliament House? [More…]
Is it true that after the form was completed and handed to the attendant, despite the fact that the people seeking admission were waiting downstairs nothing happened for a further half hour until the General Secretary of the Teachers Federation saw a member of the House of Representatives who was known to him, who made some inquiries and was able to obtain the admission of these citizens to Parliament House? [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
My mind goes back several years to a time when the then Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, Charlie Fitzgibbons, pointed out at an industrial seminar the pros and cons of containerisation. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that subjects that have been openly discussed in the Senate since Federation will be discussed in a small room in this building. [More…]
Our delegation at the June extraordinary assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation included representatives of the Department of Civil Aviation, Qantas Airways Ltd and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
Subsequently, on 8th July, my representatives and representatives of the Acting Minister for Labour and National Service and of the Canberra Community Hospital Management Board met with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Federal Secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]
Let us consider the state of our federation. [More…]
It is unfortunate that after 70 years of federation there have been some 25 efforts to amend the Constitution and only 5 have been successful. [More…]
I would like to bring quite a number of other points before the Senate to show that Tasmania, being an equal State in this federation, has a just claim to its share of the so-called affluence which has been bragged about by the Government. [More…]
I have here a copy of the United States ‘Conservation News’ which is a National Wildlife Federation publication which contains an article about a compound called Polycomplex A-ll. [More…]
The President of the Commonwealth Pensioners Federation, Mrs Irene Ellis, said: [More…]
I was placed up amongst the scheming Parliament House and Liberal federation on North Terrace. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is on record as the only Party since Federation to reduce the amount of the pensions. [More…]
For details of the scheme and a complete list of participating tanker owners, I would refer the honourable senator to the publications issued by the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Ltd which, I understand, are available in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
In the knowledge that it has received a considerable volume of evidence relating to the legal, constitutional and practical problems raised by the issue of where legislative authority lies in the Australian federation in respect of the off-shore waters and sea-bed adjacent to Australia, the Committee considers that a report on its first term of reference would assist parliamentary and public appreciation of that issue. [More…]
The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Ltd, the organisation which administers TOVALOP, publishes lists of participating owners and the tankers which they own or bareboat charter. [More…]
At the time df federation the Post Office was taken over holus-bolus. [More…]
I pursued my inquiries and the result was that L made general complaints to the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service and to the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry, f might point out that I had been approached by Mr O’Neill, the industrial officer of the New South Wales branch of the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees Federation of Australia who said that his union was having difficulty in getting a conference with Mr Bondy. [More…]
The next one is from the Australian Public Service Federation. [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners’ Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Pensioners Federation and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
As South Africa will be entering an all white women’s team in the Federation Cup tennis series to be held in Perth in December, despite the fact that South Africa has been expelled from the International Lawn Tennis Federation, will the Government take advantage of the occasion to inform the South African Government that in future the refusal of permission to any Australian of non-European origin to enter South Africa would be resented by the people of this country? [More…]
In order to stop this commercial exploitation of young Australians, will the Minister ask the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to confer with the Australian Boxing Federation for the purpose of laying down specific rules to protect these young men when they appear in bouts on television? [More…]
As far as radio is concerned, the Postmaster-General told the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters only this week that several commercial radio stations had fallen short of their statutory requirement - J emphasise that it is a statutory requirement; - to broadcast a mere 5 per cent of Australian composed music in their broadcasting total. [More…]
He went on to tell the Federation that this was a legal requirement and that neither he nor the Board had any discretion in the matter. [More…]
This matter is far too important to leave to the commercial licensees, as has been suggested in the submission circulated to members of this Parliament by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
Against those who have been and are campaigning for the right to work in their own country and the preservation of Australian characterisitics including the portrayal, especially to our younger generation, of our tradition and heritage, the Federation has used insulting and intemperate phrases. [More…]
The Federation has used such phrases as ‘the television content lobby’, the organised seekers’, and so on. [More…]
On behalf of the very loyal and decent Australians who certainly have the interests of this nation at heart, I lodge a very strong objection to the innuendo cast against them by the Federation. [More…]
Despite all the surveys that have been made by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, as published in” ils annual reports year after year, and despite a recent well documented survey by the Board clearly showing that Australian viewers are now ready for high quality Australian programmes - and I emphasise the word ‘quality’ - according to the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, only the commercial stations should decide what the Australian people are to have, or indeed, what the Australian people want. [More…]
The Federation slates in paragraph 214 of its submission: [More…]
Time does not permit mc lo deal in complete detail with the submission of the Federation. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable senators 1 incorporate in Hansard paragraphs 132 and 133 of the Federation’s submission. [More…]
1 believe that many holes could be shot through the submission of the Federation. [More…]
The Federation advises that colour television is almost upon us. [More…]
Is it a fact, as claimed by high officials of the Australian Soccer Federation, that the Australian Broadcasting Commission could have saved SO per cent on television rights if Australia had worked in partnership with Japan and other Asian nations in the procurement of these television rights. [More…]
Insofar as the special agreement to which Senator Bishop referred, as proposed by the Waterside Workers Federation and the Australian National Line, conflicts with those principles, there is objection. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he has seen the article in this morning ‘Australian’ in which the Victorian Employers Federation refers to what it describes as the plight of the rural sector? [More…]
The Federation states that the number of people receiving unemployment benefits in the non-metropolitan areas is now almost twice as high in the country as in the city and rhat the rural economy is in an extremely grave situation, far worse than can be gleaned from statistics alone. [More…]
I believe that it will serve to help make Australia one country, as was hoped at the time of federation. [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners Federation, and by doing so give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
At the request of Interlaine and the British Wool Federation, the principals of the owners of Australian wool at shipment from Australia, negotiations were entered into with the Conference in Paris following the talks between AESA and OSRA in Australia. [More…]
Representatives of Interlaine and the British Wool Federation in Europe at a meeting with Conference during the last week in August, agreed to instruct the Australian woolbuyers to sign contracts for shipment on the basis of the 4 per cent increase in freights for wool. [More…]
The two federal wool grower organisations - the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation - resolves to press for such a body, as did the national body of the wool growers, the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
Then it discovered an alternative method of finance and, 1 suppose, in the operation of the federation, this is a practical way of solving the problem. [More…]
We have been informed by Senator Drake-Brockman, who in this place represents the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony), that the proposal for such a body was supported by mass meetings of wool growers throughout Australia, and that the 2 federal wool grower organisations - the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation - resolved to press for such a body, as did the national body of the wool growers, the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
But in addition to this, the Australian Wool Board, in conjunction with the two major Federal wool growing bodies - the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council - finally put a report through to the overall parliament of the Australian wool industry, that is the Australian Wool Industry Conference, which presented its recommendation to the Federal Government on 7th July 1970. [More…]
By the industry, of course, [ mean the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
The Minister appoints them from this Conference because the Conference is made up of the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
What will be the consequence of the reported cancelling of the special industrial agreement made between the Waterside Workers Federation and the Australian National Line? [More…]
The decision runs counter to the assumption, held and acted upon by both Commonwealth and State Governments since federation, that State laws are not affected by section 52(i.) [More…]
One had been president of the union and also president of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
The second matter that I seek clarification of is prompted by correspondence I have received from Mr Fitz-, gibbons, the Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
When, for reasons of inequality, such as those to which I have referred, we present cases for further slices, when credence is given to our situation and we then view our treatment calmly, coldly and fairly, I think we will all realise that there is a good future for our federation of States and for our nation. [More…]
The fact is that this year the Parliament has operated for a much greater number of hours than has the average Parliament since federation. [More…]
The proposals put forward by the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, which represents all pig producers, have been accepted by the Government. [More…]
The operating levy suggested by the Federation is 5 cents per pig slaughtered for human consumption, with a maximum payment of 10 cents. [More…]
New South Wales Teachers’ Federation Health Society, Sydney. [More…]
It wants a federation of States. [More…]
However, the fact of the matter is that ever since Federation Appropriation Bills have been introduced at budge! [More…]
They were the Australian Railways Union, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Storemen and Packers Union, the Transport Workers’ Unions the Federated Clerks Union, the Wool and Basil Workers’ Federation and the” Australian Federated Union of- Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
Recorded copy was submitted to (his station for Federation approval. [More…]
I am currently Queensland State Chairman of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters, and the staff executive to whom I have entrusted the job of approving recordings on behalf of the Federation brought the commercials to my attention. [More…]
was to affix the Federation Stamp to the recording, but in addition, I sent a note for the attention of Station Managers suggesting that they should carefully examine the disc because, although the commercials were recorded in accordance with Federation standards as to time and wordage. [More…]
I have in front of me the ‘Free Trade Union News’, a publication of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organisations. [More…]
I think it is sufficient to say that it refers to bad relations with the International Labor Organisation and the general opinion of the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions on this subject. [More…]
I understand from reports of meetings of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation that some members believe that there is considerable trafficking in wheat between Slates. [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation, and by doing so give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation wrote to the Prime Minister and all Ministers of the Government on 25th January 1971 requesting a measure of price control and an interim pension increase of $5 weekly as from today’s date. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament if the case submitted by the Australian Common wealth Pensioners’ Federation was ever considered by the Ministry or the Minister’s advisers. [More…]
and (2) I have no knowledge of the extent of the Federation’s correspondence. [More…]
The Prime Minister has informed me that he replied to the Federation on 15th February 1971; the representations have also received my personal attention. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with prominent people in New South Wales such as Mrs Backhouse, president of the New South Wales federation of parents and citizens organisations; Mrs Miller, a former vicepresident of the organisation, who is active in the central western suburbs of Sydney, and Father Collins of the Catholic education organisation in Sydney. [More…]
I have spoken to officials of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation which has a big intake of migrant labour. [More…]
I believe that people who have a bilingual capacity and know the fundamentals of English but who do not necessarily have the imprimatur of the local teachers federation have been used in the State of New York. [More…]
So, if Mr Fitzgibbon or any other officer of the Waterside Workers Federation cooperated in this matter, it would have been a co-operation springing from a recognition of the realities of the situation and the ultimate consequences that might have come to the waterside workers in the absence of such recognition. [More…]
The honourable senator may recall that one of the objectives of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation when it put forward its delivery quota proposals in 1969 was to avoid the curtailment of production of types of wheat which could be readily sold. [More…]
Is the Postmaster-General aware that the journal of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations called ‘Parent and Citizen’ satisfies the following criteria - [More…]
it is published by the Federation which is a registered charity in the State of New South Wales; [More…]
It is not considered that the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations meets this requirement. [More…]
It is not considered that the Federation is an educational organisation in the generally accepted sense of the term in that it does not have a substantial degree of systematic or formalised education in its activities. [More…]
If the Electrical Trades Union decided to ban its members from going to South Vietnam, it would be subject to all the vilification that has at times been applied to the Seamens’ Union of Australia or, for that matter, the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
Yesterday in answer to a question about quotas for hard wheats asked by Senator Sim I said that guidelines had been set by the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation in March 1969 and that they indicated that delivery quotas should not curtail the production of wheat which is readily saleable. [More…]
I am advised that the Federation recommended delivery quotas for each State in March 1969, in January 1970 and in January 1971, and that these recommendations subsequently were accepted by the State and Commonwealth governments. [More…]
In arriving at its quota proposals the Federation, on which grower organisations in each mainland State are represented, is understood to have taken into account all relevant factors including stocks and prospective outlets for various types and descriptions of wheat. [More…]
It can be expected that the Federation will follow what is now established practice and will meet early in 1972 and will draw up quota proposals for the following season in the light of circumstances encountered this year and future sales prospects as they then appear. [More…]
Will the Minister ask his departmental officers to confer with the Banana Growers’ Federation and the growers themselves to see if anything at all can be done to reduce the cost of dieldrin to the growers in viewofthe economic difficulties which this important primary industry has been undergoing in recent years. [More…]
I did this and the Government authorised me to have discussions with the Australian Federation of Travel Agents. [More…]
I am pleased to say that those discussions have taken place and that the Federation supports the proposal that regulatory legislation should be brought in on a Commonwealth basis so as to regulate the operations and the integrity of people who enter into travel agency businesses. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Primary Industry whether he is aware of a statement in today’s Press attributed to the Leader of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, Mr Price, in which he criticised the Australian Country Party, the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party in that order for their approach to the vital question of international trade as it relates to wheat sales to China and stated that they were guilty of national irresponsibility. [More…]
Although the Australian Labor Party has governed this country for less than 17 years since federation 70 years ago, it has pioneered the vast majority of social services and benefits received by Australians. [More…]
The days of internationalism, the days of the United Nations, the days of world federation of mankind are dawning. [More…]
In the light of this, can the Minister explain why the Director General of Civil Aviation is acting as mediator at today’s conference between the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and Qantas Airways Ltd in the current dispute over the retention of air crew? [More…]
I will deal with those in due course, but 1 think it is appropriate at this point in the debate to say that the concept upon which the land tenure system of the Australian Capital Territory was based, initiated and followed right up to 1st January this year was enunciated by the first Prime Minister of Australia 17 days after federation, which was 10 years before the Australian Capital Territory was established. [More…]
The article states that, in the course of his submission, Mr R. S. Prentice, the President of the Master Builders Federation, told Cabinet that the average cost of land had leapt by 182 per cent between 1951 and 1969, while the average cost of a house, despite increased sizes and improved specifications, had risen by 68 ?er cent. [More…]
I suggest that it is largely because of the system which has applied here since federation and the establishment of the city of Canberra that we have avoided these problems. [More…]
After all these are the things which must weigh upon one’s judgment: The leasehold system, a cherished system which was a concept in the early days of Federation and which ha* persisted up until now, was under challenge and in danger of dissolution and abandonment. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Minister informed Senator Wriedt yesterday that the Flight Crew Officers Industrial Tribunal -was set up to deal with disputes over pay and general conditions of work which I presume are covered by the terms ‘industrial matters’ and ‘industrial questions’ as denned in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, I ask the Minister the following questions: Does any aspect of the present dispute between Qantas Airways Ltd and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots cover any matter associated with the safety of aircraft operations? [More…]
I ask: Is it a fact, as reported in the Press, that the discussions to which the Minister has just referred between Qantas Airways Ltd, the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and, in some cases, the Minister himself are progressing satisfactorily? [More…]
This is a federation, a nation in which we have 6 States, some territories [More…]
I have talked with representatives of the Manufacturing Industries Advisory Council, the Conference of National Manufacturing Industries Associations, the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia, and the Australian Farmers’ Federation which included on this occasion a representative of the Australian Woolgrowers’ and Grazers’ Council. [More…]
The New South Wales Teachers Federation is on record as saying: . [More…]
The pig industry through its federal organisation, the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, approached the Government and requested the introduction of a research scheme for its industry. [More…]
The Federation is comprised of 6 [More…]
Through the membership of the pig producer and breeder bodies who form these councils, the Federation represents by far the great majority of farmers in this industry. [More…]
It now has a national voice, the Federation. [More…]
One of the first actions of the Federation was to seek this research scheme thereby bringing the pig industry into line with the advantages enjoyed by other live-, stock industries. [More…]
The research committee will be comprised of 6 representatives from the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, 2 from the Australian Agricultural Council and one each representing the Commonwealth Scientific and’ Industrial Research Organisation, universities and the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]
I am glad that members of the Miners Federation do not have to adopt today the attitude which was adopted by the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania over a century ago. [More…]
In view of the fact that the motion is 12 months old and in view of the fact that I have not received from the Building Trades Federation the replies on which I was relying to be critical of this code, at this stage I cannot take the matter much further. [More…]
-As I said, the voluntary code is an agreement which has been made by the major cigarette manufacturers, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations and the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters. [More…]
These vary from day to day but range across such matters as the state of the economy, the Commonwealth’s role in welfare, relations with the States - so important in a Federation - and external relations and defence. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that, since the earliest days of Federation, Assistant Ministers, Honorary Ministers or Ministers without Portfolio have been a recurring feature of ministerial arrangements. [More…]
I am assured that the Australian Wheat Board and the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation endorse the terms of the Wheat Trade Convention. [More…]
The Chairman and the General Manager of the Wheat Board and the President of the Wheatgrowers’ Federation attended the Geneva conference and participated fully in the negotitaions. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Civil Aviation whether any progress has been made in talks between Qantas Airways Ltd, the Air Pilots Federation and the Minister in connection with the pending retrenchment of air crew by Qantas, and also in respect qf the training of crews for the operation of jumbo jets. [More…]
I, like the honourable senator, have had the advantage of reading this morning’s newspaper in which there is said to be a statement around the place produced by a consultant to the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, said to be 8,000 words in length and said to be made available to parliamentarians. [More…]
Has the Minister seen reports of the forum organised by the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine on the subject of Australia and the Asian Student’, in which Dr Bill McCarthy, who is the world health authority consultant on medical education, described medical courses pursued by Asian students in Australia as ‘inappropriate, inefficient and wasteful both of Asian talent and Australian money’? [More…]
When the parties to the National Conference - the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Waterside Workers Federation, the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour and the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority - endorsed the report, the Government agreed to provide legislative authority to cover these and other matters. [More…]
In May 1970, under the Chairmanship of a Deputy President of the Commission, Mr Justice Moore, the employers, the ACTU and the Waterside Workers’ Federation reached agreement on a number of matters which were awarded by consent. [More…]
Not so long ago the members of the Waterside Workers Federation were regarded always as the bad boys of industry. [More…]
I personally have never subscribed to that view knowing of the work they have had to do, but I wonder now on reflection whether people were justified in saying the unkind things they said about the members of the Waterside Workers Federation in view of the fewer industrial disturbances that have taken place since the industry was organised on a permanent basis. [More…]
Quite rightly, he pointed out that the work force in the Waterside Workers Federation has been decreasing. [More…]
Membership of the Federation has been reduced by about 3,000. [More…]
I refer to the fact that the Waterside Workers Federation has been able to negotiate successfully, or by means of arbitration, and to hold its position in line with the Metal Trades Federation. [More…]
I believe it speaks volumes for the work of the officials of the Waterside Workers Federation that they have been able to adjust the wages of members of their union in line with those of a skilled industry. [More…]
The fact that I asked it would indicate to him and to others, if any indication were necessary, that I have an admiration for people who work within the Waterside Workers Federation and that I am keenly interested in the safety measures employed within the industry. [More…]
As part of that consent 2-year award both the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Waterside Workers Federation gave a written undertaking there would be no stoppages of work in respect of those matters which were the subject of that agreement. [More…]
Waterside Workers Federation gave an undertaking that it would progress all claims with the employers through established procedures and take all reasonable steps to ensure that work continued normally while these negotiations were in progress. [More…]
It is common knowledge that since then some members and branches of the Federation have embarked on stoppages ranging from 1 hour to a full day on issues covered by these undertakings. [More…]
Whilst the ACTU and the federal officers of the Federation have done their utmost to ensure that the undertakings which they gave in the proceedings before Mr Justice Moore were honoured, I want to make 2 points perfectly clear. [More…]
Secondly, the Government will be giving close attention to the performance of the Federation, its branches and its membership, recognising they are one of the principal parties to the agreement. [More…]
The paries to the National Conference Agreement can scarcely be expected to endorse a new agreement in 1972 without attempts being made by branches of the Federation and the members to prove their bona fides in respect of the unexpired term of the current agreement. [More…]
It is to be regretted that the Federation in some branches has also become the vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]
In many instances unilateral concessions by individual employers have led to industrial stoppages when the Federation has sought to extend the gains made. [More…]
On the credit side it is fair to say that the technological changes which have occurred in the stevedoring and shipping industries since 1967 have been achieved with the co-operation of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a statement reported in the press on 21 April 1971 and attributed to the leader of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation, Mr. Price, which criticises the Australian Country Party, the Liberal Party of Australia, and the Australian Labor Party in that order for their approach to the vital question of international trade as it relates to wheat sales to the Chinese People’s Republic and which states that these Parties are guilty of national irresponsibility. [More…]
I have seen several press versions of the statement made by the President of the Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation (Mr. L. V. Price) to which the Honourable Senator has referred. [More…]
Does any aspect of the present dispute between Qantas and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots cover any matter associated with the safety of aircraft operations: If not, and if the present dispute is only industrial matters such as general conditions of work only, why has the dispute not been referred to the Flight Crew Officers’ Industrial Tribunal which was specifically established for the purposes of mediating in such disputes. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Civil Aviation: Does the reported agreement on salaries between Qantas and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots mean that the 747s will fly on time? [More…]
Following many years of painful negotiation, there is today a recognised Federal organisation in this industry, namely, the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
I understand that its differences with the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation relate mainly to the constitution of that body. [More…]
The complaint which has been conveyed to me and which may have some basis is that at the present time the Federation apparently is controlled mainly by stud breeders of pigs. [More…]
So at that time he saw the Federation as being completely autonomous and controlled by commercial pig producers, with the stud side completely out of it immediately the Federation was operative. [More…]
The Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation has achieved recognition by the Federal Government and the Australian Agricultural Council. [More…]
I understand that the Victorian Minister of Agriculture felt that the Federation fairly represented the Australian pig industry. [More…]
Indeed, it would seem that the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation - the Commonwealth body - represents the majority of pig producers throughout Australia although there does appear to be a considerable number in Victoria and some in Queensland who are still associated with the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
Clause 9 of the Pig Industry Research Bill provides that the Committee shall consist of 6 persons representing the organisation known as the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, 2 persons representing the organisation known as the Australian Agricultural Council and various’ other persons who are nominated. [More…]
But as the Minister’s second reading speech indicates, the representatives of the Commercial Pig Producers Federation and of the Australian Agricultural Council will constitute a majority of those persons who will actually administer the functions of the Committee. [More…]
It could be said that the easy way out for the members of that body would be for them to forget their identity and join the Commercial Pig Producers Federation, thus gaining representation through that federal body which has the major representation on the Committee, but I wonder whether it is right for the Parliament to impose its will to that extent on people who belong to a voluntary organisation within the industry and to penalise that section of the industry by having it not represented on the Research Committee which will administer the industry. [More…]
However, in Victoria and, to a lesser degree, in Queensland some producers object to the Commercial Pig Producers Federation and its constitution. [More…]
This prevents complete harmony in the industry and because of that disharmony I think it would be a fairer consideration if some representation had been allowed for in this Bill - although it has not been sought - for those people who are not members of the Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
The proposal for a research scheme was put forward by the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
Those bodies are affiliated with the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Association. [More…]
Although the APPU and the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association came together as the Victorian Farmers Union and are affiliated with the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, that body is not affiliated with the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
In Tasmania we have the Tasmanian Farmers Federation and the Australian Pig Society. [More…]
Each of those councils is able to send 2 delegates to the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
The Victorian Council has without success repeatedly invited the Victorian Farmers Union, which is not affiliated with the Council or the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, to join it so as to make possible full representation in the Federation, through the Council, of all organised commercial pig producers in Victoria. [More…]
The Research Committee will include 6 representatives from the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
These representatives will be elected by the Federation itself. [More…]
They will be either commercial or stud breeders, depending on who the Federation elects. [More…]
We are led to believe by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots that Qantas’s profit this year will be about $5m. [More…]
On the other hand, as I have said, the Federation of Air Pilots has stated that Qantas is in a reasonably healthy financial position and can expect a profit of about $5m this year. [More…]
However, I feel bound to say, as Senator Willesee said, that these things happen in a nation the size of Australia, because of budgetary considerations and the fact that we are in a federation in which so many variations occur in a financial year. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement by the General Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations that the collective opinion of the television industry is that no Australian quota should be imposed which cannot reasonably be complied with by every station and that doubts are held by several licensees as to the wisdom of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board’s declaring an increase in the quota of dramatic programmes as from next September? [More…]
I am a devout believer in the fact that the Australian primary producer, because of his payments by way of tariff, almost since federation has built up his own local market. [More…]
The world body, the Universal Federation of Travel Agents Associations, is a private international organisation which has no links with national governments. [More…]
Secondly, governments cannot take action through the Federation to prevent occurrences of this sort at all. [More…]
I understand that the Australian member of the Federation, the Australian Federation of Travel Agents, will refer these cases to the international body which is at present drawing up a code of ethics which national associations will be invited to adopt. [More…]
That is to members of the Waterside Workers Federation - were made in May 1970 when the parties were before Mr Justice Moore. [More…]
As part of that consent 2-year award both the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Waterside Workers Federation gave a written undertaking there would be no stoppages of work in respect of those matters which were the subject of that agreement. [More…]
That is, conditions other than those which were in dispute and settled by that agreement - the Waterside Workers Federation gave an undertaking that it would progress all claims with the employers through established procedures and take all reasonable steps to ensure that work continued normally while these negotiations were in progress. [More…]
It is common knowledge that since then some members in branches of the Federation have embarked on stoppages ranging from 1 hour to a full day on issues covered by these undertakings. [More…]
Whilst the ACTU and the Federal officers of the Federation have done their utmost to ensure that the undertakings which they gave in the proceedings before Mr Justice Moore were honoured, I want to make 2 points perfectly clear. [More…]
Secondly, the Government will be giving close attention to the performance of the Federation, its branches and its membership, recognising they are one of the principal parties to the agreement [More…]
policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation and by doing so give a reasonably moderate pension.’ [More…]
The Committee to which the honourable senator referred in his question is constituted by the Employers Federation Policy Committee, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and 2 Commonwealth Public Service organisations, the Commonwealth Council of Public Service Organisations and the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations. [More…]
To what extent, if at all, does the Department of Education and Science consult with the Council of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations on matters which that body would have special knowledge, experience or opinion? [More…]
and (2) From time to time over recent years the Federation of Australian University [More…]
Staff Associations has made representations to successive Ministers for Education and Science and to the Australian Universities Commission about matters in which the Federation is interested. [More…]
These representations have been fully and carefully considered and, on a number of occasions, have been discussed between representatives of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations, the Minister and the Chairman of the Australian Universities Commission. [More…]
I last met the Federation for discussions on 6th July 1971 and on this occasion the new chairman of the Australian Universities Commission - Professor P. H.Karmel - was also present. [More…]
1 will continue to be available to discuss relevant matters with the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations. [More…]
On 4th September 1970 the Waterside Workers Federation struck over the case of ‘Bunna’ Walsh. [More…]
On 2nd February 1971 the Australian Builders Labourers Federation struck over the arrest of Norman Gallagher, a Communist union official who was arrested on a charge of physical assault. [More…]
The Political Activities of Australia’s Employer Federations’. [More…]
He sets out how the various federations of employers engage in political activities. [More…]
On page 6 he says that the Victorian Employers Federation proudly regarded itself as the first body in Australia to openly proclaim its determination to fight Socialism as the one issue before Australia. [More…]
There is various other matter in the articles showing the extent to which employer federations and other bodies engage in politics. [More…]
The writer of the article refers to what was said by the Employers’ Federation in New South Wales in the annual report. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation had imposed a levy for a political fund which the Hurseys refused to pay. [More…]
After the picketing ceased members of the Waterside Workers Federation walked off the job and by a combination of numbers and those unlawful acts prevented the Hurseys from gaining employment. [More…]
Not long after that, because the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia decided in Melbourne that it did not believe in the Springbok tour of Australia, it was decided that there should be a fresh sabotage of Tasmania. [More…]
As a result of the action by the Waterside Workers Federation, as reported in the Press in Tasmania and featured in other newspapers last week, there have been substantial dismissals from 2 major industries in Tasmania, those industries being Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Pty Ltd at Burnie and the other similar industry at Wesley Vale. [More…]
Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, that the collective opinion of the television industry is that no Australian quota should be imposed which cannot reasonably be complied with by every station; that there are doubts held by several licensees on the wisdom of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board declaring such increases at this juncture; and that many licensees feel too much notice was taken of representations by actors to have drama increased for the purpose of providing jobs for themselves, regardless of public interest? [More…]
Does the television industry consist not only of station licensees and executives but also producers, writers, artists, technicians and all people employed within the industry and does the PostmasterGeneral agree that the statements by the General Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations are not in fact the collective opinion of the industry? [More…]
Of course the television industry includes many areas apart from the stations; it is taken the General Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations was referring to the industry which the members of his organisation represent as station operators. [More…]
The facts are that the Government, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the employers federation have representatives who are engaged in a series of conferences designed to review the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Ministers are appointed under the Ministers of State Act and the appointments go back to the federation. [More…]
Can he tell us what is hap pening, in particular, about the proposition which was put by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots on the reduction of fares by use of the charter method? [More…]
I even talked to the Federation of Travel Agents about the whole matter last Friday. [More…]
I repeat what 1 said in this House a week or so ago: Because the Waterside Workers Federation in Melbourne did not like the South African rugby tour, it called a further week’s strike and caused an additional pile up and loss of markets for the Burnie mill. [More…]
The EEC dumped a lot of its increased production on the world market at half the normal price or at a very reduced price, which caused a lot of dislocation, lt is to be hoped that if the United Kingdom enters that federation some idea will be forthcoming which will prevent its entry from being a threat to the countries which most depend on trade for their survival. [More…]
This particular parachute drop was approved by the Department subject to compliance with an air navigation order and the Australian Parachute Federation Regulations. [More…]
One federal organisation - namely, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation - has said that the Government should have an acquisition scheme. [More…]
On 4th September 1970 the Waterside Workers Federation struck over the case of Bunna’ Walsh. [More…]
If members of the Waterside Workers Federation withdrew their labour in support of a friend, a mate or a co-worker then I believe that that union was only carrying out its traditional role - a role which has ever been the role of the trade union movement wherever injustice has been done. [More…]
Did the Minister attend the last annual convention of the Australian Federation of Travel [More…]
If so, did he tell delegates that legislation in the course of preparation would be- shown to the Federation and other interested parties? [More…]
Yes, the Minister opened the 14th Annual Conference of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents in Perth on 26th July 1971. [More…]
I feel bound to point out to the Senate and to the honourable senator that Australia is a federation of States with sovereign rights. [More…]
I think a significant feature of the Budget is the improvement in the position of the States in what has been one of the besetting problems of the Federation for many years, namely, Commonwealth and State financial arrangements. [More…]
As the Commonwealth Government was the only source to which the States could look for an expanding revenue unless they were to increase existing taxes or impose new taxes, so certain stresses appeared in the Australian federation. [More…]
For any honourable senator to say that by denying ourselves an extra hour on urgency motions, which are not a regular feature of this chamber, we will attain something that has never happened in the history of federation is to put forward a fallacious argument that should not be considered by any honourable senator when he votes on this matter. [More…]
The initial proposals for this levy were submitted by the Australian Meat Exporters Federal Council and fully supported by the Meat and Allied Trades Federation and the Australian Meatworks Federal Council. [More…]
I invite honourable senators to consider the Hursey case in which a man and his son, waterside workers, refused to pay a levy to the Waterside Workers Federation at election time, because half of it would go to the Communist Party. [More…]
It was not the Australian Labor Party; there was no federation.I belonged to the Workers’ Political organisation long before I had a vote. [More…]
The Library has been a full member of the international Federation of Film Archives for many years so as to ensure that it is conversant with the latest developments in film archive work. [More…]
In view of the attitude of the New South Wales Teachers Federation to the credentials of several teachers from those countries what is being done to overcome the impasse? [More…]
T pay a very great tribute, and 1 acknowledge the tribute paid by Senator Webster, to those members of the Waterside Workers- Federation and associated industrial organisations and trade unions in Tasmania who, during the past season, have enabled a rate of handling of the crop such that the industry received a very substantial rebate. [More…]
T think it proper that we should all acknowledge that a performance of this kind has afforded a very great service, so much so that the Minister for Industrial Development in Tasmania wrote to the Hobart branch of the Waterside Workers Federation thanking the organisation for what it had done and acknowledging the part it had played in helping the industry. [More…]
In the early days of federation a Marine Insurance Act was passed by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Professor Edwards, head of the University of New South Wales Department of Food Technology, said this in an exposition of the status of simulated meats to the annual conference of the Australian Chicken Meat Federation in Sydney. [More…]
The proposal was supported by the Meat and Allied Trades Federation and the Australian Meatworks Federal Council, who put a proposition to the Government some time ago that they would be anxious to support a levy if they could achieve some assistance from the Government by way of funds for research in certain areas of the meat industry. [More…]
The levy was introduced originally in January 1969 at the request of the Australian Meat Exporters Federal Council, the Australian Meatworks Federal Council and the Meat and Allied Trades Federation of Australia. [More…]
This is really a subject for a discussion on general monetary policy within a commonwealth, a federation or, indeed, a unitary system in regard to what ought to happen to public moneys that are made available for capital works and whether they should bear interest or not. [More…]
They have the opportunity to lodge objections and in fact, through the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, did lodge a submission with the Board. [More…]
I express the point of view that having regard to the close association between the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Packer organisation, and bearing in mind the criticism that was made by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations of the original proposals to establish the training school, we of the Opposition must be very circumspect about such an appointment. [More…]
Ifthe Minister wants a reference to the express opposition of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations to the establishment of the Australian Film and Television School it can be seen at page 22 of the 1969 annual report of FACTS. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement in today’s ‘Australian’ alleged to have been made by Mr Whitlam that, apart from Canberra and a kw mining centres, no new towns or cities have been built since Federation? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Civil Aviation whether it is a fact that representatives of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots have recently discussed with the Minister the need for new and improved procedures, including representation from the Federation of Air Pilots, in relation to air accident investigations? [More…]
Has the Federation also requested a new inquiry into the Trans-Australia Airlines - Canadian Pacific Airlines incident? [More…]
The Australian Federation of Air Pilots sent a delegation to Canberra and it had a talk about the particular matter to which the honourable senator refers plus some other matters. [More…]
The Federation discussed matters with me in detail and I communicated its view - properly as 1 should - to the Department. [More…]
The Federation did not request me to conduct any other kind of inquiry in any official sense whatsover. [More…]
The Australian Citrus Growers Federation [More…]
This position was recognised under the Stevedoring Industry Act by the definition which appears in section 7 (1) in respect of ‘union’ as follows: “Union” means the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, the North Australian Workers Union or any organisation of employees specified in a declaration in force under section nine of this Act and “the Union” means - [More…]
- the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia; [More…]
During the course of these proceedings it was agreed that the Waterside Workers Federation should take over the North Australian Workers Union waterfront section’ comprising all of the registered waterside workers in the port of Darwin and recruiting them into full membership of the Federation. [More…]
To all intents and purposes, the North Australian Workers Union has now ceased to exist as a registered organisation and until the Waterside Workers Federation is recognised as the appropriate union in the port of Darwin there is an administrative void in respect of that port. [More…]
of the Act by deleting the reference to the North Australian Workers Union in the preamble and elsewhere and according recognition of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Is it a fact that conferences between the management of Qantas Airways Ltd and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots relating to retrenched air crews have ended and that Qantas will retrench forthwith about 130 of its air crew personnel who are now on suspended retrenchment? [More…]
If the information that I have stated is correct, will the Minister confer immediately with the management of Qantas and the Air Pilots Federation, or indicate his preparedness to chair any conferences which might provide a solution to the problem of the pending retrenchments? [More…]
One has been able to follow from the daily Press the circumstances of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and the management of Qantas discussing before Mr Justice Coldham the problem referred to by Senator Bishop, in the first place in a court situation, if that is the correct legal terminology, and later in chambers, as I suppose it would be referred to, with Mr Justice Coldham trying to look at the situation from both sides. [More…]
It was a comment by a spokesman for the Federation of Air Pilots that the matter would be resolved. [More…]
I cannot escape the feeling that has been expressed by economists in the United Kingdom and by some members of the Labor Party in that country that because the centralising power in a federation or a confederation of nations, whatever one may call it, is overwhelming, there is the desire and the force to concentrate industries in the nations in the centre. [More…]
If the United States sinks more and more into isolationism and withdraws its forces or part of them from or substantially reduces them in Europe, it does seem reasonable to think that this action might speed up the further federation of the countries that comprise the European Economic Community into a real, virile defence unit as a counterpoise to the influence further east of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement by the Director of the Queensland Employers Federation in which he advised parents of some school leavers, to keep their children at school for some months into 1972? [More…]
This policy goes to the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation where it becomes the policy of that body. [More…]
There is certainly nol the one-for-one relationship implied by statements made by the Employers’ Federation and some politicians who suggest that once the rate of growth of productivity is exceeded, a 1 per cent rise in award wage rates will cause a 1 per cent rise in prices leaving real income1; unchanged. [More…]
Then a dispute developed between the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and Qantas about superannuation and the operation of the 747 aircraft. [More…]
I am told that the Federation of Air Pilots was willing to subsidise the pay scales of the retrenched employees while they were temporarily unemployed by Qantas and employed in other employment. [More…]
Senator Bishop mentioned the offer of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots to subsidise salaries. [More…]
The note I have states that Mr Caterson, the advocate for the Federation of Air Pilots, who is quite well known to me and who sees me quite often, approached the company with a suggestion that pilots take accrued annual leave and if necessary long service leave to allow second officers under notice of retrenchment to be retained. [More…]
Tonight 1 think it is significant that I have my colleague Senator Georges sitting with me because 3 years ago we were electioneering and we had an association with the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia. [More…]
While Senator Bishop confined his remarks to the simple transfer of union membership from the North Australian Workers’ Union to the Waterside Workers’ Federation, after conversations with Mr Paddy Carroll and other union officials, I hope that the apparatus of the Department of Labour and National Service - the industrial hygiene section and other sections - will be adjusted to some of the problems which confront men in heavy manual work on the waterfront in Darwin. [More…]
I hope that the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia led by its extremely efficient and able federal secretary, Charlie Fitzgibbon, will see that perhaps modern technology and chemical research will be directed - it is not always - to industrial ailments. [More…]
It was established in 1970 after consultation with the six State Education Departments, the Social Science Research Council, the Australian Teachers’ Federation, the National Council of Independent Schools and the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
Our Parliament since federation has had a form based on the mother of Parliaments. [More…]
To that body of information must be added the ability of the Australian community and its leaders, which embraces an extremely wide range of people, lt includes the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Employers Federation, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council, the Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the bankers, chambers of commerce, and chambers of manufactures. [More…]
He will understand that under the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act at the- beginning of each wheat season the Cost Index Committee, made up of the Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, a representative from the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and a representative of the Slates, looks at the increases that have taken place in the costs of the wheat industry over the past 12 months. [More…]
Hobart where he had discussions with the Apple and Pear Growers Federation of Tasmania, growers, exporters and Ministers for Agriculture from Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania in relation to this matter. [More…]
The States are unable to develop their own universities along their own lines, as they would have done before Federation and have done until a rela tively few years ago. [More…]
Senator Rae indicated the procedures that governed the operation of the Senate’s consideration of the Estimates over a long period - I think since Federation. [More…]
He showed very effectively that for the first 20 years of federation the salaries of the Clerks were somewhat in excess of those of the heads of other departments; but since the end of the first 20-year period there has been a whittling away of the position of the people’s Parliament and a taking up by government officials of a position of authority superior to that of the Parliament, with a consequent lessening of recognition of officials of the Parliament. [More…]
Sixty-five (65) oil tankers operated around the Australian coast during the past 12 months of which fifty-one (51) were owned by members of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation. [More…]
No oil company operating in Australia used oil tankers not owned by members of the Federation for the carriage of persistent oil. [More…]
On that date the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, which has a membership of 75.000, came out with a pronouncement that it approved of the acquisition of (he whole of the Australian wool clip. [More…]
It is satisfied that the interests of this nation’s economy, growth and welfare, as well as the interests of all those persons and corporations, both within and without Australia, who are involved in the Australian securities industry require that the Commonwealth Government exercise the powers given to it at federation to legislate with respect to the securities industry. [More…]
The first matter to which I drew attention was the decision made on 16th March by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, which has a membership of roughly 75,000. [More…]
Two federal bodies - the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Wool growers and Graziers Council - comprise that Conference. [More…]
One organisation, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, said that it wanted an acquisition scheme. [More…]
My colleague Senator Young and I were in the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation for many years while Senator Primmer was still in the sticks somewhere learning about the wool industry. [More…]
Since Federation these things have become more and more complicated. [More…]
The Opposition’s representations at this late stage are occasioned as a result of requests by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots which, I understand, not only met the Labor Party’s transport committee but also since the accident made representations to the Director-General of Civil Aviation and the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton). [More…]
The Federation asked the Minister and the Director for a new inquiry. [More…]
Over the years the Federation has suggested to the Government that the Air Safety Investigation Branch and its officers ought to be separated from the Department of Civil Aviation because it is contended - it seems, prima facie, to be a good argument - that one is appealing to Caesar from Caesar. [More…]
The Federation over the years has made the point that it would be proper and consistent with international practice for investigations of this type, as they involve staff and personnel of the Department of Civil Aviation, not to be conducted by staff and personnel of that Department. [More…]
I said that the Federation had made representations to the Government. [More…]
We do not know yet what the results are because we have not been informed by the Federation. [More…]
We agree with the Federation that the report unjustly condemns the captain of the TAA aircraft involved in the collision. [More…]
I refer the Senate firstly to a letter sent to a number of honourable senators by the Federation. [More…]
I enclose a copy of a mildly worded critique prepared by the Federation on the D.C.A. [More…]
The Federation suggested that there was an urgent need for the entire resources of the Air Safety Investigation Branch of the Department to be transferred to the Department of Shipping and Transport or some other government agency not responsible to the Minister for Civil Aviation. [More…]
The Federation said that this was not a new proposal but that it was first discussed in 1966. [More…]
The Federation states that corrective changes ought to flow from the results of the accident investigation. [More…]
The cause complained about by Captain James and the Federation was as stated in the report as follows: [More…]
As a matter of fact the Federation showed the Labor Party Committee a faim and a number of other items of evidence - I understand they have been put to the Department - which would place greatly in doubt the suggestion that any other procedure than that adopted by Captain James would have resulted in probably greater damage than what was done by the ordinary take-off procedure. [More…]
In fact, as the Federation says, quite clearly the pilot and crew of the TAA aircraft carried out. [More…]
This is a statement of fact and Captain James and the Federation say it proves that he carried out a proper and safe procedure. [More…]
The Australian Federation of Air Pilots points out that the report which has been placed before the Parliament states that prompt and proper action was taken by Sydney tower once the accident had occurred. [More…]
I have referred to the statements by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
The Federation states that it is impossible to justify this argument because in its belief, had the crew proceeded to take other than the normal take-off procedure, there would have been greater damage than that which occurred. [More…]
The Air Pilots Federation and the pilot of the aircraft contend that the conclusions in the report are unjust. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with Senator Sim and I understand from further conversations with the Federation of Air Pilots that there is a suggestion that if the Minister does not agree to the union’s request for a new inquiry it will consider having an all-in discussion with the parties involved so that remedies can be effected. [More…]
A round table conference between the Department of Civil Aviation, Trans-Australia Airlines, a representative of the Federation of Air Pilots and a representative of the air controllers, who themselves are not happy, could be arranged. [More…]
A second point for consideration is that it may be well worth while widening the Air Investigation Branch for particular investigations, so that it included not only departmental officers but also representatives of the Federation of Air Pilots and other professional bodies who would be full members and therefore have full responsibility for any decisions made. [More…]
I have not had the advantage of the advice of the Pilots Federation, nor have 1 had the advantage of the advice of people who may be close to Senator Sim. [More…]
Apparently the Australian Federation of Air Pilots has requested them to rise in the Senate and seek another inquiry. [More…]
I take it that speaking for the Federation of Air Pilots you are requesting another inquiry? [More…]
The distinction is that the Federation of Air Pilots has asked this of the Minister, I understand. [More…]
It has certainly told me that it wants an inquiry but I am not making a request for the Federation. [More…]
I do not act for the Australian Federation of Air Pilots in making these representations. [More…]
I have no commission from the Federation to do anything at all. [More…]
I understand that the Federation has put it to the Minister for Civil Aviation and the DirectorGeneral of Civil Aviation that there should be another inquiry. [More…]
I can read from a letter addressed to me from the Australian Federation of Air Pilots.It is not confidential. [More…]
Did the State Fruit Board of Tasmania and fruitgrowers express their thanks to the Waterside Workers’ Federation for the expeditious way in which members of the Federation loaded the 1971 Tasmanian fruit crop. [More…]
I am glad to say that the thanks of the State Fruit Board and of the Tasmanian fruitgrowers were expressed to the Waterside Workers’ Federation, whose members played a significant part in the export of an immense quantity of fruit from Tasmanian ports. [More…]
The Federation, I believe, is aware of the importance of the export fruit in the Tasmanian economy, and of the dependence of growers on getting the fruit to market in a very limited period. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the recent statements by the National Director of the Australian Council of Employers’ Federation (Mr G. Polites) that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act should be completely re-written? [More…]
Since the discussions wilh the Federal Council of the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters the Board has had meetings with representatives of the Musicians Union who supplied information on various aspects of the matter. [More…]
The Board has received the results of two surveys carried out by the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters and these are being studied in conjunction with other material being obtained through the Board’s own resources. [More…]
I remind him that no less a person than a former United States President, Senator Lyndon Johnson, had problems with the American Federation of Labour over the influx of Mexican farm labourers, known as wetbacks, coming over the border into California. [More…]
Reference has been made to Canada which is a federation. [More…]
Rather, our system of federation is so good because wc have an overall federal authority dealing with certain matters of national import and then States with their sovereign rights attending to matters within their boundaries. [More…]
I was concerned firstly to ring the person who was the Chairman of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, who had said that censorship of this character would be resisted. [More…]
The same story also contained remarks attributed to Mr Keith Cairns, President of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations to whom was attributed the remark, ‘We would fight this sort of bureaucratic intimidation with every means we have.’ [More…]
Did the Postmaster-General on 12th October 1970, when addressing the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, announce that the Government had agreed that section 1 17 of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1971 should be amended to provide that the announcement of the author, speaker and political party in political advertisements should be made once only. [More…]
The address was in fact made at the opening of the Fortieth Annual Convention of the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters, although the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations had also raised the matter. [More…]
Professor J. J. Auchmuty, ViceChancellor and Principal, University of Newcastle (Chairman); Mr A. P. Anderson, Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Education and Science; Mr E. ft. Horwood, Honorary Organising Secretary, Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers” Associations; Professor A. H. Johns, Professor of Indonesian Languages and Literatures, Australian National University; Mr W. N. Oats, Headmaster, The Friends’ School, Hobart: Mr A. W. Jones, DirectorGeneral of Education of South Australia: Mr T. W. Payne, Deputy Director of Secondary Education, New South Wales Department of Education: Mr G. Semple, President, Queensland Teachers Union; and Mr F. R. G. Strickland, Managing Director, H. Halford Ply Ltd, Melbourne. [More…]
The next topic discussed was ‘Fiscal Adjustment in the Australian Federation - Vertical Balance’. [More…]
Fiscal Adjustment in the Australian Federation - Horizontal Balance’ was the next topic introduced by Professor Russell Mathews, the head of the Department of Accounting and Public Finance in the Australian National University, essentially a most practical man who at the present time is engaged in helping the island territories of the Pacific in the problems of their revenue raising devices and their taxation patterns. [More…]
In 1901 this country became a federation and it formed the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
The Senate is a deliberative House of review designed to represent the constituent 6 States in the Federation in equal numbers and to provide a check on the enthusiastic aims of the other House. [More…]
This might be expected to provide a body of continuity and of thought and, as well, to express the broad sentiment and the broad interests of the 6 Australian States joined together at Federation. [More…]
I made the comment then that it has been said by the people who wrote about those years that there has been no time since then in the history of this Federation when quite such an excitement was to be found in the Australian people. [More…]
The First World War really made Australia a nation although the conceptual considerations existed at Federation. [More…]
So the problem that we considered in the seminar and that we are considering here tonight - that is, inter-governmental relations - to me is one of the important problems of the Australian Federation, of which this Senate is an essential and, to me, an ever increasingly important part. [More…]
Equally I comment that Australia began as a federation and I believe that it will remain a federation. [More…]
I think the important thing is to make a study of how the federation worked. [More…]
The constitution of Australia, adopted at the time of federation of the then independent States of Crown colonies, passed certain responsibilities to the Commonwealth or national Parliament and reserved others to the States. [More…]
Naturally Australia was a Federation because history made it in that way. [More…]
Goolagong is expected to wear a badge classifying her as being an honorary white if she visits South Africa to play tennis in the Federation Cup? [More…]
After all, storemen and packers, members of the Waterside Workers Federation or members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association have nothing to live on but the money they earn with their hands. [More…]
State level in the existing concept of the Metal Trades Federation, the same result is achieved. [More…]
the Department of Works has suggested that a study be undertaken jointly by the Federation, the Department and the Building Research Division of the CSIRO designed to show present levels of plant use and possible increases in efficiency by the use of additional plant. [More…]
It is significant that in answering a letter to the Master Builders’ Federation of Australia the Treasurer said that the reason for re-instating this allowance was to assist in boosting confidence. [More…]
But as I told you in our discussion on 24th February, 1 will be prepared to examine and consider the report of the committee on which the Federation is represented and which is looking into building costs. [More…]
The old battle prior to Federation of protection and free trade has been transposed into the Tariff Board’s activities. [More…]
Has the Qantas board rejected the proposals of the Australasian Transport Officers Federation concerning severance pay, compensation for displaced officers, retirement and voluntary redundancy payments? [More…]
I expect to have the benefit of a discussion with the Australasian Transport Officers Federation in [More…]
1 have seen the Federation’s representatives before on several occasions. [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral received a letter from the Australian Federation of Police Associations and Unions? [More…]
I am aware of the motion which was passed by the Federation of Police Associations. [More…]
1 assure the honourable senator and the Senate that I share with the Federation the alarm which it has expressed in its resolution. [More…]
I shall certainly give sympathetic consideration to the Federation’s letter. [More…]
In our federation that must be the way in which the laws of the Commonwealth are enforced. [More…]
Soon there would be compulsory unionism, with the independent teachers and the Teachers Federation joined together, and the philosophy of teaching would be nationalised. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation was consulted on this issue. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science has met with the Australian Teachers Federation and at those meetings there have been representatives of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the South Australian Institute of Teachers, and the Darwin Teachers Association. [More…]
We have regarded the Australian Teachers Federation as playing a co-ordinating role in relation to the views of these organisations, and have had the benefit of their advice on a number of matters. [More…]
We should like to express our appreciation of the Federation’s help. [More…]
We are pleased that we have been able to agree with the Federation that the appropriate arbitral tribunal for members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service would be the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
We have also been able to accept suggestions of the Federation on certain clauses relating to discipline. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation has made a number of other suggestions relating to the legislation to which it has not been possible to agree in full. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation believes that the Service should be administered by a Commission of 3 members, one of whom would be elected by the teachers. [More…]
It seems to us that the Federation’s proposal is inappropriate to the Commonwealth situation in which the Teaching Service will be separate from the education authority administering any one school system. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation has also suggested that the Commonwealth Teaching Service Commissioner should be assisted by a recognised advisory council representing all sections of the community. [More…]
However, I do not think that an advisory council of the type suggested by the Federation would be appropriate for the administration of this Teaching Service. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation believes that open advertisements, that is, advertisements inside and outside the Service, should be resorted to only when no member of the Service is suitably qualified or experienced for the position. [More…]
The Federation believes also that the Commissioner should be restricted specifically to employing qualified teachers. [More…]
Another suggestion by the Australian Teachers Federation was that the Bill make specific provision for the establishment of a promotions committee. [More…]
In the Federation’s view such a Committee would have teacher representation on it. [More…]
The Federation would also wish that, in making promotions, greater weight be given to seniority. [More…]
We agree with the submissions of the Australian Teachers Federation that the teachers themselves should have at least a representative on any body created to manage this Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
If I may say so, the views of the Australian Teachers Federation have been rejected by the Government without any great attention having been given to them in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Beyond his saying that he was not convinced by the arguments of the Federation, I have not found any substantial arguments which have been put forward by the Minister as to why the views of the Federation should not be accepted. [More…]
We shall take good care to see that the Australian Teachers Federation is acquainted with Senator Withers’ views and that it is made quite clear to them that this is the reason why they are being excluded from representation in the establishment of this Service. [More…]
As I have indicated already, in saying this we are carrying out the wishes of the Australian Teachers Federation and we are acting in conformity with the recommendations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and various other international bodies which have stated repeatedly over past years that it is essential in the conduct of an efficient and worthwhile teaching service that teachers themselves should be represented on the administration. [More…]
I am mindful of the fact that the Teachers Federation has been very keen over the years to take its teacher services outside the Public Service in the various States. [More…]
So on this point, and on many other points in this legislation, the Australian Teachers Federation as I understand it has found a comity of view with the Government. [More…]
Although there may be some differences, as I understand it the broad base of agreement is wide at the moment between the Federation and the Government. [More…]
In view of the statements which have been made in the course of the debates and the keen interest which bodies such as the Australian Teachers Federation have taken in this measure 1 have been somewhat surprised that the interest did not extend to any action to inform the Democratic Labor Party of views held by such bodies. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon made the suggestion that there should be more than one Commissioner - that a Commission should be established and that one of the members of the Commission should be a teacher representing the interests of the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
That provision was recommended to the Government by the Australian Teaching Federation. [More…]
Did the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations first challenge in May 1970, programme standard 35 of the Broadcasting Control Board’s standards, which relates to Sunday morning programmes, and was this matter referred by the Board to the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Office for advice some considerable time ago? [More…]
The year 1920 was only 20 years after Federation and more than 50 years ago. [More…]
When last I talked with you about the dispute in the coal industry I said that the strike by members of the Miners Federation was completely unjustifiable. [More…]
History tells us that in the inquiry a South Australian Cabinet Minister at that time, Charles Cameron Kingston, who played his part during the early stages of federation, put up a proposal to the inquiry that there should be an authority to try to bring the employees and employers in disputation together in conciliation to see whether their differences could be settled. [More…]
Waterside Workers Federation and the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour on wages and conditions includes a 35-hour week and an immediate increase of $8 a week in basic pay? [More…]
Interior: Why was the meeting of members of the Miners Federation which was held outside Parliament House today attended by policemen with cameras who took photographs of those present at the meeting? [More…]
I was not at the meeting of members of the Miners Federation and I do not know whether people were taking pictures. [More…]
To see this one can go to any of our Air Force bases and then, to go to the other extreme, talk to crop dusting pilots and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement in today’s Press attributed to Mr George Meaney, who is the President of the American Federation of Labour and [More…]
He is the man who went on record as saying - he proved his point on a programme of the Australian Broadcasting Commission - that it is much easier to manipulate students than the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has been involved in the development of science and technology in Australia virtually from the time of Federation, and has played a key role through the policies which it has developed over the years to meet the changing pattern of national needs and opportunities. [More…]
Down through history since Federation, what Senator Gair says may have had application. [More…]
Those who have read the history of politics in Australia since Federation and certainly in the post World War I years know that this question of national superannuation is not one that is likely to be resolved very easily. [More…]
Did the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations first challenge in May 1970, programmes standard 35 of the Broadcasting Control Board’s standards, which relates to Sunday morning programmes, and was this referred by the [More…]
The Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations questioned on 1st July 1970, the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to determine as a standard, paragraph 35 of its Programme Standards regarding Sunday morning programmes. [More…]
Moreover, the role of Government in this area has become more significant in recent years than at any time since federation- With its responsibility for the management of an increasingly sophisticated economy, the Government cannot leave entirely to the immediate parties to industrial relations the settlement of industrial disputes, even though its intervention may be seen on some occasions as unwelcome. [More…]
One particular paragraph, crystallised into a very few words, shows the basis upon which assessments of grants to States are made, lt says that special grants are justified when a State, through financial stress from any cause, is unable efficiently to discharge its functions as a member of the Federation and should be determined by the amount of help found necessary to make it possible for that State by a reasonable effort to function at a standard not appreciably below the other States. [More…]
Indeed, this is what ought to be done in a Federation. [More…]
I think that this is a misunderstanding which in the interests of the federation of Australian peoples we ought to correct. [More…]
In effect, in the federation of Australia it has been argued through time that it is proper and fair that all Australian people should have equality of opportunity and that those who momentarily are better placed than the others should help those who are not so well placed. [More…]
In the federation of Australia there will be situations in which there will be fluctuating prosperity State by State from time to time. [More…]
What one hopes will happen is that the Australian people in the federation will join together to help each other so that the levels and opportunities will be the same throughout Australia. [More…]
In a federation there are the older States which are larger and which have had better opportunity to develop. [More…]
The Australian Cheese Manufacturers Federation had this to say: [More…]
The reason for that is not because we talk for 3 hours On an urgency motion; it is because of the system that has been operating for centuries in politics - certainly since federation in this country. [More…]
This will be confirmed by anybody in Tasmania who had to put up with unnecessary isolation of his State because Bull, or whatever his name is, the Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation in Melbourne, did not like the Springboks rugby tour of Victoria. [More…]
I have in front of me a sheaf of demands from the Waterside Workers Federation to the effect: ‘Pay up or we will go out”. [More…]
The shipowners have agreed to some, if not most, of the Federation’s demands without reference to any arbitration process whatsoever. [More…]
He broke it altogether with the co-operation of the Secretary of the Federation of Labour, Mr Skinner, whose attitude is so different from that of some leading men in the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
The circumstances in which the strike was occurred must be viewed against the background of a statement made by the leader of the Miners’ Federation a month ago. [More…]
Senator McKenna then quoted the newspaper report of a statement made by the leader of the Miners Federation who was a member of the Communist Party. [More…]
Only a few months ago the Central Council of Miners’ Federation declared: ‘This council places on record again that the federation never has and never will accept arbitration as the desirable method of settling industrial disputes. [More…]
The containerisation situation is a classic example of a considerable scaling down of the waterfront work force covering a number of unions including the Waterside Workers Federation, the Storemen and Packers [More…]
Mr Fitzgibbon, the federal securetary of the Waterside Workers Federation, was castigated. [More…]
But now the Prime Minister denies all the efforts of that conciliatory process which was entered into by the Waterside Workers Federation and the waterfront employers. [More…]
The notion this is somewhat of a pugilistic arena was drawn upon by Sir Robert Garran, the great authority on the Australian Constitution, who wrote in 1930 that in the first 25 years of federation the Commonwealth industrial power played a greater part in political history and legal controversy than did the rest of the Constitution put together. [More…]
A similar comment would have been justifiable covering the subsequent 46 years of Federation had Sir Robert lived that long. [More…]
I commend to honourable senators the fact that a wise and common sense electorate has elected a pro-Liberal government for 54 of the 71 years of federation. [More…]
But Mr Nolan said members of the Federation would repeat the work, on principle, before the Ho Chi Minh could be loaded. [More…]
Notwithstanding that, when Mr Robert Jago, the President of the South Coast Branch of the Ironworkers Federation approached me I felt that this was the place to ventilate the matter about which he was concerned. [More…]
Since federation and the establishment of the early legislation, it has been amended 52 times. [More…]
Mr Denis Murphy of the Department of History at the University of Queensland - a young scholar who has made a very close and valuable political study of the amalgamation of unions - delivered a very fine paper to a conference held by the Waterside Workers Federation in Brisbane on 27th February. [More…]
Would there be any interference by the Government if the South Australian Employers Federation were to amalgamate with the Chamber of Manufactures? [More…]
I must confess that from my own conversations with American trade unionists and from reading the journals and the policies of American trade unions - organisations like the American Federation of Labor and the Confederation of Industrial Organisations and also the individual unions - I believe I would not find one American trade union that would support systems of compulsory arbitration such as those applied in this country. [More…]
Why was the meeting of members of the Miners’ Federation, held outside Parliament House today, attended by policemen who took photographs of those present. [More…]
Senator Hannan, who is getting ready to make a pertinent interjection and ask a question on the matter, was horrified when Mr Morgan from the Metal Trades Federation saw the wisdom of it and supported amalgamation. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether there is any substance in the report that his Department is involved in moves to oppose sections of the new agreement recently concluded between the Waterside Workers Federation and waterfront employers. [More…]
The Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act was enacted in 1967 to give legislative effect to an agreement entered into in the National Stevedoring Industry Conference, under the chairmanship of Mr A. E. Woodward, Q.C., on which the stevedoring employers, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Waterside Workers Federation, the Department of Labour and National Service and the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority were represented. [More…]
More important, however, is the fact that an agreement entered into between the Federation and the employers in 1970 in relation to the terms and conditions of employment expired on 5th May this year, and these parties have recently completed negotations for a new agreement. [More…]
Furthermore, the negotiations between the employers and the Federation have gone beyond matters included in the Waterside Workers Award, and taken in subjects which impinge on the Government’s legislation. [More…]
Could we be informed whether the Government’s proposal will negate and frustrate the efforts of the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation of Australia, which we have been informed has just about concluded its ballot? [More…]
After discussion, the only 3 unions interested in the amalgamation were the Operative Painters and Decorators Union, the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation and the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
The Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation could not drop out of the proposed amalgamation. [More…]
Therefore, the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation and the Building Workers Industrial Union held a postal ballot of all their members, who decided overwhelmingly in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
An application was made to the Industrial Court to change the name of the Building Workers Industrial Union to the Building Workers Industrial Union and Operative Plasterers Federation of Australia and also to change the Union’s constitution to cover the membership of the Plasterers Federation. [More…]
The only objection remaining at the present time is that of the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
But he informed the representatives of the Building Workers Industrial Union that he would not agree to the change of name or constitution until such time as the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation applied for deregistration. [More…]
Consequently, that Federation applied for deregistration. [More…]
The only thing holding up the deregistration of the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation, apart from the decision of the Registrar, was the fact that regulations 138d and 138e had not been complied with. [More…]
Regulation 138d necessiated the holding of another ballot of the Plasterers Federation on deregistration, despite the fact that a ballot had been taken in regard to amalgamation. [More…]
The Union is only waiting for the matter to be called on again to see whether it can settle its difference with the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
I spoke the other day about a State union in Queensland which has no federation whatsoever and which is seeking to affiliate with its parent union, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
Because of the far-reaching implications to Australia in satellite broadcasting and the effect it can have on Australians, who now earn their livelihoods from within the mass media, will the Attorney-General request the Government to broaden the Australian representation at the May Conference and include representatives of the professional associations of employees engaged in the industry, a representative of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and a representative of the Federation of Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
Under our federation the gaols of the States house offenders against Commonwealth laws. [More…]
The position which has been adopted ever since federation is that an offender against Commonwealth laws is housed in State gaols, and the Commonwealth expects that he will be incarcerated according to the local prison rules. [More…]
1 ask the AttorneyGeneral: Was his Department charged with the responsibility of preparing opposition to sections of the agreement recently reached between the Waterside Workers Federation and waterfront employers? [More…]
The Industrial Registrar has ruled that the application under the 2 required sections was in prior to last Friday, and he has now stated that the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation amalgamation will be the last amalgamation dealt with under the old Act. [More…]
I call upon the Government to lay on the table of the Parliament all correspondence exchanged between the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the commercial television stations and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations on this subject. [More…]
It was on 21st May 1970, over 2 years ago, that the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations notified the Broadcasting Control Board that it questioned the validity of the Board’s programme standards regarding Sunday morning programmes. [More…]
It was on 1st July 1970, 22 months ago, that the Federation supplied to the Board extracts from legal opinions supporting this view. [More…]
That was a statement made by Mr Arthur Cowan, the General Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations as recently as 8th April 1972. [More…]
Did the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations first challenge in May 1970, programme standard 35 of the Broadcasting Control Board’s standards, which relates to Sunday morning programmes, and was this matter referred by the Board to the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Office for advice some considerable time ago? [More…]
The Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations questioned on 1st July, 1970, the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to determine as a standard, paragraph 35 of its Programme Standards regarding Sunday morning programmes. [More…]
Federation of Commercial Television Stations on Sunday morning programming led to a detailed examination of the Board’s powers generally. [More…]
The Government not having done anything about the matter, in 1966 - 6 years ago - the cigarette manufacturers and the Federation .of Australian Commercial Television Stations agreed to a voluntary code governing the advertising of cigarettes on television. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation also has been giving a great deal of attention to the problem of unauthorised trading. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport: With the proposed introduction of a 35-hour week for members of the Australian Waterside Federation, will the Minister say what will be the increase in costs on the Australian waterfront and what effect these increased costs will have on shipping freights generally? [More…]
The explanation has been given that the long delay took place because Australia is a federation and there has to be some joint action with the several States. [More…]
That fact has been borne in mind since the earliest days of federation and particularly in the mind of the Government that constituted the Australian National Shipping Line was the fact that the services due to Tasmania by way of shipping were of special value to that island State. [More…]
In all the discussion of the Australian National Line’s difficulties emphasis is not given to the cardinal fact that the seamen and the Waterside Workers Federation have forced the costs of running these ships up to a prohibitive level. [More…]
Today Mr Hawke has come out affirming that position, but only after the incident at the beginning of this week when Mr Ducker went on record, when he was assaulted at the plumbers meeting by members of the Builders Labourers Federation - why the members of that union were at this meeting one is left to guess - warning all unionists that communist inspired violence would continue unless unionists were vigilant. [More…]
The fact is that it comes to hand after 2 years or more of a virulent campaign on the part of the Builders Labourers Federation in Sydney where members of that union have been attacking buildings, and labourers and contractors who dare to continue work on a job that they have declared black. [More…]
Director of the Employers’ Federation Council Executive, to the Australian Capital Territory Industrial Society, wherein he is reported to have said: ‘Work hours would gradually decrease and wages gradually increase’. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that, as a result of collective bargaining procedures recently negotiated between employers of labour and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia in regard to wages and working conditions on the Australian waterfront, processes were negotiated lawfully and without disorder, which processes resulted in Australian waterside workers being awarded a 35- hour week? [More…]
It originated in the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
I was so disturbed about any repercussions that might flow from any speech I made on this matter in the Senate that I deemed it my duty before I spoke to make known to representatives of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia in Victoria what I intended to say. [More…]
So although the criticism that has been levelled at the Waterside Workers Federation and at other unions associated with this industry has been pretty sharp, the report shows that the freight forwarders’ charges have increased progressively by approximately 50 per cent. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have argued about the recent agreement concerning the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement attributed to the New South Wales DirectorGeneral of Health that the doctors have achieved medical monopolies in the 5 centres by a loose federation or a more structured arrangement of group practices and that they are also refusing to perform Commonwealth medical duties of examining repatriation patients and applicants for pensions? [More…]
I cite the cowardly attack on the President of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales, Mr John Ducker; the recent hit and run murder by some person unknown driving in a Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia car in Melbourne; the destruction of partly completed buildings by the Communist Mundey and his Australian Builders Labourers Federation in Sydney; and the placing of a bomb in the office of the Department of Labour and National Service in Perth. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a recently reported statement of Mr Jack Mundey, New South Wales Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, that he and his union are opposed to physical violence in industrial disputes? [More…]
I think that it is appropriate to say that he is an official of the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
I can only say that this is a policy which the Builders Labourers Federation in fact has followed. [More…]
It was unfortunate that members of a plumbers union, with persons allegedly present from the Builders Labourers Federation, were able to conduct themselves in a comparable way at the meeting at which Mr Ducker was injured. [More…]
But, since the Australian Labor Party in opposition talks bravely, let me say that this level of unemployment at this stage is superlatively lower than the level of unemployment that the Labor Party in the 17 years since Federation that it has been in office was able to achieve or that it ever, when it was on the Government benches, demanded. [More…]
The quota system was introduced after the Wheatgrowers Federation had discussed the problem with delegates from the State wheat industry organisations. [More…]
The Federation then came to the Government and suggested that a quota should be fixed. [More…]
Neither the Provincial Federation of Workers in Commerce (the Italian trade union concerned), the Provincial Labour Office, nor the Italian Foreign Office has sought a conference with the Embassy on the matter. [More…]
As Senator McManus pointed out, they have been merged against their will into an artificial federation called Yugoslavia, which attracts the loyalty of nobody. [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that on 25th August last the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures and the Victorian Employers Federation provided a dinner for the former Premier of Victoria, Sir Henry Bolte, and that the band of HMAS ‘Cerberus’ was provided by the Department of the Navy for this function? [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the AttorneyGeneral, by pointing out that the Victorian Soccer Federation, in a conciliatory gesture, has negotiated for a soccer team known as Croatia to change its name to Batman in an effort to reduce tensions arising out of ethnic differences between former European migrants. [More…]
I am unable to connect the statements made by the honourable senator with what the Victor ian Soccer Federation has done or what it is alleged to have done with regard to the Croatia Soccer Club. [More…]
I would think that none of us would quarrel with the view that we are a federation and that it is most desirable to have uniformity in legislation which affects the common weal and has an impact upon the common welfare of the people. [More…]
Did officers of the Department of Health meet representatives of the Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association of Australia and the Australian Federation of Private Hospitals (New South Wales) on 5th and 13th July to consider the position of New South Wales private hospitals under the Hospitals Benefits Scheme. [More…]
1 ..e Minister for Primary Industry will be meeting the leaders of the wheat industry and the Australian Wheat Growers Federation very shortly. [More…]
I feel quite sure that, following meetings with the Wheat Growers Federation and the Agricultural Council, the Minister will be in a position to make a statement, and no doubt he will make it without any delay. [More…]
I think all honourable senators know of my long and sustained interest in this matter and of my great belief that the outstanding problem to be resolved in the Australian Federation is that of governmental relationships and what we are all trying to do in our general areas for the benefit of the Australian people. [More…]
It is no longer necessary to break up big estates which is why the system began in the States prior to federation. [More…]
So a voting age of only 18 in a federation such as Canada, which is an advanced country is not acceptable. [More…]
We have in this country ever since Federation accepted that the right to vote at Federal elections is to be granted to those persons who are adults. [More…]
That is right, and it has taken ail these years since federation to achieve some unanimity between the States and to arrive at a proper plan. [More…]
Did the Director of Safety for the Australian Federation of Air Pilots state that the average Australian airline pilot cannot cope adequately with one of the most common emergencies in aviation, that of an abortive take-off. [More…]
It is not known whether the Director of Safety for the Federation of Air Pilots made such a statement, but it is known that on 24th August 1972 he presented a paper entitled ‘The Pilot and Air Safety’ to a Symposium conducted by the Federation at Melbourne. [More…]
It is fair to say that each of the education bodies in Australia, certainly those in my State, such as the Australian Teachers Federation, the parents and citizens associations and all education bodies that have ever approached me as a delegation have emphasised that they support State sovereignty in education. [More…]
The Federation’s eighth point was: [More…]
The Federation then referred to these propositions, which seem to me to be reasonable in relation to who should comprise the management of Qantas: [More…]
However, the Senate has been very concerned, as the Minister well knows, with this performance for nearly the last 2 years and we have the problem where - belatedly, of course - the Government or Qantas has accepted the idea of low cost charter fares which the Federation of Air Pilots and others in the industry had been thrashing for a long time, lt seems to me that what has been referred to by the Minister in his current report are matters which were put to Qantas management over 12 months ago. [More…]
The Australian Federation of Ail Pilots had this to say also, and I hope that the Minister, even if he does not reply at this stage, will consider it at some subsequent time. [More…]
The Federation has said that the staff relationships policies of the management have been designed to create fear and insecurity among the staff and are more suitable for the 19th century than the 1970s when enlightened management is working towards inspiring active support and co-operation of staff. [More…]
The Federation said that retrenchments last year were made as inhumanly as possibly: Pilots were notified of seniority numbers only and that after the announcement dozens of wives, many crying and distraught, whose husbands were overseas, rang the Federation to find out whether they were affected. [More…]
As that eminent journalist and broadcaster, Frank Chamberlain, said this morning on radio, this is the worst government since Federation. [More…]
If he says that this Government is the worst government since Federation he would base that statement on a long experience of many governments composed of parties from both sides of the Senate. [More…]
In actual fact, I am told that Mr Renshaw, a member of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, is currently touring the State, of New South Wales, telling people somewhat confidentially that the Government proposes to set up this Corporation and appoint the directors to it for terms of between 3 and 5 years in order to tie the hands of a potential Labor government after 2nd December. [More…]
I have wilh me a communication from the Apple and Pear Growers Federation of Tasmania. [More…]
The Federation puts up quite a strong case for a Tasmanian fruit industry authority. [More…]
Knowing the nature of the industry very thoroughly, and understanding it very well, the Federation has said that because of the need for urgent action there will have to be widespread grubbing of orchards at the conclusion of the present harvest. [More…]
The Federation’s great worry is that, with these greatly reduced quantities, servicing of industry requirements will be more difficult economically and there could be serious problems in arranging satisfactory shipping programmes. [More…]
The Apple and Pear Growers Federation is alarmed that governments are going to all lengths to assist other new industries at a time when Tasmania is faced with the loss of one of its biggest and, in the past, best agricultural industries. [More…]
The Federation points out, as I have said before, the economic circumstances and competitive conditions overseas make it imperative to establish an Authority if fruit growing is to continue as a major industry in Tasmania and if Tasmanian growers are to have any chance of competing satisfactorily with New Zealand and South Africa on overseas markets. [More…]
The Federation believes that this is only the first step in a long process. [More…]
The Federation believes that, despite the problems involved in the apple and pear industry, there is an urgent need for special consideration over and above the present measures that are being introduced - that is, loans and stabilisation schemes and the present tree pull scheme - and that this Authority should be responsible for the export of all apples. [More…]
I make that appeal in a general sense but I am fortified by what has been said to me by Harry Blyth, the Builders Labourers Federation delegate who points out to me that there seems to be an abnormal delay in finalising compensation cases. [More…]
Did the PostmasterGeneral on 12th October 1970 advise the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters that despite numerous representations made to him the Government had decided at that time not to pursue any amendment to section 1 1 6 which would completely lift the restriction on the broadcasting of electoral matter from midnight on the Wednesday preceding an election until after the poll closed? [More…]
I applaud the provisions of this Bill, which give real strength and meaning to federation in Australia. [More…]
This is to be expected in a country like Australia where the oldest States, Victoria and New South Wales, are the largest States and it is fair and proper that in a federation we should all seek to help each other. [More…]
The federation cannot be static. [More…]
In a federation I think it is fair to say that we ought always to be vigilant in regard to equality of opportunity within the total Australian resource. [More…]
In a federation of the various Slates - some wealthier than others - this is a reasonable course, I think, to pursue in the Commonwealth Senate. [More…]
We are seeking to ensure that within the Australian federation of States we will as far as possible achieve some equality of opportunity, and it is in that spirit that this Bill comes forward with provision for grants in particular to Queensland. [More…]
I might say in passing that were it earlier in the session ] would be persuaded to do some more work on this because I am of the view that within the federation (financial adjustment is a field that lends itself to quite some degree of extra work. [More…]
I direct the Commonwealth Government’s attention to the views of the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations on this subject. [More…]
lt has been suggested by the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations that various undesirable consequences will flow from the Commonwealth Government’s attention to one particular sector. [More…]
In order to confine my remarks, I seek the concurrence of the Senate to the incorporation in Hansard of the comments which have been made by the very renowned Australian Federation of Child Care Associations on what are. [More…]
Senator Webster asked for leave to incorporate a statement made by the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations. [More…]
Is he aware that any attempt to reduce fuel reserves will be resisted in the public interest by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, and that this attitude on their part may lead to a strike if this new fuel policy is imposed? [More…]
Consultations are going on between the Department of Civil Aviation, the operators - that would be the airlines - and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots in relation to a review of the current requirements for the carriage of reserve fuel on jet aircraft. [More…]
Our history, particularly since Federation and through 2 major wars and the smaller wars including the Korean War, has shown that a tremendous capital capability has been required in order to create and to provide the things which this country and the people of this country need. [More…]
I have before me a number of articles on this subject and a letter which all senators have received from Mr Cowan, the General Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
28 of 1973 - Royal Australian Nursing Federation. [More…]
This House asserting in a particular manner its role as the custodian of the rights of the States within the Federation and honourable senators their role as representing the component States of the Federation, take into immediate consideration the following: [More…]
However, the motion I have moved today reinforces the original concept and character of the Senate, which is that it should operate as a States House protecting the States within the Federation. [More…]
This House asserting in a particular manner its role as the custodian of the rights of the States within the Federation and honourable senators their role as representing the component States of the Federation, take into immediate consideration the follow-‘ ing . [More…]
The preamble particularly requests the Senate to advert to its role as the custodian of the, rights of the States within the Federation. [More…]
and honourable senators asserting their role as representing the component States of the Federation. [More…]
I reiterate that that is why we are here and today we have a very rare opportunity of protesting our position and exercising our right as representing a component State of the Federation. [More…]
The encroachment by the Commonwealth in any State sphere of activity or power, or the physical encroachment by the Commonwealth for reasons of geography, whether they relate to the continental shelf or anything else, has overtones for every State of the Federation. [More…]
It appears that Queensland had agreed to a relocation of the border before Federation but such relocation was never finally effected and the border remains in its original position today. [More…]
I suggest also to those honourable senators who want to inform themselves properly on the suggestions and the proposals that have been put forward in the past for a variation of the boundary, that they should go into the Parliamentary Library and take note of the very excellent display there, which indicates that this border dispute, problem or controversy - call it what you will - has been one that has extended back to before Federation. [More…]
lt is the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Nursing which was commissioned by the Council of the Queensland Branch of the Royal Australasian Nursing Federation. [More…]
28 of 1973 - Royal Australian Nursing Federation. [More…]
He took part in the debates and said that, only members of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia could work in the industry under that agreement. [More…]
Mr Maynes made the point which I made earlier, that in the waterfront industry and the stevedoring authority every person who wishes to work in that industry joins the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The late Jim Cummings was President of the Waterside Workers Federation’s Melbourne Branch. [More…]
Having regard to the oft repeated statement of the Minister for Primary Industry that if an industry would submit a case the Government would give a decision, I ask- the Minister whether the Apple and Pear Growers Federation of Tasmania submitted to him on 5th January 1973 a case for compensation?’ [More…]
When the honourable senator speaks of a recommendation, 1 presume he means the recommendation by the Federation- [More…]
The Commonwealth, for example, by legislation requires that a waterside worker be a member of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
If the Victorian Employers Federation is accepted as a body with a right to have a positive opinion on this matter, it should be noted that it has estimated an ongoing cost to private industry of at least $2m a day. [More…]
If so, has he consulted his colleague the Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots on the possibly dangerous consequences to the travelling public of this action? [More…]
I am aware of the fact that the Australian Federation of Air Pilots last year expressed some opinion about the film. [More…]
My colleague in the Australian Democratic Labor Party, Senator Little, was an official of the Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation. [More…]
The Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation adopts a closed shop principle in relation to the boot factories. [More…]
However, the main organisations concerned, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders will be consulted and their advice obtained on aspects to be included in the explanatory statement. [More…]
But this is not strange, because one can recall that even in the early days of Federation there was violent dissent by some members of Parliament against the legislation that was at that time placed before the people. [More…]
I venture to say that this first session of this Parliament will be the most momentous in the history of the Australian Federation, and it will be so because, with the advent of a Labor Government, there will be for the first time after 23 years such drastic changes in government policy that the lives of each and every one of us will be affected. [More…]
When federation was brought about in 1901, those who brought it about hoped that the people generally, once they got used to the federal system would gradually clothe the national Parliament with more authority. [More…]
Did the Minister state last week that the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders will be consulted and their advice obtained on aspects to be included in the explanatory notes? [More…]
I recall that the building and construction workers union mentioned - it is, in fact, the Builders Labourers Federation - was described in debates recently as the most despicable outfit in Australia because of its activities in industrial disputes. [More…]
Now the Federation is an authority on whether homes in the course of construction will be shoddy or otherwise. [More…]
As honourable senators may be aware, the age qualification for candidature at Federal elections has been coincidental with the minimum age for enrolment and voting since federation and the Government takes the view that there is no logical reason to depart from the uniform age practice under Commonwealth electoral law. [More…]
It has been alleged that the Attorney-General visited the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation late at night in company with members of the Commonwealth Police Force - not, it will be noted, in company with members of the Australian Labor Party, in company with members of the Waterside Workers Federation, in company with members of the Communist Party or in company with staff of the Yugoslav Embassy, but in company with members of the Commonwealth Police Force. [More…]
When Senator Townley accepted the payment which was prescribed by law when he stood for election, surely he was enough of a man of the world to know that it could be altered at some time, as it has been altered from time to time since federation. [More…]
It was the honourable member for Wannon’s inability to understand the working of the levy system which led to his quite erroneous and unworthy accusation that a deal had been done between the AEWL, the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the parties to the Stevedoring Industry Council. [More…]
An arrangement whereby some casual out-ports were subsidising others was rejected entirely by the parties to the discussions, including the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the ACTU on the grounds that it was improper for some small ports which may well have problems of their own to be forced to carry additional costs to maintain another port or ports. [More…]
The redistribution provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act which, until 1965, had stood virtually unchanged since Federation were altered in such a way that the principle of substantial equality of representation between electoral divisions was almost eliminated. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to earlier concern expressed by the Waterside Workers Federation, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association and the Transport Workers Union about some safety measures in relation to different types of overhead cranes, forklifts and lifting appliances generally. [More…]
In the 23 years of administration by the LiberalCountry Party Government, despite requests which were made from time to time by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters, the former PostmasterGeneral, Sir Alan Hulme, and his predecessors would not agree to the repeal of the section. [More…]
I might say that, although I did not see or hear the interview with representatives of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation in Melbourne yesterday, I understand that the docu ment submitted to me by the Federation is now a public document. [More…]
In that document the Federation itself has written in the principle of no more ‘ open ended agreements. [More…]
The amount that is nominated in the Federation’s submission is a matter on which the Federation should advance a case to me. [More…]
It is sufficient to say that the Federation also’ accepts that there should be no more open ended commitments. [More…]
1 think 1 indicated to Senator Drake-Brockman who asked a question on this matter last week that this principle is now accepted by the Australian Wheat Growers Federation. [More…]
The amount of $30m per annum nominated in its submission obviously is one for negotiation between the Federation and the Government. [More…]
The main point is that the Federation accepts the principle that openended agreements are no longer valid agreements to which the Government ought to commit itself. [More…]
I recall that the Builders Labourers Federation was critical of Australian workmen for not being capable of building a house of proper standards. [More…]
Many of the problems which have arisen in the past 70 years could not have been foreseen at the time of Federation. [More…]
I think it is true to say that since Federation the charge could never have been levelled at any government that it conducted a deliberate gerrymander by setting out to fiddle with the Act. [More…]
The criteria which have existed since federation and which have been accepted by all governments in the interests of truly representative government are to be changed. [More…]
If he had said that in 1965 when certain amendments to section 19 were sought by the Coalition Government, that would have been the first time in the history of Federation that that section has been amended or tinkered with because it was in 1965 that the then coalition Liberal-Country Party Government, which was dominated in electoral matters by the Country Party, introduced amendments to section 19 which were a distinct weighting in favour of the Country Party. [More…]
But the most important thing that the Bill seeks is to do away with the glaring references introduced into the legislature in 1965 for the first time since federation. [More…]
Of course they were simply in line with the 20 per cent margin which had been in operation since Federation. [More…]
The onus is on the Labor Government of the day to say why these principles are wrong now if they were right then and were right throughout the 70 years of federation. [More…]
It is true that the specifics of this provision were written into the Act in, 1 think, 1965 but it is equally true that throughout the 70 years of federation the distribution commissioners read those terms into the existing Act and carried out distributions in accordance with them. [More…]
In other words, since federation distribution commissioners .have always considered the specifics regarding the difficulties and disabilities of size, remoteness and distance. [More…]
I think it has already been pointed out that the 20 per cent tolerance has been in the Commonwealth Electoral Act since just after federation. [More…]
I believe that the Bill is part of a master plan to enable the Government to centralise and socialise everything in Australia, to destroy our federal system of strong States united in a federation, and to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
I believe that this Commonwealth Parliament since Federation- [More…]
I was in the course of saying that I believe that the Commonwealth democratic system, as operated by the Commonwealth Parliament since Federation, has reflected the will of the people, with few exceptions, better than those systems operated in most other countries. [More…]
It is true that the one-fifth provision has been in existence since federation but the legislation was worded in such a way as to make it exceptional for a 10 per cent differential to be exceeded. [More…]
It is true as I have said that the one-fifth provision has existed since federation, but the wording of the section was stated in such a way as to make it exceptional to exceed a 10 per cent differential. [More…]
All of us know that debates of this nature on electoral gerrymanders and injustices have occurred in this Parliament, I suppose, since Federation. [More…]
No, not since federation. [More…]
If one studies the records of the Senate dating back to federation and notes the facts concerning the establishment of select committees one ascertains that there is no rule at all which says that the Government shall have a majority on such a committee. [More…]
Will the Minister at the table be truthful enough to say that since the federation of this great country that cries out for development we have concentrated people in the metropolitan areas and that is where we find the attraction to expend money? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Civil Aviation.Is the Minister aware that the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, a body embracing employees of Australian airlines, is not a registered body under the terms of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act ? [More…]
And further, clauses 10 and 14, taken together, make it clear that sovereignty over the internal waters of Australia, including their airspace, bed and sub-soil, is also vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, with the exception, however, of those waters which were internal waters of a State at the time of Federation and which still remain within the limits of the State. [More…]
Unfortunately it is quite common knowledge within the Commonwealth that the Australian Federation is undergoing very severe strains and stresses. [More…]
Whatever might be our views about this Bill it would be commonly accepted that the preservation of Australia as a viable nation and of the Australian Federation as the means by which the nation operates effectively ai all levels, is something which would be the common purpose of us all. [More…]
Therefore the suggestion propounded by Senator Withers for a last effort, even though it is a last desperate effort, to be made in co-operation with the States and in the concept of co-operative federalism to achieve some modus operandi which can do equity between the components of the Federation, without creating any further stresses and strains such as those already disrupting the Federation, seems most appropriate at this stage. [More…]
There already are stresses and strains within the Federation and we should lose no opportunity to try, in the interests of the Australian Nation, to put salve onto the wounds which have opened up in Australia. [More…]
It obviously would have been better, in the origins of Federation, to have had uniformity established from then on and, as far as possible, to have had uniformity throughout Australia. [More…]
We are a nation, a federation. [More…]
The, Government has made financial contributions to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. [More…]
I am equally sure that anyone who has the interests of the 3 levels of government in the federation at heart will look forward with very great interest to the Grants Com mission’s report on its inquiries into the financial needs of local governing bodies. [More…]
The Senate being the House which was created under that Constitution primarily to have regard to the interests of the States in this federation, I believe that it is our obligation to ensure that the State governments and State parliaments are given every opportunity to have consultations with the Commonwealth Government before a Bill of such magnitude as this is passed by the Senate. [More…]
Of course, prior to Federation there could have been no doubt as to who controlled the offshore submerged lands of the States of Australia. [More…]
On this issue the Premier of every State has interpreted the votes which were given to his party and which enabled him to form a government to mean that the people want that government to retain the powers which have always been considered since Federation to reside with the States and which, without question or doubt, resided in the hands of the States before Federation. [More…]
The Commonwealth believes that, except for internal waters as they existed at federation, it has sovereign rights in this area. [More…]
The States have some rights in our federation. [More…]
That was the Agreement in a Commonwealth where free trade among the 6 States was a cardinal principle of federation back as far as 1900. [More…]
Now that the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations has agreed with the Australian Broadcasting Control Board that the points system for Australian content is workable, can the Minister inform the Senate whether this system provides fewer points for repeat programs? [More…]
I should say, first of all, that I was very pleased to hear the news last night that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations have agreed that the points system as proposed and as drawn up by the Board is workable in principle. [More…]
I cannot at this stage make public details of the points system because part of the agreement entered into between the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television stations yesterday was that details should be kept confidential until the matter is finally settled. [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to making representations so that Noumea may not be included in the series of bans being operated in Australia, particularly by the Australian Waterside Workers Federation? [More…]
It is, of course, customary for nominations to be made by the grower organisation, which I think is the Australian Vegetable Growers Federation in this case. [More…]
The Western Australian Branch of the Federation of Airline Pilots appointed a committee of experienced captains to prepare a submission on this matter. [More…]
If TAA were to be phased in on one or two flights a week on the PerthDarwin service to begin with there would be, in the view of the Pilots Federation, little dislocation of services. [More…]
For the first time since Federation the Commonwealth is to make funds available to local government bodies to enable them to reach a minimum standard of development. [More…]
We are now writing local government into a new place within the Australian Federation, not perhaps in any formal constitutional sense, but pragmatically as a situation which is accepted and which from now on will be acknowledged. [More…]
But they will enjoy a new and improved and enlarged stature within the federation. [More…]
For 70 years since the cessation of the Braddon clause - I think that is what it was called - which continued for a few years after federation, all of the States, not just the claimant States, have been in financial difficulty. [More…]
Mr E. Dwyer-Gray went on to analyse the position that had existed right up to that year from federation. [More…]
After attending those 2 conventions the New Zealand representatives said that they would not attend any more because they were not partial to the idea of entering into the Australian federation at all. [More…]
In 1904, 4 years after Federation, all parties combined in one unanimous purpose to create the system in the hope that the leaders of the working unions would adopt it to supply solution of their disputes by peaceful and unwasteful means instead of by prolonged strikes, bitterness and conflict. [More…]
We, as a national government in a federation - this is a point which has been adverted to particularly in respect to the United States in connection with the ILO - are unable to determine whether particular requirements of conventions are being observed in the States. [More…]
CAMS, the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport, is the Australian body and the FIA, the Federation Internationale de 1’Automobile, is the world controller. [More…]
In order that the smaller States were given full protection, the basic principle of Federation was equality of Senate representation of the original States and that all proposed legislation must have the majority assent of the Senate before being enacted. [More…]
I think it would be of interest to honourable senators if I were to quote at this stage the view which was held by someone prior to Federation. [More…]
That may be so but I want to quote part of a report which appears at page 58 in the ‘Australian Federation 1901’. [More…]
All Federal Governments have their Senates or Councils of the States, and in all of them the Senate is based upon the principle that in a Federation the States must be represented as well as the people. [More…]
At Federation it was devised to link together in unity a number of co-equal political communities under a common system of government. [More…]
For this reason at Federation the original States were given equality of representation in one chamber of the Parliament so that they might effectively resist at the legislative stage any attempt to invade and violate their rights as States. [More…]
We all know - it has been said repeatedly - that if a Senate system had not been devised we probably never would have had a Federation. [More…]
It is a principle of Federation without which the Australian colonies would not have agreed to the compact. [More…]
Therefore, the present Bill seeks to change the whole basis of our Federation. [More…]
Why are members of the Australian Labor Party in Government so intent on destroying this edifice which was the conception of the fathers of Federation? [More…]
Those great men worked tirelessly for years to get a federation of the States on the basis of equality of all States and of protection for the smaller States against the larger States. [More…]
The whole principle 01 federation was equality of Senate representation for the original States and that all legislation, as was mentioned by Senator Gair, must have the assent of a majority of senators. [More…]
From a reading of the Convention debates it is extremely doubtful whether the smaller States would have agreed to federation if they had not been able to achieve equality of representation and without the guarantee that they would maintain equality of representation. [More…]
Equality of representation, it is argued, is a natural corollary of State representation, because the colonies were, prior to federation, politically equal; equal in constitutional power and status, although not necessarily equal in territory or population. [More…]
Federation were equal constitutionally and politically. [More…]
But such territory representatives in the Senate under this Bill are to have full voting rights and could as non-State representatives hold the balance of power in an institution set up to safeguard the interests of the States - a principle embodied in the Constitution without which Federation would not have been accomplished. [More…]
If we allow this Bill to pass we will be sounding the death knell of the States and our federation. [More…]
It was prepared in consultation with the constituent bodies of the Australian Wool Industry Conference namely the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Wool Growers and Graziers Council, and also the Stud and Merino Breeders Association. [More…]
The next redistribution according to the practice adopted by both Labor and non-Labor governments since Federation is due after the next census in 1976. [More…]
It carried out wide-ranging investigations and produced 3 reports which documented firm suport for the School from commercial film producers, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Commonwealth Film Unit, guilds and unions, and educational institutions. [More…]
These reports indicated firm support for the School from commercial film producers, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting -Commission, the Commonwealth Film Unit, guilds and unions, and educational institutions. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Growers Federation made certain proposals which included a request for a guaranteed export price and a guaranteed home price. [More…]
At that time nobody - I am sure the Wheat Growers Federation included - envisaged that wheat prices on the world market would increase as they have. [More…]
It has been an established principle since Federation that the development of the national capital be carried out only by or on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
I merely want to say that this Bill contains provisions which would revoke principles that have been accepted in this Parliament almost since Federation. [More…]
I have also discussed the matter with the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters and it has asked me to prepare a list of the types of organisations which might be interested in obtaining some form of access to the commercial broadcasting area. [More…]
Mrs Rolfe, an economist employed by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and beyond doubt a competent witness if ever there was one, has spoken about the fact that the representatives whom the Federation sent to a consultative panel - Mr RobertsThomson had something similar to say about the Pea Panel - had had a condition of secrecy imposed upon them. [More…]
As the Federation’s economist, I wanted to know what was going on there. [More…]
In reports to the Federation I recall our representative saying: ‘I would like to report but I cannot’. [More…]
Now we have some very upset delegates in the Federation, very upset. [More…]
That is what happened to a delegate from an established federation in this country who sat on a joint Australia-New Zealand panel. [More…]
That is what was said by Mr Jones, the Executive Officer of the Carpet Manufacturers Federation of Australia. [More…]
The Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, at Federation, applied to both the Federal Commonwealth and also to the Australian States. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite took the opportunity to talk to officials of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia, the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia and the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia they would learn of the human interest stories that are involved with respect to those who work in those industries. [More…]
Gold made Federation possible in 1 900. [More…]
In connection with this latter paragraph of the Treasury’s publication I think it is relevant again to quote the Treasurer who, in his address to the Co-operative Federation of Australia in Canberra on 25 August 1973, said: [More…]
So far as ABC radio is concerned, the Commission is looking at public access programs in this regard and I too am conducting negotiations with the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters. [More…]
I understand that the Minister has received a detailed submission from the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation on a new 5-year wheat stabilisation plan. [More…]
I have received a detailed submission from the Wheatgrowers Federation on its views on the forthcoming wheat stabilisation agreement. [More…]
But I will be discussing the matter again with the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation before any final decision is taken. [More…]
I have some figures which are taken from the report of the Victorian Employers Federation and which relate to a study undertaken between March 1967 and December 1972. [More…]
We are a federation in Australia; we have the Commonwealth Government, now described by the Government as the Australian Government, and the State governments. [More…]
For example, Mr Fitzgibbon, the General Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, said in his submission: [More…]
In the Federation’s view the pertinent points for consideration are these: Australia is a country that produces a surplus of meat which is available for export. [More…]
We are not in the days of Federation when 6 States.had to make an agreement and enumerate a number of heads. [More…]
He served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly until the establishment of Federation in 1 900. [More…]
At the time of Federation there was keen anxiety to keep the cost of the seventh legislature - [More…]
Although in theory equal status is conferred upon women, honourable senators will recall that there has been no woman judge since Federation, no woman permanent head of any Commonwealth department and, I think, only one woman in about 800 officers in the Second Division of the Public Service. [More…]
Was this firm the subject of some criticism by the Tasmanian Farmers Federation? [More…]
-I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Transport to the reported statements of the President of the Australian Road Federation that a national highways system would be of tremendous defence value to Australia. [More…]
Similarly, because the clause in the Bill dealing with the Moore v. Doyle situation did not become law, the problem of solving the demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which disrupted the Sydney waterfront for weeks became almost insoluble. [More…]
He understands that the Australian Federation of Air Pilots has convened a meeting for 2.15 p.m. tomorrow with the Australasian Airline Flight Engineers Association, the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and the Transport Workers Union of Australia to consider this question. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Primary Industry say whether reports are true that he has filled the producer vacancy on the Australian Dairy Produce Board with an appointee from an organisation other than the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation? [More…]
It has been the practice in the past for the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation to make the nomination, and the appointee has been a member of that Federation. [More…]
We have had regulation of wages ever since we have had federation. [More…]
As my colleague, Senator James McClelland, mentioned, there were overtones of the Moore v Doyle case in the problem that arose between the Transport Workers’ Union of New South Wales and the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
Of course I would not think that the pushing down of the fence of the Ford Motor Company of Australia Ltd was within the limits of authority expressly or impliedly conferred on a member by the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation the following question: In view of some pessimistic assessments made by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots on the future viability of Qantas Airways Ltd, can we obtain any indication whether that airline intends to expand its operations into eastern European countries? [More…]
If a conciliation commissioner goes into his court room one morning and has appearing before him, say, a vigilance officer from the Waterside Workers Federation who tells him: The waterside workers have been asked to handle a sulphide cargo and it is a noxious job’ and the shipping company representative says: We will settle for an extra payment of 10c’, the conciliation commissioner, recalling what he read in the ‘Financial Review’, will say: ‘It is not on*. [More…]
When we talk about collective agreements we could consider some of those that have been negotiated for the Waterside Workers Federation by Charlie Fitzgibbons with some of the smaller stevedoring companies. [More…]
Is he also aware that they are being aided and abetted by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations? [More…]
I also am not aware that the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, commonly referred to as FACTS, has engaged any company specifically for lobbying members of Parliament. [More…]
I can tell the honourable senator, however, that some distibutors have been to see me about the Tariff Board report and related matters, but certainly not the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
From my discussions previously and even those with members of the Australian Farmers Federation at lunch time, I have gathered that there is an air of satisfaction with the present position and that many of the forebodings expressed by members of the Opposition prior to the advent of this Government have not come to pass. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that at the request of conservation bodies, citizen and resident action groups, the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation has imposed green bans’ on development in the Sydney region to an estimated value of $3,000m? [More…]
Senator Wright would know that at one time there were complaints about the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
This Government has sought to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to enable agreements similar to those entered into by the Waterside Workers Federation to be entered into by other unions. [More…]
A union- whether it is the Seamen’s Union, or the Waterside Workers Federation, one of the airline unions or a refuelling union- can do a lot of damage to us. [More…]
The Tariff Board was established in 1921 and it has been an important and respected source of advice to 21 of the 28 Parliaments which have been elected since Federation. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Primary Industry seen reports in this morning’s Press that Mr Noel Hogan, President of the Australian Farmers Federation, has claimed that farmers have been fooled and deluded by the Country Party and that he has declared himself in opposition to the Country Party’s stand against the Industries Assistance Commission? [More…]
In fact, I was a guest of the Australian Farmers Federation at the function referred to in the Press report. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation or any other trade union could teach the legal profession something about trade union unity. [More…]
Given the problems that beset the Builders Labourers Federation official Jack Mundey at the moment, could the Opposition’s proposal not be open to discrimination? [More…]
I agree with a lot of Mr Mundey ‘s militant attitudes on conservation, but if some member of the judiciary or the establishment resented Mundey being involved in this sort of thing, does Senator Greenwood mean that he could not appear as a spokesman for the Builders Labourer Federation, even if members of the union wanted him to do so? [More…]
The Bill also makes provision for regulations to impose any lower rate of tax than 15c per tonne after consideration by the Governor-General of a report to the Minister by the Australian Wheatgrower’s Federation. [More…]
The measure implements the proposals of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation. [More…]
In line with the recommendation of the Federation it is envisaged that following the passage of the Act regulations would be prescribed to set the operative rate of levy at 1 lc per tonne on deliveries to the Board commencing with the 1 973-74 season. [More…]
Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The moral of this story is that the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation had a conflict. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation, within the last 2 years, absorbed 600 unionists from Carrington. [More…]
When the Federal Council of the Waterside Workers Federation and the Newcastle branch officers of the union said that they would have those unionists, the Waterside Workers Federation certainly did not want to have the cost of a ballot of its entire membership when there was to be an increase of only 600. [More…]
The other point I wish to make is that the small segments that the Federated Ironworkers Association and the Waterside Workers Federation wanted to absorb, were so insignificant that they would not disturb the balance of power within the large unions. [More…]
Withers has failed to observe the principle that has been established since Federation, namely, that urban development of this national capital has been and will be carried out only by and on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
The advertisement is sponsored by the Australian Teachers Federation, the Australian Council of State Schools Organisations, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Wood, Principal of St Michael’s School for the Handicapped just outside Launceston; Mr McNamara, President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations; Father F. Martin, Director of Catholic Education in Victoria; Mrs J. Kirner, who was selected from a panel of names presented by the Australian Council of State School Organisations; Mr Ray Costello, President of the Queensland Teachers Union; Mr Albert Jones, Director of Education in South Australia; Dr Peter Tannock, a young man who is Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Western Australia; and Mrs J. Blackburn, who has been an outstanding member of teachers college staffs in South Australia. [More…]
But apart from the appointment of the Chairman, which honourable senators opposite are prepared to concede to the Government, they are prepared to concede, on the recommendation of the Minister, the appointment of only 5 other members and of those two are to come from a panel submitted by the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
4 which suggest that the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations should have to submit a panel and that the Government should select from that panel the people who will be on the Commission. [More…]
As far as I am concerned- my Party agrees- I think that we ought to trust the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations to appoint their representatives. [More…]
We see no reason why the independent schools should have the right to appoint their representatives, yet the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations should not be permitted to appoint their representatives but should be informed that they will have to submit a panel for the consideration of the Minister. [More…]
I shall move amendments by which the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations will be given the same privilege as the independent schools organisations. [More…]
The Teachers Federation had been telling that Government for many years that that was the problem in education. [More…]
If so, will the Minister explain why taxpayers’ funds are expended to justify strike action and bans on work imposed by the communist led Builders Labourers Federation and to promote the former secretary of that Federation? [More…]
It goes right back into the early history of federation. [More…]
July of next year as has been sought by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations? [More…]
In submissions to and discussions with the Committee the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations argued strongly for the right to nominate representatives as members of the Commission. [More…]
Like the Australian Teachers Federation, ACSSO submitted to the Minister a panel of nominees from which one was chosen as a part-time commissioner. [More…]
The very latest and most immediate submission from this organisation reveals that the 2 main bodies, the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations submitted to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a panel from which one person was chosen by the Minister. [More…]
The relevant amendment, as circulated, concerning the teacher organisations says this: the Chairman and five other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organisations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]
Wood, Principal of St Michael’s School for the Handicapped just outside Launceston, which is a category specified by our amendments; Mr McNamara, President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends’ Associations, a category which we provide in terms of our amendment; Father F. Martin, Director of Catholic Education in Victoria, which is a similar category; Mrs J. Kirner, who was selected from a panel of names presented by the Australian Council of State School Organisations- and we, of course, would allow for 2 such persons. [More…]
In submissions to and discussions with the Committee the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations argued strongly for the right to nominate representatives as members of the Commission. [More…]
In submissions to and discussions with the Committee, the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations argued strongly for the right to nominate representatives as members of the Commission. [More…]
That is 25 years after Federation. [More…]
Has the Minister read the booklet ‘Compendium of the Australian Public Service’ which lists the growth of the Public Service since Federation? [More…]
In order that the smaller States were given full protection, the basic principle of Federation was equality of Senate representation of the original States and that all proposed legislation must have the majority assent of the Senate before being enacted. [More…]
Even though Tasmania has 400,000 people and New South Wales has 4 million, it is part of the original fundamental compact upon which the Federation of Australia was founded that New South Wales and Tasmania have a representation in the Senate of equal potency. [More…]
Without that fundamental, prescient and prudent agreement we would never have got to the beginnings of federation. [More…]
Rudyard Kipling said when he visited Melbourne in 1894: ‘I see that your cause of federation is dawdling.’ [More…]
You will have federation within a month’. [More…]
I remind these Johnnies-come-Lately of the fundamental influences which forged federation in this country. [More…]
In submissions to and discussions with the Committee, the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations argued strongly for the right to nominate representatives as members of the Commission. [More…]
Like the Australian Teachers Federation, ACSSO submitted to the Minister a panel of nominees from which one was chosen as a pan-time commissioner. [More…]
Like the Australian Teachers Federation, ACSSO submitted to the Minister a panel of nominees from which one was chosen as a part-time commissioner. [More…]
the Chairman and live other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organizations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]
There is one from the Teachers’ Federation- a Mr Costello- not two as Senator Carrick suggested in his speech. [More…]
Apart from that two would have to be appointed from a panel presented by the Teachers Federation and six would have to be appointed- not ‘may’ but shall’- on the recommendation of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
the Chairman and five other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organisations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than S persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]
Then, two shall be from a panel presented by the Teachers Federation and six on the recommendation of the Australian Education Council- that is, in effect, the State Ministers for Education who must, by definition, dominate that Council; and 3 others, one from the Episcopal Conference, one from the National Council of Independent Schools and one from the Australian Parents Council. [More…]
the Chairman and five other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organizations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names, submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]
We accept that the Australian Teachers Federation represents the largest body of teachers in primary and secondary government schools. [More…]
Notwithstanding that, we believe that the Australian Teachers Federation is representative of the teachers of Australia in its constitution. [More…]
We believe that many of the teachers of Australia should take a more active interest in the affairs of the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
The Minister would also have the right to select 2 teachers from a panel of five submitted by the body which I am sure is generally accepted as being representative of the Australian Government primary and secondary school teachers- the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
In using the word ‘representative’ what we have accepted- we have had many discussions about this and I am sure that other honourable senators have also had many discussions about this- is that bodies such as ACSSO- the Australian Council of State School Organisationsthe 3 New South Wales federations which have expressed their views to us on many occasions, the Victorian Federation of State School Mothers Clubs and various other organisations all of which I could refer to in detail are keen to have what they call representation of parents and teachers on the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
For instance, if educationalists are members of the Australian Teachers Federation, that does not mean that they will have, as members of the Schools Commission, a narrow, mean and selfish outlook. [More…]
The fact that they are chosen from a panel- not necessarily a narrow panel, but a wide panel- automatically suggests that they are people who will give good service to the cause of education, not to the Teachers Federation. [More…]
two other members who shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the Australia Teachers’ Federation; and [More…]
the Chairman and five other members upon the recom mendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organisations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]
It states: a panel of not less than 5 persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers ‘Federation . [More…]
From that Federation one member is selected. [More…]
Does everybody know that not all members of the teaching profession are members of the Federation? [More…]
In those circumstances, no matter how brilliant such a person may be he cannot be selected because he has not been nominated by the Teachers Federation. [More…]
Also, head teachers are not always members of the Teachers Federation. [More…]
In one of the States of the Commonwealth there may be an outstanding headmaster who cannot be appointed to the Commission by the Government because the Teachers Federation will not nominate him. [More…]
I refer to the Federation of Parents and Friends in New South Wales. [More…]
To take the New South Wales situation, there is a cleavage of opinion between the Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations in New South Wales and others. [More…]
But the Victorian Federation of State School Mothers’ Clubs, the New South Wales Federation of Parent and Citizens Associations and the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation all wanted involvement. [More…]
two other members who shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the Australian Teachers’ Federation; and [More…]
When the first request was received from the Gliding Federation of Australia for assistance from the RAAF in the form of some towing by Air Force aircraft, the Government at the time, on the advice of the RAAF, decided that the necessary alterations or modifications to Winjeel aircraft would be too expensive. [More…]
The point about it is that there is an element of need and justification for these proposed hours of sitting, because we are coming towards the end of the session, and ever since Federation there has always been an effort made to lengthen our sitting times to meet it. [More…]
I was interested in a statement by the 3 federations in New South Wales which are a powerful group of people interested in education in Australia. [More…]
The 3 federations consist of the New South Wales Federation of Infants School Clubs, the New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens Association and the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
It is, in the Committee’s opinion, more in accord with democratic principle and the developments since Federation that it should be sufficient to obtain separate majorities in at least one half of the number of States. [More…]
But at least when we come to a matter such as this and we find that the Commonwealth which has a substantial command of the sources of revenue is in a position to give money to the States on terms, even though as generous as this but on this basis, it highlights the necessity for a complete look at the concept of federation. [More…]
At this time it is prudent and wise because of the inflation which necessarily bears most heavily upon those who are the constructing and operating authorities within the federation. [More…]
The Australian Wheatgrowers Federation recommends the levy. [More…]
This Bill implements the proposal of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
It is expected, in line with the Federation’s recommendations, that when the Bill is passed regulations will be introduced to set the operative levy at 1 lc per tonne on deliveries to the Australian Wheat Board for the 1973-74 crop. [More…]
It is an approach which has been accepted by the State governments which are party to any arrangements and by the wheat industry through its central spokesman, the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
We will be in an embarrassing situation in 1974 if the delegates representing Australia have to go to the International Conference and say: ‘I am terribly sorry but after 74 years of Federation we have not been able to get such legislation through our 2 Houses of Parliament’. [More…]
I believe that the former legislation which was put through by this Federal Government- that is the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act and associated measures- is the type of legislation which should be held to in the federation of Australia. [More…]
I might start off and tell you of the position as it existed before federation. [More…]
This is just the sort of thing that is anathema to the idea of constituent States and responsible government in the States after Federation. [More…]
These are the sort of things that bedevilled us before we ever had the degree of union that comes from federation. [More…]
But having had that degree of union that comes from federation since 1900 let us apply the Constitution to the situation as we know it since 1900. [More…]
It has gone on from the time of Federation. [More…]
Even though they could not reach agreement as to where authority lay they reached agreement on one issue, and that was that the important issue of where authority lay should be resolved, that it should not be allowed to go on indefinitely as it had since Federation. [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Transport to the reported statements of the President of the Australian Road Federation that a national highways system would be a tremendous defence value to Australia. [More…]
The President of the Australian Road Federation made certain statements regarding the defence importance of a national highways system during an address he delivered to the Australian Automobile Association Symposium held in Canberra on 9 October. [More…]
I make it clear that the Australian Country Party which I represent in this Parliament wholeheartedly believes in the federal system of government in the free enterprise system that has operated in this country since Federation, lt believes also that people in remote areas should have reasonable say in the government of the country. [More…]
The Constitution was written by the fathers of this Federation back in the 1890s. [More…]
The fathers of Federation, in their wisdom, included section 96 in the Constitution to give assistance to the smaller and less affluent States- to give grants for specific purposes. [More…]
It is interesting that this abuse of power was condemned by the Australian Public Service Federation which met, I think in Sydney recently. [More…]
That Federation cannot be accused of political bias. [More…]
There is no more damning indictment of this Government than the words of the resolution passed and the statements made by the Australian Public Service Federation which met last Thursday in Sydney. [More…]
The Federation referred to the dangerous practice of centralisation and of bureaucratic control. [More…]
Surely all honourable senators opposite realise that, because of stupid interstate jealousies before and after federation, we have not been able to agree on a rail standardisation policy. [More…]
The Tariff Board was established in 1921 and it has been an important and respected source of advice to 2 1 of the 28 Parliaments which have been elected since federation. [More…]
The stabilisation scheme at that time nearly fell through because Victoria would not agree to what the Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation, the Commonwealth and the State Governments, other than Victoria, were suggesting. [More…]
But I remember during the last days of the previous Government when a great hullabaloo was being made about the unemployment situation the New South Wales Employers’ Federation said that many industries could not find labour. [More…]
This statement by the Federation was confirmed by a report in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ that more positions were being advertised as vacant than was the case in the previous 12 months, so much so that various industries could not get the people they needed. [More…]
This is just what I believe the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation asked for when it saw the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) on 27 April last and again in September. [More…]
My understanding of the situation is that the Minister for Primary Industry issued a statement in Canberra on 16 May last stating that the Government would propose to the States and the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation that the current 5-year wheat industry stabilisation scheme, due to end in November 1973, be extended for a further year. [More…]
At the same time the Minister stated that he would discuss the Government’s proposal to extend the current scheme with the States at the meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council in Canberra on Friday, 20 May and that he would meet representatives of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation in Canberra on Monday, 23 May. [More…]
I take it that those meetings with the Minister took place, because the Minister made another statement on 29 May in which he said that the President of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, Mr Max Ridd, advised him that the executive of the Wheatgrowers Federation had unanimously accepted a one-year extension of the current wheat stabilisation scheme. [More…]
At the same time on 29 May the Minister said that following the August meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council he would confer with the Federation on its approach to a new stabilisation plan and that the Council would receive a progress report on the preparation of a new plan. [More…]
I know very well that there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes which is not made public, but the point I want to make here is that there are also many knowledgeable men in the Department and in the Wheatgrowers Federation who know what they want. [More…]
Neither could the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation agree more in these matters. [More…]
When we look at the Federation’s submission we see that in paragraph 13 under the heading ‘Sales on credit terms’ the Federation says: [More…]
The Federation therefore requests that the Australian Government underwrite the full credit risk associated with such export sales of wheat that are covered under national interest. [More…]
In paragraph 14 the Federation says: [More…]
The Federation firmly recommends that rural credits section IV of the Reserve Bank Act be amended to enable repayments to be extended beyond 12 months, where statutory marketing authorities have negotiated Government-approved long-term credit sales. [More…]
The Country Party believes that discussions should be concluded as soon as possible between the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, the State Ministers for Agriculture and the Government in order to introduce a long term stabilisation plan that will have some meaning for the industry. [More…]
I will also be meeting the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation on the following Monday night. [More…]
As I understand it, standing order 242 was adopted by the Senate early in Federation. [More…]
As Senator Withers said in the course of his speech this afternoon, unless there had been a different approach and a different constitution of the Senate there would never have been any Federation. [More…]
In the 1890s when Federation was being discussed it had first to be determined whether the 6 States would come to the conventions. [More…]
If a majority of States had been ignored and were not given a controlling place in the federal structure, there would have been no Federation and no Commonwealth Parliament and therefore no Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I feel that the proposal is based on a total misconception of the very purpose of the Constitution and the nature of the federation of the States. [More…]
In other words, the Commonwealth of Australia is not a union of all people; it is a federation of designated colonies emerging as designated and original States. [More…]
The proposal to alter the provision concerning the alteration of the Constitution to 3 States from the present constitutional requirement of four appears to me to be a denial of the concept of the banding together of a series of colonies and States into a federation. [More…]
In submissions to and discussions with the Committee the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations argued strongly for the right to nominate representatives as members of the Commission. [More…]
I have just spoken to a representative of the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
I said: ‘You know your own members best, but surely the Teachers Federation could be relied on to appoint a representative who is not quarrelsome and pettifogging, and this applies in le same way to the state school parents’. [More…]
I told him that I was surprised that the New South Wales Teachers Federation thought that these people were not fit to appoint their own representatives. [More…]
In submissions to and discussions with the Committee, the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations argued strongly for the right to nominate representatives as members of the Commission. [More…]
I repudiate entirely these mis-statements and misrepresentations which have been made by the New South Wales Teachers Federation, among others, which would suggest that the Opposition in some way objects to what the Federation calls the poor schools of Australia receiving funds. [More…]
I might comment that it is interesting when considering this extraordinary attitude on the part of the Government to note that as late as 8 February of this year the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who introduced these Bills, said this in a letter to the Secretary of the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria: [More…]
The new wheat stabilisation proposals were placed before the meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council last Friday, at which Mr Smith was in attendance, and also before the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation last night. [More…]
The proposals which have been put before the Council and before the Wheatgrowers Federation are in fact a stabilisation plan. [More…]
Has the Minister for Primary Industry read an article in today’s ‘Australian’ newspaper in which Mr M. Ridd, the President of the Australian Wheat Growers Federation, is reported to have said yesterday that the price of bread would rise by five or six cents a loaf if the wheat growers were forced to organise their own price stabilisation scheme? [More…]
As a practical example of this type of consultation and co-operation, the Commission is presently examining the hospital facilities position in Australia and is being actively assisted by such bodies as the Australian Medical Association, the Royal Australian Nursing Federation, the Australian College of Medical Administrators, the Australian Hospitals Association, the Australian Institute of Hospital Administrators, the Australian Department of Health, the Bureau of Census and Statistics and the Health authorities in participating States. [More…]
In the 73 years since federation, federal courts have been established to deal only with matters of bankruptcy and industrial law. [More…]
He said that in a letter dated 8 February to the Secretary of the Victorian Parents and Friends Federation. [More…]
What ought to be made clear is that the Prime Minister has indicated in his statement that he has invited the Australian Farmers Federation to make a submission to me and to establish, if the Federation is capable of doing so, a prima facie case for reference to the Prime Minister and eventual reference to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
That letter, which was addressed to the President of the Federation, Mr Hogan, only 3 or 4 days ago, is continuing the procedures which were adopted by the previous Government in relation to applications for tariff assistance; that is to say, an industry should establish a prima facie case for reference to the Commission. [More…]
The Prime Minister does not believe in a federation. [More…]
The most effective constraint the nation has on the Prime Minister is the Senate, which was set up as a deliberate act, by those who drew up the Constitution, to make the federation more than an ideal. [More…]
The Senate was required to make the federation a reality. [More…]
We have been bedevilled by our special shipping problems, having been the only island State of the federation since Federation. [More…]
Under the aegis of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority we have the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
We should remember that the Waterside Workers Federation draws out of the industry no less than $9m a year for idle time. [More…]
Members of the other place and the Ministers there ought to realise that if there had been no Senate there would have been no Federation, and if it had not been for the creation of this House there would be no such person as the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
A fortiori- much more strongly- the Senate has, as part of the legislative process, a tremendously significant and important role which was contemplated by the Federation founders when they insisted that a referendum must be proceeded by the legislative process in which a Bill shall be presented in one House or the other and then pass both Houses. [More…]
This process is surrounded by all the circumscriptions and all the defences that it should have, because the amending of the Constitutionof the written document, the contract and compact of Federation- is a sacred arrangement and not likely to be disturbed and certainly not likely to be disturbed by a government electing through control in one House to by-pass the complete legislative process by compelling legislation through the Upper House and then saying to the people that the decision is theirs. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen a report by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots concerning the conflict of military and civil aircraft in which the Federation points out that there is a real danger of a collision between civil aircraft and some training military aircraft? [More…]
I ask: Does the Attorney-General consider it to be desirable, after 74 years of federation, that the High Court continues to be virtually a preserve of the New South Wales and Victorian Bars? [More…]
A meeting was held yesterday- Wednesday, 6 March 1974- between representatives of the Royal Australian Air Force, the Department of Transport, general aviation interests, and the Australian Federation of Airline Pilots to discuss the procedures already introduced and proposed for introduction which will minimise the risk of an aircraft collison in uncontrolled airspace. [More…]
It deals and goes to the whole contract of Federation and to the definition and redistribution of powers. [More…]
In this way it could exercise that legislative supervision which it was thought, even at Federation, the Australian Parliament should have over the whole subject matter. [More…]
Yet almost in the same breath the Government says that never since Federation has this Parliament put through more legislation. [More…]
These policies are all undermining the system of federation. [More…]
We would not be here today as a federation if the States in the first instance had not ceded certain powers to the central government. [More…]
The States which have sovereign powers themselves, are entitled to retain and, I think, should retain powers that they have exercised since the beginning of federation. [More…]
The role of the Senate probably has never been more under attack since Federation. [More…]
I am a firm believer in federation. [More…]
A breaking away from federation would do nothing but harm to this nation. [More…]
There is no way in which we in Western Australia can secede from the federation. [More…]
In the referendum held last December Western Australians voted overwhelmingly in favour of federation, although they may not have been aware of it. [More…]
I interpret the vote as a vote of confidence in the federation, although Western Australians did not really know what they were voting for in that respect. [More…]
Today we want a strengthening of the confidence and conviction of all Australians, particularly those in this chamber, that federation can, will and must work. [More…]
Where does one go in Canberra to feel that a great federation is working? [More…]
As a result of the agreement reached between the Australian Government and the Australian Wheat Growers Federation on a wheat stabilisation plan, last Friday I contacted all State Ministers and indicated to them that stabilisation arrangements have now been agreed upon. [More…]
It wishes to fiddle with the Constitution which took years of consideration by the fathers of Federation to compile and which gives us the whole basis on which the democracy of this country has functioned. [More…]
The continuity of the Senate is something which the founders of Federation were very careful to preserve. [More…]
When Federation was achieved and the 6 States came together, the 6 States said: ‘A condition on which we will come together is that there shall be a Senate- an Upper House- that it shall be a States House and that it shall be equally representative of all 6 States. [More…]
I appreciate that only half the senators come out at any given time, but that will be the position irrespective of whether a referendum proposal, which requires that the synchronisation of elections should be a constitutional requirement, is carried or whether half the Senate comes out at the time that the House of Representatives election is held, which has been the general but not universal pattern of the elections which have been held since we have had a federation. [More…]
Is it a bid to take over the powers given to the States at the time of Federation? [More…]
I am sure that Senator Gair will agree with me that this practice of putting terms and conditions upon loans has been followed by the Commonwealth since Federation. [More…]
This Bill is another Bill under which section 96 can be used but not in the way in which the fathers of federation intended it to be used. [More…]
That section has been in the Constitution since Federation; it is a section that applied for 10 years after the establishment of the Commonwealth or for such additional time as the Parliament decided. [More…]
I feel that the approach of the Government in relation to these Bills can be considered as a total misconception of the very nature of the compact of federation. [More…]
Federation was essentially a compact between 6 colonies, then becoming the States, to be participants in a Federal body under a written Constitution. [More…]
Insofar as the Constitution is a solemn compact, a solemn contract, in which the States have this most important role, it seems to me to be basic logic that if that instrument is to be subject to change and if the States are to have a continuance of their primary significance there must be an overwhelming vote by the States as such for or against any alteration to the compact of federation, the Constitution itself. [More…]
It would appear to me to be a departure that if we are not going to insist upon a vote by the majority of States to vary the Constitution but enable the referendum to be passed on an equality of State votes, together with a majority of the aggregate of the people ‘s votes it will be, to use my original term, a misconception of the very nature of the compact of federation. [More…]
It is on that basis that I appeal to honourable senators to give their consideration seriously to this Bill and to see whether there is any element of prudence or wisdom at all or whether there is not such a fundamental change being effected in the provisions of the Constitution by this means that the original concept of federation will be lost and destroyed completely. [More…]
I think even those who are the residents and the electors in the larger States would not be very keen to feel that they had such a controlling and predominant position in the Federation as would dislocate and disturb the whole balance originally contemplated in the prime document. [More…]
That is in pursuance of the concept of federation. [More…]
This was never envisaged at the time of Federation when the States became partners in the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is bound to create enormous hostility among the States, which have come together as a cohesive whole for the benefit of the whole nation and which would never have come together if it had been suggested at the time of Federation that the Commonwealth would take unto itself the power to say to the States what it considers to be a democratic system of election. [More…]
I think it is appropriate to say that the Australian Farmers Federation does not adopt the view that even in the meantime there should be a continuation of the bounty. [More…]
I think it is fairly well understood by all States- it certainly was understood by the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation- that to undertake such a task is beyond the capacity of the States and beyond the capacity of the industry. [More…]
It is equally clear that since Federation in 1901 all referenda have asked for more power for the central government. [More…]
I say that never since Federation has there been a greater challenge to the type of government that we have. [More…]
If we were to be parties to such a manoeuvre we would be recreant to the trust which is ours, imposed upon us under the Constitution as senators representing the States in the federation. [More…]
All honourable senators know that the States have the power to refer to the Commonwealth certain constitutional rights that we now have but did not enjoy at the time of Federation. [More…]
I am utterly committed to a policy whereby government provides the framework in which the initiatives, the ingenuities and the abilities of persons and companies can operate and in that way retain the verve, the go and the drive which lead to the success which has marked the growth and development of our economy since we became a federation. [More…]
The imposition by the Government of the highest and most onerous interest rates since Federation. [More…]
As you, Mr President, will know, it relates to the imposition by the Government of the highest and most onerous interest rates since Federation. [More…]
We have the highest interest rates since Federation. [More…]
The terminology of the motion refers to the highest and most onerous interest rates since Federation. [More…]
I have had a lifetime in the trade union movement, and notwithstanding the fact that during the last 8 years I have sat in the Senate in a much easier atmosphere than that of working with my hands, it still amazes me how young people can leave school at 1 8 years of age, work in a clerical position in one of these sky-high office buildings and receive excellent amenities and wages, while the Miners Federation will probably have to indulge in a rather vigorous industrial campaign to achieve comparable conditions and reasonable wages. [More…]
I refer to the victimisation of a member of the Australian Labor Party in the State of Victoria by an insurance company known as Federation Insurance Ltd which is directly associated with the financial activities of the Victorian branch of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
The Federation Insurance Limited, against the endorsed Australian Labor Party candidate for the Federal seat of Mallee. [More…]
It reads: 1, Brian Smith, the endorsed ALP candidate for the Federal seat of Mallee in the House of Representatives have been employed by the Federation Insurance Limited of 342-348 Flinders Street Melbourne since February 1972 as their resident inspector at Charlton. [More…]
About seven months after my appointment the Victorian Farmers Union broke away from the insurance arrangement with the Federation Insurance Limited. [More…]
The Federation Insurance Limited then began to rely heavily on members of the Victorian Country Party for continued support. [More…]
He then told me that it would be unlikely that Federation Insurance would view the situation favourably. [More…]
I did not hear all he said, but I understand that he attacked Federation Insurance Ltd and attacked particularly the Victorian Branch of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
Federation Insurance Ltd is an Australian owned and controlled insurance company. [More…]
Many organisations insure with Federation Insurance Ltd, including some trade unions. [More…]
We have no objection to an inquiry being held into Federation Insurance Ltd or any other insurance company, provided there is also an inquiry into Bourke’s store, and why they receive such large discounts. [More…]
I refer to the governmental direction to the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia not to send an official team of 2 women players to South Africa later this year to compete in a Federation Cup selection event that is described by the Association as a multi-racial event. [More…]
From the time of federation until now the overwhelming majority of the basic social services, the great institutions of social services in this country, came from governments of Liberal faith and not governments of socialist faith. [More…]
Federation Insurance Ltd has an outstanding record of service and progress in my State. [More…]
In actual fact Federation Insurance Ltd made a pre-tax profit in 1971-72 of $1,013,738. [More…]
The falsehood which the honourable senator put forward in stating that there was a loss by Federation Insurance Ltd was, in my knowledge- and it is fact- based on this company venture into a retirement scheme. [More…]
In the past 2 years Federation Insurance Ltd did have a loss of $30,000 in that particular sector of its operations compared with the overall profit I mentioned. [More…]
I think that Federation Insurance Ltd stands condemned for the attitude it took in this matter. [More…]
I understand that, under the terms of the Australian Government’s assistance program, the Australian Softball Federation will be eligible to receive a subsidy of up to 50 per cent of the cost of fares to assist with expenses involved in sending the Australian softball team to compete in the world series in the United States later this year. [More…]
Of course, in a federation the judicial system occupies a unique importance. [More…]
When a government in a federation approaches the question of establishing a judicial system to have oversight of its Federal laws it has available one of 2 possible solutions to it. [More…]
This has been done since Federation. [More…]
It is associated with Federation Insurance Ltd. Firstly, I thank Federation Insurance Ltd for the wonderful publicity that I have received from it over the last week. [More…]
I want to know what the Country Party does to earn this commission, because in fact Federation Insurance Ltd is an organisation operated by the Victorian Employers Federation. [More…]
This is the kind of intimidation that went out to agents of Federation Insurance Ltd in an effort to force them to go to Country Party branch meetings to sell their wares so that the Country Party in return could get back these commissions- that is what I called them, did I not?- of up to $60,000 a year. [More…]
On Monday the 4 March 1974 at 2.30 p.m., Mr Allyn Best, of the Insurance Staffs Federation . [More…]
The second thing that I said and which I repeat- this has not been denied but in fact confirmed by Senator Webster- is that the Country Party’s commissions, or ‘kick backs’ as I describe them, from the Federation Insurance Limited in the current financial year mount to some $60,000. [More…]
I again challenge the Country Party to table the document to show that this agreement exists between Federation Insurance Limited and the Country Party by its affiliation as an employer organisation, which has yielded $60,000 this year and $135,000 over the past 3 years. [More…]
Federation Insurance Company inspectors were told by a responsible officer of the company to tear out the centre page of the company’s superannuation statutory information sheet which showed a loss of $30,05 1 for the last 2 years. [More…]
Federation Insurance Limited has many irons in the fire; it goes into all kinds of areas including permanent building societies and all other operations with basically the same directors and with the same managing director. [More…]
I would like to see the document or the arrangement tabled in the Senate whereby the Country Party can be classified as an employer organisation affiliated to the Australian Employers Federation and whereby it can earn these alleged commissions. [More…]
On several occasions, Senator Poyser has expressed his great pleasure at the publicity that has been made for him over the last weeks by the news media and the protection which the Federation Insurance Ltd sought in attempting to put the situation truthfully. [More…]
I attempted to be nice to Senator Poyser when I spoke on the matter, despite the fact that he had denigrated a great Australian, Victorian-based company, Federation Insurance Ltd. [More…]
Although I was not alerted sufficiently that Senator Poyser was going to speak to nightbefore he started to speak he did not have the courage to tell me that he intended to raise this matter tonight- the fact is that in this instance we find that the Country Party has had an arrangement with Federation Insurance Ltd for 35 years. [More…]
If we can find an insurance company that will offer us a better deal than we can get from Federation Insurance, we will probably take it. [More…]
The second question of importance is the relation between this big financial institution, which is connected with other major financial institutions through the Employers Federation (Victorian), through an underhand arrangement with a specific political party- the declining Country Party. [More…]
If Federation Insurance Ltd is losing money- I do not know whether it is- and if it banks its future on the Country Party, it will lose a lot more money. [More…]
I think it is salutory that the attention of the Senate and the Australian people ought to be drawn to the wretched little company called Federation Insurance Ltd which has continued the same policy of intimidation as was used to try to break the trade union movement and the Labor movement from its very beginning. [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…]
Let us have a look at Federation Insurance Ltd and see what sort of company it is. [More…]
Is there the same relationship between Federation Insurance Ltd and the Australian Country Party? [More…]
What sort of influence does Federation Insurance Ltd exercise over the Country Party? [More…]
Senator Webster revealed the relationship between Federation Insurance Limited and the Australian Country Party. [More…]
He revealed the intimidation and the discrimination practised by Federation Insurance Limited against one of its employees who is a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, and whereas our existing Australian flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the Government-General and State Governors, and the independent courts of justice, and whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, so therefore must all these things be accorded the highest national concern and priority. [More…]
The Australian Government, in conjunction with the other States with the exception of New South Wales, and in conjunction with the Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation, has reached agreement on a new wheat stabilisation scheme. [More…]
1 have advised him that all other Ministers- Labor, Liberal and Country Party Ministers of the other States- have agreed to the scheme, as has the Wheat Growers’ Federation. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
Indeed, the Teachers Federation has been in touch with my Department. [More…]
To allay the concern of social security recipients as to their future when in 1975 the means test has been abolished and replaced by a National Superannuation Act that there be an assurance by the Australian Government that the said Act will provide a guaranteed minimum income to social security recipients based on the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation and that of the Australian Council of Trade Unions namely, the payment of 30 per cent of average weekly earnings adjusted from time to time in accordance with figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician and published quarterly. [More…]
I understand that it is a record which stands since Federation. [More…]
I know from my own knowledge of the sheer tragedy of situations in the past, in fact since Federation, when inadequate provision has been made for Governors-General on retirement in this country. [More…]
For the first time in 70 years it has been able to create an atmosphere in which many people are starting to have doubts about the wisdom of Federation, and that is damaging to the nation. [More…]
This organisation considers that all governments in this country since Federation have been socialist governments. [More…]
But I hasten to remind honourable senators that Federation took place 74 years ago and that I have been a resident of Western Australia for one-third of the life of that Federation. [More…]
One only has to read the judgments of the judges who deregistered the Builders Labourers Federation to have a pen picture of the absolute violence which apparently has been allowed to continue in this country without remonstrance or restraint by this Government. [More…]
I accept what Senator Wright has said, because if people are prepared to move into housing sites, as members of the Builders Labourers Federation did, to assault persons who are on those sites, to destroy property and to put fear into persons who are within sight or sound of them, then that is mob rule. [More…]
I was amazed at the attitude taken by the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this Government, Mr Clyde Cameron, whose sole concern after the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation was that some action should be taken to enable that union to regain its registration. [More…]
I understand from my inquiries that there had been negotiations between BHP and the Waterside Workers Federation before the terminal was completed. [More…]
They decided that the Waterside Workers Federation was the appropriate body to provide the labour to unload the ships there, to discharge the cargo and to see that it was delivered. [More…]
I have already told the Senate in previous debates on this matter that a 20 per cent variation in electoral enrolments either side of the quota has been accepted by all governments since Federation in the interests of truly representative government. [More…]
It was the situation that existed from the first day of Federation until 1965 when the then Liberal-Country Party Coalition Government brought about, under the influence of and pressure by the then Minister for the Interior, the present Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) in the other place, the first alteration since Federation to section 19 of the Electoral Act. [More…]
The 20 per cent tolerance above or below the quotas for electorates of the House of Representatives of which mention has been made has been in operation since Federation- a period of over 70 years. [More…]
I do not know what the people of Tasmania think, but Tasmania came into the Federation only because of this protection to save it being swamped by sheer weight of numbers of the larger States. [More…]
That, of course, was a particular provision which was necessary at the time of Federation for the State of Queensland. [More…]
To allay the concern of social security recipients as to their future when in 1975 the means test has been abolished and replaced by a National Superannuation Act that there be an assurance by the Australian Government that the said Act will provide a guaranteed minimum income to social security recipients based on the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation and that of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, namely, the payment of 30 per cent of average weekly earnings adjusted from time to time in accordance with figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician and published quarterly. [More…]
Although based upon a federation of 6 States, the Constitution did advert, of course, to other areas of its jurisdiction, namely the Territories. [More…]
Throughout the whole of the Constitution the federation is shown basically and fundamentally as a federation of the States. [More…]
The Parliament produced by that Federation is enabled in the language that I have read, to allow representation of the Territories in either House of the Parliament to the extent and on the terms that Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
I am not a disciple of the integrity of federation on this basis for all times, but I am satisfied that so determined are the people of Australia to rely upon their States primarily, and the central government secondarily only, that we would betray the true faith of the people of our States if we permitted the Territories to send representatives here on the same basis as the State senators, if we had the authority to do otherwise. [More…]
The founding fathers ensured that the constitutional rights of the States were maintained and protected by providing in the Constitution equality of representation of the original States on the basis that the colonies prior to Federation were equal constitutionally and politically. [More…]
But such Territory representatives in the Senate under this Bill are to have full voting rights and could as non-State representatives hold the balance of power in an institution set up to safeguard the interests of the States- a principle embodied in the Constitution without which Federation would not have been accomplished. [More…]
If we allow this Bill to pass we will be sounding the death knell of the States and our federation. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration say what progress is being made in solving the dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which has held up delivery of 10,000 tons of steel from the roll-on roll-off terminal of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd at Port Adelaide since March of this year? [More…]
I understand that the Waterside Workers Federation is prepared to go to the disputes committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, but the TWU will not agree to that course of action. [More…]
To allay the concern of social security recipients as to their future when in 1975 the means test has been abolished and replaced by a National Superannuation Act that there be an assurance by the Australian Government that the said Act will provide a guaranteed minimum income to social security recipients based on the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation and that of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, namely, the payment of 30 per cent of average weekly earnings adjusted from time to time in accordance with figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician and published quarterly. [More…]
To allay the concern of social security recipients as to their future when in 1 975 the means test has been abolished and replaced by a National Superannuation Act that there be an assurance by the Australian Government that the said Act will provide a guaranteed minimum income to social security recipients based on the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners’ Federation and that of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, namely, the payment of 30 per cent of average weekly earnings adjusted from lime to time in accordance with figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician and published quarterly. [More…]
-Will the Minister for the Media give the Senate information with regard to the new proposal for the allocation of commercial time given to the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations last week? [More…]
I assume the honorable senator is referring to discussions which took place last week between the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television [More…]
Stations concerning a request by the Federation for an extension of the commercial advertising time allowed to it on an hourly basis and rationalised over a period. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle asked me a question earlier this morning about a discussion that had taken place between the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the Australian Broadcasting Control Board concerning the question of advertising. [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations have an arrangement between them that when these working party discussions are in progress no statements will be made until such time as agreement or unanimity of opinion is reached. [More…]
Federation it was determined that this Parliament should have the legislative power over, amongst other things, weights and measures. [More…]
-The Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration will recall that I raised the question last week concerning the 10,000 tonnes of steel that is rusting on the wharf at Port Adelaide due to an argument between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
It comes from a Mr Phillip Nitszhke who I think is employed as an agricultural adviser to the Wattie Creek community and has a big mailing list, including the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Mr Buchanan, for his complaints about Wattie Creek. [More…]
The Committee feels constrained to say, however, that the one-firth margin on either side of the quota for a State which the Act allows may disturb quite seriously a principle which the Committee believes to be beyond question in the election of members of the national Parliament of a federation, namely, that the votes of the electors should, as far as possible, be accorded equal value. [More…]
The variation of 20 per cent from the quota, which we intend to reduce, has been provided in the Commonwealth Electoral Act since Federation. [More…]
Because of its peculiarity in respect of community of interest, remoteness, distance to travel, etc., the Division of Darling has been accepted by all parties since Federation as one which will be small by comparison with other electorates. [More…]
Federation for any government to change electorates towards 10 per cent from 20 per cent above or below the quota- the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) suggests that that is a very significant point- it is also without precedent for the Senate to reject Supply, which apparently the Leader of the Opposition does not think is a significant point. [More…]
The legislation we are examining has virtually been the same since Federation, 72 years ago. [More…]
The Labor Party is trying to break down the fair and just principles by which Federal redistributions have been carried out since Federation. [More…]
This Bill really represents the latest attempt by the Government to destroy the just and fail principles on which electoral distributions have been conducted since federation. [More…]
The fact that 20 per cent variation has been the rule since Federation ought not blind us to its inequiti When the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said that 20 per cent was a perfectly reasonable tolerance he was referring to the fact that no one could argue that it was not fair. [More…]
The present Act has been law since Federation. [More…]
I invite them, together with the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt), who has presided over the greatest destruction of rural industry since Federation, who is not in the House at this the first time that we of the Opposition who sit in this chamber of the Parliament have had an opportunity to nail him to the desk and who is badly represented in this chamber by the Minister for sugar at the best of times- I invite them, as well as the Minister for gerrymander, who is sitting at the table at the moment, to a meeting on Thursday night at Narromine. [More…]
The frustrations that have been forced on this Government have produced a situation today where it is necessary for the first time since Federation to hold a joint sitting of the 2 Houses of Parliament to ensure the passage of this legislation. [More…]
The honourable member for Gippsland said during his speech that redistributions carried out from Federation up until the present time have been fair, honest and equitable. [More…]
Ours is the only Party that has been in existence since Federation. [More…]
The privilege of electing representatives to the Senate has been exercised by voters in 6 States since Federation. [More…]
He claimed it was a record year of achievement unsurpassed in the history of Federation for the Parliament to pass the number of Bills which were passed in 1973. [More…]
But this is an argument of 1974 which did not have appeal in the 74 years of our nation ‘s Federation. [More…]
One of the arguments of the Opposition that I have noticed from a reading of such material is that the Senate is a States House at the moment and has been so since federation. [More…]
Of course, I point out that the 1 897 Convention was one of the conventions that led up to federation. [More…]
The situation at federation was that the founding fathers did not debar anybody from being represented in the Senate. [More…]
Federation. [More…]
At present they have the status of republics within the Soviet federation. [More…]
Prior to that time we had witnessed, in the federal sphere, the amalgamation of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Societies in 1965; the Printing Industry Employees Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees Union in 1 966; the Australian Leather and Allied Industry Employees Federation and the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union in 1967; in 1971 the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union and the North Australian Workers Union; and in 1972 the 3 metal trades unions. [More…]
The Federation of Australian Consumer Groups, which is being formed at this moment, will in actual fact represent one million consumers throughout Australia and their voice has a right to be heard. [More…]
Nursing aides at both of these hospitals stopped work last Friday because their industrial organisation, the Hospital Employees Federation, was dissatisfied with the offer of increased pay made by the Public Service Board. [More…]
If anybody thinks I am quoting that report of American history of 1 945 out of context he has to read only the impressive unanimous findings by the 3 judges of the Industrial Court in the case for the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation to find a catalogue of violence which brings to Senator Murphy’s face only a smile, and then to see the degree of interruption which is being enforced in Sydney. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
-Speaking with the sympathy of one who at one time was an overhead crane driver, I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Transport: Why must members of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia be continuously confronted with new vessels which have cranes with unsafe access ladders which constitute an extreme danger to the crane operators, as epitomised by the case of the bulk carrier ‘Nord Rans Kathy”? [More…]
I do not know whether organisations such as the Waterside Workers Federation are continually faced with this problem. [More…]
Nevertheless the Department does have the right when it is notified by an organisation such as the Waterside Workers Federation to undertake a survey of such ships with a view to issuing a certificate of safety or to ensure that alterations which might be necessary in the interests of safety are carried out. [More…]
All I can say is that the employers and the Waterside Workers Federation are expected soon to reach agreement on redundancy and restructuring, but there is no guarantee that if the time of bringing in a government report is brought nearer there will be any saving. [More…]
That Pensioners transport be made free within the Federation where the Government has constitutional powers. [More…]
To make all Government and Private transport free within the Federation to Pensioners and all other underpriviledged members of the community. [More…]
that Pensioners transport be made free within the Federation where the Government has constitutional powers. [More…]
to make all Government and Private transport free within the Federation to Pensioners and all other underprivileged members of the community. [More…]
I actually left out 2 names, those of Mr Grant of the Air Transport Officers Federation and Mr Jim Coleman, the Secretary of the Trades and Labor Council in Perth. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he assured the Australian Farmers Federation that the concessions would be returned. [More…]
The basic aims of the proposed plan, which has been accepted by the wheat industry organisation- the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation- and the State governments, are reflected in this Bill and the complementary Bills. [More…]
That was a clear-cut case of a demarcation dispute and nothing else between the Waterside Workers Federation and the Transport Workers Union of Australia which held up a large quantity of steel at the Adelaide wharf for a long time. [More…]
Because the Transport Workers Union of Australia in South Australia and the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, South Australian Branch, could not agree as to who should handle the loading of steel at the new steel wharf in South Australia, 10,000 tons of that commodity which was in short supply then was denied to South Australian manufacturers and it cost the South Australian community, I have no doubt, some millions of dollars, not simply because a certain amount of steel was not sold in my State but because orders were not accepted by industry because it could not fulfil them. [More…]
Even if the Employers Federation in South Australia wanted to join the Chamber of Manufactures no ballot would be required under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act or any other Act. [More…]
Senator Hall gave a good example when he referred to a dispute in South Australia between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation over the handling of steel. [More…]
I suppose that in relation to the Federated Storemen and Packers Union there could be justification for a merger with the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
That union had a sort of fear that the Waterside Workers Federation would swallow it up. [More…]
The last issue of the maritime workers journal shows that people like Mr Outridge have agreed that the union should sever its State registration and become a fully fledged member of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I fail to see that amalgamation of the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation would overcome this problem because in the trade union movement there is a personality problem amongst the hierarchy. [More…]
I believe that the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, which was the employer involved on this occasion, was perfectly correct in consulting with the Waterside Workers Federation to determine which particular union should supply the labour for that operation. [More…]
After consultations were held with the Waterside Workers Federation well before the completion of the roll-on roll-off terminal the waterside workers assured BHP that they were the appropriate labour force to deal with the unloading of the cargo at that area. [More…]
In 1970 Mr Ian Macphee, whom we know now but who was then the Assistant Director of the Chamber of Manufactures in New South Wales, speaking at the New South Wales Employers Federation Industrial Relations Conference at Bondi, said: [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources of their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
Shortly following this, on 31 October 1973 Mr Wolf Boetcher who was at that time a vice-president of the wheat section of the Farmers Union of Western Australia and a member of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, when asked whether there was anything new about governments issuing directives to the Wheat Board as to where and under what conditions it would market wheat, ridiculed that suggestion. [More…]
-Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of the deregistration of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation by the Australian Industrial Court in June last and of the revelations made in the judgment of the members of the Court of over 200 instances of unlawful acts, assaults and intimidation engaged in by that union? [More…]
Is he also aware that the union subsequently has resolved to intimidate 6 building companies, which are currently in proceedings before the High Court of Australia, by means of bans and guerrilla-like stoppages, as the resolution of the Builders Labourers Federation communicated to the company has stated? [More…]
Was not the AttorneyGeneral informed several weeks ago by representatives of the building companies of the intended action of the Builders Labourers Federation? [More…]
-I am aware of the fact that there was a case in which the Australian Builders Labourers Federation was deregistered. [More…]
My question is directed to the Attorney-General and refers to an answer which he gave Senator Greenwood earlier today in respect of apparently successful intimidation by the Australian Builders Labourers Federation of some building contractors who had taken proceedings in the High Court of Australia. [More…]
These contractors have apparently withdrawn from the court proceedings as a result of action that was taken by the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
Today our mail service is worse than it was at the time of Federation. [More…]
That being so, I stongly suggest that groups such as the Community Radio Federation could perhaps gain valuable experience in broadcasting if they were to approach the ABC and inquire about the types of programs which the ABC intends to put forward on the stand-by transmitter. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition expressed the view that apparently no government had thought fit to bring this requirement forward in the 74 years since Federation. [More…]
I will be having discussions with the Australian Wheat Growers Federation shortly on this matter. [More…]
This is the first government since Federation that has been prepared to assist the less popular spectator sports. [More…]
Under the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1966, port quotas are kept under constant review by the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority in consultation with leaders of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, which is the union for the port, and registered employers. [More…]
-Has the AttorneyGeneral read the newspaper account or otherwise been informed of the resolution passed yesterday by mass meetings of members of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation stating: ‘If the High Court decision goes against us we will carry out a campaign of guerilla action to compel the employers to negotiate with the Federation’? [More…]
But the federal bodies of the Seamens’ Union of Australia, the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, the Ship Painters and Dockers Union, the Australian Railways Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are communist controlled. [More…]
I believe that no budget since Federation has been as disastrous as this Budget. [More…]
I understand that senior Treasury officials have said in precisely these words: ‘This is the most disastrous budget since federation ‘. [More…]
I believe that what these people are doing to Australia is something which has never been seen in the 70 years of Federation. [More…]
Has the Minister seen in this morning’s Press a report indicating that the Secretary of the Community Radio Federation in Melbourne has criticised the proposal for an experimental radio station for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Melbourne on the ground that it will undercut any attempt by the community groups to establish a radio station? [More…]
I very much doubt that an organisation such as the Community Radio Federation would have existed 12 months ago. [More…]
If advertisers are worried in this area, at least they have the compensation of knowing that for the first time since 1965- again as a result of the initiatives taken by this Government -according to the annual report of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, sets are now being turned on rather than being turned off, thereby bringing advertisers much nearer to market saturation. [More…]
What is the Minister’s response to the request by the Secretary of the Community Radio Federation to delay the opening of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s public access station until a licence is granted to an independent community radio station? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Agriculture whether he has seen reports of a recent meeting between Dr Cairns and Mr Noel Hogan, President of the Australia Farmers Federation. [More…]
I inform the honourable senator that tomorrow I shall confer with representatives of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters, and I have requested my colleague the Leader of the House of Representatives not to proceed with the debate on the legislation that has been introduced into that chamber pending my discussions with those organisations. [More…]
I think that Seantor Rae ought to hang his head in shame because he lives close to the Bell Bay railway and he knows- it has been stated so often- that the deal that was done by the Liberal-Country Party Government led by Mr McMahon in relation to assistance to Tasmania to establish that railway was the worst in the history of Federation. [More…]
Tasmanians from all areas will have to combine with the Federal Government to solve this problem which has been with us not for just 5 years or 6 years, as Senator Bessell said, but in fact, since Federation and before. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations has been pressing for some time to be allowed more advertising content? [More…]
-As I said yesterday, I will be seeing representatives of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations today. [More…]
I had arranged last Sunday to see representatives of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters also today but I was told late yesterday afternoon by a member of my staff that probably they will not be coming now. [More…]
The Federation of Commercial Television Stations in its recent annual report has admitted that, since this Government came to office, for the first time since 1965 sets are being turned on again. [More…]
On the employer side, Mr G. Polites, Executive Director of the Australian Council of Employer Federations and Mr E. W. Horton, Chief Executive Officer of the Meat and Allied Trades Federation of Australia have indicated their support of the proposals. [More…]
I have deliberately refrained from replying because at this stage I am still in the course of holding discussions on certain of these matters with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and also, as a result of a conversation which was had with me this morning, with the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters. [More…]
-The honourable senator will be aware, when he criticises this Government in regard to its education policy generally, that this Government has spent more on education than has any other government since Federation. [More…]
This reminds me of a time 7 or 8 years ago when I heard Country Party senators questioning whether the Waterside Workers Federation, the Storemen and Packers’ Union and the Transport Workers’ Union would accept containerisation. [More…]
Australia became a federation in 1901. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States ‘ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign States formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
-I think it extremely unlikely that the Australian Farmers Federation would have wanted to discuss the terms of reference with the Prime Minister, who is the Minister responsible for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
I imagine that the leaders of the Australian Farmers Federation were only too pleased to know that the Government had decided to send the matter to the IAC. [More…]
I have been in constant touch with the representatives of various organisations representing insurance companies operating in Australia, and with the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation, and have invited these organisations to make suggestions as to amendments to the Bill, including necessary transitional provisions, and have undertaken to give my careful consideration to any advice I may receive from these quarters. [More…]
On the basis that there is a very recent precedent for this motion, I move it in the hope that it will achieve the object of preserving for the Australian people a piece of legislation which I do not think has been described extravagantly as one of the most important to come before this Parliament since Federation. [More…]
That was the minimum figure requested by the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation earlier this year and it was granted by the Government. [More…]
The question of the interpretation of the Constitution as to what revenue or moneys should be considered as falling in the category ‘ for the ordinary annual services of the Government’ has since Federation been regarded not as a matter for the Government’s interpretation or for that of the High Court but rather as a matter to be decided by the Parliament. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Transport aware of public disquiet which has been created by the reported statement of a Mr Bruce Crofts, who I believe is the Executive Vice-President of the Austraiian Federation of Air Pilots, to the effect that the closure of either the Devonport or the Wynyard airports in north-west Tasmania is inevitable? [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
Although it is true that the Wheatgrowers Federation made such a statement, it did so under extreme pressure, in fact under duress from the then Federal Government which had placed an absolute limit on the amount of money which would be made available for a first advance payment. [More…]
That was supposed to have been a spontaneous decision arrived at by the Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
The argument that the Wheatgrowers Federation made the decision is advanced in this chamber by people who have maintained for the last couple of months that the level of the first advance is crucial in determining the volume of wheat which is likely to be produced. [More…]
Last Friday I spoke to the Secretary of the Building Trades Federation of South Australia. [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…]
That has been a noble concept which has distinguished our Federation and it is something of which the governments of this country can be quite proud. [More…]
The provisions in this Bill also revise and update many of the penalties, some of which have remained unchanged since Federation. [More…]
The initial proposals for this levy were submitted by the Australian Meat Exporters Federal Council and fully supported by the Meat and Allied Trades Federation and the Australian Meatworks Federal Council. [More…]
The general position that I take in this matter is that which I elaborated in 1971 and, I think, ever since in the great hope that one day somebody will seek to do something positive in the Australian Federation on financial and monetary management, rather than standing off and shouting at each other, which I think has been inimical and not at all useful for the total Australian community. [More…]
I believe that it would have been the most significant approach on financial matters to the Commonwealth since Federation, considering the seriousness with which the step was taken by the States and the seriousness with which they allegedly agreed to make the final presentation of the negotiated approach to the Commonwealth. [More…]
1 say this to Senator Cotton: The arrangements were entered into, and the very hard work was proceeded with on the basis that Federation should work. [More…]
In that circumstance, I suggest that we will have to look at some other disciplines which will bring about the support of federation that both Senator Cotton and I want. [More…]
I would say to Senator Cotton, if he were in the chamber, that it is another blow for federation that a State government cannot even look after the polluting effects of a proposal for its own gulf waters and that the Commonwealth must step in to look after the matter for the State Government. [More…]
It is a blow for federation that the Commonwealth should have to do it. [More…]
In the Australian Federation this superiority of financial resources exists in the Commonwealth. [More…]
I find the Commission’s conclusion very helpful indeed, and the one that I have taken as my chief guideline is the one which states that special grants are justified when a State, through financial stress from any cause, is unable efficiently to discharge its functions as a member of the federation and should be determined by the amount of help found necessary to make it possible for that State by reasonable effort to function at a standard not appreciably below that of other States. [More…]
One is to exclude the State from the federation by an amendment of the Constitution; but, as that would leave the Commonwealth responsible for the State’s debts, it could hardly be chosen as a practical alternative to a special grant. [More…]
The informal vote for the Senate has always been higher than the informal vote for the House of Representatives, and this has applied since Federation. [More…]
But when we heard this proposition, which was floated by a certain Mr Crofts who is the Executive Vice-President of the Australian Air Pilots Federation, that there was an intention to close down these airports, we became very apprehensive. [More…]
Mr Crofts is the Executive Vice-President of the Air Pilots Federation. [More…]
A number of organisations concerned with the operation of air services in north-western Tasmania had given evidence to this committee but the Air Pilots Federation did not. [More…]
But of course we all know- in fact, it has been very evident in this last week- that there is a contest between the Minister for Transport and the Air Pilots Federation, but I do not intend to go into the details of that. [More…]
I wonder, if I may just touch on this briefly, why a person whose responsibility ought to be the development of air services in the interests of the members of the Air Pilots Federation would be floating the proposition, would be putting into the minds of the community a suggestion that there should be the closing down of an airport and so a reduction in the activity of that industry for which he had at least some responsibility. [More…]
I suggest that it is pointing in that direction because not only does it have the support of the airline industry, but it has, apparently, the support of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
It would seem to be supported by Mr Crofts of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, who I think ought to have something better to do than to promote a proposition which can only lead to the diminution of the opportunity for airline pilots to serve in the air services of this country. [More…]
No industry organisation has had more consultation with the present Government than the Australian Wheat Growers Federation. [More…]
I can also tell the honourable senator that very shortly officers of my Department will be having discussions on the subject with the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters and hopefully also with officers of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
At a meeting which the Board held with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations- not with a station but with the Federation, or FACTS as it is known- on 2 1 May 1970, the Federation questioned the validity of paragraph 35 of the Board’s television program standards which read as follows: [More…]
Subsequently the Board received the legal opinions which are included in a letter dated 1 July 1 970 from the then General Manager of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
Anyone in Victoria who complains that the 4 stations on a Sunday transmit football replays has no one else to blame but the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
After having introduced the Bill and then having a discussion with executives of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations we determined that we would amend the Bill so that the power would vest in either House of the Parliament and either House of the Parliament would have the right to reject the regulations that were determined by the Board. [More…]
After discussion with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations I decided to amend the legislation providing for licence periods varying from 6 months to 3 years. [More…]
I might just as well reply: Why do you not say a word in favour of that magnificent concept which is the Treaties Commission which the Queensland Government has now enacted and which I think has the most innovative and sensible provisions which any state has passed since Federation in regard to our implementation of international treaties? [More…]
It is a far cry from the view of Federation which would say that a handsome and proper sum of financial assistance should be given to the States to work out a technical education program to come to this point where the Minister not only approves but also may revoke. [More…]
Federation which is in full support of the Government’s measures. [More…]
The news release put out yesterday by the Australian Teachers Federation carries the heading: ‘Senator’s Amendment Threatens Technical and Further Education Program ‘. [More…]
The General Secretary of the Australian Teachers’ Federation, Dr George Smith, said today that delaying the Bill would adversely affect many school leavers and apprentices, and would drastically limit opportunities for adults to return to full or part-time studies. [More…]
That Press release was signed by Dr George Smith, who is the General Secretary of the Australian Teachers Federation, and Mr Bob Harris, who is the Assistant General Secretary of the same organisation. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation, which has its headquarters at Federation House, 300 Sussex Street, Sydney, has as its affiliates the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the Victorian Teaching Union, the Technical Teachers’ Association of Victoria, the Queensland Teachers Union, the South Australian Institute of Teachers, the Tasmanian Teachers Federation, the State School Teachers Union of Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory Commonwealth Teachers Federation, the Northern Territory Commonwealth Teachers Federation and the Papua New Guinea Teachers Association. [More…]
I know that we want to get the legislation through, but I thought it my duty to repudiate what Senator Hall said about the South Australian Labor Government’s record on education and also to read into the record this Press release which has been put out by the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
The viewpoint expressed by Senator Hall is a viewpoint which seeks to make our federation work. [More…]
That, to me, is the final insult to the States, which are already rapidly becoming constitutional skeletons within the so-called Australian federation. [More…]
The one great factor which dominates the passage of this Bill mechanically through this House is that the House of Representatives is not sitting and those of us who believe in the system of federation are being held to ransom by those who so ardently want this assistance to be given to education and by the Government of the day, which has said: ‘If you touch this Bill- if you amend it- there will be no action forthcoming from it until the House of Representatives meets in the middle of February. [More…]
There are tens of thousands of people in the community who value the passage of” this Bill and the financial assistance its passage will provide far more highly than they do the maintenance of federation in Australia. [More…]
The very sobering thought is that the public will sacrifice federation and the rights and powers of the States to get what it wants from the Federal Government. [More…]
The Senate ought not to keep up the pretence that it believes in federation if the Senate allows the revocation power in this Bill to go through. [More…]
I also understand that they value it greater than they value the system of Australian federation. [More…]
I addressed a meeting of bankers and industrialists at the Federation of German Industry in Cologne on 16 January. [More…]
Many honourable senators on both sides of the chamber have looked with ambitious eyes at the EEC as being a new federation of countries with reduced customs and tariff barriers which would be an example to the world. [More…]
To this extent, section 15 may be thought to give expression to the concept at Federation of the Senate as a States House. [More…]
Indeed, without an acknowledgement of their interest in the constitution of the Senate, there would have been no Federation. [More…]
This is a great departure from the situation which has existed in Australia since Federation and a departure which my Party believes is long overdue. [More…]
At Federation the principal source of revenue of the States was customs duties, and one of the prime purposes of Federation was to eliminate the customs barriers between States and to create the principle of freedom of trade throughout the nation as it is enshrined in the famous section 92 of our Constitution. [More…]
That decision immediately provided a grave problem for the States and, if I may say so, one that has never been solved in the 75 years since Federation. [More…]
Section 87 of the Constitution attempted to solve it by providing that during the first 10 years of Federation the States should receive 75 per cent of the customs revenue. [More…]
It is a very careful survey of financial relations as they have existed over the 75 years of our Federation. [More…]
The point I wish to make essentially is that since 1942 and to a great extent over the whole history of our Federation the Commonwealth has had virtually not only a dominant or substantial control of revenues that are raised in Australia but also almost a virtual monopoly of those revenues. [More…]
I do not believe- a view supported by the President of the Australian Farmers Federation, Mr Hogan- that the Australian farmer would accept this situation lightly. [More…]
The Turkish-Cypriots would seem to see this autonomous state as forming part of a biregional federation in Cyprus. [More…]
The Parliaments of the first decade of Federation continued the process. [More…]
I have been approached, as I imagine others have been, by the Master Builders Federation, which says that in Darwin the Department of Works and Housing has indicated that a number of contracts to which the Government is currently bound are going to be cancelled. [More…]
This Government is the first since Federation to recognise and to assist in such a practical way the institution of local government in Australia. [More…]
Has the Minister been acquainted with reports that the National Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Mr [More…]
Disagreements between the Houses of Parliament are not frequent but they have occurred a number of times over the history of the Federation. [More…]
All this is consistent with the concept of the central element and the constituent elements in the Federation. [More…]
One can only stress that the unilateral action of the Commonwealth in this area does deny the essence of the Federation and does deny what is the proper relationship between the States and the Commonwealth and the Westminster Parliament. [More…]
With those guidelines, sincere people desiring to expose but not to expand the true constitutional limits would say: ‘When Federation was established we established a High Court and a federal judiciary’, which in relation to the next Bill to be debated by the Senate I shall try to demonstrate that the Government is seeking to confuse and condemn the country by exploitation ‘but in the State sphere we maintained the Supreme Courts, the State judiciaries, the State Constitutions, the State powers and the State laws’. [More…]
It is so often forgotten but it is a fact that when the Federation was sought to be established in 1900 the view of the founders of the Constitution was that there ought not be be any appeal to the Privy Council. [More…]
It is not an attack on the powers of State courts, powers which in Federal matters they have fortuitously held for three-quarters of a century because they existed at the time of Federation. [More…]
Let us go back to the position at the time of Federation as we see it delineated in the Constitution, the document which the Opposition embraces and for which it expresses reverence when it suits it and when it does not suit it it damns with faint praise or discards. [More…]
So no one can say that this Bill transcends either the letter or the spirit of the Constitution or that its possible desirability was not envisaged at the time of Federation. [More…]
It was considered at Federation, but it was rejected. [More…]
That is the statement which he made that at Federation it was natural to invest jurisdiction in State courts, but he went on to say that it was not up to us to perpetuate an historical accident. [More…]
The State courts, apart from the High Court which is primarily an appeal court for all the State Supreme Courts, have been dispensers of justice for 70 years since Federation. [More…]
If we are to depend on a loose federation of that type, we shall continue to be in trouble and we will be at a disadvantage. [More…]
At that time the Minister stated that he had not seen reports that the national secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Mr Norman Gallagher, had urged that a national black ban be placed on Ampol Petroleum Ltd for having approached the Prices Justification Tribunal for a price rise. [More…]
Does this involvement of the nurses in the administration of the Commission meet with the approval of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation? [More…]
-I should think that the proposition put forward by the Minister for Health would meet with the approval not only of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and the other relevant unions but of all those concerned with democracy in industry and the participation of those who work within an industry in the management of that industry. [More…]
Many of them are small funds, union funds, funds run by single business enterprises and teachers federation funds. [More…]
The New South Wales Teachers Federation Benefits Fund, which is a fund run by a group of employees trying to band together for their own protection, had a deficit equal to 1 1 per cent of contributions for the year. [More…]
There are the funds representing a single trade union, those representing single business organisations and the teachers federation funds. [More…]
Two of the biggest and the most powerful employer groups in Western Australia- the Employers Federation and the Chamber of Manufactures- appear to be on the brink of a merger. [More…]
In June 1971 the autonomous State organisations of the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Federation of Australia adopted plans for a national organisation and called itself the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Federation of Australia. [More…]
In 1 973 the Tasmanian Chamber of Manufactures and the Tasmanian Employers Federation merged. [More…]
On 1 January 1974 the Western Australian Chamber of Manufactures and the Western Australian Employers Federation merged as did the Queensland Chamber of Manufactures and the Queensland Employers Federation. [More…]
This is not the place to argue the pros and cons of the Building Labourers Federation power struggle but there already have been questions about certain action in that union and I know that there will be more when we come back here next week. [More…]
He said when speaking to the New South Wales Employers’ Federation 1970 Industrial Relations Conference: [More…]
However, the advertisement, which I think was for a Bic butane lighter, has now been voluntarily withdrawn from television by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
Senate that this is the twelfth occasion since Federation that the Governor-General or the Administrator has referred a matter back to the House of Parliament for correction. [More…]
The Board discussed the results of the survey with the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters. [More…]
Among the telegrams I have received on this matter is one from Mr Bull, who I think is the communist Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation in Melbourne. [More…]
This has certainly created a situation in Australia the like of which, to my knowledge, we have not seen since Federation. [More…]
I consider that the campaign being waged by the New South Wales Government against the New South Wales Teachers Federation and its members is likely to be detrimental to school children in that State, and this action follows the action by the New South Wales Government in recently refusing the inclusion of the preference clause in the latest teachers award. [More…]
Historically, the Trans-Australia Railway was one of the principal inducements for Western Australia to join the other Australian colonies in Federation. [More…]
I believe that this measure that has been introduced to get rid of the deposit gap is the most worthwhile thing that has been done for the home-seeker in the history of federation. [More…]
The Treasury is making inquiries in relation to complaints made by the Printing and Allied Trades Employers’ Federation and, where this is appropriate, it will take up the matter with relevant departments. [More…]
It said it was satisfied that the interests of this nation’s economy, growth and welfare, as well as the interests of all those persons and corporations, both within and without Australia, who are involved in the securities industry require that the Commonwealth Government exercise the powers given to it at Federation to legislate with respect to the securities industry. [More…]
Since Federation the range of activities of governments, including the Commonwealth Government, has vastly increased, involving governments in agreements of many kinds with members of the public, including members of Parliament. [More…]
I have had many talks with representatives of the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation, which is the union which covers most of the administrative and clerical employees of the private insurance companies. [More…]
If no such plans and forecasts have been prepared, will the Government arrange for an inquiry, as proposed by the Australian Insurance Staffs’ Federation, to be held to establish whether a government insurance office is needed? [More…]
Tomorrow I will be having discussions with the chief executive officers of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
To this the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation, the industrial organisation of employees in the insurance industry,, was able very convincingly to reply that, first of all, the national compensation scheme had not come into effect so it was very difficult to know how the company was losing business to a scheme which did not exist. [More…]
If Senator Sheil has any doubts about this matter, I suggest that he sees me or the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation which is well able to look after the interests of its members. [More…]
How then, and under what constitutional warrant, has this Commonwealth Government assumed the title, ‘Australian Government’, and imposed a series of ancillary titles denying the correct constitutional Commonwealth title and status in the Australian federation? [More…]
I preface a question to the Minister for Agriculture by saying that the Minister would no doubt be aware that the Australian Wheat Growers Federation is campaigning for an increase in the first advance payment for wheat to $1.80 a bushel for the 1975-76 harvest. [More…]
My reply in part would date back to the time of Federation. [More…]
In devising these clauses the founders of the Australian Federation did not pretend to be providing an eternal solution to the problems of Federal-State financial relations. [More…]
They were only effecting a compromise which was the price of Federation. [More…]
It is evident that the financial implications between all forms of government were clearly defined and all that was necessary to make Federation work successfully was to invoke a fair and reasonable formula to provide a full degree of equity between the 3 tiers of government. [More…]
Despite all the differences regarding the allocation of funds, the operations of governments since Federation have been carried out successfully. [More…]
If these accepted principles of parliamentary functioning are maintained, the document of Federation will be the success it was intended to be. [More…]
It is therefore evident that the political system as decreed by Federation has thus far succeeded and this success is due in no small measure, despite Party differences, to the fact that each of the 3 governments has been prepared to acknowledge the rights of each other. [More…]
But with respect, I suggest the principles outlined by the wise men of Federation were sound and should be retained together with the retention of authority within the partnership of government as implied at the time of Federation. [More…]
This provision has not been availed of since Federation by any common informer. [More…]
The Australian Commercial Pig Producers’ Federation, the organisation which represents pig producers in all States, has requested an increase in the slaughter levy in order to provide the necessary funds. [More…]
The Promotion Committee which will be appointed by the Minister, will consist of two representatives nominated by the Australian Commercial Pig Producers’ Federation, one Marketing Specialist and one Government representative. [More…]
So far as Chile is concerned, at the time I spoke to the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Souter, and also to Mr Fitzgibbon of the Waterside Workers Federation, I pointed out to them the need to allow that wheat to be shipped in accordance with the order that had been placed. [More…]
The Government recognises the splendid service which the Postmaster-General’s Department has rendered to the people of Australia from Federation to the present day. [More…]
They had set up a new organisation, the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, which they refused to register under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act; and they had gone to great lengths to frustrate any attempts to bring them back within the jurisdiction of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Apart from one short period between 1913 and 1920, Australia has been without the Commission since Federation. [More…]
Morning Herald’ described as the gravest political scandal since Federation. [More…]
I do not remember the exact phrase that was used by Senator Carrick, but it was something on the lines that what Mr Whitlam and Senator Willesee were alleged to have done in relation to the cables and the letters which are the subject of this debate amounted to something like the most monstrous piece of deceit in the history of the Australian government since Federation. [More…]
Whether or not honourable senators opposite like it, the present Prime Minister of this country is probably the best known and most favourably known of any Prime Minister since Federation in 1 90 1 . [More…]
He referred to a meeting which was going to be held by a breakaway group from the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation, the Insurance Staffs Action Committee. [More…]
In the early days of Federation, Parliament recognised the need for a government to be able to cope with emergent funding needs not covered by existing appropriations by inserting in the Audit Act a clause providing for expenditure in excess of specific appropriations or not specifically provided for to be met from an appropriation under the head ‘Advance to the Treasurer’. [More…]
All governments, irrespective of their political persuasion- as I said, whether they are Labor or anti-Labor- have operated along these lines ever since the first days of Federation. [More…]
I understand that this is the first occasion- certainly it is the first occasion for many years, if not since Federation- that a debate of this nature has taken place and that the debate on the Supply Bills has been deferred pending further information about the Treasurer’s Advance. [More…]
More particularly, perhaps, did the founding fathers look to the American institution, the Federal Inter-State Commission, which has operated with expanding authority in the Federation which was our parent so far as constitutional structure is concerned, namely, the United States of America from then to now. [More…]
I find no evidence in the Bill to suggest that the Government has turned its attention to this aspect of the Commission’s imperative national duties, namely, to ensure that we have a proper shipping service between the island state of the Federation, Tasmania, and the other States. [More…]
That concept became the victim of political whim in the first decade of Federation; it was the victim of political timidity between 1912 and 1920; and it has been the victim of political inertia for the past half century. [More…]
It is a phoney argument on which to try to run an Australian federation, and the fact that there are variations comes about for a large number of reasons. [More…]
We accept that that is a proper thing in a federation. [More…]
It is an electorate which has been an important entity in that State since Federation and an electorate which probably meets the guidelines of community of interests better than almost any other electorate in the State. [More…]
A claim has been made by the Hospital Employees Federation in New South Wales, which is the union that covers these fire officers and other employees of my Department in the Concord hospital, to the effect that they should be paid at the same rate as the members of the New South Wales Fire Brigade. [More…]
Representatives of the Hospital Employees Federation discussed the matter with some members of my staff last month. [More…]
On the 20th of this month there was a meeting between the representatives of the Hospital Employees Federation, officers of the Department of Repatriation and Compensation and officers of the Public Service Board, the latter being responsible for the determinations. [More…]
Apparently there is disagreement between the Public Service Board and the Hospital Employees Federation over this matter. [More…]
For that reason the Public Service Board- I am merely repeating what the Public Service Board apparently says; I have no responsibility in this matter- is reluctant to grant the claims of the Hospital Employees Federation. [More…]
However, the Hospital Employees Federation has said that there will be a stoppage of the fire staff at the [More…]
I do not know that there is anything that I can add to that, because this will then be a matter between the Board and the Hospital Employees Federation for determination by the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
We believe that in a federation there is an obligation on the part of the Commonwealth Government to follow the course of devolution provided for in the Constitution and to use section 96 grants in this circumstance so that the situation, which has already been adverted to in considerable detail by my colleague Senator Guilfoyle in her speech on the second reading, of the organisation which has been structured in the States and which is already set up for ensuring that the money flows down to the appropriate organisations can be followed. [More…]
Jim Healey, a Communist, put his trade union above party and held the Waterside Workers Federation confidence for a lifetime. [More…]
In that context I know that the New South Wales Vehicle Builders Employees Federation has some Turkish and some Greek members. [More…]
We can take as an example the Federation of Airline Pilots, which can hold this country to ransom. [More…]
-The Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union and other unions are responsible organisations that make responsible decisions and ought not to be imposed upon to do those things that are completely contrary to the desires of their membership. [More…]
Workers Federation of Australia does not affect in any way the wheatgrowers of Australia. [More…]
One might look at what is happening in New South Wales where the power of the Teachers Federation is being used in an attempt to overthrow the authority of the State Government, the teachers tribunals and the Department of Education in that State. [More…]
When designing the advertisements to which the honourable senator has referred, my Department contacted the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters, which indicated that it would not obstruct the 2- minute advertisements but would leave it to the individual member stations to decide whether to run the advertisements. [More…]
To me it has connotations of the Commonwealth of Nations or a federation of nations or States but I imagine that in this instance this point is not terribly important and I mention it only in passing. [More…]
There Will be a departmental representative, 2 representatives from the Austraiian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, one person being chosen for his expertise in marketing and with the departmental officer being chairman. [More…]
That, of course, was not asked for by the Federation. [More…]
One is the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation and the other is the Australian Mutual Provident Society Staff Association. [More…]
Senator Drake-Brockman does not like the members of that association, but I prefer to deal with the workers in that industry, including members of the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation. [More…]
Leading members of the general and life insurance industries together with representatives of the Australian Insurance Staffs’ Federation are represented on the committees. [More…]
I chaired a further meeting on Sunday, 1 1 May, at which I undertook that as a result of representations from the Federation and the general insurance industry I would be prepared to propose to the Government amendments to the Bill making AGIC specifically subject to the Insurance Acts 1973 and the Life Insurance Act 1945-1973. [More…]
The Government will do all that is possible to allow the Australian Insurance Staffs’ Federation to cover comparable staff in the AGIC, and to give employment preference in it to the people employed in the insurance industry without prejudice to the rights of employees in existing Australian Government insurance undertakings. [More…]
I think that as this race has the blessing of the Australian Yachting Federation the Government ought to give some consideration to providing what appears to me to be a very insignificant sum of money so that Australia can be represented in this world recognised race. [More…]
The Australian Development Assistance Agency co-ordinates such activities in conjunction with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), which includes such organisations as AUSTCARE, Australian Council of Churches, Australian Catholic Relief, Federation of Jewish Welfare Societies, Freedom from Hunger and Vietnam Orphans Fund. [More…]
A representative of the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations should be invited to attend meetings of the panel. [More…]
As I listened to Senator Greenwood I could not help but attempt to draw an analogy between the legal profession and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with officials of the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union and the Maritime Services Guild. [More…]
Every reform that has been brought about has been agreed upon by the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I do not deny that there have been times when the illustrious Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, with all his ability to conciliate, has had differences with the Waterside Workers Federation, in the same way as previous Ministers have. [More…]
A tripartite arrangement exists between the ship owners, an independent chairman and a Waterside Workers Federation representative. [More…]
If the flotsam and jetsam of the workforce are recruited into the Waterside Workers Federation it will be found that they are not in reasonable physical condition and they will not measure up to the standard required. [More…]
The other point I make is that the medical records of most members of the Waterside Workers Federation show that at various times a large number of them have had an ailment that has not been enough to put them out of the industry. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation is making whoopee under the encouragement that is it getting from men like Senator Mulvihill, Mr Foster and the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) as well as the Labor Government. [More…]
A new national agreement covering wages and conditions of employment of waterside workers, to operate for a period of 2 years from May 1974, was negotiated by the Federation and the employers. [More…]
The very substantial gains made by the Federation, which considerably increased stevedoring costs and resulted in higher freight rates, were again not accompanied by any change in conditions of employment designed to achieve greater productivity or otherwise improve efficiency in the industry. [More…]
In the old days there was always a fight between the Liberal Minister concerned and the Waterside Workers Federation and the Australian Council of Trade Unions about shifting the waterside workers from one port to another. [More…]
The policies decided by the German Government and accepted by both the German employers’ federation and the unions indicate a greater participation in industry than the proposals made by the Labor Government in South Australia. [More…]
With reference to the answer given by the previous Attorney-General, Mr Justice Murphy, to the question asked by Senator Greenwood concerning the alleged intimidation by the Australian Builders Labourers Federation towards six building companies concerning their proceedings before the High Court: [More…]
So far as I am aware, the former Attorney-General received no correspondence from either the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders’ Labourers Federation or the building contractors concerned. [More…]
The correspondence to which he referred in his answer to Senator Greenwood was a copy of a telegram sent by the General Secretary of the Federation to the Master Builders’ Association, a copy of which the Master Builders Association made available to my Department. [More…]
Egan was at the time thc secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees Federation and later in thc same year became Federal Secretary of that union. [More…]
Since federation there have been only 5 Dames of the British Empire to serve in Federal Parliament. [More…]
The Senate also has to discuss the Australian Government Insurance Corporation Bill, which is aimed at the elimination eventually of all private insurance in this country, the Inter-State Commission Bill, which by its very reading will have a great effect so far as the strength and residual value of the States in this Federation are concerned, the National Compensation Bill, which again will see to the end of private compensation and a number of other Bills which are clear in their intent. [More…]
It refers to the fact that the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation has sought this and then it states in a subsequent paragraph: [More…]
83/ 75) of 14 April 1975. decides that the Federation shall adopt a position of opposition to the formation of the proposed Australian Government Insurance Corporation. [More…]
Let us not hide our light under a bushel; let us be prepared to acknowledge what has happened in the past and to acknowledge the way in which we have accepted the dictates of federation. [More…]
The Party had received $30,546 from the Federation Insurance Ltd of Victoria in 1972 and $47,000 in 1974. [More…]
The Leader of his own Party publicly acknowledged that the sum of $70,000, I think it was, had been received by the National Country Party from Federation Insurance Ltd in Victoria. [More…]
The definition of command is contained in the Joint Service Glossary of Terms which has been with the defence forces since Federation. [More…]
However, tomorrow both the Minister for Social Security and I will be meeting in Canberra with representatives of the South Coast of New South Wales Trades and Labor Council and the Miners Federation and the whole situation as to the payment of unemployment benefit to the miners will be finally resolved after that meeting. [More…]
The 2 major parent organisations- the Federation of State School Parents and the Victorian Council of School Organisations- have accused the Federal Minister, Mr Beazley, and the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Thompson, of withholding information. [More…]
The workers are largely non-English speaking migrants and the majority are members of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]
I am informed that Mr Townsend, Acting Federal Secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, addressed a meeting of the striking employees yesterday. [More…]
My friend Mr Bert James, the honourable member for Hunter who represents coal miners, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) and I had a singularly disagreeable experience today in speaking to representatives of the Miners Federation and other mining unions- unions which have given a lot of loyalty to this Government and to this Partyand telling them that we cannot at this stage do anything but support indexation of wages and incomes. [More…]
It is not very easy because the people who belong to the Miners Federation are amongst the people who put this Government into office and were prepared to stand up and be counted during the Vietnam war and many great struggles. [More…]
When Senator Greenwood was conscripting young men to go off and be killed the Miners Federation was standing against those policies. [More…]
I do not feel happy about having to go to the Miners Federation and say to it - [More…]
I have seen the Miners Federation and I have told the Miners Federation that if its members are on strike they will not be receiving the unemployment benefit. [More…]
In doing so he defied the conventions and all of the decent political customs and practices that have been observed not only by the Labor Party but by most sections of the Liberal Party ever since 1949 and, prior to that, with one or two minor exceptions, since Federation. [More…]
I noticed last night that Senator Young was in the company of executive members of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters of Australia. [More…]
I suggest to Senator Young that he should draw the matters I have mentioned on behalf of my colleague to the attention of the members of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters of Australia. [More…]
Both the Chamber of Manufactures and the Employers Federation strongly advocated in the court that the quarterly cost of living adjustments should stop, mainly because, according to their argument, they were inflationary. [More…]
Written submissions were received from the Australian Farmers Federation, the Tractor and Machinery Association of Australia and the Officer-in-charge of the Station. [More…]
Senator Wright has attacked the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Miners Federation agreed to the mechanisation of mines, with its attendant safety problems. [More…]
It is in that context, as Senator Wright and other honourable senators would know, that the Miners Federation made to governments in the 1950s some concessions which they had been reluctant to give earlier. [More…]
Using the same principle here, I do not think that honourable senators opposite can tell me that Evan Phillips and other people in the Mining Federation are virtually emulating, say, the miners in Chile. [More…]
Legal Actions Against the Hospital Employees Federation (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Has the payment of the legal costs incurred by Mr Brian McClure and Mrs K. Gordon in actions against the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, Victoria, No. [More…]
36 of 1973 before the Australian Industrial Court in which Brian William McClure was the complainant and Keith Leo Mitchell (the former Secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, Victoria, No. [More…]
The people in the cities have been voting since Federation in Commonwealth elections, with compulsory enrolment. [More…]
1 am not sure whether this has been so ever since Federation, but ever since I can remember- that goes back at least 30 years; some of my Tasmanian colleagues may be able to be more precise and help me with this - the Parliament of Tasmania has been elected on a system which follows- [More…]
As I understand it, that is the practice that has been followed since Federation. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to an article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph quoting a report by the Victorian Employers Federation which has suggested that Australia’s 300 000 unemployed are costing the taxpayers nearly $1 lm a week? [More…]
-A11 1 can say is that I had discussions with the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation and some dairy products manufacturers in Melbourne on Friday. [More…]
Since the early days of Federation, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to which I referred last night, has provided the code for the industrial relations policy of the Government of the day. [More…]
It is a democratically elected House but he seems to be overlooking the compact of federation in its Constitution and in the way in which it represents the people of Australia. [More…]
The political history of this country has been that for the greater part of federation anti-Labor governments have occupied the treasury benches in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The fact that they are prepared to do this for the first time since Federation and virtually force not just the Australian Government to its knees but also the Australian people to their knees in order to obtain power 1 8 months after this Government was elected for a 3-year period shows the nature of the people who would seek power m this Parliament today. [More…]
The principles for examination of the Estimates this year are the same principles that have been adopted since Federation and the same principles which were in existence when the Opposition was in Government. [More…]
The principles to which I have referred have been accepted by the Department of the Treasury, the Auditor-General and the Joint Committee of Public Accounts since Federation. [More…]
They will fracture the Federation which we have developed over 75 years. [More…]
On 20 occasions since Federation an Opposition party has had a majority in the Senate but for the first time this action has been taken although, of course, it was threatened some 18 months ago. [More…]
There is much to be said for the point of view that it is no part of the judicial function in a federation, any more than anywhere else, to enter into the social and political motivations of legislation, and that to the extent to which the courts do so their standing in the eyes of the community is diminished, to the loss of all. [More…]
These include: whether it was originally intended that the Commonwealth should be able by unilateral action to bring about such a change otherwise than by formal amendment of the Constitution; if not, whether there is any such ground for departing from the original intention as factual changes in the relative responsibilities of the Commonwealth and the States, or in the place of Australia in the international community, or in economic and social developments since federation; and whether as a general principle legislative powers can be used to attain ends unrelated to the purpose of the power. [More…]
If we are removed, will Opposition members be able to convince the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or the Miners Federation to restrain their wage demands? [More…]
Why should the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or the Miners Federation restrain their wage demands if they know that they are living in a society in which anything goes, in which it is the ruthless who - [More…]
A conference will be held next week of the federation of police associations. [More…]
1 have made arrangements to speak to the Secretary of the Federation, Mr Tremethick, and the Secretary of the Australian Capital Territory Police Association, Mr Oldroyd. [More…]
We have a paragraph there to the effect that a ship is being delayed because members of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia believe that they have to demonstrate by means of a strike against Tasmanian trade to solve the difficulties which are plaguing this Parliament because of the stubborn refusal of the Prime [More…]
The second was the Bell Bay Railway Agreement which was described- it was not really refuted- by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, as the worst agreement, so far as any State was concerned, in the history of Federation. [More…]
The Federation of Australian Police Associations will be meeting next week in Canberra. [More…]
On Friday of this week Mr Oldroyd, the Australian Capital Territory Secretary of the Federation, and Mr Tremethick, the Australian Secretary of the Association, will meet me in my office. [More…]
The power exists, and because this Government is the worst government since Federation, because it is dishonest, because it is disastrously inefficient, because it has brought this country to the edge of economic chaos, the Senate Opposition, in company with the Opposition in the House of Representatives, is using the means and the responsibility provided for it in the Constitution to do one thing and one thing alone, that is, to ask the people of Australia to judge whether this is a good or a bad government- who shall deny it the right to do this in a democracy? [More…]
Australian history since Federation contains ample examples of governments which did not run their full term and no instability or chaos of the kind now murmured by the Government occurred. [More…]
The whole principle of Federation and of this Parliament is based on the fact that the States would not agree to Federation unless there were a Senate interlocking in equal numbers each of the States and giving to that Senate virtually coequal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
Is there anyone who doubts that over the course of the next year or 1 8 months, whenever we take the Australian Labor Party to the polls, it will be defeated in the most ignominious way since Federation? [More…]
The compact of Federation in the formation of this great nation was that there would be an Australian Senate, and I believe that, without contest, the Australian Senate now has the powers to deal with all Bills and to deal especially with money Bills in the way in which it is dealing with them at the present time. [More…]
smaller in population, would not vote for federation unless they have some protection given to them in the Senate and they got it. [More…]
Opposition senators, particularly elderly Opposition senators who have some sense of history, do not want it to be indelibly recorded in Hansard that they personally voted to reject Appropriation Bills for the first time in 75 years of Federation, thereby jeopardising or endangering the survival of constitutional government. [More…]
smaller in population, would not vote for federation unless they have some protection given to them in the senate and they got it. [More…]
smaller in population, would not vote for Federation unless they have some protection given to them in the Senate and they got it. [More…]
That would maintain the status quo which has applied ever since Federation. [More…]
Manufacturers inquiries through the Manufacturers’ Federation and the Ex-Im Corporation evidence a widespread fell need for the Government-created Corporation. [More…]
Clear early vindication of the Government’s initiative in setting up the sort of state trading corporation, favoured by an increasing number of countries, comes firstly from a significant Manufacturers’ Federation export survey. [More…]
It is another of the conventions which has been broken by no party or group since Federation. [More…]
The convention to which I refer indicates that since Federation on 20 occasions when the Appropriation Bills have been discussed by the Senate the Government parties- whether they were Labor or Liberal or any other Party- have been in a minority position in this House of review. [More…]
One is not able to say that in the 75 years since Federation there have not been circumstances and times of stress and tension when the majority group in the Senate, in the considered judgment of that group, could not have exercised the sort of immature decision that is apparent and has been apparent during the last several weeks in respect of the Appropriation Bills currently before the Senate. [More…]
The draftsmen and founders of the Australian Federation, familiar as they were with colonial ( to become State) patriotisms and sometimes sharp differences of policy, devised a Constitution which provided for a Senate made up of an equal number of senators from each State, and a House of Representatives elected by individual constituencies and therefore representative, not of States but of people. [More…]
We are not, of course, in any position to forbid the unions from suggesting that a 2.9 per cent increase or any other figure should be taken into account as the correct indexation figure in the hearing commencing before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission today, any more than we can forbid an employers federation from claiming that nothing should be passed on. [More…]
This is the view taken by Federal governments since Federation. [More…]
It is a means of meeting the requirements of the 3 fund accounting system operated by Australian Governments virtually since Federation under the provisions of the Audit Act. [More…]
The trade union movement was in agreement with amalgamation; the Employers’ Federation was in agreement with amalgamation; and indeed a number of the Opposition senators agreed to amalgamation in principle. [More…]
The people who wrote the Constitution around the turn of the century put these provisions in for very good reasons and for very clear purposes because they knew, and this needs to be restated all these years later, that the smaller States- that is, those smaller in populationwould not be in the Federation and would not have voted for Federation unless they had some protection given to them in the Senate. [More…]
Why can the Employers Federation not have this kind of treatment? [More…]
To make the parliamentary system workable all parties, from Federation to 1974, acted so that the party with the House of Representatives majority continued in government for its term. [More…]
So we have this long list of Opposition endeavours to try to justify the unprecedented action which it has taken; an action which has been taken for the first time in 75 years of Australian federation. [More…]
Will the Minister in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for the Media note the contents of a speech made at the annual meeting of the Federation of Commercial Television Stations by the Chief Manager of the Bank of New South Wales yesterday? [More…]
I refer to the criticism of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations that the local requirements in television presentations, particularly in drama, are resulting in steep increases in costs to the industry and a decline in the diversity of programs presented. [More…]
The Interim Commission was also asked to examine general issues pertinent to consumer protection, to encourage the formation of a federation of consumer organisations, to investigate consumer education, to arrange liaison between Federal and State consumer officials and, most importantly, to make recommendations about a permanent body that should ultimately take its place. [More…]
One of the achievements of the Interim Commission was to bring together consumer organisations to form the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations. [More…]
This now enables a consumer viewpoint to be expressed with the backing of the Federation. [More…]
Why did the founding fathers- after all, the rights of the States and how the Senate would be constructed were the biggest issues before Federationgive this power to the Senate? [More…]
If that safeguard was not vested in this House we may not have had a federation as we see it today; we may not have had one country. [More…]
Day by day more and more information comes out, not only about the most massive economic chaos and mismanagement that anybody has seen in Australia since Federation but also about dishonesty, deception and even corruption in government. [More…]
Senator Wright quite properly says: ‘What about the Chairman of the Employers Federation?’ [More…]
Those people who understand that will know that built into the Commonwealth structure at Federation was a Senate of a particular structure, with particular powers. [More…]
Well might every honourable senator recall this: The States would not have a bar of Federation unless there was a Senate which had 2 main characteristics. [More…]
I believe that if we are to retain the Federation and if Australia is to remain the cohesive and successful country which it has been for 75 years we must continue to preserve the additional representation, which the less populous States obtain through this chamber. [More…]
Senator Chaney ignored the fact that in the 75 years of Australia’s development since Federation, despite all the trials and tribulations, no government has been subjected to a denial of Supply, and only occasionally has the threat been made. [More…]
I tried to interest other white-collar unions, e.g., the Insurance Staffs, the Architects, and the Teachers Federation in a project to challenge Greenwood through paid advertising in the Press, but they seemed to think this would give the smearer [More…]
I decided to read back over the speeches which led to the setting up of the Federation. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite would have been wise to have read the speeches which were delivered at the various conventions which led up to Federation. [More…]
All the efforts of travel industry organisations such as the Australian Federation of Travel Agents and the International Air Transport Association to enforce their codes of ethics have so far proved ineffective in preventing agency failures. [More…]
He is the only senator since Federation to have been elected to the position of Chairman of Committees on a second occasion, there being an intervening period between the 2 elections. [More…]
During the last 3 horrendous years when interest rates have been higher than at any other time since Federation, small businesses have been left almost in a dramatic state of collapse. [More…]
If the federalism equalisation grants principle which has been adopted for the past 40 years has not managed to raise some of the small States from the equivalent of what I have described I believe that we could also regard it as unsuccessful, and the reason is that the theory of compensation- I refer, if I may, to my colleague Senator Wright, and hope that he may wish to make some comments, no doubt better informed, in relation to this matter when the opportunity arises- for federation is one which has been overlooked for far too long. [More…]
I pause only to draw the picture of the island State of Tasmania which pays almost every penalty for federation such as having to pay high tariffs because we protect the industries of Melbourne and Sydney with everything we buy and having to have every industry which uses its natural resources and its labour resources - [More…]
That is more than one-quarter of all the parliaments since Federation. [More…]
From the time of Federation and before the primary industries of Australia have been the backbone of the export trade of this country and have thus done a great deal in the economic field to develop the nation to its present stature. [More…]
Of all the issues that might come before this Senate- this place which was formed as a result of the constitutional conferences, this place in which it was agreed by the States that they would have equality of representation as a precondition for their joining the federation- what is the most significant issue in that sense? [More…]
the Government proposes to make the most important reform of the Federal system since Federation. [More…]
Equality of representation in the Senate from the States was regarded by the States at Federation as the guarantor that the economic lifeblood of the Federation could, if necessary, be forcibly pumped to its extremities on the basis that if those extremities started dying off the whole body Federation becomes ill. That is what concerns me about the unexplained features of the new federalism policy of the Government. [More…]
The second principle is the statement that the Government intends to make the most important reform of the federal system since Federation and that it will re-establish a pattern of co-operation in national affairs and reverse the excessive centralising of power in Australia. [More…]
Incidentally, the first allocation of $56m was the first since Federation, to my knowledge. [More…]
After 75 years of federation, the Senate has evolved as much as a checks and balances house for the nation as it has as a States rights house. [More…]
This has been the practice since Federation. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Growers Federation is prepared to provide some assistance. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry will meet the Federation in the next month to talk about this whole problem. [More…]
The amendments contained in the Bill before the Senate have been endorsed by the Commonwealth Teachers Federation, and I think that demonstrates the very good relationship that existed between the Labor Government and the Teachers Federation on the terms and conditions of the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
Those methods, endorsed by the Commonwealth Teachers Federation, led to a very happy and constructive relationship between the previous Government and the Commonwealth teachers themselves. [More…]
The Teachers Federation was involved in the discussions, which is a good thing; but, for some reason into which I cannot go into at this stage, the Northern Territory seemed to miss out. [More…]
The procedures which work for assessment at the present time were developed by the Acting Commissioner and the Teachers Federation. [More…]
Nevertheless, for some reason, the Commissioner and the Federation diverged from the Neal-Radford report. [More…]
I do acknowledge that Senator Button, who now reposes confident in the fact that the Commonwealth has been restored and that the federation is now secure, recognises that the Constitution from which we derived this Parliament stems from the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act and that this is the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
So this is no new trend and no turning back of the clock but it is a simple recitation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth and of the Federation. [More…]
Supporters of the Government are saying that Mr Lynch is the worst, the most terrible Treasurer since Federation. [More…]
If I recall my Senate history correctly, one of the first things the Senate did when it met in Melbourne after the creation of federation was to set up a select committee on Tasmanian freights. [More…]
I indicate at this stage that the Government will not be voting for either amendment, not because of sheer pigheadedness but because the Government is of the opinion that the amendments do not comprehend the totality of the Government’s approach to the problems of federation. [More…]
That there have been vast disparities between the economic effects of federation on some of the member States and the effects on others. [More…]
In Australia there was a period when compensation for disabilities arising from Federation was used as a basis lor grants. [More…]
I noticed today in the Australian a statement attributed to the Federal Director of the Federation of Australian Radio Braodcasters, Mr Des Foster, that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, the former Department of the Media and the Australian Broadcasting Commission had been stacked with people whose political sympathies or affiliations were obvious even to the casual observer. [More…]
The decision gained the acceptance of the Australian Wheatgrower^ Federation and was endorsed by all State governments as parties to the complementary legislative arrangements supporting the orderly marketing and stabilisation scheme for wheat. [More…]
Then Senator Harradine, speaking on the motion for the first reading of the Bill, spoke at length about a case relating to a Mr Egan and the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employee Federation. [More…]
-The Minister for Education will be aware that the Commonwealth Teachers Federation held a stopwork meeting in Darwin yesterday to protest about the shortage of single teacher accommodation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I received a telegram from the Commonwealth Teachers Federation drawing my attention to the fact that there was a stopwork meeting concerning single teacher accommodation and asking for my response. [More…]
Subsequently when I was in Darwin, I had some conversations with the Teachers Federation on the matter, which is a difficult one. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Education aware of claims by the New South Wales Teachers Federation that the New South Wales Government is deliberately increasing the size of classes in order to reduce the number of teachers employed in New South Wales schools? [More…]
I am not aware what the New South Wales Teachers Federation is saying in this regard but I am aware of certain facts and it is as well that Senator Wriedt should understand them. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that the Parents and Citizens Association of New South Wales, perhaps prompted by the Teachers Federation, plans a protest operation in Canberra for Thursday 29 April. [More…]
Does the Minister feel that pressure is being created by the Teachers Federation on the Parent and Citizens Association to adopt this militant operation? [More…]
I am not aware of any influence by the Teachers Federation upon the parents and citizens associations. [More…]
When I was a tally clerk as a member of the Waterside Workers Federation in Victoria I had to mix with all sorts of people in that particular area. [More…]
I draw attention also to the fact that the coalition parties, which have ruled this country for about 80 per cent of the time since Federation, have had ample opportunity to bring about the essential reforms that are needed in our rural community. [More…]
Has the New South Wales Department of Education refused to take responsibility for the matter with the excuse, reported in the February edition of the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation Journal, Education, that they are the Commonwealth’s responsibility and the Commonwealth has been totally irresponsible: if so, what action is the Minister taking to assist these four young people to obtain teaching positions. [More…]
As Senator Grimes so eloquently pointed out in his address, the policy of the Australian Pensioners Federation is that the allowance should be $200. [More…]
and (4) I am further informed that, mainly resulting from industry opposition to certain proposals contained in the draft legislation, representatives of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation and the Australian Wheat Board are currently examining and developing a concept that the Board might be authorised to operate a dockage system with a view to discouraging the delivery of varieties undesirable in the market place. [More…]
Of course, as a result of this we were accused of being a government which wanted to destroy the States when, in fact, we realised from the beginning that it was the States which were incapable of providing the necessary finance as every government, both Labor and Liberal, has said ever since federation. [More…]
At no time in the history of the federation has there been such increased payments to the States as there were under the Labor Government. [More…]
No other government in the whole history of federation has been such a predator upon the people of Australia in respect of taxation as the Whitlam Government. [More…]
Ltd in Albury and of a telegram he received from Joe Thompson of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation. [More…]
In the January 1976 issue of the Northern Territory Teachers Federation (NTTF) Newsletter, the Federation voiced its concern at the shortage of teacher accommodation in certain areas of the Northern Territory and advised that action to seek the improvement in teacher housing is to be given the highest priority in 1 976. [More…]
In its October 1975 Newsletter the Federation included a form to be completed by single teachers entitled ‘Accommodation Needs of Single Teachers- Survey Questionnaire’. [More…]
This legislation has the support of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and the State governments. [More…]
At the beginning of each 5-year stabilisation period the Government negotiates with the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation to determine the rate of the first payment, which is guaranteed by the Government. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the Australian Electoral Office has had a very high reputation ever since Federation, and I would be very wary of attempting at all to get it involved in matters which are often the subject of disputation between political parties in this place. [More…]
I refer to the proposed stop work meeting involving 3500 workers planned at Chrysler’s Tonsley Park plant for next Monday by the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia to launch a campaign for a new log of claims. [More…]
I take the opportunity presented by the debate on the Customs Tariff Amendment Bill to draw attention of the Senate and the Parliament to the fact that today saw the opening of the Sixth Intermediate Conference of the Australian Pensioners Federation in Canberra. [More…]
I have been informed by members of the Australian Pensioners Federation that as a result of this tampering with the pharmaceutical benefits list some pensioners are paying up to $9 a week every week for a drug for which they have some chronic need and which was previously on the pharmaceutical benefits list and therefore available free. [More…]
I received recently special representations concerning the impact of the new scheme on members of these police forces from the Secretary of the Police Association of the Australian Capital Territory, Mr Oldroyd, who is also the Assistant Secretary of the Police Federation of Australia. [More…]
Federation of Soccer Clubs and sponsored by the Polish sporting community in this State. [More…]
We do adhere to the Memorandum and Articles of Association- Soccer Federation Rules. [More…]
My understanding is that representatives of the Australian Citrus Growers Federation saw Mr Sinclair, the Minister for Primary Industry, yesterday. [More…]
There is no way on earth in which, under the Constitution as regards sovereign States and the Federation, a government in Canberra ought to enter into a compact whereby it can make decisions about the allocation of money without having regard to the State governments. [More…]
Long before the Federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, local government bodies had been incorporated in most of the populous areas of our continent. [More…]
But, of course, the history of our Federation is quite clear. [More…]
However, I would like to express my appreciation in closing for the fact that this Government, I think for the first time in the 75 years of Federation, has set about reversing the trend towards central government in Australiaa trend which is, I think, best and most simply documented in Sir Robert Menzies’ book Central Power in the Australian Commonwealth. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister received a copy of the results of a special survey conducted by the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters which revealed that 34 of Australia’s 1 18 commercial radio stations failed to make a profit during the 1974-75 financial year. [More…]
Right throughout the period of the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea the Miscellaneous Workers Union journal Federation News made not the slightest protest about the takeover. [More…]
The only reference to West New Guinea in the entire collection of the 1961 and 1962 issues of Federation News was one paragraph within an item in the 1961 ALP Conference policy decision on foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
Yet during this period Federation News published many items about the involvement of the Miscellaneous Workers Union in the New South Wales Peace Committee. [More…]
1 ) Has the Australian Police Federation requested the Australian Government to provide a special law enforcement grant of $200m to the States; if so, did the Federation in its submission warn of a rise in white collar and organised crime if State police forces do not urgently receive substantial financial assistance. [More…]
Has a decision been made on any submission by the Federation; if so, when was the decision made, and by whom. [More…]
What was the decision, and what reasons were given to the Federation for the decision. [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Control Board has received representations from the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters and Sir Reginald Ansett, Chairman of Directors, Austarama Television Proprietary Limited, Licensee of Station ATV Melbourne, on the undesirable effects which any decision to ban advertising of cigarettes and cigarette tobacco would have on the financial operations of commercial broadcasting and television stations. [More…]
Will the Minister consider involving the Co-operative Federation of Australia in the working party? [More…]
But I am aware of the 2 systems that he mentioned, that is, the one in the West German Federation and the work done in the United States. [More…]
I have had discussions with the Co-operative Federation of Australia and particularly with the area of that body which involves itself in rural credits. [More…]
This does no more than give proper legal backing to procedures which have been followed for many years, probably since Federation. [More…]
The requirement as it stands is impracticable and has its origin in early days of federation when the expenditures of the Commonwealth were quite limited in volume and extent. [More…]
The Bill seeks to facilitate an agreement reached by the Fremantle Port Authority and the Waterside Workers Federation and it is a matter which has the support of the Stevedoring Industry Council. [More…]
lt concerns approximately 30 members of the Waterside Workers Federation currently employed by the Fremantle Port Authority as crane drivers. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation [More…]
The most significant union in the industry is the Waterside Workers Federation, whose members provide the bulk of the manpower for stevedoring operations. [More…]
Participants were the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority and the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Therefore it is proposed that to allow this industry to be placed on a basis which is as normal as possible the following steps are to be taken: the existing temporary legislation to be continued until 31 December 1976; the ASIA to continue its existing operations until 31 December 1976; arrangements will be put in hand to assist the staff of the ASIA as outlined earlier; the Stevedoring Industry Council, under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Northrop, to continue until 31 December 1976; the employers and the Waterside Workers Federation will be asked to indicate the steps being taken to reduce the existing size of the workforce; the employers and the Waterside Workers Federation will be required to submit for my consideration details of the arrangement proposed to deal with recruitment, redundancy and means of coping with the fluctuating labour requirements of the industry; the employers and the Waterside Workers Federation will be asked to evidence means of securing adequate labour allocation arrangements; satisfactory arrangements have to be determined concerning funding arrangements for the industry; proposed consultative machinery should provide details concerning effective representation of user interests, e.g. [More…]
Has the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation requested the Government to abolish margarine quotas, subject to the proper usage of Australian vegetable oils. [More…]
Has a formal submission on this subject been received from the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
1 ) The Oilseeds Committee of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation has announced that it will be recommending to the Australian Agricultural Council that, subject to proper labelling and the usage of Australian vegetable oils when available, all margarine quotas be removed from 1 July 1976. [More…]
In less than three years, the Labor Government amended the Administrative Arrangements Order on no less than 20 occasions compared with some 94 amendments in the preceding years since Federation. [More…]
It took a Liberal federal government to redistribute income to the poor in the greatest redistribution to the poor that has occurred since Federation. [More…]
I am able to say, for example, with some very real pleasure that both the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations have come out in support of what the present Fraser Government has done. [More…]
Let me read just a couple of passages from the statement signed by the President of the Australian Council of State School Organisations and the Acting General Secretary of the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
STATEMENT BY JOAN KIRNER, PRESIDENT, AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF STATE SCHOOL ORGANISATIONS AND BOB HARRIS, ACTING GENERAL SECRETARY, AUSTRALIAN TEACHERS* FEDERATION [More…]
I am reminded of a pamphlet I read not so long ago, produced not by the Swedish Labour Party but by the Swedish Employers Federation, which discussed this matter. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for the Capital Territory will be having talks shortly with the Australian Capital Territory Employers Federation about the building and construction industry and opportunities which might be created for it in new fields of activity. [More…]
The honourable senator may recall that the Secretary of the Australian Capital Territory Employers Federation indicated last Friday that he was not entirely pessimistic about the future but said that the greatest care must be exercised in apportioning what is available so that it is reasonably allocated within the building and construction industry. [More…]
I inform Senator Cavanagh that he is a Builders Labourers Federation activist. [More…]
It is the most stupid deal ever undertaken by a federal government in the history of Federation. [More…]
Opportunity is also being taken to amend the reference in the Act to the Wool Scourers, Car.bonisers and Fellmongers’ Federation of Australia by retitling the Federation as ‘Association’, in keeping with the former Federation’s recent change of title. [More…]
When we consider some of the disturbances which have occurred on the London docks and in other areas when certain rationalisation came in, I do not think anyone with a sense of fair play will deny that people like the General Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, Charlie Fitzgibbon, have played a notable role in these changes which have taken place. [More…]
As to the future, I think we all realise that in any industry, particularly where manual operations occur, it has never been the desire of the Waterside Workers Federation or of any of the other unions associated with it to object to labour saving devices. [More…]
When we look at the situation at the moment we find a communique emanating from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Waterside Workers Federation, the Federated Clerks Union, the Miscellaneous Workers Union and the Foremen Stevedores Association. [More…]
But as far as the major componentsparticularly the Waterside Workers Federationin the making of this statement are concerned, I suppose it could be said that the situation is something like a United Nations force being phased out of an area of conflict. [More…]
I know only too well the concern of the Waterside Workers Federation about some of the Authority’s shortcomings. [More…]
Often on a hot summer’s day or on a cold day there will be a spark of antagonism between a foreman stevedore and a member of the Water side Workers Federation. [More…]
I do not know what the national secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation had in mind when he wrote the article to which I have referred, but I think it is understood that the waterside workers believe that the slate should be wiped clean and a new chapter of industrial relations begin but it is not always easy to say what will happen. [More…]
It is like everything else that has happened on the waterfront since World War II: When that bull system went out Jim Healy did not get much applause from sections of the membership of the Waterside Workers Federation, because some people may have had certain privileges which the majority of members did not have. [More…]
Our coastal operations, both foreign and interstate, are particularly subject to the control of the 2 monopoly maritime unions, the Seamen’s Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
On the other hand, advocating the entire exit of government control and regulation was the employers’ body, the Association of Employers of Waterfront Labour, and with the same thrust, although it is not identical when closely looked at, and arguing in the same direction was the Waterside Workers Federation itself. [More…]
On the other side we have the employers on the waterfront allied with the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
But everything depends upon being satisfied that, if these people are given the right to operate the stevedoring activities on that system, there will be a guarantee that the commerce of the country will not be unduly eroded by monopoly power on the part of the federation and the terrific commercial advantage that the shipowners have to pass on their freight costs. [More…]
He seemed to reflect on the Hobart branch of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I want to say that the Hobart branch of the Federation, as I am sure Senator Wright knows, has an enviable record so far as strikes are concerned. [More…]
I know that Senator Wright did not go into that aspect, but I want to say to him and to the Senate that the Hobart branch of the Waterside Workers Federation has a good industrial record. [More…]
Much of the credit due to the Hoban branch should go to the late Arch Fulton, who was the secretary of the Hobart branch of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
On the other hand we have the Waterside Workers Federation saying that the Government should not play a major role in the stevedoring industry. [More…]
It further adds the suggestion that the Waterside Workers Federation should be the only union on the waterfront. [More…]
It seeks in the first mentioned Bill to provide the authority for reimbursement of the Fremantle Port Authority for the employment of some 30 crane drivers and it gives authority to the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority to reimburse those men who worked for that Authority and who have since become members of the Waterside Workers Federation and therefore to whom are relevant all those conditions and payments that are due to members of that particular Federation. [More…]
The proposals in the Bills that confront us are simply that the temporary legislation shall be extended to 3 1 December and that the operations of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority and the Stevedoring Industry Council also be extended to that date; that in that period the employers and the Waterside Workers Federation should submit solutions to the well-canvassed and clearly understood problems of this industry; and that the charge is to be extended and to remain unaltered. [More…]
Zealand and the Australian Dairy Farmers ‘ Federation. [More…]
These operative rates will be prescribed by regulation and may be varied by regulation after taking into account any recommendations made to the Minister by the Australian Dairy Corporation after consultation with the Australian Dairy Farmers’ Federation and any other organisations that the Minister considers appropriate. [More…]
We find also that he is a member of the committee of the Equestrian Federation of New South Wales, a director of V. J. Byrnes, stock and station agents, of Manilla, New South Wales, and vicepresident of the Simmental Breeders Association. [More…]
When my State joined the Federation, as anyone with more than a passing knowledge of Australian history would know, there was some reluctance on the pan of Western Australia to become pan of Australia. [More…]
This is a concession made by the Government which is designed to apply to organisations like the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I think it is a sensible concession because organisations like the Waterside Workers Federation conduct their ballots on one day and in one place. [More…]
The interesting thing about that provision, which the Government has inserted by way of concession to organisations like the Waterside Workers Federation, is simply that it proves the very point which we make about the substantial amendments on secret ballots. [More…]
If we look at the history of the Waterside Workers Federation we see it has conducted its ballots in that way for years. [More…]
The Federation has not met with any objections from the present Government, nor did it meet with any objections from it when it was in opposition and wanted to take us to task about this legislation. [More…]
But to take the Waterside Workers Federation in my State, its members elect the most extraordinary conglomerate of officials in terms of political allegiance that one could possibly imagine. [More…]
There are people on the executive of the Waterside Workers Federation in Victoria who represent the National Civic Council on the one hand and the Peking line Communist Party on the other. [More…]
I refer firstly to the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Miners Federation has a similar type of ballot- it is called a pit head ballot- for its official positions in relation to which it gets an 85 per cent return of votes. [More…]
This legislation, irrespective of whether postal voting is compulsory, will not achieve the same percentage of votes as either the Waterside Workers Federation or the Miners Federation has achieved. [More…]
Also it will get over the position of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia which now gets a 93 per cent vote. [More…]
I know that the Waterside Workers Federation is well covered by this provision. [More…]
The 3 organisations that occur to me as being covered are the Waterside Workers Federation, the Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia and the Clerks Union. [More…]
The capacity of a man with the ability to make it was exemplified in the early 1960s in the ballot for the national secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
1 ) Did the Secretary of the Police Federation of Australia, Mr Page, in the Brisbane Sunday Mail 1 1 April 1976. claim that gun laws in Australia are in a deplorable state. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Annual Executive Conference ofthe Police Federation of Australia has decided to press for a meeting of Australian Police Ministers to discuss the need for stricter gun laws and greater control over the possession of firearms. [More…]
Has the Trade Practices Commission revoked the authority of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents to fine members and regulate the travel industry; if so, (a) for what reasons was this action taken; (b) what result will the decision have on the travel industry; and (c) what means will in future exist for regulation ofthe travel industry. [More…]
The Trade Practices Commission has not revoked any authority that the Australian Federation of Travel Agents may have to fine members and regulate the travel industry. [More…]
However, the Commission has declined to issue a notice of clearance (pursuant to section 92 ofthe Trade Practices Act 1974) and also dismissed an application for authorisation (pursuant to section 90 of the Trade Practices Act) in respect of the code of ethics and rules of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents. [More…]
Farmers Federation that he believed rural poverty to be the greatest problem facing Australia’s rural community. [More…]
Was the list accompanied by a note that further details could be provided by a person in the employ of the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters. [More…]
The notes mentioned that a former member of the Department of the Media now in the employ of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters could provide details of the functioning of the Department. [More…]
Trades Federation be invited to nominate accredited delegates whose services would bc available to the Authority in an advisor)’ capacity as required. [More…]
Did the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation carry a motion at its recent meeting in Adelaide calling on the Minister to advertise the position of Chairman of the Australian Meat Board, rather than appoint the Chairman as has been done in the past: if so, is the Federation’s request under consideration, and when will a decision on the request be made. [More…]
I think he is the Executive Director of the Employers Federation in Victoria. [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…]
I understand that the Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Stations has also done so. [More…]
I mention this because it again draws attention to one of the difficulties which any Federal government faces when embarking on a policy of this kind in a Federation such as Australia. [More…]
In the course of mentioning that aspect, I refer to a document which has been put out by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations entitled Freedom to Advertise. [More…]
As I have said, that is a publication of the Federation of Australian Commercial Stations, as part of its campaign to reverse the Government’s decision on this question of cigarette and tobacco advertising. [More…]
It could emerge clearly as the view of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations- on the basis of this FACTS document- that, for example, if sex shops or vendors of contraceptives upon which, of course, taxes are paid to the Government, want to advertise, the majority of Australians would approve of that action or that the majority of Australians, in fact, would approve of advertising anything, on the basis of those questions which have been asked and the conclusions which have been drawn from the answers. [More…]
The Minister requested the Board to implement the Government’s decision and the matter was discussed with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters. [More…]
I think it is fitting that my New South Wales colleague and former Minister, Senator Douglas McClelland, is aware that the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters issues a copy of its annual report to each member of this Parliament. [More…]
The theme adopted by that Federation is that there should be no government regulations and that it wants to do the right thing because all its members are big hearted Australians. [More…]
Radio station 2KA which is a component of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters- I think the station is called ‘The Voice of the Mountains’could look a little beyond the blinkers which seem to encompass it and say: ‘We recognise that there is a case for protecting the environment and we will find other land’. [More…]
One would have thought that an Oppostion which lost government in December last by the greatest majority in our history since Federation would have learnt a lesson from that defeat, particularly when dealing with such a vital and important document as this Budget. [More…]
The Prime Minister even had the hide to call it the greatest advance for the handicapped people in this country since Federation. [More…]
Does such a role enable the Department to intervene in the manifestation of doubts expressed on page 4 of the Maritime Worker of 15 June 1976 by the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation concerning some safety aspects or various new cranes located at the ports of Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, refers to a report by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers’ Federation in the Canberra Times on 25 August 1976 and to a letter from Mr J. Fleming, Principal of the Canberra Technical College, to the Department of Education on 10 August wherein it is claimed that the new staff ceiling restrictions will lead to a reduction from 167 teachers in 1976 to 126 teachers in 1977, and that this will result in cancellation of some existing classes and services and postponement of services and several new courses planned for 1977. [More…]
Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters asserted again and again that radio station 2JJ was never what the ABC wanted. [More…]
The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs also canvassed the future of the Prices Justification Tribunal with the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations, business associations, and individual manufacturing and retail firms. [More…]
1 ) In 1975-76 a grant of $70,000 was made to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations (AFCO) for the year 1975-76. [More…]
History has recorded that in the 75 years of Federation in Australia the Australian people, with very good judgment indeed, have allowed the Labor Party to be in office- sporadically at thatfor a total of only 20 years. [More…]
Possibly the little funds like the fund operated by the Miners Federation and the Railway and Transport Hospital Fund will give their members fair play but no one can tell me that HCF and MBF will do the same, although they may be better now because we have a very vigorous and progressive Attorney-General in New South Wales, Mr Walker, to keep them up to it. [More…]
That would effectively stop the machinery of Government in a Federation. [More…]
A number of delegates conceived that party Government would operate after Federation. [More…]
Has he seen reports of a statement by the President of the Australian Teachers Federation that by the end of this year a quarter of a million children will be taught in one-room portable classrooms and that no new libraries, art classrooms or general purpose classrooms will be built over the next financial year? [More…]
Has the Minister noticed that the reason for this claim is that schools are $50m short in their building programs, according to the President of the Australian Teachers Federation? [More…]
Indeed the report follows upon, as I think it indicates, a visit by a deputation from the Australian Teachers Federation to me. [More…]
Honourable senators will be interested to know that throughout the time I have been the Minister I have had very regular and useful meetings with the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation did raise with me the need for further capital commitment above that which is contained in the Schools Commission report and which will be a matter of submission by the Government to the Senate in the near future. [More…]
Since the Australian Teachers Federation is talking about the backlog of capital building of classrooms, I should remind the Senate that the substantial reason for the backlog is that in August last year the then Whitlam Labor Government decided to cut education in its 4 education commissions by $105m for this year, and it did so. [More…]
I understand that the Government was requested by the appropriate bodies, in particular the Federation of Staff Associations of Australian Colleges of Advanced Education, to refer the report back to the Academic Salaries Tribunal for further consideration. [More…]
I repeat what I said: In the whole of the 75 years of federation the Labor Party has occupied government in the Commonwealth Parliament for only 20 years, and that the non-Labor parties have occupied government for 55 years. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, as reported in today’s Adelaide Advertiser, devaluation will be a main agenda item at the Australian Farmers Federation Conference to be held on 14 and 15 October? [More…]
-I also read that fascinating remark from the Australian Farmers Federation about devaluation. [More…]
Lord Fenner Brockway said that Mr Hoda was the secretary of the International Transport Workers Federation and representative in Britain of the Socialist Party of India. [More…]
I might mention here that unions such as the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia never opposed containerisation. [More…]
Representatives of the union and of the Wool Selling Brokers Employers Federation have conferred on a number of occasions in relation to a number of recommendations made by Commissioner Heagney concerning the weight of wool bales and other issues, especially those relating to the provision of adequate safety facilities in the industry. [More…]
The Commission is a successful and highly respected body which has done much to improve the American Federation. [More…]
It relates to the grant to FILEF- the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families- under the welfare rights program which the Minister has decided to terminate at the end of the year. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Transport aware of an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, 9 October, concerning the difficulties being experienced by the Australian Chess Federation in sending a team to Israel for the world chess olympiad? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that due to Government policies regarding overseas air travel, the Australian Chess Federation has been unable to take advantage of an offer by El-Al Israel Airlines Ltd of a 50 per cent discount on air fares and has encountered considerable difficulty in raising additional money to meet the team’s travelling expenses? [More…]
What I am saying is that such a relationship has been dominantly and clearly the very essence of our trading relationship with the United States over practically the 70-odd years of federation. [More…]
I refer to a report in the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation bulletin on 8 October. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Teachers Federation has claimed that technical and further education institutions in the Australian Capital Territory will not have sufficient ancillary staff to maintain current standards and services? [More…]
If they are inaccurate, will the Minister ensure that the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation is informed in detail of the actual situation? [More…]
The Commission is a successful and highly respected body which has done much to improve the American Federation. [More…]
The Bill itself, of course, will do nothing to alter the disabilities from which local government has suffered since Federation. [More…]
They were not talking about the World Confederation of Trade Unions but about the International Federation of Trade Unions. [More…]
Let me remind the Senate that that organisation is a federation of 7 branches, and that in fact six of the 7 branches desire to see that organisation function properly. [More…]
The audacity for which the Prime Minister is famous was demonstrated once again a few weeks ago when he was addressing the Australian Farmers Federation. [More…]
This shire has come back very heavily at the Prime Minister for the way in which he misrepresented the facts when speaking to the Australian Farmers Federation. [More…]
Is it a fact that as a result the Hospital Employees Federation is imposing a ban on civilian patients in repatriation hospitals? [More…]
It is a fact that the President and the Secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation have been in touch with me and have conveyed to me the concern that their members feel. [More…]
Subsequently, when he was aged about 38 years and had had 10 years membership in the Builders Labourers Federation and 10 years membership in the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association, he applied for Australian citizenship, but he was confronted with the thorny question of his birth certificate. [More…]
Guarantee continuing parent and teacher representation on the Australian Schools Commission through the two recognised national bodies, namely the Australian Council of State School Organisations and the Australian Teachers Federation who represent the vast majority of children in Australia attending Government Schools. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Education noted the headlines in the latest issue of Education, the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, stating that migrant education for adults and children is still at the end of the educational queue? [More…]
The Schools Authority Ordinance will operate from the beginning of 1977, and the composition of the new Authority will be as follows: Fourteen part-time members nominated as follows- three by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers’ Federation; two by the Australian Capital Territory Council of Parents’ and Citizens’ Associations; one by the Canberra Pre-School Society; two by the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from its elected members; six by the Minister for Education; and one full-time member who will be the Chief Education Officer. [More…]
The councils of the institutions, the Commissioner of the Commonwealth Teaching Service, the Department of Education, and the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation will continue to explore the requirements of further education staff and develop conditions which are most suitable for the institutions and staff” working in them. [More…]
This is a difficult situation where probably the Hospital Employees Federation is an all grades union. [More…]
One should look at the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, for example, and at the percentage of members who vote in that union’s elections. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs give an assurance that repatriation and other patients in repatriation hospitals will not be neglected because of bans on overtime and patient admissions by the Hospital Employees Federation? [More…]
Workers Federation and the Seamen’s Union of Australia it is important to note that this method of voting was in fact highly democratic in that it achieved up to 90 per cent union membership participation in elections as opposed to about 40 per cent average participation achieved through a system of postal voting. [More…]
I refer to Charlie Fitzgibbon of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
When, in the past, I have argued about the Waterside Workers Federation, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Australian Workers Union and the Federated Ironworkers Association when there has been a case before the court involving them, I have been chastised. [More…]
What is wrong with the Federated Clerks Union emulating the Waterside Workers Federation and holding a ballot? [More…]
-Senator Douglas McClelland points out that that goes for the Miners Federation too. [More…]
One of the toughest trade union ballots occurred when Charlie Fitzgibbon beat Tom Nelson in the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Most unions, since Federation almost, had such rules. [More…]
Their attitude is: All unions on the waterfront into the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
That was indicated in the submissions made by the Waterside Workers Federation and the overseas shipowners to the stevedoring industry inquiry. [More…]
How many demarcation disputes have taken place between the Waterside Workers Federation, the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Foremen Stevedores Union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Electrical Trades Union on the waterfront? [More…]
I would like to know whether Senator Georges agrees that the members of the Waterside Workers Federation should take over the jobs of the members of the Storemen and Packers Union or the Transport Workers Union in carting goods to and from the wharf. [More…]
The facts are that apart from unions which have compulsory voting and which impose fines on members who do not vote, such as the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, unions with a direct system of voting have a lower rank and file return of ballot papers than unions with a collegiate voting system. [More…]
I remember that a year or so ago in South Australia there was a dispute between the Waterside Workers Federation and the Transport Workers Union as to who should unload the cargoes at the roll-on roll-off terminal of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd at Port Adelaide. [More…]
Waterside Workers Federation, and asked which union was the proper one to deal with this work. [More…]
The company was assured that the Waterside Workers Federation was the appropriate union, as it was its role to do this work in other ports in Australia. [More…]
Then began an argument between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
These are the unions which still have a collegiate system and which would not have been able to comply with the Cameron amendments before they came into force on 13 November if it were not for this Bill: The Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, the Australian Bank Officials Association, the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation - [More…]
Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia, the Food Preservers Union of Australia, the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, the Municipal Officers Association of Australia, the Operative Painters and Decorators Union of Australia, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the Woolclassers Association of Australia. [More…]
They are the United Furniture Trades Union, of which I believe Senator Brown is a member, and the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation of Australia which, as we are all aware, Senator Cavanagh is a member. [More…]
Senator Sibraa mentioned the German Federation of Trade Unions which, I think, is commonly referred to as the GDB. [More…]
The Hospital Employees Federation of Australia apparently is another insignificant union. [More…]
When that is combined with the limits of the funds available to them it is quite clear that not since the commencement of Federation have the States had less freedom than they have under the current policy. [More…]
One of the whole purposes of the Federation- our original Federationwas to make this country operate as a nation and not a collection of individual States competing with one another. [More…]
If the Prime Minister is genuine about Federation he will be talking just not about income tax but a share of all Federal revenues. [More…]
I rise to support the Bill and to reject out of hand the amendment, which is totally unreal in the light of the circumstances, namely that this legislation is aimed at providing the sinews of finance for the most progressive policy in the devolution of power that we have seen since Federation. [More…]
People from the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association and the Builders Labourers Federation joined forces. [More…]
Was legal aid granted to Mr Peter Barton for litigation involving the Builders’ Labourers Federation. [More…]
There will always be argument in a federation about the role of the Commonwealth in a matter that affects the total community in the way education does. [More…]
Guarantee continuing parent and teacher representation on the Australian Schools Commission through the two recognised national bodies, namely the Australian Council of State Schools Organisation and the Australian Teachers Federation who represent the vast majority of children in Australia attending Government schools. [More…]
I am sorry to say that the Hospital Employees Federation has placed bans on the admission of some categories of repatriation and civilian patients. [More…]
After a meeting at the Repatriation General Hospital at Heidelberg apparently the Federation with the support of its members placed a ban on overtime at that hospital. [More…]
A very good relationship is maintained between officers of my Department and the State secretaries of the Hospital Employees Federation. [More…]
After the national secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation saw me some weeks ago- that was before any bans were imposed- I took up with the officers of my Department the questions he raised with me and rearrangements have been made in certain places. [More…]
I can also assure the Senate and indeed the Hospital Employees Federation that we will not be influenced in any decisions we take by bans being imposed, whether they be related to the admission of civilians, overtime or anything else. [More…]
I understand that at an area called Kelly’s Bush in New South Wales members of the Builders Labourers Federation, the Building Workers Industrial Union, members of a plasterers union and local womenfolk took such a stand. [More…]
I pay equal tribute- perhaps more tribute- to those members of the Builders Labourers Federation who were in the vanguard position, in the forefront, and who suffered grievously for their convictions about the National Estate and the preservation of historic buildings, areas and all the other factors that go to make up the National Estate. [More…]
Without the Senate there would not have been a federation. [More…]
It should be remembered that in this chamber the Hayden Budget was adopted unanimously, and it is probably the only Budget in the history of Federation to be adopted unanimously. [More…]
That is the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation- for the establishment of a new Meat and Livestock Corporation with producer membership majority as soon as possible in order to organise the livestock and meat industry. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation, of course, is reluctant to accept any form of compulsory retirement in the industry and seeks conditions which are satisfactory enough to encourage employees between the ages of 60 years and 65 years to retire on a voluntary basis. [More…]
In particular, will the 6 unions whose members man such cranes, namely the Waterside Workers Federation, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, the Transport Workers Union, the Australian Railways Union, the Federated Ironworkers Association, and the Australian Workers Union, be kept fully informed of what is happening? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security received a letter from the NOW Centre in Melbourne protesting about her withdrawal of the welfare rights officer grant from the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and concerns a request made recently to the Department by the Federation of Air Pilots that the compulsory period between drinking and flying should be extended from 8 hours to 12 hours, as it was previously. [More…]
My understanding is that the Federation of Air Pilots is a very responsible body, and I accept that submissions from it should be given very careful study. [More…]
Meantime, the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation has decided its attitude to the IAC scheme. [More…]
People such as those on the Australian Children’s Television Action Committee are worried because the Federation of Commercial Television Stations has never stuck to the standards which either the commercial stations laid down when they applied for their licence or which the Government since has attempted to lay down for them. [More…]
It is a matter of common knowledge in this town, this little closed community where nothing is secret for very long, that people such as Mr Jim Malone, the head of FACTSFACTS’ is a curious title for an outfit that has little to do with truth- which is the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, and a man named Des Foster, who is the head of an organisation called FARB, which is the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters, and Mr Kerry Packer, who probably does not need to be designated, have been in and out of the corridors of power in the last few weeks, whereas people demonstrating on behalf of the ABC and on behalf of the survival of an elected commissioner of the ABC such as Marius Webb have to take their place out on the lawn. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Industry and Commerce aware of an assertion by the Assistant Secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia in Adelaide recently that the recent revaluation of the dollar will have an effect on job opportunities in the motor industry in South Australia because the Nissan and Toyota companies will now make some components outside Australia? [More…]
The Australian Meat Board and other people in the commercial world, including the Australian Meat Exporters Federation, are always searching the world for increased opportunities to sell Australian beef. [More…]
The State President of the Tasmanian Farmers Federation, Mr Stewart Ferguson, claimed it was a shot in the arm for farming as a whole. [More…]
Mr John Bennett, Chairman of the Dairy Farmers Federation, was delighted with the decision and he said: [More…]
The media release of the Australian Teachers’ Federation of 9 February 1977 titled ‘Crisis in Aboriginal Education’ charges the Government with broken promises in regard to the withdrawal of moneys and the upgrading of schools in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Attorneys-General since Federation have felt an obligation upon them to advise the Governor-General as to the 2 matters within section 58 of the Constitution. [More…]
Through the passage of time, and because of the circumstances that have occurred in South-East Asia in particular in the last 10 or 15 years, we have a situation in which forward defence does not make the sort of sense that it did traditionally during the first 50 or 60 years of Australian Federation. [More…]
If one examines the history of Australia’s foreign policy and goes back to the last war and the period of Sir Robert Menzies, one will find in an historical context that the appellation coined by the Australian Waterside Workers Federation of the Prime Minister of Australia at that time of ‘Pig Iron Bob’ was an appropriate appellation because if one examines the history of the Second World War one will find that prior to that war the Liberal Governmentthe United Australian Party Government as it was known at that time- was totally oblivious to the threat to Australia from Japan. [More…]
I contend that it is most necessary, when one considers the growth of the Australian Public Service since Federation. [More…]
Since Federation the Commonwealth Public Service has grown from small beginnings to what it is today- a vast executive administration. [More…]
It had its genesis in the debates in the Constitutional Convention prior to Federation. [More…]
Members of the other place and Ministers there ought to realise that if there had been no Senate there would have been no federation. [More…]
After all, since Federation every redistribution has been carried out on a 20 per cent tolerance. [More…]
The 20 per cent variation has been in existence literally since federation. [More…]
I know that one should not necessarily use those figures because this is a House arising out of peculiarities of a Federation. [More…]
Whilst I think there is general acceptance in the Parliament of what might be called the theoretical proposition of one vote one value, there must be a recognition that in the Australian Federation, with the Tasmanian constitutional entitlement to 5 seats and with the Territorial representation, the proposition of one man one vote in this community is mathematically impossible to achieve. [More…]
I think there has been only one parliament since Federation that has run its full term. [More…]
The Committee concludes from Parliamentary experience since Federation, firstly that the existence of fixed senatorial terms has increased the number of elections and secondly, that the number of occasions on which there would have been separate elections for senators and members of the House of Representatives would have been greater unless the House of Representatives had been dissolved before the expiration of its full term. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party supports this Bill, as it supported it several years ago, on these bases, and I would like the dissidents to listen to this: If simultaneous elections for both Houses constitute some sort of a threat to the democratic process and to the Senate, why did not democracy perish and the Senate wither on the vine in the first 60 years of our federation when elections always were held simultaneously? [More…]
I find in the second reading speech of the Bill the words of Mr Ellicott and Senator Durack stating that this legislation represents the unanimous view of the most formidable committee that has ever sat to consider constitutional revision in the 76 years of Federation. [More…]
since Federation have been rejected; but it is still fundamental that we should not deprive the people of the opportunity to decide. [More…]
I hope that in the future we will see co-operation on both sides of the political fence to achieve amendments to the Constitution which the passage of time since Federation has made not only desirable but necessary. [More…]
If we look at the number of Senate elections since Federation we find that of the 28 Senate elections, 24 have been simultaneous elections, which is just over 80 per cent of the total, and there have been 4 halfSenate elections at times different from House of Representatives elections, and 4 elections as a result of double dissolutions. [More…]
Without the Senate there would be no Federal Parliament for the States would never have agreed to join in federation. [More…]
Thank God for the Constitution and the wisdom of the fathers of Federation’. [More…]
They should also remember that Federation would never have been possible had it not been for the consideration given by and to the smaller States. [More…]
I believe that its importance has become greater since Federation with the growth of big government. [More…]
-Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate able to say how many referendum proposals have been put before the people in Australia since Federation and how many have been accepted? [More…]
Only a person infantile in the constitutional interpretation of this Federation could put it forward. [More…]
Let us consider what would have happened to certain people if this proposition had been enforced earlier in the Federation. [More…]
What effect will such a review plan have on Commonwealth-State relations and the principles of Federation? [More…]
Teachers Federation has accused the Minister of deliberately holding up a report on ancillary staffing which supports the teachers’ case? [More…]
The Minister wrote to the viligance officer of the Fremantle branch of the Waterside Workers Federation, Jock Smith, and in his letter he said: [More…]
If Dr Richardson’s words were objectionable to you and to members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, then I take the responsibility and I apologise to you. [More…]
They will not rejoin the Builders Labourers Federation or the Builders Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
As those Parties that she supports have been in government for 4 years out of every 5 years since Federation, it is only natural that there would have been some achievements. [More…]
In 1901 Federation gave Northern Territory citizens representation in both Houses of the Federal Parliament. [More…]
I have to agree with him to a certain extent but I know that in my State of New South Wales the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia, the Storemen and Packers Union of Australia and the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia- 3 unions that come to mind very quickly- are doing a lot about migrant education in the trade union movement. [More…]
But what if the Australian Council of Trade Unions were to do what the British Trade Union Congress and the American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organisations do and act as the arbiter in demarcation and membership disputes? [More…]
We are talking about Territory rights whereas at federation the States spoke of State rights. [More…]
The President of the Northern Territory Teachers Federation has issued a statement entitled Repair and Maintenance in Aboriginal Schools in the Northern Territory in which he makes the charge that a serious repair and maintenance problem exists in Northern Territory Aboriginal schools because of a Government decision to limit funds on minor new works. [More…]
According to this report, the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation has said that the review provides for 61 more ancillary staff at Australian Capital Territory schools and for longer working hours. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the report in the Canberra Times indicates that at a meeting called by the Teachers Federation yesterday, it was decided by vote that the Minister should, as I understand it from the report, have until 22 April to implement the recommendations of the report and if this does not happen the Federation’s council has been asked to call a stoppage to consider further action? [More…]
The simple situation is this: I saw representatives of the unions concerned and of the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation late last week. [More…]
I notice that the Teachers Federation has published what purports to be a summary of the results of the review, and so has the Canberra Times. [More…]
I think it was the New South Wales Teachers Federation which was the first group to go out and do something about changing text books, and they did it in a very thorough way. [More…]
Bull, the Assistant National Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, that Australia should not neglect people from those countries. [More…]
Branch of the Australian Building and Construction Workers’ Federation, Mr Henderson of the Firemen and Deckhands Union of New South Wales and Mr John Glebe of the Water and Sewerage Employees Union. [More…]
An example of that concern is a telegram I received on 1 5 March this year from Mr Taylor, General Secretary of the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
I will refer later to comments made by the Northern Territory Teachers Federation and the Northern Territory Council of the Government Schools Organisation Parents and Teachers- COGSO. [More…]
Last week the Minister referred to a Northern Territory Teachers Federation Press release. [More…]
The Northern Territory Teachers Federation recognised the Minister’s action- I am referring to one of its documents- in these words: [More…]
We find it extremely difficult to tear into the subject and obtain overnight solutions to situations, that involve deep rooted constitutional positions and, as Senator Georges would well appreciate, political stands that have been entrenched since the creation of Federation. [More…]
1 ) Did the Federation of Air Pilots make a request to the Department of Transport that the compulsory period between drinking and flying should be extended from 8 hours to 1 2 hours. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The Federation of Air Pilots has not made a request that the compulsory period between drinking and flying be extended from 8 hours to 12 hours. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security received a telegram from the Pulp and Paper Workers Federation of Australia asking whether unemployment benefit will be paid to employees at Cellulose Australia Ltd, Millicent, South Australia, who are unemployed as a result of a voluntary redundancy scheme to commence next week? [More…]
There would never be a month go by, I do not doubt, but the New South Wales Teachers Federation’s journal has some large article about an alleged reduction in education spending by the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Federation believes that if it is very lucky, what it says will come true. [More…]
There have been articles in the New South Wales Teachers Federation’s journal which have stated without any qualification that the Government has reduced education spending. [More…]
I urge upon the Opposition and those who are interested in education or who claim to be- that includes the New South Wales Teachers Federation- that in the narrowing of the whole education debate to only one area they are negating what education is supposed to be about, and what the Opposition and the other people have presented that education is all about from time to time. [More…]
Teachers’ Federation, which indicated its support. [More…]
I want to ventilate a matter in the Senate tonight and to ask the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) whether he will give an indication of the role the Australian Government is playing in the pending amalgamation between the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia and the Hospital Employees Federation, New South Wales No. [More…]
Senator Durack, as the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, has responsibility for the Concord Repatriation Hospital, the bulk of whose employees would be covered by the Hospital Employees Federation, No. [More…]
Radio station 3CR is apparently managed by an organisation known as the Community Radio Federation, which has affiliated to it a number of disparate organisations known as community groups. [More…]
When an application was made by Paths to Peace for affiliation with the Community Radio Federation it was rejected by the committee of the Community Radio Federation on the ground that Paths to Peace was a Zionist and therefore racist organisation. [More…]
Whatever one may think about that, the fact is that Paths to Peace is at least as much a community organisation as the other organisations which are affiliated with the Community Radio Federation which was established by the Australian Government in order to give various community organisations the opportunity to express their views on the topics that interest them and their members. [More…]
I think what also came out with regard to this action by the Community Radio Federation quite clearly is that if Paths to Peace is not eligible for affiliation to the Federation, is not allowed to have a voice on radio station 3CR, then no other Jewish organisation would be able to be heard on this station, because the least militantly Zionist of all the organisations of Jewish people or other people who are concerned about the continued existence of the State of Israel is this very organisation, Paths to Peace. [More…]
I would agree, of course, that the people who constitute the Community Radio Federation are entitled to express their view. [More…]
What is being practised by the Committee of the Community Radio Federation is blatant Stalinism, if that is what you want to call it, or McCarthyism, if that is what you want to call it. [More…]
It was through the foresight of the trade unionists that that system was so early established after Federation. [More…]
They then regrouped into an outfit known as the Australian Federation of Air Pilots which did not seek registration. [More…]
The Builders Labourers Federation was deregistered a couple of years ago as some sort of punishment. [More…]
Assistance has been allocated as follows- $4 1 8 to the Amateur Boxing Union of Australia to assist with the administration of its national Senior Championships $508.50 to the Australian Casting Association to assist with the assembly costs of the Australian team for the World Casting Championships in Taree, New South Wales $4,354 to the Australian Volleyball Federation to assist with the administration of national championships; and to assist with the fares of a delegate to attend an international conference. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, stems from a plea I made to him at about 2300 hours on Wednesday night of last week in relation to expediting the merger of the Hospital Employees Federation, New South Wales No. [More…]
I instance the disputes over containers involving the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation in Sydney and the oil dispute in Sydney in which there is internal conflict between the Federal and State officers of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I pointed out to the Minister that Mr Graeme Richardson, a shop steward of the Pulp and Paper Workers Federation of Australia, made representations to the Minister seeking eligibility for unemployment benefits for the employees for the period in which they would not be employed. [More…]
Subsequently, it was a means of developing an alternative industry, as it emerged after Federation. [More…]
If one looks through the No division lists and the Yes division lists in those days I think that one will find that the people who really worked to bring about the federation of Australia were on the Yes division lists in that period. [More…]
Equally an urgent telex to the President of the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions and to the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia also would have brought some reaction. [More…]
This article goes on to report this statement by Mr Len Townsend, the Federal Secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation: [More…]
My very good friend the National Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, Charlie Fitzgibbon, would argue that more of the bulk transport between the States should be conducted by shipping. [More…]
In a speech to the Australian Liberal Students Federation in Sydney on 19 May, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said: [More…]
had nearly the lowest rate of housing commencements during the March quarter due to the Government ‘s policy of curtailing growth in the Territory, an official of the Master Builders Federation of Australia said yesterday. [More…]
The vice-president, housing, of the federation, Mr M. N. Mitchell, was commenting on preliminary building estimates for the March quarter issued by the Bureau of Statistics yesterday. [More…]
It comes from the Master Builders Federation. [More…]
I hope that Senator Cotton will take note of the recommendations made by the Master Builders Federation. [More…]
There have been more problems with the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation during the period ofthe Fraser Administration than ever previously. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that it is significant also that last weekend 3 referendums were passed, compared with five out of 32 during the previous 76 years of federation. [More…]
Has the Minister for Industry and Commerce seen reports by the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation that New Zealand faces a severe recession unless there is a significant change in the country’s balance of payments and that therefore access to the Australian market is imperative to the survival of the New Zealand economy? [More…]
Mr Anthony and I went to a dinner with the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation and we answered questions that night. [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the option that south west Tasmania should remain a significant wilderness area, with Federation Peak as the centre point, is seriously jeopardised by the continued building of this road? [More…]
There was some industrial problem at the end of last year with the Hospital Employees Federation but that was resolved and I am not aware of any further difficulties which have occurred. [More…]
On page 375 of his book Mr Odgers quotes the words of Mr Isaac Isaacs in giving an illustration of what is not an ordinary annual service in the Federation debates. [More…]
There is no point in having a bureau if governments are to make simply political decisions, if they are to simply please the most strident and uncooperative Premier in this federation of Australia. [More…]
I shall quickly refer to a periodical which I have before me- the Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
However, I am aware that it is the aim of the Australian Pensioners Federation to have pensions increased to a base level of approximately 30 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
In addition the producer consultative group and the exporter and abattoir consultative group provided for in the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Bill 1 977 substitute for the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation and the Australian [More…]
But the trade union movement regrouped and dealt with other disputes either with or without the help of the Federation of Labour. [More…]
There was a genuine dispute between the Transport Workers Union, New South Wales Branch, which was a party to a State award, and the Waterside Workers Federation, which was under a different jurisdiction. [More…]
I wonder what would have happened if the Sydney Branch of the Waterside Workers Federation had said: ‘We will wait until you get an answer from Hamburg’. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Social Security aware that according to the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations there are now many vacancies in privately operated child care centres in Australia and that these vacancies are threatening the viability of such centres? [More…]
I have received representations from unions of widely different political complexion, ranging from the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation to the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union against this legislation. [More…]
It calls in the representatives of the unions concerned- the Federated Millers and Mill Employees Association, the Transport Workers Union, the Manufacturing Grocers Employees Federation, the Federated Storeman and Packers Union and the [More…]
The Government itself provides to the Waterside Workers Federation compulsory unionism - [More…]
I should like to indicate to Senator Tehan that the Government provided compulsory unionism for one union- the Waterside Workers Federation- under section 29 of the Stevedoring Industry Act. [More…]
The American Federation of Labour would not have him; the Congress of Industrial Organisations would not have him; and we would not have him either. [More…]
This conference was attended by representatives of the employer body covering the conventional and terminal areas, the National Industrial Council, by the Waterside Workers Federation, the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Limited, the Australian National Line and officers of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, including a representative of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority. [More…]
This is an entirely new concept and has the full support of the principal parties, including the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Committee will have corporate status but its members, to be drawn from the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, the Australian National Line, and the Waterside Workers Federation will not be full-time functionaries. [More…]
This criticism adds to that expressed by the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia, the Australian Chamber of Commerce, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Farmers Federation. [More…]
She is a member of the Gippsland Regional Council, president of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women and a member of various other voluntary organisations. [More…]
Representatives of both the Tasmanian Farmers Federation and the Tasmanian Farmers, Stockowners and Orchardists Association have been terrifically co-operative. [More…]
Mr E. W. Horton, chief executive officer of the Meat and Allied Trades Federation, said graziers had withheld stock from the market after rains in 1 974 but, in May, Japan cut its imports of Australian beef. [More…]
The WWF, Waterside Workers’ Federation reserves its right to seek a continuation of the relevant terms of the present industry agreement. [More…]
I enter the debate following Senator Wright only because I had the opportunity last week, with members of our party manpower committee, to meet the senior officers of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Industry and Commerce been directed towards or attracted to the reports in the Press following the Australian Federation of Travel Agents convention in Hobart in late July? [More…]
Meanwhile, the Federation of Bank Employees, an affiliate of the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers, had demanded the release of some hundreds of labour leaders arrested following the general strike of 1 9 July and called for the re-establishment of full union rights and the repeal of a government decree which authorises firms to dismiss striking workers. [More…]
I quote as an example the activities of the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families, which has been attracting a deal of public attention. [More…]
Wales branch of the Builders Labourers Federation led by two communists, Jack Mundey and Joe Owens. [More…]
Another is the Newport ban originally introduced by Norm Gallagher, the Peking-line communist secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation in Victoria and continued by the Victorian Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Halfpenny, who needs no introduction to the people of Australia. [More…]
Let me mention the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation in which the Workers Student Alliance is so strong. [More…]
1 ) Did the Australian Federation of University Women, A.C.T., resolve ‘that this Association protest at the brevity of time allowed for making submissions to the various Governmental Inquiries’. [More…]
If honourable senators were to read Common Cause, a Miners Federation journal and if they were to talk to Japanese buyers they would agree. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether his attention has been drawn to a statement appearing in the newsletter of yesterday of the Master Builders Federation of Australia in the following terms: [More…]
-Although I have not actually seen the newsletter of the Master Builders Federation the figures that are quoted by the honourable senator are consistent with the information coming in to the Department, which has a great interest in home building and construction activity. [More…]
I am aware of some of the background of this demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which is causing serious disruption to Tasmania, particularly in the ports of Burnie, Devonport and Bell Bay. [More…]
As the Tasmanian Minister for Labour and Industry has not succeeded in his appeal for the Australian Council of Trade Unions to intervene in the present demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation tying up the whole of the northern coast of Tasmania, can the Minister suggest any action the Commonwealth Government can take to help to bring this dispute to an end? [More…]
Is he aware of a Press statement issued by the Northern Territory Teachers Federation dated 2 September 1977 regarding the Federation’s stand on uranium mining, in which it supports the left wing of the Labor Party in an indefinite moratorium and supports the Trades and Labour Council’s present stand? [More…]
Further, as the Northern Territory Teachers Federation has directed its members not to serve in schools within the uranium area, will the Minister ensure that parents and children will not suffer because of the lack of teachers by employing teachers now in the Northern Territory within the Education Department who are not members of the Northern Territory Teachers Federation? [More…]
Will he ensure their freedom from harassment, as requested by the Federation itself in pursuing its own militant policies? [More…]
Will the Minister comment further on the Government’s attitude to the Federation’s four key issues in its statement, including the point that it believes this decision is a protection of its members against potential health risks involved in living in an area where uranium is mined? [More…]
The Press release, as Senator Kilgariff said, is based on a statement issued by the Northern Territory Teachers Federation which says that it: . [More…]
What the Northern Territory Teachers Federation is saying parallels what the Australian Labor Party is saying. [More…]
Producers Federation and the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council have recognised, with the current uncertainty in the market, if the floor price had not been introduced and maintained by the present Government, there would have been much greater uncertainty for the wool producer. [More…]
I refer particularly to the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation which has been urging the Government to accept the principle that it should acquire the total clip for the purpose of levelling out the essential problems that have to be faced in the wool industry, to overcome the cost problems in the industry and to provide particularly for the continuity of supply which is so essential if wool is to be able to meet competition from the textile industry, particularly from overseas. [More…]
The Master Builders Federation of Australia said: [More…]
Mr Jim Simmonds, who is the Secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation, No. [More…]
2 Branch, in Tasmania- the northern branch of the Federation- was previously a senior official in the Public Service Association in Tasmania. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Australian Farmers Federation, as a result of the Government’s lack of decision to alleviate the problems of the farmers, is now urging its members to use their votes against the Liberal Party and the National Country Party? [More…]
The honourable senator will recall some industrial problems at Heidelberg Hospital arising out of some complaints from the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]
What seems to have been forgotten by Government supporters in the other place and here is that it was the Whitlam Government in 1974 that introduced for the first time since Federation the principle that local government should receive national revenue to dispense. [More…]
But I query whether it is justified for the Schools Commission, the Opposition, the Australian Council of State Schools, the Australian Teachers Federation or anyone else to say that the Schools Commission has lost its independence because the Government spelled out some financial guidelines completely in line with a policy which the Government announced years ago in relation to the financing of schools. [More…]
The fact of course, as has been stated here before, is that during the time of the Labor Government the States got the best financial deal that they had ever had since Federation. [More…]
Those problems were largely overcome by the time I became the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, although there were some difficulties about this time last year with the Hospital Employees’ Federation but I am glad to say- I think I answered a question on it at the time- that they were resolved. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Administrative Services and refer to reports that the Indian High Commission in Canberra has received a letter from the so-called Universal Proutist Revolutionary Federation threatening members of the staff of the High Commission and those associated with them with violence and even assassination, as I understand it. [More…]
What information does the Minister have about this organisation which calls itself the Universal Proutist Revolutionary Federation? [More…]
It is held also by the Australian Roads Federation which has no fewer than 150 members in South Australia. [More…]
I should like to refer to a letter sent to Senator Bishop from Mr Allen, the Secretary of the South Australian Region of the Australian Road Federation. [More…]
A fact finding trip along the existing route to Alice Springs by a group from the Australian Road Federation and politicians of both parties is planned to leave Adelaide on Saturday, 4th June. [More…]
Britain retained her reserve powers, which also applied to the federation that was formed between Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, which is now Zambia, and Nyasaland, which is now Malawi. [More…]
The federation was dissolved in 1963, and Zambia and Malawi were given full independence, but not Rhodesia. [More…]
While in federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland she had engaged in international trade. [More…]
When the national secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, Charlie Fitzgibbon, got an agreement at Mackay for 40 sugar workers, Senator Wright felt that the wages which were set nullified the redundancy of the other 360 employees. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the report in this morning’s Australian in which Mr George Polites, Director of the Australian Council of Employers Federation, is reported as saying that the rate of unemployment amongst young people aged between 15 and 19 years increased from 3.7 per cent to almost 15 per cent between 1964 and 1976? [More…]
I had occasion at Question Time today to refer to the loss of jobs as a result of the guerrilla tactics which have been used by the Builders Labourers Federation under the leadership of Mr Norman Gallagher. [More…]
He then continued: this Government is the worst government since Federation, because it is dishonest . [More…]
But the interesting point is that the second loan Bill- and this is the first time this had been done since 1931; in fact I think it has happened only twice since Federation- specified no maximum amount at all. [More…]
That has been said by coal experts and by members of the Miners Federation. [More…]
Of course, I concede the point, as does the Miners Federation, that with modern technology one is able to go back and extract those pillars and thereby get a better yield. [More…]
It might be argued that the Miners Federation has never been backward in its own right, but it has earned what it has achieved. [More…]
No wonder the Miners Federation was irritated. [More…]
I am not going to speak about the dead, but there was a situation at that time when people onthe Arbitration Court took, to say the east, a very strange stance on the issue of wage justice for members of the Miners Federation. [More…]
The Utah Development Company charters quite a few boats which are manned mainly by Spanish crews who work under the Industrial Transport Federation Award. [More…]
They agreed to a rearrangement of terms and conditions such that union members now receive the wages set under the International Transport Federation Award and better conditions. [More…]
I refer to the fact that the leaders of the Builders Labourers Federation and the leaders of those concerned with the generation of power in the Latrobe Valley have set out to destroy our way of life. [More…]
I thought it would be clear to anyone who examined the Budget Papers that this Budget introduces the greatest tax reforms since Federation. [More…]
The message I was giving was that the goals and targets which the Australian Teachers Federation and the States schools organisations asked the Government to observe have been not only observed but also rapidly surpassed. [More…]
In 1900, at Federation, the people of the Northern Territory had as much say in the Federal Parliament as did their friends from the States. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations whether he can say what action the Government is taking regarding the new rules introduced by the Builders Labourers Federation to prohibit right wing members from standing for union office. [More…]
I am aware that there was a recent election to the position of Federal Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, that some dispute has now arisen about that election and that proceedings have been instituted in the [More…]
The statistics which are gathered by the Bureau of Statistics, or whatever source gathers them, do not include time lost through the guerilla type action which currently is being conducted in the building and construction industry by the Builders Labourers Federation in particular. [More…]
In South Australia, which is the area that I know best, no work is being done on any major project and has not been done for three months as a direct result of the action of the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
If the Builders Labourers Federation would lift its bans and discontinue its guerrilla action, there would be employment opportunities for very many of the men who currently are unemployed. [More…]
It is entirely the result of industrial action by building unions, and in particular by the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
Mr McLEAY; In drawing my answer to a conclusion, I direct attention to a Victorian project, the State Savings Bank of Victoria project, which is worth $50m, which will employ 1,150 men at its peak and which has been closed down for nearly six weeks because of action taken by the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
For example, in the city of Melbourne recently the National Bank made a reasoned judgment not to erect a new building costing several million dollars but instead to buy an existing building because of the total uncertainly as to the work force- the members of the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
They realise that under federation there are two alternatives: We pay for it or we go without. [More…]
The advice that I have with regard to that is that approximately 900 members of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation are employed at the General MotorsHolden’s plant at Acacia Ridge. [More…]
I daresay that the events of 1975, which is when this type of questioning of the Loan Bill commenced, set a precedent, which we had not seen before in this Parliament at any time since Federation, whereby the Loan Bill became the subject of deferral. [More…]
I will quote from a letter addressed to Qantas Airways Ltd from the Australian Federation of Travel Agents. [More…]
They would prefer to see this business dispersed to other agencies, and that is the motivation behind the federation which wrote that letter which Senator Messner read. [More…]
I ask whether the Minister’s attention has been drawn to a newsletter issued by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations which is circulating on university campuses and in which it is alleged: [More…]
The proposal for an oilseeds research scheme was initiated by the oil.seeds committee of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation. [More…]
Already the Government has problems here in regard to the Transport Workers Union, the Federated Ironworkers Association, the Australian Workers Union, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The other day Mr Polites, the Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Employers Federation addressed the National Press Club. [More…]
Australian Roads Federation on Friday of this week was party political? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Australian Roads Federation is a non-party political organisation? [More…]
This was clearly demonstrated by the invitation extended by the Australian Roads Federation on 26 April this year to Labor and Liberal senators and members of State and Northern Territory Assemblies to join the bus trip organised by the Federation to inspect the condition of the road at first hand and to address meetings en route to Alice Springs. [More…]
After 75 years of Federation that simple fact was recognised. [More…]
This question has been the subject of legal and political consideration since the early days of federation. [More…]
The Bill provides that any action to prescribe additional oilseeds for the purpose of the levy and any change in the operative rate of levy shall take into consideration any relevant recommendation of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation which incorporates within its organisational structure an Oilseeds Committee representing growers in the oilseed producing States. [More…]
The structure, apparently, is to be similar to that of the State wheat research committees which are dominated by member organisations affiliated with the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
My concern in one which can in part be handled by the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), but I feel that the real remedy rests with the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
The membership of the Federation is not entirely balanced in that there are no representatives of the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of Western Australia, the Stock Owners of South Australia, the Graziers Association of Victoria and the United Graziers Association of Queensland. [More…]
While these organisations are not as numerically large as the organisations now affiliated with the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, their members do have a large interest in oilseed production and will be paying a substantial part of the levy proceeds. [More…]
On the basis of equity therefore it would seem appropriate for the Minister to suggest that the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation might recommend to him persons for appointment to the State committees for the administration of the oilseed research funds who come from the organisation I have just mentioned. [More…]
I will not go so far as to suggest that the existing composition of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation is such that it cannot provide a good cross section of persons involved with the oilseed industry. [More…]
The proposal for an oilseeds research scheme was initiated by the Oilseeds Committee of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation. [More…]
Has he seen the editorial in the 12 October edition of Education, the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation? [More…]
Is the Minister aware whether the Commissioner for Community Relations is investigating that statement in the editorial of the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation? [More…]
Senator Martin has shown me a copy of an editorial in a journal known as Education, which is published by the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
Senator LAJOVIC (New South Wales)-by leave- To the best of our knowledge the Conference of Commonwealth and State Committees was the first occasion since Federation that equivalent committees of all the parliaments of Australia have met with the common purpose of giving greater substance to Paliament’s traditional responsibility of effectively reviewing the financial activities of the executive government to ensure that funds are spent as Parliament intended and that taxpayers receive value for money. [More…]
When addressing the Farmers’ Federation Conference some two weeks ago, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, said: the Government’s policy-and certainly the policy of the National Country Party- (is) that we should make progress in the direction of generally lower tariff levels. [More…]
I refer to a complaint that I received by telegram from the Farmers Union of Western Australia, that the constitution and rules of the Waterside Workers Federation expressly exclude Asiatics from membership of that union. [More…]
I will refer it to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations to ascertain whether a provision excluding Asiatics from membership is in the rules of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia. [More…]
The Conference was attended by the stevedoring employers, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
These committees will comprise representatives of the relevant employers and the Federation and other interested parties such as the relevant port authorities will join with these Committees in consideration of matters of concern to them. [More…]
The Association of Port and Marine Authorities advised the National Conference of its wish to do this and since then the Association has met with the employers and the Federation and there is now a very clear understanding that at both the Federal and the port level there will be a continuing involvement of the port authorities in the affairs of the industry where their interests are concerned. [More…]
The Committee will be a part time body consisting of representatives of the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, the Australian Shipping Commission and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
This Division was inserted in the Act in 1956 and provides the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission with its jurisdiction for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes and industrial questions involving that area of the waterfront in which work is performed by members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia. [More…]
The fact that Division 4 of Part III of the Act now applies to the traditional area of work of the Waterside Workers’ Federation is being confirmed two ways- by changing the title of the Division and by inserting a new Section 8 lA. [More…]
I said earlier that we were ensuring that Division 4 of Part III of the principal Act remains the area from which the Commission draws its jurisdiction as to disputes involving the traditional area of work of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
He implied that the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia had, in its rules, objections to anybody of Asian origin being a member. [More…]
However, I contacted the general secretary ofthe Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
His claim is that the Waterside Workers Federation rules deny membership to persons of Asian origin. [More…]
I say to Senator Chaney, first of all, that in 1954, 23 years ago, the rules of the Waterside Workers FederatIon were changed. [More…]
When I used the word changed’, I point out that the Federation applied to the Industrial Registrar in 1954 and assumed that the necessary adjustments would be made. [More…]
I emphasise, of course, that if we look at the union membership we will find that over the years people of a variety of racial origins have served in various positions from sub-branch secretary or the equivalent of job delegate to national officers of the Federation. [More…]
Consequently, in 1967 the Federation drew the attention of the Registrar to his error- I emphasise his error. [More…]
When the rule book of the Waterside Workers Federation was printed in 1954, the change of rules was included. [More…]
There was no racialism practiced in relation to qualifications to join the Federation. [More…]
The Federation made a request to the Registrar that he correct his mistake. [More…]
The Registrar advised that that was not possible, So, in effect, the Federation had to go back to square one and make an application for a rule change to correct a situation which was the result of, to say the least, inept housekeeping by the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
However, the Waterside Workers Federation persisted in its endeavours from 1968. [More…]
If the general secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, Charlie Fitzgibbon, were here instead of myself, he would say the same. [More…]
The Federation fights hard for conditions in which it believes. [More…]
One of the most moving experiences I had was in the port of Darwin when my colleague, Senator Ted Robertson, early in one of his campaigns, was addressing members of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I expect the Government Whip either now or later to apologise to the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
In case people want to meditate on the matter and study Hansard, I ask for permission to have incorporated in Hansard a telex which was sent from the office of the Waterside Workers Federation to Senator Wriedt and which embodies the history of this rule change. [More…]
-I ask that this document, a copy of a telex from Mr Fitzgibbon, the Federal secretary of the Federation, to Senator Wriedt be incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
What Senator Chaney has done is a serious injustice to the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Federation is proud of its internationalism. [More…]
A young migrant had membership of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
So I want to give the lie direct to the allegation that the Waterside Workers Federation has been guilty of any racism in relation to the background of people who join the Federation. [More…]
Now that Senator Chaney is here let me say that I was most surprised to hear this allegation because when I have visited the ports of northern Australia as a member of Senate committees I did not have to be a Perry Mason to know that certain members, even job delegates, of the Waterside Workers Federation had an Asian background. [More…]
I entered into this debate because an honourable senator opposite rose to refute allegations that he claimed that I had made about the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I did not make allegations about the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
This afternoon during Question Time I asked a question about the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Honourable senators might ask why there is this interest in the Waterside Workers Federation, particularly by the Farmers Union of Western Australia, which is the source of my information. [More…]
I would therefore remind the Senate that it is the Waterside Workers Federation that, in a highly moralistic way, is refusing to export wheat to Indonesia because the Western Australian branch of the Waterside Workers Federation apparently has determined that we should not export foodstuffs to that country because the Waterside Workers Federation disagrees with certain aspects of Indonesia’s foreign policy. [More…]
I refer to a complaint that I received by telegram from the Farmers Union of western Australia, that the constitution and rules of the Waterside Workers Federation expressly exclude Asiatics from membership of that union. [More…]
I am fascinated by the telex which has been sent by Mr Fitzgibbon, the General Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I welcome the fact that in 1954, according to this telex, that particular rule, which until that time apparently was part of the constitution and rules of the Waterside Workers Federation - [More…]
We are told that the Federation rule books carried the amended rule and when the error was discovered a request was made by the Federation for the Registrar to correct the error. [More…]
The Federation made application to the Registrar for a rule change and this was done as recently as 6 July 1973. [More…]
So it would seem that this obnoxious rule which prohibited Asiatics from membership of the Waterside Workers Federation was changed formally on 6 July 1 973. [More…]
Apparently a search has revealed that it is still shown as a rule ofthe Federation in that State. [More…]
Re question raised in Senate re Federation rules old federation rule prohibiting Asiatics from joining union was changed in 1954 and certificate of change forwarded to federation by industrial registrar however due to error in industrial registrars department rule change was not entered into registrars record book. [More…]
All federation rule books had carried amended rule. [More…]
When error discovered request made by federation for registrar to correct their error registrar advised not possible and federation then made immediate application to the registrar for a rule change to correct the erroneous situation which had arisen as a result of industrial registrars department error. [More…]
Since 1954 many residents of Australia of Asian extraction have been admitted to membership and continued as members of waterside workers federation. [More…]
I was also glad to hear him admit that the innuendo and the smear that was implicit in his question this morning which was directed against the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, was incorrect. [More…]
-I certainly do agree, and I would be very concerned if anything had been said that misrepresented the position of the membership of the Waterside Workers Federation or any exclusions under it. [More…]
-Since Senator Mulvihill asked a question earlier today about this matter I have been able to get information for the Senate about the rules of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I advise the Senate that application was made to the Industrial Registrar in 1968 to alter the rules of the Waterside Workers Federation to exclude provisions relating to Asiatics. [More…]
The power exists, and because this Government is the worst government since Federation, because it is dishonest . [More…]
It certainly has been resented, in part, by the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and, one suspects, by the stevedores themselves from time to time. [More…]
That Conference comprised the stevedoring employers, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Austraiian Coastal Shipping Commission, the Broken Hill Pty Company Limited and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, as well as all other interested organisations which were invited to make submissions to that Conference. [More…]
These committees are made up of representatives of relevant employers, members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation and other interested bodies, for example, the port authorities. [More…]
In fact, there would be a very small percentage of members of the Waterside Workers Federation who, by the time they reach 50 years of age, do not have a maimed finger, a splayed toe or something like that. [More…]
I wonder what the Government would have said if the Federation had argued for the ‘bull system’ and trolleys in lieu of fork lifts. [More…]
Knowing the views of Charlie Fitzgibbon, the National Secretary of the Federation, I know that that was not on and that he always looks forward. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation is probably one of the few unions in Australia that has a ballot on a set day which emulates Federal and State elections. [More…]
I do not want the members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation to be guinea pigs when particular methods are being tried out. [More…]
We found that the original proposals of the Waterside Workers Federation are almost without exception the same proposals as this Bill implements. [More…]
As a result traders found it was enormously more effective to build up bulk loading mechanisms and so avoid the intrusion of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The pressure from the Waterside Workers Federation became so great in 1972 that although there was a surplus of labour on the waterfront the employers were afraid to dismiss the surplus employees. [More…]
The agreement that was made in 1972 between the employers and the Federation was that for the two years following that agreement the employers would not exercise their right to reduce the number of men on the waterfront. [More…]
I am saa to have to say that, despite a change of government in December 1975, quietly and almost unnoticed the employers and the Federation were allowed to renew the agreement with that provision in it, namely, that there would be no redundancy on the waterfront except such as was voluntarily applied for by the Federation. [More…]
All this idle time and all this costly redundancy is due to the surplus labour that we cannot get rid of because the power of the Waterwide Workers Federation is unique in that the Federation could prevent the employers seeking compulsory redundancy. [More…]
One thing of which I will not accuse the communist waterfront federation is reticience or suppression- it will lead with candour all the time, as I will show in a minute. [More…]
The Waterside Workers’ Federation reserves its right to seek the continuation of the relevant terms of the industry agreement. [More…]
The preliminary terms of the agreement to which the parties have agreed state that if there is a surplus of labour the employers will notify the Waterside Workers’ Federation which will ascertain from its numbers whether any members in the port concerned will apply voluntarily for retirement. [More…]
If they will not apply voluntarily, the Waterside Workers’ Federation has said clearly it insists that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has no jurisdiction to deal with the matter. [More…]
However, the important thing is that the Waterside Workers ‘ Federation then goes on to say: [More…]
I simply feel demented and disappointed, Mr President, in the extreme at the lack of interest taken in this terrific challenge to our trade, from the point of view of movement of trade and of controlling trade by the ideology of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
But why does it astound me so greatly: As long ago as 1956 the Liberal Government conceded for the sake of peace a monopoly for Federation members in stevedoring, the first time that, I believe, a union had acquired it anywhere in the British-speaking world. [More…]
Although he is not, as was erroneously alleged elsewhere for a time, a communist, in fact the Communist Party has greater influence in the Waterside Workers Federation than in any other union. [More…]
The Federation is more susceptible to communist influence, as is illustrated by the embargo on wheat transit to Chile and the prohibition against shipments to Indonesia. [More…]
There is not one provision in the whole scheme that does not give the final say to the Waterside Workers Federation, except in relation to matters within the jurisdiction of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The result of these Bills is to put into the hands of a monopoly comprised of the Waterside Workers Federation and the overseas shipowners the means by which they can press their thumb on the jugular vein of Australian commerce and export trade. [More…]
I suggest that a most villainous oligarchy or oligopoly is being erected under statute by which the capacity of the Australian trader to export general cargo and the capacity of Australia to finance itself as a trading nation pass totally into the hands ofthe Waterside Workers Federation and the organisations whose names I have just cited. [More…]
Over the years the Waterside Workers Federation, as has been pointed out, has been an instrumentality that has contained quite a lot of the communist element. [More…]
My memory goes back a very long way in relation to the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
From that area came Jim Healy who afterwards became the General Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
I want to be assured that if that is the intent of this inclusion, as I believe it to be, it is not in any way capable of weakening the exclusion of bulk handling operations from the monopoly of the Waterside Workers Federation, and exclusion which I hope is achieved by the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill that we have before us, in conjunction with Conciliation and Arbitration Bill (No. [More…]
The reason he has given is correct: That this inclusion in the definition of waterside worker’ is necessary because historically some members of the Waterside Workers Federation have been engaged in bulk cargo operations. [More…]
As to the question of coverage generally, as I said during the second reading it is the intention that the coverage by the Waterside Workers Federation of people engaged in bulk handling operations would not be extended. [More…]
However, it does not literally provide that members of the Waterside Workers Federation cannot be covered. [More…]
I personally think that up to’ date the services and amenities of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia have had no need of supplementation. [More…]
It is the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
The whole situation with regard to recruitment to and removal from the register has been handed over, not to management participation but to management simpliciter by the Waterside Workers’ Federation as to who shall go on the register and whether anybody shall be removed from it. [More…]
It has been built up on huge capital expenditure and it depends for its stability upon work being carried out by unions other than the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I hope that we will be able to have a firmer affirmation that the present segregation of the bulk handling operations from the control of the Waterside Workers Federation will be maintained. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral would know that a very delicate situation arose in the port of Sydney when the Transport Workers Union of Australia had certain industrial rights in an area in which the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia also had certain industrial rights. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall on that occasion I stated that the conference was of historical significance as it was the first occasion since Federation that similar committees from parliaments throughout Australia gathered together to discuss mutual problems. [More…]
One of the great strengths about our Federation is that we can minimise the inequalities among the States, using the Commonwealth Grants Commission, as well as other measures, as a vehicle. [More…]
I imagine that as long as we have a federationone can see that being the case as far into the future as one can see- as long as there are differences between the States as to the capacity of the States to raise internal, or intrastate, revenue, and as long as we all support, as I think all members of Parliament support, the principle that people no matter where they live in Australia are entitled to comparable services from State governments, there will be a need for a Grants Commission. [More…]
I am certain that the Federation will endure for that long. [More…]
Although much was said during the 1890s and much was done during the first 30 years of this Commonwealth, in many respects the Federation never came to its proper conclusion until the introduction of the Grants Commission in 1934. [More…]
Much to the disappointment of members of the Government parties, and I am sure, of the Minister, the Lone Parents Federation of Australia was neither particularly impressed nor particularly moved. [More…]
The Federation believes that some States will be unable to pay the first six months of the benefit, and of course it is in the first six months, for fathers especially, that the benefit is so very important. [More…]
That publication was put out by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
At the dinner a few months ago of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations one of the great jokes told by the compere was that he wanted to congratulate the commercial television industry upon devising a job retirement scheme ibr executives of commercial television stations. [More…]
The manner in which that benefit was introduced, the failure of the Government to consult with the States, the failure of the Government to make provision for the first six months when most lone fathers will need the benefit and the anomalies which will arise from this benefit have been attacked by the Lone Parents Federation, which quite justly objected to being used as a political football. [More…]
Sir Samuel Burston has been adequately supported by the Austraiian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation and the Australian Farmers’ Federation. [More…]
-I support the Australian Rural Bank Bill which to the rural industry of Australia is one of the most important pieces of legislation that has been established since Federation. [More…]
From that viewpoint and the viewpoint of the rural communities this Bill is the best piece of legislation since Federation. [More…]
Has the Government been asked by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation to provide air conditioning in open plan schools in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
Last year a number of schools and, I think, the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation raised the fact that for a limited number of days conditions were unpleasant in a small number of schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
South Australia came into its position of prominence in the Federation by virtue of the development of skills and abilities in its population to an extent somewhat greater than in other States. [More…]
It was probably the only example since Federation where a retiring senator belonged to a party which ceased to exist. [More…]
Government makes membership of the Waterside Workers Federation compulsory for any person seeking registration as a waterside worker? [More…]
Are we to take it from the Minister’s remarks that the Government is about to repeal that section; or is the Minister aware of any Government acquiescence, in the current review of the stevedoring industry, in moves to force clerks, foremen stevedores and others out of their own unions and into the Waterside Workers Federation under a misguided notion of industry unionism, thus creating monopoly control on Australia’s waterfront, a subject in which I would have thought farmers would be most interested. [More…]
Responsible bodies such as the AlburyWodonga Development Corporation, the Victorian Employers Federation, the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry are all urging the Government to take action along the lines that I have suggested. [More…]
The suggestion was made as recently as last week by Mr Ian Spicer of the Victorian Employers Federation that a system should be introduced which would allow a registered decentralised industry to be charged the same rate for telephone, telex and telegrams as firms based in any of our capital cities. [More…]
Only recently I was pleased to read a statement made by Mr George Polites of the Employers Federation, the employers equivalent of Bob Hawke. [More…]
The proposal was known as Tasmanian Fisheries Co. Pty Ltd and was a joint venture on a 50-50 basis comprising on the one hand Sir Francis Duval or his nominee and on the other hand Japanese interests- the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations and Hachinohe Fisheries Co-operative Association. [More…]
I might say in passing that an interesting observation has been made by Mr MacDonald of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
The simple fact is that in the 77 years of federation the Labor Party has been in office for about only 14 years, and at each election the conservative forces of this country close their ranks and in unison heap blame on previous Labor governments for the poor state of the nation. [More…]
More than three-quarters of a century have elapsed since the establishment of the Federation and we must look at the relevance of our Constitution and the relevance of this Parliament and re-examine them. [More…]
-The number of supporters required has always been four since Federation. [More…]
As a result, as the then Minister for Education I wrote on 7 October last year, some four months ahead, to the Australian Teachers Federation requesting that it submit a panel of names from which the Government would choose. [More…]
The General Secretary of the Australian Teachers Federation wrote to me on 4 November submitting one name only- that is, in complete opposition to the request that a panel of names should be submitted. [More…]
I wrote to the General Secretary of the Federation on 17 November and said that due to the approching elections I was not in a position to take any further action with regard to appointments, that a writ had been issued and therefore I could not function further in that respect but if the Government was re-elected it would reassert its request for a panel of names. [More…]
The General Secretary of the Federation wrote to me on 20 December confirming the nomination of one person. [More…]
The General Secretary of the Federation then sought a meeting with me. [More…]
To the extent that there are delays, the delays result from the Federation’s decision to take the courses that it took. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the report headed ‘Jobless teachers “victims” of cuts’ which appears in the Australian newspaper today and in which the President of the Australian Teachers Federation states that unemployed teachers are the victims of Federal Government cuts in public spending? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Australian Teachers Federation is saying that the reason for the surplus is the very matter of which the Minister has just spoken, that is, that the retention factor is much higher now because teachers are unable to find alternative forms of employment? [More…]
Is that not the thrust of what the Federation has been saying for some time? [More…]
In 1967 the overwhelming majority of Australians, in far larger numbers than even the original majority in favour of the Australian Federation- I point out that this question of Aborigines in Australia and in Queensland in particular was an issue at the time of Federation- voted in the referendum to give the Federal Government responsibility for Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
I believe that we in Australia govern in a most complex federation. [More…]
I draw his attention to an article in the Adelaide News of 9 March 1978, reporting a sweetheart agreement in South Australia between the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and the Metal Trades Federation, providing for overaward wage increases ranging from $4 to $15 a week, which is labelled as an attempt to avert industrial action by 270 members of that union. [More…]
I know that that member of the Waterside Workers Federation is now an extremely competent overhead crane driver. [More…]
It always amazes me that some people on occasions may criticise the Waterside Workers Federation but when they get around a table they make certain agreements. [More…]
I believe that other than the representative of the Waterside Workers Federation they all have a stevedoring company background. [More…]
Miss Patten is Federal Secretary of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. [More…]
Since Federation attempts have been made to overcome the disadvantages of living in areas away from the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane axis. [More…]
I might add that I noticed that Ted Bull from the Waterside Workers Federation was associated with this move to obtain ACTU recognition and to request continued Federal Government funding of the Centre. [More…]
They would also say to themselves it was strange that the proposition was being seconded by Ted Bull in his other capacity as secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I do not know how many women members are in the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I am able to advise him that the cheese manufacturers, supported by the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation, have asked for a reference to be made to the Industries Assistance Commission in regard to all cheese imports. [More…]
-There is a long-standing government policy which goes back almost to Federation. [More…]
As the honourable senator would no doubt know, many Commonwealth properties were passed by State governments to the Commonwealth at the time of Federation. [More…]
In addition, the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped has had discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Federation of Employers Organisation and the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled, as a result of which it has been agreed to form a committee to examine all aspects of the employment of handicapped people. [More…]
If so, is this the highest deficit of any Australian government since Federation? [More…]
Inasmuch as the legislation of this country uniquely confers upon the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia a statutory monopoly to supply labour for waterfront activities, will he consider whether, in the event of the intervention of the Waterside Workers Federation in a dispute that involves the export of commodities beyond Australia not affecting waterside workers’ conditions, that absolute monopoly should be cancelled in the event of the Waterside Workers Federation’s using the power that comes from that monopoly to abuse our trade in exports? [More…]
Senator Wright also asks about the position of the Waterside Workers Federation in relation to its national stoppage. [More…]
I will refer the other aspects of the honourable senator’s question which relate to other policies that may be pursued in respect of the Waterside Workers Federation to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
That is to say, the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, exercising all the untoward damage that accrues from an ordinary monopoly and the special damage that accrues from an industrial monopoly, has made Hobart, the main exporting fruit port for European markets, the centre of the Federation’s activities. [More…]
I have striven for 25 years, to the absolute detriment of the Waterside Workers Federation which, in the ports of this country, is damaging our country, with a particular eye to my special concern, Hobart, which is the chief fruit loading port of Tasmania and of Australia. [More…]
In addition, there is the impost of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia which now demands from the industry more than 50 per cent of the value of the product in order to get the damned stuff loaded. [More…]
That resolution, which was proposed at the ACTU’s Special Unions Conference and second by Mr Ted Bull, the Vice-President of the Communist Party of Australia, Marxist-Leninist, and the Secretary of the Melbourne branch of the Waterside Workers Federation, of which there are no women members, was opposed and rejected by the ACTU Congress. [More…]
It is affiliated with the Women’s International Democratic Federation. [More…]
1 ) and (2)1 have received representations from the Australian Teachers’ Federation requesting the meeting to which the honourable Senator refers. [More…]
As the matter appears to have been initiated by the taxation authorities as pan of their administration of the taxation law and as pan of a review of a range of benefits available to employees of both the Government and private enterprise in New South Wales country areas, I have suggested to the Federation that they should make direct representations to the Treasurer or the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Social Security is prompted by a letter from Les Butler, the highly competent secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation No. [More…]
The whole Federation was in absolute pawn to the Commonwealth. [More…]
On the initiative of the Australian Labor Party, the Senate is discussing the problems associated with Commonwealth-State financial relationships- a problem that has plagued Australia since Federation in 1901. [More…]
The incredible facts are that the statistics and the Budget documents show that in the period of the Labor Government the States received the greatest amount of funds in the history of Federation. [More…]
We may even reach a similar situation to that which has been the case since Federation with debates between the free traders and the protectionists. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation of Australia was able to threaten Tasmanian trade, and ships in every port- Devonport, Launceston, Flinders Island and Hobart- were immobilised. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation had exempted the Straitsman, Empress of Australia and Sydney Trader from their stoppage. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation refuses to recognise the jurisdiction of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
He objects to Mr Fitzgibbon, the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and apparently other unions making contact with their international colleagues. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the mass of statistics produced by Senator Wright show that the overall membership of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia numbers slightly fewer than 10,000. [More…]
Some members of the Waterside Workers Federation, who are in their fifties have industrial scars, splayed toes or they are minus the top joint of a finger. [More…]
I want to take the matter further, because Senator Wright referred to remarks made by Mr Fitzgibbon, the National Secretary of the Federation, about counters to multinationals. [More…]
I know people in the Miners Federation, who are members of the Labor Party, and who, when they went to a Labor Party conference, were regarded as being to the Left. [More…]
The Australian Federation of Air Pilots warned Federal Transport Minister Peter Nixon that a major air disaster could be on his head. [More…]
Federal spending cutbacks had led to a lack of preventative maintenance on ground navigation and safety aids, the federation alleged. [More…]
The Minister for Transport described as false the Federation claim that the Federal Government’s cost cutting process on maintenance had caused 19 navigation aids on the Sydney-Brisbane jet route to fail in one day. [More…]
Mr McGrane said that Mr Nixon had a responsibility- I am sure he does- to reply not only to the spokesman from the Australian Federation of Air Pilots but also to Mr McGrane ‘s endorsement of those remarks. [More…]
Also, is it a fact that the President of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents Clubs is reported to have said that students should be able to attend a government school of their choice, and urged reconsideration of zoning policies for government schools in that State? [More…]
It is a fact that the article states that the President of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents Clubs seeks for parents a right to choose schools. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation, which claims to represent the largest number of beef cattle and other livestock producers, has indicated to the Minister that it does not favour deferring the holding of the election for the producers consultative group? [More…]
It was only because of the federation of the Australian States that Kanaka labour was phased out. [More…]
Another response to Mr Samuel ‘s article came from Mr L. B. Wallis, the secretary of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations. [More…]
I draw his attention to the Prime Minister’s rejection of the request by the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation for assistance for the Chrysler Australia Ltd plant in South Australia. [More…]
As we all realise, Robert Gordon Menzies was unquestionably one of Australia’s most prominent political figures since Federation. [More…]
I have no material before me on this matter but, subject to my seeking further information for the honourable senator, I would imagine that that is a decision which would be made by the Australian Olympic Federation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government gives money to the Australian Olympic Federation. [More…]
I believe that the Government would be reluctant to interfere with decisions of bodies such as the Australian Olympic Federation as to whether Australia ought to participate in a particular Olympic Games. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Transport aware of an advertisement that appeared in the Adelaide Advertiser yesterday, authorised by the Australian Roads Federation, headed ‘Stuart Highway our national disgrace’? [More…]
It will be attended by the South Australian Minister for Transport, Mr Virgo; a representative from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly; at least five senators including Senator Jessop; the honourable member for the Northern Territory; and the honourable member for Grey; the mayor of Alice Springs; a representative of Tennant Creek businessmen; and a representative of the South Australian Roads Federation. [More…]
However, there has been some public reaction by the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation- the national industry body which represents all dairying groups. [More…]
In a Press release dated 19 May the President of the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation, John Bennett, stated that he welcomed Mr Sinclair’s announcement on stage 2 of the dairy industry marketing arrangements. [More…]
The Australian Teachers ‘ Federation [More…]
What are the details of the failure of navigation and safety aids on the ground between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Airports on 10 April [978, as reported by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. [More…]
Of the nineteen aids listed by the Federation as having failed on Monday 10 April, only four related to faults occurring on that day or the preceding weekend. [More…]
Is the Minister for Administrative Services aware that many slogans have appeared on walls and fences in Canberra recently expressing the ideas or explicitly proclaiming the ideology of the Universal Proutist Revolutionary Federation? [More…]
Is it true that the Universal Proutist Revolutionary Federation is in fact a revolutionary terrorist organisation? [More…]
None of us can move unilaterally as one would want to within a Federation. [More…]
Australia in addition to the Ford Motor Company and support has been expressed by the Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers and the VBEF. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education whether he has seen a report in the Sydney Morning Herald of 24 May in which Mr Van Davy, the President of the Australian Teachers Federation, is quoted as saying: [More…]
I refer to the serious allegations made by members of the aviation industry, including the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, that Australia’s traditionally high standards of air safety are being eroded because of reductions in Federal aviation spending. [More…]
This Government won office with the greatest majority since Federation. [More…]
Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of the guerrilla warnings issued yesterday by the reelected secretary of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation? [More…]
I regret that I have not seen or heard of the warnings made by the Secretary of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation which were the subject of the question asked by Senator Archer. [More…]
Within the total federal compact which was arrived at as a result of the numerous constitutional conventions of the 1880s and 1890s which led to federation, this chamber was created as an equal House. [More…]
I think we can be proud of our Federation. [More…]
We can look at our Federation and our Constitution and say, ‘Thank God for futureology’. [More…]
That does not mean that I wish to advocate we should break up the Federation. [More…]
It was part of the reason why my State of Tasmania was at the forefront of the Federation movement. [More…]
Unfortunately in Australia, as a result of the free trade versus protectionist debates which took place relatively early in the history of this Federation, a number of industries have been featherbedded A not unnatural result has been the accumulation of population in those areas. [More…]
I shall not go into the question on which he finalised his case, that is, what might be described as the possible disappearance of Tasmania from the Federation. [More…]
It was only as a result of a revolt on the eastern goldfields of Western Australia when a threat was made to petition the Queen to form a separate State there with Esperance as its port that the then State Government gave way and held a referendum which was carried by quite a large majority and resulted in Western Australia coming into the Federation. [More…]
I am not prepared to accede to the proposition of big and small States in a federation, because in this place we are all equal. [More…]
No matter what the population or the geographical area, we come in here as equals and I think that in a federation States must be treated as equals but not as being big, small or anything else. [More…]
Also, by early 1978 considerable progress had been made in moves towards unity of producer organisations at the Federal level, with the result that a proposal for a national farmers federation emanated from a working group, favouring in its draft provisions a nominated PCG group. [More…]
It was in 1901, straight after Federation, that the Australian Parliamentary Reporting Staff was established. [More…]
I have already referred to the fact that the traditions of the reporting staff go back to the eighteenth century and that in this Parliament they go back to Federation. [More…]
International Planned Parenthood Federation 1977-78, $180,000. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of a report on rural schools prepared by the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations which was presented to the Deputy Prime Minister last week? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware of Press reports based on a national survey conducted by the Australian Teachers Federation alleging major deficiencies in Australian education, with particular respect to school sizes, backlogs in school building programs and a lack of specialised teachers? [More…]
In recent days I have seen a number of statements by, I think, the Australian Teachers Federation, as to both the conditions of rural schools and the result of a national survey. [More…]
Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and officials of the Vehicles Builders Employees Federation and I undertook to raise the matter as quickly as I could with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
The Minister informs me that officials of his Department have examined the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation scheme in discussions at a meeting held on 30 May and put forward certain propositions about possibilities of other avenues of achieving retraining goals for Chrysler Australia Limited retrenched workers. [More…]
At Federation, the citizens of the Northern Territory, as residents of the State of South Australia, enjoyed the same political rights as other Commonwealth citizens. [More…]
The principle of selective underwriting has been accepted by the Australian Dairy Farmers ‘s Federation and the Australian Dairy Industry Conference. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall, when looking at the history of the Northern Territory, that the Territory was first incorporated in New South Wales in 1825 and was annexed by South Australia in 1863; That in 1890 South Australia conferred parliamentary franchise on the people of the Northern Territory; and that in 1901, the date of Federation, the Northern Territory enjoyed full parliamentary franchise by virtue of the Federal electorate of Grey. [More…]
It is the requirement that has existed, under Federal legislation, for nearly 75 years of Federation, and under which in general very fair electoral boundaries have been drawn. [More…]
Marketing was one of the great concerns of the industry, but nevertheless agreement was reached, and delegates from those State conventions were elected from the two major organisationsthe Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
For the first time since Federation, doubts and obscurities concerning the preservation of and access to Commonwealth records will be replaced by a comprehensive system of management embodying measures of which the purpose can be defined and the effectiveness assessed. [More…]
The Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, in a Press release dated 23 May 1978, indicated extreme concern about a number of matters. [More…]
So the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation is most unhappy about the control of the institution being handed to the private banks and about the fact that concessional interest rates will not be available. [More…]
The Builders Labourers Federation will not have anything to do with it. [More…]
This figure of 96,000 tonnes for butter was recommended by the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation. [More…]
In conclusion, I pay a further tribute to the Minister for his patience and for producing what is, in the opinion of the industry itself, the best possible alternative, having regard to the failure of the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation to agree to the comprehensive national entitlement scheme which was envisaged by the Crawford report in January last. [More…]
To what extent did the Commonwealth Government defray the costs of various rank and file members of the Builders Labourers’ Federation who were engaged in an action relating to the restoration of membership against the federal officers of that union. [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Association of New South Wales showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition or the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
For instance, the Manager of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, Mr Coysh who, in case there is lack of knowledge by the public, is not a pilot himself, but a paid industrial officer has made claims about the alleged breakdown of navigational aid facilities and used the Department’s notices to airmen system, known as NOTAMS to try and demonstrate his point. [More…]
The Minister for Transport, Mr Peter Nixon, said this evening he had made a thorough investigation of all the allegations made by Mr Coysh of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots concerning aviation safety yesterday. [More…]
The Minister for Transport, Mr Peter Nixon, said today that an investigation of further allegations made by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots concerning aviation safety had shown they had no foundation. [More…]
What Mr Coysh is doing in fact is casting aspersions on both the members of his own Federation and air traffic control personnel. [More…]
If Mr Coysh is serious about assisting air safety he should stop publicly casting aspersions on the members of his own Federation, air traffic controllers and officers of my Department and stop causing unnecessary concern in the minds of the travelling public by his public allegations. [More…]
It is a federation of six states. [More…]
A third article carried an attack by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots on a reduction of fire-fighting services at Sydney airport at the weekend. [More…]
It is a matter for the Australian Olympic Federation. [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
A representative of the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation said: [More…]
The Master Builders Federation of Australia in a Press release stated: . [More…]
The Federation also drew attention to the attitude of the building unions. [More…]
Unless steps such as these are taken to humanise our trading and commercial life then I see no point in Tasmania remaining part of the Federation to the economic prosperity of which Tasmania contributes so much. [More…]
There can be few governments since Federation which have managed to demonstrate in so short a time in office so many unpleasant characteristics unaccompanied by any redeeming constructive contribution to the life of the nation. [More…]
Again I remind the Senate that this was the first time it had happened in this Parliament since Federation. [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…]
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…]
This Federation dissociates itself from statements such as abortion is a very safe method of fertility control ‘. [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…]
The position is that Mr Justice Robinson of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission had representatives of the national employers and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia before him in conference yesterday. [More…]
Did the Northern Territory Teachers’ Federation claim, in a press statement of 30 May 1978, that, despite the announcement in May 1977 of the National Strategy on Aboriginal Employment and the introduction of a Community Development Employment Projects scheme, interested communities have had difficulty in receiving funds. [More…]
The petition ofthe Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth- [More…]
-Stripped of rhetoric, the answer is that throughout the whole of Federation governments of Liberal philosophy have permitted their Prime Ministers at all times to nominate the leader and deputy leader in the Senate. [More…]
Senator Walsh is trying to suggest, Mr Fraser has followed the pattern of all Prime Ministers of Liberal faith throughout Federation, who have entrenched themselves with high reputation in Australia. [More…]
The proper way for a federation to be run is for the Executive power to be delegated to the body closest to the people in which that power can be effectively exercised. [More…]
My colleagues in the Waterside Workers Federation and the Australian Labor Party also deserve my gratitude for their encouragement over the years. [More…]
When containerisation was discussed the Waterside Workers Federation put forward a submission that Australia would be better served by unitised roll-on roll-off ships than by the pure container ships. [More…]
The Minister will know of the case I am talking about, involving the Transport Workers Union of Australia in New South Wales and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and concerning a container dispute. [More…]
The group included the Mayor of Alice Springs and representatives of the Australian Road Federation and other interested parties. [More…]
Its provisions have been recommended by the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
I understand that recently the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils claimed that it is the only authority competent to issue such certificates. [More…]
The Federation’s approach is causing certain problems in the industry since the exporters involved already have Moslem slaughtermen in their employ or have long-standing arrangements with Moslem contractors to carry out this work. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that by retreating from the promises he has given publicly in relation to this matter he has provoked and is responsible for the industrial action now planned by the ACT Teachers Federation? [More…]
The Australian Council on the Ageing, the Pensioners’ Federation and Professor Henderson as well as local government bodies are all protesting about these proposed changes. [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth: - [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Stud Merino Producers Association all support that stand. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation and the Seamen’s Union still have a ban on the sale of goods to Chile, and until recently they had a ban on the sale of wheat to Indonesia. [More…]
The Minister said that strong representations had been received from the Australian Wool Industry Conference, its constituent member organisations, the Australian Wool Growers and Graziers ‘ Council and the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation, in addition to the unanimous views of the State member associations of the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders. [More…]
In that comment Senator Walsh is denigrating the Australian Wool Industry Conference so, presumably, he would not be having discussions with either the AWIC, Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council or the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
Would there have been a federation without the Melbourne Age or the Bulletin! [More…]
When talking of the Senate we must recall that it is the sine qua non of Australian federation. [More…]
We have had horror Budgets before, but I submit that none more horrible has been presented since Federation- certainly, to come closer to home, since 1951. [More…]
Not only is it to increase taxation, but also the Government has done something that very few governments since Federation, certainly none for many years, have done. [More…]
The Victorian Employers Federation has described this one-year Budget as a ridiculous annual Budget fiasco. [More…]
The Australian Democrats agree with the Victorian Employers Federation. [More…]
My colleague, Senator Elstob, the new senator from South Australia, is a former official of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents’ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
The changes which are embodied in this legislation are in accordance with the requirements ofindeed, I understand they were originally recommended by- the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
The introduction of this legislation follows a request from the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
It is terribly encouraging to see that this measure has the full support of the Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
Senator Walsh in his contribution mentioned varietal control of wheat, and I understand that that is being implemented at the request of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
I have a note here that the IAC report and recommendations have been given wide publicity and that there has been debate on these matters in local branches of the State affiliates of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry has announced that he will consult fully not only with State Governments but also with the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and other interested people before decisions are made and a new stabilisation scheme is introduced. [More…]
The name of the organisation is the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
For Senator Young’s information, the name of the organisation is the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, and I have checked that out. [More…]
If Senator Young is not satisfied, I suggest to him that he approach the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation to ascertain whether it did approach the ACTU in 1973, after the referendum had been held, for support to ensure that merino rams were not exported. [More…]
What financial or other support did Qantas give to the Australian Olympic Federation or to any individual athletes or officials in connection with the costs of Australia’s participation in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. [More…]
During June/July 1976 Qantas also carried ten officials of the Australian Olympic Team to Vancouver under a commercial agreement concluded with the Australian Olympics Federation in exchange for appropriate publicity promotion for Qantas. [More…]
In view of the stopwork meeting scheduled today by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation, will the Minister inform the Senate of the latest situation with respect to Australian Capital Territory school staffing levels and per capita expenditure in schools and secondary colleges? [More…]
More accurately, particularly in reference to Sir Samuel’s statement, the President of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, Mr Shanahan, as reported in the most recent edition of National Farmer, said: [More…]
I remind Senator Archer that the former Minister for Public Works in Victoria, Mr Roberts Dunstan, had something to say about this only a month or so ago, when he said that the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) had done more harm to the construction industry in Victoria in two years than Norm Gallagher, the Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, had done in five years. [More…]
At a special, much publicised meeting of the Cabinet- an emergency meeting it was called- the Government said that it was not going to be stood over by the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
It would have done much better to listen to the National Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, Charlie FitzGibbon, one of the most respected industrialists in this country, when he pointed out that the problem in the waterside workers’ dispute was that waterside workers were not going to be stood down in their thousands and go without pay because of the activities of 70-odd people in another union. [More…]
We cannot enjoy the luxury of condemning trade unions and not condemning the Australian Medical Association or the Australian Federation of Air Pilots when they take similar action. [More…]
The General Secretary of the Teachers Federation said that the Federation ‘s worst fears have been realised. [More…]
federation members were outraged at the news that the Federal Government proposed cutting funding for school libraries in the NT from $ 1 70,000 to $70,000. [More…]
The Federation finds the proposed cuts particularly cynical on the part of the Education Minister, Senator Carrick . [More…]
It moved the Austraiian Teachers Federation to report on the conditions in many schools and I wish I had time to be able to read that to the Senate. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate that he will take up with his New South Wales counterpart, Mr Bedford, the dangerous abrogation of the principle of ministerial responsibility represented by the New South Wales Minister’s proposal to hand over the spending of public money from Commonwealth and State funds to a body that is dominated by representatives of the New South Wales Teachers Federation? [More…]
To put the matter another way, if a sports team were to come into Australia, would the sports federation also pay the tax when that team departed Australia? [More…]
If honourable senators ask those who know within the Labor Party who Mrs Taperell was they will find that she certainly was not somebody who was from the mainstream of the Labor movement in New South Wales- the Teachers Federation. [More…]
The Secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, Mr Joe Thompson, has been reported as saying that, where a union comes close to covering all the workers in an industry, like the waterside workers or the vehicle builders, it should be able to ask the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to give complete and exhaustive coverage. [More…]
Whether the views expressed by Mr Thompson of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation are shared by others, I am unable to say. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth:- [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
Western Australia emerged from medicant or claimant status to become a fully paid up member of the federation of Australian States. [More…]
My advice is that three officials from the Soviet Olympic Games organising committee have been visiting Australia to discuss with the Australian Olympic Federation matters relating to the staging of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [More…]
The question of Australian participation in the Games is of course strictly one for the Australian Olympic Federation. [More…]
How is it that such a technically advanced and high cost sport such as that represented by the Gliding Federation of Australia is entitled to only $1,500; yet the Basketball Association will get nearly $50,000 and the Trampoline Association which, at its most charitable, could only be described as a pastime activity, will get $ 1 5,750? [More…]
Barnard Bros has been subject to industrial intimidation by the Builders Labourers Federation in its campaign for a 35-hour week? [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth:- [More…]
I place on record in this House the concern expressed by the Australian Pensioners Federation, the representative of the people who are going to be affected by this brutal and harsh legislation. [More…]
Following a Press conference which was held at Parliament House on 1 1 October, this is what the Federation had to say: [More…]
Following upon the August Budget the Australian Pensioners Federation was inundated with protests from its affiliated bodies. [More…]
The Federation on 12 September sought an interview with the Prime Minister on twice-yearly pension indexation and other matters of concern. [More…]
The Federation’s Chief Executive Officers yesterday met the Prime Minister and advanced reasons that no sufficient cause had been shown to amend the Social Services Act to substitute a yearly pension increase in lieu of the present legislated-for six monthly increases. [More…]
To me the next statement is the most important one, because the Federation said: [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government benches might care to think over that statement made by the Australian Pensioners Federation. [More…]
The Pensioners Federation put out a statement on the 1 1th of this month in which it said: [More…]
The endless buck-passing which goes on with State governments complaining bitterly that the Federal Government ought to assume their responsibilities whenever it is convenient to do so is one of the most unfortunate aspects of the Australian Federation. [More…]
Mrs Totti Cohen, of the NSW Federation of Parent and Citizens Associations, said the Government school system was not getting full federal support. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents’ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
Payments made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for rights and facilities to the 1976 Olympic Games were shared equally with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the net cost to the Commission was $2 1 5 , 1 3 1 . [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
As honourable senators are aware, rolling strikes involving teachers in the Australian Capital Territory schools began after the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation threatened industrial action if an increase for 1 979 was not provided in the staff ceiling for government schools. [More…]
On 13 October I invited the ACT Teachers Federation to come together with the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority and the Commissioner of the Commonwealth Teaching Service for discussions. [More…]
I also strongly urge the Teachers Federation to call off its industrial action and join in discussions with the ACT Schools Authority and the Commissioner of the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of this communication to each of your Cabinet colleagues, to all members of Cabinet in Queensland and further to all members of the Police Federation of Australia who will be discussing this problem at their Federation’s Conference in Adelaide from 13 March onwards. [More…]
Eckersley, the President of the Australian Farmers Federation, said that the Bank was nothing more than a joke. [More…]
The Australian Farmers Federation issued the following Press statement: [More…]
The Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation has expressed extreme disappointment with the new Primary Industry Bank. [More…]
Mr O’Brien, the President of the Federation, has stated that primary producers have not received the type of banking institution suggested in 1975. [More…]
I suppose it was inevitable that since Federation, because of the nature of the compact and the outlook at the time, each State would develop its own industry base in accordance with its own facilities. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents ‘ Clubs respectfully showeth:- [More…]
I would like to be assured by the Government that moneys that are paid by taxpayers through ADAB to the International Planned Parenthood Federation are spent in accordance with the policies of the Government and the generally accepted viewpoints of the community. [More…]
He raised two aspects of money to the Australian Development Assistance Bureau for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, first as to the policies that Australia might apply to the giving of that money and, secondly, to the methodology of events. [More…]
For the first time since Federation a new State is emerging. [More…]
Those comments were supported by the Road Transport Federation which not only accompanied us as part of the delegation but, after receiving the Minister’s response, set out on a heavy campaign, raising money in many parts of the area to pay for the cost of advertising. [More…]
This was advertising which the Federation carried out at its own expense. [More…]
The arguments put in the advertisement by the Federation are much more expansive than I have been able to present in the 1 S minutes that I have available to me at this stage. [More…]
On 15 June the views of the Secretary of the Road Transport Federation was reported in the News as follows: [More…]
SA regional chairman Mr Ken Smith, said yesterday his federation was gathering support from throughout the community to press home the need for the highway’s surfacing. [More…]
Interested people in Coober Pedy had given $ 1,300 to the Federation, while Alice Springs supporters had also rallied. [More…]
Mr R. Matthews, the State Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, and Mr B. Busch, the State Secretary of the Australian Transport Officers Federation, were also invited and attended. [More…]
We have decided not to do so because we recognise that we are part of a federation with various States requiring various types of employment base. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents’ Clubs respectfully showeth:- [More…]
In respect of this Bill the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation requested that the Commonwealth and States introduce a scheme to discourage the growing of unacceptable varieties of wheat in Australia. [More…]
The change in the arrangements for the remuneration of State bulk handling authorities by the Wheat Board is also supported by the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
I adopt the argument of Mr Gordon Mathams, the Executive Director of the Australian Federation of Constructional Contractors, published in the Australian of 12 September 1978, that construction should be carried out by contractors. [More…]
In August, at the meeting of the Australian Farmers Federation, the executive of the Federation described the new Primary Industry Bank as being completely unacceptable to rural industry in its present form. [More…]
As recently as yesterday Mr O’Brien, the President of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the farmer organisation with the greatest number of affiliated members, said: [More…]
The endless buck-passing which goes on with State governments complaining bitterly that the Federal Government ought to assume their responsibilities whenever it is convenient to do so is one of the most unfortunate aspects of the Australian Federation. [More…]
I think it is clear to everybody that, when we National Country Party, Labor Party and Liberal Party members and the other parties- the Mayor of Alice Springs, the Australian Road Transport Federation and some other interests- went to Mr Nixon, we put the proposition that was indicated in my motion. [More…]
The Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation has also recently indicated its concern on the subject of marketing and costs of marketing. [More…]
The Federation laid stress on the value of objective assessment of carcases characteristics as an aim to price determination, but warned that carcase classification by itself was not the cureall for the industry’s ills. [More…]
A survey was carried out by the Northern Territory Teachers Federation late in 1978. [More…]
All the amendments have been approved by the Australian Agricultural Council and the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and they entail no government expenditure. [More…]
Despite that, the decision of Mr Shortall indicated, amongst other things, that Alderman Ross Maniaci quickly joined the Employers Federation, used its advocate to put his point of view against the union and then abdicated his responsibility and refused to appear at the court hearings. [More…]
Again, the Government interfered in the Waterside Workers’ Federation strike. [More…]
I was a member of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
If a union such as the Waterside Workers Federation can work with management for the benefit of all people in the industry, it goes without saying that other industries should be looking at what has been done. [More…]
One of the great strengths of our Federation is that we can minimise the inequalities among the States using, amongst other measures, the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]
During last year’s debate to which I referred a minute or so ago, there was a suggestion that Queensland, in receiving assistance under the Commonwealth Grants Commission was not pulling its weight in the Federation. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents’ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
student and researching the child and law in Queensland; has published and presented papers on rights of the child, emotional needs of young children and care of sick children; President, Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, Queensland; member, sub-committee on co-ordination of Pediatric Services, Queensland Pediatric Advisory Committee; member, sub-committee revising legislation in Queensland for handicapped children, Queensland Special Education Department; member, Women Lawyers’ Association, U.N. Association Human Rights Committee, Federation of University Women. [More…]
Judith Roberts (South Australia)- Trained nurse; associate member of National Council of Women of SA; member of number of local community organisations (in the fields of health, welfare and education) including Unley Mothers and Babies Health Association ( former President, Secretary and Treasurer), Unley Royal Institution for the Blind, Unley Auxiliary of Crippled Children’s Association, Royal District Nursing Society, Red Cross, Good Neighbour Council of SA, State Committees of Schools’ Commission, Council of Governors of Walford CEGGS, Federation of Parents and Friends Association of Independent Schools in SA. [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents’ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
The petition of the Victorian Federation of State School Parents’ Clubs respectfully showeth: [More…]
Minor variations were made as recently as 14 February, following a meeting between the Department and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and agreement by other sections of the industry. [More…]
This change was lauded to the heavens by the Minister for Social Security, by the Prime Minister, by Senator Baume and other luminaries in this House as the greatest change in social security provisions since Federation. [More…]
I acknowledge that the office bearers of the Pensioners Federation are in the Senate today. [More…]
They came here yesterday and put their views on behalf of the Federation’s members and pensioners generally. [More…]
In November 1976, during the second reading debate about the Federal Court of Australia Bill, it was pointed out on our behalf that it would have been preferable to have a federal court dealing with all federal jurisdictions and not leave it in the situation which of necessity developed at the time of Federation of State courts exercising federal jurisdiction. [More…]
Since Federation the Senate has always been short-changed with regard to its Ministers. [More…]
Prior to Federation there were six colonies and it is my contention that those colonies would not have joined into a Federation without the protection of the Senate. [More…]
Historically, the Act was drawn from the Audit Acts of the States in force at the time of federation, but its origins can be traced to the British Exchequer and Audit Departments Act of 1866. [More…]
This does no more than give proper legal backing to procedures which have been followed for many years, probably since Federation. [More…]
The panel also contained David Llewellyn from the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and Peter Imlach, the Tasmanian Secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation. [More…]
We were told that the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations believed in self-regulation and had voluntarily agreed to self-regulation. [More…]
Probably for the first time in the history of this federation there has been quite a substantial reduction in the annual costs to telephone users. [More…]
In November 1977, Mr Spicer, Secretary of the Victorian Employers Federation, was quoted as saying that payroll tax was the most inequitable tax operating in Australia, acting as a disincentive to employment. [More…]
In May 1977 the same body, the Victorian Employers Federation stated that 153,000 people could be employed if the money levied in payroll tax were used as wages. [More…]
It is a matter for the Australian Olympic Federation. [More…]
Is it not a fact that at the conference with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the unions themselves the Government agreed with both parties that the actions that had been taken in Malaysia had not received its support; further, that both the Minister for Industrial Relations and the Minister for Foreign Affairs understood the attitude of the International Transport Workers’ Federation in making its protest? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Malaysian Government gaoled the representative of the International Transport Workers Federation, Mr Donald Uren, and 22 local unionists? [More…]
Is it not also a fact that the International Transport Workers Federation legitimately sought action by its affiliates in support of those unionists? [More…]
I submit that events since Federation now preclude the House of Representatives from effectively discharging that responsibility. [More…]
The origins of the Senate are to be found in the concern of the smaller States at the time of Federation to see an equitable distribution of power. [More…]
We are talking about Queensland, an Australian State, one of the States of the Federation. [More…]
The track record of the Australian Labor Party in regard to the sackings and demotions of Ministers is unsurpassed in the history of Federation. [More…]
Statutory authorities have proliferated in the Commonwealth since Federation. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Housing and Construction recently had consultations on these matters with industry associations including the Master Builders Federation of Australia and the Housing Industry Association. [More…]
In that event, who would be better than a member of the Potato Growers Federation and perhaps a National Country Party voter to be a member of the panel of the Tribunal hearing that case? [More…]
It was attended by the Building Trades Federation of Victoria, which took a leading part, the Building Trade Union of South Australia and all federal building trade unions. [More…]
As the Building Trades Federation of Victoria had carried a resolution at some time that it should ban the construction of the Woomera Rocket Range and as I, a poor, innocent secretary in South Australia, expressed support for the resolution, no Victorian building trade union official, or I, was permitted to go to Woomera. [More…]
I wonder what sort of objective assessment he could make about delegates of the miners federation from one of his father’s mining companies, or the shop steward from one of the metal engineering companies operated in the Sydney region in which his father has a vested interest. [More…]
One suspects the most likely prospect of violence is some Maoist party members beating up their CPA rivals in the Builders’ Labours’ Federation, but that is a matter for ordinary police measures. [More…]
Australia is a federation and many of the powers concerning energy rest with the States. [More…]
Only the Festival of Light, the Australian Labor Party and the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations were allowed to appear in all three inquiries. [More…]
I should add- and Senator Kilgariff may know- that last weekend I had discussions with members of the Teachers Federation in the Northern Territory and made that position clear. [More…]
Its membership was drawn from organisations with standing membership of the Stevedoring Industry Consultative Council and consisted of representatives from the port authorities, stevedoring employers, including representatives from Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, and the Australian National Line, the Waterside Workers Federation and the Australian Shippers Council. [More…]
That is the fact that the arrangements which this Parliament agreed upon with regard to industrial relations in the stevedoring industry relate to an arrangement between the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and members of that Federation and the stevedoring employers. [More…]
There are all sorts of estimates given, but those members of the Senate who read their newspapers will know that either this week or last week there was a stoppage in the port of Sydney which related to this very question of relationships between that multiplicity of unions other than the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia which operates in that port and which affects the turnover of the port, the costs of the operation of the stevedoring industry, and a variety of matters which go to the whole question of the high costs of stevedoring in this country. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that the deliberations of the working party apply basically to those two bodies- the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and the employer stevedores. [More…]
Furthermore, I do not think it at all fair to cite the example of last week where, as I understand it, the Waterside Workers Federation pulled the dispute because of its claim to cover certain tradesmen who were members of another union. [More…]
Certainly I would not feel that the other unions, whose industrial record on the wharf has been far better than that of the Waterside Workers Federation, would agree to allowing the Stevedoring Industry Consultative Council the say as to whether a recommendation should be brought to the Government that those organisations ought to be amalgamated into the one organisation, namely, the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Only the Waterside Workers Federation has a representative on that council, together with Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, the Australian National Line and the Australian Shippers’ Council. [More…]
It proposed to the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils that a joint committee representative of the Corporation and the Council be established to lay down guide lines and provide overall supervision, that the Corporation employ moslem supervisors on its staff to approve meatworks and slaughtermen for the performance of ritual slaughter and to provide necessary certification. [More…]
Where it was required by importing countries, the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils would provide additional certification. [More…]
The Federation of Islamic Councils did not agree and that matter is still to be resolved. [More…]
Discussions are taking place with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations to give effect to the recommendations, but in the meantime, the existing standards are still in effect. [More…]
To improve the effectiveness of these standards, the Tribunal has an arrangement with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations whereby the Federation’s Commercials Acceptance Division previews all nationally televised advertisements, to ensure that they conform to all legal requirements including those laid down by the Tribunal. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen a circular from the Australian Teachers Federation in Canberra dated 8 May which purports to be seeking by survey the views of members of Parliament concerning education and the economy? [More…]
If that is so, does the Minister intend to redress this organisation, the Australian Teachers Federation, and those people who belong to it? [More…]
I notice that the point was made also by the Pensioners Federation that there is in some way a contrast between those who are working and those who are dependent on social security. [More…]
It is a very fine thing that we have here in the Parliament today many members of the Australian Pensioners Federation who have come to Canberra to put the case for pensioners throughout Australia. [More…]
Eighteen months ago, when I met with members of the Pensioners Federation, they had come to Canberra to put the case for quarterly indexation of pensions because they felt that half-yearly indexation was inadequate. [More…]
I understand that discussions have been held between the Corporation and the Australian Dairy Products Federation and that separate discussions have been scheduled between the Corporation and manufacturers of Gouda and cheddar cheese. [More…]
In the material submitted to the Tribunal by the Children’s Program Committee this was stressed as the best period, but Mr Morgan, speaking on behalf of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, did not agree. [More…]
On very few occasions since Federation has a mace been presented to a Parliament within Australia. [More…]
Eventually after we had collected sufficient information the then assistant secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation went to a medical convention in the United States and con- vinced people at the convention that carbon monoxide gas did not dissipate out of the body but actually built up over a period and eventually caused brain damage and death. [More…]
We hope that there will be no attempt throughout this inquiry to consign the ABC the role that the commercial lobbies, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations and the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters, have long sought. [More…]
That particular action within 10 days of his assuming his portfolio bought a very strong response from the Australian Federation of Consumers Organisations which quite properly protested at this ministerial instruction which had no statutory basis. [More…]
The recent election of the Parliamentary Librarian, Mr Harold Weir, to the Parliamentary Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations is an indication ofthe high regard in which this Parliamentary Library is held by information scientists, research specialists and librarians overseas. [More…]
These include: Firstly, parliamentary procedures and precedents and parliament as an institution with particular reference to the Westminster system; secondly, the history of the Commonwealth Parliament since Federation, including biographies and photographs of all senators and members; thirdly, works by Australian Federal parliamentarians, especially first editions inscribed by authors; and fourthly, classical works in political science, especially those contributing to the present form of parliamentary democracy in Australia. [More…]
One from the Australian Teachers Federation arrived here only this week. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of claims by the President of the Australian Teachers Federation, Mr Van Davy, that the Government’s education policy bears no relationship to the needs of schools, that it will add to unemployment among teachers and other education personnel, and will reduce the capacity of schools to respond to the social pressures placed on them by youth unemployment? [More…]
The fact is that, when I became Minister for Education, the Australian Teachers Federation asked: ‘Will you give us a firm undertaking on one important thing, that is, that you will maintain a degree of progress which will enable the resource targets of the Schools Commission to be achieved on time? [More…]
Last Tuesday night, I said that the Waterside Workers Federation had sent six people to the National Health and Medical Research Association for tests. [More…]
That inquiry arose from a question by Senator Mulvihill of Mr H. J. Ryan concerning a dispute that existed between the Stevedoring Industry Authority and the Waterside Workers Federation concerning an overhead crane. [More…]
I preface it by referring to section 92 of the Constitution, which provides that commerce between the States of the Australian Federation ‘shall be absolutely free,’ and draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that in section 92 no reference is made to Territories. [More…]
The power exists, and because this Government is the worst Government since Federation, because it is dishonest . [More…]
I want to draw attention to a situation that exists in Sydney and, I think, Melbourne in which there are kerbside pick-ups of people who are not members of the Builders Labourers Federation to undertake general construction work. [More…]
But I wonder whether the Industrial Relations Bureau has had any talks with the affected union, namely the Builders Labourers Federation, about this sort of cancer in the building industry. [More…]
The article stated that the practice became customary for all seven High Court judges soon after Federation. [More…]
In order to facilitate the discussion tonight I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a letter relating to Mr Pires, a Portugese national who was active in the Builders Labourers Federation at one time. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he knows also that last week the Minister for Transport had an obligation to meet residents of Coober Pedy and members of the Australian Road Transport Federation, but because of conditions was unable to keep that appointment. [More…]
Is he also aware that the Minister travelled by car from Pimba to Lake Hart to inspect the condition of the road, acting on the suggestion from Mr Ken Harrison, the public relations officer of the Australian Roads Federation who claimed that this section of road was among the worst along the Highway? [More…]
Unlike the Labor Government, which had three bleak years of absolute warfare with the States, the Commonwealth Government of today believes that Australia is a federation and that there should be a dialogue with the States. [More…]
It has been said by the Mayor of Alice Springs and by a representative of the Road Transport Federation that this road is a national obligation. [More…]
That deputation included a wide range of people, among them representatives of the Australian Road Transport Federation, and the Mayor of Alice Springs. [More…]
1 think members of the Australian Roads Federation and the Mayor of Alice Springs attended also. [More…]
He acted on the advice of the Australian Road Federation, whose public relations officer had said: ‘Well, the Minister is going to travel over the road near Coober Pedy, which is a good section of the road. [More…]
So the Minister changed his mind and decided to travel by car over the road from Pimba to Lake Hart to look at what apparently is regarded by the Australian Roads Federation as a bad stretch of road. [More…]
I received from the Australian Road Federation the invitation to accompany the delegation on the occasion mentioned. [More…]
The Federation was being used by Liberal Party politicians for propaganda purposes because that Party knew that its prestige in the area was low. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of what is referred to as a ‘staffing agreement’ made in 1977 between the former Premier of Tasmania, Mr Neilson, and the Tasmanian Teachers Federation, in which it was agreed that 642 extra teachers were to be appointed. [More…]
It is true that the former Premier and Treasurer of Tasmania, Mr Neilson, announced in his 1977-78 Budget Speech that agreement had been reached with the Tasmanian Teachers Federation concerning future staffing policy to reduce teacher loadings. [More…]
I was not a party to this undertaking; nor was I consulted before it was given to the Teachers Federation. [More…]
The second document relates to the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill and the perceived needs of schools in the Australian community in 1978-79.I refer in particular to the report of a survey which was conducted professionally on behalf of the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
THE AUSTRALIAN TEACHERS FEDERATION [More…]
In 1976 the Australian Teachers’ Federation conducted the first survey of conditions in schools throughout Australia. [More…]
I think that we need to look at a definition of the word target’ because the Australian Teachers Federation suggests that, whilst some pans of the target have been met, the general configuration of the Karmel targets have not been met. [More…]
I think the proposition could be put that the Karmel goals are being met, if they are being met- that is the slight proviso that the Australian Teachers Federation introducednot only because of Federal funding but also because the States have been prepared to react to the provision of money. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation, the Australian College of Education, the Council of Government Schools Organisations and so on have all come out with pretty clear statements about what we mean by the quality of education. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation has expressed real fears about the course of education if funds are cut. [More…]
An Australian Teachers Federation newsletter which was sent to the Minister stated: [More…]
To back up the argument that I am proposing, that there are certain aspects of education in Queensland for which funds are needed, I refer honourable senators to a document entitled ‘ Report of the National Survey of Conditions in Schools by the Australian Teachers Federation 1978’. [More…]
The Federation at page 30 of that report referred to the situation in Queensland. [More…]
As a consequence did it inform Sir Arthur George, the Australian Soccer Federation President, and other senior officers of the basic provisions of the Migration Act and the Australian Citizenship Act in order to avoid a repetition of this situation? [More…]
Was the ambit of sportsmen’s visas explained to the Australian Soccer Federation? [More…]
Is consultation occurring between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Australian Soccer Federation? [More…]
The Department is not aware of any approach in recent times from the Australian Soccer Federation concerning Australian citizenship. [More…]
I can only say what I said a moment ago, and that is that the information I have is that the Department is not aware of any approach in recent times from the Australian Soccer Federation. [More…]
In an article in the Canberra Times of 18 May it is claimed by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations that the amount allocated to each research worker in Australia dropped by 50 per cent between 1 966 and 1976. [More…]
I am not particularly impressed by a case that comes from the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations on this subject. [More…]
I went to a seminar that the Federation held in Sydney early this year where much play was made of the effect on research programs of government policies and funding. [More…]
The reason is that it was decided some 78 years ago at Federation that if the country was to be well served officials should be chosen by an independent body and selected and promoted by merit. [More…]
On this matter I am indebted to the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Stuart West) who before entering this Parliament was a trade union official with the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I am also indebted to the conversations I have had with my colleague Senator Elstob, also a former Waterside Workers Federation official. [More…]
I want to touch on that only briefly in that those redundancy conditions won for the members of the Waterside Workers Federation make the ones that the Government is offering the Public Service look cheap. [More…]
We consider a more productive approach would be negotiations with the ACT Teachers Federation on what an acceptable minimum establishment could be in schools and colleges of low enrolments in order to avoid either indefinitely postponed openings or almost immediate closures. [More…]
Because of the great concern being expressed about the matter in country areas, and especially those of New South Wales, will the Minister ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to consider calling during the forthcoming parliamentary recess a conference of executives of the Channel 9 network, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and the ABC in an endeavour to sort out the problem and to ensure adequate telecasts of the test cricket matches next summer? [More…]
I now call upon the New South Wales State Government to make a full and frank disclosure of all the facts relevant to this case and to respond to the call from the New South Wales Teachers Federation and others to give us the full story in regard to this matter. [More…]
The Australia Police Bill was brought in with the usual sensitivity of the then Government with respect to the feelings of the Australian Federation. [More…]
Is he aware of the article in B & T Advertising Weekly of 29 March 1979 in which Mr Staley is reported to have told the Advertising Federation of Australia on 23 March: ‘The concept (of ethnic television) will be partially, if not significantly, funded by advertising’. [More…]
Like the National Health Federation, Dr Burk is a leading advocate of the worthless cancer drug Laetrile (Consumer Reports, August 1977), and he shares the NHF’s aversion to fluoridation. [More…]
I have discussed with Mr Bruce Gyngell, Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, the matter you raise and he has informed me that the Tribunal is having discussions with the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters aimed at reaching an early decision. [More…]
Let me simply say that the track record of governments of our philosophy and kidney is such that they have always smartened up, so much so that for 58 of the 78 years since Federation the people of Australia have had the eminent good sense to choose us, as they will again when next we go to the electors. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Is it true that the Australian Soccer Federation has put certain proposals to the Minister concerning visas for overseas footballers wishing to play in Australia? [More…]
I understand that discussions have taken place between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Australian Soccer Federation to enable closer consideration to be given to the rules related to the entry of soccer players from overseas to engage under contract with clubs in Australia. [More…]
The Australian Soccer Federation has advanced measures to control the numbers and standard of players to be admitted from overseas, allowing for the rules which operate in other soccer-playing countries. [More…]
I ask: Is it a fact that, on 15 September 1978, the Minister gave directions pursuant to section 29 ( 1 ) of the Trade Practices Act instructing that the Commission’s application for an injunction against the Banana Growers’ Federation be stood over? [More…]
The inquiry was initiated by the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs following representations from several primary producer organisations including the Australian Farmers Federation, which expressed concern about the price and availability of farm machinery spare parts. [More…]
, (3) (a) (i) Tasmanian Fisheries Company in partnership with Zengyoren (Japanese National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations) to take squid by jigging. [More…]
No government in the history of this Federation has so restrained expenditure as to enable taxation to be given back to the people. [More…]
Can the Minister for Education comment on recent claims by the Australian Teachers Federation and other protest groups that funding for education in Australia is inadequate and particularly that government schools are being starved at the expense of nongovernment schools? [More…]
Let me simply say this: Every teacher in Australia would know that the Schools Commission is an independent body which sets out to determine, by way of recommendation, the categories of schools in Australia in levels one to 6, that it contains a Teachers Federation representative and a parent representative and that decisions are signed by them. [More…]
The Schools Commission, which includes on it representatives of the Teachers Federation and parents, says that the gap in resources between government schools and non-government schools which existed until recently has been widening to the detriment of the non-government schools. [More…]
For some 79 years now the people of Australia have agreed to there being a federation. [More…]
Constitutional federation, enhanced and reinforced by my Government’s new federalism policy, is not just a means of enabling orderly administration. [More…]
I am not knocking the Population Council, which has on it people like Hawke and Nolan from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, George Polites from the Employers Federation of Australia and a host of demographers and others. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, relates to a call from the Victorian Employers Federation for a budget every three years instead of annually. [More…]
Government senators would do well to listen to it because already it has been picked by the National Farmers’ Federation. [More…]
The National Farmers’ Federation was more to the point when it said: [More…]
He has quoted Mr Eric Risstrom, the National Farmers Federation, Mr Block and everyone else. [More…]
I understand that only the following organisations in New South Wales failed to lodge financial accounts and statements for 1977-78 with the Permanent Head by 30 September 1978: The Australian Catholic Guild Friendly Society, the Health Insurance Commission and the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation Health Society. [More…]
New South Wales Teachers’ Federation Health Society, 3. [More…]
It may interest him to know that we live in a federation and most of the power does not rest with us. [More…]
Post and Telecommunications has already approached the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations to seek their views on captioning possibilities for programs such as news headlines, special services annnouncements and possibly certain documentary programs. [More…]
Community Radio Federation Ltd has stated in its initial application for a licence that it is committed to discrimination in favour of the working class, including ethnic groups. [More…]
Because of the great concern being expressed about the matter in country areas, and especially those of New South Wales, will the Minister ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to consider calling during the forthcoming parliamentary recess a conference of executives of the Channel 9 network, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and the ABC in an endeavour to sort out the problem and ensure adequate telecasts of the test cricket matches next summer? [More…]
I agree with my friend, Dr Maurice Clark, a not impractical conservationist and former chairman of the forestry division of the Tasmanian Farmers Federation, who said: [More…]
The Tribunal is at present discussing with the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters and others interested an increase in the quota from the existing level of 20 per cent to an ultimate level of at least 30 per cent. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Education seen reports of claims by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations that the Budget this year represents a serious blow to research in universities because of the failure to provide substantial increases in funds for university research? [More…]
The interesting thing was that the television and radio advertisements were very quickly back on air after examination by the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
I suppose that my learned industrial colleague from South Australia, Senator Elstob, who has a fund of knowledge on the maritime industry, will agree with what I have to say about the famous occasion when the membership of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia at the port of Mackay was drastically scaled down. [More…]
Referring to consultation, I have a letter dated 6 September from Mr Joe Thompson, Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]
I refer to what was called the Battle of Brisbane between a minute group of Vietnamese and members of the Waterside Workers Federation and their two Vietnamese guests. [More…]
In the matter of an application by the Meat and Allied Trades Federation of Australia to vary the [More…]
This muller, the hearing of which was commenced before Commissioner Gough and was by consent of the parties referred to me for further hearing and determination, arises from un application by the Meat and Allied Trades Federation of Australia to extend the Meat Industry Interim Award, 1965 to the operation of Metro Meat Ltd. at Cootamundra in the State of New South Wales. [More…]
As the Australian Broadcasting Commission has announced that it will request the Trade Practices Commission to investigate the matter, can the Minister give me some idea as to when I can expect an answer to my question as to whether he intends to intervene in this matter, as he did in the Banana Growers Federation case and the newsagents case? [More…]
Following on Senator Rae’s theme about seeking information, I recall that in the past year, when we had several other oil tanker mishaps, the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, indicated to us that we had a sort of loose federation comprising Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. [More…]
I refer to the maritime work of the journal of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The International Transport Federation has established a code, which last year set down a payment of $US520 a month. [More…]
Is the Government aware of reports that the Papua New Guinea Opposition politician, Miss Josephine Abaijah has suggested the integration of Papua New Guinea with a Federation of Greater Indonesia? [More…]
From that fact, which had been a fact ever since Federation, the then Opposition tried to concoct some sinister motives for the introduction by the Labor Government in 1 975 of an identical Bill, apart from the figures. [More…]
In fact, this legislation is simply a partial response to the pressure which has been put on the Government both by the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association which met in March of this year and demanded that the governments of the world institute such checks as are provided for in this Bill. [More…]
Of course, the Australian Federation of Airpilots has taken the same stand, particularly after the incident at Coolangatta in early June where a domestic flight was hijacked by an individual who managed to get on board with a sawn-off shotgun without being detected. [More…]
Indeed, we have also been free of these sorts of incidents because the Government has recognised the weight and force of the lobby represented by the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association. [More…]
Road News, the journal of the Australian Road Federation, has realised the duplicity of this Government and has taken up the cry that we are hearing from more and more sources as the Government’s term of office expires. [More…]
The General Secretary of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations has made statements as reported by the honourable senator. [More…]
He then said that he had also attended a function with Mr Hawke at the Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation. [More…]
You can talk about the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I remind the Government that the sanction of deregistration already exists and, indeed, has been exercised, for example, in the Australian Builders Labourers’ Federation case. [More…]
Will the Government produce the word or the support of the Employers’ Federation in respect to this matter? [More…]
I think I heard Senator Gietzelt refer to what the Employers’ Federation might think about this legislation. [More…]
It is to be forbidden for a judge to order it but it was not forbidden for the Builders Labourers Federation, an unregistered organisation, to force it on the employers. [More…]
In the mid-1950s a provision was inserted into the award of the Waterside Workers Federation to cover the very thing that the Government is trying to prevent other unions from receiving. [More…]
I might add that the Waterside Workers Federation never lost a case because stoppages never occurred unless they were genuine. [More…]
Eventually the Waterside Workers Federation changed over from the casual system to the permanent system of employment and today the relationship between management and labour is very good. [More…]
Senator Elstob mentioned the clause in award covering the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia which provides for questions of safety. [More…]
The petition of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales respectfully showeth: [More…]
The Government has also received proposals and suggestions for restructuring ADI from dairy industry organisations including the Australian Dairy Farmers’ Federation. [More…]
I refer the Minister to publications of the American Federation of Labour Congress of Industrial Organisations concerning the restaurant catering industry in San Francisco and other places. [More…]
Australia will be contributing in 1979-80 to the International Planned Parenthood Federation ($180,000; and to the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population ($25,000), both Non-Government Organisations. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the media reports of a speech over the weekend by Mr Ian Spicer of the Victorian Employers Federation in which he stated that the man hours lost to commerce and industry through accidents at the work place are 40 times those lost due to industrial disputes and cost the community many hundreds of millions of dollars? [More…]
Also represented on the working party are the Australian Association of Dieticians, the Food Industry Council of Australia and the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations. [More…]
It is a problem within a federation. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware that the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation has suggested a policy of world parity for the pricing of industrial and stockfeed wheat? [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…]
I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Productivity to a media release of 22 October 1979 by Mr Ian Spicer, Executive Director of the Victorian Employers Federation. [More…]
As this Senate will recall, it was during the period of the previous Labor Government that the first efforts were made, in fact the first action was taken, by a Federal Government since Federation to enable the Federal Government to fund local government in Australia directly. [More…]
For the first time since Federation the national Parliament accepted financial responsibility for some of the areas of funding for local government. [More…]
They included: The Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, the Latvian Relief Society of Australia, the Ukranian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Victorian Division, the Latvian Federation of Australia and New Zealand, the Russian Orthodox Brotherhood of Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. [More…]
There is the World Peace Council, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and many other such organisations. [More…]
It is well to remember that the States themselves would not come into the federation without the guarantee that there should be a Senate that had two ingredients- equal numbers from each of the States and a residual finance power. [More…]
As I pointed out earlier, this involves us in taking effective steps- not just steps for show- to ensure that the United Nations rights are effective here both federally and in the States- throughout the federation- without any exemptions or exceptions. [More…]
For how long would this failure be compatible with our responsibility under the Covenant to take the necessary steps to give effect to the rights recognised in the Covenant in all parts of the Federation without any limitations or exceptions? [More…]
Before we pass this Bill which is openly intended to enable the Government to ratify the UN Civil and Political Rights Covenant- if the amendments moved by Senator Missen and Senator Evans are accepted that would be made explicit- we must be sure that the Government is prepared if necessary to use its constitutional power within a reasonable time to ensure that the Bill is effective in all parts of the Federation without any limitations or exceptions. [More…]
Then there are other bodies such as the Immigration Control Association; the Immigration Restriction Council; the British Australian Association; the Ku Klux Klan, Melbourne branch; the Conservative Party (Western Australia) Inc.; Women Against Asian Immigration Committee; Westralian Nationalist Movement; National Australian Association; Truth and Liberty Mission; British-Israel World Federation; and the Children of God. [More…]
I do not think anybody would have believed that the Menzies Government was not a government which placed a high value on the concept of federation or federalism. [More…]
I am not aware of concern expressed by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots about a supposed lack of essential safety services at certain major non-metropolitan airports, but if the honourable senator provides details of any such concern I shall have the matter examined. [More…]
Its sponsors were the Chamber of Commerce and Industry SA Inc., the Master Builders Association of SA Inc., the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Federation of Australia SA Region, the Retail Traders Association of SA Inc., the South Australian Chamber of Commerce Inc., and the South Australian Employers Federation Inc. [More…]
It is not arrayed merely against the student associations on the various campuses- associations democratically elected, associations not captured by the Australian Liberal Students Federation, to which I will come in a moment and which is behind this legislation. [More…]
In relation to the Australian National University campus I ask: Why has it proved impossible for the Australian Liberal Students Federation to go to that campus and get the 380 signatures required- a mere 10 per cent of the student population- to enable a referendum to be held as to whether the ANU students ought to be affiliated with the AUS? [More…]
Having been defeated at the ANU campus level, the Australian Liberal Students Federation used the influence that it has through its advantageous position to require the Government and this Parliament to pass an Act to achieve its end. [More…]
It is an invitation from the Australian Liberal Students Federation requesting the pleasure of the company of my research assistant at the ANU Amendment Bill party to be held at 166 Dexter Street, Cook, Australian Capital Territory, commencing at 8 p.m. on Monday, 19 November 1979. [More…]
In fact, if we do not pass the Bill tonight the Government has said to the Federation that it will bring back the Senate especially on Monday to make sure the Federation at least can go ahead with its party on Monday night with the knowledge that the Senate has passed this legislation. [More…]
Mr Michael Yabsley is, of course, very well identified with the Australian Liberal Students Federation. [More…]
I must say that the normal moderation which characterises his liberal approach- such as that which leads him to be the target of vicious attacks by the right wing of his own New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party- has for some reason been modified, suspended or rendered inoperable, by the constant pressure from a group of students which is largely associated with the Australian Liberal Student Federation. [More…]
I do not go along with the criticism that has been made of the Australian Liberal Students Federation. [More…]
Indeed, I understand that the largest single financial grant last year was to the Australian Liberal Students Federation on that campus. [More…]
The AUS is a member of the steering committee overseeing the present Commonwealth Education Department survey of student incomes and expenditures and frequently consults with a whole variety of bodies such as the Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and the Conference of College of Advance Education Principals, the Federation of University Staff Associations and so on. [More…]
Of course, the reality is that even given the role that AUS has been playing in these areas, and even given those fundamental changes that were made at the June and July conferences this year to the structure of AUS- putting its house in order- the Australian Liberal Students Federation is still unhappy. [More…]
One has to appreciate that most of the Liberal students at the AUS special council voted against the first three major structural changes that I have mentioned, for the quite cynical reason that a reformed Australian Union of Students would have had greater credibility and student support, and the Federation is pledged to destroy the body. [More…]
I understand that he is the former vice-president of the Australian Liberal Students Federation. [More…]
Another such litigant is a gentleman known as Mr John Bell, who is a Victorian executive member of the Australian Liberal Students Federation. [More…]
The Australian Liberal Students Federation- supported by wealthy and vested interests, to destroy AUS. [More…]
This represents a major concession to what the States have been trying to achieve ever since Federation, or at least since about 1920, when in the engineers case for the first time the Court started behaving as a truly national institution, concerned to interpret and to apply the Constitution, where there was ambiguity in its terms, in such a way that national interests and concerns took precedence over parochial ones, and in such a way that there would be a possibility for genuine national-sized solutions to national-sized problems. [More…]
A major purpose of federation was to create a national economy. [More…]
Going back some 20 years when I was associated with the Waterside Workers Federation I put forward the suggestion that workers in this country should be paid a holiday loading. [More…]
Speaking as a trade unionist, trade unionists of the Federation of Bolivia were butchered in the streets. [More…]
It being over three months since the Minister for Primary Industry received a submission from the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation on the proposed restructuring of Asia Dairy Industries Ltd, is the Minister in a position to say what, if any, parts of the ADFF submission have been accepted and when some announcement on the matter will be made? [More…]
Because of the great concern being expressed about the matter in country areas, especially those of New South Wales, will the Minister ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to consider calling during the forthcoming parliamentary recess a conference of executives of the Channel 9 network, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and the ABC in an endeavour to sort out the problem and to ensure adequate telecast of the test cricket matches next summer? [More…]
But Mr O’Connor was a very distinguished person in his own right, and he was part of the processes which finally brought about Federation. [More…]
Special Grants are justified when a State through financial stress from any cause is unable efficiently to discharge its functions as a member of the federation and should be determined by the amount of help found necessary to make it possible for that State by reasonable effort to function at a standard not appreciably below that of other States. [More…]
One of the strengths of our federation is that we can minimise the inequalities between the States by using, amongst other measures, the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]
After very protracted negotiations between the Government, the Australian Wheat Growers Federation, and other industry representatives, we have these Bills before us tonight. [More…]
The legislation is the result of an extensive inquiry into assistance to the wheat industry undertaken by the Industries Assistance Commission and negotiations between the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation and the Australian Government. [More…]
There has been major controversy over this provision with serious disagreements between some of the State governments and one of the major member organisations of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation. [More…]
Is he aware of the article in B & T Advertising Weekly of 29 March 1979 in which Mr Staley is reported to have told the Advertising Federation of Australia on 23 March: ‘The concept (of ethnic television) will be partially, if not significantly, funded by advertising’. [More…]
Mr Leigh van der Hoek, who came to the mission on the Lutheran World Federation’s recommendation in the capacity of Project Supervisor and Agriculturalist, to help guide and teach the people at Hope Vale in this field, was also sacked. [More…]
Has a member of the Papua New Guinea Opposition, Miss Josephine Abaijah, suggested the integration of Papua New Guinea with the Federation of Greater Indonesia? [More…]
My information is that in a statement in Papua New Guinea National Parliament, Miss Abaijah mentioned the possibility of ‘Federation with a Greater Indonesia’ as one of three alternatives for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 understand that the world federation of free Latvians organised a Latvian Festival on the island of Gotland from 19-22 June 1979. [More…]
Has the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation suggested a policy of world parity for the pricing of industrial and stockfeed wheat; if so, how does the suggestion of the Federation accord with the Government’s stated policy of fighting inflation. [More…]
The Commonwealth, the States and the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation have agreed on the basis for fixing domestic prices for wheat for stockfeed and industrial uses. [More…]
-My attention has been drawn to the fact that slogans have appeared in Canberra recently which claim to expound the ideas and ideology of a Universal Proutist Revolutionary Federation. [More…]
Many threats and violent actions have occurred for which responsibility has been claimed by individuals or a group calling themselves the Universal Proutist Revolutionary Federation. [More…]