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

• Senator Hendrickson at question time referred to an incident in the staff dining room yesterday, involving some female employees on the staff of Hansard. [More…]

• The Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms have no knowledge of any problem at lunch time yesterday, but it is believed that the incident referred to occurred at dinner when four females on the Hansard staff entered the dining room to have a meal. [More…]

• Does this attitude on equal pay apply only to certain professional female officers of the Commonwealth Public Service or is it intended that by 1972 equal pay will apply to all female officers of the Commonwealth Public Service? [More…]

• Did Brian Ross answer the questions normally found necessary to ask to establish genuine conscienious beliefs such as ‘Would you forcefully slop an invader in your home threatening the female members of your family’. [More…]

• 72 male officers (19 of them in Regional Offices), one female officer and another whose appointment is in train. [More…]

• In fact the growth in female pemanent staff and the removal of the barrier preventing female officers pursuing their careers after marriage combined with a principle of promotion based on merit have resulted in an increasing number of women reaching positions in the service at a higher level than formerly. [More…]

• Can the AttorneyGeneral elaborate on the circumstances that prompted the minute search of 3 female passengers on a recent Canberra-bound air flight? [More…]

• Equal pay (Industrial Arbitration Act, 1940-1957, as amended by the Industrial Arbitration (Female Rates) Amendments Act 1 958, which provided that, for male and female employees performing work of the same or like nature and of equal value, the Industrial Commission may prescribe in State wages the same basic wage and secondary wage, to be phased in over a period of 4 years ending on 1 January 1963); [More…]

• Do any of the persons referred to in ( 1) have any specific experience with female trade unionists or ethnic groups. [More…]

• female contributors are discriminated against. [More…]

• It has been known for many years that a very high proportion of people employed in the textile industry are females. [More…]

• Over the past 12 months there has been a quite dramatic increase in female wages and of course this has affected the textile industry. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration now supply me with an answer to my question of mid-February in which I sought an investigation into the circumstances of the dismissal of 6 Chilean female factory operatives from the tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills (Aust) Ltd in Sydney? [More…]

• Has the Minister noted that the Commission’s terms of reference require that it examine family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of the male and female relationship? [More…]

• Will the Minister provide similar figures for female sperm whales caught by the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company over the same period. [More…]

• Female whales are not included because until recently their catch has been restricted through strict observance of the legal minimum length. [More…]

• The situation of domestic staff in Embassies or Consulates is no way comparable with that which applied in the cases of the Filipino female clothing workers referred to by the honourable senator. [More…]

• Will the Minister permit three Filipino housemaids who exposed domestic conditions existing in a diplomatic residence in Melbourne to stay in Australia, in view of permission granted for Filipino female clothing workers in Sydney to stay in Australia when they were placed in a similar situation by a former Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]

• How many Inspectors operate in the female section of the printing industry. [More…]

• How often do Inspectors inspect amenities provided for female PABX operatives installing AWA components in metropolitan hospitals. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the total (a) male and (b) female population above the age of 1 8 years in each of the sub-divisions within each electoral division of the Commonwealth as reported by the Commonwealth Statistician to the Chief Electoral Officer following the taking of the 1 976 Census. [More…]

• The Australian Statistician has provided data showing percentages of (a) total, (b) male and (c) female labour force 1 5 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years in each State and Territory, and for Australia as at February 1 977 as follows: [More…]

• What percentage of the (a) total workforce, (b) male workforce and (c) female workforce is 21 years of age and under in each State and Territory of Australia. [More…]

• I also ask the Minister whether she has seen the charge that some of the female staff were barefooted, were completely uncaring and in general treated the public like dogs. [More…]

• and (2) Four male and two female officers from the Office of Government Ceremonial and Hospitality were on hand as usual at the entrance to Parliament House for the arrival of guests invited by the Government to its reception on Tuesday evening 2 1 February 1 978. [More…]

• What was the title of his female assistant. [More…]

• Have some female employees had their duties increased to involve cleaning duties covering three floors instead of the previous two. [More…]

• Does discrimination exist between male and female service personnel attached to HMAS Penguin in relation to billeting facilities. [More…]

• Do female personnel reside in superior quarters at Bondi Beach Motel. [More…]

• Are both male and female service personnel in receipt of the same allowance. [More…]

• The definition of ‘wife’ in Section 18 of the Social Services Act includes a ‘dependent female’ so that a woman coming within the definition of a ‘dependent female’ is treated, for pension purposes, as if she were the legal wife of the claimant or pensioner. [More…]

• A ‘dependent female’ means a woman who has lived with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis, though not legally married to him. [More…]

• Every person proposing to board an aircraft departing from any of these aerodromes shall submit himself and his carry-on baggage to be searched by an employee of the operator of the aircraft on which he proposes to travel, a person authorised for that purpose by that operator, an officer of the Depanment of Transport, or a member of the Commonwealth Police or a police force of a State, in any case in which an employee of the operator or an officer of the Depanment of Transport requires in the interests of the safety of air navigation that all or any of the passengers proposing to travel on a particular aircraft departing from the aerodrome or their carry-on baggage should be searched, provided that a female shall not be searched except by a female.’ [More…]

• How many: (a) male; and (b) female Aborigines are enrolled (i) at each University and College of Advanced Education; and (ii) in each faculty at each university or college. [More…]

• What position is occupied by each female officer, in both the first and second divisions. [More…]

• Is it a fact that in the staff refreshment rooms yesterday a number of female employees from the Hansard staff were refused service because the only vacant tables had signs upon them stating Reserved for Attendants’? [More…]

• Initiations, male and female circumcisions, the promising of young girls in marriage to old men are all parts of traditional culture which are still practised in Aboriginal communities of the Territory but which, judged from Western eyes, are repugnant. [More…]

• Salary increases to certain female officers affected by Determination No. [More…]

• When a female voice comes screaming across the chamber it does not sound very dignified. [More…]

• I note that the female representation on the committee consists of Miss Pauline Griffin, Miss Joyce Henriott Miss Myra Lillywhite. [More…]

• There is completely indiscriminate slaughtering of the species regardless of whether the kangaroos are male or female and regardless of whether there is a joey in the pouch or at foot. [More…]

• For the purpose of assessing whether a person is entitled to receive subsidised medical insurance, payments made under the Social Services Act in relation to sheltered employment allowances and Commonwealth rehabilitation services, payments under section 9 of the Tuberculosis Act, and a service pension received by the spouse of a claimant or a pensioner where that claimant or pensioner is not in receipt of a service pension under the Act - in other words, a female former member of the forces in receipt of a service pension - is taken into account so far as income is concerned in assessing whether or not a person is entitled to receive subsidised assistance. [More…]

• We believe that this discriminates against those in the community who already are in need, the people who are receiving some form of sheltered employment allowance, people who are receiving a Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service training allowance, people who are receiving some form of assistance under the Tuberculosis Act and indeed a female who is in receipt of a social service pension where the spouse of a claimant or a pensioner is not in receipt of such pension. [More…]

• I refer to the worship of the female breast. [More…]

• I should think that, although no undertaking is given in the Bill, it would be obvious that trade union representation and representation of the interests of the female sec’ i hi of the community will be always at I1”’’ forefront of the Government’s concern. [More…]

• planci reproduces by external fertilisation following spawning of gametes into the water, lt has been calculated thai a female releases from 12 to 24 million in the breeding season which is believed to extend from mid-December to midJanuary. [More…]

• If one compares this position with the situation in the United Kingdom, one finds that in the United Kingdom 33% of full time male students and 39% of female students are in residence in colleges at universities. [More…]

• Are you aware that waitresses and other full time female staff employed in Parliament Mouse possess figures that compare more than favourably with any similar group of girls in any other establishment? [More…]

• 1 do not want us to have this gross exploitation of female workers in 1970. [More…]

• He was known to attack unions as dupes, but at the same time he argued fervently for equal pay for female public servants. [More…]

• (a female member of the Board receives $428 per annum less than her male counterpart) [More…]

• Are you aware that waitresses and other full time female staff employed in Parliament House possess figures that compare mora than favourably with any similar group of girls in any other establishment? [More…]

• The reply to this question is that in the past 12 months the stock of female staff uniforms held by the Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms has been allowed to run down in preparation for the purchase of new stocks. [More…]

• Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that at a ladies Liberal Party meeting this week Justice Roma Mitchell, Australia’s only female judge and a most distinguished feminist, warned that because of the continual increase in the cost of living all women in the very near future would have to .work to provide a second income? [More…]

• I went to female members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]

• I refer to the female shop assistants who work in the big retail stores whether it be David Jones or the other stores which are not battlers. [More…]

• During the past 3 years I first went to Mr McMahon and now I have gone to Mr Bury about female shop assistants in these stores who have to wear a set uniform. [More…]

• Because these people, both male and female, have no particular skills, in many instances it is impossible for the Department of Labour and National Service to find them a position. [More…]

• Did a doctor take undue liberties with a teenage female applicant during a medical examination at Calcutta; if so, have subsequent family groups been reluctant to have their daughters examined by this doctor. [More…]

• and (S) Neither the Department of Immigration nor the Australian Deputy High Commission, Calcutta, has any recollection of a complaint that a doctor performing medical examinations al Australia’s request, has taken undue liberties with a female teenage applicant. [More…]

• My view is that they should be subjects requiring immediate inquiry by fairly minded unbiased senators, male and female. [More…]

• Did Brian Ross answer the questions normally found necessary to ask to establish genuine conscientious beliefs, such as: ‘Would you forcibly stop an invader in your home threatening the female members of your family?’ [More…]

• I took the point that in this year of 1970 any female employees, particularly those v/ho worked beyond or after the spread of hours between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. obviously should have some adequate compensation for the hours they work. [More…]

• In this industry piece work rates are paid to female workers, and having in mind these problems and some of the work studies which have been carried out it is difficult always to be accurate.I know that the union went through the lengthy process of an award hearing before the Conciliation Commissioners. [More…]

• I want to relate the particular problem to female employees. [More…]

• This case concerns female migrants. [More…]

• I know that the unions have to be rather careful with the employers and that there is a lack of dialogue with the female employees because of language difficulties. [More…]

• I also believe that the long hours that are worked, particularly by some female staff, when this House is sitting are beyond their capacity. [More…]

• Referring to the payment of salaries and allowances and overtime, I should like to know whether it is true that in the month of May of this year the Department of Trade and Industry secured the services of Drake Overload agency and brought in female staff from outside the Department of Trade and Industry to work from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. at $2 per hour. [More…]

• Cooks - Male (having less than three years’ expereicne-$24.00perweek Cooks - Female (cooking for 10 persons or more) - In accordance with Station Hands’ Award [More…]

• Cooks - Female (having less than three years’ experience) (cooking for 10 persons or more) - $18.00 per week [More…]

• Domestic Servants - Female - [More…]

• These include a restructuring of officers’payandaflow on to them of the 9.5 per cent Public Service Third Division increases; considerable changes in the pay for other ranks in a significant number of Service employments; equal pay for female other ranks and substantial increases in the pay of female officers; and pay increases for service cadets, apprentices and the junior categories, medical and dental officers, chaplains, senior CMF officers and the Pacific Islanders. [More…]

• Mrs Lorna Gold was the supervisor in charge of all female staff in the dining rooms of the Refreshment Rooms, and in this capacity’ she was a familiar figure to all senators and members, as well as to the staff of the House. [More…]

• I have named deliberately, with the approval of Senator Hendrickson, a couple of trade union officials because the unions to which they belong have many female members. [More…]

• Apparently male and female migrants were particularly affected when isolation occurred, lt was established that early breakdowns occurred much more commonly amongst migrants who could speak little or no English. [More…]

• Whilst prescribing a maximum age of 65 years for male officers, female Commission’s officers may retire or be officers at the present time must retire on attaining the age of 60 years. [More…]

• This restriction on female officers is to be removed and, in cases suitable to the Commission an officer, male or female, who has attained the age of 65 years may continue in the Commission’s service for a period not exceeding 12 months. [More…]

• The Commission will also be given the right to extend the service of an officer, male or female, who has attained the age of 65 years, for another year, taking the officer to the age of 66 years. [More…]

• The situation is not dissimilar from that under which, in general, male lives pay a higher premium rate for Life Assurance than female lives. [More…]

• This does nol of course reflect any discrimination against the male but results solely from the fact that male lives experience higher mortality rates than female lives. [More…]

• In how many instances in each of the last 5 years has the Commission determined that there have been special circumstances making it desirable that a female officer upon marriage should continue in the service of the Commission, in accordance with section 33 (2) of the Act. [More…]

• Is he aware that the National Heart and Lung Institute had carried out studies on this matter - admittedly in a much shorter time - the results of which indicate that female rats on a polyunsaturated diet tended to have a very high incidence of cancer of the breast? [More…]

• Would anyone here say that there is not induced in a young female secretary a feeling of reasonable apprehension when the door of her office is burst open and when 28 or 30 louts threaten her that if she does not keep out of the way she might be hurt? [More…]

• 80 to $35 and, if an employee has dependants, that amount will be supplemented by an additional $8.50 for a dependent wife or female and $5 for each child, in lieu of the existing dependants’ allowances of $7.70 and $2.80, respectively. [More…]

• One of those honourable senators is a female; so I suppose we could say that she is the mother of the House. [More…]

• Under the system of the phased introduction of equal pay determined by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and applied in the Commonwealth Service, female Geophysicists are currently in receipt of 95 per cent of the appropriate male rate or $428 less than the appropriate male rate whichever is the higher salary. [More…]

• As from the beginning of the first pay, period commencing on or after 1st January 1972, female Geophysicists will receive the same rates of pay as male Geophysicists. [More…]

• Special commencing rates are provided in the Geophysicist Class 1 range for persons having completed a 3 year degree (currently $4099 male; $3894 female) and a 4 or 5 year degree course (currently $4466 male; $4243 female). [More…]

• At the same time, will the Minister discuss with Mr Jenks his interpretation of the policy of equal pay for the sexes, and as a convenient comparison make known to Mr Jenks the workload and responsibilities of female secretaries to members of the Commonwealth Parliament in order to ascertain whether such workers should qualify for equal pay in accordance with the ILO Convention? [More…]

• In addition, and included in the above costs, a position of Stenographer (Female), Grade 1 $3,043-$3,205, established in the Department’s general typing pool, is detached for full-time duties within the Public Relations Branch. [More…]

• What the honourable senator mixes up, of course, is that Prestige Ltd, a subsidiary of Dunlop Australia Ltd, refused to supply the Bourke’s ACTU store buyers with certain female wear unless a condition of resale was observed, namely, that the resale price would be the price that the Bourke’s ACTU store paid to Prestige Ltd - that is, the wholesale price, which included ali the overheads of manufacture! [More…]

• It goes further by providing that a female who does the same work as a man receives the same wage as a man. [More…]

• This is something that is urgently required not only in the field of which I am speaking now - the civilian aged person, male or female, who needs accommodation - but also in the field of the aged war widow. [More…]

• There are some 2 dozen female and a few male cleaners. [More…]

• Assistant Secretary, Level 1, Second Division Steno-Secretary (Female), Grade 1, (two positions) [More…]

• What consultation, if any, and subsequent supervision will be exercised by the Department of Immigration in relation to a scheme for female migrants apparently sponsored by the Australian Tourist Commission? [More…]

• Does not the Minister feel that this scheme smacks of a form of bondage for female domestic servants which would need a 1972 Caroline Chisholm to offset it? [More…]

• As Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat will he take pity on at least the female members of the Senate by telling us whether we can hope to finish this session before Christmas, or at least in time to get home to kill and cook the goose? [More…]

• Who would stand in the way of those who desire to wear shorts in order to show to the appreciative female audience which may gather that they have not reached the stage where they should appropriately retire from the Senate but that they are active and virile politicians? [More…]

• There has been a continuing high turnover of staff, because of both expanding opportunities for social workers in the government and voluntary bodies, and family responsibilities of female social workers. [More…]

• So far as Commonwealth Railways Is concerned the meeting was informed that with the possible exception of a few female car cleaners no good purpose would be served by transferring any other employees from Port Pirie provided there are no major alterations in existing timetables. [More…]

• This illustrates the importance of an industry such as this in absorbing those female migrants who come to Australia and who need avenues of employment of this kind. [More…]

• These are industries upon which so many of our other manufacturing industries are based or, in the case of textiles, these industries are the very basis of employment, particularly female employment in our community. [More…]

• On 9th March this year Senator Keeffe mentioned something that had happened to an Aboriginal female in my State of Queensland. [More…]

• I ask you, Mr Acting Deputy President, and honourable senators, whether a female of the age of 29 years could be regarded as a girl or as a woman. [More…]

• She was asked to lower the hemline of the skirt, as other members of the female community had done. [More…]

• The person reciting the incident could well depend upon the appearance of the female in stating whether she was a girl or a woman. [More…]

• I think it is nattering to say that a female of 29 or 30 is a girl. [More…]

• The special provisions relating to female officers who become pregnant in Division 5 of Part III of the Bill are similar to those applying elsewhere in Commonwealth employment. [More…]

• Female staff are receiving $17 a day and we are receiving $15 a day. [More…]

• The final paragraph of the Opposition’s amendment relates to accouchement leave - leave granted to female employees on account of pregnancy. [More…]

• But while I am on the subject - in view of reference to it in the debate - I wish to say a word about that provision in the hope that what I say will serve to clarify in the briefest form the situation under this Bill with regard to the entitlement of female teachers who require leave because, of pregnancy. [More…]

• The position is that this Bill adopts the provisions of the Public Service Act which we introduced in 1966 and which enabled married female, officers to be appointed as permanent officers. [More…]

• The provision was then made which permitted a female married officer who became pregnant to take leave without pay. [More…]

• Can the AttorneyGeneral inform the Senate the minimum age established in Commonwealth law below which charges of carnal knowledge can be lodged against a male for engaging in sexual relations with the consent of the female partner? [More…]

• The dissent relates to the question of the eligibility of unmarried male and female members of the Services to pass on rights to others on the same basis as married male personnel can pass them on to their dependants under the existing scheme and will be able to do under the proposed scheme. [More…]

• Certain persons were forced, perhaps by the circumstances of the industry, to pay a higher wage than other persons who could get cheap labour because they had access to female labour in large quantities and so could pay less. [More…]

• In addition there is also the crime of carnal knowledge where a male person, boy or adult, has sexual intercourse with a female below the age of consent. [More…]

• It concerned the dismissal of 2 female cleaners employed by the Australian Watching Co. Pty Ltd. As this is a matter of urgency, I ask whether the Minister has been able to get the information? [More…]

• To remove the unfair stigma that was placed on all Latin American female migrants, will the Minister consider the creation of an immigration inquiries tribunal similar to that which has operated in Canada for the past 5 years so that an accused person facing deportation may produce a witness to refute allegations? [More…]

• The honourable senator did not say whether the photograph depicted a female gun carrying model or a male gun carrying model. [More…]

• Have 2 female cleaners employed by the Australian Watching Company, one with 6 years service and the other 4 years service, been given notice, to take effect on 1st September 1972, because of a directive from Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Pty Ltd to the Australian Watching Company that economies have to be made before there will be any consideration of renewal of the contract for security and cleaning duties. [More…]

• As a result, the services of 2 of the 5 female cleaners employed by AWC Ltd at the station were no longer required. [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, ls the Minister aware that a significant number of employers in New South Wales have stated that they are experiencing great difficulty in recruiting labour, both male and female, skilled and unskilled, in both city and country areas? [More…]

• A similar situation exists with the Immigration Publicity Council which currently has no female members. [More…]

• The next in line has always been able to come to the throne at the age of 18 in the United Kingdom, male or female. [More…]

• That is what the Labor Party thought of female representation. [More…]

• In overseas branch offices, Qantas employs 44 male expatriate Australian managers or company representatives, 36 locally engaged male managers or company representatives and one locally engaged female company representative (in Madrid). [More…]

• Today young people, whether male or female, leave home at an early age and look after themselves. [More…]

• Will the Minister examine the contents of such a circular which claims that female employees in the Commonwealth Public Service performing the work of typists, secretaries, accounting machinists, etc., are in receipt of a lower wage than clerical assistants who, it is claimed, are not as highly skilled as members of the Keyboard Action Group? [More…]

• and (2) There are 2 female members of the National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]

• There is nothing to prevent these organisations nominating a female representative, although only one has done so. [More…]

• Similarly a female occupant of one of the Government positions would automatically be the member of Council. [More…]

• Most importantly, they revealed that child care facilities had not kept pace with the rapid growth in the female labour force during the 1960s, and that, as a consequence, existing child care facilities were inadequate, qualitatively and quantitatively, for the growing numbers of children needing them. [More…]

• A dependent spouse of a female member or pensioner will be entitled to pension on her death. [More…]

• Weekly payments under any of the preceding sub-sections of this section are not payable to a widow or other female dependant, or dependent widower (as the case may be) of a deceased employee after her or his marriage after the death of the employee, but, if immediately before the injury or death of the employee, the widow or other dependent female or dependent widower (as the case may be) was wholly, substantially or partly dependent upon the employee’s earnings, a lump sum equal to the total of one hundred and four weekly payments, at the rate payable to her or him immediately before her or his marriage, is payable to her or him upon her or his marriage. [More…]

• It is a very illuminating report and describes in detail many of the background problems associated with the female staffing of hospitals in the nursing sphere in my State. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the final report of the Committee of Inquiry into Financial Terms and Conditions of Service for Male and Female Members of the Regular Armed Forces. [More…]

• Does the Government intend to implement that part of its policy speech which provides that female employees of the Commonwealth Public Service shall receive maternity leave with full pay and benefits for 6 weeks before and 6 weeks after confinement? [More…]

• Because separate total income figures are not shown for males and females on pay-roll tax forms, estimates of average weekly earnings are calculated on the basis of ‘employed male units’, i.e. [More…]

• total male employment plus a proportion of female employment. [More…]

• This proportion is determined by the estimated ratio of female to male earnings. [More…]

• Clause 4 of the Bill amends section 23 to provide that the term ‘wife’ shall include a dependent female. [More…]

• Therefore, subject to a dependent female satisfying the conditions of eligibility under clause 4 of the amending Bill, she may be paid a pension at the same time as the legal wife. [More…]

• Information comes to me from another source that among these people were a large number of terrified young female typists who were weeping and wailing and upset, not knowing what the local version of the Mafia was doing. [More…]

• At the end of February 1973, only 4 males and 1 female were in receipt of unemployment benefit for the whole of the Renmark C.E.S. [More…]

• Two cases have come to my knowledge in which the persons thus implicated were entirely innocent of the adultery alleged, one of them having been named by a female petitioner purely out of spite. [More…]

• 1 invite the Senate, to realise that when a petition is served on a respondent today - male or female - that respondent has absolutely no knowledge, except by a couple of staccato words, what the ground for divorce will be and is denied natural justice. [More…]

• The man who committed the crime jumped the train and succeeded in evading the police for some time, until he was apprehended in New South Wales masquerading as a female. [More…]

• lt also provides for war service homes benefits to be granted to certain unmarried female persons with qualifying service under the Act. [More…]

• The proposed extension of eligibility to unmarried female persons who have qualifying service under the Act is designed primarily to benefit single and widowed nurses and exservicewomen without dependants who served overseas with the forces in the 1939-45 war. [More…]

• However, we consider that there is a strong case on the social welfare grounds for exempting female persons with qualifying service under the Act from this requirement. [More…]

• A provision has also been included which will empower the Direc tor to grant a maximum repayment term of 50 years to all female dependants as defined in the Act who are eligible for assistance under the Act. [More…]

• I am sure all honourable senators will agree that any person, male or female, over the age of 18 years should today be able to marry without the necessity of obtaining his or her parents’ consent. [More…]

• For the concessions granted to single or widowed female members of the forces without dependents be granted also to single or widowed male members of the forces without dependants. [More…]

• Under the Act the minimum age at which a person may marry is 18 years for males and 16 years for females. [More…]

• However, a judge or a magistrate in a State but only a judge in a Territory, if he is satisfied that the circumstances of the case are so exceptional or unusual as to justify his doing so, may authorise a male between 16 years and 18 years of age or a female between 14 and 16 years to marry a particular person of marriageable age. [More…]

• The proposed legislation will entitle female officers and employees to at least 12 weeks maternity leave on full pay. [More…]

• 5m in relation to women employed under the Public Service Act and $800,000 in relation to other female Government employees. [More…]

• Provision is also made for benefits to be payable to widowers of serving and retired female members on the same basis as widows of serving and retired male members. [More…]

• Some of the other features of the new scheme are: Commutation of retirement pay will be a right for members who retired after 1 October 1972, subject only to applications for commutation being made within one year of retirement or such longer period as may be necessary in special circumstances; management of the scheme is to be vested in a statutory authority on which all the Services will be represented; reversionary benefits will be extended to de facto widows and the member’s illegitimate children in certain circumstances, and dependent widowers of female members; the rates of pension payable in respect of children and orphans will be increased and, provided they are receiving full time education at a school, college or university, will continue in payment until age 25 years; invalidity pay will no longer be subject to suspension solely on account of earnings from civil employment; a contributing or recipient member may, if he is dissatisfied with a decision of the authority in relation to invalidity classification or any other matter of general administration of the Act, have his case referred to an invalidity classification review tribunal or an administrative review tribunal, as appropriate, for hearing and decision. [More…]

• The Maternity Leave (Australian Government Employees) Bill seeks to grant to female officers and employees at least 12 weeks maternity leave on full pay. [More…]

• A condition is that the female employee must be re-employed in her previous position or in a position at a level as near as possible to the position held by her at the commencement of maternity leave. [More…]

• The Government forgets all but the female employee in the Commonwealth Public Service who, from a variety of circumstances - this Bill covers the lot - has the experience of maternity. [More…]

• In short, within a few years we will see this required of employers not only by the female personnel but also by the male personnel of their staffs. [More…]

• They will have to be prepared to provide approximately $1,200 to the most menial female employee if she becomes pregnant. [More…]

• So, instead of getting 3 months maternity leave, such a female employee would get 4 months maternity leave. [More…]

• The Bill refers to ‘a female employee who has become pregnant’. [More…]

• This is in pursuance of a view which I held in relation to unmarried male and female members of public superannuation schemes whether it is this scheme, the Commonwealth Public Service superannuation scheme or the parliamentary superannuation scheme andI disclosed my interest in my dissenting report in terms. [More…]

• The amendment which I shall present is one which sets out to provide that unmarried male and female contributors to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund would have some entitlements to pass on in succession to a surviving mother, brother, sister or child, particularly if dependent, in the same way as can a married man in the Services in relation to his surviving widow and children. [More…]

• That one surviving parent of an unmarried contributing or recipient member, male or female, or if there is no such, a surviving sister or brother of such deceased member be entitled to receive the amount of annuity prescribed in recommendation 15 (a) and (b) as if such person were the widow. [More…]

• Excluding unmarried service personnel below the age of 26 years (most of whom will marry or leave the Services) and presuming that those above the age of 45 years will not marry - on the figures in the First and Second Schedules 13.6 per cent of female personnel in that category will continue in the Service unmarried until retirement, but only 9.4 per cent of male personnel in the same category. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that yesterday in the course of debate on the defence forces retirement benefits scheme I moved an amendment to the second reading to project the same principle in relation to male and female unmarried members of the defence forces. [More…]

• This Bill will make certain extensions of benefits to surviving widowers of female members of the Parliament, a proposition with which I think in justice we must agree, and also provides for extended benefits such as portability to those who come from other Parliaments and it provides benefits to some members already on superannuation who have married or remarried. [More…]

• I know, as other honourable senators will know, of 2 former female members of this (Parliament who are in this position. [More…]

• This is particularly so in these days in relation to female members when there is a growing acknowledgment of the equality of rights of males and females. [More…]

• Senator Byrne mentioned 2 former female members of this place, although he was a bit afraid to give their names. [More…]

• The husbands of married female members of the Parliament will receive the same benefits on the deaths of their wives as do the widows of deceased married male members. [More…]

• I use the term - a surplus of labour’ because it has been a fact particularly in some light industries which employ female migrants. [More…]

• My criticism here is not of the former Government but of some State governments which have in some cases failed to provide toilet facilities for female employees. [More…]

• Over the years in the Rhodes area of the electorate of Lowe- the electorate of a former Prime Minister- a number of Italian people came to me about female employees and conditions at a certain establishment. [More…]

• They have a large percentage of female members. [More…]

• It has been stated that this implies a marked increase in the labour force participation rates and that this will be achieved only by greater female participation. [More…]

• Child care centres are undoubtedly essential if there is to be greater female participation in the workforce. [More…]

• We have 13 weeks maternity leave granted to female public servants before and after their confinement, with the same intention on the part of the Government that this standard should apply throughout the community. [More…]

• I do not know how one can deal with this kind of endeavour by an organisation to use female beauty except perhaps by countering with the winner of a more recent Miss Australia quest. [More…]

• Another matter of growing importance which should be determined by our conciliation and arbitration court relates to the female section of the work force which is showing growing interest and influence. [More…]

• He refers to a white female academic who is carrying out research into some of these matters. [More…]

• A further aspect that is open to possible criticism is that the refreshment rooms will be placed in the position of requiring its female staff to work over a period of 12 hours a day and though this occurs on some occasions at present it is intermittent and not the regular occurrence that it would be under the new arrangement. [More…]

• Let us assume that that man’s wife is working and receiving a modest salary for female labour these days. [More…]

• When I had the temerity at the suggestion of a number of ethnic groups to name the Pheonix Insurance Co. in Sydney for its dilatory attitude and for exploiting female ethnic groups in the clothing industry and the office cleaning industry, I got action through Senator Murphy. [More…]

• We successfully supported the extension of the minimum wage to adult females. [More…]

• No longer may the Government advertise for a male clerk or for a female clerk but must advertise for a person who can do the job. [More…]

• But that applies only to a small portion of the female work force and of the potential work force. [More…]

• This attitude goes back to schools where teachers with the best will in the world sometimes believe that while a male has to earn his living a female will get married and does not need to do so. [More…]

• I extend to Senator Guilfoyle, who is the most experienced of the female senators, my congratulation on her appointment to the shadow Ministry. [More…]

• On 16 October 1970, the Minister for Defence informed the Parliament that the Government had decided to appoint this Committee of Inquiry into Financial Terms and Conditions of Service for Male and Female members of the Regular Armed Forces. [More…]

• What uniform is to be considered appropriate by M/s Reid for female Foreign Affairs officers? [More…]

• He talked about a female journalist calling out, presumably in English, to this young Russian as he emerged from an hotel and asking whether he wished to return to Russia and his answering ‘No’. [More…]

• It was disclosed in an evening newspaper that among the associates of Mr Ermolenko in Western Australia there may have been a female companion. [More…]

• The Press indicated that Mr Ermolenko may have wanted female companionship. [More…]

• No matter what country Mr Ermolenko may have been in, female companionship there may have been better than playing the violin in Moscow. [More…]

• As the majority of the people concerned are from the textile industry and in consequence are female, what specific types of alternative employment are planned for the people in those areas? [More…]

• Provisional approval has been given for a project in the municipality of Beaconsfield, Launceston, for a project costing $32,000 which involves the use of female labour in painting. [More…]

• Again in Launceston, provisional approval has been given for the employment of female labour at the council chambers at a cost of $4,500. [More…]

• Female contributors are discriminated against. [More…]

• There are accusations too that a number of female prisoners in this gaol have been bashed by male warders. [More…]

• One of the reasons is that female warders will not stay in the place. [More…]

• It is a very amusing book which introduced us for the first time, in English fiction at least, to the occupation of the professional co-respondent- the person, be it male or female, who was available for a fee to establish, complete with private detectives, photographs and so on, instant proof of the commission of adultery. [More…]

• For example, each of us understands, whether we are men or women in terms of our genetic make-up, that we are caught in a situation in which we see our functioning in terms of our being male or female. [More…]

• I am not aware of whether any special facilities are provided for the female senators. [More…]

• If the female senators wish separate facilities to be provided, no doubt they will make application to the President. [More…]

• As the Senate will know these devices are small pieces of material which are inserted inside the womb of a female to prevent the birth of children. [More…]

• Female contributors are discriminated against. [More…]

• It states that a needs test is applied to the female spouse, the test being that if the spouse is healthy enough and has no child responsibilities, upon dissolution there is no maintenance and she shall go out and look after herself. [More…]

• Under clause 5 1 the dissolution can put the female spouse in a situation in which, to maintain herself, she goes into semi-skilled or unskilled occupations and is forced by this intended law to live at a level which she surely does not deserve. [More…]

• What concerns me further is the fact that although male senators are under some restriction as to what they are allowed to wear in this chamber, female senators appear to be under no restriction because if I look to my right tonight I can see a newly elected female senator, Senator Coleman, dressed in what I would describe as an open-neck shirt. [More…]

• I think effect was given to it by an English judge in a case a few years ago involving a so-called marriage between an undoubted male and a female who had been the subject of a sex change operation. [More…]

• The banks will endeavour to use their allocation under the Act so as to achieve as high a proportion as practicable of their total housing loan approvals under this scheme to persons earning less than $150 per week, and will continue not to make any distinction between male and female applicants in the approval of housing loans. [More…]

• It is doled out every day from the post office by the Aboriginal postmaster and his Aboriginal female assistant. [More…]

• Would you say that it was the great national social gossip question concerning a female government employee’s flat that brought those people into the Press gallery? [More…]

• There are 2 Aborigines on the Loans Commission- Mr Bruce McGuinness, who was a nominee of the National Aboriginal Congress, and a female Aboriginal from one of the northern towns of Queensland where she is a member of the local shire council. [More…]

• The substantial increase in female award rates had its effect on female intensive industries, ‘ Mr Cameron said. [More…]

• A union delegate died and the union had no delegate from the depot which had engaged new female workers working on the installation at the hospital. [More…]

• As the clothing manufacturing industry is one of the largest employers of female labour and local manufacturing is dependent on some supplies of imported raw materials, it is essential that all facts are placed before the IAC. [More…]

• Is it true that in the past there were few opportunities for female journalists to obtain overseas posts within the Australian Information Service? [More…]

• -When I became the Minister for the Media in 1972 and took over responsibility for the Australian Information Service I learned that there were then about 3 female journalists in the employ of the Information Service. [More…]

• I might say that on my tour throughout Asia I was distressed to find that there were no female journalists in the employ of the Australian Information Service in Asia, and I have asked my Department to look at that matter to see whether it can be corrected in the near future. [More…]

• Further to the question that I asked yesterday, the answer to which revealed that a female journalist had been posted overseas to work for the Australian Information Service, can the Minister tell me whether this person was asked prior to her appointment how her husband felt about the appointment and whether he would be able to find work in the country to which she was being posted, as has happened in other Australian government departments? [More…]

• Frankly, all I know is that I asked that a female officer of my Department be sent to an overseas post. [More…]

• A female employee who marries is required to resign and apply for reappointment to a temporary position even though she does not need to stop work. [More…]

• A female employee who marries and has to rejoin the Board as a new employee- despite no break in continuity of her work- is not eligible for annual leave until completion of 12 months service. [More…]

• What action has the Minister taken in the face of my recent report to him in which I sought a joint Australian-New South Wales arbitration inspection blitz on Sydney office contract cleaning companies which are exploiting their largely migrant female work force? [More…]

• The little slip of paper distinctly stated that the signature of a female would not be accepted unless it was the signature of the widowed parent of the student. [More…]

• We do not see female clerks of the Senate. [More…]

• I do not know whether any females have applied to be clerks of the Senate. [More…]

• There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ. [More…]

• -There is no distinction between persons who can be classified as veterans, whether they are male or female. [More…]

• The only thing I can say is that if any person is a veteran, male or female, the benefits or otherwise are the same. [More…]

• The show apparently has resulted from a women’s workshop program within the ABC which has been designed to give any female ABC staff member a chance to participate in all aspects of program making. [More…]

• I am told by the Commission that 2 female staff employees have been seconded from their usual work to co-ordinate the project and that they will be travelling to other States to encourage women to form similar workshops elsewhere. [More…]

• 7 of 1966 with respect to the amount of wages that may be attached under garnishee proceedings whereby if a judgment of a court of the Territory is enforced a male debtor may be left with only $23 a week and a female debtor with only $15.25 a week. [More…]

• What number of people are employed by this scheme, both male and female? [More…]

• I am already on record as having said that there will be no discriminatory practices in relation to recruiting female staff to all levels of the AGIC. [More…]

• Whether the member-contributor is male or female is entirely irrelevant. [More…]

• A motion was passed at the meeting of the Joint House Committee on 1 7 May 1 973 in relation to female attendants in King’s Hall. [More…]

• On the Motion of Mr Bourchier, seconded by Dr Jenkins it was resolved- That action be taken to appoint two female Attendants Grade 1, on the staff of the Joint House Department, to work in the King’s Hall area and to be available in particular, to provide assistance to female visitors. [More…]

• After the opening of the bookshop, we had 2 female attendants in King’s Hall and a lady member of the staff to look after the bookshop. [More…]

• That action be taken to appoint two female Attendants Grade 1, . [More…]

• to work in the King’s Hall area and to be available in particular, to provide assistance to female visitors’. [More…]

• and asked why a female attendant was now on duty in King’s Hall only on three days per week. [More…]

• The document is headed: ‘Joint House Committee: Female Attendants- King’s Hall’. [More…]

• On 13 May 1973 the Joint House Committee resolved that two Female Attendants should be appointed to work in the King’s Hall for the particular purpose of assisting female visitors to the building. [More…]

• Because the work in the Bookshop was also suited to females, and because it was economic in the use of staff, two full-time and one part-time Attendants were employed to staff both functions. [More…]

• This provided a staff of females that were inter-changeable, which had administrative advantages, and who serviced both the King’s Hall post and the Bookshop on 7 days per week. [More…]

• This arrangement worked quite satisfactorily but though public interest in the Bookshop increased all the time, reports were that enquiries made by the public of the female Attendant in the King’s Hall were not except at peak periods such as sitting days, public holidays, etc. [More…]

• This action is now in hand and it is anticipated that the permanent appointment of this female Attendant will soon be possible which will then also make it possible for an appointment to be made to the position she will vacate. [More…]

• The other point I would like to make, for which I feel partly responsible, relates to the provision of an information officer and a female attendant- separately from the bookshop- who can look after the tourists. [More…]

• Egan said that I should work from Egan’s home-unit at 9 Cook Street Glebe which I would use as an office and he would supply me with a female clerk to attend to secretarial work. [More…]

• Did the report allude to an association between maternal treatment with Stilboestrol and the development of cancer of the vagina in young female offspring. [More…]

• This disability exclusion is not to be construed as being selective on the basis of ‘female disorders’ but this complaint stands in the same situation as, say, a heart attack, i.e., having suffered once a person almost invariably will suffer further attacks. [More…]

• There is possibly a fair proportion of the male population who have or could develop some disability relating to the prostrate gland, but the insurance company does not consider that worthy of the endorsements or discriminatory clauses that apply to female disorders. [More…]

• in the case of a female, caused wholly or in part through childbirth, abortion or pregnancy (even though accelerated or induced by accident). [More…]

• I wonder how many of the male doctors sitting on the Opposition benches are concerned at the discrimination against their female counterparts. [More…]

• Would they consider, even though their counterparts are female, that they are still second rate citizens and not entitled to equality? [More…]

• I find it even more astounding when considering the figure with which I have already provided the Senate which shows that more than 50 per cent of the entire population are female. [More…]

• Advertisement for Female Attendant [More…]

• Also in this same connection I can say that approval has also been given to increase the number of female attendants to allow the information desk in King’s Hall to be staffed on 7 days per week and until 10 p.m. on all sitting nights. [More…]

• However, having completed this they decided while in the area to paint the adjacent female toilet which though it took only two half days caused some inconvenience and should not have been attempted. [More…]

• The number of female toilets provided in the wings added to the building in recent years is considered to be adequate for the occupancy in these areas but this is not true of the main block where, in general, and on the main floor level in particular, facilities are inadequate. [More…]

• I have given thought to the suggestion made by Senator Coleman concerning the toilets at the rear of the Senate chamber and in order to alleviate the problem mentioned by the Senator I have given approval for one of the existing male toilets being converted for female usage. [More…]

• Dozens were deported or executed for complaining about wages, prices, theft, the inhuman Soviet labour code, the abolition of safetyprecautions, the reintroduction of female labour in the mines and the general brutality of the invaders towards the entire population. [More…]

• Female unemployment is far worse, being already up to 6 per cent. [More…]

• Female unemployment at the moment is far worse. [More…]

• She was allowed to buy her first drink in the saloon bar and, as she was served by a female bar attendant, she was told that she could have that drink but any further drinks would need to be purchased in the lounge; that she was in a men’s domain and her presence was not required. [More…]

• As far as I can ascertain the only crime that Mrs Anstee had committed was that she was a female and that she was drinking in a male domain. [More…]

• They might have thought that the following Saturday afternoon women would go to the saloon bar of the Stop and Rest Hotel; decide to stay there; refuse to leave and not go into the lounge where they would be required to pay more; and have a sit down strike especially as the female bar attendant who would serve them had had the audacity under instructions, presumably from the licensee, to request that another member of her sex leave the house or that part of the house. [More…]

• Until that time no female journalist in the employ of the Australian Information Service under the previous Government had been posted abroad. [More…]

• A female citizen who lives in Perth wrote subsequently to Mr Singleton expressing her interest. [More…]

• However, attention has recently been drawn to anomalies arising from the fact that the definition of dependent female in sections 18 and 106 of the Social Services Act relate only to de facto relationships of 3 years’ duration. [More…]

• It is payable, subject to a means test, to a veteran who served in a theatre of war and is aged 60 years or over- 55 years if a female- or who is permanently unemployable, or, irrespective of the area of service, suffers from pulmonary tuberculosis. [More…]

• We know that female senators can enter this chamber in sleeveless gowns and low cut frocks and no objection is raised. [More…]

• I object to there being any discrimination between male senators and female senators. [More…]

• I do not want a rule to be brought in to compel a female senator to do the same and to comply with the same standards with which we have to comply. [More…]

• So I ask you, Mr President, if you would give serious consideration to allowing honourable senators to come into the chamber, not necessarily wearing shorts- that might be something that would have to be put to a test- but allowing them, if they so desire, at least to come into the chamber coatless so that they can be a little more comfortable, just as the female senators can be when they take their place in this chamber. [More…]

• I refer to the female migrant in a hospital kitchen or perhaps a motel kitchen. [More…]

• I do not know of the new senator to whom Senator Mulvihill refers, but I suggest that whether it be a male or female senator, he or she should resign before he or she gets frustrated with the things which have to happen and which do happen in this place. [More…]

• This, of course, is irrespective of whether the spouse and parent is the male of the species or the female of the species. [More…]

• The same inquiry revealed that 20 per cent of all female full year full time workers earned below $2,500 per annum in 1973. [More…]

• In 1971 only 27 per cent of students engaged in post school study of any kind, that is tertiary or technical, were female. [More…]

• Viewed historically, the recent high rate of female participaation in the work force cannot be regarded as a temporary phenomenon. [More…]

• High female work force rates have occurred frequently throughout Australia’s history. [More…]

• In August 1 975 the average female weekly earnings were only 74 per cent of the average male weekly earnings. [More…]

• To begin with, the female of the human race is biologically the one to bear and nurture children. [More…]

• We need to be alert to opportunities to increase the freedom of all Australians, including our female citizens, to choose without exploitation the style of life that they want. [More…]

• For instance, married female employees have only temporary status and there is no way in which those females who are married can ever become permanent. [More…]

• A female employee who marries is required to resign and apply for reappointment to a temporary position even though she does not need to stop work. [More…]

• A female employee who marries and has to rejoin the Board as a new employee is not eligible for annual leave until the completion of a further 12 months service, despite the fact that there has been no break in the continuity of her work. [More…]

• This occurs in respect of deserted husbands and single male parent families, as well as single female parent families. [More…]

• The Taxation Act states that male taxpayers are allowed to claim for a female housekeeper whereas female taxpayers are not. [More…]

• I am just as concerned about male and female partners in a marriage who at some stage have to employ a housekeeper. [More…]

• On a number of occasions it is the female who is going out to support the family. [More…]

• The same situation in regard to female sterilisation applies today as it did then. [More…]

• Female sterilisation is performed by a competent and legally qualified gynaecologist on medical grounds only; the decision being made after full consultation in which it is ensured that the patient and husband are fully aware of the implications of the operation and with the written consent of both of them. [More…]

• She was told: We are getting too many female graduates in this course and, therefore, we are limiting the number of girls we are allowing into second year’. [More…]

• It is the province of the public to decide whether there are too many female graduates and then perhaps to come to some conclusion. [More…]

• These are the sort of funeral benefits schemes which people who are now of an age when they are really worrying about who will bury them enter into: They pay out $60 on the death of a male, $30 for the death of a wife- obviously, it costs less to bury a woman than it does a man- and $30 on the death of an unmarried female. [More…]

• Cancer Institute in the United States in 1945, stating that hepatomas had been induced in female mice by feeding them chloroform over a four month period. [More…]

• Also, is it a fact that any female worker on the Island cannot earn any more in the whole of her lifetime than 9 rupiah a week? [More…]

• There is another aspect of the legislation I would commend, and that is that it equalises the position of male and female contributors to the scheme. [More…]

• It recognises that the female public servant should have superannuation benefits in exactly the same way as a male public servant has. [More…]

• The Bill also provides for a break in service for the female public servant if she wishes to withdraw from the work force for a number of years to have children. [More…]

• A further point that Senator Wright makes is that it is true also that the spouse of a female pensioner living with her at the time of her death would under the new scheme obtain a pension notwithstanding that he was a millionaire and had a substantial income in his own right. [More…]

• There is no distinction between the eligibility conditions applying to a spouse of a deceased female pensioner of contributor and a deceased male pensioner or contributor respectively. [More…]

• ) Which banks enforce different rates of (a) interest and (b) reduced interest for the purchase of a first home as between male and female staff members. [More…]

• The statistics maintained under the program have not to date differentiated between male and female workers, but it has been estimated that women make up approximately 33 per cent of migrants enrolled in courses in Victoria. [More…]

• We will be back to the stage where the Government will demand that the female in every married couple will go on the pill for 5 years so that the married couple can cope with repayments by having 2 incomes. [More…]

• I ask: has any inquiry been made into newspaper and radio reports of recent days on the matter of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s recruiting and using a young female student in Adelaide to spy, inform and pimp on her fellow students? [More…]

• It took a Liberal federal government to embark upon significant redistribution of income from the male spouse to the female spouse, that is, redistribution of income to the mother to help her with her responsibilities for supporting the family. [More…]

• I heard in a female voice on my right the words: ‘What about some order?’. [More…]

• I assure the honourable senator that the requirement for a female breadwinner would be no different from the requirement for a male breadwinner. [More…]

• Previously we have had debates in this place on the family allowance, and that is important to the Australian female consumer. [More…]

• There were 20 State police, 4 Customs agents- they would have been authorised by a senior Commonwealth public servant or an Australian Government Minister- 3 narcotic agents in respect of whom I do not know whether they were State or federal agents, and 2 female police. [More…]

• That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to the fairly recent promotions of some female officers in the Australian defence forces to senior posts. [More…]

• You, Madam Acting Deputy President, would know something of what female migrants have to put up with in some of our clothing factories. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a pay rate differential of 20 per cent still exists between male and female Army officers? [More…]

• However I shall pass on to him Senator Missen ‘s question about the discrepancy, which does appear to be revealed in the question, between the pay of male and female members of the defence forces. [More…]

• She also indicated that of female prisoners, 64 per cent were Aboriginal. [More…]

• Although the female work force had grown much faster than the male work force over the nine year period, in recent times between June, 197S and June, 1976, the female workforce did not expand at all, while the male work force grew by 5000 or by 2 per cent. [More…]

• I am talking about female unemployment. [More…]

• Female unemployment in the 15 years to 19 years age group has increased from 8.22 per cent to 17.19 per cent while male unemployment in the same age group has increased from 10.12 per cent to 17.54 per cent. [More…]

• Let me refer to the largely female work force in the non-skilled section of the Electrical Trades Union- the girls who do the PABX wiring with soldering irons. [More…]

• I know that my particularly knowledgeable colleague on female employment, Senator Ruth Coleman, would agree with me on this matter. [More…]

• Tasmania is a State where there has been high female employment. [More…]

• That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]

• So the young girl rang the Department- either she or her mother rang- and spoke to a female officer, who was quite pleasant. [More…]

• Has the Minister received any complaints from female public servants who have to carry the can on behalf of people who are enjoying maternity leave, particularly because of Public Service ceiling restrictions? [More…]

• Has she considered reviewing the maternity leave provisions to ensure that female employees in the Public Service are able to attract that leave but only after, say, a qualifying period in the Public Service? [More…]

• He also proposes that there be a new increased intake into the Police Academy, that there be a scholarship scheme for cadets in social welfare, female secretaryship, and so on. [More…]

• I know Senator Lajovic will probably smile at this but there is a burning question as to whether our officers in Canberra delegate too much authority to the female staff. [More…]

• That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]

• Would not such a provision be treated as an upper limit and thus prevent more than 2 able women being appointed to the Commission; or is the provision merely a strategy to enable the Government to sack the staff representative, Marius Webb, and replace him with a partisan female appointment, while making a transparently token gesture towards equality of the sexes? [More…]

• That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]

• In 1965 eligibility was extended to include certain former female members. [More…]

• However a former female member, unlike her male counterpart, is required to have served or been liable to serve overseas on active service and also to have a dependant for whom it is necessary for her to maintain a home. [More…]

• These conditions in practice render many former female members ineligible. [More…]

• As there is no overseas active service condition under the Act for former male members, the Government considers it would be appropriate to remove the distinction between former male and female members in this respect. [More…]

• The Government also considers that the eligibility condition for a former female member to have a dependant should be removed. [More…]

• The Minister would be aware of reports regarding a stripper- female- jumping from a giant cake as part of some celebration by Liberal members in the private dining room of Parliament House. [More…]

• The defence of the person involved was that the Customs people had used a female decoy. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• What proportion was (a) male and (b) female. [More…]

• Between 30.7.76 and 30.9.76 the CES received requests from the Darling Downs Co-operative for Adult Male, Junior Male and Junior Female Factory Hands. [More…]

• I am not a hysterical female who suddenly and off the top of her head decides that she must get in on the public debate which is taking place about the tapping of telephones. [More…]

• This, of course, is irrespective of whether the spouse and parent is the male of the species or the female of the species. [More…]

• We all know that in industries such as this there is a rapid turnover of the work force, which is composed largely of female workers who are hardly in a position to indulge in agitation for better conditions. [More…]

• unemployment is not, in the immediate sense, a common problem’, it strikes selectively, and most commonly at those most vulnerable to social and economic disruption- the unskilled and semi-skilled, the female school-leavers, the poor, the marginal workforce members, the Aborigines and so on. [More…]

• Inter-related issues arising from smaller families, higher female workforce participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the stress within employment markets on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, changing life-styles etc., are impacting on youth in complex ways that deserve more careful attention than they appear to have been receiving in the past. [More…]

• I take as an illustration a female textile worker in Korea who starts work at 7 o’clock in the morning and works through to 7 o’clock in the evening, with no more than half an hour for lunch and 4 days a year as holidays if she is lucky, all for the petty sum of $7.50 a week. [More…]

• In May 1976, 6 per cent of the female labour force, as against 3.9 per cent of the male labour force, was registered as unemployed. [More…]

• This would apply particularly to members of the female work force; undoubtedly it would apply to those in the printing industry. [More…]

• A big percentage of employees in the semi-skilled area are female operatives. [More…]

• being a female, has not attained the age of sixty years: [More…]

• This poor careers advice has been particularly poor in the case of female students. [More…]

• The whale catcher licences are subject to the same conditions and to further conditions, preventing the use of the catchers to take sperm whales measuring more than 13.7 metres in waters north of 40 S or to take sperm whales after the Company’s quota (508 males, 116 females) is achieved. [More…]

• In addition under section 10 of the Whaling Act Whaling Notice No.1 prohibits the taking or killing of female sperm whales accompanied by calves or suckling whales and Whaling Notice No. [More…]

• I understand that he suffered head injuries, that he reported to a traffic policeman and was taken to hospital overnight, that he is now discharged from hospital and that it is alleged by a witness- I think I heard the voice of a female witness on AM- that the attackers carried Eureka banners. [More…]

• The labour content is substantially female and there is a big turnover in the work force. [More…]

• He said that he wanted to get away from America, amongst other reasons, because he was worried that his son- then eight or nine years of age- might be corrupted by female negroes when he grew up and he did not want that sort of thing. [More…]

• For example: an officer may be entitled to transfer to the Appendix or Unattached List because of the nature of future employment there may be medical grounds that suggest invalidity retirement may be warranted transfer to another department might be considered the grant of Leave Without Pay may be appropriate a female officer on marriage may have an entitlement under section 54C (see G.0. [More…]

• That 38.6 per cent of female heads of families work and of these 64 per cent have dependent children. [More…]

• has attained the age of sixteen years but, being a male, has not attained the age of sixty-five years or, being a female, has not attained the age of sixty years; [More…]

• has attained the age of sixteen years but, being a male, has not attained the age of sixty-five years or, being a female, has not attained the age of sixty years; [More…]

• The proportion of female stock slaughtered has reached a record SO per cent of total adult slaughterings, the highest for over a decade. [More…]

• In the meantime the nomadic female workers from the company have scattered all over Australia and it will be an insurmountable task to provide them with their back pay. [More…]

• The inescapable conclusion is that, unless more female cattle are turned off, the Centralian herd will continue to increase until that year when the summer rains fail. [More…]

• At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative qf every adult male and female in the community. [More…]

• V is for Vice President (of the Guild)- Turd position, traditionally given to a noisy female Guild Counsellor as a token gesture, to shut them up for the year. [More…]

• The honourable member for Swan, when taking up this question of the extremely hypersensitive female student who believed she had been intimidated, said: [More…]

• It is a fear which is held particularly by junior workers who comprise such a high percentage of the unemployed and by female workers. [More…]

• In the area Senator Harradine mentioned- the manufacturing industries and the service industriesthe operatives are predominantly female, and it is in these industries that snide tactics are used. [More…]

• He has a multitude of female members of various nationalities. [More…]

• I have never had any compunction in naming firms involved in office cleaning which were trying to gyp their female ethnic workers, and I have got results. [More…]

• Does the Government anticipate an increase in female employment of more than 4 per cent, the figure which would be required for a reconciliation, or was the Treasurer in his Age article again indulging his propensity to stretch figures? [More…]

• For instance, we made a decision about a female hairdresser in Parliament House. [More…]

• Without any discussion by the Joint House Committee, the female hairdresser has gone. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Government, through the Department of the Northern Territory, provides single and married accommodation for public servants, both male and female. [More…]

• I refer to the recent action of the Rockhampton City Council terminating the employment of a female employee simply because she married. [More…]

• However, in the case of female cattle it has been substantially increased to50 per cent. [More…]

• Senator Melzer made reference to a female hairdresser, who she said had left, and to the use of the sauna room by ladies. [More…]

• As a consequence of these visits 10 people, comprising nine males and one female, have been taken into custody as prohibited immigrants. [More…]

• Female workers 18 years and over are paid 6 rupiah a week or SA2.40 and female workers under 1 8 years are paid 4.50 rupiah a week or $A1.80. [More…]

• The Women’s Electoral Lobby in Perth wrote to me on 10 August 1977 pointing out the fact that one refuge per thousand head of female population is necessary to provide adequate shelter. [More…]

• In May this year, 43.4 per cent of the total female population was employed in the workforce. [More…]

• So we have this hidden area where the income of a married woman may be needed for a particular life style but she is denied the right to receive unemployment benefit because she happens to be a female. [More…]

• I have not bothered to check whether the writer is male or female because I believe that the sooner we stop worrying about the gender of the people the sooner we will get rid of one of our main social ills. [More…]

• I was thinking that she really sounded like a female version of Senator Walsh except that the extension into the areas of hyperbole was even a little further than Senator Walsh would venture at times. [More…]

• The Prime Minister clearly was preparing to hold an election on the uranium issue until he became aware of the relative unpopularity of the Government’s view on this issue and particularly its unpopularity with one of its traditionally strong areas of support, the female voters. [More…]

• For female migrants there is a 7.3 per cent unemployment rate, compared with a male rate of 4.5 per cent. [More…]

• The junior migrant female unemployment rate is 19.5 per cent, compared with 14.8 per cent for males. [More…]

• The employers were very happy to ignore what was happening to their female work force and simply to use them and exploit them mercilessly in order to make profits. [More…]

• Prior to 1 July 1977, records were kept only for total wastage of female officers and other ranks, thus there are no separate statistics available on the resignation of female officers or separation of female other ranks at own request. [More…]

• I draw her attention to a revolutionary advance in brain surgery which has been pioneered by Britain’s sole female neurosurgeon, Miss Cary Bannister, which has brought fresh hope to millions of people threatened by strokes. [More…]

• Sixty-two per cent of the total female unemployment comprised women under 20 years of age. [More…]

• The are: Adult males, 13: 1; females, 18: 1; junior males, 63:1; and female juniors 47:1. [More…]

• We had meekness and docility amongst female operatives in certain concessions at all the major airports. [More…]

• I could take her into the printing industry and show her instances where, because a female member has had the temerity to question lack of toilet facilities, she has been regarded as a trouble maker. [More…]

• If a woman is called a com because she demands female toilet facilities it just shows how perverted industry has become. [More…]

• The dried cannabis plant, especialy the flowering tops from the female plant, might contain anything from nought to 14 per cent THC. [More…]

• At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative of every adult male and female in the community. [More…]

• There could also be some significance for the problem of female labour for which the present market situation is different to that for males. [More…]

• But the most important person is the person, male or female, who supports and guides the program. [More…]

• The Australian Bureau of Statistics August 1977 labour force figures show that 22,500 junior females and 15,200 junior males between the ages of 15 and 19 years seeking their first job are unemployed. [More…]

• The total of unemployed juniors is 118,200 which means that 28.3 per cent of all junior females and 16.3 per cent of all juniors, male and female, are unemployed. [More…]

• Eligible persons may be paid $10 per head, to a maximum of $2,000, in respect of recognised procedures which include dipping and other treatments for external parasites, drenching and other treatments for internal parasites, tuberculin testing and blood sampling and vaccination for brucellosis and spaying of female cattle less than two years of age. [More…]

• Such treatments would include tuberculate testing, blood sampling and vaccination for brucellosis and the spaying of female cattle less than two years of age. [More…]

• The premises provide residential accommodation for 12 handicapped female adults. [More…]

• To maintain the economic and social needs of Australian families, families need two incomes and one of those income earners is a female. [More…]

• If under present circumstances that female can find a job she is confined to a restricted area of employment, usually the least attractive, the one needing the least training, the dullest, the most repetitious, the dirtiest and the worst paid of any area in the work force. [More…]

• Can female workers move from one place to another? [More…]

• Why should not all workers- male and female- be entitled equally to the unemployment benefit, to training in all areas of work and to retraining. [More…]

• There is no specific program of assistance to the 19.6 per cent of unemployed migrant female juniors. [More…]

• Modern psychology now recognises that the father is as important a model as the mother and that the child needs two parents or responsible and loving male and female substitute parents. [More…]

• I support the right of both the male and the female of the species to work without discrimination and I recognise the necessity for adequate child-minding facilities being provided for widows and other single parents. [More…]

• The Bureau of Statistics figures for 1975 indicate that there were 505,300 married women and 23,300 other females without children under eleven in the work force. [More…]

• The ratio of females to males in country towns in Western Australia has increased dramatically over the last few years. [More…]

• In Kalgoorlie there has been a 100 per cent increase in female unemployment compared with male unemployment over the last five years. [More…]

• In 1972 the ratio was one female to 6.94 males unemployed. [More…]

• In other words, for every female unemployed there were 6.94 males unemployed. [More…]

• In December 1977 there was one unemployed female for every 3.4 males out of a job. [More…]

• In December 1972 the ratio was one female to 1.75 males out of work whereas in December 1977 it was one female to every 1.25 males out of work. [More…]

• In Merredin in the same period the ratio increased from one female to 1.91 males in 1972 to one female to 1.3 males in 1977. [More…]

• Breaking that down into the sexes, the ratio of females unemployed to positions unfilled has increased 5.78 times whilst the equivalent increase in the ratio for males has increased only 3.87 times. [More…]

• The ratio of females unemployed to positions vacant in December 1972 was one to 3.19 and in December 1977 for every female unemployed there were 18.44 positions unfilled. [More…]

• If the unfilled positions comprised only full time positions the ratio would be even higher, especially for females. [More…]

• Comparing the female unemployment rates for Western Australia with rates in other States over a fiveyear period, we can see just how badly women have fared in Western Australia, the State of excitement. [More…]

• The table shows the percentage of female unemployed of the total unemployed over the period 1972 to 1977 and the percentage increase and decrease over the same five-year period. [More…]

• In 1972 in Western Australia 25.17 per cent of females were unemployed. [More…]

• In Victoria 1972 saw 33.67 per cent of females unemployed and in 1977, 36.67 per cent, an increase of 8.9 per cent. [More…]

• His main idea was to attack female demonstrators. [More…]

• This was the year that the king decreed that all the girl babies born would be allowed to live, rather than insisting mothers abandon every second new-born female child, as was the custom in the kingdom. [More…]

• I naturally sought an explanation and I was told that the female concerned was assisting in the servicing of the bleeper or paging system that has been installed in Parliament House. [More…]

• The Victorian office of my union, that is, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, which has a substantial female membership component, has a special women’s unit employing five women. [More…]

• To her credit the Minister, prior to Mr Ellicott ‘s remarks, had agreed to an interview with a very large union having a sizable female membership so that its point of view could be heard. [More…]

• At present the accommodation occupied by female personnel at HMAS Penguin is superior to that provided for junior male personnel. [More…]

• Both male and female personnel however pay for their accommodation. [More…]

• This man was accompanied by a female who had a single strap bag over her shoulder. [More…]

• One of the points in my reading in relation to training maritime industry personnel that I found quite interesting was that apparently in the United Kingdom one of the first female graduates is acting as a third officer on a ship carrying ore. One could anticipate that there may even be some competition between that English girl and the first female to go through the Australian Maritime College to become the world’s first female sea captain. [More…]

• Will the Government consider taking special measures to combat female unemployment similar to the special steps it has taken to assist unemployed youth? [More…]

• Resignation, and Discharge at Own Request, statistics for female officers and female Other Ranks are not available for the period prior to July 1 977. [More…]

• How many of these persons were: (a) male) and (b) female. [More…]

• One area in which there is a serious problem and which, as far as I can understand, has received no attention from the Government relates to discrimination against female employees within the ABC. [More…]

• So, the inescapable conclusion is that even in the very long term a merino flock bred on a random basis- that is, run as wild sheep with no selection of parents, either male or female- would not change. [More…]

• testing the validity of head starting, including a tagging program of female turtles. [More…]

• 1 ) How many vacancies for the positions advertised by the Department of Defence in the Age, dated 29 April 1978, inviting applicants to train as Electronics Technicians in the Air Force which stated female vacancies had already been filled were open to women and to men. [More…]

• When did the Department advertise the female vacancies for the positions already filled, and by what means. [More…]

• If there was a less than 50 per cent quota on the number of vacancies open to women, will the Minister explain the reasons for the Department ‘s decision to limit the number of female trainees. [More…]

• Of these trainee positions on any of the many courses commencing over this period, any suitable female applicant up to a maximum of 4 (for the period) will be allotted a place. [More…]

• Until any of these female trainee graduates are available, the positions they will ultimately occupy will remain filled by males. [More…]

• It is expected that sufficient suitable trainees will be found eventually from the many female aspirants for RAAF service who join applicant waiting lists each week. [More…]

• The decision to limit the female vacancies for electronics training to 4 only has been taken until a pilot scheme to determine the viability of the employment of women in this mustering has been evaluated. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay that salary differences between all male and female members of the Defence Force be abolished. [More…]

• Male rank titles for the categories mentioned will apply to female officers in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service from the date of gazettal of amending regulations. [More…]

• As we move down the list we find some very substantial consumer items which concern the every day family, including woven shirts, knitted undergarment shirts, babies napkins, women’s blouses, knitted coats, female outer garments, dressing gowns, swim wear, men’s shorts, men’s trousers. [More…]

• I know of an instance involving senior female operatives, process workers, who are members of the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]

• The culprits are large and small, male and female, and nothing sexual motivates these particular attacks. [More…]

• The question was whether it would stop short of female suffrage. [More…]

• that the female suffrage was a necessary corollary of . [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and refers to the very considerable problem of unemployment among partly-skilled juvenile females, who in previous times found jobs in offices of insurance companies, business houses, et cetera, as office juniors to undertake such tasks as running messages, filing, et cetera. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such a level of wages, which would be appropriate to the skill required, would encourage employers to hire more female juveniles? [More…]

• Mr Street assumes also a return by 1 98 1 to the pre- 1974 trend in female participation rates in the work force. [More…]

• When looking at the female section we find that in August last year 1 7.5 per cent who wanted a job were unemployed. [More…]

• My argument is: Why should a female parent have her family allowance penalised when she cannot touch the trust? [More…]

• The dried cannabis plant and specifically the flowering tops from that female plant may contain anything from 0 to 14 per cent THC. [More…]

• The author of this article, one Geoffrey Barker, said that he stumbled across a copy of the revised 1956 edition of The Years of Grace and found himself face to face with pre-liberation woman, the original female eunuch. [More…]

• Senator Young will be interested to know that the second possible control technique being examined is the application of ionising radiation to mature female carp in order to create sterile progeny which would compete with local wild carp and so reduce the fertile population. [More…]

• Will an assurance be given that female staff members of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation be transferred to other Government positions even if their husbands are also employed. [More…]

• 1 ) The figure of four female vacancies for radio technicians trainees was arrived at by consideration of the probable number of female applicants in conjunction with a requirement to establish the viability of employment of women in technical musterings. [More…]

• In July 1972 Aborigines made up 15.3 per cent of the total daily average prison population in South Australia and 5 1.33 per cent of the female prison population. [More…]

• A second year female teacher receives the princely sum of $139.69 a fortnight, and from that she is required to pay $1.80 tax plus the 20c levy. [More…]

• Deputy Secretary of the Department, and me about the serious implication of an article in the National Times that there is a lack of industrial protection for redundant female workers in the clothing, textile and kindred industries. [More…]

• The next point is female participation in the work force. [More…]

• The female component of the labour force rose from 22.8 per cent in 1954 to 25.1 per cent in 1961. [More…]

• Over the same period, the married female component of the female component of the work force rose from 6.9 per cent to 9.6 per cent, and then to 1 4. [More…]

• In 1971, it represented 18 per cent of the total female component. [More…]

• So the contribution to the labour force arising from the participation of married females really was dramatic insofar as there were increases of up to 300 per cent in roughly 30 years. [More…]

• One can easily see by making a rough comparison that the teenage labour force was not growing at the same rate as it had previously and that the jobs available were being absorbed by the female labour force. [More…]

• Clause 7 inserts a new section 51a in the Superannuation Act which provides that where a contribution day occurs during a period of unpaid maternity leave, no contributions are to be payable by the female employee on that contribution day. [More…]

• Would the Minister consider the possibility of amending the regulations to allow the option of issuing passports in the maiden name of the female applicant? [More…]

• Secondly, it seriously restricts the availability of maternity leave to female public servants. [More…]

• I pass now to the restrictions on maternity leave available to female public servants on the birth of a child. [More…]

• He was not setting up especially extravagant conditions of service for female employees in the work force of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The 1973 Act entitled female employees of the Australian Public Service and the teaching service to at least 12 weeks maternity leave on full pay- six weeks prior to the birth of the baby and six weeks after the birth of the baby. [More…]

• Clause 7 of the Bill contains the words ‘a female employee who has become pregnant’. [More…]

• I think that we as a House of review could be held up to ridicule or criticised if we passed legislation which contained the words ‘a female employee who has become pregnant ‘. [More…]

• I do not know, but obviously if it means that someone other than a female can become pregnant, then I think that the wording in the legislation is discriminatory, although I do not think it is intentional. [More…]

• for the purposes of this Act, the number of business days contained in any period relevant to the making of, or dealing with, an application under section 7a by a female employee for permission to resume duty,- [More…]

• 1 ) where a female employee who is pregnant furnishes to the leave officer- [More…]

• It refers only to a female employee who is pregnant. [More…]

• Where, before the expiration of the period during which a female employee who has been confined . [More…]

• If someone other than a female becomes pregnant, is that person the subject of confinement? [More…]

• Proposed new section 7a ( 1 ) reads: a female employee who absents herself from duty in accordance with a permission granted . [More…]

• But other clauses in the Bill refer to a female who becomes pregnant. [More…]

• How many (a) male adults; (b) female adults; and (c) persons under 18 years, live in each Commonwealth hostel in New South Wales. [More…]

• The effects of televised violence emerged as the major issue but there was also much concern about the effects of constant exposure of children to programs that portrayed male and female role stereotypes, unreal or foreign life-styles and the gratuitous use of sex. [More…]

• In dealing with cases of this nature, the officers of the Department of Social Security apply the definition of ‘dependant female’ in section 18of the Social Services Act in the case of age and invalid pensions, and other comparable provisions of the Act in relation to claims for other benefits. [More…]

• Section 18 defines the expression ‘dependent female’ to mean, for the purposes of age or invalid pensions, ‘a woman who is living with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married ‘. [More…]

• Does the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 discriminate against de facto relationships in that the Department of Social Security will not pay the male partner in the relationship unemployment benefits if the female partner is working. [More…]

• ) Does the Taxation Department refuse to recognise the female partner’s right to claim her male partner as a dependent if he is unemployed. [More…]

• ) No rebate is allowable to a female partner in a de facto relationship in respect of her maintenance of an unemployed male partner nor is any rebate allowable to a male partner in a de facto relationship in respect of his maintenance of an unemployed female partner. [More…]

• Would the Minister consider the possibility of amending the regulations to allow the option of issuing passports in the maiden name of the female applicant? [More…]

• Australia has a record population and a record work force with wage levels which are affecting the employment prospects of many Australians including juveniles, particularly female juveniles. [More…]

• Let me assure my female colleagues that I am not being chauvinistic about this matter. [More…]

• I have no knowledge of the problems faced by Australian female nationals who go overseas and are in the same situation. [More…]

• What I am saying will apply to both male and female Australian nationals. [More…]

• Today the most elaborate motel-like buildings have been or are being built at places such as Palm Island where, incidentally, females and children under the age of 12 are incarcerated even though the ordinary laws do not allow this. [More…]

• There are no gaols for females in north Queensland. [More…]

• If a female receives a term of imprisonment of more than 28 days or some short term which does not involve her going to the lock-up she is sent to Boggo Road gaol in Brisbane. [More…]

• The incidence of the syndrome could be used to assess the immune status of the adult female population and consequently the effectiveness of rubella immunisation programs. [More…]

• At the International Whaling Commission meeting to be held in December 1978, Australia should seek to classify both male and female sperm whales in Division 5 as Protection Stocks and to amend the catch limits presently set for this Division to zero. [More…]

• 1 ) How many male and female pilots are employed in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• It related to a female member of the staff who is alleged to have been assaulted by a social services beneficiary behind the unemployment benefit counter at the Hindmarsh centre on Monday of this week. [More…]

• female adults; [More…]

• The average male wage at this stage is $205 a week and the average female wage is $136 a week. [More…]

• The effects of televised violence emerged as one of the major issues, but much concern was shown also about the effects of the constant exposure of children to programs which portrayed male and female role stereotypes, unreal or foreign lifestyles and the gratuitous use of sex. [More…]

• What were the areas in which female and male apprentices were trained in those years. [More…]

• Mr Pretty was rescued by a female employee of Parliament House and taken into this building. [More…]

• It has not been possible to interview the female employee allegedly involved because she is not identified in the allegations and the joint House Department has no information which would enable identification. [More…]

• I think that Williams is right in drawing to our attention the fact that one of the most insidious forms of sexual discrimination in Australia is that which is practised systematically in the secondary school system against female students. [More…]

• But the extent to which the non-government business colleges are still catering, almost exclusively, for female enrollees I think helps, at least in one respect, to break down some of the barriers of financial disadvantage for training and post-secondary courses available for girls. [More…]

• The point I make is simply that the majority of the people enrolled at those colleges at the moment and the majority of the people who as a result will be attracting government support to the non-government business colleges are female. [More…]

• When it was suggested to a spokesman in the Air Force that a complaint should be made because of job advertisements which had been placed in newspapers he replied that the advertisements said that no female vacancies were available. [More…]

• With the increased use of up to date technology in the white collar area of employment it has become increasingly obvious to most people that female employees will be in the greatest danger of being retrenched. [More…]

• Last month’s unemployment figures showed the unemployment rate to be 5.2 per cent for the male work force and 9.4 per cent for the female work force. [More…]

• The unemployment rates for adolescents were 15.7 per cent for males and 23.5 per cent for females. [More…]

• The higher rate of unemployment for females directly relates to their concentration in but a few occupations. [More…]

• The Federal Government, in introducing $30m worth of word processors in the next three years, will eliminate employment for about 10,000 female typists. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the contribution paid towards the spaying of females. [More…]

• The killing figures that I have been able to get hold oflately indicate that of the total cattle kill, 50 per cent is female. [More…]

• What is the latest figure available of the total number of unemployed: (a) male adults; (b) female adults; (c) male juniors; and (d) female juniors, registered for employment at each Commonwealth Employment Service centre in New South Wales. [More…]

• What is the ratio of unemployed: (a) adults; (b) male adults; (c) female adults; (d) juniors; (e) male juniors; and (f) female juniors to job vacancies recorded, at each of the centres. [More…]

• That the Government take steps to grant free medical, hospital and pharmaceutical benefits to all female citizens on reaching age sixty and all male citizens on reaching age sixty-five years. [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Minister explain how the defence forces have arrived at the conclusion that female trainee technicians have a lower retention rate than males in view of answers given to Senate Questions Nos. [More…]

• Female trainee technicians have been employed by the Services for too short a period for any valid conclusions on retention rates to be drawn. [More…]

• The vacancies for electronics training allotted to females and referred to in the reply to Question No. [More…]

• 466 did not attract the total of four female recruits necessary for implementation of the pilot scheme. [More…]

• Females are now recruited to RAAF technical musterings in open competition with males, but very few females apply. [More…]

• Due to misinterpretation in the collating of statistics the number of female trainee technicians was understated in the reply to part ( 1 ) of Question No. [More…]

• The figures provided for RAN female trainee technicians, and consequently the totals, should be amended to read as follows: [More…]

• The ratio of female to male trainee technicians is unlikely to change substantially in the near future because of the very few applications being received from suitably qualified females and, in the case of the Navy, the requirement to maintain a satisfactory sea-to-shore service ratio. [More…]

• Secondly, that represents between 10,000 and 25,000 young Australians, equally divided between male and female and normally aged between 16 and 25 years, who are addicted to this disease, whose habit costs them between $400 and $900 a week and most of whom will be either classed as insane or dead within two years of addiction to their habit. [More…]

• That the Government take steps to grant free medical, hospital and pharmaceutical benefits to all female citizens on reaching age sixty and all male citizens on reaching age sixty-five years. [More…]

• Therefore, 10 per cent have to be over 50 years of age, 30 per cent have to be over 40, 30 per cent must be female and more than 5 but noi more than 10 per cent must be children under 1 2 years of age. [More…]

• It showed that in Australia men were better off than women, that 10 per cent of males got almost 20 per cent of all income received by males and that the corresponding 10 per cent of females received almost 32 per cent of such female income. [More…]

• Again from the Pike committee we have a revelation of heads of state being given expensive female companions at the American taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• Also, 809 male and female juniors were unemployed. [More…]

• 1 ) Why was there a stipulation in an advertisement for Trainee Stewards for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) which appeared in the Daily Telegraph and the Australian on I September 1979, that there were no female vacancies available. [More…]

• How many: (a) males; and (b) female, stewards are at present employed by the RAAF. [More…]

• 1 ) The newspaper advertisements on 1 September 1979 stipulated that there were no female vacancies for trainee stewards because the response to previous advertising had resulted in all female vacancies in this mustering being filled for training courses through to June 1 980. [More…]

• The situation regarding female vacancies after that date will be reviewed later in the current financial year. [More…]

• 1 ) Why was there a stipulation in an advertisement which appeared in the Daily Telegraph and the Australian on1 September 1979, advertising, vacancies in the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF) for Supply Clerks, Clerks, Typists Clerks and Accounts Clerks, that there were no female vacancies available. [More…]

• 1 ) The newspaper advertisements on 1 September 1 979 stipulated that there were no female vacanices for clerks because the response to previous advertising had resulted in all female vacancies in the clerical musterings being filled for training courses through to June 1980. [More…]

• The situation regarding female vacancies after that date will be reviewed later in the current financial year. [More…]

• The number of males and females that have been employed as Clerks in the RAAF in each year since 1975 is shown below in column A; the figure is for 30 June of each year. [More…]

• The number of male and female Clerks enlisted by the RAAF during each financial year is shown in column B. [More…]

• People who have a knowledge of the industry will know that the bird levy is not paid until a female fowl reaches the age of six months. [More…]

• I ask: In view of the Association’s fixation with female sprinters, what pressure will the Government impose on the AAA to ensure that girls who are endowed for field games activities are given a grant to facilitate the utilisation of Eastern European coaches? [More…]

• I am speaking here of male and female prostitutes aged as young as 1 1 years. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications whether it is true that for two years two female employees, who worked as night telephone attendants in the Allora telephone exchange in Queensland before it became automatic, worked a total of 62 hours over seven nights a week and were paid $65.23 for their services? [More…]

• It is granted five years earlier than the age pension to a veteran who has served in a theatre of war, has reached the age of 60 years if a male, or 55 years if a female, or has become permanently unemployable. [More…]

• In relation to an allied veteran the specific requirements he will have to meet are that he- served as a member of a formally raised force; served in a theatre of war; resided in Australia for at least 10 years; satisfies the income test applicable to Australian and British Commonwealth veterans; and reached 60 years of age if a male or 55 years if a female or become permanently unemployable. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such a scheme has merit and might be a convenient way of eliminating the anomaly whereby men receive age pensions at 65 years and women at 60 years, even though the life expectancy of a female is much greater than that of a male? [More…]

• I am not going to have my staff lectured by any senior member, whether they be female or male. [More…]

• Of the female migrants, 72 per cent of the Greek migrants, 65 per cent of the Italian migrants and 50 per cent of the Yugoslav migrants have had five years or less schooling. [More…]

• Another major influence on the participation of women in senior levels in the Service is that the average length of service of female officers is significantly less than that of their male counterparts, reflecting in part the higher resignation rates of female officers. [More…]

• Possibly it could be argued that there is some discrimination against men insofar as a male dependant of a deceased female veteran does not receive the same benefits, not as high benefits, as a female dependant of a deceased male veteran. [More…]