freedom - hofreps - 1970

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

The Government has no proposals for and legislation to restrict freedom of speech (3) in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
If so, docs the statement by the Assistant Ministerial Member mean, that there is a need for some restriction on freedom, of speech in the Territory. [More…]
Opposition because this is the first time in 5 years that I have heard any protest coming from the Opposition about the repression of civil liberties and the right of people to live their lives in decency and freedom. [More…]
I think it is well known that since the deposition of Mr Dubcek and the Svoboda Government and the restriction of powers by the more liberal elements there, and particularly since the advent of Mr Gustav Husak in more or less virtual control in that country there has been a denial of civil liberties and a denial of freedom. [More…]
Will the Minister convey, through appropriate diplomatic channels, that the Australian people deplore any government interference with the freedom of the Press, radio or television? [More…]
The tragedy of the last few months is that governments such as the Australian Government, which express all the great freedom fighting slogans and so on about Vietnam, have not taken even the slightest piece of diplomatic initiative on Cambodia. [More…]
The ‘Freedom Ride’ was organised by the Association Against the National Service Act as part of its campaign for this young man’s release. [More…]
The proposition that I wish to put to the Attorney-General is this: In clause 14 of this Bill positive statements are made as far as certain rights, freedoms and dignities in respect of protected persons are concerned. [More…]
Apparently protected persons in this country in turn are entitled to certain freedoms and dignities. [More…]
I certainly object to the proposition that apparently non-protected persons in this country are not entitled to those freedoms and dignities. [More…]
Surely it is up to the Government to protect the freedom of the general population to the same extent as it is prepared to protect these specially declared people under this Bill. [More…]
It is not necessary to continue conscription which disrupts young men’s lives and restricts their freedom. [More…]
Freedom of movement off Reserves; [More…]
Control of property - freedom of choice will be allowed but with provision for consultation with the Council and/or the Administration as a safeguard against exploitation; [More…]
Liquor Canteen System - freedom of choice to Reserve residents to decide whether or not liquor will be permitted on a particular reserve; [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) always has a point when he speaks about freedom of speech. [More…]
The way the trade union movement uses its power against individuals to deny them freedom is absolutely and completely deplorable. [More…]
It is the duty of the Government - of any government - to ignore such people and to provide the defence forces necessary for the freedom and independence of our country. [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports that Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union are being forced to pay for their freedom by being charged, on a sliding scale commensurate with their education, for their visas? [More…]
Further, do the same reports place the price of freedom as high as 12,200 roubles, or approximately $20,000, for a university graduate? [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise. [More…]
Terrorism Act of that country for alleged smuggling of freedom fighters into South Africa. [More…]
Is it a fact that until now patients or prospective patients of public hospitals in all States of the Commonwealth except Queensland have not had freedom of choice of entry as public patients if their income exceeded a relatively low means test? [More…]
Is it a fact that until now pensioner patients have not had the freedom of attending the specialist of their choice but were forced to attend specialists as outpatients of public hospitals? [More…]
Secondly, there is the more important aspect of the religious persecution itself and the fact that the communist world not only is opposed to religion and is the enemy of religion but also, having developed under the precepts of Lenin which are followed very exactly, is engaged in a campaign of the most effective indirect suppression of religion while at the same time boasting of some kind of spurious freedom. [More…]
any erosion of an individual’s freedom of choice of doctor or hospital; and (0 its effects on the national economy and the quality of health care for present and future generations of Australians. [More…]
Will the Minister seek to amend the Act to extend to radio and television the freedom enjoyed by the Press in this matter? [More…]
Does this not mean that the Government’s claim of freedom of choice for patients and support for private hospitals and private patients is not true? [More…]
I noticed this evening that the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) flogged the old line that under our scheme people will not have the freedom of choice of doctors. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present an interdepartmental committee report entitled ‘Proposed Freedom of Information Legislation’. [More…]
The private health funds must be seen in the context of Labor’s aim, which is to destroy non-government health insurance in this country and to destroy, therefore, patients’ freedom of choice- the choice of funds, of doctors and so on. [More…]
I suggest that honourable members in all parties in this House, as well as those in the other place, pay constant regard to the need to preserve the rights of freedom of movement as well as all the other privileges that ought to appertain to people. [More…]
What first, second, third or fourth freedom advantage did Australia gain through these negotiations. [More…]
Above all they cherish their freedoms. [More…]
They cherish the freedom to go broke if they wish. [More…]
They cherish the freedom to go to the doctor of their own choice. [More…]
They cherish the freedom to make voluntary contributions if they so wish. [More…]
Nevertheless, there is considerable advantage to be gained, in my view, by allowing the Ombudsman to have this freedom of movement so that departments would be kept on their toes. [More…]
That this House notes with pride and sadness the 20th anniversary of the heroic and patriotic uprising of the people of Hungary in October 1956 and recalls their famous last message: ‘ Here we must live, here we will die ‘ and the valour of those who laid down their lives in the cause of freedom. [More…]
and expresses the wish that one day the people of Hungary will have the opportunity to live in their country with the same rights and freedoms as those which are enjoyed by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
Is this ban an infringement of the fundamental civil liberty of freedom of speech. [More…]
I propose to submit the petition for examination by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence with a request that it explore ways and means of obtaining from the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics some advice as to the policy of his Government on the matters raised in the petition and also in regard to the reality of freedom of religious worship and instruction for the Jewish and other religions in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
There is nothing sadder or more mischievous than the pretence that in some way they are greater fighters for freedom than members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It can be seen that the Commonwealth is working towards a better and more efficient Agreement; one whereby the States will have more freedom of action and initiative. [More…]
Will the Government now reconsider its attitude towards the proposed zone of peace, freedom and neutrality which has been proposed and supported by the littoral countries of the South East Asian and Indian Ocean areas, by the United Nations and at the last Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, but not by his Government? [More…]
It is over 3000 years since Moses led the Jews to freedom from Pharaoh. [More…]
-Due largely to the approach made to members of the Parliament during the week by members of the Committee for the Freedom of Soviet Jewry, the House will be aware of the recent reintroduction of the ban by Soviet authorities on the import of flour products into that country. [More…]
This traditional Jewish festival of freedom is held in celebration of both the Hebrew exodus from enslavement in Egypt and the subsequent formation of the Jewish people. [More…]
That, bearing in mind the fundamental principles contained in section 92 of the Commonwealth Constitution, this House is of the opinion that it is alien to the concept of federalism if deliberate industrial strike action is instigated for the purpose of interfering, hindering or preventing freedom of trade and commerce between the States or for the purpose ofeffectively isolating one State from the other States and accordingly this House is of the opinion that in defence of the federal system in Australia legislation should be passed by this Parliament at the earliest opportunity to ensure thatthose who choose to contravene the principles of section 92. by isolating States and in particular the State of Tasmania, shall be called upon to publicly answer for their actions and shall be subject to appropriate sanctions in accordance with the law. [More…]
What cabotage or fifth freedom entitlements has Qantas received in other countries in return for any Australian concessions to international airlines involving entitlements to Australian domestic passenger traffic. [More…]
The Toss of life of the East Timorese people in support of freedom and in the support of our servicemen in the Second World War was enormous. [More…]
We have a solidarity with the East Timorese people in their struggle for freedom against the oppressive Indonesian forces. [More…]
The pass system will not alter the existing freedom of movement or the existing restrictions upon the movement within the building of persons permitted to enter the non-public areas. [More…]
87- Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 (ratified on 28 February 1973). [More…]
) Under what exceptional circumstances were Mr Alfred Urbanski, representative of the Polish Government in Exile, and Mr Tibor Tollas, representative of the World Federation of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, granted visas to visit Australia in 1977. [More…]
The need for this House to uphold the principle of human rights and freedom for all people and accordingly to condemn any nation which denies human rights to its people or to any individual. [More…]
I am not aware that there exists any identifiable body of information concerning United States-Australian relations which is currently available to the United States Congress or to a United States citizen under the United States Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
If the honourable member has in mind any specific item of information or any documents, or any body of information or documents, concerning United States-Australian relations which has in fact been made available in the United States to the Congress or to a person under the United States Freedom of Information Act, I shall be glad to consider the question of making available to him any equivalent information or documents in the possession of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
On 26 March 1976 I wrote to the then AttorneyGeneral asking that he reconvene the inter-departmental committee set up to consider proposals for freedom of information legislation. [More…]
When did the inter-departmental committee appointed in January 1 973 to study and to report on the then Government’s proposed freedom of information legislation complete its report. [More…]
Freedom of Information: Interdepartmental Committee-1973 (Question No. [More…]
When will he make available to the Parliament all of the information concerning United States-Australian relations which is currently available to (a) the United States Congress and (b) a United States citizen under the United States Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
When was the inter-departmental committee appointed by his Government to study and report on the proposed freedom of information legislation. [More…]
I refer to the threat that the present United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation draft declaration on the mass media poses to the freedom of the world ‘s Press. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister, when he raises issues of civil liberties and human freedom to come into this House with clean hands. [More…]
Aspects of access to information are, of course, covered by the Freedom of Information legislation now before Parliament. [More…]
What preparatory work has been undertaken by departments and statutory authorities in anticipation of the implementation of the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
When will we learn that it serves our interests better to promote the development of freedom and democracy? [More…]
Will personal treatment entitlement cards be issued to repatriation beneficiaries entitled to the full range of treatment benefits to provide them with freedom of choice of a local medical officer. [More…]
The parties which contested the election were the Basotho National Party, Basotholand Congress Party, Marematlou Freedom Party and the United Democratic Party. [More…]
Will Australia’s natural resources be a source of strength and leverage, and give this country freedom to dictate the amount of investment and the rate of exploitation of its resources. [More…]
Every democracy, by its very freedom, contains the potential for its own subversion. [More…]
If there is developed a conspiracy to subvert it can operate under the protection of the freedoms to which it is directly or indirectly opposed. [More…]
I believe that we have to fight for the freedom of everybody in this land irrespective of his politics. [More…]
He moves with freedom among and propounds the theories of the people who are fighting against our Australian boys. [More…]
when we boast of our independence and freedom in this country, we would hear a Minister stand up and say that a man had acted treasonably and that he would repeat the charge outside the House, yet still support a Ministry which will not prosecute that man whom the Minister has quite truthfully said in his mind is guilty of treason. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, there are a number of fundamental freedoms to which every person is entitled and of which he should not be deprived except by the due process of law. [More…]
Those include freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of political action and, in these modern times, freedom of travel. [More…]
If the principle of freedom of issuing passports is sound for these other men. [More…]
Basically I have always been a political animal concerned with the utmost preservation and extension of freedom. [More…]
Fascism in all its successful aggressive forms was defeated, but freedom is far from secure. [More…]
I bracket these so-called Communist and anti-Communist threats to our freedom together, as they have much in common and share the same lack of faith in human beings making a correct decision when given all the facts. [More…]
I am in sympathy with what I consider their general outlook on life; that is a society with the vision of freedom, of spontaneous co-operation and of men’s conscious selfdetermination. [More…]
I still wait for the day when those freedom fighters on the other side of the House, who believe that the things which they see in the Liberal Party’s platform are dinkum, true and beyond criticism and that they ought to stand up for them, will cross the floor, on an issue such as the one we are discussing or on other issues when the gag is applied, and show some of that intestinal fortitude which they like to drag out of the young men of Australia while they sit home safely week by week. [More…]
This is a highly discriminatory tax which sharply curtails personal freedom. [More…]
Such a law denies a basic freedom to women. [More…]
Tt is time to be logical, not emotional, and freedom must be returned as the right of alt. [More…]
This is a vital psychological factor on which the whole freedom of South East Asia and, in the long run, the whole freedom of this island continent of ours may depend. [More…]
No country was ever made a present of freedom, and Australia is no exception. [More…]
If what I might call the propaganda media of this country is to continue to enjoy the privilege of the freedom of the Press, radio and television, it must accept the other postulate which is the duty of the Press, radio and television - responsibility. [More…]
Sir, democracy is a faith, not a formula, and freedom in expressing intelligent opinions can only protect democracy and democratic government. [More…]
I believe in the freedom of the individual and tho preservation of his sacred right to liberty and justice. [More…]
So 1 suggest that we take their freedom and their rights as citizens. [More…]
The new Opposition members should keep these points in mind and remember that they do not have the freedom that we have. [More…]
The freedom which the Minister for External Affairs has had in placing information before the Committee would be greatly reduced. [More…]
The freedom of witnesses appearing before the Committee would be greatly circumscribed. [More…]
It can give more freedom and dignity to both chambers. [More…]
He was a great freedom fighter not so long ago. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron), I think it is, is a freedom fighter from way back too. [More…]
We are there - as we originally went there - in order to attempt to maintain the freedom and the independence of the people of South Vietnam. [More…]
We are there to protect freedom and decency and the right of those people to look after themselves free from intimidation and from aggression from outside. [More…]
He concluded by asserting the rights of a man with ‘a career which was distinguished and which had greatly helped the freedom of the world and the relief of Europe from conquest from abroad’. [More…]
The Minister makes no recognition of the fact that, as trading nations, Australia and Japan have a common national interest - the preservation of the freedom of the high seas. [More…]
It has been proved over the years that that institution which best provides that order along with freedom for the citizen is the institution of Parliament, where decisions are made by a majority of those elected by a majority of the people of the country at regular intervals. [More…]
That is why parliamentary government has reached the position it now holds as a champion of the freedom of all people in the countries which they rule. [More…]
I believe very wide freedom has been given in the terms and nature of amendments moved in this place. [More…]
But tonight as a postscript to some of the fine addresses that have been made on behalf of freedom of expression in this national forum 1 can now say: ‘Please let us consider these things; please not let us go home tomorrow and have as the most important thing we can say when we get home, “ Well, there was a bit of an argument, you know, and the weather is still good “ ‘. [More…]
If men are given an effective means of attempting by 1 peaceful processes to secure majority acceptance of their political views, anyone with a concern for the preservation of true freedom should see to it that those means are used to the exclusion of others. [More…]
This liberty - freedom of assembly and freedom of speech of which demonstrations are a physical expression - cannot be limited without being lost. [More…]
The proper foundation for government is a universal law of right and wrong self-evident to the intuitive commonsense of every man; that freedom is a power of personal self-direction which no man can delegate to another; that the purpose of society is not the protection of property but fulfilment of the needs of living human beings; that good citizens have the right and duty, not only to overthrow incurably oppresive governments, but before that point is reached to break particular oppressive laws; and that we owe our ultimate allegiance, not to this or that nation, but to the whole family of man. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe made accusations concerning my attitude to freedom of association. [More…]
In that pamphlet I also said To represent people one must stand for tolerance and for freedom of association with anyone who stands for what is good, irrespective of his race, religion or polities’. [More…]
So the Vietnam Moratorium is not only about the Vietnam war but it is about those things that make a democratic society tick - the right of freedom of association and the right of freedom of assembly. [More…]
There is quite a difference between the right of freedom of expression and the use of contributors’ funds for purposes of the kind I have described. [More…]
South Vietnam snuffing out the hope of freedom and of democratic independence in that country and extending the areas of Communist control closer to their country. [More…]
May 1 take this opportunity of observing to the honourable gentleman and to the House that Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas, a convention to which this country is a signatory, provides for freedom of navigation on the high seas. [More…]
Such membership is vital to preserving the economic and political freedom and security of the independent states. [More…]
They have made a mockery of the word democracy’ for they have created a society where 3 million white people have unprecedented power over the rights and freedom of 16 million black and coloured people. [More…]
So much for the freedom of the Press and freedom of speech. [More…]
The central doctrine of the international law of the sea, as it emerged from the 19th century, is summed up in the phrase, -‘the freedom of the high seas’. [More…]
This doctrine comprises the freedoms of navigation and overflight, of fishing and of laying submarine cables and pipe-lines. [More…]
They mark some For Adults Only’, but how can children and teenagers be controlled when no longer do they go to the theatre but millions of them watch films on the television screens in the freedom of their own homes? [More…]
I realise that censorship, in one sense, is the denial of freedom. [More…]
But 1 ask: Freedom for whom? [More…]
fs it freedom to the producers who make these quick, cheap films which have such a devastating effect on the impressionable people who view them? [More…]
For whenever one small country loses its freedom let us not ask for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for all. [More…]
It is no longer possible to depict or defend this war in terms of the freedom of the Vietnamese people or the people of Indo-China, a war for freedom or for democracy, a war against China or a war to maintain the American alliance, or any of the other definitions which have been used to extenuate and extend our commitment. [More…]
It went on to protest against the Agreement that had been made because it said it was contrary to the long term interests and the wishes of the people of South Vietnam who had a right to independence and freedom and did not want aggression within their own territory. [More…]
The second is that there must be a reasonable freedom of choice for both the patient and the medical practitioner. [More…]
If it is thought that this is an unreasonable interference with medical freedom, I would draw attention to the arrangements in the legal profession. [More…]
The Bill provides for the AIDC to have the fullest freedom in its administrative and financial arrangements, so that it may conduct its affairs for all practical purposes as if it were a private enterprise company. [More…]
We wish to see a neutral Cambodia - a country which is not used by anyone as a base or a battleground; a country which enjoys in truth that freedom from interference, that real neutrality which it was guaranteed under the Geneva Agreement and which was breached by North Vietnam. [More…]
He said: When not protesting about the possible loss nf professional freedom the less well informed members of the profession, and this seems to be a majority, protest that the present direct doctorpatient financial relationship is hallowed by centuries, if not millennia of sacred tradition. [More…]
When not protesting about the possible loss of professional freedom the less well informed members of the profession, and this seems to be a majority, protest that the present director doctorpatient financial relationship is hallowed by centuries if not millennia of sacred tradition. [More…]
As I said, both Governments made a declaration in relation to their attitude to the Geneva Agreements of 1954 - that is, that they wanted to maintain the territorial integrity and the freedom of the former states of lndo-China. [More…]
These submissions and my personal approach to you is with a view to obtaining your good graces to do what is possible to ensure that these matters of conscience are fully recognised when the legislation is being framed so that persons who hold to these things so dearly, and who will not violate their consciences and thus deprive themselves of freedom in their approach to God, may not be put to the disadvantage that would otherwise ensue. [More…]
Another important factor in the field of medicine is the preservation of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
1 refer not only to the freedom of those in the medical profession but to the freedom of the people of Australia. [More…]
There must be complete freedom for people to go to the doctor of their choice and freedom for the doctor to perform his function as he sees fit and not as any government or anybody else may see fit. [More…]
The Campaign is undoubtedly a matter of grave concern to every Australian who values his or her freedom and the security of our nation. [More…]
It is a completely unjustified abuse of the freedom that we enjoy in this country today to incite people to break the law. [More…]
Progress is being made in this direction but the progress is being slowed down to this end by the very fact that some people are not prepared to back up the troops and those who are endeavouring to create a democratic society in South Vietnam in order to allow its people the expression of freedom. [More…]
After all, everything Hitler did was right because he had the backing of the law of his country and everything that the valiant freedom fighters in Hungary and Czechoslovakia did was wrong and they were condemned because what they did conflicted with the tenets of the oppressive establishment which was in control of the affairs of those countries. [More…]
As to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question, the Lon Nol Government did not ask for the assistance that was given by South Vietnam and the United States of America but yesterday the Premier himself, Mr Lon Nol, issued a statement in which he said that the liberation government of Cambodia recognised that the action by the United States and South Vietnam was taken in order to achieve the freedom, the independence and the realisation of the highest ideals of the people and the Government of Cambodia. [More…]
He said that he was aware of my public utterances on the subject of civil freedom and asked if I would help him. [More…]
1 have assured his Widow and Daughter of my determination to fight this prostitution of a basic freedom. [More…]
Some clergymen and academics have been sucked into the fold by the architects behind the scenes who are trying to destroy our efforts to preserve the freedom of these people of South East Asia. [More…]
Sadly, some decent freedom and peace loving Australians have also been caught up in this campaign. [More…]
Australia is a country where there is unlimited scope for legitimate and lawful freedom of dissent and’ protest and the Moratorium tactics are ro be forthrightly condemned. [More…]
It is about time honourable members opposite recognised that everybody has the right of freedom of association. [More…]
Many honourable members fought in World War II - and many suffered - for freedom of association. [More…]
We fought for a society in which there was freedom of association and not guilt by association. [More…]
It pays no regard to the interests of Australia’s security or the freedom of small’ countries under bitter attack in Indo-China. [More…]
We seek only the freedom of these people so that they can stand free and determine their own future. [More…]
Tt will maim many people and destroy the freedom of even more. [More…]
A settlement would lead to the killing of many and would destroy the freedom of many. [More…]
By reading all of that speech it becomes quite clear that the honourable member for Lalor is prepared to accept the killing of many and the destruction of the freedom of many if it will lead to a northern Communist victory, but he is not prepared to accept the same terms and the same toll of human life if it is to lead to an independent South Vietnam. [More…]
If we transfer the conduct of health insurance to a single government fund we have established one more area where freedom of individual choice is denied - a freedom which all of us would value and the loss of which we would lament if it ever occurred. [More…]
As to our own purpose, we have made it clear on a number of occasions that what we want is freedom and independence and the right of these countries to determine their own future. [More…]
In other words, their intentions are destructive; our intentions are to ensure the freedom of the 3 free countries of the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Does his Government subscribe to a policy of freedom of association, or does it subscribe to a policy of guilt by association? [More…]
There can be no doubt in anybody’s mind that this Government does subscribe to freedom of association and to the rights of people and citizens to express their views even when they dissent from the Government or dissent from any other mode of authority. [More…]
I was asked whether the Government approved of freedom of association. [More…]
There was no mention of Melbourne or Melbourne streets or any other particular locality, but whether one approved of freedom of association, and the answer I gave I will now have pleasure in repeating: That we do approve of that, that we do believe that ought to be supported by ali members of Parliament, and we equally believe that when the false claim is made that there is a right for people to associate to interfere with the rights of other citizens or to break the law then every member of Parliament ought to resist that, and these are the principles to which I gave an answer on a question of principle. [More…]
I believe that the problem confronting this Government - it should be a problem of all governments and all members of Parliament - is to balance the freedom of the individual with the rights of the individual and the public interest. [More…]
The decision as to when that principle is involved requires the active consideration of all who are resolved to maintain a private enterprise economy; all who really believe in allowing individuals freedom to live and work as they wish; all who strive to create a climate for the encouragement of initiative and resourcefulness, leading to productive efficiency, high output and a fair share of the nation’s wealth. [More…]
Indeed, it is fundamental Liberal policy that some controls in Government administration are necessary to maintain greater freedom for others - that is, the public interest - for freedom and not licence is the aim. [More…]
I believe in private enterprise because of its respect for individual freedoms - freedom of choice tempered by considerations of the public interest - for out of that in the long term will come the correct way to proceed. [More…]
This Government and the Parties which comprise it are the significant force in our country to strike a just balance between the freedom of individual citizens and the rights and claims of public interest. [More…]
Australia recognises, as do so many countries today, that as a general rule there should be reasonable freedom of travel throughout the world even though the views of visitors may conflict with or be opposed to Government policy. [More…]
The Government is denying these people the freedom to prescribe glasses without in some way deterring the patient. [More…]
In relation to the last part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I point out that patients will indeed continue to have complete freedom in choosing their own doctor. [More…]
I can only hope that these great nations, representing - as they do - 250 million people of the Asian region will be able to bring their influence to bear on other countries, particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in an attempt to make some contribution towards the defence of freedom and of independence in South East Asia. [More…]
We believe that a strong competitive banking system is one of the pillars of the economic freedom of the individual, and we are resolved to remove any potential threat to that system which is at present inherent in the banking law. [More…]
That system, which this Government introduced in 1953 and then confirmed with the Reserve Bank Bill and the establishment of the Reserve Bank in 1957, has been a kind of economic freedom which has meant that Australia would prosper. [More…]
So, under this economic freedom and our free enterprise banking system, we have seen develop the Hamersley and Comalco undertakings and all of these other big mineral concerns. [More…]
He is dedicated to the principle of private enterprise and freedom, lt is a pity he does not extend that to the 20-year-olds who are being called up under the National Service Act. [More…]
It works both ways - both to preserve the freedom of the British Press and to maintain the character of the British Press in accordance with the highest professional and commercial standards. [More…]
On the other side, we have to do something about the protection of the freedom of the Press. [More…]
This is a restriction on the freedom of the Press. [More…]
But there also has to be some protection for the journalist and some freedom to print. [More…]
1 believe that for the sake of Australian democracy it is urgent that what one might call the contradiction between the 2 sides of the Press - the freedom to print and the freedom of the individual - be resolved. [More…]
It is proposed that the CSIRO and the BAE will have freedom in the management of their research programmes within their respective allocations from the Fund. [More…]
I am one member of this House who cannot be accused of speaking unnecessarily in an adjournment debate in this House, butI am very much concerned at the attack made by the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) yesterday on the freedom of the Press. [More…]
There have been times when I have not been happy with things I have read in the Press, but we must resist most strongly any attempts to interfere with the freedom of the Press, as Voltaire said. [More…]
There must be no interference with the freedom of the Press in this country by the socialists or by anyone else. [More…]
When the honourable member talks about freedom of speech, freedom for news media and freedom for instrumentalities, 1 suggest that he could well start with the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Yet the honourable member rises here and talks about freedom. [More…]
He who speaks of freedom of speech and has voted for the gag every time it has been moved when he is here. [More…]
The honourable member for Deakin who talks about the freedom of the individual acts as a rubber stamp for the tyrannical parliamentary executive without fail every time the gag has been put before the House. [More…]
I made a remark on one previous occasion in this House to the effect that the great privilege of freedom of the Press is treated by the Press very lightly and I made the point that in authoritarian countries the difficulty is to suppress the truth but in our democratic countries the difficulty is to have the truth reported. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 and (b) Convention No. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to E. L. Millard’s ‘Freedom in a Federal World’, Edition 5, published in New York in 1969 and compiled on the basis of 16 year discussions by the Conference Upon Research and Education in World Government. [More…]
Whatever age is fixed there will inevitably be numbers of people over the age who many of their fellow citizens will consider to be unfit to enjoy such freedom. [More…]
They would have reason perhaps to imagine that given freedom to sell their production they could capture the more lucrative market. [More…]
Aware that international civil aviation can only function properly in conditions guaranteeing the safety of its operations and the due exercise of the freedom of air travel, [More…]
Greater freedom of movement between countries may have the effect of minimising hijacking. [More…]
I come now to a further curtailment of the freedom of the Corporation to act as it deems fit. [More…]
This Government purports to believe in private enterprise and freedom of competition but is attempting to strangle the Corporation by means of this legislation. [More…]
Whenever or wherever a public or semi-public organisation or instrumentality is shown to be economically viable and making a profit the Government either hands it over to private enterprise for exploitation or, as in this particular instance, in order to protect the private consultants, it ensures bv way of legislation that freedom of competition will not be one of its attributes or a condition of its operation. [More…]
1 said last night in my speech at the second reading stage that if the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation is to be a commercial undertaking it has to be given freedom to act on its own initiative. [More…]
This is to be applauded because not only does it give security of tenure to the employers in both organisations but it also gives them greater freedom. [More…]
We fought for freedom from individual oppression and tyranny, andI was proud to be an Australian. [More…]
Today, with greater freedom and greater abandon, they are picking on the high protection high cost industries. [More…]
There was a clash between the concepts of academic freedom held by academics and the rigid traditionalism of the Army. [More…]
The net effect of these recommendations would be to give cadets much more freedom and make their life comparable with that of students at other institutions of higher education. [More…]
Freedom of contract under such circumstances is surely misnamed. [More…]
The savage penalties imposed upon unions whenever they attempt to meet rising costs contrasts with the absolute freedom with which the employing class may fix the price of the things they have to sell. [More…]
Individual countries require particular certifications as to freedom from specified fowl diseases. [More…]
Australia did not enter GATT nor remain a member without a clear understanding that those countries which contract to membership surrender some of their freedom in trade matters in the general interest. [More…]
Finally, if such an alliance can emerge will the Prime Minister pledge increased economic and material aid from Australia to enable these nations who already have the manpower but lack the sinews of war to defend their freedom? [More…]
Of course, we will continue, but no more concessions can be made on the part of the free countries of the world in our endeavours to achieve the right of peoples to live in freedom, free from fear, free from want and free to be able to carry on the government of their own countries free from interference by others. [More…]
I ask Government members as I ask any member of the Opposition, including those who have learnt the lesson because they have recently visited Cambodia, to note that this government is willing to defend these people and their cause of freedom, to give them the opportunity to express themselves, and to give them the opportunity to say what kind of government they want. [More…]
1 ask every person who has and welcomes the right of choice this question: Does he want the GortonM’cEwen Government, a Liberal-Country Party Government, which will play its part in the cause of freedom, or does he want a government formed by the Australian Labor Party which is consciously, determinedly, and persistently assisting our enemies and which is giving aid and comfort to those who are out to destroy freedom and who want a Communist regime to dominate that part of South East Asia that is of importance to us and of vital importance to the security, the future and the continued independence not only of Thailand and Cambodia but also, 1 believe in time, of Malaysia, Laos and Singapore. [More…]
The whole concept of television and radio control of the mass, bringing about a mass response, fills one, particularly if he values freedom of initiative and variety, with a good deal of horror. [More…]
One of the things T think it is necessary for a government to do in scrutinising the Broadcasting and Television Act is to keep before it all the time the necessity to be dynamic in its approach to the freedom of the producer to produce the kind of programme which is in the best interests of his own creative ability, of his audience and of the programme. [More…]
I think perhaps the time has come when we in this country might allow or might give consideration to a little more freedom and flexibility in the editorial scene or the editorial function of television stations. [More…]
For them, there is no escape, no alternative, no choice, no ‘freedom of enterprise’. [More…]
They have a right to comfortable living and to freedom from irritation and nuisance, just as everybody else has. [More…]
Alan Reid, perhaps the most experienced and most balanced of all of our political correspondents, drew attention to this gravest of all threats to our freedom in an excellent article in the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ of 16th August last, when he gave the irrefutable facts concerning a direction to the building workers’ union to step up the destruction of private property. [More…]
This, 1 say, is no mere catch-cry but the deeply felt warning that comes from the hearts of those who gave or were prepared to give all for freedom. [More…]
They demand the right to accept all the privileges and benefits of living in a free democracy without contributing anything at all to that freedom. [More…]
They demand the right to cringe like cowards behind others who are prepared to stand fast and to protect them as well as the young and the old and the wives and mothers of this young nation, and who protect this cherished freedom which we all enjoy and which was won with blood, sweat and tears. [More…]
Too often discipline has become a dirty word and law, order and authority are despised, lt has been the breaking down of law and order, the loss of respect for leaders, for parents and for democratic institutions and the growth of the permissive society, of so-called sexual freedom, that have been the downfall of every great nation and every great empire in history. [More…]
We have come perilously close to losing our freedom in this country. [More…]
The tragedy to which we must awake is that our freedom is being stolen from us by the militant few - the arrogant, violent minority. [More…]
We would see the end of democratic freedom and the rise of Socialist dictatorships. [More…]
I could go on quoting items from the constitution and rules of the Australian Labor Party which are, in my opinion, all designed to destroy financial freedom, incentive and ambition of the individual. [More…]
Let me remind them that these are the essentials of free society: freedom of the Press; freedom of the radio; and freedom of television. [More…]
The constant attack in this House on Australian workers who, as I have said previously, are mostly ex-servicemen who fought for this country in world wars under Labor Governments for the freedom of election which we now enjoy, is repugnant to me as it must be to the workers and citizens of Australia generally. [More…]
The fact is, of course, that there are many in the community today who believe in the freedom of assembly irrespective of the people who assemble. [More…]
Freedom of speech in publicity is something that is not good enough and it should be extended. [More…]
Another freedom of the individual is due process before deprivation of liberty or property. [More…]
There are also the following matters: No excessive bail and no cruel, unusual or capital punishment - we still have capital punishment in our federal law and also in one State; and freedom of creed and conscience, free nomination and secret ballot in United Nations elections amongst others. [More…]
I would say that there are many times when the excuse that we are undermining freedoms is used by those who themselves would desire to undermine the freedom and security of this country. [More…]
Their policy is to have a strike, to go into an 8- storey building, pull it down and then say: Well, this is part of our freedom. [More…]
The Government’s policy is to allow the maximum freedom of travel to Australia, and persons are not prevented from entering this country just because their political views are different from the views held by this Government. [More…]
I will finish my answer again on this note: We want the islands of the Pacific to be prosperous and we hope they will be able to live in peace and freedom from interference by others. [More…]
They are fighting to preserve the freedom and the way of life for which so many already have fought and died. [More…]
We did not enter the Vietnam war because we believed we were fighting for freedom. [More…]
Back in 1965 nobody could believe that we were fighting for freedom in South Vietnam. [More…]
We should not interfere with his freedom; we should not have him bonded as a slave so that he cannot leave the place because a private company will not release him. [More…]
Some of the old fire eaters have seen an opportunity to smash down a bit of freedom to try to quieten those voices which wish to dissent. [More…]
One freedom that we seem to have lost in this country is the right of a person to work if he wants to work. [More…]
The future freedom of Asia is being decided. [More…]
South Vietnam and other countries, but real peace is a prerequisite and aggression puts freedom and progress backward. [More…]
Thus can efforts in maintaining freedom have most helpful byproducts. [More…]
It was founded to give people the opportunity for freedom of speech. [More…]
The watch word of democratic freedom led only to insecurity, undiscipline, and at length to the downfall and destruction of all authority. [More…]
Hitler burnt the Reichstag and used the incident to justify the introduction of laws that violated all human freedom and rights in the name of law and order. [More…]
Above all else - and I say this to the young Fascist, the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) - Hitler destroyed freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly. [More…]
But he sought to deny to a man who stood for freedom the right to exhibit his belief on his lapel. [More…]
One of the great ironies in political practice in this country is the way in which the Liberal Party proclaims itself as a party of freedom, of liberty and of standing for the rights and the dignity of man. [More…]
Its objectives state that that Party stands for ‘freedom of speech, religion and association*. [More…]
Yet everything which has been said this morning by Government spokesmen has been designed clearly to intimidate those who seek freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of movement. [More…]
At stake in Australia today are the people’s freedoms, which are being challenged by the way in which the Government is behaving. [More…]
The Government does not believe in freedom. [More…]
In their participation in organisations which are the known creatures of international Communist front organisations, there has grown up a preparedness on the part of members of the Labor Party on the other side of this Parliament to create a climate which I believe is denying that basic freedom of dissent which is essential if we in Australia are to continue to develop under the concept of the rule of law and the concept of maturity which I believe any thinking Australian would espouse. [More…]
Today America has the greatest spirit of freedom in the world. [More…]
We must look at it in this way because the Government says that we are fighting for freedom in Vietnam. [More…]
I was indeed proud of that statement, as I have been proud of the record of my colleagues who have struggled for peace and freedom in Vietnam. [More…]
Males over 65 years and females over 60 years are granted freedom from tax where the taxable income does not exceed $1,300 in the case of a single person and $2,262 for a married couple. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in Australia is entitled to receive these benefits and the patient has complete freedom of choice both as regards the doctor and chemist, there has been a continuing increase in the expenditure under the scheme and the Commonwealth expenditure has increased from $70.4m in 1961-62 to $ 136.7m in 1969-70. [More…]
In other words, he says that the surrender of a whole nation to the - indescribable brutalities of the Russian secret police, of political and religious persecution and the destruction of any freedom of speech and liberalism in an entire nation is better in his book than standing up for one’s right and freedom in the way that has been done in Vietnam. [More…]
Why, if we are so full of fighting for freedom, were we the first government to recognise the military regime in Greece when the Greek colonels took over? [More…]
I would like to see members of the LiberalCountry Party coalition sign it and show that they are sincere when they talk about democracy and freedom. [More…]
I happened to be in part of Indonesia before that war ended and I saw the bombed tanks which carried slogans for freedom. [More…]
He is a redoubtable freedom fighter as we all know: . [More…]
It is in the pursuit of answers to questions or actions sought in response to disquiet - often quite legitimate in themselves - that actions and proposals are followed which exceed and abuse that right to academic freedom so jealously guarded by the universities. [More…]
Any form of stifling legitimate freedom of discussion is objectionable. [More…]
But to stifle such freedom by threats of violence in inexcusable. [More…]
freedom from organised violence on the campus can be reasonably assured. [More…]
Firstly, it would allow greater freedom in long term planning. [More…]
This greater freedom would contribute to the success of the Post Office as a commercial undertaking. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on Rims, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share (hem. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
There is the liberalising kind exemplified by a Bill of Rights with its guarantees of freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of movement. [More…]
The people of the Territory are concerned about their existence and their freedom from massacre or murder and those frightful blow-ups which used to occur and still do occur in some remote areas today. [More…]
British doctors who rail against increasing assaults upon their professional freedom by government and other interfering and uninformed outsiders often look longingly towards the US. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay* unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
That the question the simplistic viewthat nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’is taken to include an Increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
If this happens in universities there will be no academic freedom left. [More…]
Universities require this freedom in order to examine the community and seek truth. [More…]
We shall fight this Communistic ramp against individual freedom by every means in our power - political, legal, constitutional and physical. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
If we are going to involve somebody else, we had to place our own freedom, our own service and our own sacrifice on the line. [More…]
because the result of every proposal put by it to this Government about South Vietnam and the conduct of the war in South Vietnam would have made it quite impossible for South Vietnam to maintain its freedom. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) was another sturdy freedom fighter for the primary producers, but he is the most silent man in the House on the subject. [More…]
There was no doubt in my mind or in the minds of the people who did the job that in the background there was a campaign of sabotage led by those freedom fighters for the countryside, the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King) and the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt). [More…]
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Razak, has stated that he wants Malaysia to be free and neutral and that consequently he feels that China, the United States of America and Russia should join together in an attempt to achieve neutrality and freedom in that area. [More…]
The first point relating to the freedom and neutrality of Malaysia is consistent with Australian Government policy. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry negotiated Australia’s way into the United States market and negotiated freedom from the earlier British agreement to sell as much as we could to the United States. [More…]
Decisions are made in secrecy by a small unrepresentative elite and freedom is curtailed or destroyed. [More…]
Only in the case of national security, important cases of the national interest, or where freedom of an individual’s privacy are involved, should actions be taken in secrecy in a democratic society. [More…]
Also in the United States there is a Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
There are vague innuendoes and sinister suggestions that a Soviet fleet will somehow impinge upon our freedom or rights. [More…]
Yet we have the stupid, asinine, childish situation of people who are supposed to be grown up trying, with no grounds based on commonsense at all at this time, to produce a situation whereby the people of South Vietnam will not be able to look after their own freedom and their own right of independence. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
I wholeheartedly agree that the Aboriginals must be given complete freedom of choice. [More…]
We are trying to achieve complete freedom, equality and integration for all those Aboriginals who want it. [More…]
I hope that all Australians, old and new, black and white, will play their part in providing equal freedom and equal living standards for everyone, regardless of colour. [More…]
Common criticisms of price control by governments are that it constitutes undue interference with business freedom, and tends to produce uniformity and to damp down competition. [More…]
To it free enterprise represents the freedom to organise the competition out of enterprise - to keep the ‘ins’ in and the ‘outs’ out. [More…]
It makes consequential provision to ensure the efficacy of undertakings in the guarantee and loan agreements regarding freedom of payments from Australian taxation or restrictions imposed by Australian law. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
I do not believe that these* matters should be written too firmly into the legislation because they would limit the freedom and the flexibility of the Commission. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled” will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films’, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
Has the Government adequate power to cope with attacks on individual freedoms which are becoming more prevalent in Australia? [More…]
If not, will action be taken to strengthen the ability of the Government to preserve those freedoms that we have long accepted in Australia as part of our freedom loving democratic way of life? [More…]
This is possibly because universities also attract a different kind of person, the structure of them is different and the freedom inside them is different from that implied in technical institutions of the sort we are speaking about today. [More…]
In trying to obtain the maximum amount of freedom in these institutions they behave in quite a reactionary fashion. [More…]
They believe that there should be a maximum amount of freedom in the community. [More…]
But at the same time one of the ways that those of us who do believe in the maximum amount of freedom inside institutions should behave is continuously to deny the proposition that we are somewhere between the right and left wings and to make it quite clear that the right and left wings are together and that we are in a radical position so far as those other groups are concerned. [More…]
This enables complete freedom to defer students so that they can complete their course, whatever it is, and not have to call them up before they have completed their course simply because they have reached the age of 26 years. [More…]
League for Peace and Freedom, the Save the. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal mora) decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness id face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
It is heartening to see that La Trobe University and Melbourne University - the stronghold of freedom, progress and the militant approach to these things - have 4 student members. [More…]
Did he and the Public Service Board receive written submissions this year from the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations expressing concern at the extent and the scope of restrictions placed upon the freedom of expression of members of the Public Service by the Public Service Act and Regulations and the Commonwealth Crimes Act and putting forward a number of proposals for reform by the Public Service Board and the Government. [More…]
However, through constant harassment and the imprisonment of several of the National Leaders, they are denied of their human rights and deprived of freedom by the Brazilian Government. [More…]
That the Australian delegation to the United Nations are directed to question the Brazilian delegation regarding the social freedom of their countrymen. [More…]
The authors go on to speak of Police powers and I now read: ‘Nevertheless there remains what has been called the public nuisance aspect which may result from freedom to speak. [More…]
Once we step outside of conformism we have no rights - no freedom of speech and no freedom of assembly. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) has at last joined the forces of freedom and progress. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because ot a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life m open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them [More…]
I disagree with the Minister, as does the Community Standards Organisation, when he argues that ‘the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms’. [More…]
Of the 3 choices - total freedom, total restraint and assessed moderation - I find only the last realistic or attractive. [More…]
Even J. S. Mill qualified his espousal of individual liberty by the recognition that in the exercise of freedom the individual must not be a nuisance to others. [More…]
It is, in fairly simple terms, an intrusion into and upon the freedom of the individual. [More…]
The censorship imposed by the Soviet Union on the great novelists of the day is an historical fact of great sadness to all who are interested in the propagation of man’s artistic and creative ability and freedom. [More…]
Perhaps this verbal freedom is now an almost-won concession; but it is still a confused and insecure one. [More…]
It is all very well for honourable members opposite to refer to what happens in other countries where allegedly there is no form of censorship and say that those societies have not been harmed, but 1 will leave in the minds of honourable members these quotations and let them decide whether the freedom in the United States - and I believe that in certain States there is almost complete freedom - perhaps has not stopped the depravity of which the honourable member for Maribyrnong spoke. [More…]
But I do believe that there is a difference between freedom on the one hand and licence on the other hand. [More…]
‘Freedom’ is a limited term. [More…]
We are limited in our freedom during every day of our lives. [More…]
There is a responsibility upon this Parliament and the members who comprise it to help to establish community standards at as high a level as we can reasonably establish them, at the same time maintaining a reasonable freedom and giving some liberalisation. [More…]
Our liberty depends upon the freedom of the Press and that cannot be limited without being lost. [More…]
1 believe that in the standards of censorship that we have there is sufficient freedom to allow an expression of .opinion on practically all subjects. [More…]
If those people are not worthy of support in the greatest of all things that a people can have - freedom to choose or to change their government by peaceable means - how can the Deputy Leader of the Opposition say that it is worth helping them in providing aid? [More…]
Many related factors are involved - the greater complexity of life presented by modern society, the decline in social controls of behaviour, the absence in many highly urbanised societies of the supports and sanctions of a well understood traditional culture, the opportunities provided by urbanised societies for anonymity and freedom of action and for an increase in criminal activity with a lower risk of detection. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’, unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
We believe that we have been right from the beginning in supporting South Vietnam and giving them the opportunity for freedom and liberty. [More…]
If I may use the words of our policy, we are dedicated to political liberty and the freedom and dignity of man; safe from external aggression and playing our part in a world security order which maintains the necessary force to defend the peace; looking primarily to the encouragement of individual initiative and enterprise as the dynamic force of progress; to make just provision for the aged, the invalid, the widowed, the sick, the unemployed and the children. [More…]
If the freedom and right of the individual are preserved under our political system we will become a great nation. [More…]
I refer to the Prime Minister’s statement to the House yesterday that Australia’s support for the South Vietnamese is giving them the opportunity for freedom and liberty. [More…]
Is he aware that there is a substantial body of opinion within South Vietnam itself that the greatest barrier to freedom and liberty is the present Saigon Government, which the Australian Government is helping to uphold by armed force? [More…]
Both freedom and order are essential. [More…]
Freedom without order - which is virtually what the anarchists proclaim - is an impossible slate except for hermits. [More…]
There can be no meaningful freedom in society unless we have order. [More…]
On the other hand, order without freedom is tyranny and we will have none of it. [More…]
In short, freedom of assembly and freedom of movement must be qualified by reference to considerations affecting the overall public interest. [More…]
In the result, the Government has decided that it should undertake the task of balancing the various interests - of making an effort to achieve a synthesis of freedom and order, as the objective has been described - in a suitable, modern statute covering, but expressly limited to, matters within the area of Commonwealth legislative responsibility. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948, which States have yet to agree. [More…]
There is no freedom of assembly or speech. [More…]
Is is non-violent to deny a human being the right to vote, the right to free choice of employment or the rights to equal wages, equal justice, education, health and social welfare, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, equal participation in cultural activities, freedom to choose his own spouse, the right to strike, freedom of movement, of religion, of political views, and the hundred other rights enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
Will he consider giving to Asian and African students who are among the 9,500 private students from overseas presently studying here the same freedom of choice as that given to students from Europe. [More…]
The Department has complete freedom to investigate and in the thoughts it can put forward. [More…]
No Minister for Foreign Affairs nowaday* and few, if any, governments have complete freedom about foreign policy - the space for manoeuvre is strictly circumscribed by internal politics on the one hand - for example, in Australia the emotional anti-Communist forces and their inn ,en.. in the Liberal-Country Parties or pre-occupation with the DLP vole. [More…]
If the last Attorney-General was wanting to make out a case for legislation establishing the right of dissent and freedom of expression for this country his case would have been immeasurably strengthened if he had been able to quote not merely the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 but this more recent Convention of 1966 which Australia has still not ratified. [More…]
It does not seek to stifle or to silence the freedom to dissent, protest or demonstrate. [More…]
For political violence, whatever its precise motive, can lead only to a crack down on freedom. [More…]
They protest under the banners of freedom and justice, but they simply do not believe in the freedoms and justice which we cherish in our democracy. [More…]
Our nation has a proud history of freedom from political violence and a proud history of political freedom. [More…]
But freedom and democracy are not just anywhere to be taken for the asking. [More…]
On campus after campus in the United States of America the few have made the many suffer a serious and lasting curtailment or even a cessation of their basic freedoms, lt is not even a question of the right to dissent in some places there. [More…]
Congress shall make nu law abridging the freedom of speech or of the Press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble. [More…]
The whole process of law is something which we must at all times continue to observe, if we want freedom and a democratic system in this country. [More…]
It was said by no less a person than Chief Justice Warren that this State law was merely a weapon let loose with devastatingly destructive power for the infringement of freedom. [More…]
Our own former Attorney-General when introducing this Bill said that we must not interfere with freedom; but it was interfered with, as I have just shown, as recently as 1967. [More…]
The people who are actively interested in society and in living in a better world will demonstrate for improved conditions and at universities students are encouraged to think for themselves and to exercise a freedom of choice. [More…]
I believe that no writ has been commissioned by anyone which authorises the honourable member for Boothby, his Party and his Government to deprive a man of his freedom or his life as is happening under the National Service Act. [More…]
My friend, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns)- and rightly so - said that in the legislation of this country there is no freedom of speech, there is no right of assembly and that there is no right to anything in fact. [More…]
Is this Bill the product of hysteria, politics, a dangerous situation such as the Canadian Government saw in Quebec, genuine concern for the freedom of the subject, or is it law reform? [More…]
I would like to point out that while great internal freedom can bring certain inefficiencies, it is a source of great strength. [More…]
In doing so T achieved freedom from ignorance and a modicum of knowledge. [More…]
This whole thing leads to a freedom of young people which is very nice in itself, but it is not essentially a disciplinary way of life. [More…]
Both the strength and the weakness of democracy - and, as I suggested earlier, both the strength and the weakness of the Liberal Party structure - are that the system allows freedom of a very considerable kind by world standards. [More…]
But the system can also be exploited by those who wish to take advantage of that freedom. [More…]
The system has been evolved to provide production process stability in order to reduce to a minimum the rejection of ‘safety’ components which do not meet specification in dimensions, material quality metallurgical condition, and freedom from internal or surface defects. [More…]
The Quality Control of manufacture of components lo specifications in dimensions, surface finish, freedom from cracks, and metallurgical condition, is thus considered to be fully acceptable. [More…]
- surface finish, freedom from cracks, and metallurgical condition, is thus considered to be fully acceptable. [More…]
The privilege of freedom from arrest or molestation of members of Parliament, which is of great antiquity, was of proved indispensability, first to the service of the Crown, and now to the functioning of each House. [More…]
It is stated by Blackstone and others, and has been the general opinion (founded, probably, upon the ancient law and custom, by which writs of summons for a Parliament were always issued at least forty days before its appointed meeting), that the privilege of freedom from arrest remains with a member of the House of Commons ‘for forty days after every prorogation, and forty days before the next appointed meeting’; and this extent of privilege has been allowed by the courts of law, on the ground of usage and universal opinion. [More…]
The second point related to the exploitation of Aboriginals if they were given freedom over their own assets and funds. [More…]
Has the honourable member for Lalor established, as he claims, the right of freedom of movement in the office, or is this the usual grandstanding of the honourable member for Lalor? [More…]
He has certainly not achieved freedom of movement in the office and if anything can be said at this time it is that what the honourable member for Lalor has achieved is to structure in this country a threat to freedom of movement in the office by his delibertae confrontation with civil authority and with duly constituted law and order as determined by government. [More…]
The former AttorneyGeneral went on to say: The Government has decided that it should undertake the task of balancing the various interests, of making an effort to achieve a synthesis of freedom and order, as the objective has been described, in a suitable modern statute covering, but expressly limited to, matters within the area of Commonwealth legislative responsibility. [More…]
The honourable member for Chisholm emphasised that what had to be sought was a balance between freedom and necessary restraints. [More…]
Broadly expressed, the special duty imposed by international law on a state that receives a diplomatic or special mission, or consents to the establishment of a consular post, is to take appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission or post against intrusion or damage, to prevent any attack on the person, freedom or dignity of the personnel of the mission or post and to prevent disturbance of the peace, or impairment of the dignity, of the mission or post. [More…]
It says that this is surely the quickest way to lose freedom, to bring into disrepute the law of the land and the administration of justice. [More…]
But the freedom he is talking about which he is able to give the citizens who engage him to administer the law is freedom under the existing law. [More…]
All of this I do not dispute, but nevertheless I must protest that there are times when freedom is not helped by obeying the law, when the most vital freedoms have to be defended by defying the law. [More…]
It is the only way open to them when the legislative process fails, as it usually does in matters vital to freedom. [More…]
This is a country in which we have freedom. [More…]
Heckling at a political meeting, which is a long established Australian expression of freedom, could well cause the repressive measures of this Bill to be enforced. [More…]
J submit that this has resulted in an undue freedom for Ministers and others on the Government side to use and misuse the procedures of this House for their own political advantage. [More…]
What in fact distinguishes a democratic society is the freedom and tolerance that the society gives to individuals and groups to think as they see fit, to feel as they choose, to express their views as individuals, to organise together as groups in assemblies, to express their views in order to publicise those views and to change government thinking. [More…]
The former Minister put the crux of the legislation in the following terms: ‘Of making an effort to achieve a synthesis of freedom and order’. [More…]
This makes nonsense of the claim made by the former AttorneyGeneral that the Bill is designed to synthesise freedom and order. [More…]
The Bill represents a further restriction on the individual rights and freedoms of persons. [More…]
It does not in any way provide for greater extension protection of freedom. [More…]
What we need in Australia is more freedom, not less freedom. [More…]
One does not realise the limited freedoms that we possess until one steps outside of conformity. [More…]
In other words the socalled cherished right of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, which is taught in Australian schools, is utter hypocrisy. [More…]
1 was able to explain to them that although their freedoms were limited within the university once they stepped outside the boundaries of the university grounds their freedoms were far more restricted - they had no freedoms outside. [More…]
If they wanted to demonstrate against the war in Vietnam or against visitors from a country which supported apartheid or if they wanted to support farmers who were seeking economic justice or old age pensioners they had no freedom of assembly and no freedom of speech. [More…]
I have respect for the parliamentary system but I have respect also for the freedom of the individual. [More…]
In a free society people should function, should criticise, should demonstrate, should express their indignation, should express their attitudes and should have the right of freedom of assembly. [More…]
That was utter stupidity because they have no right to assemble, no freedom of assembly and no freedom of speech. [More…]
Let us stop this talk about the freedom of our society. [More…]
If the Government tells us that we have freedom of assembly we will demonstrate and we will make sure that we demand more freedom, not less. [More…]
What is wrong with this Government is that it has restricted our freedoms. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. [More…]
This freedom does not exist in this country. [More…]
In the 1936 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics section 125 guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, but after the invasion of Czechoslovakia 3 citizens had placards iri the Red Square which were critical of that invasion and they were prosecuted. [More…]
Notwithstanding what the honourable member for Lalor suggests it is impossible to introduce a police state in this country because we do have protection of the rights of personal freedom emanating from wrongful detention. [More…]
We have the right of freedom of speech which means that any person can write or say what he pleases so long as he does not damage his neighbour or defame him. [More…]
We understand them and we exercise that freedom and enjoy it in this country. [More…]
In fact, in our system there is freedom. [More…]
We do not confine it except to eliminate from the entire area of freedom this tiny corner where people are violent or are interfering with the rights of other people. [More…]
Freedom of assembly in this country is on sufferance of the Government, State or Federal, which has power to cut it down or destroy it at any minute. [More…]
That Party stands for freedom of speech, freedom of the individual and the rights of democracy. [More…]
I have also pointed out to the House that if the Standing Orders are to be interpreted as some members believe they should be interpreted, this House would be unworkable at question time and I think that the freedom of members in debates would also become rather like a relic of the olden days when parliamentarians were suppressed. [More…]
Thus actual market prices had considerable freedom of movement according to quality, market conditions and changes in freight and exchange rates. [More…]
on earth; that we have eagerly supported the most unpopular war in modern times, on the ground that Asia should be a battle-ground of our freedom; that we fail to oppose the sale of arms to South Africa; that the whole world believes that our immigration policy is based on colour and that we run one of the world’s last colonies. [More…]
On the west side of the wall there is gaiety, freedom and a normal way of life. [More…]
Is this freedom? [More…]
I believe in civil rights and the freedom of the individual to follow his conscience and choose his own method of protest. [More…]
Is he aware that in Russia there is no freedom of the Press and that departure from the country and internal movement within it are severely restricted? [More…]
Is he aware that liberal writers are suppressed and that there is no freedom of expression? [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister further: Is he aware that in South Africa there is practically 100 per cent freedom of the Press and religion, that passports for departure from the country are freely available, that there is a fair judiciary and that there are other signs of democratic freedom? [More…]
That means that the recipient country has freedom of action to apply the money as it wishes. [More…]
I don’t think this is freedom. [More…]
I think we should enjoy the same freedom to discount as these supermarkets that have just cut their prices. [More…]
87 Freedom of Association and Protection the Right to Organise, 1948, is clarified. [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called ‘internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the fact of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
We can now be reassured that this review will take place with the freedom of the Board unimpaired by any restrictions placed upon it by the Government. [More…]
It makes consequential provision to ensure the effectiveness of undertakings in the guarantee and loan agreements regarding freedom of payments from Australian taxation or restrictions imposed by Australian law.It also includes an appropriation of moneys required for the Commonwealth to make any payments under the guarantee. [More…]
It brought rural communities within reach of the towns and gave townspeople the freedom of the country. [More…]
The reality of our so-called glorious free enterprise system is that there is no autonomy or freedom at all. [More…]
The local hospitals have no freedom at all. [More…]
The Executive decides its authority without let or hindrance from the freedom fighters opposite, so the House of Representatives has become what we might call the banana republic of the parliamentary system. [More…]
Whilst we have the principle of absolute equality of citizens before the law - with everyone, no matter what his station, subject to the law - whilst we have the independence of the judiciary and whilst we have the right of freedom of speech and assembly so long as the freedoms of other people are not infringed, the rights of individual citizens are protected. [More…]
Not only the actuality but also the spirit of freedom is protected. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 and a possible ratification of both Conventions is under active consideration. [More…]
Free competition was synonymous in their mind with the public interest In 1912 Woodrow Wilson campaigned oa what he called the new freedom. [More…]
Also in the United States is a Freedom of Information Act which specifies that all information held in government files will be open to public inspection with the exception of information relating to national security or the privacy of the individual. [More…]
I would just say about national service that I have arrived at the conclusion at this stage in my life, when I am safely beyond military age, that in the first instance no-one has the right to dispose of another’s life or freedom, that national service is the ultimate act of violence by the community against a minority of its own members and that that cannot be tolerated in a modern democratic society. [More…]
I will not surrender my freedom to the Army either on this sort of issue. [More…]
There would have been no opportunity to seize if it had not been for the efforts of the allies in South Vietnam to preserve the freedom and security of that country. [More…]
If the Australians, the Americans and their allies were not in South Vietnam to preserve freedom this work could not go on. [More…]
I am sure an Australian military presence in Vietnam is not in the interests of peace, freedom or democracy for the people of Vietnam, but on the contrary in the interests of injustice and privilege. [More…]
What right has the Government to play God with some young men’s lives and take away their freedom, whether it be by putting them in gaol or by putting them into the Army? [More…]
Is not this what is being said when it allows 90 per cent of Australia’s young men to remain at home and says to the other 10 per cent: ‘You have no freedom. [More…]
I say that the Government has no right to dispose of the lives or freedom of any individual or collection of individuals. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about democracy and freedom, but those things do not apply even in this place. [More…]
Yet all the time, honourable members opposite have said that we were in Vietnam for freedom and democracy, lt was a denial of democracy that took Australia into Vietnam in the first place because we were not prepared to accept the outcome of free elections in that country. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party have become supine pawns before the East Wind in a demonic game of Mah Jong, and the stakes are the freedom of this nation and of South East Asia. [More…]
For China the Indian Ocean means cheapness, bulk transport and freedom of the seas. [More…]
I wonder what Mr St John thinks tonight as he listens in to the freedom of thought of the Liberal Party. [More…]
It means that if that were the law of this country, it would be an end to the impartiality of the judiciary, it would be an end to judges’ independence and it would be an end to the freedom which they now have to reach decisions based on the evidence and on the arguments that are put before them. [More…]
The fact is that a decision of whether to parole or not to parole is a decision whether to give freedom or not to give freedom. [More…]
We have a free Press and freedom of expression; their Press is controlled and their people know little or nothing about what the real objectives of their government might be. [More…]
The Government wants to forget Czechoslovakia and the freedoms that have been crushed in that country, lt even wants to ignore the restrictions on the freedom of the artists and writers in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We on this side of the House have always stood for freedom of expression and for the right of individuals to elect the government of their choice. [More…]
They double crossed them by seeming to accept it and then giving them a wool commission tied hand and foot by Government dictation as to its selling and freedom of operation. [More…]
I hope too that he will then feel able to allow the trading banks more freedom in setting their own interest rates. [More…]
The President also said that the time had come for other economically strong nations to bear their fair share of defending freedom around the world. [More…]
AH I can conclude is that the Leader of the Opposition is anti-freedom. [More…]
He is against any freedom for the 14 million people of Taiwan. [More…]
I realise that freedom of the Press is a fundamental principle of democracy and in addition, I know that journalists have to earn a living and that sometimes their reports are exaggerated or misleading in their endeavours to get a story across, but I believe that this House could never condone a deliberate untruth in a matter of this nature. [More…]
I am sure that we shall not do this and I am sure that the Government recognises - it is plainly implicit in what the Prime Minister said this afternoon - that here we have opening up before us a very great opportunity to introduce in this country on a national level effective trade practices legislation that will recognise, firstly, that private enterprise must be free enterprise and not merely private enterprise and that that enterprise must be subject to reasonable restraints in the public interest, those restraints being restraints that are designed to sure the virtues and advantages of true freedom of competition, not altogether cutthroat freedom and not the 19th century laissez-faire Liberal type of freedom that went too far, but the true virtues of freedom of competition. [More…]
To help them get on their feet and to protect their freedom, the United States has provided 143 billion dollars In foreign aid. [More…]
Now that other nations are economically strong the time has come for them to bear their fair share of the burden of defending freedom around the world. [More…]
Of course, those who are dedicated to Socialism do not care about the loss of freedom. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protec tion of the Right to Organise, 1948 [More…]
Poverty should be eliminated firstly in Australia and it should be our aim to ensure that not one Australian lives in want and fear and that they should enjoy above all else freedom from hunger. [More…]
What right has he to play God with another man’s life and freedom? [More…]
There is just not enough freedom of choice in radio programmes of the type that the ABC presents. [More…]
At the June meeting the Commonwealth accepted the States’ need for some greater flexibility and freedom in revenue-raising. [More…]
Students of universities nowadays have more freedom of speech, expression and action than at any other time in history. [More…]
I hope, even if the Opposition does not do so, that future generations have the freedom, the surplus money and the means to invest in this nation so that it will progress towards the type of society that I know fundamentally all of us in this chamber tonight want. [More…]
The article is headed The Price of Freedom’ and it appeals tremendously to me. [More…]
The Reverend J. R. Payne said at the dawn service at the War Memorial yesterday that many young people should remember that their freedom to express their opinions had been bought with the lives of those being remembered on Anzac Day. [More…]
They have always gone to fight against people who were not upholding the laws of democracy and freedom. [More…]
Young people in this country today do not realise the debt they owe to the men who gave us the freedom to be in this Parliament today, talking as I am doing and as other honourable members have done on matters concerning this Budget and other subjects which are of vital importance to Australia. [More…]
Admiral Felt responded emphatically that ‘it was essential that the commanders be given freedom to use these as had been assumed under various plans’. [More…]
What do we have if we do not retain our freedom? [More…]
We had the best record of any nation of conscripting and volunteering men to serve in the defence of freedom. [More…]
It affects politicians in that its success breeds a greater arrogance and concomitantly a lesser regard for what might be regarded as the inalienable freedom of any man. [More…]
If the Government will not guarantee the freedom of 20-year-olds, why should they later be concerned about yours. [More…]
It will merely obliterate the difference between an Australian’s ‘freedom’ and that of a citizen in a totalitarian slate. [More…]
The Minister has proclaimed himself to be the national gaoler of men who love freedom. [More…]
The Government does not want men to have the freedom that they demand. [More…]
It is not the Government’s place to give people freedom; it has to guarantee that the people can retain their freedom. [More…]
The sooner we can get an answer to these problems, particularly the ones relating to changes in parities, the removal of the import charge and some better arrangement for freedom of trade, the better it will be for Australia and, I believe, for all underdeveloped countries. [More…]
Vietnam is not in the interests of peace, freedom or democracy for the people of Vietnam, but on the contrary in the interests of injustice and privilege. [More…]
I believe that this amendment if accepted would ensure that this sort of thing would not happen again and that these political prisoners would be enjoying their freedom today. [More…]
I wonder what has happened to freedom, democracy and justice in Australia, when we have twenty-year-olds being made staves, killers and dead. [More…]
We hear our government talk a lot about freedom, and then let it create a National Service Act. [More…]
I believe he has the right to be heard in this chamber if there is such a thing as freedom of speech left for these young men in this country. [More…]
I think that posterity will judge a great number of these people to be traitors to their country and to the cause of freedom and democracy. [More…]
As a result of action by the freedom fighters, the French maquis and so forth, against the occupation forces the Nazi troops decided to line up the village people and take one in 10 of the male population. [More…]
They have gone overseas to uphold the principles of democracy and freedom. [More…]
I know- and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) knows - that democracy and especially freedom are the greatest things that man can achieve. [More…]
The honourable member has had the same experience as I have had in being deprived of freedom. [More…]
He is in a position now to feel that certain young men in gaol should have their freedom. [More…]
No doubt this is something that goes back to the time when he did not have his freedom. [More…]
Freedom and democracy have been spoken of in this debate. [More…]
We know the freedom and democracy that existed in South Vietnam where most of these young conscripts went, where 500 young men lost their lives and where 2,500 young men were maimed. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about freedom, democracy and the ‘free world’. [More…]
This is the type of hysteria that this immoral Government indulges in, and then it talks about freedom and democracy. [More…]
Not even ‘freedom and democracy’ can justify the taking of a conscript’s freedom. [More…]
We hear in this chamber about the great need to defend freedom and about abhorrence of totalitarian nations. [More…]
The amendment provides an opportunity for the Government to remove from the statute book an abhorent piece of legislation which is a denial of the freedom which we suggest we defend. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 (Hansard, 16th March 1971. page 968 and 8th September 1971, page 983) and (d) No. [More…]
I refer to the problems which have arisen at the General Post Office, Melbourne, in relation to the Freedom From Hunger Campaign. [More…]
Also I refer to women who may not want to marry and who may want to retain their freedom and independence. [More…]
It seems to me that if we are to have a free society then women are entitled to have their freedom whether they are married or single. [More…]
I notice, for instance, that donations to the Freedom from Hunger campaign, the Save the Children Fund and the Volunteer Services Abroad fund, all worthwhile causes, attract deductions from taxation in New Zealand. [More…]
But this certainly does not extend to the question of compulsory unionism and, as I have mentioned in response to what the honourable gentleman has questioned, the Government is opposed to compulsory unionism because it does cut across individual freedom. [More…]
But we talk in terms of the ability or the freedom of people to follow their own dictates of conscience or inclination in the matter of education. [More…]
But if we give fairly free rein to conscience in other respects, not least in the c?se of dissenters from national service and others, whether or not we prefer a secular basis for education, the freedom to choose the educational institution to which we might send our children seems to me to be a pretty fundamental one. [More…]
This private investment in education is, I believe, extremely important and should be encouraged as it not only preserves the freedom of choice for the individual but also encourages educational experimentation and the provision of increased total resources for education. [More…]
One of the great things in this country, I believe, is freedom of religion and a parent therefore has the right to give his child a basic moral and religious education if he so chooses. [More…]
Again, we would give genuine freedom of choice to parents. [More…]
It would give greater freedom to teachers. [More…]
With the concept of freedom of religion accepted by all, it would be expected that religious instruction would be provided for non-Catholics by their coreligionists in the schools while the Catholic students are getting their religious instruction. [More…]
Education should promote love of freedom and justice and should develop critical perception, ability to choose intelligently, capacity for selfgovernment and a sense of social responsibility, lt should instil belief in the equal rights of all people and respect for their essential humanity, irrespective of nationality, colour or creed. [More…]
It seems to me that if the church has difficulty - and I am quite concerned that people should have freedom to give their children the education which they want to give them - one of the solutions may well be that those Catholics who are part of the State school teaching staff should be free to teach in church schools. [More…]
Freedom in Australia Is not dead, but it is in a deep coma, sedated by apathy, affluence and middle-class mediocrity. [More…]
I was proud to attend both clubs because the ex-servicemen of both clubs had fought for the freedom of their country. [More…]
What the honourable member wants - I think that I am right in my interpretation of what he had to say - is to ensure that the people of Papua New Guinea have a freedom of choice, that is, that they can send their children either to a State school or to a non-State school. [More…]
As to capital movements, I made it clear wherever I went that any solution to the international monetary problem should be on the basis that it did not restrict the freedom of the international movement of capital especially to the developing countries but also to developed countries. [More…]
People have been relatively generous, and I pay tribute io the organisations which have worked to raise the $2m referred to - Austcare, Freedom from Hunger and the churches. [More…]
I ask: In view of assurances by the Government that it has ample room to manoeuvre against current unemployment trends, will the Minister indicate the point at which the Government is likely to exercise the freedom of action which it believes it has? [More…]
That they question the simplistic view that nations ‘perish’ because of a so-called internal moral decay’ unless such ‘decay’ is taken to include an increasing unwillingness to face the facts of life in open discussion and freedom of thought. [More…]
Honourable Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to give the maximum freedom to adults to choose what they will watch, read and listen to, even in the face of pressure from those who seek to impose their ideas and morals on others who do not share them. [More…]
Should we vainly play the game of democracy and freedom which will lead us to complete defeat or should we curtail anarchic freedom in order to achieve victory? [More…]
It would not be inconsistent with our withdrawal of combat forces from South Vietnam, but it would be entirely consistent with our view that withdrawal from combat should not mean a complete cessation of assistance to people who will continue to face a very difficult task in securing their freedom from aggression. [More…]
Consumer’s freedom of choice between competing fuels, on the basis of prices which reflect costs of supply. [More…]
Most people would agree that the loss of personal freedom entailed by conscription is an evil, but many believe it to be a necessary evil. [More…]
We need a period of freedom from this sort of thing before anything can be done along these lines. [More…]
No Commonwealth country has a licence to engage in this basic denial of freedom, this denial of the right of trial, and in all the other indecencies which are taking place, without expecting other Commonwealth countries to speak out about them as they are matters with which the Commonwealth is supposed to be concerned. [More…]
Freedom sleeps, [More…]
I will not be satisfied with the Cambodian situation until somehow we have guaranteed the freedom and neutrality of that country. [More…]
However, particularly following the High Court decision invalidating State receipts duties as they applied to certain types of transaction, it was clear that, notwithstanding these large increases in Commonwealth revenue assistance, it would be desirable for the States to have access to a new source of taxation to give them greater freedom and independence in revenue raising. [More…]
Here we have an alliance which is nominally aimed at protecting democracy and freedom in South East Asia yet virtually its only Asian supporter, Thailand, now has a government which has conducted a coup d’etat which has destroyed democracy in Thailand. [More…]
This motion from this side of the House comes more in a desire to let Government supporters exercise their freedom and right to vote on an issue about which they say they are concerned. [More…]
You have fought valiantly in defence of the ideal of freedom. [More…]
New roads have been built and today the people can travel these roads with greater freedom from harassment and illegal tax gatherers than ever before in the past decade. [More…]
It will provide long term low interest loans for those who have served the country in war and who have been prepared to give their lives in order that our freedom may be secure. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) has just demonstrated that far from being a freedom fighter from way back he is simply another case-hardened Party hack. [More…]
We do have a freedom from caucus decisions but we use that freedom in a democratic way and in a way which gets results. [More…]
In other words ships, be they warships or any other types of ships, can transit them with all the freedom conferred by their seas. [More…]
Individual workers are denied the freedom to decide whether or not they will join a particular organisation, with the threat of losing their employment if they refuse to join. [More…]
They refuse to entrust their freedom to a legal apparatus. [More…]
Eisenhower declared that he favoured the right to strike, declaring quite properly that the abolition of such a right would be the loss of freedom that was absolutely basic to democracy. [More…]
He said that the contest between labour and industry cannot be abolished without abolishing economic freedom itself. [More…]
The right of men to leave their jobs is a test of freedom. [More…]
But each also suppressed freedom. [More…]
There are some things worse than strikes, much worse than strikes - one of them is the loss of freedom. [More…]
This is a fundamental freedom. [More…]
Men strike because tyranny and injustice have not yet disappeared from human affairs - they have merely shifted the venue - and because the spirit of freedom still lives and will not yield even to the law when the law becomes an instrument of class oppression. [More…]
The Labor Party believes that the Aboriginal people of Australia should have a freedom of choice as to whether they’ merge into our society. [More…]
Her great victory quickly brought freedom for the people of Bangla Desh and the refugees in India and this alone warranted India’s action. [More…]
Because of the limited number of frequencies available for radio and television, it is necessary for government to regulate these areas in order to ensure that the public interest is protected, but, as far as possible, the traditional freedom of the Press should apply to radio and television. [More…]
In the time that I have available to me I would like to read a passage from chapter one of a well known work entitled ‘Freedom in Australia’ by Campbell and Whitmore. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Personal Freedom and the Criminal Law’ they said: [More…]
If one accepts the premise that individual liberty is something valuable in itself or valuable because it is essential to fulfilment of human potentialities legal coercion in any form must be regarded as prima lacie objectionable, an interference with individual liberty which cannot be tolerated unless it is shown to be indispensable to the securing of some countervailing good.1 But what benefit or good should a liberty-minded society endorse as sufficient to warrant the inhibition of freedom which legal coercion always involves? [More…]
lt seems to me very strange that the Socialist Party opposite might suddenly be acting as ‘big brother’ to private enterprise, saying to private enterprise that we the Socialists are going to protect you, private enterprise, from these monsters who are allowing you freedom of choice. [More…]
The freedom enjoyed under it is undoubtedly the chief factor in attracting migrants to our shores. [More…]
Diversity and freedom of choice are platitudes to this Government but they are obviously not to be offered to the farmer nor has there been any significant consultation between the Government and educational or training institutions to operate the scheme effectively. [More…]
We believe that in this decade Australia can make great advances towards freedom from fear of being old, unwanted and uncared for- [More…]
I hope that Mr McMahon takes comfort from those words - freedom from fear of unemployment; freedom from fear of being unable to meet the cost of illness. [More…]
Will he include in the statement information about the conditions existing in Vietnam which prompted us to go to the assistance of the South Vietnamese when they were fighting desperately for their freedom from Communist aggression, and about the conditions now existing which enable them to mount and maintain their own defence? [More…]
Federation of Western Australia, approximately 120 schools affiliated; the Parents and Friends Federation of South Australia, approximately 120 schools affiliated; the Victorian Federation of Catholic Mothers’ Clubs, 190 schools affiliated; the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria, approximately 125 schools affiliated: the Federation of Parents and Friends of the Catholic Schools of Tasmania, 48 schools affiliated: and the Association for Educational Freedom which is well known from the Goulburn schools closure days, operating mainly in the country areas of New South Wales but now mainly a research body. [More…]
The freedom to worship is perhaps the greatest cherished right we have. [More…]
It is at the very heart of our Party and it is what is missing in the Opposition because its members have no freedom to stand up in this or any other place and disagree with its policy. [More…]
It is a freedom we have and it is precisely the freedom that members of the Labor Party do not have. [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not make their own policies, yet they have the temerity to come here and talk about freedom. [More…]
Filled with principles of centralist uniformity it has begrudged positive policies designed to create diversity and freedom in education. [More…]
As recently as the other day the 2 Labor senators on the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in the report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education made comments which illustrate their concern about the freedom of Australians to get the education they want. [More…]
It draws all sorts of constitutional red herrings across the path to make it look as though there is good constitutional doctrine in favour of their stand which can only drive a wedge into the Australian community, a community which believes in freedom and diversity in education. [More…]
They have done their best to get the same freedom of vote in this House as has been accorded to their colleagues in the Senate. [More…]
The Chinese side stated that it firmly supports the struggles of all oppressed people and nations for freedom and liberation . [More…]
He and the Labor Party do not care that Thailand and the Philippines feel today that SEATO is a basic guarantee of their freedom in their perilous position. [More…]
Both the honourable member for the Northern Territory and the finest flower of chivalry, the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley), spoke about SEATO acting to protect the freedom of Thailand and the Philippines. [More…]
In neither of those countries is there much freedom. [More…]
He was talking about the diversity in the Liberal Party - and it is what is missing in the Opposition because its members have no freedom to stand up in this or any other place and disagree with its policy. [More…]
He then went on to say that he has that freedom. [More…]
It is a freedom we have and it is precisely the freedom that members of the Labor Party do not have. [More…]
It also provides for freedom of payments from Australian or territory taxation or restrictions imposed by Australian or territory law. [More…]
I referred to a trained teaching profession with a freedom of movement around Australia or into the neighbouring islands of the Pacific, according to their own choice. [More…]
What we are proposing in relation to this Bill is dignity for the teaching profession, freedom of movement of trained teachers into various educational authorities without direction, great flexibility for this body to be used in the Pacific generally than is provided for in the legislation, greater flexibility for these teachers to be used within the States, higher professional standards by developing and utilising educational faculties in universities, the participation of teachers in the government of this scheme, and the participation of the community. [More…]
Such an inhibition of professional freedom to engage in public educational debate is contrary to the spirit of any profession and an obvious example of the Public Service approach to the establishment of a Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
I also took up with Mr Heath, Mr Barber and their Minister representing the United Kingdom at the Council of Ministers of the European Community the point that when Britain went into the Community it should be outward looking and consequently that it should ensure the greatest freedom of multilateral! [More…]
It should be known that it is a cardinal principle of the Liberal and the Country Parties that we believe in freedom of worship and freedom of belief. [More…]
People can travel the roads with greater freedom from harassment and illegal tax gatherers than at any time in the past 10 years. [More…]
The Navy and the Air Force are concerned with the preservation of the security of our general maritime environment and with freedom of navigation. [More…]
That motive was to give the people of South Vietnam a chance to have freedom. [More…]
Those countries were all fighting desperately to maintain their own individual freedom and to have their own national aspirations, but every one of them without exception was infiltrated by communist aggression within, and somebody had to do something about it. [More…]
We gave an opportunity to South Vietnam to establish its own freedom. [More…]
This has all happened because we contributed our small part to allow this small nation to preserve its freedom and independence. [More…]
In effect what he said was that if the honourable member for Sturt is to accuse people in this place of not standing for freedom of speech or of exercising coercion he should look at his own house first. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister assure the House that it is the intention of this Government to maintain in Australia a society where individual freedom is not submerged beneath the impersonal weight of socialisation? [More…]
In theory we should be able to rely on the United Nations to ensure this stability and freedom from external attack. [More…]
As has been said on so many occasions, we need the support of our great friends and allies and I believe that the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, along with the other Commonwealth countries, will always believe in freedom. [More…]
We believe in freedom of movement, so if people in Washington, New York, London or Manchester want to travel direct to Melbourne, who are we to say that they should not do so? [More…]
I am raising the point that I do not know whether the inclusion or exclusion of such a provision makes any difference one way or the other, because it is in fact the majority of the House that makes the decision, and we have all accepted it as a tradition that when a Minister says yea or nay all of the loyal freedom fighters on his side of the House will stand up and be counted according to his yea or nay. [More…]
It is worth remembering that no country which has ever been firmly under communist rule has emerged from that communist rate into freedom, and the 800,000 refugees from North Vietnam who fled to South Vietnam rather than suffer under communist rule are a clear indication of this. [More…]
Nevertheless, South Korea had the right of independence and freedom from Communism and we were right to go to her assistance and help her to remain free. [More…]
So I am asking honourable members to strike a blow for their own personal freedom, show their common sense and exercise their free vote in this instance. [More…]
These are not actions which can be viewed with complacency by anyone who values peace and freedom in this part of the world. [More…]
One could see that each and every one of these nations had realised that here was another small nation which was likely to be knocked off, to lose its freedom, by the might of aggression about which the honourable member for Wills talks on the one hand but on the other can give no solution as to how it is to be prevented. [More…]
Although some honourable members might not agree with what I am saying, I believe that on that day we should pay tribute to the men and women of our fighting forces to whom we owe our freedom. [More…]
There is the need to ensure freedom of action by unions and employers, consistent with the need to protect the public interest. [More…]
1 wish to raise during the debate on the motion that the House do now adjourn the problem of freedom of expression in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
There is, for example, a United States Freedom of Information Act which should, I suggest, be adopted in Australia. [More…]
The secret national group referred to is known as the Peace with Freedom group. [More…]
With whom do Kevin Cairns’ loyalties lie - Peace with Freedom or the Government; the DLP or the Liberal Party? [More…]
The Bill provides for parliamentary approval of the guarantee agreement, ft makes consequential provision to ensure the effectiveness of undertakings in the loan and guarantee agreements regarding freedom of payments from Australian taxation or restrictions imposed by Australian law and includes an appropriation of moneys required for the Commonwealth to make any payments under the guarantee. [More…]
Assuming that we accept the Minister’s avowal of innocence in any plot to weaken the Government and strengthen the DLP, surely he must reconsider his association with the Peace with Freedom group in the light of Mr Samuel’s remarks. [More…]
In fairness to the honourable member for La Trobe, I want to make it clear that he is not really opposed to freedom of speech, although one would not get that impression from listening to him. [More…]
He is just opposed to one’s right to use that freedom. [More…]
One of the 4 freedoms set out in the Atlantic Charter is the freedom of worship. [More…]
However, this Government’s philosophy rates very highly the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves, within the broad framework of our democratic society, matters concerning their own wellbeing. [More…]
Accordingly it is .not recognised as a role of this Government to impose prohibitions on people’s freedom of choice except for the most compelling national reasons. [More…]
Once a vote has been taken and has gone in favour of strike action, the resulting stoppage may delay a settlement by restricting union leaders’ freedom of action. [More…]
Will the Minister reaffirm the Australian Government’s belief in the value of the ANZUS Treaty to the defence of Australia and will he reassure the Australian people that the Government will give all moral support to President Nixon in his efforts to bring a peace to Vietnam which will ensure the freedom of the South Vietnamese people to choose their own form of government? [More…]
If a country is attacked, as Cambodia has been, we can endeavour to assist it to maintain its freedom and its own form of government at its invitation. [More…]
But one has to bear in mind when one looks at these slogans, these expressions introduced by this kind of government, such as ‘increased democracy and ‘more freedom to appeal’, a very real social purpose is being chased. [More…]
Take the word ‘freedom’. [More…]
That great and tragic war in Vietnam is being fought out by both opposing sides today under the banner of freedom. [More…]
Thus, in the early part of the nineteenth century, prevalent social doctrine favoured a minimum of government interference in economic relations and a maximum of freedom of contract. [More…]
It will have complete freedom to contract and no Government controls will be imposed. [More…]
So, the private sector can have complete freedom of contract, complete freedom of negotiation, complete freedom of fixation of either prices or profits and, in fact, freedom from any restrictions, inhibitions and constrictions. [More…]
Once a vote has been taken and has gone in favour of strike action, the resulting stoppage may delay a settlement by restricting union leaders’ freedom of action. [More…]
I believe that this amendment unduly interferes with the freedom of trade unions. [More…]
Then there is the issue of the desired composition of world reserves and related to that the question of the degree of freedom countries should have in the disposition of their reserves. [More…]
Last night back benchers on this side of the chamber were delivered a very severe blow to their freedom of speech in this chamber when the adjournment debate was gagged, although 2 honourable members on this side of the House had been promised that they would be allowed to speak in the adjournment debate. [More…]
This is not freedom of speech. [More…]
The Grievance Day debate is the hallmark of, and the key to, the back benchers’ freedom of speech in this Parliament. [More…]
this Government’s philosophy rates very highly the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves, within the broad framework of our democratic society, matters concerning their own well-being. [More…]
Accordingly it is not recognised as a role of this Government to impose prohibitions on people’s freedom of choice except for the most compelling national reasons. [More…]
Some members would have us believe that the only reason the Government does not ban advertisements is that in some way it is concerned with freedom of choice. [More…]
So are we all concerned with freedom of choice, but freedom of choice for the consumer, freedom of choice for the man who is to buy a packet of cigarettes if he wants to, or the man who buys a motor car, a loaf of bread, a bar of chocolate, a Shirt or a suit. [More…]
The way the Government has put this it is a freedom of choice not for the consumer but for the advertiser, the manufacturer of this toxic product. [More…]
I have a philosophy quite different from that of the Government - rates very highly the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves within the broad framework of our democratic society, matters concerning their own well being. [More…]
Accordingly it is not recognised as a role of this Government to impose prohibitions on people’s freedom of choice except for the most compelling national reasons [More…]
For instance, in the matter of the use of motor cars, we do not object to the compulsory use of seat belts, although this interferes with the freedom of the individual. [More…]
Yet the PostmasterGeneral said that it was not the role of the Government to impose prohibitions on people’s freedom of choice. [More…]
We have been conditioned and educated to accepting that we should impose on the freedom of individuals and decide for them matters concerning their own wellbeing. [More…]
Why does the Australian Labor Party deny to the people of South Vietnam the freedom of choice which it has endorsed for the people of Bangladesh? [More…]
I do not deny the right of people to protest provided that in doing so they do not deny other people the freedom which they demand for themselves, and provided they protest without senselessly damaging property belonging to other people. [More…]
Russia, which frequently has accused the West of colonialism, has taken away the freedom which previously was enjoyed by independent countries. [More…]
Already we would have considerable consensus on what we want in terms of air and water quality and freedom from pollution, of housing, of access to recreation and work, of working hours and conditions, of education and health services, of access to and use of material resources, of cultural facilities, of wages and salaries as a proportion of the total wealth and so on. [More…]
Hardin concludes ‘freedom of the commons bring ruin on us all’. [More…]
Finally, it must become obvious that once we recognise that everything is interconnected in a systems way, that the environment can be overloaded and destroyed, we must realise that our concepts of ‘freedom’ will have to undergo great changes. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister not accept the proposition that if political satire can be produced and shown by the British Broadcasting Corporation with great success, the Australian Broadcasting Commission should be afforded the same fundamental freedom in our democratic society? [More…]
We like to have freedom of the ABC but we like the right of protest, too. [More…]
The intention is to give an officer freedom to select premises which best meet his needs within the framework of an upper limit which is known to him. [More…]
The legislation does not restrict the traditional rights of freedom of speech or assembly or the rights of people to protest. [More…]
Can he also say whether the European Parliament in document 1962/122 paragraph 25 specifies that member countries should have a democratic policy or a form of government based on political freedom. [More…]
Since the close of the period under notice a more realistic general cargo freight structure has been applied with the approval of the Minister so that given reasonable freedom from industrial stoppages and assuming that costs can be kept within bounds, a return to profitability in the current financial year seems possible. [More…]
The Government’s broad objectives in education are: Equality of opportunity; a healthy degree of independence for, and variety in, tertiary education institutions; assistance for deprived groups; freedom of schools from excessively centralised control; development of parental and local community interest in schools; freedom of choice for ‘consumers’ of education; and a continuing improvement in the facilities available to teachers and students at all levels, in the content of courses and in the teaching methods applied in those courses. [More…]
The freedom of the high seas is a basic principle that we do not dispute. [More…]
Alternatively, if government action or investment can save the individual citizen money, it is as effective a means of increasing his standard of living and his freedom of choice as a reduction of taxes or an increase in wages would be. [More…]
Does he consider that the widest possible exposure of policies and the fullest opportunity for electors to assess the personal presentation of their prospective representatives and Ministers is desirable in a democracy which depends on a popular vote and freedom of the Press and other media? [More…]
In the Budget debate almost complete freedom is allowed to honourable members to speak about anything, and likewise in the Estimates debate. [More…]
Freedom of operation will be its essence. [More…]
We have a stable and scandal-free Government and until very recently we had freedom from violence and threats to security. [More…]
In what other country do people have such freedom? [More…]
He will have complete freedom and will be able to call evidence and get the assistance of whomever he so desires in this matter. [More…]
He will have full freedom of action to do as he thinks fit and there is nobody who would be more capable of knowing where to go, where to look and what to do. [More…]
I believe that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and I go all the way with that. [More…]
You cannot take away unreasonably the freedom of the ordinary citizen to use his motor car, but you have to provide him with a better system. [More…]
This Government, which proclaims time and again that it believes in the freedom of the individual and that it believes in free speech, is at the moment, in my view, treading a very dangerous path if it pursues its present course, mapped out for it by the Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay) in his now famous guideline statement in this House some time ago. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948; No. [More…]
The madness and horror of this act will not hide the ultimate truth that the martyrs of Munich have died in the cause of Israel’s right to exist and for Jewish freedom everywhere as surely as if they had died in battle. [More…]
As the great majority of Australians believe in freedom of worship, will the Minister take action against these arrogant people who are prepared to parade and annoy people outside any place of worship? [More…]
The 2 main bulwarks of democracy and the freedom of the people to express themselves and to conduct themselves within the framework of the law are Parliament and the law courts. [More…]
I should make this point clear: The Commonwealth Government’s attitude is that States should be able to have so much freedom of action as they can exercise which is consistent with their taking action to raise revenues for the purposes of expenditures. [More…]
As I have already said in this House, Professor Henderson will have complete freedom, in the conduct of the inquiry, to take whatever avenues may seem good to him. [More…]
I think I mentioned in the House earlier that he would have complete freedom to inquire into non-monetary factors if it seemed good to him to do so. [More…]
But, worse than being simple., we are talking about a person’s freedom. [More…]
Therefore, in this respect that section of the ordinance represents a curtailment of freedom. [More…]
It represents a curtailment of the freedom of the Minister. [More…]
The legislation does not restrict the traditional rights, such as the right of freedom of speech and assembly; nor should it. [More…]
In my view the preservation of these institutions is essential to protect our freedom. [More…]
I believe in political freedom, but I oppose criminal freedom - and I know the difference between the two. [More…]
I am satisfied that the series of governments we have had under Sir Robert Menzies, Mr Gorton and Mr McMahon - I leave out one Prime Minister - have favoured making some aspects of political freedom into crimes and, on the contrary, have proved sympathetic to certain criminal conduct provided that those who carry it out are anticommunist and are supported or believed they will be supported by Democratic Labor Party type and National Civic Council type leaders and supporters. [More…]
Put in another way, it can be said that Australia needs a bill of rights so that we can enlarge and extend existing areas of freedom. [More…]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [More…]
As I have said, the primary civil liberties in the American constitutional context are freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly and freedom of petition. [More…]
There are other civil liberties in the United States of America which are guaranteed by other constitutional amendments - for example, the freedom from unreasonable searches and the freedom from seizures that are protected by the American Fourth Amendment, and the right not to testify against oneself that is protected by the Fifth Amendment. [More…]
He discoursed at length and made allegations of lack of freedom of speech and so on. [More…]
Freedom of speech and freedom to do everything else must take cognisance of the rights of the innocent people of Australia. [More…]
We did not create them but we inherited them, and these are the things that protect the freedom of the individual, the freedom of the Press and the freedom of association. [More…]
Once we attempt to reduce an idea as subtle and as complex as the idea of freedom of the Press or freedom of speech into a few lines in a statute, we in practice find that we are subjected to the interpretation placed on that by a court and a judge. [More…]
For example, under the American guarantee of the freedom of the Press and freedom of speech the person who relies on that constitutional guarantee might not be the one whom it was intended to protect. [More…]
I suggest that broadly speaking, arguments as to whether people should be able to defy a particular piece of legislation should be covered by the principle of freedom of speech, especially as the person concerned did not give any leaflets to a person who was covered by that Act. [More…]
All the way through the Minister’s speech, there is some vague suggestion that what the Government upholds by its flat rate grants is a principle of freedom of choice. [More…]
There also happens to be the barrier of such things as fees and freedom of choice can face a pretty severe limitation if that barrier is there. [More…]
The fact that the honourable member for Fremantle and his colleagues would deny them that incentive, initiative and freedom of action does not at all impress us on this side of the House, although I would agree that there remains a part of the argument which deserves attention; that is to say that other people should not be disadvantaged, should not be unable to have access to education of some reasonable kind through lack of income. [More…]
One of the basic freedoms which we in the Liberal and Country Parties have always believed in is the freedom of people to have the education of their choice. [More…]
This freedom is at stake when one considers the approach of the Australian Labor Party to education. [More…]
I suggest that in all these areas concerned with the freedom of individuals to choose in the basic traditions of the Australian way of life and in a contemporary philosophy of education, the Australian Labor Party is sadly old fashioned and out of phase with today’s thinking. [More…]
They range from what used to be, at least until tonight, the approach of the honourable member for Fremantle which we have all admired, which was a deep concern with and belief in freedom in education, to the approach of those honourable members opposite who would nationalise, centralise and secularise all Australian education if the Australian people would only let them do it. [More…]
And the patients too; that the sort of socialistic approach which the Labor Party proposes on health and which is inherent in its scheme would be absolutely disastrous and would lead in particular to a shortage of the provision cf health services in Australia and, above all and most importantly, would lead to a substantial decline in the quality of health services provided, in the freedom of choice- [More…]
The existing scheme offers to the individual a high standard of medical and hospital service, together with freedom of choice of doctor, hospital and benefits fund, at a moderate residual cost to the patient. [More…]
The alternative Labor Party compulsory scheme - a giant stride towards fully nationalised medicine - eliminates freedom of choice of benefits fund, provides only for public ward coverage, aims to destroy private nursing homes and private and independent hospitals, and, as the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) just implied, it will cost the majority of people substantially more for a less effective service. [More…]
This scheme, as I have said, has built in freedoms which 1 maintain are vital to both the individual patient and to the doctor as well as the nation. [More…]
His freedom of choice at all levels is a spur to competition of services. [More…]
The honourable member for Mcpherson (Mr Barnes) said that our early settlers came here some hundreds of years ago free and seeking freedom. [More…]
The flow of such people will be most beneficial, as their freedom from prior contracts will allow us a much wider field of selection particularly of skilled tradesmen and workers of types which are needed. [More…]
It must force business and industry to ask themselves how much confidence they can have in freedom of choice under a Labor government to go about their business without government interference. [More…]
Does the Labor Party say that if an Australian company wants to build something that is for the ultimate benefit of the nation and the Australian consumer; if it can buy a better product overseas and pay the duty on it; if it can buy overseas a product that is safer than the Australian product; if it can buy the product overseas more cheaply even after paying the duty levied by this Parliament; and if it can get it in half the time or a quarter of the time, the company cannot have freedom of choice and buy the product overseas? [More…]
If the Labor Party, as the pretending government is to go to Australian industry and say: ‘All of your transactions will be subject to our judgment of whether or not it is in the national interest for you to do this or that’, the whole freedom of choice of private enterprise will be taken away. [More…]
The most far-reaching may well be the growing public interest in environmental quality, which may lead to the rejection of the motor car as the universal symbol of individual freedom and the adoption of less time-wasting relationships between home and work. [More…]
Such a body would have a greater degree of freedom and flexibility. [More…]
The people themselves must be given freedom df expression before this legislation is introduced. [More…]
I would think that it would need to operate with complete freedom in taking the initiative to get the best possible freight rates for the wool industry. [More…]
It is a matter for further regret that the inhibitions being imposed on the current affairs sector of the ABC are reducing its objectivity and its freedom clearly to discuss national issues. [More…]
Does anybody suggest, for example, that the Tariff Board should be a department of the Government similar to my own department with the influence of a Minister on it, or do members think that the Tariff Board and dozens of other bodies should have the freedom and objectivity of an independent authority? [More…]
The scheme of the legislation goes on to provide the machinery for examining these agreements with a view to achieving the result that is sought, which is that sought by the whole operation of the Restrictive Trades Practices Act, namely, an increasing competition and freedom in trade and commerce and, generally, a healthier climate for business activity. [More…]
The way in which the Australian* Labor Party attacks doctors is vicious, unfortunate and in extremely poor taste, but not as callous and unfortunate as the Labor Party’s disregard for the freedoms and rights of patients in its obsession with controls and commissions. [More…]
It is to spread the burden of costs without sacrificing the power and freedom of the patient to receive first class medical and health care. [More…]
But the advances have not been made at the cost of the patient’s power and freedom to receive the good medical care of his choice. [More…]
Ultimately, this comes down to a basic Australian freedom and right - the freedom to choose. [More…]
What matters more to Australians than just about any other question is the freedom to choose a doctor, the freedom to choose first class medical care, the freedom to choose a health fund and the freedom to choose in respect of so many matters in related fields which are close to the hearts of the Australian people. [More…]
right to self determination and the right to live in peace and freedom, free from aggression from outside. [More…]
It is a myth, a fiction, to say that there is freedom of contract between the person who fills out a proposal form for the purpose of taking out insurance and the insurance company. [More…]
But let us face it: There are many countries in the world today in which there is no freedom of travel or no freedom to leave the country. [More…]
I just wanted to draw the attention of the House to the fact that I, for one, have some doubts in my mind when I hear countries which have a complete disregard for the freedom of the individual, such as the so-called Iron Curtain countries, making pious statements about signing conventions on the extradition of hijackers. [More…]
We may engage in heated debate at times and we have our moments of strife but above all there is respect for the institution as the safeguard of the freedom of the people and of our democratic way of life. [More…]
My Government supports the proposal by members of the Association of South East Asian Nations for a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia, and will encourage other nations involved in the region to support the concept. [More…]
These include the ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948; the ILO Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949; the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951; the ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958; the international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966). [More…]
In pursuit of its determination to make government in Australia more open and less secret, and to involve the people in the decision-making processes, a Freedom of Information Bill will be introduced. [More…]
In 1947 he proclaimed the Truman Doctrine, by which the United States committed herself, in his words, ‘to support the cause of freedom wherever it was threatened’. [More…]
They must discover their solidarity and freedom to innovate. [More…]
We had to get in first to show the world that we could have a first with East Germany, with these self-elected people, not appointed by the people of their country but self-appointed by tyranny, force and a lack of freedom in taking over the role of government. [More…]
This year I read about a new device which will shoot lead and steel in 12 different directions to maim fugitives and to make sure that they do not obtain their freedom. [More…]
Let us start dealing with real freedoms and liberties irrespective of whether this man is a communist. [More…]
look at freedom within this land. [More…]
Let us start look- ing at the question of our freedoms. [More…]
We have to examine, our freedom because people’s freedoms are being restricted more and more. [More…]
I hope that people outside consider the matter of real freedoms, of the individual freedom of every member and of the right of every man to be deemed innocent until he is proved guilty. [More…]
The policy is to honour the terms of the Five Power Arrangements pending the establishment of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in the region. [More…]
This is the record of the former Government which now talks about the freedom of members of the Parliament. [More…]
I want the Government to know that the Opposition parties in pursuing their policies will fight to the last ditch in the Parliament in opposing the Government’s desire to seek by compulsory unionism to provide some in the Commonwealth Public Service a benefit which it believes might well advantage those concerned but which, of course, completely cuts across the concept of individual freedom and individual liberty. [More…]
Where is freedom - and so on? [More…]
So where does that leave the proposition of a person’s freedom not to belong to a trade union? [More…]
My Government supports the proposal by members of the Association of South East Asian Nations for a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia, and will encourage other nations involved in the region to support the concept. [More…]
Our present education concentrates too much on preparing a person for a job-slot or earning an income rather than fostering a community spirit of freedom and justice, tolerance and social responsibility. [More…]
Their fine words about conscience and personal freedom were believed by many when they talked about compulsory military service. [More…]
Now, in blindness to personal freedom and individuality, they force by abuse of their economic power compulsory union service for their low purpose of rewarding their political power base. [More…]
But by this very freedom there is also a developing tendency towards a lack of discipline. [More…]
This Federal Parliament has within its power the ability to see that we do not have to face another major adversity to make us realise that democracy, freedom and the Australian way of life we enjoy are not inevitable. [More…]
The national compensation scheme will prevent an injury at work or leisure from dragging a family into penury, as will the scheme for universal health insurance which will guarantee all citizens freedom from fear of mammoth hospital bills and other medical expenses. [More…]
There are other ways of putting pressure on prices and restricting their freedom to go to any level the price fixers choose. [More…]
Ours will be a humane) progressive and responsible attitude which emphasises the right of freedom of choice and the preeminence of the individual over the State. [More…]
Without the servicemen who were prepared to do their job at a time of need we may not have been enjoying the life of freedom we enjoy today. [More…]
I think that we who are living in freedom should be prepared to assist their dependants by being generous with the benefits wherever we can and whenever it is necessary. [More…]
I point out to the honourable member that perhaps the most fundamental freedom in this country is freedom of belief. [More…]
So this is the way the Government is treating industry - hurting it with revaluation, preventing it from expanding and clamping down on its freedom to earn adequate profit, and leaving in the dark the possibility of export incentives and the reintroduction of the investment allowance. [More…]
He spoke of freedom, free speech and the right to say one’s piece. [More…]
The main principle is the freedom and rights of the individual which they consider to be superior to the rights of the state. [More…]
Yet men are being vilified because they have exercised their religious freedom in this country to do what they consider to be right. [More…]
We welcome these Bills not only as Labor’s acknowledgment of what former governments have achieved for the young people of Australia but also because they increase and develop the degree of democracy in this country and provide the ordinary Australian greater freedom of choice and more control over his own destiny. [More…]
Youth today has more freedom and it conforms less. [More…]
Government supporters claim to be the great sponsors of freedom for all men, but the Northern Territory represents one-sixth of Australia and several people live in it. [More…]
We will encourage their individuality, their enterprise, their personal dignity and their freedom of expression. [More…]
In surveys made through Australian cities the young people in the final years of high school wish to be able to discuss anything from Zen Buddhism to any of the Christian faiths and to have the sort of freedoms that would exist in a university. [More…]
I believe that this freedom is essential. [More…]
In making possible minority governments, the majority can be deprived of the government of its choice and the way is opened for arbitrary action impairing the freedom of the individual even though that action stands condemned by the majority of people who comprise the electors of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Of course, the situation on Aboriginal reserves removes a great deal of freedom from the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Abortion has not been prevented, but we have made relative freedom from the pain and risk of death or mutilation associated with it yet another privilege of the rich. [More…]
Zero population growth involves a very real and unwarranted intrusion into the freedom and self-expression of individuals. [More…]
Many people do not have that freedom. [More…]
I find completely untenable the argument which was put by the Leader of the Opposition that government action in promoting population control as an unwarranted intrusion into the freedom of the individual. [More…]
Are we to allow the old and discredited economic concepts of complete freedom to operate in this day in relation to social affairs? [More…]
When considering controls and regulations, the important factor is to see that basic rights and reasonable freedom of action are not infringed unduly. [More…]
This would preserve the principle of freedom of association, which I presume you still support. [More…]
The freedom of business to determine its prices is the central feature of economic systems characteristic of all Western countries where people enjoy living standards far in advance of those in economies where no such freedom exists. [More…]
It may interest Government supporters to recall that Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and further provides that no-one can be compelled to belong to an association. [More…]
If the implementation by us of a statutory intention reduces the absolute freedom of management then we think even so we must apply that intention in such a way as we think proper. [More…]
We can change legislation but we cannot plan people or alter their freedom to choose where they will live. [More…]
In the famous election on 2nd December 1972 which brought so many changes we found that this sterling fighter for freedom that we heard just before dinner represents the 9 per cent that has 16 per cent of the Parliament. [More…]
The Minister talks about freedom of the individual and the right of one vote one value. [More…]
It believes also in freedom of discussion. [More…]
that, to allow true religious freedom, Governments will make no law respecting religion, neither to prohibit the free exercise thereof nor to compel the individual citizen to support the religion of others. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will restore to the Australian people true religious freedom, which can only exist when Church and State are legally separated in form and substance. [More…]
However, the performance in this House today does not display any great civil liberties in respect of the rights of members of Parliament in a democratic institution where there should be freedom of expression. [More…]
It is essential, therefore, that the benefit-cost study has sufficient freedom to produce ultimately a selection of the best site having regard, on the one hand, to the community’s need for efficient air transport services, and on the other, to its desire to avoid unnecessary economic or environmental penalties. [More…]
Given the necessary freedom I am confident that Sydney’s second airport will also be an attractive feature of this fastgrowing city - one of which its citizens will be proud. [More…]
It is a threat to the freedom we have valued as perhaps the greatest quality in Australian life. [More…]
But unless they broke the law as the law stands we would not take action against them and we would not seekto punish them, because if we did do that we would be destroying that concept of freedom and that concept of the rule of law which lead us to fight Hitler in the first place. [More…]
You could have fired a shotgun in the direction of the other side of the chamber without hitting anyone because not one of those great freedom fighters remained to hear the rest of their case. [More…]
As a matter of fact, it is interesting to look at the brief on this subject and to find that the cost of home brewed beer is 7c a bottle and that the Opposition’s sturdy freedom fighters for the workers seem to be defending the right of the worker not to have home brew at 7c but to buy commercial beer for 42c a bottle. [More…]
When the present Opposition is in control of the House there is some freedom. [More…]
Since that time trade unions in England, and later in Australia, have had to conduct a running battle with the courts and the legislature to emerge from that illegality into the same conditions of freedom enjoyed by the profit making corporations invented by businessmen. [More…]
It is sufficient to say that it has had a major role in promoting the acceptance and application of human rights in such areas as abolishing forced labour, promoting freedom of association and removing discrimination in employment. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, adopted by the ILO in 1948; Convention No. [More…]
Certain matters of concern have always existed and still exist in relation to war service homes, particularly on the question of the freedom of the title. [More…]
I would have thought that the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry) might have had more thought for this country and its freedoms. [More…]
Again, this is political censorship of the worst type, lt would mean that if any member of this House or a senator in the other place did something with which a particular group did not agree that group could take action to militate against the freedom of that member. [More…]
The first one was that international trade unionism holds firmly to the right to strike as a fundamental human freedom. [More…]
A system which suppresses the freedom to strike puts the workers at the mercy of the employers. [More…]
Since the United Kingdom entered the European Economic Community the people of all the EEC nations have had freedom of entry into the United Kingdom. [More…]
Is it a fact that recent Federal Government regulations have reduced the freedom of commercial broadcasters and upset their very important programing, as claimed by the President? [More…]
This lack of freedom of choice cannot be accepted by people who respect basic individual rights. [More…]
At the same time the church believes in religious and moral freedom for others including even atheists. [More…]
Whether we start from the point of a strongly held personal view, as I do, and as many others of us do, or whether we have not such a firm point of view*, we all have a responsibility to look at the whole range of arguments with great care and in the knowledge that we are dealing with a matter that goes to the foundations of the attitudes to life and freedom held by the people of this nation. [More…]
I am sorry to hear members of the Country Party say ‘Hear, hear’ to so gratuitous an attack upon the freedom of inquiry in this country. [More…]
We know that there are ever-changing social attitudes - social values even - questioning constantly in our community such issues as, for example, the age of majority, equality of opportunity - which is an extension of the already achieved right of equality of rights - and freedom of individual expression. [More…]
The Vatican 2 Declaration on Religious Freedom dennes a person as a being endowed with reason and free will and therefore privileged to bear personal responsibility. [More…]
This truth was well enunciated in the Vatican 2 Declaration of Religious Freedom where it was stated that truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth; that is, one can seek to impose truth, not by the force of the law and the power of the state, but rather by the force of its own influence on the mind. [More…]
The problem of the limits of religious freedom, which Vatican 2 argues must exist for all - believers, non-believers and aetheists - is parallelled by the legal problem of the appropriate limits of the criminal law. [More…]
We require a sense of independence and freedom for the planners. [More…]
All persons regardless of colour, race or creed should enjoy equal rights and freedom. [More…]
I hope other honourable members will support my call for religious freedom in Malawi. [More…]
There is certainly means test free entry to paying public wards in Tasmania, but in other States a very tight means test is applied and this restricts freedom of choice in the community in relation to entry to public wards. [More…]
They are quite rightly directed towards such things as freedom of association, safety, hours of work, conditions of work and things of this character because the members of that Organisation desire, one against the other, to be protected against the consequences of sweated labour. [More…]
In those industries, because of the lower wages and the sweated employees - the people who are being exploited and victimised by their totalitarian states because they have no real freedom of association - the products can be produced at minimal cost. [More…]
In Australia and in other countries such as the United Kingdom or the United States of America, there is freedom to organise, freedom to come together and freedom of discussion. [More…]
They bring great social advantages which we want to preserve but, at the same time, we must realise that those freedoms which we enjoy impose on us economic costs. [More…]
Of course he has the social advantages of freedom. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association. [More…]
I think it is true to say that for very many years it was believed that it was the responsibility of the Government to reduce or to eliminate freedom from fear and freedom from want and that consequently the pensioner should be entitled to have confidence in the fact that he would in moments of anguish and trial be assured of a base pension that would cover, first of all, the basic necessities and later on the conventional necessities such as housing, food and clothing, health and welfare services and similar types of necessities. [More…]
In other words, making improvements consistent with both our increased wealth and the changes in productivity - we should ensure that pensioners and superannuation recipients are able to share in the improved economic conditions and are able to feel that the Government wants to abolish freedom from need, freedom from fear and freedom from want. [More…]
It moved from its quarters on the west coast of the United States to an area in which it could gain more freedom to move. [More…]
We need $200,000 to promote the ideal that What really matters is people and that what has to be done is to safeguard the freedom of the individual’. [More…]
On the one hand the research worker needs freedom to change his mind and on the other hand, in order to run a bureaucracy or an efficient commercial organisation, it is necessary to have rules which all members of that organisation understand and respect. [More…]
It should also be clear now to most people who have studied the detail of the new technical developments in wool marketing that we are on the threshold of selling wool by description alone, which will give us more freedom in regard to the handling and transport of wool. [More…]
But in order to realise this freedom it is essential that the price formation mechanism be changed from the present progressive bidding system to sealed bidding which allows impersonal bidding on a computer. [More…]
Will the honourable gentleman tell the House whether he has ordered a revision of the Government’s proposed Freedom of Information Act which was so widely referred to by him during the election campaign but which is now apparently a matter of some secrecy itself? [More…]
I regret that it has not been possible this session to draft legislation parallel to the United States Freedom of Information Act which the Government is committed to introducing. [More…]
Another question to be determined is the extent to which agreements or understandings between insurance companies and other financial intermediaries restrict the freedom of choice of the individual. [More…]
In the interests of diversity of choice, maximising their freedom of choice as consumers and giving them a cheaper product when it is available, they should be able to buy what they wish. [More…]
I hope that subject to consultation and discussion with the Australian Agricultural Council, because that is the purpose of that Agricultural Council, in the not too distant future the quota system will give way to a better system which will allow the consumers of Australia to have access to the spread of their choice, whether it be butter or margarine, polyunsaturated or otherwise in the interests of their health, their pocket and their freedom as individuals. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s policies, it provides that the powers of the Council should be used in ways which will ‘respect, uphold and promote the rights of artists to untrammelled freedom in the practice of their arts.’ [More…]
The application of the Snowy’s engineering, technical, administrative expertise should therefore not be limited but given the freedom to assist in all areas where its specialised knowledge and experience is required. [More…]
On this understanding we have pledged our support for the ASEAN Declaration on South East Asia as a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality, and we shall work towards its eventual implementation; and, in a spirit of co-operation with other countries in the area, we have agreed to serve on a United Nations committee to examine the implications of a Sri Lankan proposal to have the Indian Ocean declared a zone of peace. [More…]
The Government has ratified 2 International Labor Organisation Conventions dealing with freedom of association - drawn up in 194S - and protection of the right to organise and with the right to organise and bargain collectively - drawn up in 1949. [More…]
On the occasion of that meeting, I, together with other Ministers, particularly the Minister from South Australia, argued strongly for a relaxation of the quota system which operates in its present form against the production of a very valuable food which is in demand by Australians who want to buy it and who want to exercise their freedom of choice. [More…]
The standard form of leasing agreement entered into by some of the large lessor corporations operates against the small business man, who has no freedom of choice to say: ‘I will not take it’. [More…]
We uphold the right of private property and freedom of the individual. [More…]
Medical benefits shall include pre-natal, confinement and post-natal care by qualified midwives or medical practitioners as well as hospitalisation care where necessary; freedom of choice of doctor and freedom of choice between a public and private hospital shall be respected. [More…]
Many of the countries in which religious persecution is carried out under government auspices have signed the UN Charter on Human Rights, of which freedom of religion is one of the fundamental ones. [More…]
The staff of Queensland’s hospitals must be given freedom of expression to state grievances and point out difficulties in the system to the public without having public service restrictions imposed upon them. [More…]
Again the Pipeline Authority would need to insist upon freedom from impurities, of which the most noticeable is carbon dioxide, and ranges up to 40 per cent in certain of the Gidgealpa consortium field output. [More…]
Open government, freedom of the people - this is what we stand for. [More…]
But Australia must always assert its independence of decision and freedom of choice in foreign policy. [More…]
In security matters our closest relationship is with the United States of America, but that does not rule out participating in the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations, honouring our obligations to our partners in the Five-Power Arrangements, including Malaysia and Singapore, encouraging the development of Association of South East Asian nations and the concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia and engaging in defence co-operation with other countries in our region. [More…]
One question that could be asked about our defence co-operation with the countries of our region is whether this does not conflict with our support for the ASEAN concept of a zone of peace, neutrality and freedom in [More…]
Since becoming Minister for Social Security I have also been disturbed by the restrictive regulations that some organisations impose on the freedom of their residents. [More…]
The ASEAN governments have been discussing proposals for a ‘zone of peace, freedom and neutrality’ in South East Asia that would preserve their security and independence and allow them to pursue their national and regional development free from disruption by military confrontation in the region. [More…]
This is the record of those men who tell us they want freedom of speech. [More…]
If there is to be freedom of information it must be a two-way traffic. [More…]
We must have the same freedom of access to their people as they have to ours. [More…]
One might have felt that in ‘Defender of the Faith’ there were perhaps the elements of a Bill of Rights in terms of religious freedom. [More…]
We want our new citizens to be completely free and safe from seditious influences that seek to undermine and veritably destroy the liberty and freedom of their children. [More…]
One only has to think back to the debate in this House on the Medical Practices Clarification Bill to realise the amount of interest that could be engendered in the House and the debates if more latitude and freedom were given during the discussion period. [More…]
Any responsible government concerned to prevent inflation must make a real and genuine attempt to limit the freedom of entrepreneurs to fix prices as they please, to prevent land prices being forced up by land speculators and to take positive steps to stop the spiralling cost of housing - and that is exactly what this Government intends to do. [More…]
These kinds of unpleasant curbs may be necessary in the climate which the Government, through its mismanagement, has created; but we do not want to keep them on for longer than is necessary because they inhibit sound growth, they inhibit the progress of the economy and they represent an incursion into people’s freedom of action and the quality of life. [More…]
The blow against a traditional freedom, expressed through country newspapers which have such a close link with the people they serve. [More…]
Independence, the livelihood of thousands of families, and quite a bit of old fashioned rugged freedom will be burnt in the process. [More…]
It will expand freedom of choice for consumers who are patients. [More…]
Our scheme in fact is based on freedom of choice by the patient of his or her doctor. [More…]
I feel that the element of deceit is where the honourable member interpreted the statement giving the Committee complete freedom as an instruction that it was to reduce. [More…]
They will maintain an atmosphere of confidence, but what of the attitude of parents who want the freedom of choice to send their children to independent schools? [More…]
lt is a strange committee - the Karmel Committee - that says that it believes that there should be maximum freedom of choice, that the price of choice should be reduced ..nd then, in its recommendations, adds to the price of choice to a degree that many parents must realistically consider whether they can justifiably exercise that choice. [More…]
The Minister talked about freedom of choice but he does not say freedom of choice of what. [More…]
It is not freedom of choice of a doctor; it is freedom of choice as to whether a man will send his child or wife to a public or private hospital. [More…]
That was an intolerable intrusion into and denial of that person’s personal freedom. [More…]
Under the guise of concern for individual freedom in general, the honourable member is in fact supporting the few - those few who have exploited the ordinary Australian whose only wish is to own his own block of land and to build his own house on it. [More…]
What freedom do they have to choose where they want to live? [More…]
This Government not only supports, but wishes to promote, the freedom of individuals to choose and to be able to purchase their own home on their own block of land. [More…]
The Government and the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) in this vital area, continue to attempt to force on Australians a scheme which will result in a poorer medical service and at the same time restrict - I use the word restrict deliberately - the freedom of choice of doctor and hospital. [More…]
Freedom or the right to work has never come cheaply in any area but these matters are the same as in an industrial situation where the processes of conciliation and arbitration operate. [More…]
It will rob all who pay tax of some of their freedom of choice. [More…]
As the Government takes higher and higher proportions of personal incomes so people’s freedom to choose how they will spend their money is progressively reduced. [More…]
Some will pay more for the freedom to choose to have their children educated at independent schools. [More…]
In Scullin, an adjoining suburb, a similar community health centre is operating on a different basis, using doctors on a fee for service type system to give an alternative and a freedom of choice to the people of Canberra. [More…]
The Minister talks falsely about freedom of choice. [More…]
He does not go on to say freedom of choice of what. [More…]
He should talk about the freedom of choice not of one’s own doctor but of whether one has hospitalisation in a public hospital or a private hospital. [More…]
It enables these people to live their lives as a part of the community with the maximum of independence, freedom and comfort possible in old age. [More…]
Thirdly, the mandatory provision does not restrict the Government’s freedom to make changes of policy such as the recent 25 per cent reduction in tariffs, to negotiate changes in levels of assistance of the purpose of international trade agreements, or to extend preferential treatment to developing countries. [More…]
If we are to improve the chances of success of migrant children - and native Australians - we must compensate for the backgrounds that are deficient - in books, magazines and communications media on the one hand and, on the other hand, lack of proper study facilities, such as warmth, privacy and freedom from noise and interruption. [More…]
I would like the Minister to outline the attitude of the Government to the granting of entry into Australia to people who are or are not considered to be terrorists, freedom fighters or whatever other expression one likes to use. [More…]
The mere fact that a person happens to be - in the Government’s view anyway - a freedom fighter does not necessarily mean that he is undesirable. [More…]
There are certain basic rules of democracy and freedom which state that there should be equality under the law but it is often overlooked that to obtain equality under the law we also need equality of access to h law if we are to protect those freedoms. [More…]
Pursuant to our policies for open government and to open up the processes of government so that citizens may know what is going on and criticise the actions of government - it is not always easy and pleasant to be criticised; we all know that - there is a proposal for a freedom of information Bill which, I understand, the Attorney-General hopes to introduce in the course of this session. [More…]
One of the worst features of the new policy is that it eliminates the freedom of choice by the lessee of a builder, as he must negotiate with the builder who has been allocated the site in which he is interested. [More…]
The principal features of the new system are not really the ones that the honourable member for Gwydir described - the paper work and the lack of freedom of choice. [More…]
Under this new system people have a freedom of choice and they recognise it. [More…]
Nobody likes queues, least of all me; but they queued up because the new system was too good to miss, because there is freedom of choice in it. [More…]
In view of the statement made on Tuesday that the Government will recognise the new Government of Chile today, and with the understanding that governments may be recognised notwithstanding the manner in which they take government, how does the Minister reconcile this particular decision with the views stated in a telegram to the Chilean Ambassador in Australia on 13 September by eight of his Ministers and 36 other Labor members of Parliament and senators that the new government was illegal and that they would undertake efforts ‘to help the Chilean people regain their freedom’? [More…]
It does not preserve, as I have indicated, freedom of choice. [More…]
For all we know, the people appointed to the Commission under this Minister could well be people who are committed o one form of education - government education - alone, whilst the Opposition is committed to a high standard of government education and, in addition, to the continued maintenance and freedom of independent schools. [More…]
Article 26 calls upon member governments to preserve freedom of choice in education and reads: [More…]
It provides no guarantees and no formal structures of freedom in the educational processes of our community. [More…]
They seek guarantees of freedom, effectiveness and decentralisation. [More…]
Another point I want to make concerns the vital matter about which the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke - the preservation of freedom of choice for parents and school children. [More…]
The other point that I want to make is this: In our attempts in the amendments to ensure freedom and effectiveness and decentralisation we are aiming at the guaranteed participation of those deeply involved in education. [More…]
I have mentioned already in this debate the basic adherence by the Liberal Party to the concepts of freedom of choice in education. [More…]
There is no mention of freedom of choice in this Bill. [More…]
As I have already said I believe that we should do what we can to maintain an independent school system so that this very necessary aspect of the individual rights of people in Australia - that is freedom of choice in the education of their children - should be preserved. [More…]
We want this freedom of choice to be set out in the Bill. [More…]
I must support the amendments proposed by the Opposition which aim to protect the future freedom of choice of parents and students and to ensure that our education system continues with as great a degree of diversity, with a wide base, and taking in every area of this nation’s requirements. [More…]
The freedom of choice of individuals and students is a basic right in our democratic society, as is the basic right of all children to equal opportunity and equality of education. [More…]
In this way we of the Opposition believe that under this legislation a Commission can be established which will far more effectively carry out the philosophy enunciated by the Karmel Committee and at the same time raise the standard of education of every Australian child whilst preserving a right which Australians hold dear - the right to freedom of choice, the right to select the schools to which they send their children. [More…]
It is not the States’ obligation to compel a monopolistic situation where freedom of choice is taken away, either directly by prohibition or indirectly by so raising the price of choice that there is no choice at all. [More…]
No doubt they are waiting for Pat Hills to become Premier before saying that the State legislation does not give freedom of choice at the secondary level. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, for us, it is fortunate that we live in a community which cherishes its freedom of action, a country peopled by men and women who want to do their own thing in their own way and in their own time. [More…]
It wants a degree of certainty and predictability in political life within which the greatest personal freedom can be freely exercised and a society in which they can make their own economic, financial and social decisions freed from the smothering concept that ‘mother knows best’. [More…]
It stands for free enterprise, but where is the freedom if we do not have the power to invest? [More…]
Schools were not visited by the Committee, and the way in which many schools were categorised caused confusion, resentment and uncertainty, and cut across the basic principle of freedom of choice in relation to the education of all children. [More…]
The fundamental point at issue here ls not whether we can or cannot stomach the thought of this or that type of sexual behaviour; it is whether or not we believe that true morality and the best way of culivating personal responsibility is to be found through freedom ot through compulsion, and whether or not we believe that the present law on this subject does more harm than good. [More…]
In the early 1940s, proposals were submitted to the Australian Agricultural Council which, as honourable members know, is a ministerial body, for the establishment of an institute of agricultural economics, with wider functions and powers than the present Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and wim complete freedom independently to carry out and publish the results of research into a whole range of matters affecting primary industry. [More…]
the mandatory provision does not restrict the Government’s freedom to make changes of policy such as the recent 25 per cent reduction in tariffs, to negotiate changes in levels of assistance for the purpose of international trade agreements, or to extend preferential treatment to developing countries. [More…]
Then we had the most extraordinary situation of eight of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Ministers and 36 other members of the Labor Caucus sending a telegram to the Chilean Ambassador in Australia referring to the new Chilean Government as illegal and indicating that they would undertake to help the Chilean people to regain their freedom. [More…]
The States already are tied to maintaining a specific proportion of their expenditures on education and if, at the same time, their general purpose allocations are to be reduced in this manner they will finish up in a position where they will have practically no freedom of movement at all in meeting their other expenditure responsibilities. [More…]
We do so because this system is most conducive to the progress and well-being of Australia and most conducive to the democratic protection of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
If people are behind prison bars in Indonesia - I have no personal evidence of that - I trust that through Amnesty and other proper avenues we will see that tensions are broken down and as many people as possible are released to freedom. [More…]
Privilege can never be defended on the grounds of freedom of choice. [More…]
We are worried for those parents who wish to exercise the freedom of choice to send their children either to a State school or to an independent school. [More…]
If there is to be an adjustment between those with high incomes and those on lower incomes, let that adjustment be achieved from the tax systems and not by an indirect camouflaged system of taxation by imposing a price on people’s freedom of choice. [More…]
It is a Government which mouths the phrase ‘freedom of choice’. [More…]
But in all equity, if freedom is to remain in Australia, you should not tax people virtually 3 times. [More…]
I am sure that we would have had a much saner balance of investment in irrigation if those reports had also been given the freedom of publication that most other reports produced by the BAE received. [More…]
Barton came to Australia as a refugee from Hungary in 1950 - I suppose as a freedom fighter - under the name of Sandor Buchalter. [More…]
The possible benefits to be derived from this new freedom of action will be limited with respect to returns from the current crop. [More…]
I do not believe that that is good enough for a Party which claims that it cares about the freedom of the individual. [More…]
It is not offering much freedom and protection to the individual in this Bill. [More…]
I am sure that for those who put forth the theory of freedom of the Press this is a very good example of where it merely means licence for the Press barons to do what they wish. [More…]
any discriminatory aspects for certain categories of taxpayers; <e) any erosion of an individual’s freedom of choice of doctor or hospital, and [More…]
By preserving the existing funds and applying a sort of tapered means test from full contribution to part or none at all, we can improve the quality of health care for the less fortunate in our community and still maintain freedom of choice both of doctor and of hospital. [More…]
We feel justified in attacking the stifling, heavy- handed, dehumanising theories of socialism exemplified in this phoney ‘free’ health scheme, which is not free, which does not provide freedom of choice, and which in fact is none of the things the Government claims it is. [More…]
It will not provide freedom of choice to any of those who do not enjoy it now simply because under the Labor scheme they will not be able to afford it. [More…]
As the White Paper makes clear, we will take steps to expand freedom of choice of one’s medical practitioner under our scheme so that this choice will be greater than that which occurs under the present scheme. [More…]
In regard to any erosion of an individual’s freedom of choice of a doctor or hospital, our scheme has always been based on the concept of complete freedom of choice, essentially on the private practice of medicine in the community. [More…]
It is based on the freedom of choice that we have always asserted. [More…]
The motion urges that this House approve of the appointment of a select committee of the House of Representatives to inquire into and report on the effects on the Australian community if the present voluntary health insurance scheme is replaced by a compulsory, tax financed health insurance scheme as has been recommended by the Health Insurance Planning Committee and, in particular, to determine any likely inflationary effects, any over-utilisation of medical and hospital services, the cost to individuals, particularly in relation to hospitalisation, any discriminatory aspects for certain categories of taxpayers, any erosion of an individual’s freedom of choice of doctor or hospital and its effect on the national economy and the quality of health care for present and future generations of Australians. [More…]
It takes away the freedom of choice and in spite of the Minister’s constant reiteration of his support for freedom of choice let me stress to the House that the Minister does not believe in the form of freedom of choice that those words usually connote in the minds of the average Australian. [More…]
On the vital question of freedom of choice, which relates primarily to the freedom to establish relationships in this policy area - relationships between patient and doctor, patient and the hospital - the Minister for Social Security, though he mouths the phrase freedom of choice’, nevertheless has in his mind a totally different concept from that held by the majority of his listeners. [More…]
The Australian socialist’s view bluntly expressed is that the individual is destined to be the servant of the State whose corporate political wisdom will direct and control his activities leaving him little freedom of choice but a clear duty to obey. [More…]
When they talk of freedom of choice they do not mean freedom of choice between doctors and patients, between patients and hospitals. [More…]
This scheme, which is based upon the Scotton-Deeble report, will take away freedom of choice from people to determine which doctor they shall attend. [More…]
Every effort should be made to increase that freedom, not to take the freedom away from those who have it today. [More…]
We should seek to raise the standards and opportunities for choice, not to deny them to those who have such freedoms today. [More…]
Much is also made of the point that our scheme will remove the freedom of choice of the patient. [More…]
A patient in fact limits his freedom of choice mostly to the geographical area in which he lives. [More…]
That is freedom of choice. [More…]
Our scheme will not change that freedom of choice one iota. [More…]
The position will be no different under our scheme from what it is now in terms of freedom of choice when a person goes to a public hospital. [More…]
If on seeing a private doctor it is found that the patient has a disease which requires admission to the public hospital, that person has no more freedom of choice, other than if that person’s personal doctor is on the staff of that hospital. [More…]
So much for all the poppycock about freedom of choice. [More…]
In other words, our scheme changes nothing at all in terms of the freedom of choice or the relationship between doctor and patient. [More…]
Senator Willesee commended the efforts in this regard of voluntary organisations in Australia, particularly Austcare, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, the Australian Council of Churches and Australian Catholic Relief. [More…]
The freedom of people to choose the type of hospital care they want, and their right to the ready availability of medical services are fundamental principles of Government policy. [More…]
They provide an opportunity for freedom of choice by patients and also for the expression of high vocational motivations by those who work for them. [More…]
We will ensure the freedom of these hospitals. [More…]
The fact is that private hospital insurance was always allowed and it was decided also to allow private medical insurance as an example of the Government’s desire to allow freedom of choice. [More…]
There is no freedom of choice of doctor, and no wonderful service is available. [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security aware of today’s statement from a source not noted for its sympathy to the Government, that under Labor’s health insurance program patients will enjoy the widest possible freedom of choice? [More…]
I am glad that the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ also raised the issue of freedom of choice. [More…]
Our program has always guaranteed freedom of choice of medical practitioner by patients - freedom of choice of the medical practitioner whom one wants to treat one in the surgery or by a home visit, in an intermediate or private ward in a public hospital or in a private hospital. [More…]
What sort of freedom of choice is there for the patient at tb: present time? [More…]
The second principle is the freedom from fear of illness - a great fear that exists amongst our aged people and those who are in less fortunate circumstances. [More…]
I ask him whether this figure includes the 50 per cent of Queenslanders who, on account of the excellence of their system - ‘ a choice between free public and private hospitals, and freedom of choice of doctor - do not need to be covered by health insurance as provided by the private insurance organisations. [More…]
I repeat that there will be no freedom of choice of doctors for hospital patients in standard wards. [More…]
So the sacred cause, the sacred name of freedom of speech, and the horrible word ‘censorship’, and so forth, have been utterly perverted and misunderstood. [More…]
If one is dealing with children, censorship is entirely justified and freedom of speech, in the old sense, has to be modified. [More…]
So I think we have to revise our views about censorship and freedom of speech when we talk about the media, and particularly about radio and television, as they affect our future citizens. [More…]
A man has, and subject to the requirements of public safety should always maintain, the freedom to withdraw his own labour. [More…]
This is a human freedom which I think honourable members on both sides of the House would support. [More…]
He even should have freedom to organise in a union, subject, of course, to not violating a determination of the umpire, the Commission. [More…]
I suggest that there should be this freedom to organise in unions and it should be maintained, subject to the arbitration authority and, of course, to emergencies which could be created by sudden withdrawal of labour in an organised fashion where the government must intervene. [More…]
Entitled ‘Towards a New Freedom’, the document is expected to be resisted strongly by the senior Liberal Party in Queensland. [More…]
Once that centralism is achieved we will find that the grant of money will have a whole series of conditions attached to it which will deprive local government of its own freedom of action, and some bureaucrat in Canberra will decide the way in which local government ought to conduct its affairs. [More…]
In my opinion, the price will be the ultimate loss of their freedom, if they pass this kind of legislation and destroy our Constitution. [More…]
This Bill must be rejected if we are to retain our freedom as individuals in this country. [More…]
There would be too much obvious loss of freedom of the individual and too much power vested in the central government. [More…]
They know that if a man or a woman comes into this Parliament and is subject to character assassination, that person does not have the courage and the freedom at all times to pursue the issues that he or she feels ought to be pursued in the way that they ought to be pursued. [More…]
If domination by an aggressor can destroy the freedom of a nation, too much dependence on a protector can eventually erode its dignity. [More…]
Australia has freedom of religion and freedom of speech and anybody who desires to get on has the opportunity to do so. [More…]
For my part I believe it is necessary that there be complete freedom of belief on the part of an indivdual that information disclosed to the Department will be [protected to the maximum degree, but I believe equally that divulgence of that information should not preclude the Department from exchanging the information with other agencies or individuals where the exchange can be to the benefit of the applicant. [More…]
The demand made upon the Board in respect to that matter was quite clearly in conflict with the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act, and was also in conflict with the principles underlying that last bulwark of freedom, Clause 92 of the Australian Constitution. [More…]
be given to the Board which will of itself limit the right of free speech by individual members of the Board, unless such freedom of speech is deemed to be prejudicial to the proper conduct of the marketing of wheat. [More…]
Incidentally, this is why I am such a great advocate of freedom of choice being offered to people, not only parents in the education of their children but also to adults when they have the opportunity of carrying on their education later in life. [More…]
Diversity and freedom of choice will be the criteria of an effective educational system and if there are any tendencies they should be towards regionalisation of administration, control and policy making. [More…]
The platform of the Australian Labor Party, on the basis of which this Government attained office, made clear that Labor’s industrial policy places human rights and values first and provides for the development of full human dignity in the industrial sphere, lt emphasises the right of full employment; real economic justice; freedom and security; the right to work in just and favourable conditions; freedom from unemployment and freedom to choose employment. [More…]
I think that this unduly hampers the freedom of the State educational authorities. [More…]
It therefore increases rather than diminishes inequalities and increases rather than diminishes freedom of choice of school. [More…]
I point out that the previous Government’s policy, and the previous Government’s attitude of co-operation with the industry, stimulated by a real concern for the freedom and the security of the people of Australia, did much to achieve this self reliance. [More…]
The Opposition wishes not only to ensure that this money goes to education but also to see retained the principle that every Australian child is entitled to go and his parents have a freedom of choice to send him to whatever school is selected. [More…]
I agree with the principle of facilitating the settlement of migrants in Australia as expres sed in the Albury-Wodonga Development Bill, but we must remain conscious of the fact that people must retain their freedom of choice to live wherever they want and to have the mobility to move from one place to another. [More…]
But it is important that in all of these policies we should ensure that the maximum amount of freedom of choice is left in the hands of the individual citizen. [More…]
The legislation the Government is now proposing represents a sincere endeavour to build a new health benefits system in a way which will meet the expectations of the public for high quality health services to be readily accessible to all, which will expand rather than inhibit the opportunities for freedom of choice, which will promote efficiency in the delivery of health services and which will assist in the upgrading of hospital and community based health facilities. [More…]
This determination, however, has not been characterised by doctrinaire or rigid viewpoints which might exclude freedom of choice and flexibility. [More…]
Within the health insurance program, there will be complete freedom of patients to choose their own doctors in private practice. [More…]
Ninthly, price control entails a substantial interference with individual freedom and its long-term effects would radically alter the structure of Australian society. [More…]
It carried with it obvious losses in efficiency, loss of individual freedom and substantial direct costs, as well as delaying action to deal with the cause of the inflationary problem. [More…]
We challenge the Government, in this debate, to demonstrate its overall program to deal with inflation; how powers over prices and incomes would be incorporated into that program; that prices and incomes powers would have only a temporary role within that program; that discrimination against particular groups in the community and action against individual freedom of choice are not its intention; and to state that it will take a responsible lead by reducing the extravagant growth in public sector spending. [More…]
The things which they consider political crimes are things which we in Australia would consider to be the very merest and proper expression of freedom. [More…]
Has legislation been drafted to give effect to the Government’s pre-election pledge to introduce a Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
to (4) The Interdepartmental Committee on Freedom of Information Legislation which the Government established last January (Hansard, 24 October 1973, page 2665), is continuing its work. [More…]
The Government proposes to deny the freedom of consumer choice by saying that if consumer choice is developed through promotion and marketing of a particular type of product - say for orange juice as distinct from milk - the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) has the power to prevent this natural consumer choice from having effect. [More…]
Secondly, Australia’s noisiest boast has always been our freedom and democracy. [More…]
My amendment continues: and that therefore this Bill and associated Bills should be withdrawn, because the Government’s alternative proposals to the existing health scheme will (a) lower the quality of medical care for Australian families, (b) increase total costs for the Government and thus for taxpayers, (c) increase total costs for the majority of taxpayers, because they could only maintain the present quality of their health care by additional heavy commitments for private insurance, (d) reduce freedom of choice, (e) jeopardize the future of religious, private and country hospitals and (f) by design and intent be the first stage of nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
I return to the fourth point that I made earlier, that is, reduced freedom of choice. [More…]
I have mentioned that the Government, in its Bill, reduces freedom of choice of a doctor. [More…]
The scheme reduces or eliminates freedom of choice in the choice of an insurance fund up to standard ward level. [More…]
The next point made related to the apparent loss of the freedom of choice, and we were assured that under our scheme patients will not have freedom of choice of their doctor if they are admitted to the standard ward of a hospital, such as the Mercy Hospital. [More…]
Br CASS - The honourable member can say ‘Oh’ but the reality once again is that when a person goes to the casualty department of a large public hospital today - where I concede there is no freedom of choice - he is treated by the doctor on duty. [More…]
You have the same limitations on freedom under the present scheme as you will have under our proposal. [More…]
In other words, there is no such thing as complete freedom of choice anywhere in Australia now. [More…]
It will reduce freedom of choice and the availability of doctors, particularly in the hospital area. [More…]
In the White Paper lip service is paid to the ideal of continuing patient care or freedom of choice in paragraphs 4.19 and 4.22 by the implication that patients will be able to have continuity of attendance by their own doctor, that is, freedom of choice. [More…]
But the last sentence of paragraph 4.22 shows that patients will have no guarantee whatsoever of freedom of choice because the final decision on which doctor can practice in a hospital and what he does in that hospital rests with the hospital authorities. [More…]
I will talk now of freedom of choice in more detail. [More…]
The freedom of people to choose the type of hospital care they want and their right to the ready availability of medical services are fundamental principles of Government policy. [More…]
From reading this and other sections of the White Paper it would seem that the only freedom of choice with respect to hospital treatment is a choice between treatment as a public ward patient or as a private ward patient. [More…]
It is not worth destroying and replacing it with a theoretical scheme which will be of far greater cost to us all, reduce our freedom of choice and put us all under the medical control of a socialist government. [More…]
The services so maintained should ensure freedom of choice, social equity and cost efficiency, whilst primarily retaining and enhancing the quality of health care so provided. [More…]
Fifthly, it will reduce freedom of choice. [More…]
The Government’s scheme would, in fact, remove the freedom of the 92 per cent of Australians who are insured, of their own volition, and compel them by the tax mechanism to insure with the Government fund. [More…]
The Opposition Parties believe in the concept of maximum cover, but we cannot support a scheme which destroys the freedom of choice of 92 per cent of Australians to achieve an additional coverage of less than 4 per cent. [More…]
The evidence available simply demonstrates that it is impossible for a government department to provide a cheaper and more efficient service than a private insurance firm, lt must be remembered that with a unitary system such as is proposed by the Government there is no freedom of choice as now exists between funds. [More…]
Worst of all, of course, health insurance would be largely socialised, and freedom of choice would be eliminated. [More…]
We have heard much talk in this debate about freedom of choice. [More…]
What freedom of choice do we have now? [More…]
The scheme, as modified in the White Paper, does guarantee freedom of private practice to the medical profession (though it seeks to devise in co-operation with the Australian medical profession a formula that would guarantee observance of scheduled fees by doctors) and it leaves the patient full freedom to be treated by the doctor of his choice even in the public wards of hospitals. [More…]
Let us put aside the fanciful claims made by the Australian Medical Association and the General Practitioners Association about the so-called freedom of choice to select a doctor that supposedly exists today and let us look at the facts. [More…]
Yet, when the Australian Labor Government seeks to introduce a health care system which is based on the capacity of the income earner to pay and which will bring complete freedom of fear from illness and improved quality of . [More…]
At the present time every Queenslander has the right to exercise freedom of choice as to doctor, hospital and voluntary health insurance. [More…]
To summarise, it will cost the individual in Queensland more, he will not have his freedom of choice, and he can look forward to long watts for consultations, surgery and hospitalisation. [More…]
Under the Labor proposals people will be denied freedom of choice of doctor in a public hospital. [More…]
Medical care should be based on complete freedom of choice for the patient in all matters pertaining to and at all levels of medical, hospital, and paramedical care. [More…]
He is trying to hoodwink the Australian people into a policy of help that completely denies freedom of choice and freedom of the individual. [More…]
The freedom of people to choose the type of hospital care they want and their right to the ready availability of medical services are fundamental principles of Government policy. [More…]
This role is especially important because such hospitals provide an opportunity for freedom of choice by patients and for the expression of high vocational motivations by those who work in and for them- [More…]
Why is the Government trying to throw out a health scheme which the overwhelming majority of them have found perfectly satisfactory, which has given them good quality health care at reasonable cost, with freedom of choice of doctor, hospital and health insurance fund, and with speed and compassion, and in which they have genuine confidence? [More…]
I have always been concerned with the defence of individual freedom but the right to choose between the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia and the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia is the most insignificant freedom I have ever heard of and the honourable member’s preparedness to fight for it must be the most ludicrous campaign since Don Quixote tilted at windmills. [More…]
It claims to be lighting for such principles as freedom of choice and quality of care, but both these principles are incorporated, and indeed extended, in the Government’s program. [More…]
The very first passage in this advertisement about which the honourable member for Darling Downs is apparently so happy states: ‘Would you trust either of these or any other politician to control your private life, to control your freedom, to decide what you want to do, or to be, or to be paid?’ [More…]
There was never any suggestion by the Prime Minister of this country that the Government would want to control the freedom of people or to make decisions about what people want to do or be. [More…]
If some of the private beds in private hospitals are converted to public beds, as they will have to be to meet the increased demand, fewer private beds will be available, thus reducing the patient’s freedom of choice of doctor because there is no choice of doctor in public wards. [More…]
At present people have freedom of choice of funds and if they are dissatisfied with one fund they have the right to transfer to another without loss of privilege. [More…]
The honourable member raises the hoary argument about freedom of choice, and also asks why the Government does not cover the remaining members of the population by subsidising their membership of private insurance funds. [More…]
On freedom of choice, what sensible person would value the choice of being able to join the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia or the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia, paying the same rates of contribution and receiving the same benefits? [More…]
I support his concept that a high-quality health service should be readily available to all and that Australia’s health scheme should expand, rather than inhibit, the opportunities for freedom of choice. [More…]
Again, the Minister told me that there would be the same freedom of choice of doctor, even in hospitals, as there is now. [More…]
Where is the freedom of choice we hear so much about? [More…]
We cannot support proposals for a scheme which would reduce the quality of health care, and which would - despite the Minister’s denials - take away the freedom of choice which we believe the Australian people are entitled to enjoy. [More…]
It reduces professional standards, individual initiative and personal freedom to the lowest common denominator. [More…]
In place of the characteristic Australian philosophy which encourages innovation, initiative and personal choice, the Government by this scheme, seeks to impose a lumbering, bureaucratic monopoly that will stifle all those freedoms that Australians value. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Opposition has also claimed that the Labor Government’s program will lessen the freedom of choice of patients in hospitals. [More…]
Patients in private wards or private hospitals will have exactly the same freedom of choice of doctor as they have at present. [More…]
Most importantly, all Australians will have a new freedom which means tests have denied them under the Liberal-Country Party scheme - the freedom to choose to be treated in standard wards of hospitals. [More…]
When we speak about freedom of choice and people’s rights, we must look at what the vast majority of Australians want. [More…]
The Russian Soviet regime is almost selfconfessed a criminal regime in regard to human freedom. [More…]
We are falling over ourselves in the name of detente to cover up all these crimes against freedom and against humanity. [More…]
The crimes in South Africa are only a small part of the continous crimes against humanity which are being perpetrated still by the communist regimes, aggressive regimes in Europe and in Asia, which are enslaving their own people and not giving them normal human freedom and human decency. [More…]
If it wants to condemn a lack of freedom in South Africa, for example, let it also condemn the far more flagrant and vicious violations of freedom which are still taking place in the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
The world, at its peril, will ignore these attacks on freedom which are being made all the time - this cancerous slavery of the Soviet socialist system. [More…]
We are no longer out of step with the world’s progressive and enlightened movements towards freedom, disarmament and cooperation. [More…]
Above all my Government believes in those abiding virtues in Australian society which have given us a distinctive nationhood, the belief in fraternity and independence, the instinct for fair play, justice and freedom that Eureka signifies. [More…]
What is the (a) membership, (b) time-table and (c) charter of each of the following interdepartmental committees : (i) Arrangements for provisions of advice on ionising radiation, (ii) Assistance to Industries, (iii) Australian Government Office Space, (iv) Australian Investment Overseas, (v) Australian Participation in NASA Post-Apollo Program, (vi) Australian Trade with Developing Countries, (vii) Brussels Definition of Value for Duty and GATT Anti-Dumping Code, (viii) Consideration of First Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, (ix) Environmental Impact Studies, (x) Freedom of Information Legislation, (xi) GATT Trade Negotiations, (xii) Human Rights, (xiii) Metric Conversion Co-ordination, (xiv) Motor Vehicle Industry, (xv) National Archives Legislation (xvi) National Housing Policy, (xvii) Revaluation Adjustment Assistance for Rural Industries, (xviii) Shipbuilding Industry, (xix) Social Indicators - (Social Welfare), (xx) Soil Conservation, (xxi) Structural Adjustment - (Tariff), (xxii) The Production of Educational Publications, (xxiii) Unified Aid Administration, (xxiv) Urban and Regional Development, (xxv) Urban Transport and (xxvi) Purari River Project. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19731213_reps_28_hor87/#subdebate-72-31)
My Government will proceed with a Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
He has the complete freedom to go to Government House and say to the GovernorGeneral: ‘I want a dissolution of the House of Representatives’. [More…]
The Australian Constitution is our ultimate guarantee of freedom and democracy and this Bill, now before the House for a second time, seeks to strengthen those provisions of the Constitution. [More…]
This is not an abrogation of national responsibility but an acceptance of the need for freedom, initiative and diversity within the Australian community. [More…]
The Opposition speaks about freedom of speech. [More…]
We believe in the freedom of speech and discussion and the right of members to say their piece. [More…]
He is one of the former Ministers who talk about freedom of speech but voted for 17 Bills to be debated in 19 hours. [More…]
These talks were directed towards securing a greater freedom of interchange of information among their peoples. [More…]
We as a free nation give to communist propagandists among us freedom to write and say what they will; they are not subject to any arbitrary laws or censorship. [More…]
But inside the communist orbit there is no such freedom. [More…]
We are not allowed to approach their people; we cannot try to make them see the freedoms and advantages of our system. [More…]
My Government supports the proposal by members of the Association of South East Asian Nations for a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia. [More…]
And as should have been well known, Tun Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who so recently duchessed the Prime Minister in Kuala Lumpur, and not so long ago duchessed me as well, the author of the idea of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality, has stated over and over again that his proposals are for the distant future and will require the guarantees of security, territorial integrity and independence by the super powers, the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There has been no Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
If domination by an aggressor can destroy the freedom of a nation, too much dependence on a protector can eventually erode its dignity. [More…]
The Australian people must decide whether they want a socialist society with one centralist government or a free enterprise society where the freedom and enterprise of the individual is of paramount importance. [More…]
Every extension of government power and control means less freedom of choice for the people. [More…]
With no choice, there is no freedom. [More…]
We cannot have socialism without reducing our freedom and we cannot have a controlled economy without government intervention and without controlling the daily lives of humans, who are still the greatest and most important element in the economy. [More…]
At the same time it recognises that a measure of freedom is needed to optimise opportunities for artistic achievement. [More…]
We want to uphold the right of everyone to freedom or artistic expression. [More…]
In matters of staff and finance the Council will have the widest freedom of operation compatible with considerations of public accountability. [More…]
Would any Australian object to a service charge of S20m a year in return for what we got - the savings we made in overseas payments, and the freedom from the recent oil crisis? [More…]
I refer to the great lack of both political and civil freedom all over the world. [More…]
Most of what I wish to say tonight comes from a publication called ‘Freedom at Issue’ which is published by Freedom House in New York. [More…]
During the course of my remarks I shall give honourable members some details justifying this statement and explaining how a decision was made as to what was the status of freedom and what the political and civil rights were like in a particular country. [More…]
Freedom House is a non-party political organisation. [More…]
I have asked the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) for permission to include in Hansard a table titled ‘The Comparative Survey of Freedom: Table of Nations’ and I now ask for leave of the House to incorporate this table. [More…]
I think it is important to point out to people who may criticise this organisation as being a right wing organisaton, because it certainly puts many of the countries under communist control very low in the scores, that this table which I have just incorporated in Hansard was drawn up in August 1973 at a time when Chile was still controlled by the Allende Government, yet Chile received an almost perfect score in relation to freedom. [More…]
Civil rights are the rights of the individual against the state, rights to free expression, to a fair trial; they are what most of us mean by freedom. [More…]
For each nation or dependency in the world, these are: (1) comparison of civil liberties, (2) comparison of political liberties, X3) the balancing of these to establish the relative status of freedom, and (4) establishing current trends in freedom - [More…]
In other words, whether there has been no recent change or whether a change is positive or negative as it relates to freedom. [More…]
Turning to civil rights, we are interested first of all in freedom of the Press. [More…]
It also seems reasonable to consider freedom from harsh and unusual punishments and torture. [More…]
It also means that there is a variety of news media and freedom of expression is both possible and evident. [More…]
Nevertheless, criticism is often allowed to appear in limited ways, and a few favoured individuals are allowed considerable freedom. [More…]
I think it is important to encourage those who are interested in freedom all over the world to have a look at the table which has been incorporated. [More…]
It was quite depressing to me when I was attending the United Nations to find that so many of the resolutions coming forward criticising other countries for an alleged lack of democracy and of political freedoms were often sponsored by countries which almost never exceeded the six or seven ranking, which represents the bottom of the possibilities for both political and civil rights, and that countries where the people obviously have no political or civil rights were continuously ranting about alleged interference with freedom in other countries that admittedly also had relatively poor rankings but which certainly were no worse off than the people who were criticising them. [More…]
He would return to the States the freedom of their own action. [More…]
We will tell the people that whilst we are nationalistic we preciously guard our freedom of government, our federal system of government, with State governments exercising specific areas of responsibility and acting, if necessary, as a check against the intrusion and the excesses of central government. [More…]
Many people do genuinely appear to have been deceived into thinking that they will lose their freedom of choice. [More…]
The freedom of operation of private insurance, in areas where it was suggested in the Green Paper it should be restricted, was to be allowed. [More…]
The Government has not attempted to deal constructively with the health care problems facing this nation but it is trying to force the people of Australia into a corner so that private hospitals, freedom of choice and the things that we have come to expect as being essential to a democratic society will end in domination by Canberra. [More…]
Once this centralism is achieved we will find that the grants of money will have a whole series of conditions attached to them which will deprive local government of its own freedom of action and some bureaucrat in Canberra will decide the way in which local government ought to conduct its affairs. [More…]
Arising out of the Attorney-General’s inquiries into the closure of the ‘Independent Sun’, Perth, will the Attorney-General examine the controls and restrictions on news services within Australia, particularly those concerning membership of Australian Associated Press and the availability of the Associations’ service, with a view to ensuring that these conditions in no way restrict freedom of competition. [More…]
We will use whatever means we can to redress any errors that we believe you have made in the interests of maintaining the freedom of action of the members on this side of the House. [More…]
Legislation will be introduced for a Freedom of Information Act to give a right of access by members of the public to official documents, subject to appropriate safeguards. [More…]
Firstly, it would lower the quality of medical care for Australian families; it would increase total costs for the Government and thus for all taxpayers; it would increase total costs for the majority of taxpayers, because they could only maintain the present quality of their health care by additional heavy commitments for private insurance after having paid the 1.35 per cent super tax; it would reduce freedom of choice and it would jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals. [More…]
Part of that annual report covers the Freedom Fund which was set up to defend private medical practice. [More…]
The Freedom Fund financial statement for the period ended 31 December 1973 - that is for one year - shows an expenditure of $431,211 to fight the Labor Government. [More…]
What a wonderful result for all the disruption, reduction in freedom of choice and decline in standards of health care that will occur under Labor’s health scheme. [More…]
It has given them good quality health care at reasonable cost, with freedom of choice, of doctor, of hospital and health insurance fund, with speed and compassion. [More…]
It should be a scheme which gives us the greatest freedom of choice of doctor, hospital and fund with adequate hospitals throughout the community. [More…]
The Bills will destroy the freedom of choice of doctor by the individual patient. [More…]
We will have instead a universal health insurance scheme which covers everyone in the community, a scheme which gives some meaning to the loose talk of freedoms, we hear from honourable members on the other side of the House. [More…]
Under this scheme there will be freedom for all, including those among that minority of 13 per cent of the community who do not have health insurance cover. [More…]
Complete freedom will be guaranteed for people to choose the doctor that they want to treat them. [More…]
But the fact is that complete freedoms are guaranteed in this scheme. [More…]
In a way I admire them for this respect they now show for the rights and freedom of the people, for inflation and for those who suffer under it. [More…]
It covers arrangements in accordance with which a supplier of goods or services has entered into an arrangement with a person acquiring those goods or services from him and the effect of the arrangement is to limit the freedom of that person to deal as regards persons or places. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that the ultimate worth is the individual, his dignity, his freedom, his self-respect. [More…]
If he is propped up in this way, at what price to his freedom, his privacy, his individuality, his concern for others? [More…]
The task we face in this Parliament, if we are really concerned to build a democracy, is to find and tread that delicate line which will achieve complete social justice for all while affording the greatest individual freedom in personal, social and economic affairs consistent with a basic concern for others. [More…]
The principles of freedom and equality of opportunity are inalienable rights inherent in liberal beliefs. [More…]
The Parties seek full equality of opportunity for all and complete freedom from discrimination. [More…]
Thus States will have more freedom to augment the level of grants in those categories of roads on which they place their priorities. [More…]
The expectation that the Conference arrangements would result in better industrial relations, freedom from industrial disputes and a reduction in unit and total costs has not been fulfilled. [More…]
At the same time it recognises that a measure of freedom is needed to optimise opportunities for artistic achievement. [More…]
We want to uphold the right of everyone to freedom of artistic expression. [More…]
In matters of staff and finance it will have the widest freedom of operation compatible with considerations of public accountability. [More…]
The price of freedom here as elsewhere may be the voluntary acceptance of responsibility. [More…]
1 do not think that it would be known to those who drafted the Treasurer’s speech or who prepared the Bill that the introduction of TCDs or NCDs and the freedom for the trading banks to determine interest rates on overdrafts in excess of $50,000, together with the process of disintermediation - a word I have captured from the honourable member for Kingston - will substantially restrict the activities of the inter-company market. [More…]
There is no question therefore that the Opposition is fully committed to the principle of freedom of competition. [More…]
Corporations which are capable of exercising power to control the market in such a way as to impair that freedom are accountable to the public interest. [More…]
The reason why the contract should not be of detriment is hard to understand because if the freedom to contract is to be retained subject to the public interest then if there is no detriment to the public surely the contract should remain on foot. [More…]
Our amendment would be consistent with the view that freedom of contract be preserved unless a particular contract is not in the public interest. [More…]
It is for the very simple reason, as my honourable friend would know, that the reference is to pending actions and it is to give freedom of choice to the litigants. [More…]
When the Minister for Services and Property has responsibility for such matters as redistribution under the electoral Acts, the democracy and the freedom of this nation are at stake. [More…]
Had he not heard of the 23-year period before that time when the economy was such that more and more women were forced into the work force because of economic circumstances and did not have the freedom of choice? [More…]
These ladies are the women whose husbands gave their lives for their country in various conflicts in the defence not only of their country but also of freedom around the world, and widows of ex-servicemen who suffered some illness or injury, broadly speaking, which was judged or assessed as being caused by war service and from which they subsequently died. [More…]
On the other hand, one has to recognise the very important fundamental right of freedom of passage and the serious consequences which flow from the withdrawal of a passport. [More…]
One finds that the patients are on lists and that there they do not have freedom of choice of doctors. [More…]
The Opposition point of view in this debate has been adequately expressed by the previous speakers who have detailed the reasons why we should not have nationalised medicine and who have promoted the cause for a continuation of freedom of choice in all types of medical and hospital benefits and for the best possible quality of health care in Australia. [More…]
I have risen in this debate to expose the treachery of the Labor Government’s action and to let the people of Queensland know that under this proposal every one of them will have to pay more for exactly the same type of service that they have at the present time, with the added restriction of not having the freedom of choice of doctor. [More…]
This scheme does not interfere with one’s freedom of choice of a doctor. [More…]
Accordingly, this presents a challenge for us to search around and to discover new and more efficient ways to provide health services while, at the same time, maintaining rights of choice, freedom of quality of care and so on. [More…]
We are entitled to ask for freedom of movement. [More…]
We do not need a cradle-to-the-grave society in which the Government will dictate all aspects of our daily lives, and expect those of us who still want to work to pay dearly for the ultimate welfare state in which the individual will lose all freedom of choice and the capacity to plan his destiny. [More…]
If it is to continue as an institution of free speech, able and willing to face the challenges it is meeting from elsewhere to its capacity, its authority and even to its freedom of debate it will need the support of all our people. [More…]
It is based on equity; it is based on a sense of justice; it will ensure that every person in this community is covered for health insurance purposes; and, most certainly, it is based on a freedom of choice- a freedom to choose the private medical practitioner that one cares to use and a freedom to choose the type of hospital treatment that one cares to draw upon. [More…]
These are the benefits that the community stands to gain: For individual citizens our health insurance program will mean an automatic health insurance cover that is based on a more equitable system of payment and a freedom of choice of the doctor and the type of hospital care. [More…]
The Government says: ‘We will grab the lot of you and take away your freedom of choice’. [More…]
They have said, as Mr Chipp continued to say today, that we were going to nationalise medicine; we were going to prevent freedom of choice; we were going to destroy the doctor- patient relationship; we were going to wreck the hospital system; we were going to give much less service at far greater cost; we were going to socialise, centralise and bureaucratise; and we were going to reduce proud, vigorous and individualistic Australians to mere ciphers on some remote computer roll. [More…]
For example I refer to the allegation that we are out to destroy the freedom of choice which exists in the present scheme. [More…]
It cannot be repeated too often that the charge about destruction of freedom of choice is simply untrue. [More…]
In act, far from restricting freedom of choice the new scheme will expand it in many important respects. [More…]
They cannot, on the one hand, say that the public desperately wants to preserve its freedom of choice of doctor but then say on the other hand that for the sake of an after-tax contribution of less than $1 a week they will desert their private doctors, desert that freedom of choice in a great stampede for the standard wards. [More…]
The points we made were, firstly, that it would lower the quality of medical care to Australian families; second, that it would increase the total cost to the Government and thus to the taxpayer; third, that it would increase the cost to an individual because, in addition to increased taxation, expensive additional private insurance would be required to maintain health care standards; fourth, that it would reduce the freedom of choice of doctors and hospitals; fifth, that it would jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals; and, sixth, that it would be the first stage of nationalisation of health care in Australia. [More…]
The first point concerns freedom of choice and religious hospitals. [More…]
So much for the Government’s claim that it will not restrict freedom of choice. [More…]
“What is freedom of choice if a person does not have the right to go to a private or religious hospital if he so chooses? [More…]
Mr Acting Chairman, the Government should stop its senseless, socialist stampede for a costly, unworkable scheme that will reduce health care standards, reduce freedom of choice and put many of our hospitals at peril. [More…]
Which will expand freedom of choice; which will promote efficiency in health services and which will upgrade hospital and community health centres. [More…]
There are some freedoms that are basic to the Australian way of life. [More…]
I submit that the right to good health is a basic freedom and that medical treatment should not rest on ability to pay. [More…]
To pretend that this is a system which will give freedom of choice is to overlook so many facets which have to be explored. [More…]
If it is not to provide a diminished health service, then, of course, there is no freedom of choice for us as to what the rate will be next year. [More…]
The Government has talked about the freedom to choose a doctor. [More…]
Most of these false criticisms have been centred on the issue of freedom of choice. [More…]
The pensioner will have his freedom of choice extended to treatment outside a hospital as he can be referred to a specialist in bis surgery. [More…]
The more one looks into the matter the more it seems that the important freedom to the Opposition is that of the consultant to get his fee for service from the patient who is forced, because of the application of the means test, into the private or intermediate ward. [More…]
It will preserve the freedom of choice of the doctor and the patient, and it will allow people to insure against the cost of private hospital care. [More…]
In the light of all this there are people from one end of Australia to the other asking themselves why the Government is trying to throw out a health scheme which the overwhelming majority of them have found perfectly satisfactory, which has given them good quality health care at reasonable cost with freedom of choice of doctor and hospital and health insurance fund, and with speed and compassion, and in which they have genuine confidence. [More…]
They are all variations on a theme and they all come from the magnificent promise of freedom from cost and worry, mainly from politicians in order to curry favour and win votes. [More…]
They are looking forward to the freedom of having that part of the business of living looked after for them. [More…]
Over and over, in written and spoken words, the Government has said that there will be complete freedom of choice of doctor. [More…]
The measure of the government in a democracy surely must be its capacity and performance in preventing exploitation, whether it be exploitation of individuals, groups of individuals, of resources or indeed of freedom itself. [More…]
I suggest that this is exploitation of freedom which a responsible government should take some very strong measures to control. [More…]
Government had allowed the Australian mining industry such an enormous amount of freedom over its operations, including the writing of long term contracts and the unilateral determination of export prices, that in some cases policies were being followed that were harmful instead of helpful to our nation. [More…]
The right honourable member will be aware that it is the policy of this Government that public servants should have the maximum possible freedom to exercise the social and political rights enjoyed by other citizens. [More…]
Firstly, the refusal to supply extra petrol impinges upon the freedom of the individual- a man in business -to obtain the supplies he desires and needs. [More…]
It violates a very basic principle that I regard as being of paramount importance, the basic principle of human rights, of personal freedom, the right of the individual to privacy in personal matters. [More…]
I see it as a threat to individual freedom. [More…]
All this principle would serve to do would be to create a precedent where the freedom of the individual and the privacy of the individual could become a matter of public property. [More…]
I have been dismayed to find that not one word of criticism has been uttered by the Federal Liberal Party representatives in this House to protect the freedom of their constituents- a freedom which once lost perhaps will be impossible to regain without bloodshed. [More…]
Instead of examining all the old, restrictive, unnecessary laws carried on from the unenlightened English anti-working class laws, which still apply unless repealed by a State, or requesting this national Parliament to examine and withdraw any anti-worker or anti-freedom laws instituted by previous national Parliaments, the Western Australian Liberal Party continues to support and perhaps even to suggest more repressive laws. [More…]
They should realise, as Western Australians have realised, that the threat to freedom is not in Canberra but much closer to home. [More…]
We have a situation in which there is the obvious collaboration of outside interests who wish to create something similar to what happened in Chile and in other nations where freedom has been suppressed. [More…]
It makes consequential provision to ensure the effectiveness of undertakings in the guarantee and loan agreements regarding freedom of payments from Australian taxation or restrictions imposed by Australian law. [More…]
In other words, it provides an opportunity for producer freedom and market orientated farm policy. [More…]
They can satisfy freedom of choice and they can be a very salutory instrument for containing the excessive pressures towards inflation that occur in Australia and also come from outside Australia. [More…]
In fact, the universal health insurance program which will come into operation on 1 July next year is essentially based on the private practice of medicine, on the freedom of choice of one’s medical practitioner and on the payment of that medical practitioner by fee for service. [More…]
It meant freedom from pollution of the often high water table in the region, particularly in the Canning area. [More…]
I do so because the Australian Labor Party, through its activities and through its efforts to stifle freedom of speech and democracy, is setting out to reduce to nothing more than a farce and a laugh the talk back programs in which people ring radio stations. [More…]
As always the Opposition will co-operate in putting through a measure such as this, which is both reasonable and progressive and which in a specific way is designed to uphold the dignity and freedom of the individual. [More…]
On his, and her, dignity and freedom. [More…]
I feel very keenly about the denial of freedom of choice and opportunity which is part of this Government’s education policies. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) said the morning after the Budget was introduced, it is quite clear that freedom of choice for parents is under blunt attack, and indeed it is under blunt attack. [More…]
It will make a lot of people feel that real freedom of choice is under very, very direct attack, because there are many hundreds of thousands of people in this community who are prepared to make additional sacrifices to exercise a freedom of choice. [More…]
They are not privileged people, but they are people who feel they ought to have the right to exercise this freedom of choice. [More…]
That freedom of choice is under very, very severe attack and limitation by this Budget. [More…]
In addition to the benefits of a high capacity line and freedom from interruptions to the service by floods provided for the Northern Territory by this line, further advantage will come from the construction of the standard gauge link from Adelaide to Crystal Brook which is the subject of separate legislation. [More…]
The great objective of the Labor movement was social justice based on the freedom of the individual. [More…]
The whole philosophy of the Prime Minister and his storm troopers is to wipe out the freedom of the individual and to bring every phase of his life under control. [More…]
The question of freedom of the indivdual was mentioned. [More…]
But who in the Senate will oppose this attempt by us to enshrine basic principles of human dignity, anti-racist principles and principles of human freedom? [More…]
So much for the argument of who supports human individual freedom. [More…]
As soon as that decision became public there was a great deal of disquiet and I certainly took the first opportunity to condemn the decision that by according de jure recognition to the incorporation the Australian Government was giving the force of law to a de facto act of military domination, invasion and suppression of the freedom of the peoples of those countries. [More…]
This provision will give the Line greater freedom of operation. [More…]
But unfortunately he ignores that one has freedom of individual choice only when one has command of a high income. [More…]
When 90 per cent of the wage and salary earners earn much less than $10,000 per year it is nonsense to talk about freedom of individual choice. [More…]
The Government’s decision to reduce the income tax deduction for education expenses strikes not only at the non-government schools, which was its intention, motivated by the desire to restrict freedom of choice, but also at the young mothers and the single parent families who depend on pre-schools and kindergartens, which are often costly, while they make a living to support their families. [More…]
He will fight for his family’s freedom and independence. [More…]
This decision of the Government is illustrative of the fact that deep down it is not a government which shares a permanent commit-, ment to the maintenance of a real freedom of choice in education. [More…]
We deplore this decision not only because of the monetary deprivation of many families throughout Australia that will result from its implementation but also and above all because it represents a basic rejection of the principle of maintaining a real freedom of choice in education. [More…]
It is one of the chief bastions of freedom that the people have and yet, like freedom itself, it is not sufficiently appreciated or valued. [More…]
There is legislation around which, if implemented, would have the gravest consequences for the freedom of the Press and in particular, of course, for the freedom of commercial television in this country. [More…]
There is a great and growing concern in the community that child care should, firstly, be made available to those people who have a real need but ought to be available also to any woman and to any family wishing to have facilities for minding their children if those people wish to be employed or wish to exercise some freedom of choice in regard to working or undertaking other activities. [More…]
There should be retained a freedom of choice and a certain amount of flexibility so that parents have the right to decide, to make a choice between alternate forms of child care. [More…]
I am informed that the Public Service Board is conducting a review of Public Service Regulations 34 (a) and 35 in the ‘ light of the Freedom of Information Act foreshadowed by the Government. [More…]
The outcome of this review will depend upon the final form of the Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
The free market system implies competition and freedom to set prices in a competitive market. [More…]
However in view of the current military situation, and in particular the lack of freedom of movement for UNFICYP in the Turkish controlled sector, contributing countries have been asked not to act on earlier requests for additional civilian police. [More…]
He has done much more than just not creating employment opportunities; what he has done is transfer to the public sector the freedom of choice of people to seek employment. [More…]
In addition to this, if we look to the immediate future, every flow statistic that there is available, including the flow statistics that are available from the Hancock Committee report which he commissioned, new vacancies notified, placements confirmed and forward financial data, indicate that with a freedom to choose, without effective direction of labour, full employment will not be with us for quite a number of months. [More…]
In the next few days we are going to be privileged as a parliament to receive a Bill which will seek to extend to the whole of the people of Australia, whether they are ex-servicemen or migrants, no matter who they are, the right to one of the basic freedoms for which every parliament and every government should strive, freedom from want. [More…]
I hope that it will provide for everyone the basic freedom that one would have hoped could have been provided for years ago. [More…]
The Bill seeks to give, and undoubtedly will give, to the Australian people peace of mind and that basic and fundamental right to which they are entitled, namely, freedom from want that afflicts so many people. [More…]
Other speakers for the Government have pointed out the length of time since the tabling of the report and the wide opportunities that the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation, Senator Wheeldon, has offered to everyone in the community to comment, apart from their initial freedom to make submissions to the inquiry. [More…]
We hear very glib talk about freedom of choice. [More…]
How many families with an income of $4,000, $5,000 or even $6,000 a year can afford the freedom of choice to send their children to independent schools which have school fees of $300, $400 or $500 a year? [More…]
I also said on that occasion and on a previous occasion when I issued a statement last Friday that the Opposition rejects and abhors South Africa’s inhumane policy of apartheid, and in particular it deplores the South African Government’s recent extension of repressive laws and the further suppression of racial equality and freedom of expression. [More…]
It will be recalled that during his speech he referred, among other things, to the ‘inalienable rights of all people to freedom and independence’. [More…]
Has this Government assured their freedom? [More…]
In the last 2 weeks it has been brought to the attention of this chamber that an Eastern European diplomat had the courage of his convictions to go to an Australian embassy and ask for political asylum and that this Government which is prepared to stand up in the United Nations and talk about the freedom of the individual and the need for political asylum, refused that man his individual rights. [More…]
Those people are human beings and they are entitled to freedom. [More…]
In Portuguese Timor itelf, despite the small size of the politically conscious minority, which probably amounts to less than 3,000 at the outside, there has been a surprising amount of political activity since the new Government disbanded the political police and allowed freedom of political activity, shortly after coming to power. [More…]
Having cleared the dust away from planning policies established years and years ago it has revealed the availability of frequencies for broadcasting that will allow the development of a genuine freedom of communication in this country- a freedom of communication for the many rather than the few. [More…]
If it were to be conducted on a political base all that was likely to happen was that attitudes may get frozen in and there would not be the freedom to move. [More…]
This would be tantamount, in a commercial context, to preventing the freedom of a person wishing to commission a film organisation to make a film, expressing his opinion on how the film should be made. [More…]
Similarly the Bill provides for the freedom and flexibility in financial operations which Film Australia has not had in the past and will enable the Commission to co-ordinate and operate in the closest of harmony with the demands of the industry. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm that this biased reporting is really an abuse of what is loosely called freedom of the Press? [More…]
-Somebody once observed that freedom of the Press constitutes a situation where a millionaire owns 10 newspapers and a million people own none. [More…]
But I believe that this Government conforms very strongly to the concept of freedom of the Press. [More…]
Delegates to the convention of the Federation of Australian Broadcasters, which includes some Labor Party controlled stations, unanimously affirmed their determination to support the principles that the public is best served by the continuance of the freedom of the commercial broadcasting industry to program their stations in accordance with the demonstrable interests of the communities which they serve. [More…]
As far as it is within the power of an Opposition to ensure that there is a desirable freedom, we are trying to ensure that this freedom is available. [More…]
If that freedom is not available to the media a limitation exists which is contrary to the democractic principles of Australia. [More…]
I should like to conclude by updating a famous quotation of Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends upon the freedom of the media and that cannot be limited without being lost. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman from North Sydney who interjects would be well aware that when he was in government I moved in this chamber two or three amendments dealing with the freedom of the individual as it related to the Board and the accessibility to tapes and video tape recordings. [More…]
I was still waiting when the previous Government went out of office for it to accept that point of individual freedom. [More…]
I do not wish to take up the time of the House in this debate with my own personal experience of this great Liberal freedom for the individual. [More…]
Transmitted to the area we are now discussing, no government or no authority ought to take it upon itself the right to traffic in the freedom of information and I believe that that freedom - [More…]
Honourable gentlemen who spoke out this morning in praise and in defence of human freedom not only have lived with this situation of the monopolisation of communication in Australia ever since they came to power in 1949; they have actively abetted the process by which consolidation increased. [More…]
All too often freedom of the media, as honourable gentlemen opposite use the term, means no more- I am indebted to the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) for the phrase- than the freedom of a millionaire to own 10 newspapers and one million people to own none. [More…]
We would expect, and indeed it is the policy of this Government, that adults should have the uttermost freedom of choice in what they see, hear or read. [More…]
However, and I cannot stress this point too strongly, an elector will retain the freedom to express a preference for as many additional candidates as he pleases. [More…]
The smaller States in particular will benefit by having made available to them adequate funds which allow them freedom to allocate them as they see fit. [More…]
We do so because this system is most conducive to the progress and the well-being of Australia, and most conducive to the democratic protection of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
In summary, the policies of the Australian Government in respect of Aboriginal people might be described as seeking: to encourage and strengthen the capacity of Aboriginals to manage their own affairs and to increase their economic independence; to enable Aboriginals to have a real freedom of choice about their life style and the extent to which, particularly in the more remote communities, they maintain their traditional customs and culture- a freedom which can be exercised to the extent that communities have local authority, in particular through land ownership; to make equality a reality for Aboriginal Australians by working to overcome those handicaps which generally face them in fields such as housing, health, education, employment and civil liberties; in doing this, to help Aboriginals themselves to provide services designed to overcome handicapsfor instance through Aboriginal housing societies, medical services and legal services; and to act in the closest consultation with Aboriginal communities and individuals at both the national and the local levels. [More…]
All this adds up to a most alarming situation for those people who believe in freedom of choice. [More…]
Parents simply do not have freedom of choice. [More…]
At this moment in Australia’s history governments should be seeking constructive ways of extending freedom of choice to parents instead of taking it away from those who presently exert it. [More…]
We should seek imaginative and novel approaches to the funding of education, perhaps through tax credits, perhaps through voucher schemes and perhaps through other techniques to see that the freedom of choice is extended right throughout the community instead of shrunk to a smaller and smaller segment of the community. [More…]
It is not beyond the wit of man to discover ways of extending this sort of genuine freedom of choice right across the community. [More…]
We should seek constructive ways of extending freedom of choice instead of narrowing it just when people are crying out to have a say in their own affairs. [More…]
The honourable member for Chisholm talked about children who have no freedom of choice. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about freedom of choice. [More…]
This is giving much more freedom of choice than had ever previously been heard of. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties believe in cooperation, not confrontation, with the State governments but above all else we believe in the freedom and dignity of the individual. [More…]
When the communists overran Hungary in 1949 he was imprisoned by them because he stood up for the freedom of the church. [More…]
That matter was put on the agenda of the Assembly, not because those individual cases would normally be of international concern, but because it was felt strongly that, in the guise of administering criminal law, actually what was being attemped in those States was interference with fundamental freedoms- in this instance freedom of religious worship. [More…]
Surely we can see for ourselves, and we should require the communist powers to give us the same freedom to make inquiries within their borders as we accord to their agents to make inquiries within our borders. [More…]
In conclusion I repeat what I said in this House not long ago when I updated a famous quotation of Thomas Jefferson- it may need some qualification- ‘Our liberty depends on the freedom of the media and that cannot be limited without being lost. ‘ [More…]
Arafat stood up in the United Nations yesterday and said: ‘I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter’s gun in the other’. [More…]
A democratic socialist party runs the country and has done since 1948- since freedom. [More…]
I have always believed as a good democrat that the pen should be mightier than the sword but when the pen begins to be used as a sword we are destroying the freedom that the Press claims to want to have. [More…]
Surely no party which claims that it supports the principle of freedom of choice can say: ‘We compel you to vote in order of preference for candidates whether you want to or not’. [More…]
That man has not forfeited his freedom. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $ I SO seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and, further, that the Bill specifically: [More…]
In effect, the answer emerges with stark reality and crystal clarity that when the schemes are sound Queensland will accept and has accepted them; where freedom and dignity are threatened Queensland will resist and defend the rights of sovereignty and privacy. [More…]
We have had, very happily, in this country a freedom from violence with one or two exceptions. [More…]
They also say it takes away the freedom of choice from the people of East Bentleigh. [More…]
the Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation; (xxxviii) the Australian National Committee for the Freedom from Hunger Campaign; [More…]
They would be able to determine the advantage of going into deficit budgeting as against the alternative advantages, the greater autonomy and the freedom from control in operating under the present scheme where the benefits are maintained at realistic levels. [More…]
In exercising his freedom the individual must respect the feedom of others. [More…]
Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by these articles and by the other rules of international law. [More…]
1 ) Freedom of navigation; [More…]
2 ) Freedom of fishing; [More…]
3 ) Freedom to lay submarine cables and pipelines; [More…]
Freedom to fly over the high seas. [More…]
So this in fact is a very severe restriction on the freedom or idiosyncrasies of any Minister of State for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
I submit that this House ought to take greater cognisance of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
It is important I believe that all honourable members look to this aspect of the freedom of the individual when considering important legislation like this. [More…]
Australia has been prominent in expressing concern about violations of human rights and upholding the right of all peoples to live in dignity and freedom. [More…]
On 2 April 1973, I wrote to all Ministers suggesting that they exercise their discretion on items of current interest and in cases of doubt should await the criteria for release of documents in the proposed Freedom ‘of Information Act. [More…]
I refer the honourable member to the Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Proposed Freedom of Information Legislation which was tabled today in the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
Proposed Freedom of Information Legislation- tabled in Parliament on 5 December 1974. [More…]
Obviously, that goes to the very basis of the human freedom of the people in Darwin who are anxious to re-establish themselves in their normal way of life. [More…]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 25th anniversary of which was celebrated on 10 December 1973, proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence and no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family or home. [More…]
Moreover, the amendments do not deal in any way with the matters of freedom of movement of an Aboriginal on to a reserve, legal representations before, and appeal from, Aboriginal courts, compulsory labour and the other unsatisfactory features of the Queensland laws. [More…]
We believe that the Labor scheme and the action proposed by the Minister which, as I say, he has been good enough to forget today in this one respect in the face of the reality of the Senate amendment, would reduce the personal responsibility and the freedom of choice of the individual regarding doctor, fund, ward or hospital. [More…]
All these freedoms, the Government keeps assuring us, will be preserved. [More…]
It is not a program to nationalise medical and hospital services, nor does it reduce any of the freedoms which patients, doctors or hospitals now enjoy. [More…]
Honourable members will know that the medical plan gives everyone automatic coverage for private practice, fee-for-service, medical treatment and that there will be complete freedom of choice of doctor by patients and of place and type of practice by doctors. [More…]
87, ‘Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise’, and it did so on a commitment to undertake amendments to the amalgamation provisions which prevent the Convention from being implemented. [More…]
The question that has to be decided is really this: Is it preferable for matters to be resolved by agreement of responsible and knowledgeable parties to an industrial relationship with full freedom to determine for themselves the most appropriate ways and means, or should free consideration of the matter be circumscribed by the forced intervention of, and procedures prescribed by, a stranger to that relationship? [More…]
They are very concerned as to the extent of the powers of this Bill, and just how much the legislation will involve and perhaps interfere with their freedom and their daily lives in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In laws governing families as single units the historic principle should be maintained and the state should interfere as little as possible with the freedom of action and responsibility within the family. [More…]
The contemporary crisis in family relationships results from a large variety of factors including changes in the social philosophy which are emphasising increasingly the freedom of the individual to develop his own philosophy of life and the freedom of the individual to acquire the tools for an analysis of problems. [More…]
Education in itself leads to this type of freedom. [More…]
This new found freedom of women- a freedom which allows them to develop their God-given intellect and talents in a way they have never been able to develop them beforemeans that we have to look very seriously at the whole structural relationships of our society, particularly the family structural relationship. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) presented a number of very powerful and persuasive arguments against this Bill and he has left no doubt in our minds about just how far this Government is prepared to go in intruding into the freedom of people in this country. [More…]
But if that does happen that would be the first step towards the abolition of the freedom of the media and the freedom of the Press. [More…]
Why should an individual have this freedom to be anonymous taken away from him? [More…]
It smacks of an attempt to achieve a totalitarian control of the political freedom of people and of their right to act outside public scrutiny. [More…]
It must be very careful that it does not bring down laws that will ultimately work against the principles upon which this society of ours is based- the freedom and the rights of the individual. [More…]
It is introducing a Bill to stifle freedom in this country. [More…]
The Labor Party talks about freedom in Australia but once again it sets out along the path of tying people up more and more. [More…]
What balance can we strike between unfair advantage and political freedom? [More…]
Freedom from outside interference, particularly from a foreign country, must not only be a fact but also must be seen to be a fact, and this is what this Bill does. [More…]
How can one put a price on freedom? [More…]
In a weak moment, Australia could find itself, in the euphoria of a conference, involved in some international agreement that could well limit the freedom and the rights of an individual within a community or society, for the sole purpose of trying to preserve the environment as such. [More…]
While the Government does not plan initially to regionalise operations- at least I have not heard of those plans- and to place people in areas so that basically they will get on to a particular doctor’s list and be able to go only to that doctor, there is no question but that ultimately the freedom of choice of family doctor will be affected. [More…]
Medibank will not interfere with the freedom of the patient-doctor, doctor-doctor, patient-patient and patient-nurse etc. [More…]
freedom. [More…]
There will be complete freedom of choice of doctor by the patient. [More…]
It is said that we will not have freedom of choice of our doctor, we will go onto a list and we will become a number on a card in a pocket. [More…]
But no one is interfering with the patient’s freedom to choose his doctor. [More…]
However, there is no reason why there should be an increase in the area in which there will not be a freedom of choice. [More…]
All of the measures which we would introduce would be part of the continuing reform of the health insurance system, which will ensure comprehensive coverage of the entire community while maintaining freedom of choice and a private system, not a socialised, nationalised scheme which financially is airy-fairy and could cost this country millions of dollars more than the present Government has estimated. [More…]
What we want to see is the unionists throughout this country given real freedom of action. [More…]
I say that the rank and file unionist is a responsible citizen, providing he is given that freedom of action to which he is entitled. [More…]
In other words, it is implied that there has been a breach of privilege as regards the freedom of honourable members. [More…]
It says that we believe in democracy, we believe in freedom of speech and we believe in the democratic institution of Parliament. [More…]
Its creation as a separate statutory authority had been mooted for some time in order to enhance its creative freedom, remove bureaucratic inhibitions, mainly audit and Treasury, and prevent its use as a mere propaganda medium for the government of the day. [More…]
If the Government remains insistent that it control the Commission for purposes of departmental industrial promotion activities, it could well consider separation of (b) (i) from (b) (ii) and (b) (hi) in clause 5( 1 ), to allow the general production of Australian films to proceed in maximum freedom without the threat of ministerial interference. [More…]
This legislation certainly gives a new sense of security while allowing people to create and perform with complete freedom. [More…]
to uphold and promote the right of persons to freedom in the practice of the arts; [More…]
This is a danger and it has to be faced, as have others, but I think that if the Government is going to put responsible people on these boards they must be given not necessarily the ultimate decision but certainly a very wide range of freedom of movement because it is the people on the ground, the consumers, the artists, who really know ultimately where their problems he. [More…]
The Government should ensure that the Indonesian Government is not in any way imposing constraints on their freedom. [More…]
The Prime Minister should be able to ensure that the Indonesian Government is not in any way, even inadvertantly, imposing constraints on the freedom of action of the East Timorese people. [More…]
The Labor Party will honour all Australian treaties and alliances which respect the freedom and security and the peoples in the treaty areas and their right to determine their own forms of government without external interference. [More…]
We have stated that we will abolish the Department of the Media which we regard as an unnecessary and interfering propaganda bureaucracy designed ultimately to interfere with the freedom of the media to the benefit of the Labor Party. [More…]
We must therefore balance the freedom of those in the monopoly position to continue their monopoly against the freedom of those who would otherwise wish to exercise their freedom of enterprise, but are prevented from doing so. [More…]
The freedom to reverse the scheme in its entirety is in practice confined. [More…]
For example, freedom of choice of doctor and hospital and tight supervision of the expenditure of funds so that the alleged ‘free’ scheme does not send the community bankrupt. [More…]
I firmly believe, in accordance with the Liberal philosophy, that much the better way in which to organise society is to allow the greatest economic freedom to individuals by seeing that the total income and the total wealth of the community are distributed on as wide a base as is possible down to the individuals. [More…]
To the extent that financial power through income and wealth is diverted from individuals and placed into the hands of the state through Crown corporations such as this, individuals are denied economic freedom, and economic freedom is a fundamental of personal freedom. [More…]
This is why I take the opportunity now to endeavour to point out the differences between the philosophy of the Liberal and Country Parties who believe in individual economic freedom and private enterprise and the philosophy of public enterprise and nationalisation of the socialists who occupy the Government benches today. [More…]
In that regard I would have expected that the Minister, if he were pursuing a program of greater economic freedom for individuals to acquire their own homes and to be able to afford to pay for those homes during their lifetime, would have looked to providing mechanisms or facilities through the private financial institutions of Australia for giving to the people the financial capacity to acquire their own homes. [More…]
But it is Mr Kerry Packer who goes on to bleat about freedom of choice. [More…]
This whole affair does raise serious questions of freedom of choice; questions of the freedom of the media. [More…]
Is this the kind of freedom of choice Mr Kerry Packer is so concerned to protect, the freedom of the Packer dynasty to mould public opinion to its own purposes? [More…]
Is this the freedom of the Press? [More…]
We need an inquiry to determine how we can ensure the freedom of the media, free from the arbitrary control of the few to distort and slant information to their own purposes. [More…]
I submit that it would deny the freedom of religion by refusing opposing views to religion and within religion- that is, differing views on marriage even within denominations. [More…]
I do strongly and deeply believe that every person has the right to live in freedom, with dignity and with opportunities to pursue his or her own objectives and to achieve personal happiness and true realisation; and that the State has the duty not to obstruct those activities within the law but to remove impediments to their realisation and to protect individual privacy. [More…]
What we are talking about in respect to marriage is, in one sense, the freedom of association. [More…]
There is always a prima facie case for freedom; because men must not be used merely as tools, the onus of proof always rests on whoever wants to limit it not on those enjoying it. [More…]
There is also a special case for freedom of association over and above the formal prima facie case for not interfering, analagous in some respects to the special case for freedom of discussion. [More…]
It may even prescribe limiting conditions for the transmission of family property from one generation to the next, although it upholds in principle the freedom of testamentary disposition. [More…]
Therefore the only just and humane course is to allow citizens maximum freedom to work out these complexities in as dignified and humane a way as possible. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of any recent developments which might impede the constitutional freedom of any Australian political party to organise and advance its policies in any or every Australian State and Territory? [More…]
The freedom to reverse the scheme in its entirety is in practice confined. [More…]
If it does that the Government will abolish one of its own arguments, that is, that it is not restricting the freedom of choice of hospital beds in this country. [More…]
They did not give him authority to kill their freedom. [More…]
There are all too many people, both men and women, who are still unaware of their vital responsibility to other people- people whose right to eat, breathe clean air, have shelter and freedom of choice and a future for their children is as valid as yours and mine. [More…]
That we have the freedom to make a choice or to make a judgment in marriage ensures we are not always correct. [More…]
An interdepartmental committee was set up to report to the Government on Freedom of Information legislation. [More…]
Has the Government considered the interdepartmental report on freedom of information legislation; if so, when. [More…]
When is it expected that legislation to give effect to the Government’s promises on freedom of information will be introduced into Parliament. [More…]
attempts might be made to restrain our freedom of action in regard to military operations. [More…]
lest any United Nations intervention impede the freedom of action of the United States and its allies to do what we considered necessary to resist aggression in Vietnam. [More…]
Why ought it not to do so when there are people who wanted to live in some kind of freedom and who quite plainly oppose the encroachment of Communist armies from the North resulting in the ending of freedom for ever. [More…]
But if the Deputy Prime Minister’s statement is to be taken at its barest face value at the very least it is saying that people have no right to fight to defend their freedom. [More…]
What would have happened if that had been said before the Battle of the Coral Sea, if he had said to Australians that they had no right to defend their freedom? [More…]
The first distinguished statesman to have the nous to see this, and to see the possibilities of the freedom of Europe in it, was Charles de Gaulle. [More…]
This Labor Government that stands before the world mouthing new standards of intellectual platitudes fails to appreciate the fact that when the Ho Chi Minn Government took over in North Vietnam, with the failure of the French and their withdrawal, over 1 million North Vietnamese were taken from their villages, hamlets and towns and most of them never returned because members of the Communist regime of the North appreciated the fundamental dictum that their power would remain only while they were able to crush, utterly expunge from their society any possibility whatsoever that there would still remain a flicker of freedom in the minds of men. [More…]
Over 400 Australian men have died in Vietnam and many other Australian men and women to this day have the courage of their convictions to stay in Vietnam and to work for those poor people in that country who have lost everything but their desire for life and freedom. [More…]
But if life is sacred, and I believe it is, I believe that the peasant in Vietnam or Cambodia, his child and his refugee wife have got as much right to live in peace and freedom as has any Australian. [More…]
We must, however, remain cognisant of the need to avoid appearing to be encroaching upon the freedom of individuals, of the distinction between unintentional and wilful discrimination and of the need to ensure that the proposed conciliation procedures do not become an opportunity for persecution or character assassination. [More…]
The Bill could destroy freedom of speech and attempt to stifle freedom of thought. [More…]
When the then Mrs Eskell wanted to obtain a divorce she had to face a most horrifying and traumatic experience under the present antiquated legislation to gain her freedom from this man. [More…]
By this legislation his freedom can be attacked by an unknown person and this ordinary person may have to appear before the Commissioner. [More…]
On the other hand, there is the demand for preservation of a completely free society in which it is proper and reasonable for people to have freedom to disseminate ideas. [More…]
I agree that there is a possibility of undemocratic practices which are against freedom of speech, as we would normally believe it to be, unless the Commissioner does his duty with a profound reverence for that freedom. [More…]
Cease being an agent of Petersen and fight for the rights and freedom of your people. [More…]
The definition of trial by one’s peers of course differs a lot from the thinking of the people who drew up the Magna Carta but the principle is sound and, notwithstanding that it has been enacted now for 760 years or more, it is one that commends itself to all the people of Australia who believe in freedom and liberty. [More…]
Therefore we are considering a fundamental question of the freedom of movement of people and the right of reunion of families. [More…]
All the questions that arise across the board- the right of Aborigines to manage their own affairs, freedom of movement and the right to privacy- are being dealt with. [More…]
As I said before, self determination for communities does not include an absolute right over freedom of movement and the reunion of families that is implied in the present situation. [More…]
They all want to talk about this splendid effort of the Australians who were so anxious to preserve freedom and democracy, and who were successful in that sense. [More…]
That anybody can work 2 days a week for $130 and have 5 days off is an indication of the freedom that this Government has allowed and the way that this country is progressing at present. [More…]
A basic freedom amongst Australians must be the ability for alternatives to be offered to the Australian people at elections. [More…]
Rather its purpose is to give encouragement- financial encouragement and advisory encouragement- to other bodies so that they may engage in research; to support individual teachers; and then to make sure that their findings and research reach other people, and that those people in turn have opportunities in their teaching careers to peruse and study the findings of the research and have the chance and the professional freedom to try out those ideas in their class-rooms. [More…]
Their great freedom is not impaired. [More…]
It will inhibit the freedom of the Statistician when there is a requirement to obtain information because of the added difficulty of having to wait for Parliament to meet. [More…]
Both this Government and the artists have the desire to communicate and, as I have said, clauses 5 (2), 6 ( 1 ) (b) and 6(2) give the Gallery Board great freedom. [More…]
Some artists who have been oppressed and still are oppressed are expressing their attitude to freedom. [More…]
This bitter old man making his last hurrah in politics is mutilating and violating every decent characteristic of freedom and free enterprise which this nation and its people have cherished. [More…]
I am campaigning for them and their families against the Government’s destruction of their personal freedom and dignity as individuals. [More…]
Thus the Commonwealth’s power over trade does not extend to intra-State trade and may not be exercised in such a way as to impair the freedom of interstate trade. [More…]
The Opposition is confident that the High Court of Australia will uphold the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce, especially the freedom of trade guaranteed by section 92. [More…]
The Federation unanimously affirmed its determination to support the principles that the public is best served by the continuance of the freedom of the commercial broadcasting industry to program its stations in accordance with the demonstrable interests of the communities which it serves. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) said that the television proprietors should have full freedom to put on whatever they believe is right. [More…]
I am reminded- I have used this expression before- that freedom of the Press for the Opposition is when one man can own 10 newspapers but 10 million people own none. [More…]
After all, family assistance programs in Australia which have hitherto been carried out have abided by the principle of freedom of choice. [More…]
As I indicated in replying to the honourable member on 5 December 1974 (Hansard page 4763) others await the criteria for the release of documents to be set out in the proposed Freedom of Information legislation to which my Government is committed. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether he has received a request from the Australian Chamber of Commerce for the Government to cease all activities which interfere with complete freedom of private enterprise. [More…]
Has he given consideration to the effect on employment opportunities of removing Government intervention in opposition to this freedom, such as tariffs, subsidies and tax concessions? [More…]
I am upholding the principle I have stated previously and consistentlythat freedom of choice ought not to make an exclusion in this respect. [More…]
I believe that the mother ought to have freedom of choice to be able to stay at home if she wishes and, if she feels that because of her vocation or for her own satisfaction she wants to be involved in the work force in a productive way, her children should be able to be cared for in facilities such as are proposed. [More…]
Freedom of choice ought to be encouraged so that both situations are accommodated. [More…]
That is the situation which I am trying to retrieve and in which I am trying to allow there to be some opportunity for freedom of choice with respect to the parents and those who have the responsibility for children. [More…]
The young people of Australia in future will be denied all the security, freedom of choice and expresson, and stable family life which are a direct product of home ownership, and which most Australians have grown to accept as of right. [More…]
The Australian Government Analytical Laboratory is involved in activities such as the testing of foodstuffs for freedom from harmful micro-organisms and contamination by pesticides and heavy metals, and the testing of imports for compliance with import standards. [More…]
They have seen it as a diminution of local freedom, as a less effective community democracy and’ as an encroachment of Canberra control over local councils, to the ultimate disadvantage of both State and local governments. [More…]
We believe that freedom of the individual to make his own choices is important. [More…]
You can get it with all the benefits which go with it, including freedom from State stamp duty and so forth’. [More…]
I remind him by quoting from a document that was published in 1973 entitled ‘Towards a New Freedom’- I suppose the word ‘freedom’ does not have much place in the parent Liberal Party in Queensland, even if it means something to the Young Liberals in Queensland. [More…]
Our advertising has said quite clearly that the freedom of choice of medical practitioner remains unchanged. [More…]
This would centralise and slow down the policy of making purchases and it would reduce the freedom of action by departments. [More…]
Individual departments must have some freedom to use their own expertise and their own technical knowledge to get the best that they possibly can. [More…]
That any system of comprehensive health care in Australia should not be based upon salaried general practitioner or specialist services or allocated hospital staff as proposed by Medibank but upon the principle of freedom of choice of doctor at the surgery and in the hospital. [More…]
What members of the Liberal Party and the National Country Party believe is that health care in Australia should be firmly based upon the principle of freedom of choice of doctor, at the surgery and in the hospital - [More…]
But if the Government introduces, for example, a Medibank scheme based on freedom of choice of doctor at the surgery and in the hospital, then it might be able to obtain the support of the people of Australia. [More…]
The wool industry policy committee on behalf of the Australian Wool Industry Conference accepted the recommendations on 17 January 1974 subject to certain assurances concerning the commercial autonomy of the Wool Corporation and the freedom with which it could make commercial decisions free of Government direction or intervention. [More…]
Give me men to match my mountains, Give me men to match my plains, Men with freedom in their vision, And creation in their brains. [More…]
I seem to recollect that its proprietor recently spoke about the freedom of the Press. [More…]
If this kind of thing is tolerated there will be no end to what unknown nonentities in the Press, engaged by Press barons who preach freedom of the Press and then destroy every principle associated with it, can do to this Parliament and its members. [More…]
-We have heard at best a good deal of irrelevance from members on the Opposition side in relation to this legislation but I would like to pick up probably the singular point that the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) mentioned and that was freedom. [More…]
He said he cherished freedom. [More…]
All Australians cherish freedom. [More…]
Where is the freedom of the poultry farmer? [More…]
Where is the freedom of the dairy farmer who wants to produce milk and sell milk? [More…]
These are the people who talk about freedom. [More…]
He cherishes freedom too. [More…]
What about his freedom to follow the occupation of his individual choice? [More…]
That is really what this legislation is all about- ensuring the freedom of political opportunity. [More…]
Opposition Parties, For a member of the National Country Party to stand and speak about cherishing freedom is to me so much hollow hypocrisy. [More…]
They have denied freedom to so many people, to so many citizens during their tenure in office and they will continue to deny freedom. [More…]
Is this the kind of freedom the honourable member for Kennedy is talking about? [More…]
Freedom is real. [More…]
I ask honourable members who regard as important the freedom of decision of any particular government service to listen to this. [More…]
If, on the other hand, they fall flat on their face in the struggle in our sort of system and cannot get up, they have freedomthe Leader of the Opposition is talking about freedoms lately in a rather vague way which in a general sense sounds unexceptionable but, if one knows the inspiration that is guiding him, I think it is rather exceptionable- and their freedom is to stay flat on their face. [More…]
Some freedom! [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. [More…]
I hope that this House will take this matter seriously, because there are many migrant groups in Australia, whether they be Jews, Arabs, Czechs, Yugoslavs, people from the Baltic states, Ugandans, Chileans or Vietnamese, who came to this land with the presumption that they were coming to a country of freedom. [More…]
In Australia the right of freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. [More…]
It is one which this Parliament must forever be willing to defend, for should we lose in any degree the right of freedom of speech we will be faced with the situation which Edmund Burke described so well: [More…]
Whilst freedom is true to itself, everything becomes subject to it. [More…]
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. [More…]
He says he wants freedom to strive, to achieve and to seek excellence, freedom to be different and freedom to conform. [More…]
If domination by an aggressor can destroy the freedom of a nation, too much dependence on a protector can eventually erode its dignity. [More…]
If there is a political reason he can only say: ‘The political reason is to save you, my patient, the freedom of choice’. [More…]
The patient then only has to say: ‘I exercise my freedom of choice by choosing to be a hospital patient. [More…]
Did those additional 208 000 people have a freedom of choice to undertake technical education as a result of the increased opportunities? [More…]
He said that the Budget reduced freedom of choice of individuals, provided an incentive to spendthrifts and penalised those who want to save and those who want to provide a different education. [More…]
What this simply gives in fact is more freedom of choice. [More…]
It is fashionable for this Government to quote Sir Robert Menzies so I feel it may be appropriate to put into Hansard some words which Sir Robert said in his most recent political speech on 1 1 August 1974 on the occasion of the conferring upon him of the freedom of the city of Kew. [More…]
2) 1975, this is a non-partisan reform which is designed to introduce a system of voting which provides for the maximum flexibility and democratic freedom of choice for the voters while maintaining the essential elements of a full preferential system, should the voters choose to indicate preferences for all candidates in the election. [More…]
I am raising the great democratic principle of freedom of speech. [More…]
The decision represents an intrusion on the personal liberty and the freedom of speech of every migrant in Australia. [More…]
But further than that, people who believe in the liberty and the freedom of these people whom we are inviting to Australia to make their home ought to resent this action just as deeply as my colleague the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) resents it. [More…]
Its fundamental tenet supposedly is the freedom of the individual, but it is highly noticeable that in its application it would not only preserve but also would greatly extend the welfare and influence of the most privileged sections of our society. [More…]
Probably the principal theme of his philosophy is what he chose to describe as the freedom to spend one’s own income. [More…]
A fundamental freedom which must be expanded is control by individuals of the income they earn. [More…]
Freedom to spend one’s own income is just as important as freedom of speech, of religion, and of association. [More…]
Taken to their logical conclusions they seem to be a prescription for the complete abolition of income tax since this would clearly maximise the so-called freedom to spend one’s own income. [More…]
In the 23 years that they governed from 1949 till 1972 this supposed freedom was steadily eroded by continual increases in the tax burden. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the freedom to spend one ‘s income was considerably reduced by successive Liberal-County Party governments, presumably because they considered there were community needs that should be fulfilled and would be best fulfilled by government. [More…]
Highly paid persons who pay a larger proportion of their income in income tax than low paid persons accordingly have their freedom to spend their incomes restricted much more than low income earners and so will have more to gain from the application of a philosophy that seeks to redress that supposed inhibition on freedom. [More…]
In most of them the freedom to spend one’s own income is rather more curtailed than it is in this country. [More…]
Clearly, if we are now to embark on a policy, as the Opposition would have us do, of maximising the freedom of individuals to spend their own income, we would be wildly out of step with the rest of the developed world. [More…]
Presumably he regards this as enforced equality and an interference with the freedom of single taxpayers to spend their own income. [More…]
The fact that the Opposition bases its elitist program on the supposed extention of the freedom of the individual illustrates dramatically what a jaundiced concept it has of human rights. [More…]
So here we have the real substance of the man who dresses up his opposition to public expenditure by saying that he is in favour of freedom of choice and that the provision of services by a government is in some way inimical to freedom of choice. [More…]
The Leader dresses up his opposition to public expenditure by saying that in some way it impinges on freedom of choice. [More…]
The only real freedom of choice those people have or which the Leader of the Opposition would preserve for them is the freedom to starve and the freedom to remain poor. [More…]
Despite the Prime Minister’s studied insult of the Returned Services League, its saying that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance could never be more relevant and nothing could be further from Labor’s policies. [More…]
In doing that we would be providing to the people, to the working man and woman of Australia an economic freedom which equates with personal freedom. [More…]
The more government takes from people’s earnings the more it lessens their economic freedom and the more it lessens their personal freedom. [More…]
Thus the Budget reduces the freedom of choice to individuals. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition attaches a very special meaning to the idea of freedom of choice. [More…]
It went on to emphasise full employment and freedom of choice in that employment. [More…]
The residents of Hobart ‘s eastern shore have been denied their cars and feel they have been stripped of their autonomy and freedom. [More…]
Many of the colleagues of these members and their friends paid the supreme sacrifice in defence of their country and of freedom. [More…]
Should the RSL be happy at the state of our shrinking deomoralised defence forces or should it remind the public of its motto: ‘The price of freedom is eternal vigilance’? [More…]
It is a system which guarantees political freedom and the rights of the individual by decentralised power. [More…]
-In the few minutes available to me this evening I want to say something about the concept of freedom as advanced by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) or rather, as I prefer to term it, more Fraser foolishness. [More…]
Liberals believe that maximum freedom from dictation and regulation is essential to self respect and self fulfilment. [More…]
Without freedom there is no self respect. [More…]
They want freedom to strive and freedom to achieve and to seek excellencefreedom to be different and freedom to conform. [More…]
It seems that the control to which he most objects is that of taxation, because this restricts the freedom of the individual to spend the income he or she earns. [More…]
This, he says, is a basic freedom without which other freedoms, such as freedom of speech, association and so on, are meaningless. [More…]
If individuals do not have freedom to control thenown lives they do not have self-respect and they do not have dignity. [More…]
The concepts of freedom, human dignity and self-respect are apparently new-found ones for the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
On analysis it would seem that the only freedom in which the Leader of the Opposition is really interested is that of retaining control over one’s own income. [More…]
A person on an inadequate income may have freedom of choice to send his children to the best schools or to choose the best doctor, but he will find those freedoms meaningless. [More…]
Yet efforts to ensure that all Australians are in a position to enjoy the freedoms we value are described by the Leader of the Opposition as ‘enforced equality’. [More…]
The young Australians of this nation might well remember the bitter experience of the 1960s, when the Leader of the Opposition was the Minister for Defence and his concept of freedom was the right to be conscripted and sent off to fight in a tragic, useless political war to salve the political consciences of supporters abroad and supporters who profited from that political war. [More…]
It is of enormous importance to us that we be able to maintain our position as a great trading nation, for without the maintenance of our great trading position we will find that the freedom of action that we want to take in economic management will be foreclosed from us. [More…]
I think it was some obscure Frenchman who once said that freedom is the luxury of the disciplined. [More…]
If one removes the discipline, axiomatically one destroys freedom. [More…]
Not all of it, but there were many whom the Government you supported allowed into this country who claimed they were freedom fighters from Hungary. [More…]
We know people in these countries have not got freedom. [More…]
We got a lot of the so-called freedom fighters. [More…]
When members of the Opposition say they want less government so that there will be more freedom they really mean that they want to cut back on these sorts of initiatives, cut back on education and cut back on urban improvement so that there will be freedom of the wealthy- those who have had a happy and wealthy inheritance- to hang on to what they have and to mimimise their liability to support the rest of the community. [More…]
That is very good for a minority, but it is not too good for the great majority of people whose only freedom without the support of an adequate functioning government role is never to succeed or to succeed in a very uneven sort of way, to have few satisfactions in life and to achieve very little compared with what they would like to achieve. [More…]
These were socialist reports designed to destroy freedom and free enterprise. [More…]
Some people have suggested that this is a clear indication of a government intention to control the freedom of the Press. [More…]
In socialist regimes the world over the prime requisite for controlling a populace is to control freedom of drought, speech, action and religion. [More…]
Whether people believe the worst of Labor’s intentions concerning control of the Press, whether any allegations or criticisms which I make are 100 per cent right or whether the people within the news industry are convinced that there is real risk, no government so accused can be given the benefit of any doubt in the matter of freedom. [More…]
If we err at all in this matter of Press freedom it must be on the side of over-caution and over-suspicion. [More…]
I am seeking to sound a solemn warning to the people of Australia and to the people within the media industry, which they will ignore at their own and their country’s peril, that one of the fundamental principles of freedom has been breached. [More…]
It could claim yet another first- a new formula for nationalising the mass media and how to take away a people’s freedom without their knowing it. [More…]
The Australian people do not have freedom of access to information on the events which are occurring in Australia. [More…]
One talks about the freedom of the Press, yet in America and in England when articles like this are printed the publishers can be taken before a council and dealt with accordingly. [More…]
One of the ways of achieving freedom of expression is to have a lot of people who have power to publish without restriction on their opinion. [More…]
What about the freedom of the Press that we hear so much about? [More…]
The owners of the mass media’ reacted so violently to this suggestion, even likening the Minister for the Media to the Nazi propaganda Minister Dr Goebbels, that their very reaction was a clear indication within itself that as things are now we have little freedom of the Press but rather a jealously guarded privilege of a few people to influence public opinion. [More…]
Yet even the suggestion that a similar Press council might be a subject for discussion in Australia was greeted with outraged cries of limitations on the freedom of the Press. [More…]
So the freedom of the Press in Australia boils down to a monopoly of a few people having the freedom to disseminate news- I make a clear distinction between news and information- the freedom to print only the news that they want to print and, where necessary, to ignore or to suppress other relevant information. [More…]
One is inclined to feel this has more to do with the interests those policies challenge than with any genuine concern over centralised control and alleged loss of freedom by the general public [More…]
It clearly indicates the desirability in proceedings where a person’s freedom is involved of having the assistance of legal representation. [More…]
To be held in prison without trial and without recourse to justice is probably one of the greatest infringements of the basic human rights of freedom and liberty, particularly when the Indonesian officials admit that such prisoners were not involved with the coup in 1965. [More…]
Honourable members will probably not fully recognise the freedom of political activity which they enjoy in Australia, and I wish to impress upon them by comparison the names of 17 former members of the Indonesian Parliament who were detained during 1965 and 1969. [More…]
But if we ignore infringements of liberty, freedom and the rights of men and women throughout the world we cheapen the respect we hold for our own freedoms and we move closer to the total enslavement of all mankind. [More…]
It is designed to restrict the freedom of our Press and even the Liberty of our workers. [More…]
I wish merely to make it quite clear that no State can maintain its sovereignty unless it has a system of internal surveillance such as ASIO to defend the state against those persons, both within and without, who want to see the Australian people lose their freedom. [More…]
The Watergate incidents could well happen here if a Prime Minister is given absolute power to supervise in any way a freedom of others. [More…]
Restrictions on freedom of speech have been applied to Vietnamese refugees but no restrictions on the freedom of speech have been placed on communist refugees from Chile. [More…]
I would not give the Government any freedom at all outside the rigid provisions of the law. [More…]
I would not give the Government any freedom for another reason. [More…]
That freedom of choice has been enlarged to allow him to choose his own specialist medical adviser and to receive the services of that specialist medical adviser in his own consulting rooms. [More…]
Freedom of choice in the market place is quite central to the philosophy of both the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
Theirs is an elitist philosophy that talks about the freedom to spend one’s own income. [More…]
We still want the travel industry to operate with a measure of freedom. [More…]
It ensures that the centralist ambition of denying individual freedom by containing power in Canberra shall not become a reality. [More…]
This permits a curb on wasteful spending and gives freedom in decision making and acceptance of responsibility. [More…]
There can be no question that local government appreciates the freedom that it has received under the Australian Government’s system of allocating grants through the Grants Commission. [More…]
Until the white man came to Western Australia Aborigines enjoyed relative freedom from want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness in terms of their needs then. [More…]
The second thing I would like to note is the freedom that is to be given to the Commission. [More…]
It is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have- maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways which they decide. [More…]
Measures to deal with this crisis will advance Australia towards the long-term goal of a society based on freedom and on the mutual respect freedom makes possible. [More…]
In all policy areas the Government will be alert to opportunities to increase the freedom of Australians to choosewithout exploitation- the kinds of goods, services, and styles of life they want, and to minimise direction by Government and the unnecessary redirection of resources through the Government’s bureaucracy. [More…]
He played a leading role in the creation of the concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia, a concept which, as the whole of ASEAN recognises, offers our best hope for the future of our region. [More…]
I fully endorse the objectives behind it- the objectives of enterprise and freedom, the objectives of employment, the objectives of beating inflation, the objectives of cutting out waste from the Public Service and reducing the impact of government upon the private citizen. [More…]
The theme running through the speech is identifiably one of freedom of the individual; in other words, a return to the law of the jungle where the well organised and the strong will prey upon the defenceless and the weak. [More…]
I think honourable members should have reasonable freedom in their remarks. [More…]
The long term objective is ‘to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways which they decide ‘. [More…]
It is an essential part of freedom and independence for a person to have the ability, whatever level of industry or commerce he might find himself in, to choose meaningful employment, and having chosen that form of employment, he must then thave the capacity to influence his work environment and gain satisfaction from what he is doing. [More…]
The redirection of resources away from the government sector towards individuals and towards the private sector is vital to freedom of choice in this country. [More…]
It is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways which they decide. [More…]
Why should I advise them to give up the relative freedom and security they now have apart from their fear, when within 24 hours they could find themselves on a boat back to Yugoslavia or some other European country? [More…]
It was a spontaneous reaction to his presence and the threat that so many Australians see him as- the threat to freedom, domocracy and social and economic equity. [More…]
is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve thenown goals in life, in ways which they decide. [More…]
It is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their goals in life, in ways in which they decide. [More…]
We are embarking on a program based on the principles I have just enunciated- a program that respects freedom of the individual, freedom of religion and expression, freedom to work and to enjoy the fruits of that work, freedom from the totalitarian control of all-pervading power of the allpowerful state. [More…]
As His Excellency outlined in his speech, the Government is implementing a foreign affairs and defence policy aimed at securing our continued enjoyment of our hard-earned freedom. [More…]
The Government, in its defence policy and indeed in the major steps which it has already taken to upgrade Australia’s defence capability, has shown a clear recognition of the vital need for strong preparedness in the face of aggression by the Marxist anti-freedom forces in so many parts of the world. [More…]
Surely no one can doubt that the basic cause of disruption in the world at this time is the clash of ideologies between the forces of international communism and those which respect freedom of the individual and the attempt of the forces of world socialism to inflict by force their ideology on the entire world. [More…]
Never before has freedom been so threatened as it is today. [More…]
Never before have so many flames of freedom been extinguished by the scourge of atheistic Marxism and the misery that follows. [More…]
It is a choice between freedom of the individual and of expression, and control by the state which directs our thinking. [More…]
It is a simple choice- freedom or socialism. [More…]
The problems facing my constituents are common throughout Australia: The care and attention of the aged; the handicapped and the under privileged; a reduction and review of crippling taxes; a reduction of inflation; a return to full employment; a transfer of emphasis from the public to the private sector; the opportunity to own a home; a return to a society based upon freedom in all respects, not a socialist welfare state. [More…]
It is a path of security and freedom for all, one that will lead to greater opportunity for all. [More…]
It is designed so that our people, today’s and future generations, can live in freedom where the individual works and progresses on merit and not by handouts. [More…]
The most significant limitation of freedom of choice in this society would be poverty and inadequate opportunities for reasonable education. [More…]
In my view the government policy could be seen as nothing more than cutting back on what we as a Labor government tried to establish to improve the quality of life, to protect the freedom of the community from exploitation by ruthless business practices. [More…]
It proves that the Government does not believe in the freedom it carries on about when it attacks the Opposition because it knows there is no such thing as complete freedom. [More…]
Anyone would think from the way the Government protests about ‘the freedom of Australians to choose’- these words are contained in the Governor-General’s Speech- that this country was governed initially by some communist monstrosity which laid down all sorts of restrictions and that since then the job of government, the course of human progress, has been to break it all down. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), for whom most of us on this side of the House have considerable respect, will see fit to use his good offices with the other countries of the Commonwealth in an endeavour to remove or eliminate the persecution of Jehovah ‘s Witnesses in accordance with the principles of the United Nations in respect of freedom of religion. [More…]
The objection I raise is that there will be a loss of freedom of choice for the individual. [More…]
What comes out over and over again in that proposition as it was to be applied to the United Kingdom and as it has been subsequently applied to Australia, is that it is impossible to have full employment with freedom in a society unless there is a confidently expanding private enterprise sector. [More…]
Those two propositions come face to face- the requirement of full employment and the requirement of private enterprise to enable freedom to be exercised in the attainment of full employment. [More…]
If we look at households and the way by which governments have impressed in a quite remarkable way their own impression upon the activity of households, we see that the power of the purse has been used to deprive those basic units of our society of their own freedom. [More…]
What I suggest is that thinking in terms of a competitive economy, in terms of laissez-faire, in terms of freedom- freedom of enterprise, competition and so on- we are missing the whole significance of the trend that is going on before our eyes. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) talked about centralism as though there was some special danger in power to Canberra against the federal system, as though that were the threat to freedom. [More…]
That is not the threat to freedom. [More…]
-Well, it is a threat to freedom. [More…]
But it is not the threat to freedom. [More…]
That is a threat to freedom but it is not the threat to freedom. [More…]
The threat to freedom lies in the 3 powerful complexes that are developing, the complexes of the multi-national and national corporations, of the powerful trade unions and the powerful State bureaucracy whether it be in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney or anywhere else. [More…]
That is where the threat to freedom is. [More…]
The references to the environment and other matters to which Labor has subscribed and in which we share with it in aspiration but differ from it in technique, is clear evidence of the fact that we want growth and want to assist the underprivileged and disadvantaged with maximum freedom for them, maximum freedom of choice and maximum human dignity. [More…]
It is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their goals in life, in ways which they decide. [More…]
That was the freedom of choice given by the former Liberal-Country Party Government in this place. [More…]
So much for the lofty talk of more freedom for people to choose the style of life they want. [More…]
Sir John Kerr will be remembered long after the ghosts of the Labor Party because he was a lover of freedom, a defender and upholder of democracy, a man who not only believed in democracy but who knew that once you limit it you virtually lose it. [More…]
To me freedom indicates an absence of unfettered control by governments. [More…]
The word ‘ liberal ‘ is spelt with a small ‘1 ‘- and humane society- to demonstrate that independence and freedom are not only compatible with action to assist the disadvantaged but inseparable from it. [More…]
We want to see government assume a role in this society that is consistent with the development of personal freedom and individual initiative- something which the former Administration did so much to destroy and stifle at every level. [More…]
It is our unqualified policy to restore government in Australia to a role consistent with freedom, with true democracy and as one which values each person in Australian society. [More…]
Its main role must be to create the right environment in which the community as a whole, all members of the community, can live and work and act with the maximum of individual freedom, economic prosperity, social wellbeing and human dignity. [More…]
De Gaulle was the first one to see that, temporarily anyway, the freedom of Europe might be riding on this diversion. [More…]
It is a country which, in short, can look forward to a truly golden future under a Liberal-National Country Party Government which believes in those principles of freedom and the right to individual happiness and self determination which are fast vanishing from much of the world today. [More…]
It is our task to see that Australia is a light in the darkness, a fortress of freedom, a refuge against the tyranny which could crush all men. [More…]
We are working towards an Australia with maximum freedom for individuals to pursue their own goals in ways of their own choosing. [More…]
As a longer term aim, the ASEAN nations have adopted the concept of South-East Asia as a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality- ZOPFAN as it is often referred to. [More…]
The ASEAN proposal for a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality admits the legitimate interests of the major powers. [More…]
My purpose in standing at the election was to ensure that not only the people of Wilmot but also the people of Australia could look forward with assurance to freedom in this great country. [More…]
We have seen a period of 3 years of government in which people were not sure that they, their children or their grandchildren could look forward with confidence to freedom. [More…]
I believe very firmly that the election of 13 December was fought on the basis of freedom. [More…]
It was fought on the basis of freedom, and people throughout Australia were genuinely concerned that their freedom was being impinged upon and undermined. [More…]
We in Tasmania and in Wilmot want only to have the freedom to make our own decisions without being impinged on by big brother from Canberra. [More…]
We want the freedom to take our own initiatives because we think we know what is best for Tasmania. [More…]
We want the freedom to work hard and we want the freedom to profit as a result of hard work. [More…]
I also welcome His Excellency’s statement that the Government’s aim is to encourage the development of an Australia in which the people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their goals in life in ways in which they decide and the recognition that the disadvantaged must be helped in ways which leave them the maximum independence. [More…]
Other important factors include a new emphasis on equality of education opportunities, continuing research into the quality and direction of education and greater freedom and community involvement in the educational enterprise. [More…]
To stifle criticism of the political actions of the Governor-General would be to stifle freedom of speech in this country. [More…]
If such action were to be taken it would be a major step towards the destruction of the freedom of speech in this country. [More…]
The mere contemplation of using the Crimes Act to silence the Opposition is colossal hypocrisy from a government that gained power by making outlandish accusations of dictatorship against the Labor Government in general, and Prime Minister Whitlam in particular and is even now pontificating about how it stands basically for the freedom of the individual. [More…]
A fundamental freedom that must be expanded is control by individuals of the income they earn. [More…]
Freedom to spend one’s own income is just as important as freedom of speech, of religion and of association. [More…]
Since then this curious concept of fundamental freedom has been further developed, and its fullest expression is to be found in the speech of the Prime Minister in this debate. [More…]
The message now is that true freedom is to be found only in a society with a small public or government sector. [More…]
An increasing public sector is seen as reducing the freedom of individuals and as an attempt to ‘determine people’s lives for them’. [More…]
This pseudophilosophy is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to provide principle where none exists, to disguise blind and selfish reaction to the redistribution of income and resources as the defence of freedom. [More…]
Even the United States figure, at 29.6 per cent was well above that for Australia, while below us were such countries as Spain, Portugal and Greece, countries which have not been exactly noted for zealously safeguarding the freedom of the individual. [More…]
If Labor was guilty of inhibiting freedom by raising the proportion of government expenditure in this country, how much more guilty are the governments of the other capitalist countries in the world, many of which are anything but socialist? [More…]
Furthermore, it is grossly hypocritical for the coalition parties to accuse a government that increases the size of the public sector and increases the burden of taxation of destroying freedom., When the Liberal and Country Parties were in office, they did precisely that. [More…]
Let there be no doubt that if increasing the size of the public sector and so increasing taxation inhibits freedom, then the Liberal and National Country Parties have much to answer for. [More…]
Leaving that aside and leaving aside the Prime Minister’s more inane accusations, such as the one that Labor was trying to determine the fate of every person in this country, what case is there for arguing that increasing the public sector reduces the level of freedom? [More…]
It seems to me that one can argue that way only if one ignores the expansion of freedom that comes from government expenditure and concentrates on the reduced freedom of individuals to spend their income as a result of paying more tax. [More…]
But to ignore the expansion of freedom that comes from increased government expenditure is to ignore the point of the whole exercise. [More…]
Can anyone deny that those increased welfare benefits did other than increase the freedom of the recipients to live a normal life rather than the poverty stricken existence that was their lot under previous coalition governments? [More…]
By greatly increasing government expenditure on education we enhanced the freedom of students to gain knowledge and understanding and the freedom to have a more equal opportunity in life than would otherwise have been the case. [More…]
It is clearly absurd to argue that increasing the size of the public sector necessarily involves a diminution in the total sum of freedom, particularly when it was already at a level well below the average for comparable countries. [More…]
So surely it cannot be said that there is any lack of enterprise, and allied with that there is a lack of repressive legislation on the freedom of the individual in such areas as censorship, for instance, which puts Australia and especially Queensland to shame. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I believe the theme of the GovernorGeneral’s address and the Government’s overall philosophical concept was summed up in the statement that the Government’s long term objective was to encourage a development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life. [More…]
If my recollection is correct, an interdepartmental committee was established to furnish a report which was designed to be a framework for legislation on freedom of access to information. [More…]
If we exercise what the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) described as a freedom of choice- that is, for the employee to choose to work in the centre of the city where the Government tells him he has to work, which is the freedom of choice he has at the moment- we also compel that person to spend half of his working day getting to and from his place of employment in the most frustrating and demoralising circumstances. [More…]
I hope that that will allow the Committee to act with the same flexibility and freedom as did the previous Committee. [More…]
As the Minister responsible for the creation of the original Committee in 1973, and having a feeling about the way in which this Parliament ought to work and about its freedom to operate without duress or restrictions imposed by the Executive and the ministry, I wrote that particular clause into the motion myself. [More…]
However the basic flaw of such a philosophy is that in reality only the privileged few can exploit the opportunities, enjoy the freedom and make the choices they cherish. [More…]
The Liberal Party platform sets out quite clearly that freedom of expression in the Press, radio and television and freedom from governmental and political interference are fundamental to Liberal beliefs and essential to democratic government. [More…]
I believe that these statements demonstrate quite clearly that the Commission will not be prejudiced in its freedom of expression which it currently enjoys or the active role it now plays in the Australian community. [More…]
The Act is a potential danger to freedom of expression, and the offence of sedition should be amended to require an intent to incite riotous or disorderly conduct. [More…]
Obsolete laws which do not accord with community standards, or which are kept as a veiled threat to inhibit freedom of expression, have no place on the statute books. [More…]
which are kept as a veiled threat to inhibit freedom of expression, have no place on the statute books. [More…]
He said that the Government’s long term objective is ‘to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways which they decide. ‘ [More…]
Government; it is the underlying philosophy which the Government made clear in its expressed intention to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life in the way they decide. [More…]
Democratic government and democratic freedom as we know them would have been history. [More…]
In effect, complete censorship would have been imposed on all the broadcasting media so that freedom of speech and freedom of the Presstwo of the basic tenets of democracy- would have been denied to every Australian. [More…]
Yet, to my amazement, certain prominent journalists in Canberra and elsewhere continue their support for Labor even though Labor proposes to destroy the basic freedom which all journalists constantly say they support. [More…]
Journalists say that they support freedoms, but the sincerity of their statements must be questioned because of the obvious sympathy of many of them with communist regimes around the world, regimes which practise all the complete antitheses of democracymurder, deceit and class hatred. [More…]
It would have allowed the police unprecedented freedom of search and entry. [More…]
These threats to democracy and to our freedoms are not limited solely to the rejected Bills. [More…]
It is a record of attempts to deny the individual his freedom; a record of incredible bungling and pathetic economic mismanagement, giving Australia the worst recession of practically any country except Iceland. [More…]
Democracy and freedom were at risk under the Labor Government. [More…]
Rows of Australian graves on battlefields are spread across the world to show that we defend freedom of choice. [More…]
The great Party that the honourable member purports to represent says that it stands on the basis of freedom of the individual and freedom of choice, and promptly proceeds to assail those who exercise that freedom and choose to rent a house rather than buy. [More…]
The hideous situation in which we find ourselves is that if we are motivated and guided by self-interest we will be tempted to deny freedom to 650 000 human beings who live in East Timor. [More…]
It is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways which they decide. [More…]
If there is one threat in our society internally that we have to face it is the lack of freedom that is ever encroaching upon the individual because of big business, big trade unions and big government. [More…]
Before I finish my remarks, I want to point out that as well as any possible or potential external threat to this nation, there is the ever serious encroachment upon the freedom of individuals. [More…]
Disraeli said that the institutions of our society stand between the caprice of the politicians and the freedom of the people. [More…]
That is exactly the reverse of the Labor Party’s attitude over the last 3 years it has attempted to strip the citizen of his will to defend the state against any external threat and at the same time so encroached upon his freedom as to deprive him of his ability to defend himself from the state. [More…]
The Government’s policy is directed towards gradual restructuring of local manufacturing to achieve increased competitiveness, and more freedom of choice for consumers. [More…]
This left manufacturers little freedom to vary their product mixes in accordance with changing market demand. [More…]
Vehicle builders thus have a greater degree of freedom to purchase components from the most economic source while still being required to obtain most of their requirements from local manufacture. [More…]
The basic principle which distinguishes liberalism from socialism is that Liberals believe maximum freedom from dictation and regulation is essential to self-respect and selffulfilment. [More…]
Without freedom there is no self-respect. [More…]
They want freedom to strive and to achieve and to seek excellence- freedom to be different and freedom to conform. [More…]
Provision of the right to commute pan of the pension is probably a good thing in that it gives freedom of choice to the individual to arrange his life on retirement in a way which is most suitable to him. [More…]
But when one finds that part of the return to the Commonwealth fund is by investment in mortgages, in some cases returning 15V4 per cent, I sometimes wonder where we are getting to in this so-called freedom to invest in other than government securities. [More…]
I do not think we should get too carried away by what this new freedom in the investment policy will mean in reality. [More…]
We are getting towards an 85 per cent plan, which gives manufacturers some freedom in which to manoeuvre. [More…]
The Government’s policy is directed towards gradual restructuring of local manufacturing to achieve increased competitiveness, and more freedom of choice for consumers. [More…]
In one part it speaks of a freedom of choice to consumers, that is of cars, and it speaks of the desire of consumers to have access to reasonably priced cars. [More…]
Freedom of speech, debates and proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or place out of Parliament. [More…]
And Freedom shrieked- as Kosciusko fell! [More…]
From that time forward the presence of Soviet soldiers on Polish soil made it quite certain that there would be no freedom. [More…]
In return we were going to be offered freedom of access to the Russian people and we were going to be offered freedom of emigration for the imprisoned peoples of Russia. [More…]
We are talking now not only about the freedom of Australia and the maintenance of the Australian democracy but also the security and integrity of the Australian continent. [More…]
I hope that 10 February 1976 will be remembered by all Australians who believe in freedom as a day of shame for international democracy, a day of the deprivation of the rights and liberties of the people of Poland, and a day of sadness for all who love freedom and all who believe that one day we will see a free Poland. [More…]
That so encouraged people in Poland to believe in freedom that Professor Edward Lipinski and a number of Polish intellectuals came out into the open and wrote a letter to the Speaker of the Polish Parliament. [More…]
We will put to it some simple little proposals about freedom of conscience and religious practice, freedom of the right to work, freedom to join trade unions, the freedom of trade unionists to strike, the freedom of trade unionists to publish periodicals and other work, freedom of learning, freedom to be free of religious persecution, freedom from being Debarred from public office because of religious beliefs’. [More…]
Yet another trio of nails was hammered into the coffin of freedom, in Poland. [More…]
I hope that by our actions other Parliaments will be encouraged to express similar views and that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be told that what it has done has not met with the approval of the people of Australia and freedom loving people throughout the world. [More…]
One of the reasons why freedom is in fact under threat not only in Poland but also in many other countries is exhibited by what is happening in this House this afternoon. [More…]
I think that the matter under discussion is an important issue and there ought to be discussions on questions of freedom because if Parliament means anything in Australia surely it means the existence of freedom and we ought to do as much as possible to encourage the existence of freedom in other countries. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Mackellar would agree with me, when he is not in one of his hypocritical moods, that there has been no practical freedom in Poland for many years now. [More…]
In fact, Poland has had very little freedom in its whole history. [More…]
There has not been any freedom. [More…]
As the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) pointed out, there are some ISO countries in the United Nations and I think about twenty three of them would get a clearance on any significant basis of having freedom of expression and civil liberties. [More…]
As I said a minute ago, the state of this House exhibits why freedom disappears in many countries. [More…]
If a country is living next to a giant such as the Soviet Union it is even easier for freedom to disappear, as happened in the case of Poland. [More…]
Our group in the Parliament is equally concerned to demonstrate its freedom from bias in the treatment of matters that come before it. [More…]
Agitation or progaganda carried on for the purpose of subverting or weakening the Soviet regime or of committing particular, especially dangerous crimes against the state, or the circulation, for the same purpose, of slanderous fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system, or the circulation or preparation or keeping, for the same purpose, of literature of such content, shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a term of 6 months to 7 years, with or without additional exile for a term of 2 to 5 years, or by exile for a term of 2 to 5 years. [More…]
The same actions committed by a person previously convicted of especially dangerous crimes against the state or committed in wartime shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a term of 3 to 10 years, with or without additional exile for a term of 2 to 5 years. [More…]
Freedom of speech in Parliament derives from the Ninth Article of the Bill of Rights. [More…]
It states: ‘That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament’. [More…]
The flexibility between programs allows States freedom to decide in what area they will apply for funds. [More…]
There is a danger that the greater freedom for the States to switch funds from one class of road to another could be used to build up funds for more radial freeways. [More…]
The Government’s programs will continue to improve and to provide for the people of this nation, particularly the people of New South Wales, a better way of life, a way of life that they themselves can control, a way of life that will not be directed from Canberra, a way of life that will allow them to exercise their freedom and the democratic right that all thinking people value. [More…]
He has gone on record with the statement that consumer protection should not be allowed to ‘interfere’ with the free exercise of commercial freedom- a statement with sinister implications for the future of trade practices legislation. [More…]
Rather, the policy is directed towards gradual restructuring of local manufacturing to achieve increased competitiveness and more freedom of choice for consumers. [More…]
It denies entirely the freedom of any person to have his own say. [More…]
Men of this country have lost their lives in 2 world wars fighting for freedom of speech which I have been denied here today. [More…]
Working, I believe on a quite different scale, for freedom in the market place is GATT. [More…]
How hypocritical Australia will look in world forums for years to come, when we speak, as we have done in the past, of basic human rights and freedom for peoples of the world to determine their own future. [More…]
In relation to settlement policy, the Government’s broad national goals are: Individual freedom and responsibility, economic growth, efficiency in the use of public and private resources, a greater degree of equity in terms of people’s access to services and opportunities and a high quality environment. [More…]
With the sort of development which is necessary and which will take place, I believe that it will, given some freedom of its own, develop services which will give Australia something approaching an adequate communications service. [More…]
If that is the case, what action will the Government take to overcome unilateral action by some Canberra doctors to limit the freedom of choice of patients in Canberra and to deprive patients of their rights under Medibank? [More…]
Companies will be allowed much greater freedom in setting the times when noteholders may exercise an option to convert their loan into share capital. [More…]
The free enterprise system is the only system which will enable the ordinary man- the ordinary citizen- to have a maximum degree of both freedom and prosperity. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I am confident that the policies and initiatives of this Government will in time give Australians more freedom and a good deal more prosperity. [More…]
Removal at the end of 1976 of the existing control over reversions will give the vehicle builders freedom to determine which components they will source locally to make up their 85 per cent local content and which they will import to make up the remainder. [More…]
As I see the situation the only change being proposed is that people in Australia who want the freedom to choose religious or private hospital accommodation will be better able to achieve that wish. [More…]
The existence of these hospitals provides a freedom of choice. [More…]
I am a member of a Party which, it is true, allows some freedom of vote to its members in this House. [More…]
How was that money gathered and at what cost to the freedom of action, the probity and frankness of the Queensland Government? [More…]
The report continued: ‘In making them, Mr Uren incited the people of Australia to riot against the laws and freedom of Australia, ‘ he said. [More…]
It seems to me that one of the essentials for efficient administration is flexibility- the freedom to vary programs in response to changing circumstances. [More…]
They also questioned whether the International Labour Organisation Convention on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, which the Australian Government had ratified, would not be contravened. [More…]
It has given it the illusion of greater freedom and independence from its new federal partners. [More…]
The agreement in itself in no way inhibits Australia’s freedom of action in any direction beyond what our existing international obligations impose on us; for example, through our earlier acceptance of the OECD’s trade declaration. [More…]
Honourable members opposite cannot understand the concept of freedom of choice because basically they are opposed to it. [More…]
The honourable member for Macarthur indulged in some sentimentality about people’s freedom of choice, about people who want to use their own doctor and have him go into public wards in public hospitals. [More…]
It is a matter of religious freedom. [More…]
What a wonderful freedom it is when governments have to legislate for religious freedom. [More…]
I stand here this evening as an honourable member asking for support for the right of every Christian to speak in freedom. [More…]
The Soviet Union has but one thought in mind- to stop freedom. [More…]
Freedom in religion is but one small part of it. [More…]
I believe that a denial of communication such as this is a denial of the freedom of speech. [More…]
That is something which I think is really offensive to every sense of political freedom. [More…]
We will also seek to further our own deeply held values of democracy, freedom and respect for the individual at every opportunity. [More…]
The aspects of the international situation that give rise to concern are: Firstly, the continued readiness of some states to pursue their interests by the use of force- by the growing influence on the international scene of countries opposed to the freedom and respect for the individual person on which our own democratic system is based. [More…]
Such a development would not merely be dangerous to our security; it would greatly restrict our freedom of action across the whole range of our foreign policy objectives. [More…]
The whole formula for the so-called new Medibank is aimed at rewarding private medical practice, destroying the opportunity to exercise freedom of choice, which we provided, and disadvantaging great numbers of people. [More…]
Providing a national stimulus to the arts is in accordance with our philosophy of freedom of individual expression. [More…]
We believe in freedom for artist and patron alike. [More…]
The proposition put forward by this amendment is to allow freedom to set aside finance to purchase one’s own home in areas that were not formerly applicable. [More…]
This amendment will provide a freedom and a justice in the circumstances. [More…]
Do not say it to people in this side who fought for the freedom movements in Zimbabwe and Angola. [More…]
The privilege of freedom from arrest, it will be noted, is confined to civil cases . [More…]
The privilege of freedom from arrest, it will be noted, is confined to civil cases (a rarity under the law today) and does not entitle a Member to evade the criminal law. [More…]
In taking such action they would respect the principle of the freedom of navigation of the high seas. [More…]
Freedom from sales tax on motor vehicles purchased by State Governments is restricted to vehicles that are for the official use of the State Governments and not for sale. [More…]
Did the refusal of the Government have anything to do with the fact that Mr Zananiri is regarded as a freedom fighter or terrorist. [More…]
There was no limitation of that freedom of choice. [More…]
The Government claims that the freedom of choice will improve the health services for the community. [More…]
The real debate on Medibank is actually on the degree or the percentage of the private and the public shares of the medical and hospital sector, the freedom of choice available to patients, the level of the levy, the cost containment procedures, the correction of anomalies evident in the original scheme and the updating of cost and other procedures due to the passage of time. [More…]
The second improvement is in the freedom of choice. [More…]
The revised Medibank of this Government provides people with a far more adequate freedom of choice than was previously so. [More…]
This is a simple and adequate freedom of choice and is essential for the continuation of the private patient and doctor relationship which is desired by the vast majority of Australians. [More…]
The States have the freedom, the autonomy, that they so dearly want and will do anything to preserve. [More…]
Universities traditionally and classically are meant to be the homes of research, of freedom of expression, of free speech. [More…]
The so-called policy of giving States greater freedom to determine their own priorities is nothing less than a blatant lie. [More…]
It will not be a freedom of choice operation. [More…]
Perhaps not every trade union is at risk because the tame cat unions will be allowed to continue to show the rest of the world that our people have freedom to join industrial organisations. [More…]
He also demonstrated by the way in which he commented on employment and on business activity the essential relationship between successful business, successful freedom of enterprise in Australia and an improvement in the disastrous levels of unemployment that we have and which were brought about by honourable members opposite. [More…]
Also underneath that tremendous weight is Australia’s future as a credible nation and the freedom of Australian citizens, especially those living outside the city and suburban areas of the great southern capitals. [More…]
The reasons our particular system arrives at a situation such as this difficult one of stagflation can be explained by describing the trade cycle and demonstrating how freedom is given to many different institutions, whether they are different companies, whether they are called Gove, Hamersley, Mount Newman or whatever in the various countries, to make these decisions separately and independently of each other without any economic planning and arriving at an overstocking situation in so many areas and then, of course, stocks- this happens in country that operates under a similar sort of system- are bound to run down. [More…]
In theory the new federalism policy is supposed to place the States in a better financial position because it will give them access to a growth tax, namely personal income tax, and because it will give them greater freedom in making decisions because there will be an increase in the untied grants at the expense of tied grants. [More…]
With an exhibition of the sleight of hand with which this Government has become quite expert, the Federal Government gives the States more revenue and freedom with one hand and takes them away with the other. [More…]
It is all very well to give the States more financial assistance grants money and to urge them to spend it as they see fit, but what freedom do the States have if it is virtually preordained that they have to use this money to make up for real decreases in the other grants which were given to them previously? [More…]
This means that the States will have to reduce the services they offer, or if they happen to want freedom to follow policies different from Federal Government policies they will have to impose additional taxes. [More…]
This is the sort of freedom of action that the new federalism offers the States- the freedom enjoyed by that fellow who languished somewhere between the devil and the deep blue sea. [More…]
This is an area of the law that developed at a time when there was a complete freedom of contract. [More…]
Mao Tse-tung took charge of a China which was weak, divided and exhausted, and created a nation which was unified, formidable and dedicated to the destruction of freedom. [More…]
Demonstration is one thing and an important privilege of freedom. [More…]
I emphasise again that local government will have an entitlement to a share of personal income tax and, therefore, a greater degree of freedom in determining the manner in which these funds are to be spent. [More…]
Real freedom of choice of doctor and hospital has been restored. [More…]
In the normal course of events when 5 Bills such as those listed on the notice paper are dealt with in 2 cognate debatesone debate covering 3 Bills and one debate covering 2 Bills- members taking part in the debate are given a degree of freedom to deal with certain matters in all the legislation so that they need to speak in only one of the cognate debates. [More…]
While the point of order taken by the honourable member for Prospect has a degree of validity, that is the reason why the honourable member for Capricornia and others will be given a degree of freedom to cover matters in all the legislation. [More…]
He invited or encouraged voluntary health funds to set up- in other words, he enlarged the number of organisations which were already doing this sort of thing- by setting a restraint on the freedom with which members of the community could get their tax contributions back in the form of medical or hospital rebates, because an integral part of the system was that the patient had to contribute to a voluntary fund. [More…]
He is no longer one who can pose as a person interested in freedom. [More…]
The person responsible for recognising the brutal suppression of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union can in no sense be described as someone who is genuinely interested in freedom. [More…]
Nor is a conviction for freedom consistent with the active involvement of the Leader of the Opposition in the disgraceful Iraqi bans affair about which so many words have been spoken in this place. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is not concerned with freedom, only with certain freedoms. [More…]
If the Government does legislate it will mean a loss of some of the freedom of the union movement. [More…]
I, for one, would be most concerned at such a loss of freedom. [More…]
It can give its subjects freedom and move towards a capitalist economy which will increase production; or it can give the world a gold standard which will bring about the sort of results I spoke of before. [More…]
Is it true that the Government dropped its proposal to have union elections conducted by compulsion by the Commonwealth Electoral Office as a result of being warned that it would be reported in accordance with the Freedom of Association Convention operating under the International Labour Organisation, thus provoking massive international labour retaliation? [More…]
Irrespective of whether it is true, in future will the Government submit, in accordance with the Freedom of Association Convention operating under the ILO, all proposals it has in regard to trade unions in order to ensure that such a conflict is avoided? [More…]
It feels that the freedom of 600 000 Timorese should be sacrificed for the strategic advantage of unhindered access to Indonesian Straits for United States submarines travelling from Pacific bases to their proposed Indian Ocean bases. [More…]
Surely, in all freedom he is entitled to go to that meeting. [More…]
The advantages of this practice will be twofold- to provide a better and faster information flow to the Government by providing a means through which difficulties will be detected as soon as they arise, and by aiding Aboriginal people to become more confident of themselves in managerial procedures and administration as they are given more freedom and responsibility in handling programs. [More…]
It is rather that the Liberals are as blinkered and intolerant of dissent and true academic freedom today as they were 22 years ago and indeed have always been. [More…]
In effect it wants to get rid of the scheme which has been instituted and which allows a degree of freedom of choice. [More…]
Although it is a duty solicitor scheme it is a first step towards enabling a person later to have freedom of choice in his legal assistance. [More…]
Indonesia received its freedom and its independence at the response of the people of Australia over the following two or three years. [More…]
We in Australia must start to apply ourselves to the whole question of independence, freedom and selfgovernment in this area. [More…]
It is not the worst in the world by a long shot, but it is a dictatorship and freedom is depressed. [More…]
They are humanity, liberty, freedom and self-government. [More…]
I am sure that even the honourable member who interjects would place the demands of humanity, the rights of people to freedom and liberty above any questions of the legality of one radio set. [More…]
The issue originally was not alcohol but the fundamental question of freedom, of human rights and of equal rights for everybody in the community. [More…]
The Government’s long term objective is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people can have maximum freedom and independence so they can achieve their own goals in life in ways they themselves desire. [More…]
Free people can lose their freedom if power is placed in too few hands. [More…]
It aims to prevent a dangerous concentration of power in a few hands and in so doing it provides a guarantee of political and individual freedom. [More…]
I therefore contend that those who support federalism support freedom, not merely of State governments and local governments but at an individual level; that those who espouse centralism use it as a means to introduce socialism which is the enemy of freedom. [More…]
What meaning, for example, can be attached to these words: ‘We believe in freedom for artist and patron alike’? [More…]
It also looks as though it may be an excuse for committees to be established and loaded up with the Association of Cultural Freedom crowd and other dubious persons interested, so-called, in the arts. [More…]
This approach to diversity, freedom, the establishment of institutions, and approaches in society which can enable free men to express themselves is at the heart of Liberal philosophy. [More…]
The tragedy for our part of the world is that the fall of that democracy endangers the future freedom of the people of Thailand because the military has again involved itself in politics. [More…]
It does, in fact, I believe endanger the freedom of that country. [More…]
Can Australia feel any sense of pride in our defence of political and social freedom in the world today? [More…]
Half the population of Australia do not even have licences and therefore are totally precluded from access to the freedom which a motor car provides. [More…]
In speaking to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia on 15 October 1971 he spoke of freedom, of the freedom to practise. [More…]
It is a freedom which I know you value and it is a freedom which is ingrained in the approach of most Australians to their vocation or employment. [More…]
Perhaps best of all, the expression of his attitude to freedom and his attitude to the rights and wrongs of society appears in a paper he delivered on the role of dissent in a free society, again in September 1971 when, as Attorney-General for the Commonwealth, he said: [More…]
He was committed to the cause of freedom- in particular, to the freedom of the individual. [More…]
As has been mentioned, he had a very deep commitment to the principles of democracy and individual freedom. [More…]
Today a distinguished life has ended, closing the career of an eminent lawyer and parliamentarian, a defender of freedom and a fighter for the truth. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware of complaints by many concerned citizens alleging that teenagers and persons in their early twenties have been induced to join certain religious sects and have, under the guise of exercising freedom of worship actually had their freedom severely restricted and in some cases have actually suffered serious physical and psychological harm? [More…]
Obviously we are all concerned about the need to preserve freedom of religion. [More…]
On the other hand there may be a point- this is the matter I have been concerned with- that under the guise of religious freedom and the exercise of religious rights young people are subjected to all sorts of things that brainwash and indoctrinate them in a way that is an intrusion into human rights. [More…]
If so, why did he fail to agree to the proposal which was supported by Indonesia that the Indian Ocean be declared a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality? [More…]
This is of great concern to the countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations and is principally the reason why they support a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in relation to their own area. [More…]
The ABC has a particular role; it is part of the freedom of information system in Australia. [More…]
The 1 8c postage is, of course, a very great restriction upon the freedom and passage of information. [More…]
They want details of the administrative arrangements which will facilitate access and guarantee freedom from political interference, not bland unsubstantiated assurances. [More…]
In no part of the world and under no other system do men live so well and in so much freedom. [More…]
If performance is any criterion, the contest between freedom and Communism, of which so much was made three decades ago, has been won by the industrial democracies. [More…]
In fact, it might be said that all the freedom fighters throughout the world for whom we have poured out great support in recent times- the Americans, the British in Malaysia and all the other people of that sort- ha ve been as silent as a tomb when it comes to the situation in Timor. [More…]
In other words, there has to be an interest in the number of Russian tourists coming to Australia as well as in Australian tourists going to Russia, apart from the picking up of fourth and fifth freedom traffic along the route. [More…]
The asset of a home is a hedge against inflation and from an ascetic point of view the home buyer has greater freedom in choosing what he or she requires as a standard of accommodation, location, and in particular, environment. [More…]
It is a commemoration of an infamy, for on that day 20 years ago the Hungarian people reached out for their freedom and found themselves crushed by brutal and ruthless Soviet power. [More…]
The tanks that came through Budapest were successful, unhappily, in crushing the desire for freedom from the Hungarian people. [More…]
They have not their freedom. [More…]
Freedom remains in their hearts although with their bodies they have no freedom. [More…]
But action was paralysed and freedom was snuffed out. [More…]
But if the honourable member thinks that, in Australia, he is to be a freedom fighter for some other parts of the world, I suggest that he should look at what some of the circumstances in Australia are. [More…]
If we cannot achieve anything- I am not suggesting that we will by this exercise this evening- surely we are entitled to our last recourse which is that of freedom of speech in the Parliament. [More…]
I was fortunate early in the year to be able to speak and express my concern at the recent constitutional amendments in Poland and to applaud the efforts of Cardinal Mindszenty and the people of Poland who showed great courage in standing up in public and expressing their concern at the continuing decline of their freedoms in Poland. [More…]
As has already been mentioned, almost 20 years ago to the day hundreds of thousands of Hungarians protested about the lack of freedom in their country and demanded the release of the late Cardinal Mindszenty. [More…]
Freedom was lost forever. [More…]
I take this opportunity to express my concern in the records of the Parliament and to express my sorrow and to extend my condolences to the Hungarians of Perth who tragically lost their country in 1956 and who came to our country where freedom fortunately is still our most cherished possession. [More…]
They are born fighters for freedom. [More…]
It is on that basis that I say that our courts always stand for the best thing that I think the British have ever given us, that is, their system of justice where all people are equal and no man is denied a fair trial and no man is denied his freedom. [More…]
Although it appears that the extent of freedom offered to the States under the theory and the practice of Fraser federalism are vastly different, it is obvious that in the theory little thought has been put into the implications of State income taxes for economic management. [More…]
The whole proposition concerns the question of freedom. [More…]
This concept is enshrined in our support for freedom of speech. [More…]
If the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) subscribes to the principle of freedom of speech, why is he bringing forward a Bill designed to exclude certain sections and interest groups in the community from their democratic right to have access to one particular form of media outlet? [More…]
The nub of the matter is that freedom of the Press implies that anyone can publish his views. [More…]
Thus the concentration of present ownership in a few hands necessarily limits the range of views publishedthe antithesis of freedom of the Press. [More…]
We in this Parliament ought to be more concerned about the debilitating effect of that on the freedom of communication within this country. [More…]
The distribution of power in any society is an important element of preserving freedom within that society. [More…]
If all power is located in one place, in one government or in a small group of people, there is a danger that the freedoms that a country enjoys can be taken away by abuse of that power. [More…]
On the one hand there is the clear right to religious freedom that is embedded to some extent in section 1 16 of our Constitution. [More…]
We hear about cases of intense processes of indoctrination, brainwashing and restrictions upon personal freedom. [More…]
I think we need to ask whether the problem has ceased to be one of freedom of religion or rather is one of the protection of the young from skilfully organised people who are attempting to brainwash, indoctrinate and deprive people of property. [More…]
The Government has accepted these recommendations and will be legislating to give the Commission a considerable degree of freedom in appointing its staff and deciding their salaries. [More…]
Let me remind the Leader of the Opposition and his colleagues behind him that the Liberal Party platform sets out quite clearly that freedom of expression in the Press, radio and television and freedom from governmental and political interference are fundamental to Liberal beliefs and essential to democratic government. [More…]
The softwoodspinus radiata and so on- enjoy an excellent prospect of growth in Australia because of the freedom from pests found in their countries of origin. [More…]
Their freedom was inhibited and they had no access to or control over their own money. [More…]
This is a sensible reform which will facilitate greater freedom of action for companies while maintaining the protection of creditors. [More…]
They stand in this House day after day and year after year defending what they call the freedom of the Press yet freedom of the Press turns out to be Press that can be stood over by the Liberal Party- Press that will only reflect the views and attitudes of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The thousands of people who assembled throughout Australia yesterday and today realised exactly what the Government is up to because they have seen demonstrated to them in this letter between the President of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Prime Minister of Australia what the Liberal Party really interpret as freedom of the Press. [More…]
I always find it remarkable that the conservative coalition parties can always declaim that they are opposed to compulsion and that they want freedom of choice in the community; yet they resort so frequently to the imposition of compulsion. [More…]
The only freedom that the patient has is to visit his doctor. [More…]
Under the last Labor Government the ABC was given genuine freedom, without inhibitions. [More…]
These diverse, controversial views are intermit.tently aired over the ABC during those short spells when it frees itself from self-censorship until another burst of criticism of the ABC from so-called champions of freedom of expressionchampions of freedom of expression as long as the expression is completely in accord with their views, of course. [More…]
I come back to the concept of freedom of choice. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite call that freedom of choice? [More…]
That is the freedom of choice that this system offers. [More…]
The Minister, who believes in freedom of expression, in free comment and in the independence of the ABC had this to say about a program that embarrassed the Fraser Government: [More…]
I have already indicated that a delicate question is involved as to the religious freedom that to some extent is enshrined in our Constitution. [More…]
Therefore, any government would have to be very careful, when introducing legislation in this area, to ensure that religious freedom was not tampered with. [More…]
In fact that is the claim that is often made; that we should give the commercials complete freedom and then we shall get what we want because a lot of people look at these programs. [More…]
My bet is that if we give the commercials complete freedom that will be the end of quality Australian production, in the sense of expensive production, because that, sadly, is usually what it means. [More…]
what the public wants and what it has a right to get is the freedom to choose from the widest possible range of program matter. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Hotham really seriously suggest that given this absolute freedom that is what the commercial sector would do? [More…]
The licensee has complete freedom to put what he likes over the air waves. [More…]
All the Government has to do is to cut the finance and that is the end of the freedom of any organisation dependent upon finance provided by the Parliament. [More…]
These policies must facilitate the rapid and continuous improvement in the quality of life of all people, beginning with the satisfaction of the basic needs of food, shelter, clean water, employment, health, education, training, social security without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, ideology, national or social origin or other cause, in a frame of freedom, dignity and social justice. [More…]
Places of worship, especially in areas of expanding human settlements, should be provided and recognised in order to satisfy the spiritual and religious needs of different groups in accordance with freedom of religious expression. [More…]
Members of the committee retain their freedom to come to what they feel are legitimate judgments and to report those judgments. [More…]
They retain freedom for members of the committee. [More…]
There will always be constraints on the freedom of action of our defence planners in that there must be limits to defence spending. [More…]
by leave- The interdepartmental committee on policy proposals for freedom of information legislation was convened earlier this year at the request of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to study and report to me on policy proposals for freedom of information legislation, taking into account the report of the interdepartmental committee on proposed freedom of information legislation that was tabled in Parliament in 1974, the implication of amendments to the United States Freedom of Information Act that were made in 1974 and not dealt with in the earlier report and any other matters that might be relevant. [More…]
The Government authorised me to prepare legislation for a freedom of information Bill. [More…]
The Government regards freedom of information legislation, giving the citizens a right of access to all government records that can properly be made available consistent with the protection of necessary confidentiality, as an important element in making government accountable to the electorate. [More…]
The Committee’s recommendations include: The Torres Strait Islands should remain part of Australia; that the Government should, as soon as feasible, make a statement in Parliament setting out its position on the Torres Strait boundary; if a protected zone is established in the area freedom of passage for Australians and Papua New Guineans should be guaranteed, mining and drilling in the seabed should be prohibited until agreement is reached between all interested parties and new commercial ventures should not be permitted in the area unless they are compatible with the environment; and competent counsel should be provided to the Torres Strait Islanders if required by the people of Torres Strait. [More…]
Interdepartmental Committee on Freedom of Information (Question No. [More…]
1 ) With reference to the undertaking to enact Freedom of Information legislation, which has been given on 2 occasions in 1976, has the Government received the report of the interdepartmental committee to which the matter has been referred. [More…]
) Did the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration publish a report on Freedom of Information including a draft Bill earlier in 1 976. [More…]
Down that road lies totalitarianism and the progressive restriction of the freedom of the individual, the basic right of the individual to exercise the maximum freedom of choice, compatible with the rights of his fellow citizens. [More…]
As a result, the voters elected a Government which is dedicated to increasing the freedom of the individual and the respect of his basic rights as an individual, while at the same time exercising its responsibility as a Government to protect and to assist those in our community who cannot care adequately for themselves. [More…]
They result inevitably from situations in which people are denied the exercise of basic human rights and freedom of expression. [More…]
These control mechanisms can undoubtedly lead to all sorts of difficulties for industry and the more so in this sophisticated day and age when there is not the freedom of movement on the economic front that there might have been a few years ago. [More…]
As I recall it, honourable members opposite intended to emasculate that legislation in order to give private enterprise the freedom it chose. [More…]
The important factor beyond any doubt is the belief that the Government espouses as the cardinal principle behind its philosophy, that is, freedom of competition. [More…]
Generally we are not even conscious that such rules exist but we know they are there for the protection and broadening of the area of human freedom. [More…]
There are areas in which the activities of some union leaders have restricted freedom and inhibited human rights and human dignity. [More…]
It is an acknowledgment that some areas of economic activity are so significant in their totality that they intrude into what might be called the individual’s freedom. [More…]
Presumably if the New South Wales Parliament decides to set up an investigating committee the committee ought to have power to investigate both sides of the matter because very serious issues are raised such as the question of religious freedom to which I have referred previously. [More…]
1 think that the argument has been expanded fairly extensively but, clause 7 having been agreed to, a situation has now been created in which the distribution commissioners no longer have the freedom to give latitude in respect of rapidly growing seats in order to keep them within the 10 per cent tolerance required and, therefore, disparities of enrolments will grow at a more rapid rate than would have been the case under a redistribution without clause 7. [More…]
The participating States will respect each other’s sovereign equality and individuality as well as all the rights inherent in and encompassed by its sovereignty, including in particular the right of every State to juridical equality, to territorial integrity and to freedom and political independence. [More…]
Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief [More…]
The participating States will respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. [More…]
Within this framework the participating States will recognise and respect the freedom of the individual to profess and practise, alone or in community with others, religion or belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience. [More…]
In the United Nations we as a nation applaud the freedoms that are there espousedhuman rights, the protection of the individual’s life and property, the freedom of countries from aggression, and so on. [More…]
As I said earlier, free enterprise should not mean protection from the Government at every turn any more than freedom means licence. [More…]
Then the Speech goes on to waffle about the fundamental well being and freedom of the Australian people. [More…]
This Government is conscious of the encroaching bureaucracy and of the power that the bureaucracy has to impinge on personal rights and freedom. [More…]
They should have the freedom and the capacity to pass legislation or to refuse certain finance that the Monarch wanted. [More…]
What I am trying to impress upon honourable members is that these traditions indicate the independence and freedom of members of the House of Representatives or, in the situation to which I referred, members of the House of Commons. [More…]
My Government is not only taking action to restore the economy, it is also making social reforms which are of fundamental importance to the freedom and well-being of the Australian people. [More…]
It states quite hypocritically the Government’s commitment to increase the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Austraiian people. [More…]
They have no freedom but the freedom to survive. [More…]
This is the true meaning of the cliches about freedom, equality and opportunity. [More…]
A number of measures for the protection of fundamental freedoms were outlined such as those relating to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Commonwealth Ombudsman, the Human Rights Commission and the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
My Government is not only taking action to restore the economy, it is also making social reforms which are of fundamental importance to the freedom and well-being of the Australian people. [More…]
At the heart of my Government’s policies lie a commitment and a concern; commitment to increasing the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Australian people; and concern with enhancing people’s ability to make their own choices and live their own lives in their own way. [More…]
It prostitutes and misuses the word freedom’. [More…]
It should have used the word ‘licence’ in place of the word ‘freedom’ and then it would really say what it means. [More…]
If you are going to give freedom in that sense to the people in an organised society- and the Australian community is an organised society, whether the Liberal Party likes it or not- all you are doing is saying to the people who cannot fight back, such as the people traditionally beaten down by the Liberal and Country parties, those who are incapable of fighting because they are young, because they are old, because they were not born here, because they have a language problem, because they were born poor, because they were born with a disability or because they incurred a disability, that everybody will have the freedom to live his own life in the way that he chooses. [More…]
Everybody should have the freedom to live their own lives in the way they want to live them. ‘ [More…]
A commitment and a concern to the mining companies and to the oil producing companies- commitment to increasing the freedom, [More…]
Freedom? [More…]
What freedom exists now for those who are disadvantaged? [More…]
Australia was lucky, the world was lucky and those of us who believe in individual freedom were lucky that a split occurred between China and Russia after 1958. [More…]
In August 1968, when the Dubcek Government in Prague appeared to be engaged in policies inconsistent with the policies of Moscow, the result was that Warsaw Pact forces, including those of the U.S.S.R., by invasion of Czechoslovakia, caused a change in personnel in the government in Prague and caused a change in the minds of those who felt that they might indulge in policies more consistent with democratic freedom. [More…]
From my point of view, I think that people living in Australia can be very grateful for the measure of freedom they enjoypersonal freedom, political freedom- and for the understanding, the moderation and the tolerance that have characterised politics in this country over the last 70 years. [More…]
They have the gall, the temerity, to talk that way about Israel- a country which has all the civil rights and freedoms that we have in Australia. [More…]
They have no free elections, no freedom of association, no free Press. [More…]
If there were freedom, if the balance were held equally and if both sides had the same access, then the position would be quite different. [More…]
I believe that in the big totalitarian centres of Moscow and Peking there is still the same desire for freedom on the part of the masses of the people but there is not the same capacity to exercise freedom. [More…]
The appalling irony of it is that the mechanisms of freedom among us are being used to destroy our ultimate freedom. [More…]
I would like to see Australia use its influence with respect to Western Europe to ensure that those groups which are unfortunate enough to be behind the Iron Curtain are not deserted by the West as they were in 1956, as they were in Poland in 1965 and as they were in Czechoslovakia in 1969 when they struggled for freedom. [More…]
I hope that Australia is prepared to express a view, and to express a strong view if necessary, at Belgrade this year at the conference to consider the application of the Helsinki Pact, that we as a country believe it is about time that those countries behind the Iron Curtain which deny basic civil rights to their citizens should think again and should at least acknowledge that they have a responsibility to ensure that those who live within their boundaries have the same basic freedoms and rights as we enjoy in Australia. [More…]
I hope that we will not enter a generation in which war will be inevitable between those who wish to live in freedom and those who espouse the Marxist communist cause. [More…]
In recent months a number of people have said that the people of Rhodesia should be given their independence, that they should be given their freedom and that they should be allowed to rule and control the country themselves. [More…]
To prohibit this generally would be an infringement of individual freedom. [More…]
My Government is not only taking action to restore the economy, it is also making social reforms which are of fundamental importance to the freedom and well-being of the Australian people. [More…]
Concern for social justice and social welfare and respect for human freedom are fundamental to American values. [More…]
At the heart of my Government’s policies lie a commitment and a concern: commitment to increasing the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Australian people; and concern with enhancing people’s ability to make their own choices and live their own lives in their own way. [More…]
The Government’s long term objective is to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways which they decide. [More…]
Measures to deal with this crisis will advance Australia towards the long-term goal of a society based on freedom and on the mutual respect freedom makes possible. [More…]
So much for the freedom of the Press if financial journalists could be so led away from their duty. [More…]
Freedom of individuals! [More…]
This day commemorates their independence which was achieved on 16 February 1918 when Lithuanian freedom fighters, after the First World War, declared their independence. [More…]
That is one of the reasons why the Lithuanians in exile try to be united and try to keep their spirit of freedom alive throughout free nations. [More…]
They have a reasonable diet of freedom. [More…]
Under the pretence of freedom, we know that there are inside the borders of the Soviet Union discrimination, persecution and worse of all who profess any religion because, as Lenin said, communism is necessarily militant atheism. [More…]
They are making their presence felt and they are getting some protection inside the Soviet Union for the practice of their religion because they have stuck together and they are demanding that they have freedom for religious practice and worship. [More…]
More and more children will be looked after by mother substitutes because the tax structure is not neutral in its impact and as a result fails to guarantee mothers genuine freedom of choice as to who should care for their children. [More…]
At the heart of my government’s policies lie a commitment and a concern; commitment to increasing the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Australian people . [More…]
I ask Australians who are not territorians to consider carefully the words ‘commitment to increasing the freedom, opportunity and equality of Australian people’. [More…]
On 9 December 1976 1 announced that the Government had authorised me to prepare legislation for a freedom of information Bill. [More…]
A reference to reform defamation laws, so vital for striking the right balance between freedom of speech, on the one hand, and the maintenance of honour and reputation on the other hand was also given to the Law Reform Commission last year. [More…]
When the form of the proposed freedom of information legislation is settled, it may be necessary to reconsider the provisions in the present Bill in the light of that legislation. [More…]
That is important not only in this context of current economic policy, but for the pursuit of our basic Liberal objectives of enlarging the freedom of individuals and of increasing the incentives to them, and their very capacity, to build a fuller life for themselves and a greater Australia. [More…]
I am sure we realised just how proud we were to be part of this Parliament and part of a nation that can live and work in the freedom that is this democracy. [More…]
There must be an increasing commitment to freedom, opportunity and equality so that people can make their own choices and live their lives in the way that they think is best. [More…]
Our undertaking to introduce freedom of information legislation; [More…]
It has been suggested that it is wrong to interfere with the freedom of individual Australians, that perhaps we should not prevent them from engaging in activities overseas, that it would be contrary to their individual rights, but if we consider the question we realise that we are talking about the right to engage in hostile activities of the nature described. [More…]
The same thing of course would apply if people supported the illegal regime of Smith in Rhodesia or supported those who sought freedom. [More…]
That cannot be tolerated in this country because there must be some effect or some potential effect upon the freedom and safety of our own citizens if any person in the community is to take up arms, explosives or the like and carry out training or similar activities. [More…]
The British Committee of Privy Councillors looked into this matter in considerable detail and concluded that there were a number of reasons which might commend themselves to a government in order that it ban this activity, but that there was only one real reason to prevent it and that was that the restrictions on the freedom of an individual to go and fight in another country were warranted because under international agreements the relations of the 2 countries could be seriously impaired. [More…]
That this House further takes note of the implications of the Antarctic Treaty freezing existing territorial claims, providing that the Antarctic is to be used for peaceful purposes only (including a total ban on nuclear testing); guaranteed complete freedom of access of scientific expeditions; facilitating international scientific co-operation and preserving Antarctic flora and fauna and the further provision that no new claim or enlargement of any existing claim shall be negotiated whilst the Treaty is in force; and the discussion paper prepared by the previous Administration entitled Towards new perspectives for Australian Scientific Research in Antarctica’ (March 1975- Parliamentary Paper No. [More…]
Freedom of association, which is prejudiced by that paragraph, ought to be protected rather than prejudiced by legislation before this House. [More…]
Clause 6 is not designed to impede the freedom of people. [More…]
However, the report emphasises that it is undesirable to interfere with the freedom of an individual to enlist in a foreign defence force. [More…]
In the concluding remarks of the speech by the AttorneyGeneral in introducing this legislation he said that he did not want to restrict the freedom or the personal beliefs of others. [More…]
Do not worry too much about the niceties of their so-called freedom to fight wherever they wish. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member is trying to draw too strong a line in respect of the freedom that the people who are resident in Australia have in taking an interest in the affairs of overseas countries, particularly when the country concerned is the one from which they have come and with which they have very close and very pertinent, sensitive family connections. [More…]
Ours is supposed to be a free society, and freedom of speech and association should be two of our most precious liberties. [More…]
All democrats in this House- I think there are one or two on the other side as well- should be prepared to stand up for the basic democratic principle of freedom of association which is under attack by this left wing group of academics and their associates. [More…]
Kindness, loyalty and friendship have been shown to us wherever we have been, and, if on occasions, there has been a note of dissent, that is what freedom of expression is all about- a freedom sadly no longer enjoyed in many other countries. [More…]
They operate with much greater freedom and much greater licence than any other medical profession throughout the world. [More…]
I add that neither the existing legislation nor the proposed amendments to it unduly restricts the freedom of individuals or companies in Australia to obtain insurance cover overseas. [More…]
Let us not ignore the fact that an individual wants to retain his freedom and dignity and free choice is essential to this objective. [More…]
Why has not the Soviet Union honoured the Helsinki Pact with reference to freedom of immigration? [More…]
On the front page of this special issue under the heading ‘Human Rights and Socialism’ the statement is made that in the Soviet Union there is ‘the right to freedom of religion’, which of course stands most peculiarly alongside the correspondence I have just mentioned from the Soviet Embassy. [More…]
Anybody can raise difficulties where there is a free resources allocation system and where there is a large degree of freedom in a community. [More…]
It is a party which says it believes in freedom of the individual. [More…]
But the freedom the Labor Party is referring to is freedom of the individual to be governed by big government, the freedom of the individual to have government take decisions for him, the freedom of the individual to have his initiative and his enterprise sapped and usurped by the State. [More…]
In so doing, it provides a guarantee of political and individual freedom. [More…]
I am only sorry that it is not being broadcast because once again what has been shown is that the Opposition is dedicated to increasing the power of the central government at the expense of the States and local government and of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
As that famous United States champion of individual freedom, Woodrow Wilson, once said: [More…]
The only thing that I think is important about the Indian election result as far as we in this Parliament are concerned is that for some reason or other many people claim that the citizens in the poorer countries- in the undeveloped nationsare interested only in food and not in freedom. [More…]
The Indian elections have quite clearly shown that people who are given the choice are interested in freedom. [More…]
They are quite clearly interested in freedom if they are given that choice. [More…]
If honourable members were to look at the particular electorate represented by the Minister of Justice in the previous Government, who introduced the legislation which restricted freedom under the previous Government, although admittedly only temporarily, they would find that he was defeated by a lawyer in exile, who was unable to campaign, who had to leave the country but yet received an overwhelming majority in the election. [More…]
To me that showed quite clearly that the Indian people, as most other people in the world will do, will vote for freedom if they have the choice. [More…]
Obviously they want food, but they also want freedom. [More…]
For further information on the scale and survey see Freedom at Issue, Jan.-Feb. 1 973 page 2ff. [More…]
A positive outlook for freedom is indicated by a plus sign, a negative outlook, by a minus, and relative stability of ratings by a zero. [More…]
The outlook for freedom is based on the problems the country is facing, the way the government and people are reacting to these problems, and the longer run political traditions of the society. [More…]
-The table was produced by what is called Freedom House, which since 1952 has been a non-partisan and non-government organisation in New York. [More…]
It has produced a table in which it has given nations points for political rights, civil rights and a general status of freedom of outlook. [More…]
I hope that honourable members will have a look at it and be as depressed as I have been by the large number of countries which have no freedom. [More…]
The worst change, of course, has been in Thailand, which has lost its freedom. [More…]
I think that Sri Lanka has improved its freedom. [More…]
Other countries, such as Spain and Egypt, have improved their status as far as freedom is concerned. [More…]
Nonetheless the summary from Freedom House placed 43.9 per cent of the world’s population in the category of not-free countries and 36.4 per cent of the tOtal population in the category of partly free countries. [More…]
Let us look at that and consider it when we talk about freedom in other countries. [More…]
These arrangements will assist the Commission in its coordinating role, while at the same time enabling each council to have a significant measure of freedom to decide and act within its own area of specialisation. [More…]
What they did not want to do on that day was to die, but if it it had to be, they would die as menand they did- fighting for a cause called freedom. [More…]
I believe that it has been a most desirable initiative by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to grant an extension of 12 months, plus $10m, plus greater State freedom. [More…]
I must say that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, in the conciliatory mood he was in tonight, pointed out why he was suspicious of allowing this freedom. [More…]
This raises the fundamental question of complete freedom of speech in Parliament. [More…]
These are a Bill to set down standard procedures for Commonwealth adjudicative tribunals, in line with the recommendations of the Kerr Committee, and a Freedom of Information Bill, which will entitle persons to have access to documents in the possession of Commonwealth agencies, subject, of course, to certain exceptions designed to protect the public interest in the confidentiality of certain documents and proceedings. [More…]
Both Bills are in the course of drafting and I would hope to be able to introduce the Freedom of Information Bill before the end of the present sittings of the Parliament. [More…]
How farcical it is that section 92 of the Constitution has guaranteed us that freedom for 77 years and we have not until now- I think the Minister will correct me if I am wrong-had to put something on the statute books to give section 92 teeth. [More…]
He did not accuse us of failing to protect the rights and freedom of the Timorese people. [More…]
Because of this success, and because of its freedom from income tax and profit payments, the Corporation has accumulated substantial reserves. [More…]
The proposed legislation is also a breach of international conventions which guarantee trade unions freedom to organise and to engage in collective bargaining. [More…]
What our society and this Parliament face at the present time is an exercise in freedom of action which in the long run will lead to the destruction of the system upon which that freedom of action is based. [More…]
The tiers that are being established include the office of Ombudsman, the Administrative Appeals Tribunals, the Federal Court of Australia, with powers to deal with administrative decisions and, subsequently, the Freedom of Information Bill, which has been foreshadowed. [More…]
If, in the more spectacular cases involving civil rights or the individual’s freedom, the courts were to do anything other than scrutinise in the absolutely closest and most minute detail the entire position, there could be miscarriages of justice. [More…]
It is most important that where the freedom of the individual is concerned both sides of the case be presented in detail, that all evidence be taken at length, that all the documents that are available be looked at and that the rules of law which apply be analysed carefully and applied by the judge or the higher tribunal on appeal. [More…]
On that question, central to our freedom, our independence and our national sovereignty, the Prime Minister was silent. [More…]
Clearly, there is a total disregard for the safety of people who are asked to return to a situation in which their freedom and even their lives would be in jeopardy at the hands of one of the most corrupt regimes ever to hold power anywhere in the world. [More…]
The housing allowance voucher experiment will be a thoughtful program that will allow people a freedom in the market, a freedom to go out and rent the place they want and not to be squeezed into some suburb or home which is desided for them by their housing trust or housing commission. [More…]
He has a freedom of labour to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
I also stated that the Commonwealth did not wish to restrict the freedom of persons wishing to undertake an essentially sporting activity, notwithstanding the hazard to participants. [More…]
These amendments, in the form of the Trade Practices Amendment Bill 1977, particularly section 45d of that Bill and other industrially significant amendments such as 4b (1) and (2), represent a despicable attempt to impose on the Australian trade union movement restrictions on the freedom to take industrial action, which has historically been the right of the Australian work force, and which is guaranteed by International Labour Organisations conventions, ratified by the Australian Government, to unions and associations of workers throughout the free world. [More…]
The small business sector embodies the principles of freedom and enterprise and decentralisation of economic power. [More…]
But the Swanson report goes on to say that because of that High Court decision and the way in which the Court interpreted the case, and because it was a common law interpretation- therefore, I draw the distinction as to whether it was really appropriate to marry it to this Act which contained its own interpretation- there was a restraint of trade only where a covenanter cuts down an existing freedom to trade. [More…]
Yet, I come into this place and hear honourable members, like the honourable member for Gellibrand, pursuing other legislation which deals with minority interests and freedom of the individual and which imposes harsh penalties. [More…]
Freedom has certain limitations. [More…]
Though socialists might dissent, I should expect a Liberal Government to agree that individuals should be given the greatest possible freedom in the spending and investing of their incomes. [More…]
Although it is important for the laboratory to make a rapid initial diagnosis, its major function in the event of an outbreak wouldbe to conduct the very large volume of testing required to achieve freedom from the particular exotic disease, and to prove that freedom to countries which normally import Australian livestock products. [More…]
As my allegations subsequently have been proved correct and no malice was intended on my part, does my experience testify to the fact that the Racial Discrimination Act can in some instances work against the freedom and rights of everyone? [More…]
Under our proposals many servicemen would have the freedom to choose the type, quality and location of the accommodation they require for their families. [More…]
The safeguards involved in Australia ‘s system of representative and responsible government, the independence of the judiciary and the procedures adopted by our courts, the freedom of the Press and the possibility of parliamentary or ministerial investigation or other inquiry are important factors in the maintenance of human rights in this country. [More…]
The independence of the Office is safeguarded in the following ways: The board of management comprises persons who are likely to insist on freedom from improper pressure; its top management consists of lawyers appointed for a fixed term; its lawyers are confirmed in their professional status and are subject to the jurisdiction of courts in relation to their professional conduct. [More…]
-I think that the exservicemen of this country regard Dr Evatt and a former Attorney-General, Senator Spicer, as well as a former honourable member for Balaclava, now Mr Justice Joske, as the great freedom fighters about section 47. [More…]
Each indicated in reply that, while they and their Departments would do whatever is reasonable to encourage Australian sporting teams to travel by Qantas, they would, nevertheless, not agree as a matter of general principle to restrict the freedom of choice of such organisations. [More…]
They are not allowed the normal freedom or the normal environment of any other employee in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Men with freedom in their vision, And creation in their brains. [More…]
That is not freedom. [More…]
Freedom, as we see it, is a state in which every Australian should be given the opportunity to develop to the ultimate extent possible with the minimum of Government interference. [More…]
1 believe also that the Freedom from Hunger Campaign has agreed to provide $ 1 12,000 to it over two years and something like $45,000 this year. [More…]
In regard to overseas borrowing controls the Government has decided that it is prepared to provide, in respect of major projects, longer term assurances of freedom from future adverse changes to the controls on overseas borrowings which might prejudice forward plans for funding subject to the following conditions: The assurances would apply only to projects involving estimated capital expenditure of $500m or more; applicants would be required to demonstrate that there is a very high probability of the project being commenced within three years; and no assurances would be given in respect of overseas borrowings with a repayment term of less than four years. [More…]
In conclusion, the Opposition accepts the proposed policy of the Government wherein the Minister states in respect of major projects involving estimated capital expenditure of $500m or more that longer term assurances of freedom from future adverse changes to the controls on overseas borrowings will be guaranteed. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a group named the Australian Freedom Group recently released the names and addresses of the entire staff of the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
Under the proposals which have been discussed and which are not finalised at this stage the Victorian industry is likely to suffer and to be penalised if it seeks to utilise those sections of the Constitution which would appear to, but do not in fact, guarantee freedom of trade. [More…]
In less than 2 years one can point to the following: The Federal court system has been restructured; there has been a fundamental revision of Federal administrative law; legal aid has been restructured in such a way as to increase cooperation with the States and to make sure that effective aid is available to those most in need; the first Ombudsman has been appointed and has commenced work; the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been given a wider jurisdiction and has commenced operation; legislation has been introduced to reform the law on criminal investigation and to establish a human rights commission; numerous references have been made to the Australian Law Reform Commission; and work is nearing completion on important new legislation on freedom of information and the use of government archives. [More…]
The Government proposes to introduce an Archives Bill and a Freedom of Information Bill during this sitting of the Parliament. [More…]
Briefly, as I see them, those aims are: For the Government to assist those in need; for those who are able to provide for themselves to do so through private insurance; to encourage accountability for health services by the payment of a patient moiety where this is both appropriate and equitable; and to encourage the private sector in health care delivery thus maintaining a genuine freedom of choice for patients. [More…]
People win their wounds in the cause of freedom. [More…]
Unfortunately people in this country who have every right to be concerned about the environment- people in this country have freedom to do so- are being led on, unfortunately, by some of the people that the Opposition represents in this Parliament. [More…]
Australians want to have greater freedom to make their own decisions about spending and saving, and this Government is committed to providing the conditions under which the best efforts of all will be encouraged- not stifled by excessive taxes. [More…]
The much vaunted policy of giving States the dubious freedom to raise their own income tax has been rejected by New South Wales, to mention the people of just one State, who have been given that opportunity so far. [More…]
-Very rightly we give to the States freedom to decide how they spend the money they receive from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
That absolute freedom must be guaranteed. [More…]
With freedom and less interference I believe we can get a much steadier and much better operation within the money markets. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties believe in freedom in Australia. [More…]
That freedom means freedom for people to vote as they wish without fear of penalty or sanction. [More…]
But the Labor Party proposals would deny that freedom. [More…]
The legislation is well on the road to denying to the Australian people freedom of speech and freedom on private matters. [More…]
A man’s freedom is at stake. [More…]
I believe in freedom of speech in this country. [More…]
These are basic to freedom, in my judgment. [More…]
Freedom of choice would be preserved. [More…]
1 ) Most foodstuffs and some related products exported from Australia are subject to compulsory inspection and certification aimed at ensuring that adequate attention has been paid during their processing and packaging to such matters as hygiene, cleanliness, freedom from disease, and that the products are correctly described. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in the AMA Gazette of 1 September 1977 that he stated that one of the main reasons for the ending of the free supply policy is that it limits freedom of choice; if so, is there any substance in the report. [More…]
I refer the honourable member to my press release of 17 August 1977 in which I stated that one of the main reasons for the ending of the free supply policy was that it limits freedom of choice. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government and the Labor movement backed to the hilt the struggle of the Indonesian people for freedom from colonialism. [More…]
I also point out that I have heard less than enough from Government members about the current situation in Thailand where a right wing military dictatorship has overthrown the elected government and placed in jeopardy the future freedom of all Thai people. [More…]
Unless that dictatorship changes its ways and acts in a proper and democratic way,’ the result will be that a communist regime will take over in that country because that will be the alternative to the oppression which is taking place now of a people who have enjoyed freedom possibly for longer than any country in Asia. [More…]
(Quorum formed) Members of the Opposition can try as hard as they like to stifle the freedom of speech of members of this chamber, but the people of this country are well able to differentiate between the truth and falsehood which we have heard from them so often in the past hour. [More…]
It has guaranteed a freedom of choice for the majority of Australian people and this, together with the new nursing home benefit arrangements, the payment for services from government pathology laboratories and the payments for overseas trips vaccinations, adds up to a very good implementation of the Government’s philosophy that those people who can pay should pay, and support of the private sector. [More…]
As further evidence of the jackboot dictatorship that would smash our democratic freedom I quote to the House the contents of a document distributed in Broken Hill by militant union officials. [More…]
Without this freedom to export, it is highly likely that a large mountain of sugar will build up in the EEC this year. [More…]
More importantly- in fact, of total importanceis that the freedom of action for employees, whether privately or as a group, has been removed from the conciliation and arbitration system by the Government’s freezing negotiations on wages or conditions outside the fixed guidelines on indexation. [More…]
Working in the spirit of true co-operative federalism, he has given a freedom to people in all avenues of transport to have a greater say and to set thenown priorities in the development of a national transport policy. [More…]
To him the right of a man to work where, when and how he wanted was the most important freedom of all. [More…]
Today the freedom that Adam Smith admired and wanted so much is in imminent danger of extinction. [More…]
The whole purpose of this Bill is not to destroy the Communist Party- would that it were possible to do such a thing- but it is designed specifically as the beginning of a number of major industrial steps to give rights and freedom to the individuals within those unions so that they will have the full protection of the law when and if they decide to stand up and seek office in the interests of other members of those unions. [More…]
It is all very well to talk about the freedom of the individual if your name is Baillieu, for instance and you have never had to worry about the next pay packet, the next meal or the next pair of shoes for the kids. [More…]
But if you are a migrant worker in Fitzroy slaving all day over a machine in some sweat shop in Fitzroy in oppressive conditions for the privilege of taking home a miserably inadequate wage, freedom of the individual means absolutely nothing or very little. [More…]
The Governor-General also referred to ‘the freedom of Australians to choosewithout exploitation- the kinds of goods, services and styles of life they want, and to minimise direction by Government and the unnecessary redirection of resources through the government’s bureaucracy’. [More…]
Let me remind the Committee that the honourable member and all honourable members who sit on that side of the chamber preach freedom of choice of the individual. [More…]
We praise and thank Mr Justice Hope for his great concern to strike a proper balance between the need to respond decisively to threat to Australia’s security and to preserve individual freedom. [More…]
We must draw on the same dedication to freedom today to resist the growth of oppression and abuse of power in our community. [More…]
One was the uranium issue; the other was their loss of freedom. [More…]
They rallied in the defence of freedom not only for themselves but for us all. [More…]
We see that everyone is entitled to the right of thought, conscience and freedom. [More…]
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests. [More…]
everyone shall have the right to hold opinions and the right to freedom of expression. [More…]
Article 22 deals with freedom of association and Article 25 deals with the right to universal and equal suffrage. [More…]
I commend the Attorney-General who introduced the human rights Commission Bill which is presently before the House for consideration and the freedom of information legislation which will shortly be before the House. [More…]
Far from deterring opposition to apartheid, the denial of basic human rights and Press freedom, which such measures represent, they are likely to have the opposite effect. [More…]
This can and may lead to intolerable political pressures in the broadcasting system which the Annan Committee in Great Britain criticised for its lack of freedom of expression and news. [More…]
ensure that community stations are autonomous in their operations, have sufficient freedom to develop new and innovative forms of programming and reflect the social, political or cultural interests of geographical areas, ethnic groups or non-profit institutions such as co-operative societies, trade unions or educational bodies; [More…]
We see a most sinister threat by the National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party to the freedom of the media. [More…]
I hope that those spirited defenders of the freedom of the individual and of humanity, such as my friends from Tasmania, will support us in this regard. [More…]
Through its tax sharing legislation, the Federal Government has provided the States and local government authorities with predictable and reasonable shares of national revenues and freedom to order their own priorities. [More…]
As access to the storage of information raises the question of individual freedom in a democratic society, can these invasions of privacy be restrained by Government order. [More…]
Its fundamental belief is that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
One of them is concerned with continued taxation relief- keeping money in the pockets of those who earn it, giving them the responsibility and the freedom to dispose of it as they wish and choose. [More…]
This country needs leadership that is strong, direct and purposeful, yet fair and compassionate; leadership that is morally and politically incorrupt and incorruptible; leadership that recognises and holds up high, above all else, the personal freedom of individual men and women; that puts people first, rejecting any notion of subservience to the State; leadership that recognises personal choice, initiative, enterprise and energy; leadership that withdraws from the nuts and bolts of everyday life decisionmaking and instead provides leadership- just that, leadership- which points the way by example and by deed and action. [More…]
The reality is that the migrants themselves have become totally disillusioned by the way in which the Liberal Government has shackled their freedom of expression on ethnic radio. [More…]
People go to the funds for special purposes, freedom of choice, etcetera, and they will stay with us, with the private funds. [More…]
For instance, on this side of the chamber we do not quibble with the aim of giving the people of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
The Government’s policies seem to us to give to people of material resources, of some substance- the richer people of the community- these choices, these powers and these freedoms. [More…]
It is related in the most direct way to questions of human suffering, human dignity and freedom. [More…]
So much for the Government’s concern for the human suffering, human dignity and the freedom of the Timorese people. [More…]
The Government promised in the Speech of the Governor-General that freedom of information legislation would be introduced to give members of the public right of access to Government documents where these can be made public without any harm to overriding public interest. [More…]
I am reminded that the editorial in the Age on 22 February 1978 stated that a draft of the freedom of information legislation had been sighted, that it left the curtain of bureaucratic secrecy pulled as tightly as ever and that it gave Ministers almost unlimited discretion to withold Government documents from public scrutiny. [More…]
I have no doubt that the proposed freedom of information legislation will in fact be simply a legal validation for the suppression of information. [More…]
Terrorist acts are a violent assault upon the freedom of each and every Australian. [More…]
It is probably true that the Russian people do not enjoy the same sort of freedom as we do in Australia. [More…]
I do not think that the Soviet citizens want our type of freedom when their type of discipline has enabled them to achieve so much in half a century. [More…]
It is probably true that one cannot commit a murder in the USSR with the same freedom as exists here and one cannot defraud shareholders of thousands of dollars as one can do here. [More…]
I do not think there is that freedom in the USSR. [More…]
I understand that freedom in the Soviet Union is too restricted for that sort of thing. [More…]
It is related in the most direct way to questions of human suffering, human dignity and freedom. [More…]
It is clear that this Government does not believe that political equality is one of those matters which unite all Australians or, more importantly, that political equality is basic to giving Australians a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
The Prime Minister knows that the greatest freedom to experiment and innovate is present in the larger scale sectors in Australia where competition is reduced to the absolute minimum, but where capital is available on a scale which permits research, experimentation, evaluation and a rational approach to the development of company and corporate policy. [More…]
If the Prime Minister is committed to the Governor-General’s word- I do not believe he is- about ‘giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom’ it is to this corporate sector that he must turn. [More…]
The Governor-General’s Speech included pious statements about ‘choice’ and ‘freedom’; about ‘expanding job opportunities’; about the ‘independence and self-respect’ of the growing body of people now dependent on social security because the economic masters- both in government and in the corporate sector- cannot and will not operate the economy in a way that will provide jobs and preserve the living standards of the work force of this country. [More…]
While claiming to be interested in ‘choice ‘ and ‘freedom’, this Government is deliberately going about creating greater and greater inequality between labour and capital and between strong and weak. [More…]
We have to create the environment in which all people can live and work with the maximum individual freedom and human dignity. [More…]
This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and marshal vigour we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden times. [More…]
Though then a university student I was publicly heard to condemn the brutal retaliation to the Hungarian freedom uprising of 1956. [More…]
Freedom in any aspect does not exist. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, the war in Timor is now a religious war, and it appalls me that Australia- a so-called Christian nation will stand by while thousands of our fellow Christians are systematically and ruthlessly massacred, raped and deprived of their freedom and liberty. [More…]
I do not want to challenge you at this stage, Mr Deputy Speaker, but surely one of the issues in the Parliament is that there is no freedom of debate. [More…]
that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
There is no freedom in black Africa. [More…]
Unfortunately for the blacks in South Africa there is a direct relationship between increased repressive measures and cries for freedom. [More…]
I want to talk of government policy and action, of facts not fiction, of the choice or lack of choice between suppression, prejudice, bigotry and imprisonment and that of the right of the individual to live in freedom under the rule of law. [More…]
The saying of our time- ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’- is altogether pernicious so far as a constitutional democracy is concerned. [More…]
To prohibit this generally would be an infringement of individual freedom. [More…]
I frankly take the view that it would be disturbing in terms of people who respect the traditions of freedom. [More…]
All this is done while the Government espouses, as the Governor-General stated in his Speech, its fundamental belief that a better society can be realised only by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of ‘choice, power and freedom’. [More…]
This statement of empty rhetoric is accompanied by repressive action through the operation of an economic policy which diminishes, not increases, for most Australians their choice, their power and their freedom. [More…]
Under the banner of choice, power and freedom, the so-called fundamental belief of the Government, more Australians are denied economic freedom and the right to work and are rendered unproductive and powerless as unemployment is deliberately increased. [More…]
We in Australia, as I understand it, have always believed in fair play and in freedom of the individual to make decisions on these matters. [More…]
The point I make tonight concerns not so much the cost to the consumer but the cost to the principals involved in this country of so-called freedom play. [More…]
This has been achieved whilst retaining those desirable principles of universal coverage, protection of pensioners and low income earners, and restoring freedom of choice. [More…]
In that answer I pointed out that the Commonwealth is concerned to ensure that policies of self-management are pursued throughout Australia because through those policies Aboriginals, wherever they are, are enabled to live in freedom and to have independence in a way in which they can manage and control their own affairs like any other citizen of Australia. [More…]
The pass system will be instituted so that all persons legitimately in the building will have the same freedom of movement as they have hitherto had. [More…]
The Minister would be aware of the widespread concern in rural areas about loss of income and violation of the principle of freedom to export as a result of the ban imposed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union on live sheep exports. [More…]
This derives from a number of factors: Firstly, its importance to public information, freedom and expression is crucial. [More…]
Therein lies our basic approach as regards broadcasting planning and policy implementation, expressed in these philosophic terms: That government involvement in Australian broadcasting must be directed to ensure freedom of expression and enterprise in all forms of communication available to Australian society, particularly radio and television, and that this freedom is best served by diversity of structures and outlets. [More…]
However, we also believe that facilitation of freedom of expression and enterprise in broadcasting must be consistent with the onus upon government to make the necessary planning and administrative provisions, to obviate the risk of freedom of expression and enterprise for one sector, or group, being indulged at the expense of others, or of the system as a whole. [More…]
The Government is mindful of the inherent relationship between freedom of expression and a free society. [More…]
What concerns them is their freedom and equality as human beings. [More…]
However, they stressed that those freedoms and equalities were not apparent to them under State administration in Queensland. [More…]
They could not see any possibility of a State takeover helping them to achieve these freedoms and equalities. [More…]
The Bill is giving the community a freedom of choice. [More…]
This Bill does not prevent them from providing those services, so what sort of extra freedom and what sort of extra access to self-management do the local communities have as a result of this legislation? [More…]
Air superiority is to be given priority in the acquisition of a new fighter because of the fundamental importance of this capability, both for defence against air attack, in ensuring the freedom of our own operations, and to enable our surface attack aircraft to operate effectively against an enemy. [More…]
They are the policies- policies of assimilation, policies of restriction and policies designed to prevent the Aboriginal people from establishing a clearer sense of cultural identity and the achievement of land rights, freedom and independence; those things which importantly go with acquisition of land and land rights, but more importantly for Aboriginals. [More…]
-The Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) mentioned in his statement that government involvement in Australian broadcasting must be directed to ensure freedom of expression and enterprise in all forms of communication available to Australian society, particularly radio and television, and that this freedom is best served by diversity of structures and outlets. [More…]
In our view the commercial and national networks, as they have been to date, have not provided that freedom of expression and while every political party has probably said it, it has been left to the system as it was to provide it. [More…]
to obviate the risk of freedom of expression and enterprise for one sector, or group, being indulged at the expense of others . [More…]
He meant that to achieve this freedom it is necessary to encourage a diversity of the use of the air waves by proper planning. [More…]
One cannot assume that giving licences to the commercial stations, as was the case until the Labor Party came to power, was enough to guarantee that there would be the diversity or freedom of expression which is inherent in the whole concept of broadcasting and the needs of the community and the fact that broadcasting has to be controlled in some way, because otherwise we get mayhem on the air waves and no one hears anything. [More…]
The Minister acknowledged that if one is to be mindful of the inherent relationship between freedom of expression and a free society’ one has to acknowledge that the best way this can be nurtured is by encouraging wherever possible public consultation in the actual planning process. [More…]
Also the Minister reminds us of the critical importance of broadcasting, of the control of broadcasting and of the general development of broadcasting policy to a nation such as ours where we value freedom of expression, and protect that freedom of expression at all times. [More…]
One of the first worries is that the notion of free enterprise is smuggled into the Minister’s key statement on his basic approach, even though I believe it can be argued that in many cases a commitment to freedom of expression and to freedom of enterprise is a commitment to two principles which may prove incompatible. [More…]
The torch of freedom has been held by strong, gentle, long-suffering people and I hope that the National Country Party will be the force in Parliament to carry that torch. [More…]
It is the policy of the Government that the Trade Practices Act operate evenhandedly and be conducive to the sensible regulation of business activity, fair trading and freedom in Australian trade and commerce. [More…]
Most of these vessels have been fishing in accordance with the concept of the freedom of the high seas. [More…]
Section 48 of the Act shows the hollowness of the Government’s commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
Normal democratic rights such as freedom from arbitrary arrest, unwarranted search and seizure, and the presumption of innocence are thrown out the window. [More…]
If it is necessary to have an industrial inspector, a health inspector or any other kind of authority to monitor and restrain the activities of a corporate body, surely the least we can do is to give that authority the freedom that is extended to industrial inspectors and other authorities who have a responsibility, by virtue of their public position, not to disclose information irresponsibly. [More…]
Honourable members are always anxious to point out in this Parliament that they want freedom of information. [More…]
It was also stated in the joint statement of S June 1976 that: ‘a zone will be established in the Torres Strait to protect and preserve the traditional way of life and livelihood of the Torres Strait Islanders and the residents of the adjacent coast of Papua New Guinea, including fishing and freedom of movement, both north and south of the seabed boundary.’ [More…]
I believe that the true regeneration of international trade activity is possible only by providing a freedom of access across the board for all commodities. [More…]
People are not getting this security and freedom from this fear under this present Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
When we speak of the need for the protection of human rights in Australia, we are speaking about enshrining minimum rights- minimum democratic rights, minimum legal process rights, minimum prohibition of anti-discrimination, minimum rights of freedom of speech, thought and religion and freedom of assembly and association, and you have not got it in Queensland. [More…]
The fundamental aim of the complex would be to care for each patient in accordance with individual needs while maintaining personal dignity and sense of identity, independence, involvement with and contribution to society and security, freedom from fear and loneliness. [More…]
The relaxation requested was to enable approved distributors of aircraft parts in Australia greater freedom in the conditions under which a release note could be issued for aircraft parts distributed by them. [More…]
Individual freedom still means very little to it. [More…]
In so doing it provides a guarantee of political and individual freedom. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that a centralised government with all legislative power based in the hands of that one government centred here in Canberra is dangerous for Australia, dangerous for its people, dangerous to their freedom and dangerous for their democracy. [More…]
In so doing it provides a guarantee of political and individual freedom. [More…]
The miscellaneous provisions in Part VI cover a series of constitutional type guarantees in relation to the freedom of trade and the acquisition of property on just terms. [More…]
The Department of Finance was created to deal with the more mundane financial matters, whereas the new Department of the Treasury, was allowed much greater freedom in concentrating on economic planning. [More…]
Fifthly, there will be appropriate guarantees for freedom of movement ibr ships and aircraft in the area. [More…]
In relation to the protected zone provisions permitting freedom of movement by the local people in the carrying on of traditional activities, the treaty will provide for co-operation on immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements. [More…]
The treaty will contain provisions which safeguard traditional activities, including in particular traditional fishing, by the people of the Torres Strait area, that is the Torres Strait Islanders and Papua New Guineans who live in the adjacent coastal area, and which provide for continued freedom of movement about the zone in pursuit of these traditional activities. [More…]
In relation to the Protected Zone provisions which will permit the continued performance of traditional activities by the local peoples and continued freedom of movement about the Zone for that purpose, there will be cooperation on immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements, although each country will retain the right to implement national controls to prevent abuses or other possible adverse effects of the Protected Zone provisions. [More…]
The treaty will contain appropriate guarantees of freedom of navigation, passage and overflight in the Torres Strait area. [More…]
Of necessity, it had to assess the limits of its territory and territorial jurisdiction, the rights of freedom of movement of its people, their freedom of access for the purposes of trade and commerce, its requirements for defence, both national and international, and its freedom of access to the seas adjacent to its mainland for the purpose of exploiting the natural resources on or beneath the seabed. [More…]
When we talk about freedom of information legislation, which we have not yet seen, we do so on the basis that the Parliament and the Australian people would be informed about what is happening and the likely effects of decisions being made by our government. [More…]
The freedom of information legislation will be introduced into this Parliament during this week or next week, and will lie in the Parliament over the winter recess. [More…]
Each country is concerned to maintain freedom to trade and invest in South East Asia and to protect its essential lines of communication in that area. [More…]
Russia, the great per.verter of freedom and truth, looks with lustful eyes at the virgin treasures of these under-age but nevertheless sovereign States. [More…]
We do not want any more Gallaghers- mutilators of the Australian community and assassins of freedom. [More…]
Under the guise of offering the States greater financial freedom as part of an ill-defined concept of new federalism, it in fact represents the implementation of the final stage of an elaborate plan to slash the size of the public sector. [More…]
It was put forward by the then Opposition as representing a philosophical approach based on the desirability of decentralising government, giving greater freedom to lower tiers of government and increasing their budgetary independence and responsibility. [More…]
The Administrator might well disallow any laws passed by the Assembly to give the people of the Northern Territory a right of freedom of assembly or demonstration. [More…]
It should means a freedom of flow of trade with the removal of customs and excise duties. [More…]
Whether the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith and I agree or disagree with what they are saying, let me say that we on this side of the House, being Liberals and believing in freedom of speech, will preserve their right to say what they want to say. [More…]
What I find particularly distasteful in this debate is the effort made by the Australian Labor Party once again to encroach on the Australian citizen ‘s right of freedom of speech, and his right of expression of political view. [More…]
Might I start with just a brief commentary upon my friend the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) who has often expressed sentiments outside the House about freedom, et cetera, which I applaud. [More…]
I support the basic principle of freedom of speech. [More…]
Most people in Australia ought to express their gratitude for what he did for the preservation of such matters as freedom of speech, the protection of family rights and so on. [More…]
I just remind the Parliament and those people who are listening that this Government has a pretty poor record in matters such as freedom of speech, the Communist Party Dissolution Bill, the putting up of signs such as those put up by the ‘Aboriginal Embassy’ and the attitude to the people of Timor. [More…]
I have a very reserved view of governments’ attitudes to freedom of rights and so on wherever some citizen gets in the road and there is a handy piece of legislation which may well be misused to suppress him. [More…]
We have the evidence of demonstrations in Queensland before us where, at the drop of a hat, legislation is used to suppress what any of us would regard as reasonable free assembly, freedom of speech, freedom to demonstrate and all the rest of it. [More…]
Perhaps we should be concentrating more on encouraging other people in the world to treat these matters of freedom as the essential rather than as forms of nationalism which are characterised by flags and symbols and the like. [More…]
These initiatives have established stabilised marketing conditions without undue restrictions on the procedures and allowing them their traditional freedom of choice as to how much and what they grow. [More…]
-No individual should be deprived of his rights or his freedom in the terms in which they have been defined by a number of international charters and treaties and, in particular, as they were defined 30 years ago, on 10 December 1948, when the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the resolution which is now known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The events prior to and during the Second World War had a substantial influence on the awareness of and the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the preparation of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The 26 signatories to the declaration of the United Nations made on 1 January 1942 expressed their commitment that complete victory over their enemies was essential to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice in their own lands as well as in other lands. [More…]
The conclusions reached at Dumbarton Oaks included the belief that the United Nations should ‘facilitate solutions of international economic, social and other humanitarian problems and should promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedom’. [More…]
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, [More…]
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, [More…]
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Chaner reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. [More…]
It is related in the most direct way to questions of human suffering, human dignity and freedom. [More…]
For example, there has been action on the problems of discrimination, the status of women, the right of asylum, the administration of justice, freedom of information and so on. [More…]
This Parliament has been engaged in the defence of human rights and the propagation of the belief in freedom and in rights for all people. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard charts, ranked by nation, showing a comparative survey of freedom and giving details of political rights and civil liberties published by Freedom House in the United States. [More…]
For further information on the scale and survey see Freedom at Issue, January-February 1973, p. 2ff. [More…]
3 A positive outlook for freedom is indicated by a plus sign, a negative outlook, by a minus, and relative stability of ratings by a zero. [More…]
The outlook for freedom is based on the problems the country is facing, the way the government and people are reacting to these problems, and the longer run political traditions of the society. [More…]
Before undertaking to observe the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, he should inculcate these qualities in himself. [More…]
It means they would effectively prevent those people in our community who do not believe in the payment of medical benefits for the termination of pregnancy from being given the freedom of choice to opt out of it or to gain membership of a scheme that gives them that option, which I believe they have every right to expect. [More…]
I would be interested to know whether such people as Mr Stewart, Mr Keating, Mr Martin or even Mr Les McMahon would be completely in favour of a scheme which prevented a significant percentage of the Australian population from having the freedom and the right to opt out through private health insurance of the payment for a medical benefit or rebate for the termination of pregnancy when they on moral grounds do not believe in it. [More…]
I want once again to commend the Minister for providing that freedom of choice, which I believe should be there for those Australian citizens who do not believe in the provision of medical benefits for abortion, to opt out of paying for it. [More…]
I only hope that the Australian population at large will become aware of the attitude taken by the Labor Party in denying that freedom of choice to a very significant percentage of the population which is very upset by the fact that at present it is forced to pay through the private health insurance funds for the termination of pregnancies which it on moral grounds cannot support. [More…]
People will still have a reasonable freedom of choice and the basic universal health care coverage will be retained. [More…]
The double benefit, where it arises, is represented by the freedom from tax of the stripping dividend conferred by the rebate on inter-corporate dividends plus a deduction for the loss on the sale of the stripped shares after their value has been reduced by payment of the dividend. [More…]
Amongst the views and interests we share are that there should be global and regional power balances, that no one country should dominate the South Pacific, South East Asia or the Indian Ocean, that ASEAN ‘s concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia has this as its objective, and that ASEAN can make an important contribution to regional stability and warrants our continuing support. [More…]
This abuse by some union officials at the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings is an attack on the freedom of individuals to carry on business and an attack on the liberty of the subject. [More…]
The Councils and other Aboriginal organisations will be free to seek assistance from whatever sources they choose and the Uniting Church will enjoy the same freedom to provide services it enjoys elsewhere. [More…]
And that it observes standards of propriety by not intruding on the rights and freedom of persons except to the extent that the requirements of the nation’s security justify, and the law allows. [More…]
Foreign policy concerns of the Holy See under Pope Paul included: Disarmament and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; improvement of social welfare; assisting the development of the poorer countries; evolution of relations with Marxist regimes; and a desire to expand official communications with the communist, Islamic and Asian world to ensure maintenance of freedom of Christian observance. [More…]
The funds will be given considerable freedom and flexibility to devise attractive benefit packages. [More…]
In the animal and plant health fields, I am sure all honourable members appreciate that Australia’s rural production and the advantages we enjoy on overseas markets for our livestock and agricultural products depend critically on our comparative freedom from serious pests and diseases. [More…]
They fought and died to keep Australia a free and democratic country, and part of that freedom and that democratic process is the right to decide what sort of immigration policy we should have and what sort of criteria should be administered. [More…]
-The freedom of this country is owed to those people who played a part in a number of contests of a world nature. [More…]
I would not want to see a watering down of the durability component lead to people being taken for a ride, but provided the Department inspects and advises the person that there is a problem and makes him fully aware of it I would think that the person, as a matter of freedom of choice, should have the right to decide whether he or she wants to purchase a particular home. [More…]
Individual freedom and individual efficiency will largely be determined by each person’s ability to secure the right information at the right time. [More…]
I suggest that, if necessary, we go without telephones for weeks or even months in order to assert that community interests will be protected, to protect our livelihood and our freedom to do what we want to do, to conduct our businesses without the fear of a complete closedown in our communications systems. [More…]
Our aim is nothing less than to establish in Australia an unequalled quality of freedom and opportunity for individual Australians, of compassion and effective help for those in need, a country which meets the fundamental needs and aspirations of all Australians. [More…]
I doubt that I could explain any more clearly than the literature the kind of freedom, which you and I take so much for granted, that the Optacon gives to the blind person. [More…]
The State governments are destroying that freedom of trade by granting preferences to goods produced within their own States so that other States are disadvantaged. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) uses that tradition as a justification for introducing a Freedom of Information Bill which is more about secrecy than about information. [More…]
They bring in a Freedom of Information Bill which is a travesty of its name. [More…]
The guidelines governing the exercise of the Departmental discretions in the administration of the laws governing the functions of the Department of Social Security are presently being reviewed to enable the Department to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information legislation when it becomes law. [More…]
The other point that I want to comment on in drawing my comments to a close is the fundamental one of freedom. [More…]
The people have not the freedom of movement and they have not the freedom of access to information. [More…]
These artificial barriers to freedom are disappointing. [More…]
The freedom of information legislation will go some way in further educating and stimulating public awareness of Commonwealth Government processes. [More…]
There is no intention to create a specific convention or treaty to which governments will accede; rather, each supporting government reserves its freedom of action in regard to the implementation of the measures proposed by the declaration. [More…]
I want, in the short time that is available to me, to confine my remarks to the struggle of the people of Vietnam for independence and freedom. [More…]
We know that for 30 years that nation struggled for its independence and freedom, that it fought first against the French, then the Japanese and then the Americans. [More…]
Vietnam is a country which is striving to maintain its independence and freedom from all sides whether it be China or the Soviet Union on the one hand or the United States on the other. [More…]
It has done that because it wants to maintain its freedom from having to rely on any one nation. [More…]
I refer to his AttorneyGeneral’s statement in relation to the freedom of information legislation in which he said that reports of committees and bodies outside the departmental structure would be available for public access when those committees make recommendations to the Government. [More…]
The Minister’s statement does raise some serious and, we would say, possibly contentious questions which we can enumerate as follows: Firstly, public accountability of government in all of” its areas; secondly, freedom of information; thirdly, the rights of public servants; fourthly, Crown privilege; and fifthly, parliamentary privilege. [More…]
However, the range of matters which are considered to fall within the concept of privilege- they are enumerated in guideline 19- are very wide indeed, particularly in relation to the proposed freedom of information legislation. [More…]
In view of our commitment to freedom of information, it is our view that Crown privilege should be either abolished or at least seriously redefined. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Government has introduced the Freedom of Information Bill, which has been severely and properly criticised by people outside this Parliament, as well as by the Opposition within it. [More…]
We hope that the Government will reconsider the whole subject of Crown privilege in terms of what may happen to the freedom of information Bill, which has now been referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]
We hope that this will happen within the freedom of information context. [More…]
We note that it will be some two or three months before the Government finalises its deliberations in this matter and we are very concerned to note that at that stage, perhaps, the freedom of information legislation still will not have been released by the Senate Committee. [More…]
Committee will do to the freedom of information legislation, we think that it has a major influence on the guidelines for witnesses. [More…]
As indicated in my statement of 15 August last, I await with interest the various benefit packages and contribution rates to be offered by organisations once they assess the freedom and flexibility available under the new arrangements. [More…]
Everywhere the lady has spoken she has been attacked by gangs of homosexuals and lesbian thugs who have shouted insults and thrown things at her and have set out to curtail her freedom to speak on the need to protect our children and their families. [More…]
These people who would deny Mrs Whitehouse her freedom to speak are, I have no doubt, the very same people who shout loudest about their own rights. [More…]
The fact that we have set up the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and are progressing with freedom of information legislation demonstrates such a commitment. [More…]
Why are organisations such as the Freedom From Hunger Campaign and others which are doing very significant work and contributing greatly to Australia ‘s reputation abroad left out? [More…]
You talk a lot about freedom of speech and the rights of individuals, but you are taking away from the members on this side the right to express an opinion on why you have put a means test on pensioners over seventy. [More…]
We have no sense of the sheer marginality of existence in the working class electorates of Australia where there is now virtually no freedom of choice. [More…]
The other thing to remember about this matter is that socialism means reduced human freedom. [More…]
There may be some in this House who think that one can have freedom by way of three meals a day and a roof over one ‘s head and that that is all one needs. [More…]
What we want is freedom of our economic system; freedom of our society; freedom for the private enterprise system to develop this country in the way in which it can be developed, contrary to the Labor Party’s statements in three years of government that only the public sector could provide the benefits. [More…]
The third criterion is freedom of choice. [More…]
Australians have shown consistently that they desire freedom of choice, whether it be with a range of health funds, private accommodation or the different types of hospital accommodation. [More…]
Not only will they be reducing their freedom of choice but also they will not have the doctor of their choice when they go into hospital. [More…]
We hear much talk from the other side of the House about freedom of choice in these matters, and it is true, of course, that people on Medibank standard like myself now have a wide range of choice, of the private funds. [More…]
It is the policy of the Government that the Trade Practices Act operate even-handedly and be conducive to the sensible regulation of business activity, fair trading and freedom in Australian trade and commerce. [More…]
It is a policy of self-management and freedom of choice. [More…]
In Aurukun this freedom takes the form of decentralisation- the wish of the Aboriginal people to leave large and artificial settlements and make for themselves a life in the bush in their traditional country, usually in small clan groups. [More…]
The guidelines governing the exercise of the Departmental discretions in the administration of the laws governing the functions of the Department of Social Security are presently being reviewed to enable the Department to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of information legislation when it becomes law. [More…]
The guidelines governing the exercise of the Departmental discretions in the administration of the laws governing the functions of the Department of Social Security are presently being reviewed to enable the Department to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information legislation when it becomes law. [More…]
We must take firm action to ensure that this basic freedom is preserved. [More…]
I certainly do not understand why Qantas should be able to undertake agreements which are totally contrary to the foreign policy of this country and totally contrary to all the basic freedoms that we have long cherished. [More…]
I would suggest, without restricting his freedom to criticise, that the honourable member for Fraser should withdraw. [More…]
Allowing too much freedom weakens the students’ respect for the teacher, and does nothing to promote applications to the given subject. [More…]
I do not want to raise a specific matter but the method by which staffing is arrived at, the manner in which staff is allocated and the effect that the ability of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) or the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to place ceilings on that staff has on the freedom of the Parliament to carry out its function. [More…]
In accordance with this policy, the Government has endeavoured to give companies the maximum amount of freedom to carry on thencommercial negotiations. [More…]
The guidelines governing the exercise of the Departmental discretions in the administration of the laws governing the functions of the Department of Social Security are presently being reviewed to enable the Department to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information legislation when it becomes law. [More…]
We note the argument presented by the Freedom from Hunger Campaign to the Harries Committee that the export of manufacturing from the developed countries to the developing countries may weaken the economies of both. [More…]
Consistently with the spirit of the freedom of information legislation which is currently before the Senate and the Government’s policy on access to official information, the Bill repeals the official secrecy provision contained in section 3 1 of the principal Act. [More…]
Although implementation of such a scheme is made difficult by existing conventions concerning freedom of passage in international waterways the Committee recommends that the Commonwealth, at an international as well as national level, encourage the acceptance of compulsory pilotage. [More…]
I ask the Government or the Minister whether it is now the Government’s policy to use ordinances to control hawkers licences and to restrict freedom of political expression in Canberra. [More…]
The Government has noted that the Shah has promised that the military administration will be an interim measure and that he has reaffirmed his commitment to the holding of free and fair elections, social justice and freedom from repression. [More…]
These could imply a need for government interference in media activities and thereby diminish the freedom of the media to operate in a way which we consider absolutely essential to the very basis of a free society. [More…]
That is a kind of freedom; I will grant him that. [More…]
But we have to look at the social cost of that kind of freedom, at the whole problem of competitive advertising and at the whole problem of reading the fine print. [More…]
What is the Government’s policy in relation to the right of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the right to dissent from an official ruling? [More…]
Will the Minister examine all relevant Commonwealth laws to determine whether any rights and freedoms conferred on any citizen by those laws will prevail over any attempted subtraction from the citizen’s right to personal freedom or freedom of assembly by the laws of the State of Queensland? [More…]
Generally speaking, the Commonwealth does not have constitutional power in the area of freedom of speech or freedom of assembly over any such laws that are passed by the States. [More…]
So it is for each State to pass its own laws either to preserve freedom of speech or freedom of assembly or to detract from them. [More…]
I refer to the Treasury, through its taxation system; the Department of Social Security, through its income support system; the Department of Education, through its responsibility to maintain freedom of choice in education; the Department of Health; the Department of Aboriginal Affairs; the Attorney-General’s Department; the Department of Veteran’s Affairs; and the department responsible for housing. [More…]
The same issues- should we align ourselves with the Western world: should we support collectivism or freedom; should be take an active part in the international community or shut ourselves off as a nation unto ourselves- are there. [More…]
Sir Leslie Price, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, has called on the Federal Government to allow the Board freedom to borrow on the best terms available. [More…]
It is in keeping with the notion of freedom of information to which this Government has given attention. [More…]
However, I am perturbed that a responsible industrial organisation- an organisation which ardently believes in freedom of speech and the rights of the media to report without fear or favour- should take action aimed not at the Government but at the Parliament. [More…]
One ofthe greatest freedoms that we enjoy in Australia is religious freedom- the right to worship as we see fit. [More…]
Voluntary efforts like the Freedom From Hunger Campaign are of the utmost importance in getting people involved in the issue in a personal way, but only governments and large scale commercial activity can come up with the resources on the necessary scale. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not have constitutional power in the area of freedom of speech or freedom of assembly . [More…]
So it is for each State to pass its own laws either to preserve freedom of speech or freedom of assembly . [More…]
Similarly, of course, it is true that in Tasmania, where there is complete freedom from brucellosis and tuberculosis, that State should have an advantage of trading internationally, which advantage perhaps is not enjoyed to the same degree by other States. [More…]
Our wheat was very much prized for its hardness, its milling ability, its freedom from admixtures and its relative dryness. [More…]
All of those countries like our wheat because of its whiteness, dryness and freedom from admixtures. [More…]
At present Australia has an advantage in overseas markets for its livestock and agricultural products because of our freedom from serious pests and diseases. [More…]
The freedom of association section of the ILO went on, I understand, to express the earnest hope that this sort of legislation would never be proclaimed or used in Australia. [More…]
I am also advised that the Freedom From Hunger Campaign is providing $ 1 12,000 over three years to the Aboriginal Medical Service for nutrition services. [More…]
Cuba is not spreading communism in Africa but helping to provide the freedom withheld by the West. [More…]
The enforcement of a cognate debate on this occasion is a further restriction on our freedom. [More…]
But it is also reasonable that overseas travellers, including public servants, should retain the right of freedom of choice as to which particular airline they wish to use when travelling overseas. [More…]
The honourable member for Newcastle asks by way of interjection why the travelling public should retain freedom of choice. [More…]
Honourable members on his side of the House, committed as they are to socialism, do not believe in freedom of choice under any circumstances. [More…]
They seek to destroy freedom right across the board. [More…]
We, as Liberals, and the present Government believe in freedom of choice in economic matters and other spheres of activity. [More…]
On Remembrance Day 1978 a small section of the Australian community but an influential section of the Australian community not only chose to forget those who are fighting for basic human rights in the Soviet Union, but they callously turned their backs on those freedom fighters in the Soviet Union, the modernday martyrs of 1978. [More…]
deplores and condemns the actions of the Soviet Government, most recently demonstrated in the trial and conviction of Orlov and Ginsberg, in denying the rights and liberties of those of its citizens who wish to exercise their democratic rights of freedom of expression and peaceful dissent. [More…]
I believe that every person who has come to this country seeking freedom since World War II, from whatever nation of the world, will deplore and condemn, as will all right-thinking Australians, the disgraceful, cowardly, callous actions of the Victorian ALP in refusing to utter one squeak of protest. [More…]
I believe that the Minister has introduced these amendments with some sadness because they are contrary to his philosophy and the Government’s philosophy espoused in the 1 November changes, namely, to provide more flexibility and freedom for the health funds to go about their business. [More…]
Recently when the Government was floating the proposition that tertiary fees should be restored for students at tertiary institutions- thank goodness that that has now been retracted- it was said that freedom from paying fees at tertiary institutions had not appreciably assisted children from lower income families to gain tertiary education. [More…]
This Government subscribes to the principle of freedom of choice and it has accordingly decided to adopt the Committee’s recommendation. [More…]
My Department also commented that there would be benefit to the development of Australia ‘s trade, particularly exports, for the maximum possible freedom to be given to airfreight into and out of Australia. [More…]
If only 50 per cent were in use, freedom of movement would increase. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill 1978 is currently being examined by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]
With regard to the undertaking by departments and statutory authorities of preparatory work pending decisions on the final form of the freedom of information legislation, I refer to the comments made by Senate Estimates Committee A in paragraph 4 of its report dated 7 November 1978 in relation to action taken in antici- pation of the passage by the Parliament of proposed legislation. [More…]
The Attorney-General’s Department in collaboration with the Public Service Board is arranging a number of training activities based on the Freedom of Information and Archives Bills as currently drafted. [More…]
We are talking about freedom of information legislation and in my opinion this is another indication of information being made available. [More…]
People have freedom of choice to go to live there. [More…]
Governments, recognising that people have the freedom of choice to move to these areas, of course have an obligation for social reasons to implement policies that will establish and maintain certain national values concerning the quality of life. [More…]
When, very rarely, they are given a chance they opt for freedom. [More…]
We want every country to have the opportunity for freedom and for their people to have the opportunity for freedom and the good life. [More…]
You would not want freedom for anyone. [More…]
We want Kampuchea to be free, not under something like the Pol Pot Government, not under the insurgents that are in control now, but under a man like Prince Sihanouk who would be capable of pulling the nation together and giving it the opportunity of freedom and enjoyment of life. [More…]
If one adds to that the relationships of this Government with the ASEAN countries on the question of trade and the refusal to meet legitimate demands in order to bring about a greater freedom of trade between ASEAN countries and Australia one can see that it is well and truly time that this Government reassessed its policies as far as the ASEAN countries are concerned. [More…]
The second question which I wish to raise for the Minister to answer is whether we can be guaranteed that the new system achieves a proper balance between the need to stimulate inventive activity on the one hand and freedom of access to all publicly available technology on the other hand. [More…]
There will not be freedom and fairness unless it is in both the public and private sector. [More…]
To what extent has the picketing prevented and will it prevent the freedom of movement by air of Australians and, perhaps even more importantly, overseas tourists? [More…]
I note with dismay and some sense of shame that the Government has not been able to find room in Australia for the leaders of the Irian Jaya Freedom Movement who are refugees from Indonesian oppression. [More…]
I am against people who are anti-religion, against the freedom of the church and freedom of worship. [More…]
I return to the other fundamental issue of what the Australian Government is doing about freedom of information and the right of freedom of association. [More…]
We know from the legislation foreshadowed in respect of freedom of information that clearly it is defective. [More…]
Australians have fought for their freedom in every campaign since that war. [More…]
I do not think it is too late for us to achieve freedom from that conquest peacefully. [More…]
If we accept the right to life of the unborn and the right to freedom of choice of the mother, we have a real dilemma if we accept, as I do, the concept of foetal life. [More…]
But this very happy position cannot be maintained if it affects another individual, and if one accepts the concept of foetal life this freedom of choice has to be moderated by other conditions. [More…]
The libertarian position is that an individual should be able to do as he likes only unless he affects the freedom of another to do likewise. [More…]
It completely revokes the Liberal principle of freedom of choice under which this country has prospered. [More…]
Because ours is a free society of many differing views, because there exists among persons of goodwill a genuine difference of opinion concerning the rights of a foetus in its early stage of development and because all people I respect support, among other appropriate and relevant statements, the Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom, I find myself, as a parliamentary representative, unable to support legislation, which makes criminals of those who do not share my faith. [More…]
We live in a pluralist and democratic community and ultimately we should never forget that religious freedom in this community rests upon the doctrine of the separation of the Church from the state. [More…]
Mr Nixon is counting on the fact that he can play off one ASEAN country against another in this respect, and is gambling that one at least of the other four will grant him more second freedom flights, even if Singapore refuses. [More…]
It is not seeing ‘reds under beds’ to report that it is said that political freedom in Europe is ‘ three days wide ‘-the time for a Soviet tank thrust to the Channel ports. [More…]
The table has been prepared by an organisation called Freedom House. [More…]
I concede that a director or indeed a lawyer has an entitlement to freedom of movement. [More…]
These men and women saw that their patriotic duty lay in serving their country in times of danger and gave generously of their energies and abilities so that this country could develop in freedom and prosperity. [More…]
Let us put a dose of freedom into our economic environment. [More…]
Be it resolved that this pan-Commonwealth meeting of young leaders supports the aspiration and struggle of the Asian youth in the realisation of its struggle to make the South-East Asian region into a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality, free from any form of manner of interference by outside powers. [More…]
Demands the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Republic of Cyprus and the return of all refugees to their homes in freedom and safety; [More…]
They talk about human dignity, freedom, justice, peace and all the other essentials which constitute what humanity is about. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner) has put to the House a modest proposal which seeks to convince us that the Government really has done something about this flag of freedom flying at the masthead for Queenslanders. [More…]
That flag of freedom is not recognised by the Aboriginal people. [More…]
To understand that issue requires the question relating to fundamental freedoms to be resolved. [More…]
To argue that employers on Norfolk Island should have freedom to hire or fire their workers free from normal industrial laws and practice is something with which I will deal later. [More…]
It is well known that Australian young people, with their love of freedom and pleasure, their relative affluence and, in many cases, their boredom and frustration produced by lack of work, lack of goals and, if I may say so, lack of leadership, are the targets for the commercial trade in heroin and other drugs grown and manufactured in South East Asia. [More…]
It treads the very narrow path between safeguarding human rights for our protection on the one hand and maintaining civil liberties for our basic freedom on the other hand. [More…]
That statement to me, when weighing up the problems and difficulties associated with trespassing, as it were, on civil liberties and private rights, seems to be a sufficient safeguard to ensure that Australia has the best of both worlds in maintaining the freedom of people and capturing those who are engaged in drug trafficking. [More…]
Then, last November, the Peoples Temple collapsed with a violence that raised fundamental questions about how the nation could deal with religious groups that wooed the young and the idealistic, then got them to give up their possessions, their family ties, their freedom and, at Jonestown, their lives. [More…]
Man has no more pressing need than the one to find somebody to whom he can surrender, as quickly as possible, that gift of freedom which he, unfortunate creature, was born with . [More…]
Man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil. [More…]
If people are frightened of freedom of choice, we are indeed in trouble. [More…]
Australia to Europe by non-originating or terminating carriers, to use his own words, does ‘not deviate in any way’ from the third and fourth freedom principles which he has espoused so often? [More…]
The third and fourth freedom principles of the international civil aviation policy are the main principles upon which the cheap air fare regime has been based. [More…]
Gilbert Islands) Independence Bill, at present before the British Parliament, for the Banabans to retain their freedom of access to Ocean Island. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister receive any guarantee from the Government of Indonesia that it would take action to ameliorate the sufferings of the people of Timor, make Timor a free country and give the people the freedom of choice that they had before they were improperly incorporated into Indonesia? [More…]
He made no mention about this fundamental principle of the freedom of man. [More…]
There has been no freedom in the country. [More…]
That is the logic of the system they promote and support with the force of law- the freedom to exploit. [More…]
In the light of the tight budgetary situation, and the fact that health costs have to be met by one means or another, and in view of the wish of the majority of Australians to exercise freedom of choice in health care, the Government believes the proposals to be realistic and inescapable. [More…]
Students want freedom from university fees to continue. [More…]
The one reason that compelled me to participate in the debate on this Bill- as I would have hoped to participate in the debate on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Bill- was to see that there were no further intrusions into personal liberty and freedom. [More…]
As you are in the Chair, Mr Acting Speaker, I understand that we have returned to a second reading debate situation and therefore I have a certain amount of freedom as to what I may say. [More…]
We have a vision of a liberal society of free, independent people with a pride in being able to do things for themselves- an Australia of growing strength, unequalled as a place to bring up a family, unequalled in freedom and unequalled in opportunity; a nation creating our own distinctive culture, our own identity out of the culture and history that so many people have brought to us from so many different lands. [More…]
We say that we believe in the freedom of the individual. [More…]
The circumstances are such that that information can threaten individual freedom and the privacy of individuals. [More…]
I am afraid that democracy is about to wither and decay because of the protection of the so-called freedom and liberty of the subject. [More…]
We believe that on the subject of safeguarding people’s rights to a fair trial or to the administration of the law, there should be freedom of information in a matter as important as the use of listening devices. [More…]
The Government is always proclaiming the virtues of freedom of choice and enterprise. [More…]
All Christians and Jews in Australia will, in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Poland, fervently pray that the church will be liberated from Soviet oppression and will triumphantly rise again in peace and freedom. [More…]
I believe that all Christians in this country, all Australians and all who love freedom will condemn out of hand the actions of the Soviet puppet Government in Poland after accepting an invitation for the Pope to visit its country. [More…]
Fifthly, the confirmation of fishing rights in territorial waters for local inhabitants of the islands of Aubusi, Boigu, Dauan, Kaumag, Moimi and Saibai which have been retained by Australia under the Treaty, and, sixthly, the guarantee of freedom of movement by Papua New Guineans and Torres Strait Islanders within the protected zone to engage in their traditional activities. [More…]
I would like to emphasise that the provisions of the Treaty to a very large extent incorporate recommendations made by the Committee in its earlier report on the Torres Strait boundary, namely that the Torres Strait Islands should remain part of Australia; that freedom of passage for Australians and Papua New Guineans should be guaranteed in the Protected Zone; that mining and drilling in the seabed should be prohibited until agreement is reached between all interested parties; and that new commercial ventures should not be permitted in the area unless they are compatible with the environment. [More…]
The people of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia have struck a resounding blow for democracy and freedom. [More…]
However, there is no principle of freedom of information in Queensland, nor is there any procedure for the public ventilation of complaints against the police. [More…]
Such legislation clearly contravenes International Labour Organisation conventions on the freedom of labour to organise and therefore should be revised. [More…]
We recognise that the effects of colonialism or racism in the past may make desirable special provisions for the social and economic enhancement of indigenous populations inspired by the principles of freedom and equality which characterise our association, we accept the solemn duty of working together to eliminate racism and racial prejudice. [More…]
We intend that the Commonwealth, as an international organisation with a fundamental and deep-rooted attachment to principles of freedom and equality, should cooperate with other organisations in the fulfilment of these principles. [More…]
In particular the Commonwealth should seek to enhance the co-ordination of its activities with those of other organisations similarly committed to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
In particular, the provision in the agreement on retransfers takes account of the EURATOM Treaty requirement for freedom of movement of material within EURATOM. [More…]
We cannot forget that the freedom to navigate high seas is an internationally jealously guarded freedom. [More…]
It has never been debated and we are now in the situation where the rules of this House are imposed from outside the chamber, and already predetermined without any debate or freedom of action on behalf of the members of this House. [More…]
The cult operates here under some corporate names such as the Unification Church, the Universal Church of the Holy Spirit, One World Enterprise Pty Ltd, the Federation for World Peace and Unification Ltd and Freedom Leadership Foundation Ltd. [More…]
Before doing so, the matter was brought to me for my reaction by the Acting Leader of the House, the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, and I indicated to him that in my view the precedents were that this Parliament should do what it can to facilitate the course of justice in the courts and that we could not obstruct that if we could allow a course to be adopted without interfering with the ancient privilege of Parliament, that ancient privilege being no benefit to individual members but the ability of and the freedom for members of Parliament to speak the truth and to demand the truth within the Parliament without action being taken outside the Parliament to challenge what was said. [More…]
It will not allow the honourable member to be interrogated in relation to his statements in the House- that is, the leave to be given takes full account of the duty of this House to maintain the fundamental right of freedom of speech in the Parliament. [More…]
That right is guaranteed in Article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688, which declares that the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not be impeached or questioned in any court of place out of Parliament. [More…]
We must do so only to the extent that the right to freedom of speech in this place is not put at risk. [More…]
That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. [More…]
The Bill of Rights gives certain freedom of expression in this chamber. [More…]
If what each of us says in the course of that expression is going to be the subject of crossexamination in the witness box, we lose that freedom. [More…]
What the ACTU policy means and spells out- the ACTU is not keeping it secret- is that in addition to national wage case increases, the union movement must have complete freedom to negotiate whatever it can over and above those increases. [More…]
Thus, the right to strike constitutes a fundamental freedom in a democratic society. [More…]
Equally it is occurring at a time when Australia’s economic development is increasingly being dominated by the operation of transnational companies whose size, economic strength, ownership of technology and resources give them more naked economic power than that of many nation states, with a capacity not merely to dominate the market place but also to destroy the myth of the freedom of the market place- a myth much beloved by this Prime Minister and this Treasurer. [More…]
Unfortunately, much of their influence waned as horrifying revolutions were fought for so-called equality and freedom and as Marx started his class wars. [More…]
But we see many signs of providing an atmosphere where true liberalism will function freely for the freedom of the individual. [More…]
He must constantly be reminding his servants- the bureaucrats and the politicians- of these principles so that we can be sure that our children and our children’s children also have their individual freedom. [More…]
More important than all of this is that freedom must disappear. [More…]
There is nothing humanitarian about the loss of freedom, but this is what the Labor Party is advocating. [More…]
The issue is the liberty, the freedom, of the Australian people. [More…]
In discussing economic issues and the deficit, I do not want to inspire a national passion for bookkeeping, but I do want to inspire a national awareness of the connection between economic and political freedom. [More…]
I keep talking about freedom, but do we really understand freedom? [More…]
Freedom is a strange thing. [More…]
Similarly, one grasps the meaning and importance of freedom only when one confronts political tyranny. [More…]
Freedom is not a presence, but an absence- an absence of government constraint. [More…]
Labor has promised more and more government, more and more constraints, less and less freedom. [More…]
One watches the spectacle of citizen’s groups, businessmen, bureaucrats and media, fronting parliamentarians with their causes and thereby laying waste to our free enterprise system and our freedom, even as they earnestly and often sincerely proclaim their devotion to both. [More…]
This is no doubt due to the lack of comprehension that freedom of action and thus freedom of productive action are part of freedom and is an absence rather than a presence- an absence of governmental constraint. [More…]
We cannot pass over this freedom- free human action, free enterprise, free market, freedom to produce. [More…]
I have pointed out how our Liberal philosophy has had its effect on this Budget and how the socialist dogma of the Opposition would reduce each man’s individual freedom. [More…]
The tobacco industry and its promotion assistants cannot be allowed to use the argument that every individual has a choice whether to smoke or not to smoke and no government should be seen to interfere with that freedom to make that choice. [More…]
Industrial capitalism is in fact the system which has created freedom more than any other social system that has ever been devised. [More…]
It has created freedom because people are free to sell their labour, free to be mobile and, what is more, they are free with the incomes that capitalism produces to buy the items that they could not otherwise have afforded. [More…]
In the extreme, that sort of system will take away our freedom. [More…]
He skirted the problems of the freedom of liberty of the individual. [More…]
Surely the majority of members on the Government side are committed to freedom of choice by individuals unless their actions are damaging to others. [More…]
Whilst people have the freedom to smoke if they wish, growers must be given a fair share of the market. [More…]
Smoking is a matter of freedom of choice by individuals. [More…]
I again say that this Parliament should not legislate to control the liberty and freedom of choice of the individual. [More…]
There is nothing in the report to reflect the submission of the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign to the Committee. [More…]
The Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign argued that the export of manufacturing jobs from developed to developing countries had a weakening effect. [More…]
They demonstrate that they do not believe in freedom of information. [More…]
As a result, except for a short time after World War II, Czechoslovakia has never again enjoyed freedom. [More…]
He then mentioned principles, which he had previously outlined, as safeguarding the reputation of standards of freedom and democracy. [More…]
Perhaps the real situation is as described by Benn and Peters at page 2 13 of Social Principles of the Democratic State wherein they wrote: lt is a paradox of freedom, that we must set a constraint to catch a constraint. [More…]
Since taking office in 1975, this Government has been very active in passing a series of measures which restrict or reduce the economic and political freedom of the individual, restrict the legitimate action of trade unions, suppress information or access to information and limit the freedom of travel to and from Australia. [More…]
It has amended the Migration Act and the Passport Act to limit the freedom of entry to and exit from Australia. [More…]
In his report Mr Justice Hope implied that ASIO may have exceeded its powers and engaged in activities irrelevant to its functions and which may have impinged on individual freedom. [More…]
In making our expressions here today, we should, at least, have the freedom in this House to express our concern on behalf of the Australian people who are the people we represent. [More…]
My aim has always been to extend genuine democracy and to struggle against those forces in society that seek to limit the freedom of our people and to collectively determine the decisions that affect their daily lives. [More…]
Secondly, I am concerned about what people will think about the future options of this society and their willingness to continue the struggle for freedom. [More…]
It will create the problem that in the name of defending our freedom, ASIO will act to restrict our freedom. [More…]
It has developed its own concept of freedom and security. [More…]
We know from the documents made available now under the Freedom of Information Act that the material passed on to the Russians was both piddling and redundant compared with the material supplied earlier by Klaus Fuchs. [More…]
One would almost think that its members would be able to arrest people and do all sorts of other things that might in some way restrict the freedom of the individual. [More…]
In sharp contrast to that filtering process which leftist viewpoints or program material must endure is the freedom allowed the Vietnamese program on 3EA. [More…]
To go beyond that is to encroach upon people ‘s freedom. [More…]
a more drastic sanction against freedom of the Press than anything in the English-speaking world. [More…]
My attitude to the Bill and my attitude to the law is that we want a security system that is well nigh perfect but, equally, we want to protect the rights of individuals- their civil rights, their right of freedom and their right to live their own lives provided they live within the law. [More…]
The price of freedom, as is said, is eternal vigilance. [More…]
I am fearful of the infringements to the civil rights, liberties and freedoms of the Australian people that have been upheld since federation. [More…]
We are then reminded of those who died in two world wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and who died for freedom, liberty and our way of life. [More…]
Australians, many of whom fought in these wars to overthrow fascist regimes and to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual, are now being placed in an insidious position of having to look at the prospect of a new form of fascism in their own backyards of clean, respected Australia. [More…]
ASIO would fail also, despite the deprivation of the freedom of the people which is provided for in the legislation now before the Parliament - and the war came as a surprise to unprepared Washington. [More…]
These are the introduction of freedom of choice for beneficiaries in the selection of a house insurer and revision of the long title of the principal Act. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that these restrictions are not now necessary and believes, as in the case of insurance, that applicants should have the maximum freedom of choice in the selection of a home. [More…]
We do not hear about what might constitute subversion in those countries and about how their people are denied freedom of speech. [More…]
I do not want to be restricted by any organisation that gives us the capacity to resist movements that want to take that freedom from us, regardless of whether they come from the Right or the Left. [More…]
The fact is that the shipping of armaments to men involved in the defence of Darwin and men fighting in the Pacific and in Europe, men who were laying down their lives in the name of this country and in the name of freedom, could well have been affected because some stupid shortsighted people back here decided to pull on a strike. [More…]
Let me have at least the right or the freedom to put a point of view other than that which is generally put. [More…]
1 ) Have negotiations been held between the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Queensland Government regarding the request of the Yarrabah community and others for freedom from the administration of Queensland which they regard as paternalistic, bureaucratic and discriminatory, and effective self-management, freedom of choice and responsibility only to their members, as envisaged in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1 978. [More…]
Along with it goes a lack of personal freedom. [More…]
We value our freedoms and we mean to preserve them. [More…]
Prevention of child removal is a complex matter involving questions of jurisdiction, dual nationality, citizenship, freedom of travel and rights of the child. [More…]
The Government parties stand for independence, enterprise and freedom. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party and the unions oppose independence, freedom and small business. [More…]
They are accusing the Trade Union Movement and the Labor Government, of seeking to restrict the freedom of the individual, besides claiming that the unions are out to abolish the contract system in the cottage industry. [More…]
In respect of the freedom of the individual, we would point out that the BWIU is not seeking to deny freedom of a subcontractor to negotiate a contract price, provided such contract price does not violate Section 88F of the Industrial Arbitration Act, which regards as unfair, harsh, unconscionable and against the public interest if it provides a total remuneration less than a person performing the work would have received as an employee performing such work. [More…]
The people of this great country of ours, Australia, where we have fought to preserve freedoms, face penalties of up to $400 if they even think in imperial measurements. [More…]
Those two bastions of freedom, Queensland and Western Australia, have said: No, we don’t think what you are doing is right’. [More…]
In this regard, it is particularly important that members of this Parliament tell the Australian people why it is necessary that they should on an individual basis do all they can to support the appeals which are currently being mounted by non-government organisations such as Austcare, the Australian Red Cross, Community Aid Abroad, the Australian Council of Churches, Australian Catholic Relief and the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign. [More…]
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of all frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice. [More…]
Everyone shall have the right of freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests. [More…]
In addition, there are many biological and non-biological products which have very similar therapeutic goals, and CSL should have the freedom to produce the most effective product. [More…]
CSL does not have this freedom at present. [More…]
It seems to me that as long as the Government is prepared to allow a clause like this to stand within legislation like this, we cannot really believe that the cant about individual liberties, the cant about democracy and the rights of freedom of speech and the right to organise, is anything more than cant or anything more than hypocrisy. [More…]
Hoover’s, whose views may be totally unacceptable generally in terms of the Australian community and who may, simply by the use of this clause and the freedom that it gives to a Director-General, be able, in a sense, to use his power against the best interests of the Australian people. [More…]
Liberal Party- the party that talks about liberty and freedom believes that it is more important for all members on the Government side to be able to go and wine and dine for two hours than to allocate more than an hour and a half to consider the main Committee stages of the legislation. [More…]
It is important that there be freedom of information. [More…]
Well, for too long the FBI went down the line of its own improvised rules, as we can horribly see, once the Freedom of Information Act made it possible for you and me, the ordinary citizen, to go to government files, including the files of the FBI, and read anything and everything which had been kept under wraps as confidential government information. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) what safeguards are contained within the provisions of this Bill, what mechanisms are provided for in the Bill, and what criteria are laid down that will obviate the possibility of something like the Seberg case happening in Australia in the absence of a freedom of information Act? [More…]
We ask: If such substantial funds are to be transferred for that purpose, what then becomes of the freedom of action of the ABC commissioners to determine what they think is the best programming for Australia? [More…]
In other words, if money is to be taken away from the ABC it cannot be said at the same time that the ABC has the same degree of freedom as it has had before to produce programs and determine its own priorities. [More…]
An essential condition for this freedom is the possession of the material and social requisites for self fulfilment. [More…]
The apparent intention of the Federal Government, however, to deny unemployment benefits in the future to workers stood down as a result of a strike if the union to which they belong does not condemn the strike is a threat to the right to freedom of opinion, a denial of justice to taxpayers, and a perversion of the conventional definition of what constitutes unemployment [More…]
Other amendments that we will move will provide for all hearings of the Commission to be in public unless there is justification for a private hearing under the principles contained in the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
These institutions stand as the protection of the people and their freedom and they have the responsibility to carry the people’s aspirations into political action. [More…]
We say that we believe in the freedom of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to bring down decisions, and that all concerned should abide by the decisions of that tribunal. [More…]
He said that in Canberra that night he had met with the Council of the Yarrabah reserve and had had further discussions on their request that he negotiate with the Queensland Government for secure land tenure over the Yarrabah reserve and freedom to manage the reserve. [More…]
I think that privilege, as we understand it in its strict sense, is vital to the freedom of this Parliament. [More…]
Such inquiries in almost all cases would bring to the attention of the Australian people, at least temporarily, the extent to which civil liberties and the rights of people to act freely and to practise freedom as they believe in it exists throughout the world. [More…]
They are deprived of freedom to practise religion. [More…]
The participating states will respect human rights and fundamental freedoms including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. [More…]
Within this framework the participating states will recognise and respect the freedom of the individual to profess and practise, alone or in community with others, religion or belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience. [More…]
This report should be read by all people interested in the freedom of the individual and by those who seek to understand how society operates in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Australia but we were biased in favour of freedom, in favour of a pluralist type society and in favour of a democratic society. [More…]
I think that it is important to have democratic freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
If people had democratic freedoms, the nationality questions would be resolved in a democratic manner inside the United Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I think that those of us who have been interested in the question of freedom and the question of human rights in the Soviet Union and in other countries know- the report emphasises it in its first conclusions- that there have been positive changes. [More…]
However, it is obvious to honourable members on both sides of the Parliament, having come from the kind of society in which we live, that there are other freedoms which often transcend that, including the freedom to be free. [More…]
There are also organisations such as Freedom House in the United States- I am not sure about its objectivity but it produces a lot of information about publicising these matters- the International Commission of Jurists, and so on. [More…]
The collateral obligation to this privilege of freedom of speech in the Parliament and the essential complementary privileges of the House will be challenged unless all members exercise the most stringent responsibility in relation to them. [More…]
That looks as though we are getting a little freedom at last. [More…]
I am concerned that we may find that the Parliament says: ‘We give away our chance to ventilate important matters that involve policy matters, not just the liberty and freedom of individuals who may or may not be charged’. [More…]
there is a need to assist schools in exercising responsibility; to maximise the educational effectiveness of the broader freedom they now have to make significant educational decisions; and to evolve a new pattern of relationships between school and system consistent with that greater freedom and with the political responsibility of system authorities. [More…]
We should never lose sight of it because if we lose sight of it we inject some degree of peril to the freedom of our society and we tend to shore up a more authoritarian quality in the way in which certain services are provided. [More…]
I do not believe that we could ever be fierce enough in the defence of our freedoms and of the standards which we require to ensure that the systems of authority within our community are answerable; even at times of crisis, they can be made accountable. [More…]
Because we do not have a Freedom of Information Act we have to rely on leaks to the Press. [More…]
This means that home owners will lose the freedom to choose to be insured by a successful government-owned insurance corporation which is required to charge the lowest possible premium rates, having regard to the need to secure sufficient revenue to meet expenditure to pay the Commonwealth a reasonable return on capital. [More…]
If a natural person or corporation wishes to acquire control of a company by making a general offer to acquire all the shares, or a proportion sufficient to enable him to exercise voting control, limitations should be placed on his freedom of action so far as is necessary to ensure: [More…]
Although varying views have been expressed as to the extent to which the freedom of bidders should be controlled, the new code seeks to close loopholes in the present legislation and to improve the effectiveness of the existing controls. [More…]
The issue involves freedom, free elections and equal suffrage. [More…]
In that case, it is difficult to see how he can extricate himself from Salisbury, or how Rhodesia can proceed through elections to freedom and legitimacy. [More…]
The worst way, the method adopted in this Bill, is to destroy the AUS, to make it less representative by interfering with the tradition of academic freedom and to prohibit the councils of tertiary institutions from enabling fees to be paid except for very narrow- one might say, almost selfishpurposes confined to ‘student welfare’, narrowly defined. [More…]
The legislation seeks to safeguard the very important principle of freedom of association and, equally important, freedom of non-association. [More…]
In summary, we have a legislative package which I believe takes a very small step along the important road of providing for the introduction of the principles of voluntary association and academic freedom. [More…]
We are talking about the principles of voluntary association; simply that means the freedom to join or not to join. [More…]
It is the freedom to pay money to an organisation one supports. [More…]
Union of Students or any other organisation, but this legislation goes one step further in that it provides for the freedom not to join and not to pay that money, and importantly, not to be penalised for that decision. [More…]
Therefore, I find it absolutely incredible, when we are talking about such basic freedoms, that we are encountering the opposition that we have had this afternoon and that we had in the chamber only last week. [More…]
In any case these measures were not intended to apply to independent resellers, so that they would continue to have freedom to negotiate with suppliers for supply on the best terms available from time to time and thereby preserve the beneficial effects on competition provided by independent resellers. [More…]