freedom - senate - 1970

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

Was the Tullamarine Airport site originally chosen on the basis that the buffer zone surrounding the Airport was adequate to preserve the neighbouring amenity in respect of freedom from noise associated with aircraft operations? [More…]
If not, does this not indicate that the Australian Labor Party condones the aggression against Cambodia by the North Vietnamese and, at the same time, consistently does not support freedom of speech? [More…]
Senator Douglas Scott, who delivered that speech, spoke of freedom. [More…]
It is all very well to talk about freedom but each and every one of us must always bear in mind that we should do our utmost to see that freedom in this country is not destroyed. [More…]
ls it a fact that academic freedom has, in some instances, become academic licence in our universities, with some members of the university staffs overstepping their basic function of teaching by taking part in political activity and, in the process, inciting students to disregard constitutional authority? [More…]
I have already made it plain that the Australian Government’s attitude to the freedom of sporting bodies to go ahead with this tour is quite firm. [More…]
Some 2,000 years ago Christ died so that men may live, yet we have a heretic in this chamber who is repudiating all Christian principles and advocating kilting, all in the cause of so-called justice or freedom. [More…]
The trade union movement has such aims because it is not possible otherwise to get all sorts of freedom from industry. [More…]
Did not you say that you believed in the freedom of mergers and the economy of size? [More…]
Was a decision taken at the 53rd Session of the ‘International Labour Organisation that a representative of the Director-General of the Organisation should visit Australia and hold discussions with the Australian Government, in an endeavour to have Convention 87 relating to Freedom of Association and protection of the right to organise’ ratified. [More…]
87 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948. [More…]
Does the Australian Government have any objection to the existence in Australia of organisations of former overseas nationals from countries under dictatorships, such organisations supporting the freedom and autonomy of their country, provided that they do not resort to violence and do not break the laws of this country? [More…]
One might argue that TransAustralia Airlines is a commercial enterprise operating in a competitive, commercial environment and that it should have complete freedom to determine such matters as the salaries of its senior executives. [More…]
If they are opposed to joining trade unions I believe that they have complete freedom to refuse to join, but if they do refuse they have no more right to continue to work in an industry that has benefited from the activity of trade unions than a person entering primary production has to ignore a board set upto market his product.If persons are honest in refusing to join a trade union they have complete freedom to enter industries that are not covered by trade unions. [More…]
True it is that there are incidents like those that happened at Prague and Budapest, but by and large the young people in European countries have certainly much further advanced in what we regard as freedom a lot further than they were at the zenith of the Stalin era. [More…]
That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rattier than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
The reactionary capitalist forces of the world had built up Hitler and he in turn was able to suborn others of his ilk like Mussolini and the powers in Japan in order to form a triumvirate or a troika, or whatever one likes to call the trio that challenged the rights of man to live in freedom on this earth. [More…]
Whatever the differences between countries, however the balance between authority and liberty is resolved in these different countries, the free peoples- those who seek to elevate the dignity of man, to laud him for what he is and for what he is able to achieve- will reflect, I believe, the measure of their own value of freedom by the consistency with which they defend freedom in their own countries and likewise challenge those who would deny freedom to other countries. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
) That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
) That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association’. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice, bc amended by adding to it the words: and no revenue derived in any way from any Australian citizen shall be appropriated by the Australian Government, or by a State Government, or by a Municipal Government, for the propagation or support of any religion. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice. [More…]
that for the exercise of complete religious freedom and for the promotion of a liberal and egalitarian society, Church and State need to be kept separate; [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice, be amended to read further: and no revenue derived in any way from any Australian citizen shall be appropriated by the Australian Government, or by a State Government, or by a Municipal [More…]
What this exercise is all about is to give the freedom of choice to a young man in a foreign country. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the hope that questions asked in the Senate might advance the possibility that this young man will have freedom of choice as to whether he remains in Australia. [More…]
Its complete disregard for the freedom, justice, and right to self determination of the people of the states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom. [More…]
Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
Is he in a position to advise the Senate of any visible indications of greater political freedom in Greece under the new Government? [More…]
And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]
And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]
Some people could say that he had freedom of choice. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
I think the evidence which has come out since in relation to the freedom of Mr Ermolenko to migrate to this country, apparently free of restrictions, proves the stand which was taken by Senator Willesee and demonstrates and places on record the justification for and vindication of the approach which he took at the time. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle said that the current technical education program tends to restrict the freedom of the States but I already have dealt with that matter in my reply in the second reading debate. [More…]
This is, for example, demonstrated by its ratification in 1973 of ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention 1948 (No. [More…]
In the light of the fact that under new United States legislation, the Freedom of Information Act, citizens have the statutory right to see their Federal Bureau of Investigation file, whether or not they have been charged with a crime or are under suspicion, will the Minister for Police and Customs assure the Australian people that such a right will be guaranteed in the legislation now being drafted for the Australian police force? [More…]
Does not the Government accept that changes in government in this country occur through orderly constitutional processes and elections conducted by secret ballot in conditions of freedom of speech and freedom of association? [More…]
I do not recall any Commonwealth law which guarantees freedom of movement to guide dogs. [More…]
However, we did not consider that there was evidence of sufficient malpractice to justify disrupting the freedom of movement between our two countries which the arrangements allow. [More…]
True freedom of choice will not be available to them unless this matter is cleared up. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister, through you, Mr Chairman, to give some guarantee to the Committee and to the people of Australia that there will be true freedom of choice for the citizens of Australia to change from one fund to another, thus promoting the true competition between funds which is the desire of the Government. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation, together with the text of a statement by the Attorney-General relating to that report. [More…]
I think it ought to be made clear at least by someone that the action taken by you, Mr President, may be viewed as an action which can intimidate the freedom of those who represent the Press to write reports and to disseminate news without some fear that they may be brought before the Presiding Officers of the Parliament to explain their actions. [More…]
We are merely saying that these people have a right to live in peace and freedom. [More…]
Thirdly, in view of the Government’s oft repeated concern for community involvement and parent choice in education, what action will the Minister take to see that the parent organisations of all those Queensland schools which have sought to retain the MACOS program will not be denied freedom of choice in this matter? [More…]
It is my hope that through the efforts of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the existing channels of communication between representatives of the peoples as parliamentarians can be maintained and expanded, that through the further development of opportunities for exchange programs in the Commonwealth will come a clearer understanding of the methods of achieving a life of freedom, dignity and material sufficiency for all our people. [More…]
Bearing in mind the Government’s announced policy of providing for general freedom of information, will the Minister undertake to make the report available to the Parliament? [More…]
We are opposed to the enshrining of the principle of business confidentiality above the requirement for the Supervising Scientist to have the freedom to report any information that may be of interest to the Minister or the Parliament. [More…]
Therefore, looking at clause 5, I wonder whether it is envisaged that the Federal Government whilst giving the States the perfect freedom outlined in the second reading speech will be able to obtain a report from the respective State Ministers about the effect of a particular grant. [More…]
The amendment to clause 8 is designed to give the Council more freedom in performing its functions so that it will not be a total tool of the Minister. [More…]
I have moved this amendment quite seriously because it is designed to give the Council some freedom in performing its functions rather than make it a total tool of the Minister. [More…]
We are interested to know also why the Government, which is apparently so dedicated to freedom of choice for health funds, will not allow a fund which desires to retain a bulk billing system to do so. [More…]
I am not aware of any recent evidence of lack of freedom of movement and association. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400 ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee- November 1976’, and the provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill introduced into Parliament on 9 June, I have reconsidered my decision and have agreed to release the lease agreement and authority, with mandatory exemption for those details that would be reasonably likely to expose the undertaking unreasonably to disadvantage through the disclosure of particular financial information, as provided for under clause 32 of the Freedom of Information Bill 1978. [More…]
) How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information? [More…]
400 ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee- November 1976’ that there should be an exemption from mandatory access for documents that reflect the internal deliberative processes involved in the functions of Departments, and the disclosure of which would be contrary to the public interest. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
We, the undersigned librarians at the Dixson Library, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, are gravely concerned at the following aspects of the ‘Freedom of Information Bill 1978’: [More…]
400, ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental CommitteeNovember 1976’, and the provision of clause twenty-six of the Freedom of Information Bill introduced into Parliament on 9 June, which provides that matter in the nature of, or relating to, opinion, advice or recommendation prepared for the deliberative processes involved in the functions of the Government, disclosure of which would be contrary to the public interest, should be exempt from mandatory access. [More…]
3 ) How does the Treasurer reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
and (3) It is my understanding that the advice to the Minister in respect of increases in telegram charges for the year 1977-78 was not a document of a class for which exemption would be sought in terms ofthe present Freedom of Information Bill as now drafted. [More…]
I will ask the Australian Telecommunications Commission to reconsider its attitude on this matter in the light of the Government’s commitment to the principles embodied in the Freedom of Information Bill 1 978, should any further request be made for a copy of the report concerned. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
They have been given a degree of freedom to determine the nature and extent of supplementary benefits provided, and the terms and conditions applied in the payment of those benefits. [More…]
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, therefore humbly pray that the Senate will fulfil the pledge of a Member State of the United Nations and take steps to remove the compulsion from the Electoral Act in order to allow freedom of expression for everyone who has the right to vote for Senators. [More…]
I thought that my comments on the freedom of information legislation covered the issues raised in clause 57 ( 1 ) (a) and (b). [More…]
In 1908 President Gould referred to the very thing that Senator Georges has said will ruin the ability of senators to have freedom of expression and freedom of speech and so on. [More…]
It is prompted by Senator Carrick ‘s excursions on the subject of academic freedom and the inappropriateness of any such notion in the context of this debate and the Opposition’s arguments about the effect of these clauses. [More…]
That is, governmental use of money and other powers to control student organisations- as a precedent for imposing limitations upon genuine academic freedom. [More…]
There is always a danger that future governments might see such an action as a precedent for imposing limitations upon genuine, academic freedom. [More…]
The arguments against conclusive certificates in fields such as this were set out very persuasively in the report of the Senate’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee on freedom of information. [More…]
Even with the best will in the world and the freedom which we choose to assert as honourable senators, I do not think we can ignore the fact that we need to work in conjunction with another place. [More…]
Another aspect that concerns me greatly is the growing trend in this country - a trend that 1 feel is a danger to the democracy and freedom that we have won over the years, and a trend that is condoned by many - to buck authority, the laws of the land and our law making institutions under the guise of freedom of speech, the rights of the individual and the rights of minorities. [More…]
Would the Diem regime, or any other political party in South Vietnam, have been granted complete freedom to campaign in North Vietnam? [More…]
Would they have been granted complete freedom in North Vietnam at a time when the Communist government of North Vietnam was engaged in a massacre of tens of thousands of North Vietnamese whom the Communists regarded as enemies of Communism? [More…]
Its immediate consequences must be a Communist takeover of South Vietnam snuffing out the hope of freedom and of democratic independence in that country and extending the area of Communist control closer to this country. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate state what action the Government has taken about the member of the Liberal Party who has made public statements, which have not been retracted, that he supports trampling upon the human rights of the people of Rhodesia and that he supports legislation which is anathema to democracy and freedom loving people all over the world? [More…]
Our purpose in Vietnam is, along with our allies, to see that the people of South Vietnam have the right - the sort of right that he and 1 have - and freedom to select a form of government of their own choosing, lt is deplorable for the honourable senator to draw such an inference from a statement made by a gallant soldier who represents a gallant battalion of men coming back to Australia. [More…]
As there is a feeling among a number of honourable senators that there could be a serious inhibition of freedom of speech, particularly on matters of foreign affairs, if we were taken to assume that in future it is not possible to criticise the Prime Minister of a friendly country, I ask whether you, Mr President, will deliver a ruling on this matter to the Senate. [More…]
But as I have said, the United States did not sign the treaty; it reserved freedom of action. [More…]
Is it unjust to go to the aid of a country whose people desire to have a government of their own choice and to live in some form of freedom as they evolve it and which is being menaced by another country that seeks to impose the Communist yoke upon them? [More…]
does protest solemnly against the way in which the armistice has been concluded and the conditions of this armistice, without taking into account the deep aspirations of the Vietnamese people, and it reserves its full freedom of action in order to safeguard the sacred right of the Vietnamese people to territorial unity, national indepedence and freedom. [More…]
The honourable senator developed his point to such an extent that he put that this action would limit the people who could operate on the stock market, that it was an affront to anybody’s freedom to buy or sell shares because of the set minimum of $1,000. [More…]
It is, I hope, the beginning and centre of a home service scheme, a scheme which could meet all the needs of the aged and enable them to live their lives as part of the community with the maximum of independence, freedom, and comfort possible to old age. [More…]
Australia has a moral responsibility to the people of Papua and New Guinea to lead them to self government and independence in an atmosphere of economic freedom. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Vietnam Moratorium scheduled for 8th, 9th and 10th May is an attempt to create, for political purposes, a dislocation of the right and opportunity for Australians to go about their lawful purposes by stoppages in industry and transport and by impeding the freedom of movement in the streets? [More…]
Whereas the right of free protest and freedom of association is at all times to be upheld, anything that by mob action is designed to disrupt other people’s rights is to be deplored. [More…]
If I am a university student and 1 am paying for lectures what right has anybody who claims to stand for freedom to say that my lectures shall be forcibly taken over by a minority group and that the lectures shall be devoted to a subject in which I have no interest or of which I do not approve? [More…]
ls that freedom? [More…]
I understood that I had the freedom to use the streets, but a minority is now going to close the streets and prevent me from using them - and doing so in the name of freedom. [More…]
It seems very difficult for me to get a hearing from the protagonists of free speech on my right, from the people who are so eloquent about freedom of speech. [More…]
But I notice that while they are eloquent about the right of freedom of speech they will attempt to drown anybody who speaks against their point of view. [More…]
But, a loftier race than e’er the world bath known shall rise with flame of freedom in their souls and light of knowledge in their eyes. [More…]
We have consistently said that the National Service Act is a bad law and that all of the restrictions on civil liberties that exist in this country are bad laws because if one has not the sense of freedom and the sense of democracy at heart, if one is not prepared to speak up for one’s fellow men, then all democracy is lost. [More…]
When we sometimes hear from honourable senators opposite that we should go all the way with LBJ and how we ought to imitate the American alliance, one of the things I do wish they would try to imitate from the United States is the constitutional guarantees to people’s freedom of action and the refusal to smear people which is engaged in by people like Senator Greenwood and Senator Rae. [More…]
Involved in the Moratorium Campaign and the activities associated with it is an incipient involvement of every individual’s right to freedom of speech, freedom of movement and freedom of association, ft is because the Moratorium Campaign and its activities strike at these things that I, for my part, would not regard my obligation as a member of this chamber as being discharged unless I used every opportunity available to me to express strongly what I am concerned about. [More…]
Law is the rule under which the lights and freedoms of individuals are protected. [More…]
Laws which protect personal freedom, personal property and public property, and the rules of the road are the laws under which people can live and move amongst each other. [More…]
To destroy respect for the law is to destroy something of everyone’s rights and freedoms. [More…]
I believe in freedom of speech. [More…]
But I am not getting freedom of speech at the moment from the honourable senator or from other honourable senators. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh now says that whether you get freedom of speech depends on whether in his opinion you deserve it. [More…]
Hitler used to adopt the attitude, that there was freedom of speech only for those he thought deserved it. [More…]
He is opposed to people having the right to show their freedom or their liberty to justify peace. [More…]
The Minister for External Affairs refers to countries to the north of us, in proximity to us, and says that they have been granted sovereign rights, their freedom and their own selfgovernment. [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. [More…]
He has suggested the obstruction of movement in the thickly crowded streets and public highways where all sorts of people have freedom to go about their lawful pursuits. [More…]
This debate arises in connection with a particularly vital experience for Australia, that is, this conflict in Vietnam which is probably unprecedented, either in its purpose or in its quality, it should be apparent to those who discuss the Vietnamese conflict that there has been there simply a resolution on the part of the South Vietnamese forces, aided by the American, Australian and New Zealand forces, to guard 2 things - the territory of South Vietnam and the freedom of the South Vietnamese people so as to give them a right to express for themselves, if they so decide, their choice of government, lawfully constituted, instead of having one imposed upon them by the Vietcong or the Communist forces from Hanoi. [More…]
-I think it is of shame to the Senate if the hilarity which occurred whenI referred to the fact that the President of the United States and his predecessor had engaged themselves in every diplomatic activity they could employ in search of peace and a beginning of negotiations to establish the freedom of South Vietnam came from the floor of the Senate. [More…]
The whole tradition of the Australian community, from the time of its birth in those sections of the dissent movement about whom Senator Prowse spoke and from whom we are descended, has been to fight for freedom. [More…]
He has a deep desire to lead his life in an unhindered way and in perfect freedom. [More…]
Does this suggest that the Saigon Government is supported by a people who are allegedly fighting for their freedom? [More…]
It is their own business if they want to express their freedom to raise some sort of flag. [More…]
I have represented Queensland since 1949 and I have done what lots of people in this chamber have not been prepared to do; I have voted according to my conscience, even if it meant that I was to be thrown out of the Parliament, lt is to the credit of the Liberal Party that we have the freedom to express our conscience, and it is to the credit of the Labor Party that 1 have been re-endorsed time after time. [More…]
In view of the loyalty of the people of this country, their belief in standing up for democracy and for the freedom of individuals in this and other countries, if the Labor Party comes out with this sort of thing again it will be decimated again and the opportunity that it might have had will be gone to the moon. [More…]
I am convinced that the average Australian believes in his own mind that the greatest insurance policy which any Australian government can give this country is by cooperating and working with the United Slates in the fight for freedom and liberty not only in this country but in other countries which need our assistance, lt staggers me to hear honourable senators opposite who are failing in what their Party has stood for over the years - the love of democracy and the belief that we should help the underdog and those people who need help - now talk as they have done tonight. [More…]
We are told - and Senator Wood repeated it tonight - that we are fighting in Vietnam and we are supporting the invasion of Cambodia by troops of the United States of America because we stand for freedom. [More…]
If freedom means anything it means the free dissemination of ideas, freedom of assembly and freedom of movement. [More…]
I was pleased to see Senator Greenwood given the opportunity to make a personal explanation and I would like to compliment Senator Murphy for his democratic approach and at the same time condemn Senator Georges for his undemocratic approach in again denying freedom of speech. [More…]
He said: T wish that some of these people who protest could go and see the good’ - I emphasise the word ‘good’ - ‘that my comrades and others have done, not just for the cause of democracy in keeping a foreign enemy out of this country but in helping the reconstruction and development and the opportunity for freedom and advancement for these people.1 Here is a young man who has been willing and prepared to sacrifice not only his career but, if necessary, his life and when he comes back he is prepared to stand up and say these things. [More…]
Now, what is this Moratorium doing in reality other than assisting the Communist cause of subverting the cause of freedom and democracy and the development of self-government in South Vietnam? [More…]
When expressions like that are used in what is one of the freest, truest democracies in the world it is an indication that the whole sympathy of one Labor Party Senator in this place is with people who are completely opposed to the principles of freedom and democracy which are characteristic of Australia. [More…]
essential freedom and democracy of this country. [More…]
What was allowed to take place in this country last Friday is essentially part of the freedom which characterises our society. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to have an immediate investigation conducted to ensure that Mrs McAvoy, who is held in high esteem by both white and non-white sections of the Townsville community, has complete freedom of movement restored to her? [More…]
Where is the freedom and liberty of the subject in union activities? [More…]
We have seen what has happened when some poor individual wishes to have some freedom of choice in relation to membership of a trade union. [More…]
Certainly the Government is, in this case, allowing individuals complete freedom of choice in regard to whether they wish to join a hospital or medical benefits fund and the type of fund they wish to join. [More…]
He has presented a case for some freedom of selection. [More…]
It is quite clear in this instance that the Government Parties believe that there should be some freedom of choice of insurance. [More…]
He spoke about complete freedom of choice in a voluntary health insurance scheme. [More…]
The Board, in its operations, will have the fullest freedom in its own administrative and financial arrangements, to enable it to conduct its affairs for all practical purposes as if it were a private enterprise company. [More…]
This very independence and freedom however, calls for some safeguard. [More…]
I would say that there is justification for some overriding restriction upon the freedom of the medical profession and we should see that we have an expert committee. [More…]
If a corporation of this character was given freedom to operate as it judged best in all the circumstances it would probably say that efficiency and profitability of operations represent the desirable criteria to be observed. [More…]
I recall to the minds of those honourable senators who remember the last World War that, when Britain was on her knees because of the fight that she and her allies were putting up for democracy and for the freedom of the people, she had to sell a lot of her assets in America in order to pay her commitments to America. [More…]
As if lo ensure that the Corporation has complete freedom of manoeuvre to do just what it likes wilh Australian business, there is the truly amazing and most extraordinary clause of all in the Bill, designed obviously lo put it completely beyond any legal challenge. [More…]
If we are to have the freedom to discuss each matter fully, and it is a very important freedom - it is very important that this be done by a legislative chamber - it means that if it is all done in the I chamber then we cannot deal with very much. [More…]
For that reason I believe that it is undesirable to approve Senator Murphy’s amendment because 1 think the Government should be given the utmost freedom in its negotiations. [More…]
As I have said before, there is one very good reason why this amendment should not be agreed to at the moment, and that is that at this stage Australia is in the position of having to negotiate in the international sphere and 1 do not think that any encumberance should be placed on Australia’s freedom to negotiate. [More…]
If the Opposition members have no freedom to make their own decision, I fear that these Committees will not work as I hope they will work. [More…]
I say again that the success or otherwise of the committee system depends on the freedom of honourable senators on both sides of the House to judge matters on their merits. [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…]
Does the Minister representing the Attorney-General believe that the right of freedom of speech of members of parliament and the democratic rights of individuals are being eroded when a member of parliament who makes a statement supporting the policy of his federal leader is tried and suspended from his party and is not permitted to attend a meeting of that parliamentary party although he has appealed against his expulsion? [More…]
The honourable senator’s question refers to the right of freedom of speech of a member of parliament. [More…]
I would have thought that any Minister in this place would be unworthy of his salt or his salary if he were not prepared to expound his view regarding the right of freedom of speech of a member of parliament. [More…]
Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental rights which the Constitution confers upon a member of parliament. [More…]
Obviously it would be completely subversive of his duty to represent the community - the duty which a member of parliament undertakes when he is elected to parliament - if his right of freedom of speech were to be restricted or .subordinated by a party caucus or junta, unelected by the people. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite seem to envy the proper independence and freedom which honourable senators on this side of the chamber enjoy enabling the distinguished members of the Liberal-Country Party coalition Senate team and I to vote according to our judgment. [More…]
Will the Government protest to this arrogant company against this form of intimidation against freedom of the Press in Australia? [More…]
I would only make the comment that if there is to be freedom of the Press I would think there should also be freedom for any organisation that wants to carry out an act which is within its own rights and privileges. [More…]
To do this successfully in the commercial sense it is essential to have the same day to day freedom of operation as they do. [More…]
I put the Government’s view that as the Corporation was designed to do a special job and to fill a special place it should not be given total freedom to roam over the whole area and perhaps intrude into areas and do work which others are already doing equally as well. [More…]
1 noticed that some little time ago, when the industry itself adopted a policy of a selling authority or a corporation, the Japanese made a statement that there should not be collusive selling, that there must be the greatest freedom in the marketing of the Austraiian wool clip. [More…]
There is no freedom for the producer to have a say in the way that his products should be marketed or presented on the appraisement floor. [More…]
As a member of the trade union movement I have endeavoured to impress upon the Government that it should repeal industrial laws which are designed to dispossess persons employed in industry of the right to the same freedom as that enjoyed by those engaged in commerce and industry. [More…]
Why is it that as recently as this morning the Department advised Mrs Vrettos that her husband had his passport returned and that he had freedom of movement when, in fact, he was still under close arrest and is to be subjected to investigation and questioning at 6 p.m. today? [More…]
The point was then made that the actions which we are taking in Vietnam are the sort of actions which will encourage small nations to preserve their freedom. [More…]
Has anyone ever heard of a more absurd war than one in which we are told that the people of South Vietnam are fighting to preserve their freedom, yet the allies of that country have to engage in all sorts of manoeuvres in order to Vietnamise the Vietnam war? [More…]
He referred to the draft as ‘a practice that has no place in our system of freedom’. [More…]
a practice that has no place in our system of freedom except as a temporary expedient. [More…]
I have some misgivings in relation to the situation outlined by Senator Murphy because the Senate has a freedom that does not exist in another place in relation to normal debates, question time and other matters. [More…]
I believe that the time is right with us mow when we should analyse in depth just what we mean by freedom. [More…]
Freedom is freedom within the law, within that system of legal restraint developed by society and imposed by that society upon the entire community. [More…]
I feel that today freedom is being challenged in many parts of the world and not the least in our own country because there is perhaps an over- enthusiasm for the pursuit of freedom to the degree that we tend to lose our sense of definition and perhaps we are accepting permissiveness and unbridled licence in the guise of freedom. [More…]
May I reiterate these 5 points: The security and strength of the family unit; the provision of ever greater equality of opportunity; the maintenance of a profit motive within a properly constructed and developed and generous legal system of restraint; a careful attitude to our real understanding of freedom; and a suggestion that we should temper our concern for pure theory with social and political considerations lest we become slaves to ivory towered conceptions. [More…]
The fourth is the constant examination of the significance of true freedom and the recognition that it is a disciplined state of affairs and is vastly different from anarchy which is just through a shallow barrier from freedom. [More…]
In my view he gave expression to the very highest principles when he said that freedom is a disciplined way of life. [More…]
That freedom has resulted from the evolution of several centuries. [More…]
The attack on freedom in Australia involved in the Government’s refusal to allow Mr Dick Gregory to enter this country. [More…]
I have moved this motion as a matter of urgency in order that the Senate can consider the further attack which has been made on freedom in Australia. [More…]
We are getting a reputation all over the world for being racist and for denying the freedoms which are accepted elsewhere as the heritage of ail humans - the basic human rights. [More…]
This repressive Government is destroying the freedoms to which we are entitled. [More…]
The Government says: ‘This is Australia’s message to the rest of the world: You can come here, you are free to engage in political discussion and you can have complete freedom of expression so long as you say what we want you to say. [More…]
Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
That 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 want my country to stand in the same light as other countries, such as Canada, and be regarded as a freedom loving country. [More…]
The Government talks about freedom and the free world, but decision after decision is being made in this country which would not be made in other countries. [More…]
How is it that the standard of freedom which is the right of citizens of the United States is denied to citizens of Australia? [More…]
The Government’s refusal to grant a visa is not merely a denial of freedom to Mr Gregory; it is a denial of freedom to all of us. [More…]
It is set out in the Declaration of human rights, as it has been set out in the other great documents through history, that we are entitled to freedom of speech. [More…]
And freedom of speech is a 2-way thing. [More…]
I do not think Australians will tolerate this constant erosion of freedom of speech in Australia. [More…]
Why is this Government entitled to abuse the powers which have been given to it for certain purposes in order to deny freedom of speech in Australia? [More…]
What is this refusal of entry but a simple denial of freedom of speech, a denial of the right of Australians to hear what this man has to say? [More…]
I believe, without foundation, false and indeed most damaging to the freedom which we believe should be enjoyed by all Australians. [More…]
The Government’s policy is to allow the maximum freedom of travel to Australia and people are not prevented from visiting Australia just because their political views may differ from those of the Government. [More…]
Running through it was the underlying theme of what I suppose we could call a sort of British way of life and a concept of freedom. [More…]
Let me turn now to the question of freedom to which Senator Murphy referred. [More…]
I suppose that freedom of speech is something that Senator Murphy may well be able to speak about because, if I remember correctly, it was the Party to which Senator Murphy belongs which prevented his exercising his right of freedom of speech at a recent conference in New South Wales and which caused him to go to Victoria so that he could have a platform on which to speak. [More…]
These are the people who are protesting about freedom. [More…]
This is the Party whose members are standing here today complaining about the Government’s restriction of freedom. [More…]
Certainly not freedom. [More…]
Have the people who are supposedly the supporters of freedom and peace protested about the shelling of this orphanage? [More…]
This is what the people who are supposedly the supporters of peace and freedom are doing. [More…]
In this way the people of Australia will be able to decide the type of law and order and the type of freedom that there should be in this country. [More…]
It refers to the attack on freedom in Australia involved in the Government’s refusal to allow Mr Dick Gregory to enter this country. [More…]
Immediately we see that there is freedom within this country when on the floor of the Parliament the actions of the Federal Government can be challenged by the Opposition. [More…]
Senator Murphy’s motion refers to the attack on freedom in Australia involved in the Government’s refusal to grant an entry permit to Gregory. [More…]
1 am quite certain that the Opposition would agree with me when I say that it is to the forefront in’ advocating great freedom in our society. [More…]
He indicates that he is a member of a party which allows great freedom. [More…]
If we think about this question of freedom and the Labor Party’s adherence to its principles regarding the freedom of individuals, we quickly come to the matter of Captain Sam Benson. [More…]
When one looks at the matter one sees a party advocating freedom, but there is absolutely no freedom in the Labor Party when it comes to voting in freedom. [More…]
There is, in actual fact, no freedom of voting within the Labor Party. [More…]
It does not care whether these strikes disrupt the freedom of other people. [More…]
They are being deprived of their freedom because the Labor Party says that a strike is a good thing and that it will achieve something for somebody in the community. [More…]
lt is a deprivation of the freedom of some individuals - this freedom which honourable senators opposite suggest will be eroded if Dick Gregory is not allowed into this community. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party would support the right of those individuals to trespass on property and attempt to deprive others of their freedom. [More…]
Yet theirs is the Party which says that in our community we must have freedom for Dick Gregory to come in. [More…]
When businesses were forced to close during the last Moratorium Campaign there was no discussion of the rights or freedom of those individuals who were not associated with the Moratorium. [More…]
The Labor Party says that it will force its views on the community and will let the freedom of the individual go to the winds unless the individual supports the Labor Party view. [More…]
In addition members of the Labor Party support compulsory unionism, with no freedom for the individual to make up his own mind on whether he should join a union. [More…]
Today we have witnessed an exhibition of double standards by an Opposition which, when it desires to preach freedom can be very eloquent in defence of that concept. [More…]
But on other occasions when it wants to deny freedom to people within its own ranks, the freedom of individual Australian Labor Party members is subordinated to what the Labor Party regards as the greater good of the Party. [More…]
It has said that as far as possible this country encourages freedom of movement of people to the country and from the country. [More…]
If the Labo, Party says that there is no freedom of speech in this country and there is no opportunity to put a viewpoint different from that which the Government puts forward then it is only because it imposes upon itself a silence which is unnecessary. [More…]
What we are arguing about with lbc Labor Party today is the allegation that this refusal of entry to 1 individual is an attack on freedom in Australia. [More…]
Whose freedom in Australia is being affected? [More…]
I will concede that Mr Gregory is a person whose freedom of movement is affected, but he is a national of the United States of America and the Australian Government has no obligation to promote the freedom of movement of nationals of other countries. [More…]
I would have thought, first of all, that it cannot bc predicated that there is an absolute freedom of movement, an absolute right for persons to move throughout the world as they please. [More…]
All freedoms must have some limitations imposed upon them. [More…]
If we start on the basis that man is in a naturally free condition then it is due to the development of his own instincts and his own reason and the necessity of his own association with others that there should be some common bonds which limit his freedom so that others can have the type of freedom which he possesses. [More…]
To me that is basic in any appreciation of what is involved in freedom. [More…]
The laws which are passed in this country are laws which are essentially designed to promote the freedom of the greatest number and because they involve restrictions on some they enlarge the freedoms and abilities of others. [More…]
So it is - as it appears to me - with the ability of people to move in and out of this country; that freedom must be subject to law. [More…]
In this community there are all sorts of people who are in favour of absolute freedom for their side and no freedom at all for the other side when they happen to have the numbers, lt is a matter of numbers. [More…]
I do not see why people should be prohibited from using the streets of the city by people who say that they are all out for freedom. [More…]
The reason why the United States of America still retains some allegiance and support from a great many people throughout the world is because it has stood for certain guaranteed rights of citizens, in particular the freedom of movement of people. [More…]
in reply - This debate has been very important because it has been concerned with the right of freedom in this country. [More…]
In opening the debate, I said that what the Government has done could be described as an attack on personal freedom in Australia. [More…]
This is the kind of freedom of speech that we have in this country. [More…]
We are entitled to have freedom of speech in this country. [More…]
My Party stands firmly for the freedom of speech. [More…]
But the mistakes which my Party makes on freedom of speech or on other questions are mistakes for which we will suffer. [More…]
If we deny fundamental freedoms, my Party will suffer. [More…]
If the Liberal Party denies these fundamental freedoms to its own members, it will suffer. [More…]
It has been said on occasions that the Lok Sabha in India allows members more freedom than we do in relation to questions. [More…]
But this is just a sort of initiation of the process of curtailing the rights and freedom of members of the Senate. [More…]
For all they knew they might even have been joined by one or more honourable senators from this side of the chamber because we have the freedom to vote how, when and where we like. [More…]
in Australia - it is the policy of the Government - are in association with our allies to help the free , people of South Vietnam to preserve their freedom against the cruel and wicked invaders from North Vietnam who are being aided, .supported and for the most part directed by Communist China. [More…]
The Government is being deceptive in saying that it believes that the Thieus and the Kys are defending the freedom of their people for our future benefit. [More…]
The type of matters asked about by the honourable senator could have been developed, for instance, in debates such as the Budget debate which ranges very widely and permits great freedom. [More…]
The Australian Government’s activities in that country are being carried out in the name of freedom in an endeavour to let those people enjoy the right of selfdetermination. [More…]
This would not have given me the freedom 1 want to attend the meeting of what T consider to be the most important committee sitting at the time. [More…]
Some honourable senators have chosen not to serve on the Committees because they want a freedom to discuss any of the estimates of expenditure and propose to do this in the debate on the Appropriation Bill. [More…]
1 believe the time is opportune now to abbrogate the 1923 freedom of the sea conventions and say to the companies: ‘After November any oil tanker which does not have substantial coverage will not be given port facilities.’ [More…]
Obviously the draftsman intended that there should be greater freedom in the payment of the allowance. [More…]
In a free society, while the economic freedom of the individual is important, the social freedom and the personal dignity of the citizen is equally important. [More…]
In this case not only has the economic freedom and viability of a group of aged people in the community been gravely impaired but the personal dignity of these people is being brought under grave criticism. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that a number of well known supporters of the Government’s policy on Vietnam, to wit, Professor Owen Harries and persons such as Richard Krygier of the Association for Cultural Freedom, were responsible for a letter in yesterday’s ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ in which he stated - [More…]
My question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, refers to the appeal made by Professor David Armstrong and other members of the Association for Cultural Freedom - all supporters of the Government’s war policy in Vietnam - and the call for an inquiry into all the circumstances relating to the disturbances associated with the Sydney Moratorium. [More…]
In view of the latter part of the statement by Professor Armstrong and his colleagues in the Association for Cultural Freedom, and in view of the Minister’s earlier answer, does he believe that these people are members of a conspiracy dedicated to discrediting Australian police forces and destroying law and order in this country? [More…]
If some of the above have not accepted this responsibility, does the Government intend abrogating the 1923 ‘Freedom of the Sea Convention’, which would deny port facilities to these operators. [More…]
The Government does not propose to refuse freedom of access to its ports, nor does it propose to cease to be a party to the 1923 Convention and Statute on the International Regime of Maritime Ports merely for the purpose of inducing tanker owners to join this voluntary organisation. [More…]
We have freedom in this country. [More…]
If the Post Office were a public corporation it would have freedom from the Public Service Board and the ability to hire and fire. [More…]
I am delighted to hear him, or any Opposition member, suggest that the freedom of private enterprise is something which should be applauded and something which makes it desirable to take away from the control of the Government the administration of a department such as this. [More…]
But that does not mean that they could not do better if they had some of the shackles removed and were permitted to work and administer with a greater measure of freedom. [More…]
On the financial side the Post Office now enjoys the same freedom of detailed financing of its operations as do many statutory corporations. [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 Senate in Parliament assembled will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on Alms, 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 then had the 800 series Viscount, again an aircraft with 4 motors and freedom of movement and comfort for passengers. [More…]
I oppose the motion because it threatens the freedom of the Senate. [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…]
That is the very thing against which people are fighting for their liberty and freedom in many countries today and the sort of activity that everybody condemns when it is applied to international airlines and somebody wants to hijack an aircraft and use it as a terrorist gesture against the rest of the community in order to gain his ends no matter what happens. [More…]
If industry and commerce endeavour to prevent that free competition, then I agree wholeheartedly that steps should be taken to ensure that there is freedom of competition. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party appear to love compulsion, but 1 can assure them that the average Australian likes his freedom and intends to have his freedom. [More…]
1 made a deliberate decision that ] would not be a member of any committee because I wanted the freedom to move from committee to committee. [More…]
Any attempt to divide the profession would be a denial of the right of freedom of choice which a legal practitioner has in how he will practise as a practitioner. [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…]
Again I commend the Government and the Minister for Primary Industry for allowing flexibility to remain, for giving a freedom of choice to the wool grower to sell his wool as he sees best. [More…]
Let us leave a few freedoms with our growers, but let us also do the best that we can for them. [More…]
However much Senator Young likes those nice words ‘freedoms’ and ‘democracy*, we will be moving amendments to the Bill. [More…]
It amazes me, because I remember that in 1948 the Press of this country said that the people ought to have freedom to charge what they like. [More…]
The decision may have been made in the cause of freedom and democracy but, I believe that in respect of prices it was one of the worst decisions that people of this country ever made. [More…]
He was keen to mention freedoms. [More…]
1. wonder how far one can take these freedoms when they have placed the wool industry in the position it is in today. [More…]
Why do honourable senators opposite - I say this without being offensive - mouth these shibboleths of freedom and democracy when they know it would be practically impossible for Senator Young or any other wool grower to establish any person in the wool industry today at the current price of land. [More…]
However much Senator Young might believe, in the Bill, he will forget all the nice words he uttered about freedom because he will have to protect his own interests. [More…]
He will have to say that freedom is all right in theory but that in practice the wool industry needs organisations similar to those in other industries. [More…]
I think the phrase ‘as the Minister approves’ amounts to a complete interference with the freedom of the individual and should not be in a Bill of this kind. [More…]
But if he is in debt to someone else he will probably have some freedom and will be able to sell it for a quick return privately. [More…]
For the peoples of that area we have accepted rather reluctantly a responsibility which should have been accepted in full with a view to bringing to these people a society which would set an example to other similar societies throughout the world and to bringing to them a democratic system of government which would give them freedom to express themselves and to live a full life. [More…]
In spite of the fact that Australia has spent so much money in the Territory and has done so much, by way of administration and service, including skills in various departments, the people of Papua and New Guinea have a right to develop their own political system and to establish their own political freedom without limitation. [More…]
I believe that within 5 years we will have found out what freedom is. [More…]
I seek the permission of honourable senators to incorporate in Hansard that section of the article which is entitled ‘Law Mocks Freedom’, and a short article written by a Mr Willis entitled ‘Pangu Rejects Public Order Bill’. [More…]
Because this law takes away our democratic freedom. [More…]
A good government gives us democratic freedom. [More…]
Niuginians must have the freedom to express ideas and have access to the ideas of others, even if the ideas are unpalatable to Australians. [More…]
The Australian Administration has introduced and supported a law which makes a mockery of freedom and democracy; which is open to abuse; and has many of the aspects of [More…]
lt is also notable that Aborigines refer to the ‘unassisted’ as ‘free men’ and talk about getting their freedom when making application for exemptions. [More…]
As a result of Mr Gorton’s decision not lo give Mr Dunstan the money he deserved, the Commonwealth is now paying out more money that il would have, and Mr Dunstan’s Government has lost much budgetary freedom. [More…]
It is the right of every man on earth and every society to have freedom. [More…]
I suggest, in all sincerity, that for Government supporters to move a motion of the nature moved here this afternoon in this chamber is a negation of all things that are democratic, lt is a negation of the freedom to Which these people are entitled. [More…]
inhabitants of the Territory, as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of the Territory and its people, a progressively increasing share in the ‘ administration and other services of the Territory; and guarantee to the inhabitants of the Territory, subject only to the requirements of public order, freedom of speech, of the Press, of assembly and of. [More…]
petition^ freedom of conscience, freedom- of worship and- freedom of religious teaching. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I can quote from the London ‘Times’ a case within the last fortnight of a Spanish student who was identified with the Basque freedom movement. [More…]
The more I travel the world the more I realise that we are losing the battle to adopt an equitable attitude in the matter of freedom. [More…]
I know that the glorious words ‘people want freedom to buy’ sound nice. [More…]
Full employment and rising living standards, as the basis for a life of greater freedom and better quality, have been good and worthy aims and have been amply realised. [More…]
Tt is true that somewhere along the line fan probably did not do the right thing, but there is no reason why his personal freedom should be restricted. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport: Has Australia permitted its overseas shipping venture to be so tied in with the Conference arrangement as to have serious limitations applied to its freedom and profitability? [More…]
I am sick aud tired of hearing about academic freedom. [More…]
The students are nol asking for academic freedom; they are asking for freedom for academics to break the law. [More…]
We are approving oi: the fact that they may be appointed and saying that they should show a sense of responsibility and not ask for undue freedoms for those in universities which would not be granted to other sections of the community. [More…]
Traditionally universities have enjoyed independence in internal matters and have been free from interference by outside bodies, lt is the maintenance of that unchallenged authority within internal matters that enables them to sustain that academic authority and that academic freedom which most people believe is a prerequisite of uninhibited pursuit of scholarship and research. [More…]
I think it can be said that if these officers were given freedom to act many of their dreams would become realities, but for some unique reason when these matters reach the various Ministers they seem to go no further. [More…]
Has the Government permitted its overseas shipping venture to be so tied in with a conference arrangement as to have serious limitations applied to its profitability and freedom of operation; if so, why was this permitted. [More…]
Many related factors are involved - the greater complexity of life presented by modern society, the decline in social controls on 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 an increase in criminal activity with a lower risk of detection. [More…]
The honourable senator has brought to notice in his question a very pertinent aspect of this matter, because complete freedom has been preserved for sporting teams and performing companies to visit this continent from Communist countries without protest. [More…]
The same freedom that has been enjoyed by them will be accorded by Australia, I hope, to other people who come here for sporting reasons, although they may hold a different political outlook. [More…]
The Ministers responsible for social welfare participating in the conference affirmed their commitment to the goal expressed in the Preamble of :he United Nations Charter ‘to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom’. [More…]
At the same time, they recognised that respect for human rights and individual freedoms and the avoidance of any kind of discrimination constitute the indispensable basis of all social welfare development. [More…]
About 104 miles from Adelaide, at Cadell, where Charles Martin is imprisoned, last Sunday there was a motorcade or freedom ride in which about 300 people participated. [More…]
Ft shows that with all its faults and all its defects there is at least freedom of speech and freedom of expression in South Vietnam. [More…]
He came into the adjournment debate last night and quoted from a particular publication to show that it was more than a question of the freedom of Indo-China; it was a question of the tungsten, tin and other minerals that America desired. [More…]
Therefore I reject this motion out of hand because it requires a government to do something which I believe is totally impracticable in the first place, because it weakens any bargaining position that Australia may have, and because it fetters the Australian capacity for diplomatic initiatives and freedom. [More…]
Both freedom and order are essentia). [More…]
Freedom without order - which is’ virtually what the anarchists proclaim - is an impossible state except for hermits. [More…]
There can be no meaningful freedom in society unless we have order. [More…]
On the other band, 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…]
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…]
I do not want to spend all my time replying to Senator Wheeldon ‘s comments, but he did make a reference to Magna Carta and suggested that it was a victory for the freedom of the people. [More…]
Both freedom and order are essential. [More…]
Freedom without order - which is. [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…]
introduced into this chamber as a libertarian measure designed, in the words of the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) to mitigate the severity of existing laws and to draw a clear, and sensible line between freedom and order, whereas its true purpose is to impose additional restrictions on the right to dissent and at the same time to give the Government yet another opportunity to ham its favourite role of defender of the citizenry against the forces of anarchy. [More…]
But this provides no justification for the introduction of new offences and new penalties into a field already cluttered with restrictions on human freedom. [More…]
The Bill fails lamentably to achieve the synthesis of freedom and order which the Minister claimed for it. [More…]
This is no easy task, but I believe that the Government’s obsession with order has outweighed completely its concern for freedom. [More…]
But if the Government sincerely held this view it would have directed its attention to one of the most glaring gaps in our legal structure - namely, the absence of any constitutional guarantee of the right of freedom of speech of peaceful assembly. [More…]
is always assumed that we have these rights, but the fact is that there is no law and ho constitutional guarantee that we have a right of freedom of speech and a peaceful assembly. [More…]
To seek to make the lot of the demonstrator more difficult and to call that exercise ‘striking a balance between freedom and order’, as the Minister put it, is in my view hypocritical in the ‘ extreme. [More…]
In the light of this history it can hardly be claimed that freedom in this country is marching forward with giant strides. [More…]
frame laws stating positively the rights pf freedom of expression. [More…]
I repeat: It is a nice exercise in hypocrisy for the Minister to claim that this Bill draws a clear and sensible line between freedom and order. [More…]
It leaves freedom in its present legal straitjacket in fact it has tightened it up a little; it -will not strengthen order because bad legislation does not have that effect. [More…]
draws the line between freedom and order. [More…]
But the fundamentals of Australian society as we know it are freedom of. [More…]
speech, which this Bill restricts, and freedom of assembly. [More…]
This Bill goes a long way to completely suppress freedom of assembly. [More…]
Another of the fundamental things is freedom of worship, and it is not impossible for an Attorney-General or a government with Fascist tendencies to distort this legislation in such a way as to prevent marches associated with religious worship. [More…]
There is one sentence of the former AttorneyGeneral with which I agree- com,pletely ‘We cannot take away this fundamental freedom’. [More…]
These mobs have had no reason at all to be there save to satisfy their own desire completely to impede society, disrupt the community and disorganise the lives of freedom loving citizens. [More…]
The Bill was devised to enable people to go about their own business, express their own wishes and to indulge in the freedom of the society which they, like the rest of us, have a reason to expect. [More…]
I have been looking at the book entitled ‘Freedom in Australia’ by Enid Campbell and Harry Whitmore. [More…]
It will always be difficult to strike the balance between public order on the one hand and freedom of speech in public meetings on the other. [More…]
It cannot be denied that the freedom to express individual opinions and ideas and to join with others in such an expression is a basic right in our democracy. [More…]
A democratic society such as we pride ourselves upon must involve freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to express opinions and, where relevant, to criticise the authorities of the day. [More…]
If we indulge ourselves in the freedoms to which I have referred and if we are prepared to pay even lip service to the fact that they carry responsibilities, of necessity these responsibilities involve some restrictions. [More…]
These restrictions are essential in the interests of national freedom, national security, public safety and public order and even go as far as the safeguarding of public health and protecting the rights of others. [More…]
The job done by our police forces in protecting the public and maintaining public order and the rights and freedom of the people is highly commendable. [More…]
I despise those who would undermine our society by the attacks they make upon the police who endeavour to preserve the rights and freedoms of our people. [More…]
The quickest way to lose freedom is to bring the law into disrepute, to cast aspersions on the administration of justice and to hinder the law. [More…]
Democracy must ensure that the right to change the law is maintained but the claim that freedom depends on breaking the law must be rejected completely. [More…]
We may have differing opinions on the administrations of other countries and about the way they interpret their form of government, but we have no right to deny the freedom of people who are in our country representing, governments that we recognise. [More…]
We have no right to interfere with their freedom as they lawfully go about their lawful occupations. [More…]
Bill into effect we will remember that we are part of a world family of nations; that even though, in diplomatic language, we may have a difference with forms of government, at least we are prepared to respect the freedom of others just as much as we claim that our own. [More…]
freedom should be respected. [More…]
Here in Canberra last Sunday morning, the Reverend J. R. Payne, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, when giving the address, said amongst other things: ‘Freedom is not free. [More…]
After all, if we want to maintain freedom we need to maintain in our society the fact that freedom relies upon authority. [More…]
I believe in freedom and civil liberties whereas he believes in repression and restrictions. [More…]
I believe that the general provisions and principles of this Bill will attract those people who wish to maintain a basic freedom in our community. [More…]
It attempts to maintain the right of dissent by the individual and the right of freedom of expression by the individual, and to see that people within the community do not prohibit others from going about their lawful business. [More…]
In the situation which we have in Australia I believe that people dislike some other person, persons or authority interfering with their right of freedom of movement. [More…]
Let them express their view but if they want to take from me my right of freedom of expression or freedom of movement I shall endorse a Bill such as this which will prohibit them from doing that. [More…]
In a society such as ours it can be recognised that we have great freedom. [More…]
People who come from overseas tell us on many occasions of the great freedom we have in this community compared with that which is found in other countries. [More…]
Therefore, we start from a position of absolute freedom. [More…]
We start from a position in which that absolute freedom has, in the circumstances of the organisation of society, to be restricted to an extent necessary to keep the balance in the community between freedom and order. [More…]
We have the practical and factual situation, from which we proceed, that there is absolute freedom except where it is restricted. [More…]
He referred to the fact that, the 1936 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, section 125 guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. [More…]
The net result is that one returns to the principle that it is not a matter of guaranteeing the freedom by words; it is a matter of guaranteeing the freedom by system and by observance of that system. [More…]
If we have those freedoms in relation to the system, if we have the freedom to exercise the right to speak in Parliament, if we have the right of Parliament to exercise supervision over the Executive, then again we have the practical day to day necessities for the preservation of the rights and liberties of individual subjects. [More…]
This Bill is related to the question of the right of assembly and the question of freedom of speech. [More…]
It does not give them the freedom to do anything they like to make their protest effective. [More…]
I believe that it is reducing the field of human rights, including freedom of speech, freedom of association and all those other freedoms without which man can never reach his estate. [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…]
Thus actual market prices had considerable freedom of movement according to quality, market conditions and changes in freight and exchange rates. [More…]
This Bill is an onslaught upon the rights of freedom of speech and of peaceable assembly in this country. [More…]
Freedom is not total, nor is freedom absolute. [More…]
Freedom must be granted within the framework of the law. [More…]
Everybody has a right to freedom. [More…]
If there are no laws, if people have the right to intimidate those with whom they disagree, to interfere with the rights of others to go about their work or pleasure in freedom, without threats of violence or actual violence, this is anarchy- People who advocate this policy in fact are advocating anarchy. [More…]
I repeat that noone has the right of absolute freedom. [More…]
At the same time it has to strike a sensible balance to ensure that those who wish to dissent and those who wish to demonstrate are protected and given that right so long as this does not mean that they interfere with the rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
It does not erode freedom, it does not erode the liberties of people or the right to demonstrate, but it lays down the rules. [More…]
We have had, over the years, attacks on freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of movement. [More…]
Perhaps the Senate may be reminded that not so long ago each one of these freedoms was denied bv the Queensland Government during the Mount Isa affair. [More…]
We know that our Aboriginals have for a long time suffered encroachment on their personal freedom. [More…]
But in the rest of the community we have had examples again and again such as the Waddington case where the Returned Services League attempted to deny freedom to express political beliefs. [More…]
Streets, parks, and other public places are proper places tor the exercise of freedom of communicating information and disseminating opinion, and, although states and municipalities may appropriately regulate the privilege to the public interest, they may not unduly burden or proscribe its employment in such public places. [More…]
From ancient times one of .the great rights of the citizen that he has had to assert constantly against the executive government is the right to peaceable assembly, as well as the right to freedom of speech. [More…]
At the founding of the United States of America, shortly after the Constitution was adopted, the people put into it Article 1 which provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the Press or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble. [More…]
I agree that there has been some cleaning up of old legislation, but it seems to me that, apart from this, this is an incursion on the freedom of the people. [More…]
It preserves the right of assembly, embodies freedom of speech and association and ensures that those who feel the need to give expression to a right to demonstrate and to dissent can do so. [More…]
He said that the Bill was an onslaught upon the rights of freedom of speech. [More…]
Nowhere in this Bill is there any reference to freedom of speech and nowhere does it prevent an individual from saying what he has to say. [More…]
I should have thought that it would be at the very bastion of our own rights of personal freedom and personal property, yet this clause is castigated as a provision which is offensive to a democratic society. [More…]
It also seeks to clarify the law by indicating that there are certain limits beyond which a person, in expressing his right to demonstrate and his freedom to dissent, may not go. [More…]
I would think that one of the liberties of citizens would be to have a law castigating and imposing penalties on people who engage in that ‘freedom’ in any society. [More…]
I believe that persons are entitled to certain freedoms and are equally entitled to certain protections. [More…]
The balance with which the Bill is concerned is a balance which ensures that people do not allow their freedom to become a matter of excess which denies the reasonable rights of others. [More…]
We were told in the second reading speech that one of the purposes of this definition was to draw a balance between freedom and order. [More…]
But there is another right, and if we are to believe that the Government is sincere in its desire to strike a balance between freedom and order, one would have thought that some reference could be made to that right at the outset of this definition. [More…]
He said, first of all - this is what he referred to first in his judgment - that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the Bill of Rights does guarantee freedom of assembly. [More…]
Having established the principle that freedom of assembly is guaranteed under the law of the United States, the law then must look at what restrictions must be imposed upon freedom of assembly so that the undesirable consequences, such as those which were referred to in the part of Mr Justice Black’s judgment which were quoted by the Minister could not take place. [More…]
But I repeat that the essential part of his judgment was the reference to the constitutional right to freedom of assembly. [More…]
The point that was made in upholding the appeal in this case was that the ordinance was so vague that it was not a proper ordinance and was an undue interference with the right of freedom of assembly. [More…]
Senator James McClelland has said that there is no right given within this Bill - nor is there a right in any other legislation nor, as far as I know, is there a right even in common law - for freedom of assembly. [More…]
That is not a good provision to introduce into the law, especially when it is introduced as a curb on the freedom of assembly and the freedom of speech. [More…]
It is very disturbing, when dealing with the issue of freedom of assembly and speech, to think that this kind of offence will be engrafted on our legislation so that people will be subjected to arrest, charge and conviction although they have committed no violence to any person and no damage to any property. [More…]
What we are concerned about is the fact that it can be used on occasions other than that and it can be used unduly to circumscribe the right of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. [More…]
If people felt that there ought to be a general freedom to move in and out of people’s property without let or hindrance, I dare say we would not have laws like this. [More…]
The receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity. [More…]
It seems to me that this is one of the problems which is quite serious here and which inhibits not freedom of assembly, as has been inhibited by so many other clauses in this Bill, but freedom of speech. [More…]
We are extremely indebted to him for telling us why he supports the Government and for telling us his stand on these great issues of peaceable assembly and the issue of freedom of speech. [More…]
I do not regard as trifling any matter which concerns the liberty of the people, the right to peaceable assembly and the right to freedom of speech. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite claim that they exercise independence and a freedom of mind. [More…]
Above all, the Bill provides no protection at all that might maintain the right of freedom of speech and of peaceful assembly. [More…]
It is not a Bill which is an assault upon freedom of speech. [More…]
Does this suggest that they have this glorious freedom that is demanded of members of other parties? [More…]
I invite attention to paragraph (5) of Part II of the Schedule, which provides that the Authority shall have the discretion to determine the terms and conditions of any loan it may make up to a maximum repayment term of 20 years, in a number of cases an initial period of freedom from repayments of principal would be justified, depending on the circumstances of the case and the interest rate to be charged. [More…]
Is the resolution one which gives full and unrestricted freedom to petrol retailers to sell to the public at whatever rate of cut price a retailer fixes and in whatever quantities he and the public desire? [More…]
Doctors have a freedom as to whom they will treat just as patients have a freedom as to the doctors to whom they will go. [More…]
Will the Minister request the Minister for Foreign Affairs to facilitate arrangements for Mr Whitlam, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party delegation to Communist China, to meet his counterpart when he is in that country with a view to ascertaining whether his counterpart enjoys the same measure of freedom, liberty, privileges and concessions as Mr Whitlam enjoys as Leader of the Opposition in this Parliament? [More…]
One hears from time to time some concern by those who feel that there are provisions in this legislation which impose a restraint upon the freedom of those who have goods to sell. [More…]
This matter has been brought to my attention by a friend who gave me some instances which illustrate that there are grave doubts about the meaning of certain clauses of the Bill, whether in fact the Bill as written will achieve the purpose of giving this right of portability of pensions to public servants and others, and whether they will in all instances enjoy the freedom of movement which it is suggested is the purpose behind the Government’s move in introducing the Bill. [More…]
In talking about freedom to allow the evidence given before committees to be perused . [More…]
The situation is that a group of people who have a great heritage - their ancestors were in the mutiny on the ‘Bounty’ and they are proud of the fact that on that occasion their ancestors were able to fight and get some kind of freedom - is now in an isolated corner of the Pacific without any prospects of receiving supplies because the Australian Government has not taken strong enough action at an international level to ensure that the nuclear tests which the French have carried out over a period of time are discontinued. [More…]
Minister representing the Prime Minister allay any existing fears that, as a consequence of the new United Kingdom Immigration Bill and that country’s probable Common Market membership, Australians entering that country in the near future could have less freedom of movement as regards employment in the United Kingdom than citizens of Common Market nations? [More…]
The Act did not restrict in any way the freedom to criticise the adoption by the Government of any project, but it did prescribe unlawful acts against the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The great saviour of the nation, Senator Kane, who would condemn the workers and who is trying to uphold the principles of freedom and justice, has a history. [More…]
It said (hat it does not matter what the Australian Government wants, lt said: ‘We shall say that these people shall not have the freedom of movement throughout Australia which is the entitlement and right of any person in Australia.’ [More…]
I am attempting to put to the Senate the fact that wc do not hear from the once wonderful Labor Party a proposition in support of even some of those leaders of unions who have opposed this deprivation of the freedom of the individual which occurs by forcing strikes. [More…]
I mean that on this occasion they will have the freedom without any threats and with no repercussions. [More…]
On 3rd September 1970 Senator Murphy moved an urgency motion which related to an attack on freedom in Australia involving the Government’s refusal to allow Dick Gregory to enter this country. [More…]
I will content myself with those few observations on the important question of defence, which means our security and the preservation of the freedom we enjoy, our social services and other benefits. [More…]
These interests include liberty of the person, freedom of movement, immunity from being found guilty of discreditable conduct or from being expelled from an organisation of which one is a member or from being deprived of a legal status, immunity from being subjected to financial impositions and from having one’s property destroyed, taken away or substantially interfered with, and immunity from being deprived of one’s livelihood. [More…]
The awareness of these traditions and the long and illustrious line of people who have upheld them in the interests of freedom and democracy makes me humble because I realise the privilege and the double responsibility which has been bestowed upon me. [More…]
Has the Government had any approaches from religious or other organisations to prohibit the Moscow circus until freedom is restored in Czechoslovakia? [More…]
It is my view that if we are to start making it illegal to advertise a type of goods or services on television we will gradually reach the situation where there will be no freedom. [More…]
I invite this Senate and the people of Australia to look at South East Asia - its instability, the gross threats to its security in 1963, 1964 and 1965- and then look at the infinitely greater stability today, the infinitely greater freedom of the people and the self-determination of the people. [More…]
As I said previously, the start to the solution to this problem is to try to understand the ground rules under which man can live with man in freedom and with the right to be different. [More…]
Owners of the mass media talk of freedom of the Press. [More…]
I believe that they take freedom of the Press as licence for the Press. [More…]
Emphasis is placed on the common needs principle … an approach relied on to maximise equality, social justice, and freedom . [More…]
lt has given me a better appreciation of the country in which I live; the country that has given me freedom and liberty; the country that has given me the opportunity of doing something, feeble as though it may be and unrecognised as it will be for people I represent. [More…]
Nevertheless I found that there was sufficient freedom for a full discussion on any matter anyone wished to raise. [More…]
One of the features of this chamber, particularly over recent years, has been the additional freedom that exists for senators to express their views on all manner of subjects. [More…]
Obviously the Standing Orders of this chamber have been designed to give additional freedom to honourable senators to express their views on matters relevant and irrelevant. [More…]
I suggest that the proper and perfect system would be one in which there was no restriction of the freedom of a member of Parliament to voice his opinion. [More…]
But the freedom of that man to speak for 4 hours is very important within the portals of Parliament where democracy exists, or is alleged to exist. [More…]
That statement takes freedom away from members of the Government Parties. [More…]
On this side of the chamber we are supposed to have a freedom of conscience. [More…]
Probably some senators consider that they exercised that freedom. [More…]
I exercise my freedom of conscience at all time and, therefore, I do not require a special free vote. [More…]
This was a genuine attempt to preserve freedom of democracy in this chamber. [More…]
After all, if we take away this freedom of speech now, tomorrow someone will bring in a recommendation to eliminate other things too. [More…]
At the June meeting, the Commonwealth accepted the States’ need for some greater flexibility and freedom in revenue raising. [More…]
It does seem that this is an extremely serious matter which involves the rights of the individual, the rights of the public as television interviewers and those concerned with freedom of speech, and the proper execution of powers under the Broadcasting and Television Act. [More…]
This is an extremely serious matter which affects the right of freedom of speech of stations and of persons. [More…]
I think it is important that as far as possible the freedom of the Press be extended to radio and television. [More…]
But, in the circumstances, the freedom of radio and television stations should be extended. [More…]
Alternatively some explanation should be given of how this can be done in conformity with the Act in order that steps may be taken to ensure that what seems to be a breach of traditional freedoms of expression may be corrected. [More…]
But if one answers Yes’ one does not necessarily have to oppose the Bill; but, of course, it docs make a very great difference to one’s freedom of action as to whether one supports it. [More…]
In the same time we have had 12 speakers from the Government side and we have reflected what forever will mark the differences between our parties, namely, a freedom of expression - [More…]
I was saying that the parties on this side of the chamber have a freedom of expression and this debate has revealed that in striking fashion. [More…]
Are you aware that members of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign are currently conducting a fast in front of Parliament House; that yesterday campaigners were given permission to sit on the stairway at the front of Parliament House and that this permission was withdrawn today? [More…]
This morning when I arrived in Canberra I was informed by my officers that a group of persons associated with the Freedom From Hunger Campaign had arrived in Canberra with the intention of staging a fast of indefinite duration on the front steps of Parliament House. [More…]
I have also been informed that subsequent to being in that room Mr Rooney spoke to a person connected with the Freedom from Hunger [More…]
I think that any Commonwealth legislator would accept the proposition that universities have autonomy and freedom for the purpose of education. [More…]
A true pacifist says: ‘The kind of peace that I want is not peace at any price, but peace with freedom and dignity for myself and for my neighbours*. [More…]
The true pacifist when he believes that peace wilh freedom and dignity can only be obtained by defence puts the price of his life and limb on it. [More…]
I say that no person in a democracy has the right to seek more freedom or liberty for himself than he is willing to grant to his neighbour. [More…]
Indeed, freedom and democracy have been made, by corruption, words and weapons of war at this moment. [More…]
But while hoping that there is as wide a recognition as possible of that position, I think we have all recognised that traditionally universities have been places in which there has been a freedom of inquiry and investigation and a breadth of opinion held which is in the interests of a developing community. [More…]
It would be a great misfortune if, because there was a resistance to authority, those freedoms of universities were sought to be challenged by the mass of the community who felt that students were going too far. [More…]
I am prepared to stand by you in your fight for freedom’. [More…]
They have a responsibility to the traditions of their forefathers and the freedom fighters of Australia. [More…]
Senator Georges is a well known name in this country as a fighter for freedom and democracy. [More…]
Indeed, freedom and democracy have been made, by corruption, words and weapons of war at this moment. [More…]
But America responded and it was because of that response that we continue to enjoy the freedom and liberty which we have and for which so many noble men and women made the supreme sacrifice in many theatres of war during World War I and World War II and in Korea and Vietnam. [More…]
But what happened to them in this great democracy, in this time of trade unionism, freedom and liberty? [More…]
My Leader has just reminded me of the necessity to get this Bill through the Parliament tonight as the very freedom of this man depends on it. [More…]
I ask: As the institution of the Parliament protects the rights and the freedom of the individual, subject to the rights of others, will you give an assurance, Sir. [More…]
that the rights of individuals in this Parliament, including that of freedom of choice in relation to the joining of a trade union, will he protected? [More…]
1 suggest no citizens of any country of the world have greater freedom of speech than Papuans and New Guineans’ the Administrator said. [More…]
Britain has earned the right to do so through her sacrifices to preserve freedom in the last war. [More…]
Those 250 million people have a right to freedom, a right to separate identity and a right to have their voices heard. [More…]
Can his rights, including that of freedom of choice, be protected legally? [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral, on the same subject, whether he recognises also the fundamental right of persons who are members of a voluntary association which is recognised by the law of this country and which represents them in endeavours to improve their wages and conditions, to say that as a matter of their own freedom, they will decline to work with a person who accepts the benefit of what is obtained by the association but is not prepared to join it and pay a subscription to it. [More…]
these considerations is that an individual has a basic freedom which he should be able lo exercise in this country. [More…]
That also is one of the freedoms in this country. [More…]
What I think is the antithesis of freedom is when some people in an organisation decide that everybody must do what the organisation decides, irrespective of whether they have any say in it, and when people outside the organisation who have no wish to join it are denied employment if they do not join or are otherwise penalised. [More…]
I think that while that situation exists and is supported by the honourable senator and the Party to which he belongs their protestations about the freedom of individuals are so much hot air. [More…]
One of these guidelines stresses the duty of doctors to respect at all times the personality, rights, wishes, consent and freedom of patients. [More…]
We could argue about prices and about the manner in which they are determined, but the fact is that about 25 per cent of wool growers exercise a freedom of choice and sell privately. [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…]
The area of commercial activity, and the freedom of the Commission to act in that area, are severely limited by the restriction to biologicals and the dependence upon revenue from products whose prices are fixed under the National Health Scheme. [More…]
It is the view of the Commission that there should be a re-appraisal of ils objectives and responsibilities, lt is necessary to give the Commission freedom and positive assistance to operate in a wider area of activity if it is expected to continue to be largely financially self-sufficient. [More…]
All I desire to say is that the Government is as concerned as, if not more concerned than, the Australian Labor Party to promote a freedom and a development of competition under which the Australian community can prosper. [More…]
I think the airline’s strength has come no doubt from that healthy freedom given to its board of management which can operate as it sees best as a group of businessmen. [More…]
The society which we have built calls for more freedom than it ever called for before. [More…]
Freedom is demanded by our society. [More…]
At no stage have I suggested in any way that the freedom which I value and recognise should be imperilled. [More…]
They were proud of the contribution they made to try to preserve the democratic freedom of a small country. [More…]
They have been given a great deal of freedom which varies from corporation to corporation, but at the very least the salaries of the high office holders in those corporations ought to be subject to the determination of Parliament. [More…]
I have become aware of the fact that black bans have been imposed by certain union organisations which apparently would deny to certain persons the right to engage in freedom of employment, which right has long been one of the things for which the trade union movement has fought.I think that not only is it a denial of ordinary freedoms of people to prevent them from continuing in their employment but also it is denial of what every Australian should regard as something basic to his country’s future and something which he would desire to protect. [More…]
They are that we seek to combine the principle of public ownership, of a broad but not loo detailed public accountability, of a consciousness on the part of the undertaking that it is working for the nation and not for sectional interests, with the liveliness, initiative, and a considerable degree of freedom of a quick-moving and progressive business enterprise. [More…]
If they are to have a sense of responsibility, if they are to be saddled with the responsibility, then we must give them a reasonable and frankly recognised sphere of managerial freedom. [More…]
They produced a document that did not give freedom to people. [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…]
We have to realise that we no longer live in a frontier world in which everybody’s rights and freedoms can be expressed, as they were 50 or 100 years ago. [More…]
We live in a limited world in which there has to be a balance between the rights and the freedoms. [More…]
It may well be that some rights have to be sacrificed so that the freedom of all to enjoy the total environment can be achieved. [More…]
A meeting of Foreign Ministers of member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations - Thailand, The Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia - which took place in Kuala Lumpur on 26th-27th November 1971 adopted a declaration stating that they would seek to secure recognition of, and respect for, SouthEast Asia as a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality, free from any form or manner of interference by outside powers. [More…]
A public statement after the meeting by the Malaysian chairman, Tun Abdul Razak, indicated that it was the intention of the meeting that the proposed zone of peace, freedom and neutrality should include, in addition to the participants, Burma, Laos, the Khmer Republic, the Republic of Vietnam and North Vietnam. [More…]
It has not been suggested either by the Governments which met at Kuala Lumpur or by the Australian Government that Australia should be included in the proposed zone of peace, freedom and neutrality. [More…]
I believe that definite and prompt action has to be taken from time to time to ensure that success is achieved and that the settlers emerge to a position of freedom from control and direction in a given time. [More…]
The settlers say that that would achieve the really basic requirement of freedom and proprietary ownership in a reasonable time. [More…]
- Note: Particular care is needed in the selection of the planting material for Malbec to ensure freedom from virus. [More…]
I have heard people at the United Nations in New York declaiming the wickedness of the South Africans and proclaiming democracy, justice, freedom and the rights of man. [More…]
Only in a context of imminent world war is it likely that the Russians would want to take the risk, and in that context we and they would have more urgent problems than that of freedom of the seas. [More…]
It is a disgrace to the freedom loving country of Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party will co-operate in the development of South-East Asia and the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas to strengthen the fabric of peace and freedom and to uphold the principles of democracy, individual liberty ::nd the rule of law and to promote economic well-being and development [More…]
The Labor Party will honour all Australia’s treaties and alliances which respect the freedom and security of the peoples in the treaty areas and their right to determine their own forms of government without external interference. [More…]
Is it a fact that the recent Teheran Conference of the International Labour Organisation very clearly affirmed the right of unions to organise and the right of freedom of association? [More…]
Campbell and Whitmore in ‘Freedom in Australia’ give the following definition: [More…]
Was it a national disgrace in this freedom loving community for Mr Whitlam to say, as he did: ‘lt is not for me to gel him’ - thai is, Mr Johnston - ‘before the court and it is not for the AttorneyGeneral to assert his guilt.’ [More…]
I wonder whether this Government will ever learn to distinguish between the laws that are fundamental for good government and those that are antithetical to order and personal freedom. [More…]
where is the protection to all citizens whose freedom derives from an equality under the law? [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland said - this is a standard which one could never really test - that you have to make a distinction between laws which are necessary for good government and laws which are antithetic lo freedom. [More…]
I believe in freedom under the law and I believe that the law can be maintained only if people are vigilant to recognise the values which it has for society and the freedoms which it protects. [More…]
I will persist in that statement and I will use every forum, every platform, every debate and ever> opportunity that 1 have to make sure that the people of Australia appreciate the values of freedom under the law. [More…]
If that approach which I have indicated involves me in a party political partisanship it is only because those who would oppose the rule of law and freedom under the rule of law must have their attitudes exposed so that they can be subjected to the spotlight of what is involved in the attitudes which they are putting forward. [More…]
It is part of the philosophy of the Government to which I belong and, believe me, it is the credo of the Liberal and Country Parties which have governed this country for the last 20 years and have not imperilled or prejudiced freedom under the law in that period. [More…]
I assure the Senate that I shall protect the public interest, the rule of law and the freedom under that rule of law which 1 believe to be the very heart and core of the public interest. [More…]
freedoms - that is, under the law all would have equal treatment. [More…]
I am a believer that human freedom to achieve within a free society produces the best results for the individual and his society. [More…]
The Federal system by its dispersions of power among many authorities and other diverse and defined areas of responsibility gives more freedom to people. [More…]
To me, the principal value of the Federal system in its dispersion of power and responsibility, a Government in many areas closer to the daily needs of the people and a greater freedom from arbitrary decisions in a centralist position. [More…]
They do not have sufficient freedom, for several reasons that I want to mention. [More…]
But the Australian Medical Association has made a mockery of the idea of individual freedom. [More…]
If people are to enjoy freedom, it should be enjoyed throughout Australia. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, whether in Government or in Opposition, will encourage and support the arts in such a way as to maintain a freedom of expression and allow artists to exercise freely their creative and performing talents. [More…]
The freedom of an Aboriginal woman is at stake. [More…]
Migrants have the same right to freedom of movement within Australia as other citizens and are not subject to control. [More…]
Those who wish to preserve freedom should recognise that inflation is the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government control makes more and more government control necessary. [More…]
There is nothing more disheartening than the fact that there are still so many intelligent and informed people who in most other respects will defend freedom and yet are induced by the immediate benefits of an expansionist policy to support what, in the long run, must destroy the foundations of a free society. [More…]
Senator Bonner should remember that about 30,000 people are still living under inhuman legislation which restricts personal liberties and freedom. [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…]
But if we are to have freedom of choice, that freedom must be real and not restricted to a minority of the affluent or the rich. [More…]
Freedom of choice must be freedom for all. [More…]
Any attempt to destroy the freedom of choice must inevitably under these conditions be a socialisation or a nationalisation of education. [More…]
The device of approaching this matter on the basis of the needs and priorities of schools is an insidious device because, if a government has the power to discriminate between schools and to determine which ones shall be encouraged and which shall wither on the vine, that government has the power to wipe out the freedom of choice in education. [More…]
If we withdraw that and subsidise needs and priorities, we destroy flexibility and freedom of choice. [More…]
the freedom to arrange their own expression and to develop the characteristics of their children. [More…]
If this amendment is passed, this freedom of choice will be destroyed, as will this freedom of expression. [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…]
To me it is quite incongruous that whereas I have freedom to sign vouchers to travel by air anywhere in Australia in connection with my representative duties as a member of Parliament. [More…]
I have referred earlier in my remarks tonight to the freedom of movement which the Service has in its implementation stages. [More…]
The ninth charge was that he referred to the expulsion of some nuns from Skopse and said: ‘This is the freedom the Government guarantees - one thing is written and the other thing done’. [More…]
There are no court procedures in those countries and public servants have much more freedom than they have in this country. [More…]
An exceptional course was taken in favour of that man’s freedom. [More…]
That being the situation, the honourable senator can be fully assured that the department involved will give the earliest proper attention to this matter of the freedom of the individual, as favourably as the law permits. [More…]
This simply means that the Government, the courts and everybody else recognise freedom of industrial relations in Australia. [More…]
However, 1 am currently involved in an intimate study of the question of the freedom of members of Parliament inside Parliament House when the conference is being held. [More…]
It also provides for freedom of payments from Australian or Territory taxation or restrictions imposed by Australian or Territory law. [More…]
Documents which are reproduced in this edition of ‘National U’ reveal that Mr Cairns is a member of an extreme right wing national organisation known as Peace with Freedom. [More…]
There is an organisation known as Peace with Freedom, lt has been in existence at least from 13th May 1969. because I have with me the documents which set out the agenda of its meeting of that date. [More…]
organisation known as Peace with Freedom. [More…]
The last two editions of National U have revealed the existence of an organisation known as Peace with Freedom, ft became apparent that this group was co-ordinating a systematic attack on student governing bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
However, information has since been received which clearly illustrates that the extent of Peace with Freedom’s activities and organisation range from the highest office in the land through a tightly knit organisation of politicians, academics, intellectuals, and journalists in all the Australian Stales. [More…]
For the past fortnight National U staff have investigated the membership, financing, and organisation of Peace with Freedom. [More…]
Peace with Freedom, by its members’ own admission, has campaigned against the Government to which Cairns belongs. [More…]
The Government says that it is not associated with Peace with Freedom. [More…]
Would you disclaim that you have anything to do with the Peace with Freedom movement? [More…]
It is a ridiculous assertion to suggest that a body which is concerned with Australia’s defence, the maintenance of Australia’s freedom and the alerting of the people of Australia to the menace of communism should in some way be regarded as manipulating democracy. [More…]
I would only say in respect of Mr Cairns, because the comment has been made, that I know and his colleagues know that he is a person who supports the Liberal Party, who supports democracy, who believes in freedom and who opposes communism. [More…]
I would have thought that if the Government or the DLP had any serious interest in the matter they would have been very happy to see us table the documents relating to a meeting of an organisation known as Peace with Freedom. [More…]
What is alleged is that there is in existence an organisation called Peace with Freedom. [More…]
The goals of the Peace with Freedom organisation appear to be political goals and they could be described fairly as being of an extreme right wing nature. [More…]
Early in his speech he indicated that he did not like the organisation called Peace for Freedom because most of his policies and the policies of his Party are directed towards peace, or rather the absence of struggle, against communist subversion or aggression. [More…]
Did the Attorney-General receive correspondence which was delivered to his office by myself last week in which a number of draft resisters who had failed to register thanked the Attorney-General for giving them freedom to walk around Canberra influencing other young lads to fail to register? [More…]
This freedom is one thing which attracts overseas companies to come to Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government and the State Governments are bound by section 92 - I am referring to one of the notes that we made at the time - and it applies to any legislative or governmental action which operates to restrict the freedom of the individual to engage in interstate trade, commerce or intercourse. [More…]
I think we all recognise that many people have come to this country to experience a freedom of living, a freedom from all the apparatus of tyranny and authoritarianism which characterises the Communist countries of this world. [More…]
There are throughout the world millions of people who have left their homeland, to which naturally they would have desired to adhere, in order to secure a freedom which is denied to them by the Communist regimes. [More…]
Freedom in this country means that there is freedom of speech for those who are opposed to communism and for those who support communism and who would seek to destroy the very freedom which allows them to speak. [More…]
We certainly have not only freedom of speech but also freedom to publish by the written word, freedom to disseminate views and freedom to move around. [More…]
Of course, we seek to establish the widest possible freedom of communication with other countries including the communist countries which, given the opportunity, would seek to deny that freedom of communication which we cherish in this land. [More…]
Taking that freedom, as I see it, we have to take the good with the bad because freedom is meaningless unless we are prepared to do that. [More…]
If we were to adopt the course, which presumably we could adopt in the form of legislation, of stopping material coming into this country, I believe that we would be cutting down on a freedom. [More…]
Of course, we may cut down on a freedom if it is necessary to preserve the national interest. [More…]
There is the need to ensure freedom of action by unions and employers, consistent with the need to protect the public interest. [More…]
I have not seen the statement, but one of the beautiful things about the Government parties, unlike some other parties, is that members have complete freedom to express their own views. [More…]
At what stage should society say that the consumption of a drug is so harmful that it has to be prohibited, even though this action does deny certain freedoms to people to do what they want to do with their minds and their bodies? [More…]
On the other hand, the other consideration which has to be taken into account - this is part of the same problem - is at what stage, society is entitled to say that as the drug is harmful it is entitled to take away this man’s or that woman’s freedom to indulge in it. [More…]
1 do not believe that the responsibility should be imposed on those who believe in freedom to establish that the freedom which they are advocating is nol harmful and never can be harmful in any circumstances. [More…]
In conclusion 1 wish to say only this: J believe that the function of the state is to guarantee liberties to the citizen and not to take his freedoms away from him. [More…]
Before any freedom is taken away from any person it must be shown very clearly that there are overwhelming considerations relating to the interests of the society or the interests of the state which justify the deprivation of that freedom. [More…]
I deprecate the fact that, as a Victorian, he did not acknowledge that if Victoria were given freedom to produce all of the milk products it wished to produce it could provide over and above what the Commonwealth of Australia would require. [More…]
There was no freedom of choice for his Party. [More…]
I expressed my great concern that the Attorney-General should place the Commonwealth Police in the position in which they have been placed at his direction and also that the individual freedom and civil rights of Chris Shanley were offended in this way. [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 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…]
The Government believes today - as it has always done - in a system of free enterprise under which citizens have as much freedom as possible to participate in the production and distribution of the nation’s wealth. [More…]
It 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…]
Just listen to some of the grandiose thoughts on freedom in that Party’s constitution. [More…]
Under (d) (iii) the following appears: freedom of speech, religion and association. [More…]
The Labor Party concept of a trade union is an organisation that seeks power for the trade union boss and no freedom for those people at the grass roots. [More…]
When I hear Labor senators plead in this chamber for the freedom of the ordinary trade unionist, my heart will be glad. [More…]
It is contrary to international conventions adopted over the years concerning the freedom of association and the protection of the right to organise. [More…]
Many statements have been made on the rights and freedoms of trade unions. [More…]
We hear in this chamber many discussions about how trade unions elsewhere are not free and about how Australia is providing freedom for its citizens. [More…]
What are the provisions which traditionally have appeared in the conventions concerning the freedom of association and the protection of the right to organise? [More…]
Workers’ and employers’ organisations shall have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government is consistently eroding the freedom of the citizens, lt is doing this right now in regard to the trade unions, lt is setting precedents of the most dangerous kind. [More…]
It seeks therefore to put limitations on the freedom of action of unionists and it is not hard to understand why the trade union movement reacts towards the Government as it does - why it opposes the Government on most if not all of its policies and supports the policies and activities of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Twenty years ago the International Labour Organisation constituted a Committee of Freedom of Association. [More…]
87 which protects the rights of the trade union movement to organise and to have freedom of expression and freedom of organisation. [More…]
I wonder whether this is a breach of the conditions adopted by the International Labour Organisation and its Committee of Freedom of Association. [More…]
87 guarantees to all workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever and without previous authorisation, the right to establish and join organisations of their own choosing; these organisations are to have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes, without interference by the public authorities; they may not be dissolved or suspended by administrative authority; they shall have the right to form federations and confederations, and to affiliate with international organisations of workers and employers; those rights also apply to federations and confederations; the acquisition of legal personality by organisations may not be made subject to conditions restricting the exercise of these rights; in exercising them workers and employers and their respective organisations must respect the law of the land, but in turn the law of the land may not be such as to impair, nor may it be so applied as to impair, the guarantees provided for in the Convention; the extent to which the guarantees provided for in the Convention shall apply to the armed forces and the police is to be determined by national laws or regulations. [More…]
We also remind the Government of ils obligation to the 1LO and its numerous conventions, a number of which emphasise the right of unions to organise, the right of freedom of association. [More…]
Their policy, at least in Victoria for many years, has been one of freedom to vote, particularly in municipal elections. [More…]
The Government restricts the organisational freedom of unions, in a way in which it does not restrict the freedom of other organisations, by imposing upon those unions all sorts of arbitrary rules which have not been agreed upon by the members of the unions. [More…]
They need advice on planning estates, arranging finance, the use of trust funds, entering into contracts, asserting citizen rights under the Constitution, defending themselves or their families in the courts of the land, fighting for their freedom and liberty, and generally in asserting citizenship. [More…]
I include parliamentarians in the comparison because it at least gives us a chance to compare the level of our salaries with those of a section of the Public Service whose salaries are adjusted at the same time as legislation is introduced to impose more restrictions on the freedom of unions and organisations to make collective agreements. [More…]
If restraint is to be applied let us not have the restraint that the Labor Party wants, which is freedom for the union bosses and chairs for the union employees. [More…]
This Government has had a mighty record over 20 years in preserving the freedom that we all possess. [More…]
Australia, a signatory to that convention, believes on the one hand in the freedom of people to organise themselves into organisations while on the other, through the clauses contained in this Bill, interferes in trade onion activity. [More…]
I said previously that I sincerely believed that Australia is openly in conflict with what is subscribed to in the charter of that United Nations’ Organisation and is leaving itself open to examination by the Committee for Freedom of Association, a part of that Organisation. [More…]
1 appeal to them to pause, look at the sentiments expressed by the Committee of Freedom of Association of the International Labour Organisation and to think over the statements that I have made today that were advanced to the important Third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development held at Santiago, Chile, from 13th April to 19th May. [More…]
This will have the effect of reducing the freedom of organisations and will cause an erosion of the freedom of individuals. [More…]
In fact, I am simply exercising the freedom which is given to Liberal Party members of Parliament - a freedom which was so favourably commented upon by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) last Monday at the meeting of the Federal Libera) Party Council. [More…]
The anti-censors are fond of saying that books and plays do not really corrupt, and that to interfere with private choice in their regard is a gross infringement of citizen freedom. [More…]
Gallup Polls have shown that the community wants its standards upheld against the advocates of porn and moral subversion, whose propaganda undermines the roots of ordered freedom by the pollution of the people, and those in power would do well to give more heed to real public opinion than to mass media writers who do not reflect it. [More…]
As I said earlier, this Bill is no attack on the integrity of the Minister for Customs and Excise; it is simply an exercise in that democratic freedom which Liberal parliamentarians enjoy. [More…]
With or without the help from the Opposition I will have freedom of speech. [More…]
He has the freedom of the lobbies, but he ought not to misuse the freedom of the lobbies. [More…]
The situation over many years has been that these sections of the media, along with the other sections, have enjoyed a freedom to engage in advertising as a form of revenue raising. [More…]
We remember that it was in the airways case that he established the essentials of freedom as outlined in section 92 of the Constitution. [More…]
He further expounded those essentials, against strong dissent but with great perseverance, in the road transport cases, in which he declared that freedom must insist upon opposing arbitrary government discretion. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service whether at the 53rd session of the International Labour Organisation a decision was made that a representative of the Director-General of the ILO should visit Australia to have discussions with the Australian Government that could lead to Australia’s ratifying Convention 87 which deals with freedom of association and freedom of the right to organise. [More…]
We will see whether honourable senators opposite have political freedom. [More…]
If indeed it has been said that the last enemy is death, the second last enemy is human conflict, the fact that man has not learnt to live side by side with man, to recognise the right of the other fellow to be different and yet to give him the freedom to be different. [More…]
The end that we serve is man and his dignity and freedom. [More…]
The proposition was that just because there is an industrial dispute trade unionists should have complete freedom to ignore law which exists for the protection of property and other persons. [More…]
I was only going to add that this is a remarkable privilege to be claimed by a Party claiming to be a democratic party, to give to one class in our community - organisations, trade unions - freedom from any responsibility whatever in law or any action for anything in any way done in the course of an industrial dispute. [More…]
This, Mr Acting Deputy President, is consonant with Senator Mulvihill’s philosophy since obviously he does not believe in the freedom of speech. [More…]
In support of my proposition that the ABC is running a particular line in its current affairs programmes, I turn to an address given by Mr Gerald Stone, senior reporter of the ABC’s programme ‘This Day Tonight’, when addressing a seminar of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom on 27th May 1971. [More…]
On either, all I do is ask the people of Australia to understand that the Labour Party, which over the years has set out to destroy freedom of speech outside and inside this chamber, tonight is using the same techniques, and it will not succeed. [More…]
If fundamental requirements for more democracy and freedom were set out in a letter from the Government to Mr Clunies-Ross in 1968, why has the Government failed to ensure Mr Clunies-Ross’s compliance with those directives so that the islanders could be freed from this so-called benevolent despotism? [More…]
This is quite apart from courtesy and the denial of what other people call freedom of speech which ought to be observed in this place if nowhere else. [More…]
I believe in freedom under the law and I believe that the law can be maintained only if people arc vigilant to recognise the values which it has for society, and the freedoms which il protects. [More…]
I will persist in that statement and I will use every forum, every platform, every debate and every opportunity that I have to make sure that the people of Australia appreciate the values of freedom under the law. [More…]
I sought to make a statement when you had completed your reply, as I thought thatI had justification for making my attitude known, but there was not enough decency in the Government forces to permit me to have the freedom of speech which, we hoped, operated in this chamber. [More…]
But let us assume that there are people who could establish, as of tonight, that they are entitled to their freedom and who, as of tomorrow are going to start proceedings. [More…]
Is it wrong for a group of people to leave Australia and go to Yugoslavia, in their view, for freedom? [More…]
This triggered off bitterness and hatreds which gave rise to the development of the Ustasha and to the development of a number of groups of Croatian freedom fighters. [More…]
I think that the word has been described as meaning rise up, uprising, get going, get up - signifying, really a call to the freedom of Croatia. [More…]
That call to freedom was complicated and perverted by the fact that in 1941 Italy and Germany overran this tragic country again and then carved it up again into a group of countries, handing them out to the people around - giving a part to Bulgaria and so on, and giving to Croatia a form of independence during those World War IT years. [More…]
There were 2 main groups of people fighting for freedom. [More…]
Let us make this quite clear: We stand for the right of people to fight for freedom. [More…]
This does not mean that we scorn their ideas of freedom. [More…]
The emphatic answer ls no but I do express a concern and exercise the freedom of speech which every honourable senator has to reply to the Press which, by and large, is answerable to nobody for the prejudice, slanting and selective reporting of particular issues upon which some newspapers have a particular line to put forward. [More…]
Of course, if the Ordinance is disallowed the Aborigines or anyone else will have complete freedom to erect a tent on unleased land simply on the basis of the right to organise in the appropriate manner or in a manner which the Aborigines think effective. [More…]
The legislation does not restrict traditional rights of freedom of speech or assembly. [More…]
The legislation does not restrict the traditional rights, such as the right of freedom of speech and assembly; nor should it. [More…]
The reason for the Opposition moving for the disallowance of the Ordinance is to retain a freedom for the Aborigines. [More…]
We are told that the councils on the reserves have complete freedom of action. [More…]
If that word is too harsh I say that it is a deliberate untruth because they do not have freedom of action at all. [More…]
We are told that in Queensland there is complete freedom to come and go as you like and that the councils are elected at regular intervals. [More…]
There will be a different attitude to the problems of health, unemployment, freedom and right of expression. [More…]
The legislation will not in any way restrict traditional rights of freedom of speech of assembly. [More…]
These parties have the freedom to exist in this country although they do not have very much support from the Australian community. [More…]
Apparently the reason was that freedom of speech had been put in doubt in that school. [More…]
What has been stated about freedom movements in this country is common to the Hungarians, to the Czeches and to the Rumanians. [More…]
I can take honourable senators to any one national group and show them freedom movements, liberation movements which are of course endemic to the group, because they all live with the hope that one day the tyranny of the Iron Curtain will end and they can be free. [More…]
They will be thoroughly interested to know that the national aspirations of human beings to seek freedom for their country from the tyranny of communism is being rejected by the Labor Party. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral as the protector of freedom in this country has stood proudly in this Parliament to defend freedom. [More…]
That movement embraces all those people who believe in freedom and independence for Croatia’. [More…]
’, and Mr Luvokivic used a form of words to this effect: ‘Including those who formerly followed the beliefs of the Ustasha because the Ustasha had as its goal freedom for Croatia’. [More…]
While opposing violence, I ask that there be in Australia a human understanding that all people who have been forced out of Iron Curtain countries have, in their hearts, a natural hunger to form freedom bodies in the hope that one day they will return to their countries. [More…]
I can only say from my knowledge of the history of the Labor Party in this country that the Labor Party never downed or attacked the right of people to condemn tyranny in an overseas country and it conceded their right to form an organisation by peaceful means to advocate freedom in that country. [More…]
I draw attention to Senator Douglas McClelland’s statement that he believes that none of the migrants are entitled to work for the freedom of the countries whence they came. [More…]
for the freedom of their own country so that it can get away from the iron heel of communism. [More…]
I feel that newspapers have a tremendously important role to exercise a criticism and a freedom of speech which makes the democratic system work. [More…]
There is the problem of loss of freedom of people in homes or institutions and there is the problem of providing homes or institutions close to the usual place of living of the persons in those homes or institutions. [More…]
I tell the Minister that while I believe that this great Australian company, the Australian Gas Light Co., should be permitted to buy wherever it desires - that it should have this freedom - nevertheless in this case it appears to me quite strongly that Australian industry was not given sufficient and appropriate specification upon which to quote. [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 Senate in Parliament assembled will restore to the Australian people true religious freedom, which can exist only when Church and Slate are legally separated both in form and substance. [More…]
Insofar as the description of it by Senator Mulvihill is a protest about inflammatory editorials in newspapers, I think we must recognise that in this country, providing the incitement involved in the newspapers does not offend against the law, there is an essential freedom of speech which we know does not exist in Yugoslavia. [More…]
If Senator Webster wishes the subject matter of the constitutional rights of citizens and the freedom of religion to be debated properly in this chamber, I would suggest that he should raise it in a more substantial way than he has raised it this evening. [More…]
It has the advantage of giving people a greater freedom, as long as the incidence of estate duty continues, to plan further ahead. [More…]
The Government believes in a system of free enterprise under which citizens have as much freedom as possible to participate in the production and distribution of the nation’s wealth. [More…]
The number of occasions upon which Australian citizens are losing their freedom in visiting Yugoslavia is becoming far too numerous to be allowed to pass unnoticed or as some vague hoary allegation that they are members of some terrorist outfit. [More…]
The purpose in raising this matter is to ask that some action be taken by our Government to protect the value of an Australian passport and the freedom of an Australian citizen who has already been called up for military service in this country, so that when visiting any parts of Europe the members of our migrant community can feel that the Australian Government is behind them and will give them the same protection as it would give to any other Australian citizen who may be travelling abroad. [More…]
You profess to be liberal in your political outlook, defending the rights of the individual and his freedom of speech, yet you have denied me these things. [More…]
One might take into account the fact that the establishment of a national pipeline authority by the Australian Labor Party would still have to meet the test of the bar in section 92 of the Constitution to the freedom of interstate trade and commerce. [More…]
In other words, there are 30,000 people in Queensland who do not have full freedom. [More…]
He ought to be given more freedom to say some of the things in which I am sure he must believe in his own heart. [More…]
A publication, which gives rise to my remarks tonight, called ‘On Target”, copies of which may be inspected in the Parliamentary Library, is a weekly commentary produced by the League of Rights, which has the very praiseworthy slogan which I am sure will commend itself to the Attorney-General: ‘The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance’. [More…]
Or would it say, as this Government says, that organisations which do not breach the laws of this country have a right to exist, because that is what we understand by freedom of association? [More…]
that, to allow true religious freedom, Government will make no law respecting religion, neither to prohibit the free exercise thereof nor to compel ,ne individual citizen to support the religion of others. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will restore to the Australian people true religious freedom, which can exist only when Church and State are legally separated both in form and substance. [More…]
There is no objection because this is a country which values and seeks to uphold the freedoms which have attracted so many people to it. [More…]
We believe in freedom of association. [More…]
Freedom of association means that peoples can group themselves together in pursuit of objectives which they regard as legitimate and as binding them together. [More…]
But provided organisations act within the law they have a right which comes from the freedom in this country to associate together. [More…]
When the economic progress and development of one State is threatened by the high level of freight costs, could this be construed as a contravention of the constitutional guarantees of equality of opportunity and treatment of the States and of freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse among the States? [More…]
We are propounding these laws and abiding by these conventions, as a country which has, by virtue of its way of life and political system, certain freedom from crimes of this nature. [More…]
He made it quite clear that he was exercising the freedom of speech which every senator has, and he referred only to ‘some newspapers’ as is recorded in Hansard of 20th September, page 993. [More…]
After the war his presidential contribution was seen in a different context - through the Truman Doctrine ‘to support the cause of freedom wherever it was threatened’ and from his attempted role in the emergence in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1939. [More…]
Truman’s actions ultimately resulted in saving South Korea’s independence, thus aiding the freedom of all South East Asian countries, including Australia. [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 Senate assembled will restore to the Australian people true religious freedom, which can only exist when Church and State are legally separated both in form and substance. [More…]
Has the Australian Government indicated that future postwar economic aid will be contingent oh the extent of political freedom in Saigon? [More…]
I believe in freedom and in preference to trade unionists. [More…]
In default of such action will the Government warn intending travellers to Communist China that the Commonwealth Government accepts no responsibility for the freedom and safety of Australian travellers there? [More…]
There is a clear principle that should be fundamental to all those who have belonged to a nation which on several occasions has seen fit to stake its future in the freedom of the world. [More…]
To say that a person shall receive 4 weeks leave only if he is a member of a union is to deny to a person an essential freedom. [More…]
There have to be over-riding considerations of public utility to break down the rule that a person should have a freedom to decide whether he snail join an organisation. [More…]
It is a decision which he may make if he wishes to do so but he should be given the utmost freedom in which to exercise a choice. [More…]
I refer the Senate to article 20 of that Declaration which states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and, secondly, that no-one may be compelled to belong to an association. [More…]
Furthermore, to compel a person to become a member of an association is to compel him to engage, in practical terms, in activities which are inconsistent with his own freedom of action. [More…]
I would not mind - I do not think the trade unions would mind - if some of these John Hampdens who talk about independence and freedom booked themselves off for 3 days, did a little research and testified. [More…]
Trade unionism could be strangled by some people talking about freedom and arguing whether it is a pacesetter for industrial gains. [More…]
I am not sure whether, as a consequence of his Party’s defeat in the last House of Representatives election, Senator Greenwood - I regret that he has left the chamber - has been chastened, which I doubt; but it is interesting to note that he now claims that he is concerned about personal freedom and freedom of the individual to make decisions. [More…]
To say that a person shall receive 4 weeks leave only if he is a member of a union is to deny to a person an essential freedom. [More…]
There have to be over-riding considerations of public utility to break down the rule that a person should have a freedom to decide whether he shall join an organisation. [More…]
As Attorney-General he pursued the Act with such zeal that he persecuted, prosecuted and jailed young men who had the temerity to exercise the freedom he now suggests ought to be available to all and sundry. [More…]
We, of course, believe in this freedom, but we also say at the same time that we believe a person is entitled to make a contribution to an organisation which obtains benefits for him. [More…]
Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity, and Considering further that discrimination constitutes a violation of rights enunciated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [More…]
87 concerns the freedom of association and protection of the right to organise. [More…]
The whole of the ILO conventions are based not only on the fundamental acceptance of the Declaration of Human Rights but on the freedom of the right of people to organise, and the freedom of the right of people to organise means the freedom if they wish, not to organise. [More…]
If there is no freedom not to organise, there is no freedom to organise. [More…]
We are supporting the freedom of the individual. [More…]
That raises the question I asked earlier tonight as to the extent to which the Opposition is prepared to go to block the efforts of the Government to give freedom to workers to join unions, including those unions which do not support the Australian Labor Patty. [More…]
That indicates the extent of the genuineness of the paranoic plea we heard from the Minister for Works who said that in this proposition the Government was insisting on the freedom of unionists to join a union. [More…]
Government supporters say: ‘We are giving you the freedom and all the benefits of Bishop government’. [More…]
He said that in addition to claiming freedom for the Public Service he was insisting that the Public Service should have the benefit of an independent arbitrator. [More…]
some freedom in Australia. [More…]
When one uses the word freedom honourable senators on the Government side shut their eyes because they are ashamed of this proposition. [More…]
Again there are individuals who wish to see more freedom in the community. [More…]
That is freedom of choice. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. [More…]
Then he rises to debate the question in the Parliament saying: ‘We are the people who give freedom to everybody and let them have all the benefits, whether or not they are unionists’. [More…]
They are here to make political propaganda They have posed in this Parliament as the saviours of freedom, the freedom of people. [More…]
We never saw them line up on our side when we talked of the freedom of the young boys who did not have a vote being sent to Vietnam to die in an undeclared war. [More…]
That is the kind of freedom they believe in when they adopt this right-wing attitude in relation to the saving of a nation. [More…]
But now they say ‘Look, we are the purists; freedom is there for everybody to get these conditions whether they pay for them or not’. [More…]
Senator Byrne is a member of one of the organisations which Senator Milliner talked about last night which has no freedom at all. [More…]
May I indicate to honourable senators for their information that the Prime Minister some weeks ago announced that the Cabinet had authorised me to prepare a Bill for freedom of information, broadly following the concepts of the American Freedom of Information Act and to implement in Australia what was broadly then recommended by the Franks Committee in the United Kingdom, that is, to remove restrictions upon public servants and to clarify the areas in which they might not be permitted to speak out. [More…]
Would the Government consider making urgent representations to the Thieu regime suggesting that the return to normal conditions of national reconciliation and democratic government in South Vietnam will be impossible unless all such persons are given their freedom and an opportunity to participate in the rehabilitation of Vietnam? [More…]
In point of fact, it is most unlikely that the Labor Party’s so-called mandate could by any stretch of the imagination be extended to include the hurling of insults by Government Ministers at the President of a nation with which we have long, friendly and beneficial relations and which, in the final analysis, is the one nation which could guarantee our safety and freedom if that need arose. [More…]
I should say, now that interjections have occurred, that honourable senators may be pleased to know that the work on the freedom of information Bills and the associated matters has been considerably advanced. [More…]
The privilege of freedom of speech carries with it grave obligations, and it is not surprising that responsible legislatures have steadfastly refused to exercise it in such a way as to put in jeopardy the rights of a private individual whose case is in due process of trial. [More…]
They are talking about a zone of peace, freedom and security. [More…]
It is a fact that a number of members of ASIO were denied their personal freedom as a result of the arrival of Senator Murphy’s friends on this visit. [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 Senateassembled will restore to the Australian people true religious freedom, which can only exist when Church and State are legally separated both in form and substance. [More…]
All I can do is to use the opportunity to indicate to honourable senators when they ask certain questions that imbedded in those questions are matters which are contrary to standing order 99.I made a reference merely as an illustration to Senator Rae, when he referred to the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union in Melbourne, that the question contained an inference in the context of the Painters and Dockers Union and not to anything else.I would be glad to allow honourable senators some reasonable freedom but I ask them not to transgress violently the Standing Orders. [More…]
This is the type of freedom that they wish to impose on us. [More…]
In increasing the total grants to the States for 1972-73 by over 50 per cent, we are honouring the trust placed in us to restore to the Aboriginals the basic human rights and to create for them the conditions in which they, too, may enjoy a standard of living, a freedom from fear and deprivation which has previously been reserved for non-Aboriginal Australians. [More…]
The Opposition is particularly happy to stand up for the freedom of the people of Australia on this issue. [More…]
I recall that three or four years ago members of that community said they would raise a freedom legion to go to South Vietnam but when I made inquiries of the Army Department about this, I found it was stillborn. [More…]
The Latvians, the Lithuanians, the Estonians, the Rumanians, the Hungarians and the Bulgarians even, all have their organisations which call for the freedom of their countries. [More…]
I emphasise that provided they do not resort to violence they have the same right to live here and advocate the freedom of their countries as Mazzini, the Italian patriot, had in the middle years of the last century. [More…]
These people talk of freedom. [More…]
But it is good enough to.- table documents on some Croat or some Yugoslav whose dignity, rights, freedom and liberty are at least equal to those of Mr Burchett or any honourable senator here o.r elsewhere. [More…]
It is outrageous to believe that one -man’s freedom is in any way less than another’s. [More…]
In the ASIO documents which were put down as the background documents the theme clearly runs that all Croats in Australia are freedom fighters. [More…]
Most of them, perhaps foolishly, would support freedom fighters. [More…]
These people have come to Australia to live in freedom. [More…]
These are people to whom freedom is important and who value it. [More…]
While we may not have evidence to prosecute successfully any of these people, the suspicion and belief remain that someone may be guilty of some action and that some person or persons should not be permitted the freedom to injure people in our community. [More…]
This man who was a danger to Australia’s safety was permitted the freedom of Australia because we did not have sufficient proof, we are told, to succeed in a prosecution. [More…]
In our revolutionary struggle to achieve the Croatian People’s freedom and State independence we shall use every possible means including, of course, chemicals in spile of the fact that some of them, e.g., poisons, are banned under international law. [More…]
Recent acts of violence against Yugoslav Embassies and Consulates in the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Australia indicate that Croatian freedom groups remain active. [More…]
The document goes on to appeal to Croatians who have emigrated from Croatia to other lands to take part in this so called revolutionary struggle for the freedom of Croatia from Yugoslavia. [More…]
If that freedom is removed we are heading towards a police state. [More…]
Honourable senators will be pleased to know that the drafting of the Freedom of Information Bill is advancing very swiftly. [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…]
I also seriously offended the Labor Party in that I dared to legislate for the appointment of an appeal board at a university, and I was charged with destroying the academic freedom of the university - yet nobody could tell me what academic freedom meant. [More…]
I do not doubt that there are members of the Australian Labor Party who are not opposed to the death penalty but their conscience is denied, their freedom is assailed. [More…]
They have not got the freedom which always has been the hallmark of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I take pride in my membership of the Liberal Party in that over some 25 years I have exercised in regard to fundamental issues and not so fundamental issues that freedom which I think, if one wants to reflect upon it and look upon it, is one of the characteristics of the Liberal Party in this country - and long may those principles be maintained. [More…]
I think that indicates why, philosophically and intrinsically, the Liberal Party is superior to the Australian Labor Party which does not allow this freedom and independence of opinion which ought to be the hallmark of sophisticated, educated and intelligent legislators in the national interest. [More…]
But never let it be forgotten that when this measure is carried it will be carried because of a Party which will permit to its members a freedom of expression which the actual protagonists and supporters of the measure will not allow to their own members. [More…]
Senator Greenwood suggested that this complete freedom was one of the hallmarks of the Liberal Party organisation. [More…]
There is no more freedom in that Party than there is in any other political party. [More…]
The freedom that is granted and exercised on an occasion such as this follows a decision by the members of the Party, or its leaders, to grant such freedom. [More…]
This person sought to create circumstances in which his wife could find the freedom to remarry someone worthy of her. [More…]
In the immediate context of the question, this interest embraces, for example, the dairying and vegetable oilseeds industries in the rural sector, and, from the consumer viewpoint, matters which include health factors and freedom of choice. [More…]
In increasing the total grants to the States for 1972-73 by over 50 per cent, we are honouring the trust placed in us to restore to the Aboriginals the basic human rights and to create for them the conditions in which they, too, may enjoy a standard of living, a freedom from fear and deprivation which has previously been reserved for nonAboriginal Australians. [More…]
It is a country of some 30-odd million people who have pursued, as their name implies - the word Thai’ means free - a great belief in freedom and peace. [More…]
Against our inclination, without our approval and by a policy of deception and subterfuge, supported by a practice of secrecy, half truths and prevarication the Australian people are being drawn into a communist orbit- We are being brought into the world of those who practise totalitarianism, those who believe in the lie as a weapon of government and those would deny freedom to those would dissent. [More…]
This is what is happening to us as a nation which cherishes its freedom and which I believe is the freest country in the world. [More…]
We believe fervently in the freedom and the principles which have made this country great, and that is the antithesis of communism. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Postmaster-General: As Australia is a signatory to the Declaration of Human Rights, including that section of it which guarantees freedom for the passage of information, will the Postmaster-General make a statement to the Parliament, firstly, on his decision to deny postal and similar facilities to the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney and, secondly, on the decision of the [More…]
I thank honourable senators for the freedom they have given me to say these few words since I know that Senator Murphy, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, has replied. [More…]
There is little doubt that as we develop our mineral resources and as the demand increases throughout the consuming countries of the world for our primary products, we will see even a greater demand from Japan for our products, particularly since the Japanese Government appears to be lifting some of its restrictions as to what the Japanese can buy, thus allowing them a great deal more freedom to purchase overseas goods. [More…]
On the one hand, there have been new approaches to life and to freedom as well as modern opinions on war and international conflicts. [More…]
In those cases I would not exercise the right to use capital punishment, but I would see that those people were not given freedom to perpetrate a second offence of that type. [More…]
He has maintained, as has the Labor Government and the trade union movement, that there is a right to strike and that to remove that right to strike from workers and unions is in fact to conscript them and destroy their freedom. [More…]
The sign of a true democracy is that people can walk in freedom. [More…]
Let there be no doubt about this, and I say it with no cynicism: The Prime Minister and the Attorney-General of Australia should be able to walk with freedom and with their heads high everywhere in absolute safety. [More…]
They have looked for the very things that we want to give them - the protection of the law and immunity from trespass by people who unlawfully try to interfere with their freedom, their liberty, their privacy and their person. [More…]
They are seeking freedom. [More…]
Those 2 million people are entitled to full freedom and liberty. [More…]
In essence, the committee is to inquire, first into whether the civil rights of a number of Australians, specifically migrants - and, more specifically, people of Croatian origin - are being infringed; secondly, whether there is any intimidation against any such Australians from any source, specifically from agents or officers of the Yugoslav Government, whether those persons be intelligence agents or secret police of that government, or from some other source; thirdly, to inquire into the circumstances of the visit by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) to the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in March; and fourthly to look virtually at the problems that now arise of dual citizenship of migrants and the threat to their lives and to their freedom when they travel abroad. [More…]
If it is stupid to plead for the freedom of people, then my stupidity will be chronic. [More…]
These people may disagree with the policies followed in their home country and decide to migrate to Australia because they have been told that it is a democracy, a country in which they can live in freedom. [More…]
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the Press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. [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…]
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…]
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 the people who comprise the electors of the Commonwealth. [More…]
This is a proposal, I understand, whereby the Government seems bent on taking from the Australian people the ultimate in their system of preference and their freedom of choice. [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, 1948; Convention No. [More…]
Compatability, romantic love, a sense of freedom felt by those who are mutually accepting ties, and a sense of willingness to share the fortunes of life together are all factors which can and do impinge upon the minds and the actions of a younger generation which increasingly feels its greater independence and its greater selfreliance. [More…]
It may be that some people will marry younger because there is now a freedom recognised - indeed, encouraged - by the law. [More…]
Once that decision is made by the Parliament, there should never be freedom within an organised community which has elected the members of that Parliament to defy the decision of the Parliament or to interfere with and destroy the work that is to be performed by a body such as the proposed Authority. [More…]
Does anybody here say that this represents human liberty and human freedom? [More…]
Is this giving the individual his freedom and rights? [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 - -1948 - and protection of the right to organise and with the right to organise and bargain collectively - 1949. [More…]
I repeat that this is the Government which paid lip service to freedom, the liberty of the individual, the right of the individual to natural justice. [More…]
One is the freedom to prescribe. [More…]
If honourable senators follow the chapters which relate to the direct billing of doctors for fees they will find that under the euphemism of freedom of choice of the doctor the patient is hit over the head in order to bludgeon the doctor into taking direct billing. [More…]
On the Government’s admission, it certainly sets out to destroy the private hospitals and private nursing homes, and its attack upon the patient’s freedom of choice is very real indeed. [More…]
It said that the voluntary health schemes in this country, by and large, were operating effectively and efficiently and giving a good service and that, by and large, the freedom of choice that they offered to the people of Australia was a good thing for the people of Australia. [More…]
I do not intend to speak at length, but I think I should reply to what has been said about the right to a freedom of choice on the part of the ordinary member of the community to select his medical practitioner. [More…]
We of the Labor movement believe in the principle of freedom of choice. [More…]
Often, at a time when people most need a doctor they do not have freedom of choice of doctors. [More…]
If that is freedom of choice, I certainly do not appreciate that situation. [More…]
There is the oft-referred to ‘traditional freedom’ of doctors to establish their own charges, but the Committee believes that recent actions by some members of the profession have left in the minds of an increasing number of people some lingering doubts as to the inviolability of the tradition. [More…]
I ask the Minister assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it a fact that he granted a long interview to Mr Eddison Zvogbo, an African who was referred to in the Senate last week and who has arrived in Australia stating himself to be a freedom fighter and claiming to be honoured to be described as a terrorist? [More…]
It cannot have absolute freedom of choice in the development. [More…]
They must have, some idea of the possible cost of development of this type and of the loss of freedom of choice they would suffer. [More…]
I think I could sum up by saying that some of the bad points of the concept of the Bill are: That the land is to be made available on a leasehold basis; land prices are to be frozen, which does not occur in other parts of Australia; there is to be a certain amount of loss of freedom to do as one likes with one’s land; there is to be a certain amount of regimentation by some control body; and probably the people who live in the area will have no say in the election of that body, and probably there will be no authority at a local level. [More…]
The application of the Snowy’s engineering, technical and 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…]
In other words, the employees do not have freedom of expression. [More…]
In total last year ATI, because of its large monopoly airline network and its freedom to expand its nonairline activities, earned revenues greater than those of TAA by some $88m. [More…]
I ask: Will the Minister take up with the South Vietnamese Government the proposal mat a small delegation headed by Mrs Jan Madigan, the President of the Young Christian Workers Movement, visit Saigon to see to what extent the Saigon authorities allow political freedom, mindful of their boast that they are providing a better society than is North Vietnam? [More…]
They have given us a new vision of what Australia might be and they have taught us many a lesson in concepts of freedom and I think they have taught us many a lesson in the concepts of citizenship. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General confirm or deny that Mr Ivan Mudrinic relaxing in freedom in Belgrade is the same man who was prosecuted in connection with the Warburton dynamite conspiracy case as referred to by him and Senator Greenwood and who was alleged to be a Croatian terrorist. [More…]
everything in my power to remove laws which restrict freedom of the media. [More…]
I said in my speech in Sydney last Sunday that the Australian Government can help in providing freedom for the Press by assisting in removing the great ambiguities which exist as a result of different libel laws in the various States of Australia, especially in these days when the media generally - newspapers, radio and television - go well beyond State boundaries. [More…]
The type of freedom to which I am referring in particular is the freedom to provide the public with true information about the state of society. [More…]
Clearly that was but one case where the Press needed to know that it had freedom to inform and protect the public and where it needed greater freedom than it actually had. [More…]
I pause there to indicate that this is the socalled freedom and independence of local government in the future. [More…]
While the Government is threatening to sub ject the combinations of business to the strict rigours of the criminal law, it is providing a freedom of action to the amalgamations of unionism in a way which no society which expects its Government to hold the balance between the powerful economic groups in the community can possibly tolerate. [More…]
Is this not a serious denial of the freedom of movement and a political censorship of individual citizens? [More…]
But it was apparent from the decision of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory that there is not an absolute freedom for people to use Commonwealth lands in the Territory as a person may, of his own volition, wish to do. [More…]
The Ordinance in no way restricted the traditional rights of freedom of speech and of assembly. [More…]
If there is some uncertainty about the rights of people to demonstrate in the cities, about the rights of people to freedom of speech or freedom of assembly, the Opposition would say: ‘Let us attend to this uncertainty by the simple measure of taking away the rights.’ [More…]
Medical benefits shall include pre-natal, confine ment 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…]
If we are talking about the way in which a woman should have the freedom of choice to exercise whether she wishes to be wholly engaged as a home maker or to combine this with some career for her own fulfilment and for a national contribution to our economy, we need to consider that perhaps Government assistance will be required in the form of incentives to employers to provide more flexibility in hours and types of services in which women may work. [More…]
Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (ILO Convention No. [More…]
I also am concerned to ensure the necessary corollary of the freedom to read, namely the freedom not to be exposed to material if you do not want to be exposed to it. [More…]
I make this point because the cornerstone of such a program of education is the provision of freedom of choice and flexibility of movement. [More…]
This freedom of choice and flexibility of movement should be provided for parents, for children and for all persons seeking to be educated. [More…]
Something also should be said about the freedom of a school. [More…]
He said the Government would support every international endeavour to bring down the Government of Rhodesia, oust South Africa from south-west Africa which it illegally occupied - that is a decision of his - and change the policy of the minority Government in South Africa and give freedom to Portugal’s colonies. [More…]
The Prime Minister went to New Guinea and told the people that whether they liked it or not they would have freedom thrust upon them, forcing them into aggression. [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…]
The cheapness of the exercise is shown by the fact that a man can commit premeditated murder, no insanity need be claimed, he ‘s put in gaol, at the taxpayers’ expense, for a few short years and out he comes to freedom street again. [More…]
They have a lifetime in which to put up with the tragedy caused by this one man and yet that man goes out onto freedom street and goes his own way. [More…]
A man brutally killed a little girl in Ceduna not many years ago and today he is coming out onto freedom street. [More…]
No, but we are talking about imprisoning someone for a few short years and then releasing him onto freedom street. [More…]
If we are to have laws in this country and expect officers to enforce those laws and to protect our rights and freedoms in this country the least we can do is to ensure that they have the full support they justly deserve. [More…]
It is my view that the police who protect society from those who are locked away and who are serving life sentences should know that they have a further protection, when at last a murder is committed by one who is locked away for life, of the ultimate penalty being imposed on the murderer so that he should lose his right to freedom. [More…]
I believe in freedom of speech in the Parliament and the rights of senators to speak, but I believe the stage has been reached at which we must cut ourselves down in time but not in numbers. [More…]
Czechoslovakia today has less freedom than any other country in Europe, and it has less freedom than most countries. [More…]
In Czechoslovakia today, I repeat, there is less freedom than in any other country in Europe. [More…]
Religious freedom has been denied the people. [More…]
There is no general freedom. [More…]
I pause for a moment to indicate that I face a number of honourable senators who do not enjoy that privilege of freedom of individual vote, honourable senators who, in a matter of this excruciating conscience vote, speak from the book of Caucus. [More…]
But now I have regained my freedom from that situation. [More…]
I repeat that I have moved this amendment because, as the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) announced when the debate on this Bill commenced many months ago, the opportunity would be taken during the debate in the Committee stage of the Bill, because members of the Opposition had differing views on the matter and had a freedom to vote as they pleased, to move amendments and identify areas in which it may be thought desirable that the death penalty be retained. [More…]
The status of the press, and the freedom of pressmen within this building are matters within the control of the President of the Senate and of the Speaker, until the Parliament determines otherwise. [More…]
When I heard today of the disgraceful manner in which students at one of our Victorian universities had rabbled and ill-treated the ambassador of a friendly country who had come to address them, and when I learned how those ignorant yahoos had broken every principle of freedom of speech and expression, I said to myself: ‘There ought not to be free university education for people of that type’. [More…]
I interpolate to say that this was Dr Evatt speaking and that it was he who said that freedom from ministerial direction is essential in order to maintain maximum internal security which, I have no doubt, all honourable members wish to have preserved. [More…]
Parents should be encouraged to exercise freedom of choice of the type of schools they wish for their children. [More…]
If the Leader of the Government wishes to give some freedom and some fairness I suggest that he should not make a policy speech while attempting to answer a question asked from an Opposition senator. [More…]
They were granted a previously unobtainable freedom. [More…]
Is it not incredible that a nation which can launch satellites, cosmonauts, nuclear submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles is utterly unable to devise a social system which will allow its people to live in freedom and dignity? [More…]
Two American Government departments have already made their co-operation dependant upon Russia granting freedom to its dissidents. [More…]
Against those who think they can restrict the freedom of a state by a series of campaigns based on uncertain or fallacious arguments, the French government will set not only the clear conscience it has of national interests but also facts which have not been refuted. [More…]
In particular, will the Government take urgent steps to institute the following: The installation of sewerage for every home; improved wages, with at least the basic wage for every worker; provision of a Commonwealth medical team to include available Aboriginal nurses, to work on the reserve for at least 6 months; and the application of pressure on the Queensland Government to abolish the Acts related to Aborigines thus giving mental and physical freedom to all who live on the reserve? [More…]
There is no field of human activity where freedom can be guaranteed solely by an Act of Parliament. [More…]
For those reasons I hope the Senate will defeat this Bill and that the Government will get on with governing and will let the people have a little more freedom. [More…]
The moving of this motion gives the Senate an opportunity to strike a blow for real freedom, to break a lance with the controllers of a totalitarian dictatorship and to provide real and genuine help to men whose courage and fortitude almost defy description. [More…]
It might well be thought strange that we in the Australian Parliament seek to do something which could result in freedom for a man who gave the Soviet its most powerful weapon; and yet Sakharov has indicated clearly in his statements from behind the Iron Curtain that he is disgusted with Soviet society and the way in which it controls men’s minds, and for that reason I have no hesitation in bracketing him with Solzhenitsyn in the resolution which is before this chamber. [More…]
The gravamen of these interviews is that intellectual freedom is nonexistent in the Soviet Union and anyone who criticises the Government is liable to imprisonment and, in many cases, to torture, the favourite method being the injection of excessive amounts of the drug halopiridol to cause depression and ultimately madness. [More…]
He did not quite accept the Soviet view on the conduct of World War II nor the amount of freedom which was available to people of intellectural attainments in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Amalrik, whom I mentioned earlier, and also Bukovsky were offered their freedom if they would confirm the convictions of 2 intellectuals, Yakir and Kruson. [More…]
I dare observe that Greece is not surrounded by a concrete wall and with electronic murderers at the border, and young Greeks do not pass in hundreds over the lethal line with faint hope of ever reaching freedom. [More…]
For freedom remains, as it always has been, the main revolutionary force in the world today. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite will be familiar with the way in which the communist manifesto begins; it was written in 1848 and begins with the words ‘a spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism’- a spectre is haunting Eastern Europe, the spectre of freedom”. [More…]
Within its budget and the terms of its charter the Gallery’s acquisitions committee has freedom to acquire works of any value for the national collection. [More…]
Successive governments accorded the same freedom to the committee’s predecessor, the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board. [More…]
Patients will have complete freedom to choose or change their private doctor as now. [More…]
Parents should be encouraged to exercise freedom of choice of the type of schools they wish for their children. [More…]
I had 20 years in this Senate when the Labor Party was in Opposition and the members of that Party were great exponents- and I supported them- of the rights of members of Parliament, of upholding the tradition and the Standing Orders, and of freedom of speech. [More…]
The US will provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with the US or a nation vital to US security. [More…]
Australia’s independence of policy and action had been traded away for ‘defence on the cheap’- yet its closest allies, the United Kingdom and the U.S., were withdrawing into low profiles’ on the understandable premise that their friends should be as ready to defend their own freedom as we had been. [More…]
It seems to me that our Standing Orders, which we have believed and which I am sure that the electors have believed are a sufficient guarantee of proper debate on matters of national concern, are not a sufficient guarantee of freedom of speech and debate in this country. [More…]
There can be no question that the experiences in this chamber and in another place have shown that our Standing Orders and the Standing Orders of the other place are by no means a guarantee of freedom of speech in this Parliament. [More…]
That frivolous interjection simply reveals the indifference of the Labor Party to the question of democracy and freedom of speech not only in this country but in this Parliament. [More…]
-Senator Wheeldon ‘s interjection reveals the complete indifference of members of the Labor Party to the question of freedom of speech in Parliament itself. [More…]
We have to ensure that our Standing Orders guarantee that freedom of speech and freedom of debate in this Parliament are sacrosanct. [More…]
I could not agree with him more completely than I do in relation to the freedom of speech. [More…]
I have always spoken very strongly in favour of the freedom of speech of honourable senators. [More…]
I think it is very important that our rules do protect us so that there is freedom of speech for everyone in this Senate and so that they all have the opportunity to speak. [More…]
He drew our attention to the wording of one of the Standing Orders but I do not think it referred to freedom of speech, the subject about which he spoke. [More…]
The situation has now been reached where there is complete freedom of trade, as we understand it, between the 2 countries without any protective barrier being available to the Australian industry. [More…]
I say that here we have actions of unique and naked courage by 2 men who are projecting to the world a message which is not only a message that in Russia there is the supression of freedom- intellectual freedom as well as physical freedom- but a message which must be understood in its other implication. [More…]
This is a message which says that other countries which deal with Russia, which make treaties with Russia, particularly defence treaties, are putting themselves and therefore the world in peril when they as countries with freedom of thought make pacts with a country which has total totalitarian organisation of human thought and action within itself. [More…]
He sought within Russia to develop through the Soviet human rights committee intellectual freedom. [More…]
He is a man whose sons have been expelled from universities and whose son-in-law has been denied employment; a man who has spoken up despite all these threats because he believes that unless there is intellectual freedom not only Russia but the world will suffer; a man who is not willing to go outside Russia to attend scientific conferences at this moment because he knows that in common with his colleagues who have done so before he will be denied return, that he will be exiled if he does so. [More…]
One, the author, speaking and pleading and placing his life at risk for intellectual freedom, for the freedom of culture, for the freedom of literature and for the freedom of man to write; the other, the great physicist, placing his life at risk for the parallel freedom, namely, the freedom of scientists to talk freely about science, to exchange scientific knowledge and, therefore, to have true scientific freedom. [More…]
So we have here pleas for both the great freedoms of communication. [More…]
This man walks with fear because there is growing evidence that suppression, which tragically has been a characteristic of Russia over the years, has been accelerating in recent years and today practically all intellectual freedom is being wiped out. [More…]
Andrei Sakharov, who founded the Soviet Human Rights Committee, was one of the great leaders in establishing the underground Press called ‘Samizdat’ or ‘the Chronicle of Current Events’ through which vehicle dissidents- the men I have mentioned and others- who wanted to fight for intellectual freedom promulgated their ideas. [More…]
What we are saying- we are asking the Senate to support us- is: ‘Please ask the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to look into this matter because human freedom and human dignity in the Soviet Union must be as precious to us as human freedom and human dignity in our own country ‘. [More…]
Those of us who saw the further aggression against Hungary looked towards de-Stalinisation in the hope that freedom would come. [More…]
We were then brought to abject misery by the further invasion of Czechoslovakia barely 5 years ago, the Dubcek incident and the repression of intellectual freedom throughout Czechoslovakia. [More…]
We are asking this because we believe it is the duty of every citizen, wherever he or she lives in the world, to pursue freedom of the body and freedom of the mind. [More…]
We are asking it for 2 reasons, not only the reason I emphasise, which would be good enough but, also that inside Russia there is prima facie evidence of the total supression of intellectual freedom. [More…]
We are asking it not only because we should try to give freedom to these great men but because we have to treat with this nation which shares parity of power with America in this world. [More…]
With that in mind and in the belief in human freedom and human dignity, in the belief that it is imperative that there should be an honesty and an integrity of purpose in the negotiation of great nations, I commend to the Senate the motion moved by Senator Hannan. [More…]
At the same time I suggest- I do not do this in any contentious or partisan way- that when we are talking of human freedom we should be aware also of selective indignation. [More…]
Freedom, of course, is a heady draught and the thaw, as is the nature of such things, largely got out of hand. [More…]
I believe that the Soviet authorities have had the dissident movement well and truly under control, and I believe that they could have have allowed a much greater amount of freedom than they have done without any threat at all to the system. [More…]
My views on the freedom of culture and science are known to the Soviet leaders. [More…]
But putting people into psychiatric hospitals and administering to them mind destroying drugs which Senator Carrick has mentioned and which Solzhenitsyn particularly emphasises, is, I believe, the ultimate in human cruelty because it results in the destruction of the last refuge which man would have under these circumstances, and that is his free mind and a freedom to exercise his mind. [More…]
It was moved because throughout the Western world a feeling of repugnance and abhorrence is growing at the treatment which is being meted out to those few- that minute fraction which is less than 1 per cent of the Russian population- who seek an intellectual freedom, a right to express views, a right to hold opinions and to act in accordance with them, which is not permitted by the total conformity of the communist system. [More…]
It takes one view about freedom in certain countries and takes a totally different view about it in other parts of the world. [More…]
Clearly, it is the mark of any civilisation that society should be concerned about the various essential freedoms of man- his freedom of speech, his freedom of association, his freedom to voice opinions and generally his basic right to his humanity We know that in the interests of society there must always be some limitations which must be imposed upon absolute freedom. [More…]
In any society man must live with his fellows and freedom, in the context in which we use it and in the context in which we seek to preserve it, must involve some regulation. [More…]
If we do not have that regulation, freedom amounts to licence. [More…]
People who talk of absolute freedom are talking simply of the absolute right to do as they please. [More…]
When we seek to protect the basic freedoms we acknowledge that the society in which an individual is part has some rights; indeed, it has some obligations in the interests of others to impose some limitation. [More…]
The constant theme of every developing society is to balance the demands and the needs of authority as they are exercised in the interests of others and the freedom or liberties of the individual. [More…]
The totalitarian countries, the fascist countries, the communist countries and the dictatorships limit freedom in ways which are anathema to those who accept the traditions which are part of our way of life. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
Giving the Commission freedom to take into consideration the degree of public interest affected would not alter the position. [More…]
Again, we gave our manpower, womanpower and our treasure in the interests of world freedom and order. [More…]
I regard the question of ensuring freedom from the effects of industrial stoppages as being of vital importance to the State of Tasmania and its people. [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 for the purpose of international trade agreements, or to extend preferential treatment to developing countries. [More…]
Even though ideally we would have liked more freedom of action in the number of judges that we could appoint, I firmly believe that if the amendment sponsored by Senator Little is adopted by the Senate we will have gone a long way towards satisfying the pressing need for more judges in this court. [More…]
For guaranteeing freedom of navigation through international waterways in the area; [More…]
For guaranteeing freedom of navigation through international waterways in the area; [More…]
The test is whether we have achieved in this world an atmosphere or an environment in which by our actions our own country is more secure and more free and we are living in an atmosphere in our region in which there is stability and freedom and we are respected for the views we hold and because we are willing to stand up for the other fellow and his right to be different. [More…]
I refer to the continuation and preservation of freedom of choice in relation to the type of education which should be given to children in Australia. [More…]
Such action takes away the complete freedom of the individual. [More…]
-Candidates have freedom to canvass votes for themselves. [More…]
I would say that they have freedom to collect money to assist them in their campaigns from wherever they come. [More…]
But when one speaks in the Parliament one speaks with all the advantage and responsibility of complete freedom from defamation law, under parliamentary privilege. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
To dispel mounting concern in many areas of industry, can the AttorneyGeneral, as Leader of the Government in the Senate, give an assurance that no commodity which is freely salable according to law will be denied freedom of advertising? [More…]
The important factor here is the meaning of ‘a prior right’, because to have the right or the freedom to do something must mean that one has the opportunity to do it. [More…]
That is the only possible interpretation of ‘prior right’ or freedom of choice. [More…]
The freedom of the nongovernment sector would be destroyed if that were so. [More…]
If the Commission provides diversity, freedom of choice and absence of discrimination, its influence will certainly be good. [More…]
That is why, in any discussion of this Schools Commission Bill today, it is important to observe that freedom of movement in the total education sphere is essential. [More…]
I referred earlier to the freedom of movement occasioned by the inclusion of the independent school sector within our education community. [More…]
It is very important to stimulate this freedom of movement in educational thought by the involvement of educational and community interests in any proposed commission. [More…]
There are a dozen different ways of doing it without punishing the freedom of choice and the pockets of the 94 per cent. [More…]
It says that it believes in freedom of choice, but it implements a denial of freedom of choice. [More…]
There is no freedom of choice when a government nationalises the health scheme and does not give people the freedom to choose. [More…]
Freedom is given in this House on the question of relevancy making it possible for honourable senators to depart from the subject matter of the Bills. [More…]
Incidentally, it gives to the Minister a greater freedom of movement; only a minority of the people are specified according to nominated categories. [More…]
There is in this proposed structure what I think I called in my speech on the second reading a freedom of movement. [More…]
Senator Rae’s amendment gives the profession an involvement which is an extremely valuable one and at the same time allows freedom of movement and flexibility. [More…]
It is commonly regarded as a country where freedom and individuality are allowed to flourish. [More…]
The Australian people are commonly believed to be jealous of their freedoms and to be strongly opposed to government interference in their lives. [More…]
It is said that this commitment to freedom is the best safeguard against encroachments on that freedom. [More…]
It is said to be more effective in ensuring freedom than a Bill of Rights. [More…]
Despite our supposed commitment to freedom, we cannot be self-satisfied about what is happening in Australia. [More…]
I will not go through them all; they are concerned with such matters as freedom of movement, freedom of expression, the protection of individual privacy, the rights of a person charged with a criminal offence, and so on. [More…]
Thus freedom of expression is what remains after one takes account of the laws relating to defamation, contempt of court, censorship, obscenity, offensive behaviour, sedition, official secrecy and the like. [More…]
Freedom of assembly is restricted by the scarcity of places in which people who wish to express a particular point of view can assemble without official permission from some authority or other. [More…]
It is often muzzled by the laws that circumscribe freedom of expression or by its ownership being concentrated in the hands of vested interests. [More…]
Many restrictions on individual freedom are necessary to protect the rights of others, or to prevent a crowded society from falling into chaos. [More…]
Part II of the Bill will establish in legislation of the Australian Parliament fundamental rights and freedoms in a number of extremely important areas which are not at present covered by formal legislation. [More…]
A basic provision of the legislation is to provide that everyone is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms set out in the legislation, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]
Part II of the Bill then proceeds to deal with a number of important rights, including the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to hold opinions without interference, the right to freedom of expression, the right to peaceful assembly, the right to freedom of association, the right, without unreasonable restrictions, to take part in the conduct of public affairs, vote at elections held by universal and equal suffrage and to hold public office, the right to liberty of movement, and the right to privacy. [More…]
In the provisions relating to freedom of religion, expression, assembly, association and movement, the legislation provides that these rights may be restricted in certain circumstances, such as where restriction is reasonably necessary to protect public safety or public health or constitute reasonable regulations, as to time, place and manner, of the right. [More…]
Clause 8 makes it unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or perference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or other field of public life. [More…]
Where the Commission moves, as it will move, freely under this amendment it will have the opportunity with a greater degree of freedom to make its own decisions. [More…]
Bill, which has been introduced in another place, emphasise the need for flexibility and freedom of choice for government and non-government school authorities. [More…]
If the Commission has any ideas of working towards the full development of human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, then surely we are all united in the belief that this Article should be included. [More…]
So we talk about the freedom of choice. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
He is one of the freedom fighters; one of the people who cross the borders of Rhodesia and murder black women and children. [More…]
For the purpose of attaining freedom in the world of nature, man must use knowledge to build in collaboration with nature a better environment. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
Will the Minister also indicate to the ABC Commissioners that the ABC charter of freedom and independence requires that it display balance and objectivity in its news reports? [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
Will he again remind the Commissioners of the ABC that their charter of freedom and independence requires them to maintain objectivity and carries an obligation to give both sides in the controversy a fair go? [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
It is their right of choice in a society which believes that people have the freedom to worship and to believe as they choose. [More…]
In our view there must always remain not only a flexibility in interpretation of education but also freedom of choice for both parent and student, freedom of opportunity for groups that wish to establish a school and freedom for teachers to express their vocation in any one of a number of educational systems. [More…]
Our philosophy is that there should be a freedom of choice. [More…]
We support the overall right of all citizens to a freedom of choice in education, a right that the State should recognise in an effective way by giving all citizens, all children, some access to public funds for education. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to reports that Mr Panov sees public protests in the West as the best hope of securing his freedom to emigrate to Israel? [More…]
It is true that the International Covenant on Human Rights provides for the freedom of persons to leave a country and to return to it. [More…]
The precise terms of the Covenant in regard to education escape me, but generally the covenant refers to the preservation of religious freedom.’ [More…]
There is also a reference in section 116 of our own Constitution to the freedom of religion. [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…]
A lot of specious nonsense has been spoken in recent months about freedom of choice and the doctor-patient relationship. [More…]
Our program gives true freedom. [More…]
It gives freedom from fear cif the financial consequences of illness, it gives freedom of choice of doctor and hospital and it does this in a way which does not levy a penalty on the sick and the economically less fortunate members of this community. [More…]
1 ) That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
It also aims to preserve the dignity of the Australian people, their total freedom of choice in medical and hospital care, their personal privacy and to maintain the present quality of Australian health care which is recognised as being as high as any existing in the world. [More…]
Its costs are restrained and personal responsibility is retained, because the financial burden is partly borne by the patients themselves; cases of hardship attract Government subsidy; real freedom of choice exists in the selection of one’s doctor and private hospitalsboth religious and charitable- retain their freedom to contribute substantially to a dual system of hospital care. [More…]
In other words, the DLP believes that, given support by the Government and the other Opposition Parties, this Bill will provide fully adequate medical and hospital care, in which the patient is guaranteed his personal freedom and the maintenance of the present high standard of health in Australia. [More…]
Our scheme, the scheme which exists at the moment, is a scheme which, in the interests of the preservation of a free society and of the right of choice and the freedom of choice of doctors, hospitals and health insurance, allows every Australian the opportunity to exercise that choice. [More…]
If doctors wish to see a situation in which there is a freedom of choice and in which there is an opportunity for competition, it is their duty to ensure that they comply with the annual determination which would be fixed by an independent tribunal comprising representatives of government, consumers and the medical profession, under the chairmanship of an independent person. [More…]
The Government’s proposal is to take away the freedom of up to 92 per cent of Australians, who now voluntarily insure with the fund of their own choice or who are covered by other aspects of health care, and to compel them, by a taxation mechanism, to insure, up to standard hospital ward care level in what can be described only in the terms which were used in many of the debates on this scheme as a monolithic Government insurance fund. [More…]
If Mr Hayden wishes to direct attention towards covering the uncovered, he would have our full support, but instead he is attacking the freedom of choice of Australians and upsetting the arrangements made and approved by an overwhelming majority of the Australian people. [More…]
But this Bill in its present form and with its associated proposals will clearly do the following: It will lower the quality of medical care for Australian families; it will increase the total costs for the Government and thus for taxpayers; it will 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; it will reduce freedom of choice; it will jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals; and by design and intent it will be the first stage of nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
reduce freedom of choice, [More…]
The truth of the matter is that the Opposition has no desire to allow the members of the Australian community any real freedom to choose the type of hospital and medical care they want. [More…]
The Opposition opposes the legislation and will vote against it because we believe that it will lower the quality of medical care for Australian families; that it will increase the total costs for the Government and thus the taxpayers; that it will increase total costs for the majority of taxpayers because they can maintain the present quality of their health care only by additional heavy commitments for private insurance; that it will reduce the freedom of choice; that it will jeopardise the future of religious, private and country hospitals; and by design and intent it will be the first stage of nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
In short they were the lower quality of medical care which is envisaged under Labor’s proposals, the greatly increased cost to the majority of the taxpayers, the loss of freedom of choice so far as the individual is concerned, the jeopardy to the whole future of religious, private and country hospitals and, what is more important to many of us, the first stage of Labor’s proposals for the nationalisation of health and medical care in Australia. [More…]
It leaves to the citizen a freedom of selection of the type of hospitalisation he will have, the doctor of his choice and the method by which he will insure himself. [More…]
If Labor has its way, there will be a lower quality of medical care in Australia, increased costs for the Government, increased total costs for the majority of taxpayers, rejection of the freedom of choice which exists at present, the jeopardy of the future of religious, private and country hospitals and the nationalisation and socialisation of medical health care in this community. [More…]
So I throw that right into the teeth of honourable senators opposite when they talk about freedom of choice. [More…]
If the Treasury were to hand out money to people who refused on conscience to join a private enterprise health system it could be said that there was freedom of choice. [More…]
Because we believe that the proposal of the socialist Minister will mean a downgrading of the medical service and a consequent lowering of the standards of health care to Australian families, because it will destroy the existing scheme, increase the total cost to the Government and for the majority of taxpayers, because it will mean the end of private and religious hospitals, and, above all because it will mean the end of the freedom of choice of patients with respect to their doctor or hospital, we totally reject the Bill. [More…]
But if people wish to see the film- there are some very strong views that such films should be made available- it is my belief that the freedom of the citizen requires that he ought to be able to see such a film. [More…]
However, there is room for the principle for which the Liberal Party stands, and that is that there should be freedom of choice in education and that it is a fundamental concept in a free society that children should not be forced into one form of education which is controlled by the Government of the day. [More…]
It 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…]
The continuation of our freedom of choice to choose our own doctor and the sort of hospital care we want. [More…]
Parents should be encouraged to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
It also provides that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
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…]
Where is the equal freedom and entitlement of all members of the Public Service? [More…]
That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
There is no freedom of assembly or freedom of speech. [More…]
We oppose the actions which have been taken by anybody who has suppressed freedom and who has engaged in war against smaller countries. [More…]
Honourable members opposite tell us that the federal system is the bastion of freedom. [More…]
It is amazing how the so-called stalwarts, the self-styled fighters for the freedom of speech in this Parliament- the members of the Australian Labor Party- have short memories and change their attitude to and support for the normal procedures and traditions of the Parliament and the traditions of freedom of speech. [More…]
The supporters and the demanders of the freedom of speech and the traditions of Parliamentthe Australian Labor Party- firstly that great statesman Senator McKenna and those who have followed him, would not rise to speak in the Address-in-Reply debate until 8 o’clock on the second Wednesday after Parliament had been opened. [More…]
What a difference there is in the Senate now with the freedom of the Liberal Party. [More…]
That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
We believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
The Aborigines find themselves in somewhat the same position as the negroes in the United States of America who were deluded into believing that the passage of a law would give them freedom. [More…]
The Aborigines believed in an instant dignity and an instant freedom. [More…]
The honourable senator talks about freedom. [More…]
I lost my freedom. [More…]
Australia is only just getting its freedom back. [More…]
He approves of murder in Rhodesia and South Africa by so-called freedom fighters who kill mainly black people- not white people. [More…]
I think that freedom can best be protected by decentralisation of power and by those with the best local knowledge carrying out the responsibilities. [More…]
I hope that everybody who supports the Labor Party and everybody who supports democracy will have a look at Federation Insurance Ltd and see that it is the type of organisation which, no doubt while it pays money to people who prate about democracy and freedom of speech, is prepared to deny a man and his family their livelihood because the man belongs to a legal political organisation and wishes to exercise his democratic rights as a candidate for Parliament. [More…]
that for the exercise of complete religious freedom and for the promotion of a liberal and egalitarian society, Church and State need to be kept separate. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice, be amended to read further: and no revenue derived in any way from any Australian citizen shall be appropriated by the Australian Government, or by a State Government, or by a Municipal Government, for the propagation or support of any religion. [More…]
That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association’. [More…]
Never before have they had a charter which gives them such good conditions or which instils the idea of freedom of public expression for people in the Services. [More…]
Many people do genuinely appear to have been deceived into thinking that they will lose their freedom of choice. [More…]
I object, as one who sees that we need some freedom in the community. [More…]
Not only would it cost more; it would only provide standard wards and it would not provide freedom of choice. [More…]
When that happens there will be no freedom of choice, because the Government will have created the illusion of free medicine. [More…]
He can change his doctor and demand of his doctor quality and quantity of service because of his freedom. [More…]
It destroys the freedom of the patient; it destroys the freedom of the doctor; it is a deception. [More…]
They want the freedom to choose their own doctor. [More…]
That is freedom of choice as far as our opponents in the Liberal Party are concerned. [More…]
I stand, as do all my colleagues, behind a Liberal Party which does believe in individual freedom, which does believe in the opportunity of every individual to make his own life in his own way so long as he does not offend or deny to others the rights which he claims to himself and who seeks to ensure that this will be a self-reliant nation in which individuals will be proud of. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice, be amended to read further: and no revenue derived in any way from any Australian citizen shall be appropriated by the Australian Government, or by a State Government, or by a Municipal Government, for the propagation or support of any religion. [More…]
It has always seemed very sad to me that this situation should arise in respect of a proposal to introduce a national health insurance scheme which will give universal coverage to those in the community for their medical, surgical and other needs, which will preserve the freedom of choice of the patient and the doctor and which will extend freedom of choice to pensioners. [More…]
It considers that governments should take no part in anything except the defence of the country and what it calls the preservation of individual freedoms. [More…]
By ‘preservation of individual freedoms’ this organisation, like all these organisations, means the freedom of one man to exploit another. [More…]
My concept and, I believe, my Party’s concept, of the future of this country and of the future of the individuals in this country is that people should have the freedom and the opportunity to realise their reasonable ambitions without being exploited by others or indeed without exploiting others. [More…]
Are we to see a continuing expansion of central government power and control constantly reducing the freedom of the individual? [More…]
We must retain freedom of choice within the common law if we are to survive as a free democracy in the tradition of the Australian people. [More…]
The important point I make about the health insurance program and the changes which are taking place in the industrial relations field is simply that in both areas the Government’s policies represent an enlargement of the freedoms of the Australian people. [More…]
They remove the fear of the consequences of ill health for a very substantial proportion of our community and they allow freedom of association in industrial organisations. [More…]
In the last few months there has been much talk about threats to the freedom of individual Australians, but there has been little analysis of the meaning of the word ‘freedom’. [More…]
In order to give an indication of the freedom that we were guaranteed in this country under the previous government one needs only to refer to the denial of freedom to conscripts who were sent to Vietnam. [More…]
That was the sort of freedom that existed in practice 2 years ago under the previous government. [More…]
But there are other concepts involved in freedom, and I will briefly refer to them. [More…]
While much is said about freedom, after 18 months of Labor Government not many people can really point the finger and say that this Government has in any way detracted from the civil liberties of Australian citizens. [More…]
Secondly, I believe that we, as a Government, have tried to instill into our community the idea that there is such a thing as economic freedom in terms of freedom from unemployment, freedom to make decisions about where you send your children to school and freedom to make decisions about what you do with your leisure- all sorts of things which flow from a more equitable distribution of wealth in our society. [More…]
There is freedom from the blight of unemployment and there is the question of equality of opportunity in education. [More…]
These are new and real freedoms which the Government has started to give to the Australian people in the last 18 months. [More…]
When we talk about freedom, let us look at what the concept of freedom really means in real terms for the Australian people and not for certain selected individuals in our society. [More…]
It is sometimes stated by Opposition spokesmen that in some peculiar way which has never been explained to my satisfaction, the existing federal structure in Australia provides a bulwark for the freedom of the individual. [More…]
We have all the indications that in this country one of the freedoms which we are to be allowed to enjoy is the freedom not to have a job. [More…]
I think that one of the freedoms which we should have in this country is the freedom to have a home. [More…]
One of our senators talked tonight of freedom. [More…]
Freedom to be disemployed; freedom to be retrained and reshuffled like a pawn; freedom to submit to the industrial anarchy urged on by Mr Clyde Cameron and his Labor colleagues. [More…]
The Whitlam Government has failed to come forward with any comprehensive or concerted plan for delimiting and reducing inflation or for maintaining effective full employment with freedom of choice. [More…]
Here we have the Labor Party endorsing doctrinaire socialism as if the removal of the right of people to choose their own jobs is not a great loss of freedom and as if the destruction of a great electrical industry in Australia is not one of the most serious threats not only to employment but also to the security and defence of Australia. [More…]
Perverted logic also enables conservatives to pose as champions of civil liberty and individual freedom while simultaneously voting for conscription, sometimes with enthusiasm and apparently without embarrassment. [More…]
If we are to maintain our democracy and maintain the spirit of freedom and inquiry which ought to be part of it these things have to be said. [More…]
As to whether Mr Langer ‘s publicly stated political beliefs should prevent his employment by the Australian Post Office- or for that matter, any other department- I point out that this Government believes in freedom of political beliefs. [More…]
In the field of interstate trade there is a remarkable distinction between the freedom accorded to interstate trade and territorial-State trade. [More…]
It would also reduce the freedom of choice which has been an essential part of Australian policies in health care for as far back as we care to remember. [More…]
In summary, these health Bills would remove the freedom of choice from the patient in regard to the hospital, doctor and type of care. [More…]
This Bill promises that it will give the patient freedom from worry and fear about the financial consequences of illness. [More…]
They would rather have the freedom of choice as to where they put their money-into their homes, holidays or anywhere else. [More…]
The Labor Party will take away that right and the freedom to spend their money where they wish. [More…]
By Government decree it will take the right and freedom from them. [More…]
The Bills promise the patient freedom from the fear of the financial consequences of illness ‘. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that I told the story of migrants, living within the area of my practice, who wished not to have insurance cover and wanted freedom to spend their money in the way they desired. [More…]
The introduction of these Bills would take away that right and freedom from the migrants. [More…]
Fourthly, it was said that the Government’s scheme removes from the patient the freedom of choice. [More…]
The question of the absence of freedom of choice under the Government’s scheme was recognised by the shadow Minister, Mr Chipp. [More…]
Private hospital beds in Australia are at their most expensive in those States where people have no freedom of choice in their hospitalisation. [More…]
For Senator Guilfoyle to say that there is freedom of choice in the present hospital system is nonsense in Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
Freedom of choice under those circumstances is ludicrous. [More…]
The AMA agrees with us on the freedom of choice for doctor and patient, and it also agrees on the inclusion of pensioners in the service, which stops pensioners being treated as second class citizens. [More…]
This was the concession to freedom of choice that the Liberal and Country Parties gave. [More…]
It will preserve the freedom of the patient to pick the doctor of his choice at first attendance. [More…]
It will preserve the freedom of choice of the doctor. [More…]
I also suggest that what I call the absolute freedom of choice as far as a doctor within a hospital is concerned will disappear. [More…]
Therefore it seems to me that it is extremely unlikely that under the Government’s scheme there would be full freedom of choice within hospitals. [More…]
This is freedom of choice? [More…]
It is freedom of choice to say to the doctor: ‘The onus is on you. [More…]
Yet honourable senators opposite get up on their feet and have the gall to talk about freedom of choice. [More…]
They aim to force away freedom of choice of people who may wish to have intermediate or private wards and to force standard wards on them. [More…]
Is this part of humanity, a freedom from terror? [More…]
Here we have 96 per cent of the people well equipped with all the characteristics of freedom of choice, belonging to funds and being able to go, by right, to a private doctor of their choice or to a hospital of their choice, and some 4 per cent or 5 per cent with difficulties. [More…]
The proposed scheme will cost substantially more for everyone than the existing scheme and will be one which robs them of freedom of choice. [More…]
Senator Grimes interjects, in a fit of freedom, that they can join a private fund if they want to. [More…]
If the Government wants private wards or private hospitals why does it not write into its present scheme the freedom of people to receive a tax deduction for the fees they pay for intermediate or private ward accommodation. [More…]
The fundamentals are that this scheme aims to demolish freedom of choice for voluntary health and medical schemes and to substitute a single national health insurance scheme with a second layer in which a patient can receive some private treatment and some paramedical treatment which the Government scheme does not provide, if a patient reinsures in another way. [More…]
In fact this will make freedom of choice of the patient infinitely more restricted. [More…]
The effect of this would be ultimate government control and therefore the destruction of freedom of choice under a system of health delivery which has no equal in this country. [More…]
This is a scheme which costs more for a poorer service and no freedom of choice. [More…]
It is an attack on the freedom and dignity of the individual. [More…]
The patient can go to a doctor or not, reject a doctor or not, and the doctor is responsive to that freedom of choice. [More…]
It has resulted in freedom of choice of doctor and hospital. [More…]
I would have thought that the principle of freedom of choice should apply right through. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice, be amended to read further and no revenue derived in any way from any Australian citizen shall be appropriated by the Australian Government, or by a State Government, or by a Municipal [More…]
-I remind the AttorneyGeneral that as long ago as 10 January 1973 he made a public statement acknowledging the Government’s intention to introduce a freedom of information Bill along the lines of the United States Freedom of Information Act and detailed in his statement the major features of such legislation. [More…]
As I think I indicated once publicly, the first persons to benefit from the freedom of information and better knowledge about government affairs would be the members of the Ministry. [More…]
This freedom from obstruction in the coming to or the going from the House is part of the law of Parliament and I believe that, although the Houses of Parliament at Canberra do not state the right by Sessional Orders, it is a privilege that belongs to the Commonwealth Parliament by virtue of section 49 of the Constitution. [More…]
It may be salutary if this Senate made its own Sessional Order, as at Westminster, making known honourable senators’ right to freedom from obstruction. [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…]
Their freedom to set interest rates is really the means by which these financial institutions conduct their business and survive or fail. [More…]
That clause provides very great power and might well sound the death knell of the freedom of enterprise that has developed in these other financial institutions. [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 doctorpatient 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 fact, 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 his 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 Austraiian rnining 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…]
Is it a fact that the students had legitimate grievances and these included greater student participation in course design, freedom of choice of the means of assessment, reduced class sizes and the introduction of a women’s study course? [More…]
87, Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, and did so on a commitment to undertake amendments to the amalgamation provisions which infringe that Convention. [More…]
Thus States will have freedom to augment the level of grants in those categories of roads on which they place their priorities. [More…]
In my opinion this Bill is an attempt by the Government to deprive private industry of the freedom which it has at present. [More…]
I believe in this case that is a subordinate matter to the matter of this individual’s freedom, but it is not an unimportant matter; it is not a joke; it is not a laughing matter. [More…]
There is a lack of freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Why should not the basic freedom of contract which is the lifeblood of our free enterprise system be able to operate as the parties to the agreement intend it to operate? [More…]
It is dealing with a purchaser and ordinarily freedom of contract ought to govern the relationships. [More…]
It was also pointed out that freedom of the Press was guaranteed by the Congress but the union boss could paralyse the whole industry. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
I am also amazed at the extraordinary silence in the last day or so when it appears that the freedom of the young man to leave Australia is being impaired. [More…]
The Opposition is prepared to sacrifice human freedom and civil liberties on the altar of political stunting. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber accept the broad proposition that there should be a fundamental freedom of contract. [More…]
If the freedom of contract results in a detriment to the public there should be some restriction on the parties’ freedom. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
That Australian citizens place great value on their freedom to choose their own doctor in all aspects of medical care. [More…]
That we believe in a doctor’s freedom to provide a personal service based on personal responsibility within a system based on quality rather than quantity, as opposed to an impersonal service in which doctor and patient lose their identity. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
The Minister has shown that this Government’s concern for the cause of freedom is subordinate to the maintenance of good relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
There has been a denial of human rights because one of the freedoms which we, in this country, accept and which we seek to extend to other persons in this country who want to exercise the rights of Australians is a freedom of movement and a freedom of choice to say whether one will stay or whether one will leave. [More…]
It may be that the Baltic states will have to await a cataclysm before they can once again secure their freedom. [More…]
It may be an illusion to seek to maintain the ideal of freedom with regard to these countries because the de facto situation is certainly one in which the Soviet Union has an all powerful control. [More…]
If we look into the past we find that, apart from the brief period between the wars, they have never had freedom as we know it. [More…]
I am interested also to find that Senator Greenwood is such a recent convert to the doctrines of civil liberties and freedom of speech, because I remember some years ago- in fact, it was very early on the morning of Boxing Day of one year- there was a ring at my front door, and what did I find there? [More…]
I find it very interesting that Senator Greenwood, who sent in the Commonwealth Police to arrest demonstrators at the Melbourne University, and who sent the Commonwealth Police to investigate and interrogate members of this Parliament for exercising this freedom of speech which he believes is so essential in the Soviet Union but which at least in the past he did not think was of any value in this country, has today emerged as the champion of human rights, the champion of civil liberties and the man who says that a person should be able to get up and say what he likes whenever he wants to say it and that he should not be interrogated by the police, that he should be free to insert advertisements in newspapers and should be free to demonstrate at the Melbourne University or at the Perth airport or anywhere else. [More…]
No one has suggested how these countries are to regain their freedom. [More…]
Does anyone suggest that if there were an Australian in the United States of America who was in a similar position that the officials of the Australian Embassy would take that Australian, hold him and not allow him freedom of movement? [More…]
He would do well to look at the speech he made last year in the debate on the Russian dissenters in which he identified the techniques of the Russians in terms of their attempts to strangle the freedom of intellectuals and others. [More…]
I hope that the people of Western Australia know that those decent people- the students, the churchmen and the others- who were out there protesting in favour of freedom were described in the words of Senator Willesee as a pack of louts. [More…]
A protest is valid and in the cause of freedom when it is led by a member of the Australian Labor Party or by a communist. [More…]
That is selective freedom if ever there was any, and it exists in the media today. [More…]
We will always recognise the existence of the right of the big dog to take over the small dog, to deny the small dog freedom’? [More…]
Senator Carrick has just treated the Senate to a most bizarre exercise in logic which went something like this: He said that because I spoke in this place last year against the suppression of freedom in Russia I must conclude, without evidence, that Ermolenko was taken prisoner in Perth by the Russian secret police and prevented from exercising his free will as to whether he would stay in Australia or leave for Russia. [More…]
Because we recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states we are taunted that we are somehow tainted with communism while the Liberals are the upholders of freedom- not undifferentiated upholders of freedom. [More…]
They are the nations where the concepts of law and order, justice and the rights of free men and freedom of speech are maintained. [More…]
No less a person than his colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs, when trying to defend his feeble action in relation to the Baltic states, said: ‘They have never had freedom as we understand it. ‘ [More…]
In short, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, representing this Government, is prepared to say that, because the people of the Baltic states have never had freedom ‘ as we understand it’, they should never have it or have an opportunity to have it. [More…]
I repeat what has already been said on this side of the Senate today: There is a long arm of memory in relation to these people, and there is always the uncertainty and the question mark relating to his freedom and that of his family. [More…]
It has placed itself in the company of the tyrant, the dictator, and the preventer of freedom. [More…]
The work of obtaining more freedom in international arrangements and understandings which had been achieved by the Western powers has been greatly undermined. [More…]
In the future it will make it more difficult for the Western powers to continue to work to achieve the freedom and independence of the smaller states. [More…]
Anyone who has had anything to do with the Baltic communities will know that the emphasis which these groups place on freedom is an example to all Australians, and their reminder of the price to be paid for freedom has been completely disregarded by this Government. [More…]
He has consistently associated himself with fringe right wing groups such as the World Freedom League. [More…]
In a vital matter of human rights and of individual freedom we believe that it is completely wrong for a Minister of the Crown to say that in his view a person is not being held under duress and to deny to the courts an opportunity to make that decision. [More…]
That is the fundamental basis of the Opposition’s motion which says that the Minister is deserving of censure because a promise to uphold the ideal of freedom, cherished by people who came to this country and by their descendants, was utterly and shamefully repudiated. [More…]
Though the court has jurisdiction to consider an allegation of contempt of itself, the jurisdiction will never be used to protect the court against criticism of itself or its decisions in exercise of the right to freedom of speech. [More…]
Let us have the same freedom and lack of interference with the union movement. [More…]
Everyone in Australia from the worker to the chairman of the board has to understand that what the Government really intends is that the individual is to have less freedom of choice on how he or she spends his or her income. [More…]
In the long term the threat to freedom in Australia is much greater if a centralised bureaucracy is established having control of all facets of government than if the principle is followed- it was the principle to which Senator Martin referred in her speechthat power should rest as nearly as possible with the people who are directly affected by the decisions that are being made by government. [More…]
He referred to his puzzlement at the argument put forward by people that the Constitution provided a framework for government which was a bulwark for the freedom of the individual. [More…]
It obtains its affluence and freedom from problems on the back of the rest of Australia. [More…]
A great deal of legislation which comes before this chamber significantly reduces the freedom of action of the States. [More…]
Film Australia will also benefit from the Commission having the freedom and flexibility under this Bill to organise and manage its operations in accordance with acceptable industry practices. [More…]
On 23 September the Greek Government issued a decree which restored freedom of action to all political parties in Greece. [More…]
The Greek Government is also reported to have announced its intention to restore freedom of assembly throughout the country. [More…]
The relatively high degree of freedom of international trade and capital movement that now exists means that economic developments in any major country radiate through the whole international system. [More…]
that for the exercise of complete religious freedom and for the promotion of a liberal and egalitarian society, Church and State need to be kept separate. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice. [More…]
If we do not speak out fairly soon we may well lose our prosperity and freedom, and it will be all because we would not stand up and fight. [More…]
This is the freedom of private enterprise which all of us cherish. [More…]
I believe this is an attack on the freedom of choice of Australians of both occupation and place of employment. [More…]
If they want a situation in which there is no freedom of choice in the area of education, as in any other area, that is their business. [More…]
Those societies which have chosen to leave the production of goods and services largely in the hands of private individuals and companies also enjoy a degree of personal liberty and political freedom that has been rare in history. [More…]
Expression of these attitudes and aspirations is largely possible because of that personal liberty and political freedom inherent in private enterprise. [More…]
I think the honorable senator ought to accept that there is a widespread feeling that the concepts of freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the Press ought to be able to live together with legal provisions which guarantee against unreasonable invasion of privacy. [More…]
Men and women who offend against the laws of society, as we accept them, must pay for their social sins but we have no right in a so-called civilised society to treat those who have been deprived of their liberty and personal freedom with physical punishment and undignified procedures that label them as less than animals. [More…]
In particular, I accuse the Premier and his Cabinet of meting out less than justice to those who are deprived of their personal freedom. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian Government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments-Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments - Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
Has the interdepartmental committee which was investigating the application to Australia of a freedom of information Act finished its deliberations? [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 Aborigines to manage their own affairs and to increase their economic independence; to enable Aborigines 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 Aborigines 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…]
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…]
Freedom to legislate with respect to social security, health matters, transport costs and transport charges has been a very difficult problem for those Tasmanian governments which have been in power. [More…]
The Hospitals and Health Services Commission accepts considerable freedom and variety in local usage and terminology concerning projects submitted to it under the Community Health Program. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian Government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
The Minister will recall that yesterday I asked him whether the interdepartmental committee had yet reported on freedom of information Act. [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…]
And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]
And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
I fully support the amendment moved by Senator Guilfoyle on the basic principle of allowing the Commission reasonable freedom in the discharge of its duties. [More…]
If that is what Senator Greenwood wants to give the Commission freedom to do, I do not agree with him. [More…]
One would know that under Liberal governments the ordinary citizen has been deprived of many freedoms, especially in relation to such matters as health and the like. [More…]
If the relevant Act is used fully by State governments or local governments, the individual has no real freedom at all. [More…]
Doctors’ freedom to choose their billing methods is quite clearly stated in the White Paper and has often been repeated since. [More…]
I rise on an issue which I think is of vital importance to this Senate and of vital importance to freedom of speech in this country. [More…]
Freedom of speech is the right of all Australians. [More…]
It is a freedom which is subject, of course, to some regulation, but it is a regulation measured in terms of the consequences which can be adjudicated upon in the courts and not imposed by a censoship dictated by an executive. [More…]
It is a freedom which acknowledges that if a citizen is defamed he has a right to restore his reputation by court action. [More…]
In Parliament the freedom to speak one’s mind ought to be absolute. [More…]
There are always instances which can be demonstrated to establish that rights and freedoms can be misused to achieve objectives opposite to the objectives for which these rights and freedoms are maintained. [More…]
A classic example is the way in which throughout the world over many years communists have used freedom of speech, freedom of association and all the democratic traditions under which they can work to undermine democracy and liberty and to establish their own dictatorship. [More…]
There is one other way in which freedom of speech can be prevented and that is by the use of the procedures of the court to stop freedom of speech, which although it is the truth is hurting. [More…]
After a writ has been issued and before it is discontinued or determined there is a constant plea of sub judice which is able to be used to prevent or limit the freedom of speech of those who want to discuss matters of public interest. [More…]
It can be a denial of freedom of discussion. [More…]
But equally important is the ability to have freedom of discussion about matters of public interest. [More…]
Why have I introduced this matter in the context of freedom of speech? [More…]
But I certainly say that if it is a stop writ and if it is used for the purpose of stifling or attempting to stifle discussion, in those circumstances it is a matter of the fundamental rights of every honourable senator in this place to ensure that freedom of discussion takes priority. [More…]
I suggest that more important than so-called freedom of speech in this chamber- if what we have listened to for the last half hour is called freedom of speech, I will have to revise my definition of it- is that persons who consider that they have been wronged and who have a case at law to pursue should not be inhibited by such rantin as we have heard tonight from pressing their claims. [More…]
He said that it can be a denial of freedom of discussion. [More…]
I suggest that it behoves us when we get the rare opportunity of freedom of decision to exercise it carefully and wisely. [More…]
It is a street which everyone has freedom to go down. [More…]
And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
For instance, there is freedom for the woman and an opportunity for her to get away from the home during the day or mix with society in the evening. [More…]
We know the freedom of the Press involves taking the good along with the bad. [More…]
He does not want to give them any freedom and he wants to oversee them in his position as Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
No one shall be subject to coercion which will impair his freedom to have or to adopt a belief or religion of his choice, be amended to read further: and no revenue derived in any way from any Australian citizen shall be appropriated by the Australian Government, or by a State Government, or by a Municipal Government, for the propagation or support of any religion. [More…]
That the reduction in the allowable tax deduction will take away from many parents their freedom to exercise their right of choice of schools. [More…]
And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]
I have been in this place when the whole 25 or 26 members of the Labor Party have screeched in unison to try to drown me out and they can try it again if they want to but there is something more to freedom of speech and democracy than the Labor Party’s version of it. [More…]
If I were to rise and respond to what Senator Everett has said and say that the viewpoint that he expressed was a viewpoint consistent with support for communist aggression against people who wanted to lead a life of freedom, it would invoke the catcalls and the noise which I am now getting from Government senators, because that is the way in which they respond. [More…]
Will your Government take any necessary action in the United Nations to ensure that the basic principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights freedom, justice and peace would be applied to our native country Lithuania and other Baltic States? [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
Whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments- Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
I believe that this amendment will provide genuine safeguards for freedom of expression, by providing an ultimate appeal for all individuals to the Parliament itself. [More…]
The cause of the individual is the cause of the individual’s freedom being maintained constantly against encroachments by the State. [More…]
We will not be able to secure and maintain that freedom, that right of the individual unless there are in the legal profession independent persons with no twin allegiances who are able to devote their cause to the individual. [More…]
The recommendations want it made clear that Aborigines and islanders have complete freedom to manage their own property. [More…]
They have the same right of freedom. [More…]
They have complete freedom to live in Redfern or anywhere else. [More…]
Until recently our way of life has been support for the free enterprise system, the family unit and individual freedom. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian Government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian Government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. [More…]
-There is freedom of speech, senator, but there is also such a thing as courtesy. [More…]
This is an extremely complex area dealing with the privacy of individuals and freedom of the Press. [More…]
I think I indicated some little time ago that there is no reason why we should not be able to evolve some resolution between the right to privacy of the individual, the right of the individual to have his reputation unsullied by unjustified attacks upon it, and the preservation of freedom of the Press and freedom of speech. [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…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should bc encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
The result of it, of course, will be that we will tend to become self censors and people will have the freedom to read the material they want to read and yet not be exposed to material which they find offensive. [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 onto a reserve, legal representation before, and appeal from, Aboriginal courts, compulsory labour and the other unsatisfactory features of the Queensland laws. [More…]
I am confident that the public does not believe that the Board had such powers nor would it have been accepted in Australian society that such an infringement of the freedom of the Press would be tolerated. [More…]
Following the decision of the Federal Council of the Australian Journalists’ Association ‘that to remove any doubts on the amended Act being able to be used to stifle freedom of expression in news and current affairs programs, the Act contains a clause affirming the principle of a right to freedom of expression in news and current affairs programs’, can you– [More…]
I think the Minister should have a good hard look at the Bill to be able to deny categorically that there would be an infringment of freedom of expression if this power were exercised by the proposed Authority. [More…]
Dr Evatt directed attention in his motion to the danger to the public interest and true freedom of expression being caused by newspaper concerns further extending their control over mass communication, including radio broadcasting and television. [More…]
A third expression was infringement of freedom of the Press’. [More…]
This Bill has been presented by some members of the media, pursuing their ‘right’ to have freedom to write what they like, as a Bill which was brimful of ministerial control- ‘the Juggernaut’, as the ‘Age’ writer described it. [More…]
It is noticeable that in almost parrot fashion the Opposition mouths such expressions as ‘freedom of the Press’, ‘nationalisation’ and other similar expressions. [More…]
We do and should continue to cherish the freedoms of this country. [More…]
Control itself should be exercised only by laws, but within those laws we can still have our rights and our freedoms. [More…]
In having and applying those rights and freedoms we should be able to live within the law and to be protected by the law. [More…]
One of the main freedoms in this country is our freedom of speech. [More…]
At the same time we should never put it at risk in any way, because as far as I am concerned, God help this country when we no longer have freedom of speech. [More…]
We have seen the tragedies of other countries where people have even been suppressed because they were not allowed the freedom to thinkCzechoslovakia for example. [More…]
This Bill gives indications of eroding those freedoms. [More…]
There is too much erosion of freedom. [More…]
We will be placed in a situation where there will be unnecessary interference in the freedom of operation of television and radio. [More…]
I do not think for a moment that he would be a man who would abuse that control, but the Minister in charge of this portfolio at present will not always be the Minister in charge of it and it is the responsibility of this Parliament to legislate in such a way that the rights of the people and freedom of speech are protected. [More…]
Once there is interference in programming the Government is doing more than just having a say in the operation; it is interference in basic freedom. [More…]
I am referring now to the business side of the matter, not just the aspect of the right of freedom of speech. [More…]
In the process of protecting those rights- I refer to the freedom of speech in this country- I have no alternative but to accept my responsibilities and to oppose this legislation. [More…]
In the hands of the wrong person the powers that would be given by this Bill would enable much of the freedom of the radio and television stations to be removed. [More…]
These things give me the impression- it is a sinister impressionthat the Government is up to no good with regard to the total freedom of the Press and other media. [More…]
It could well be a part of Mr Whitlam ‘s Government’s insidious plan gradually to stifle free enterprise and freedom of speech in Australia. [More…]
We heard such climatic and dramatic expressions as ‘revolution through mass communications’, ‘tyrannous legislation’, ‘the rights of the people’, ‘freedom of operation for the Press’, ‘the threat of nationalisation’ and other cliches that we have heard from the Opposition over a long period of years. [More…]
If we did have freedom to move amendments in this Senate, one would certainly move one to control the amount of broadcasting time which is occupied by one individual in this chamber, as it was last Wednesday and as it has been again this Wednesday. [More…]
In dealing with the question of federalism as the responsible exercise of power, I refer to that sort of issue as showing something of the ill conceived nature of the view that State governments are somehow efficient in the interests of Australian people and are somehow the bulwarks of freedom and the individual against authoritarianism. [More…]
At end of motion, add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $150 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…]
But a fundamental freedom that this Senate is pledged to maintain is freedom of choice- the right to choose a state school, the right to choose a nonstate school, the right to choose a Catholic parochial school and the right to choose an independent non-Catholic school. [More…]
Here is a situation in which with ordinary good sense and in the ordinary course of events one would say that the Government would believe in freedom of choice and would want to allow people to choose. [More…]
At end of motion, add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $150 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. [More…]
What do we gain if, through taxation, we destroy the right of this community to have freedom of choice in education as we imagine the community would require freedom of choice in so many other areas? [More…]
If we do slide into a situation where we, as Australians, lose our freedom of choice in that field, that field will have become, I suggest, purely a field of indoctrination, whether it be of the Left or the Right. [More…]
The case was undoubtedly adjourned, and Mr Fogarty felt that he had been able to obtain a freedom. [More…]
He fears the granting of freedom to the Aboriginal people of this country. [More…]
Cease being an agent of Petersen and fight for the rights and freedom of your people. [More…]
Legislative changes recommended by the Advisory Council today include amendments to the management of property clauses so that any doubt regarding a person’s complete freedom of choice to manage his property would be removed; a relaxation in the regulations controlling the entry and sale of liquor on reserves and the removal of the community councils from all functions dealing with an Aboriginal Court. [More…]
Cease being an agent of Petersen and fight Ibr the rights and freedom of your people. [More…]
All this Bill does is state that an Aboriginal in Queensland should have the same freedom to do on a reserve as he is permitted to do outside a reserve. [More…]
It seems to me to be very much a contradiction that on the one hand we should claim freedom of action for the Corporation in pursuit of its commercial, industrial and wool industry activities and yet, on the other hand, we stipulate that its funds shall be put into a trust fund which will have some disciplinary effect as to how that money can be used. [More…]
I can only see this as an inhibiting factor on the freedom of the Corporation in maintaining its commercial operations. [More…]
However, we cannot ratify that Convention until such time as we get an overriding law in Queensland that will give freedom to the indigenous people. [More…]
Despite what has been said, this is not an election issue and I hope the Opposition will reconsider its attitude and enable us to have unanimity on this legislation which is to ensure the freedom and the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Why cannot the same freedoms apply in Queensland as apply in other parts of Australia? [More…]
What we are trying to say is that there ought to be freedom for the Aborigines to do their own thing. [More…]
I strongly contest the argument that there is freedom in Queensland. [More…]
There is no freedom in Queensland. [More…]
For Opposition senators to say that the Aboriginal people do not want anything is to attempt to find some excuse for their own attitude of not giving to Aborigines on reserves in Queensland the same freedom as they want for white people. [More…]
Will he go to the Queensland Aboriginal people and say: ‘I am the person who stopped you from getting the freedom which I have got because I do not live on a reserve. [More…]
He is the person today who has to go back to Queensland and say to the person he was talking to who was thrown off Palm Island: ‘You could have had freedom next week to go on to Palm Island but I stopped you ‘. [More…]
One of the greatest treasures in life is freedom. [More…]
The greatest oppressors of human dignity are those who oppose freedom. [More…]
He cannot get over this: The one who is stopping an Aboriginal who wants to go on to a reserve from having the same freedom as Senator Bonner has is Senator Bonner. [More…]
At least Aboriginals have freedom of entry in Wilcannia, but they have not got it in Normanton at the present time. [More…]
This is the elementary basis of liberty and freedom, and you are the ones who are stopping it. [More…]
We do not like provisions in this Bill and given the freedom to do so in differing circumstances we would have sought to have amendments of our own and we could have at least considered the amendment which Senator Hall has moved, but we do believe it is important that this money be available. [More…]
The churches will find that they have sold their souls and their freedom, and their nursing homes will be taken over by the Government. [More…]
By acting as I have suggested the nursing homes will improve the services that they are able to provide and will provide them in a much more congenial atmosphere, in freedom and in control of their own destinies and in the finest religious and charitable principles and traditions. [More…]
For individual citizens, the program will mean automatic health insurance coverage based on a more equitable system of payment, freedom of choice of doctor and the type of hospital care. [More…]
In fact, there will be an extension of freedom of choice of doctors in that in public hospitals patients, regardless of means, will be able to elect to be treated by a salaried doctor. [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…]
4 ) Freedom to fly over the high seas. [More…]
They have been concerned about Bills in various parts of Australia and overseas which can threaten the freedom of the Press, which can challenge the liberties of the subject, and which can take away citizens’ liberties. [More…]
Most of those recommendations attempted to take away the freedom that honourable senators had in this place when I first came here. [More…]
That this reduction will further restrict the freedom available to parents to make a choice of school for their children. [More…]
That parents should be encouraged by the Australian government to exercise freedom of choice of the type of school they wish for their children. [More…]
If Opposition members want freedom of choice, such as the individual going from job to job, they should say so. [More…]
Senator McLaren may not think that is necessary but most Australians believe that respect for the law, its institutions and its personnel is basic to the survival of democracy and freedom in this country. [More…]
Whilst we know the features of poverty in other groups, if we take into account income, housing conditions, loss of freedom and racial discrimination it is clear that Aboriginals are worse off in Queensland than in other States. [More…]
At Federation the principal source of revenue of the States was customs duties, and one of the prime purposes of Federation was to eliminate the customs barriers between States and to create the principle of freedom of trade throughout the nation as it is enshrined in the famous section 92 of our Constitution. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that taxation remission or freedom from taxation existed in the Northern Territory, I think, from 1 945 to 1 950. [More…]
Of course that gives the lie to any suggestion that this is a commission which might have any independence or freedom of viewpoint, and certainly any reflection of the viewpoint of the people of Darwin. [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 senators 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 did so on a commitment to undertake amendments to the amalgamation provisions which infringe the Convention. [More…]
Among the reams of sophistry which the Opposition has presented as an apology for a case against this Bill, there are a number of references to the freedom of the voter. [More…]
It is suggested, in some way which is never spelled out, that passing this legislation will impinge upon the freedom of the voter to record a free and secret vote and so on, and upon the freedom of people to stand for Parliament. [More…]
One may have a genuine respect for people who genuinely respect the freedom of the individual even when the alleged threats to that freedom are so remote that they would seem to be innocuous. [More…]
When members of the Opposition- members of the Liberal and Country Parties- who enacted a conscription law in 1964 talk about freedom of the individual, they should be and will be greeted with ridicule and contempt. [More…]
In the eyes of members of the Opposition, freedom is rights. [More…]
They will put a great advertisement in a newspaper on behalf of a freedom league claiming that this Government is socialist. [More…]
The Government’s attempt in the Senate to give an Aboriginal at least that right of freedom to go on to his own land was defeated and the pertinent clause was removed from the Bill. [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 rights 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…]
After all that, in this cranky system that this Bill seeks to magnify and mushroom, he started an action in the Federal courts and persuaded a single judge of the Federal court to say that there was a Federal element in the case associated with freedom of speech, and one judge, 7 years after the State litigation began, negatived all the processes of 4 appeals in the State courts. [More…]
He said the Morrel constructions constituted nonverbal communication intended to express a viewpoint- in this case, an antiwar position- and thus Mr Radich was entitled to protection under the freedom of speech provision of the First Amendment. [More…]
For example, freedom of choice of doctor - [More…]
But it is propping up the health funds as if there were some particular sanctity about them, still talking about doctor-patient relationships and no freedom of choice of doctor, and opposing this [More…]
The Minister has claimed not once but many times that under Medibank, and under this Bill and all the ancillary Bills, the freedoms of choice of doctors and patients will be preserved. [More…]
I would say straight away that there will be no freedom for pensioners if the pensioner medical service is abolished and the Government has not made adequate plans for its replacement in the meantime. [More…]
In addition to that there will be no freedom for the people if they are faced with an even more complex claim form than that to which they have had to face up to now. [More…]
The Bill will not give extra freedom to the people who have to pay their doctors’ bills and then get the money back from the Health Insurance Commission. [More…]
There is no freedom for me, as a user of health services, if I cannot find somewhere at which to lodge my claim. [More…]
Finally on the question of freedom there is no freedom for doctors facing the possibility of salaried employment under this Government. [More…]
He did not tell us that under the Medibank scheme pensioners will have a freedom of choice that they have never had before. [More…]
I happen to like the freedom of choice as to who will operate on me in a hospital. [More…]
Although it is proposed under this Bill that in the initial stages, I understand, there will be freedom of choice in respect to a person ‘s general practitioner - [More…]
Discipline is essential to freedom in this community. [More…]
He has said also that if there is a refusal on the part of a public servant to go, and of course there is complete freedom for an individual to refuse to go, the position held in the Public Service department which will then be concentrated in Monarto will have to be filled by someone else. [More…]
It is also freedom from anxiety and care. [More…]
It became evident that, given complete freedom to develop and build, Adelaide’s population would grow in an objectionable sprawl from its present size of 870 000, at June 1974, to approximately 1 300 000 by the year 2000. [More…]
We consider that the power that the Minister has under the Bill to use the special account, the outcome of which would deprive the chronically ill of their freedom to use private or intermediate hospital accommodation with the accompanying freedom of choice of surgeon or physician, driving them into public ward accommodation, is also an undesirable feature. [More…]
But when it came to the problem of a civil war in Vietnam, Mr McMahon said that the matter of Vietnam should be not debated in the United Nations because by taking it to the Security Council attempts might be made to restrain our freedom of action in regard to military operations. [More…]
A little terror was all right, apparently- while carrying out our land reform program we failed to respect the principles of freedom of faith and worship in many areas. [More…]
Its immediate consequence must be a communist takeover of South Vietnam snuffing out the hope of freedom and of democratic independence in that country and extending the area of communist control closer to this country. [More…]
This great upholder of democracy and of freedom, this well known kicker of the communist can, this well known union basher and professional gaoler of conscripts never went to Vietnam in his own right and had no intentions of going there. [More…]
These are the people who in the name of their freedom saw 35 per cent of their dense tropical forest in South Vietnam defoliated, and 345 000 acres of farm land ruined by bomb craters. [More…]
These people saw Australians, their neighbours, come into their country to fight Vietnamese people with no declaration of war but with the excuse that it was for their freedom. [More…]
The people of Vietnam felt so concerned about their own country and its freedom from outside interference that they were prepared to burn themselves alive in a gesture of despair and defiance. [More…]
The Opposition is making pious statements about refugees and is crying crocodile tears about caring for people in the name of freedom. [More…]
Whose freedom? [More…]
The present Government has sat idly by whilst the communist regime, which is the enemy of our style of life, our form of society, our guarantees of freedom and our insistence on the rights of people to work out their own destiny, has come down through the land mass. [More…]
It calls upon the Government to come out very clearly and to respond not only to the degrees of doubt which are in the minds of members of the Parliament today but also to the degrees of concern which are running right through the Australian people, and to provide the Australian people with the opportunity to assist particularly the people in Vietnam to determine their own future and live a life of freedom and satisfaction. [More…]
Free enterprise has fulfilled the British desire for freedom and capacity for responsibility in an increasingly better educated, better informed society. [More…]
The Prime Minister said the policy of the Government and the Labor Party was that restrictions on freedom of expression of public servants and former public servants should be reduced to the minimum necessary for the conduct of affairs of state. [More…]
The Government believes that public servants should have the maximum possible freedom to exercise the social and political rights enjoyed by other citizens. [More…]
Democracy is a slow, lumbering process but, with all its faults, it is the best system so far as freedom and opportunity of the people are concerned. [More…]
In this Bill the Government is attempting to restrict the freedom of one or more persons to form a party, calling itself what it likes and seeking to get candidates under that banner elected to Parliament. [More…]
It does, in fact, have severe limitations on freedom of association. [More…]
Indeed, freedom of association like freedom of speech and freedom of religion is an inherent base of our society. [More…]
There are times when other matters including the vital principle of personal freedom of choice transcend matters of dollars and cents. [More…]
Labor’s scheme is based on the fee-for-service principle: private practice; freedom of patient to select his own private practitioner; and preservation of doctor-patient relationship. [More…]
For both services, charged as they are with such important responsibilities on behalf of the people of Australia, a degree of freedom of management is considered most important. [More…]
So far as the independence of individuals is concerned, we on this side of the chamber have the freedom of our own conscience in voting. [More…]
Stifling freedom of choice and virile competition, and [More…]
It follows on Senator Wheeldon ‘s attacks upon the freedom of a company to choose where it gives its political support. [More…]
Did not the Australian Metalworkers Union exercise the freedom of an organisation in this country to give its support to the Australian Labor Party, prior to the 1972 election? [More…]
When they finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. [More…]
They wanted to maximise the electors’ freedom of choice, where they would vote, how they would vote and so on. [More…]
They realise that if the preference exchanges were less effective when people were given the freedom of choice as to whether they would exercise a preference down to the last candidate they would then have to come to a mutual arrangement as to whether Liberal Party candidates would contest a particular seat and Country Party candidates would contest another seat and which Party’s candidates would contest which particular seats. [More…]
This is the real reason why the Opposition is opposing this measure: It wants to limit the freedom of choice that is available to the electorate; it wants to compel electors to continue to have to vote for every candidate; and it is frightened to embrace any change because that would reduce the effectiveness of its vote and lead to an almighty squabble between the two Opposition parties. [More…]
That is why the Opposition is now opposing the introduction of optional preferential voting, which increases the range of options, the range of choice and the freedom of the electors. [More…]
While I support the establishment of this Commission and commend the Government for its choice of members, I feel that the Commission should have a great deal more freedom than it has. [More…]
I emphasise that because I recognise that the Bill contains features which are repugnant to the rule of law and to freedom of speech. [More…]
Amongst those rights is the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
The freedom of speech of the individual is to be restricted by the measures of the Act no more than by the restriction imposed by our laws of defamation. [More…]
To my mind the Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 that is before us is, in its present form, in many aspects of the over-government type and is restrictive of the freedom of Australian citizens to express their opinions freely and to conduct their own affairs in accordance with the dictates of their consciences. [More…]
The Ministers reaffirmed the ASEAN commitment to the objective of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South-East Asia and agreed that its relevance for the region was now more evident. [More…]
Eventually that view was overruled and it was established that transport was part of trade in relation to section 92 and required freedom. [More…]
Then one has been devilled in trying to apply the further exegesis- I think that would be the word of the doctorate of Judge Dixon- that, notwithstanding the requirement of freedom, transport is subject to an obligation consistent with section 92 to pay its way. [More…]
That is the antithesis of freedom and free enterprise that could never be accepted in those bald terms. [More…]
The practical difficulty in securing the freedom of interstate trade does not arise mainly from the risk of invalid legislation. [More…]
This is not a question of freedom of speech; it is a question of getting members of the Opposition to speak and not avoid speaking by adjourning legislation. [More…]
Because of the requirement that trade, commerce and intercourse among the several States should be absolutely free, the High Court, in the exercise of the power which was conferred upon it, declared to be unlawful those legislative and administrative acts which it regarded as contrary to that guarantee of freedom. [More…]
We now have reached a stage, of course, where if there is an area of activity which is within that broad concept of interstate trade, commerce or intercourse and there are legislative or administrative acts which impose a burden upon that interstate trade, commerce or intercourse, that is an infringement of the freedom. [More…]
I know that in regard to the difficult area of the usage which interstate road operators make of the roads of the Commonwealth the High Court has imposed an exception, namely, that if there is a charge made which relates to the maintenance of the road, and that is a reasonable charge related to the upkeep of the roads, it is not an infringement of the freedom. [More…]
Is the High Court thereby bound to accept the Inter-State Commission’s decision as binding upon the High Court; or could we have the curious situation arising that what the Inter-State Commission says is unfair is declared by the High Court to be fair and not an infringement of the freedom? [More…]
He has given them freedom and a flexible curriculum and the result has been that they are now improving their school performance; they are improving their motivation; and they have been encouraged to go back and become involved in achievement in the kind of education system in which we work. [More…]
When speaking on behalf of the Opposition she said that the current technical education program tends to restrict the freedom of the States in determining their priorities. [More…]
I am advised that in fact the States’ freedom to spend funds as they wish will not be reduced by the passage of this Bill. [More…]
Senator Greenwood criticised the Bill on the ground that by forbidding the incitement to racial hatred or the dissemination of racist propaganda it infringed the right of free speech, of absolute freedom of publication and of speech. [More…]
However, Senator Greenwood did not bother to mention that the laws of defamation already provide substantial constraints against an absolute freedom of expression and of publication, nor did he explain why if the Bill is objectionable on those grounds the Government of which he was a member in 1966 voted for the United Nations Convention on Racial Discrimination which is appended to this Bill and which provides for exactly the same prohibitions against incitement to racial hatred and the publication or dissemination of racist propaganda. [More…]
This platform, which was adopted only last year, provides on page 17 that ‘the maintenance of individual freedom calls for positive measures by the Government and private organisations to encourage equal opportunity and to prevent discrimination against the individual or minority groups’. [More…]
Clause 28, when looked at in that light, represents a dangerous restriction on freedom of speech in Australia. [More…]
Clause 9 states: lt is unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. [More…]
So it is imperative that communities always take the opportunity to provide an atmosphere for people to develop their personalities, to exercise their talents and to maintain proper standards and always through all of these things it is important that our society provide machinery for people to maintain their freedom of choice. [More…]
This freedom of choice, this development of personality and this exercise of talents should always be permitted without interference, domination or hindrance from any group. [More…]
It is worth noting, particularly in the light of the Bill introduced by the Government and which is before the Senate now, that in a similar measure the United States of America reserved the right not to implement sections of the Convention which, as the Americans put it, contradicted America’s own constitutional provision for the freedom of speech. [More…]
On the one hand there is freedom of expression and on the other hand the protection of the individual against discrimination. [More…]
Some of my colleagues have said that this is not perhaps the worst country in the world for racial discrimination, that this is certainly a country with its tradition of freedom that ought to be in the forefront of those that proclaim freedom from racial discrimination and that set a lead to other countries. [More…]
Article V of the Convention provides that one of the things that must be taken into consideration is that everybody must be able to enjoy the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
This Bill will place a restriction on one of our basic freedoms- the freedom of choice. [More…]
This evening someone said something about freedom that was given in England. [More…]
Is that freedom? [More…]
Stifling freedom of choice and virile competition, and [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Attorney-General to the Government’s proposal to introduce a Freedom of Information Bill along the lines of the United States Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
The Government is removing the woman’s freedom of choice as to whether she stays in the home or not. [More…]
In the circumstances of Australia, at least there is a very large measure of freedom of choice and at least there is the propulsion of the profit motive within the law. [More…]
They represent, I presume, an alternative, and that, after all, is what freedom of choice is all about. [More…]
The preamble of that Act said that, under the prevailing economic conditions developed with the aid of Government authority for owners of property to organise in the corporate and other forms of ownership or association, the individual unorganised worker was commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract to promote his freedom of labour and thereby obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
It was therefore deemed proper that, although the worker should be free to decline to associate with other workmen, he should have full freedom of association, selforganisation and his own choice of representative to negotiate terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
No editor worth his salt can accept those limitations on his freedom. [More…]
Sub-paragraphs (vii) and (viii) of paragraph (d) refer to the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and to the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
They challenge freedom of speech on the justification, presumably, that such steps are necessary to abolish racial discrimination. [More…]
It is conceivable that people could say that freedom of speech is a better proposition to sustain and that good ideas, superior ideas and superior precepts will, in a free and open encounter, prove superior. [More…]
The fact that we are attempting to deal with matters of racial discrimination in this country does not affect the fact that people who consider themselves to be aggrieved by our laws will avail themselves of their freedom to criticise us. [More…]
The other aspect to which Senator Greenwood referred was the right to freedom of expression of opinion and peaceful assembly and association in Article 5. [More…]
To remit the maintenance of constitutional right to the region of judicial discretion is to shift the foundations of freedom from the rock to the sand. [More…]
Having regard to the high constitutional principles involved here, I submit that this Committee ought not to trespass again upon the constitutional right which is, as the House of Lords pertinently reminded us, the fundamental guarantee of freedom that judicial proceedings in some measure should be the subject of publicity. [More…]
I can say this to you, Mr Temporary Chairman, because you would know that I intend no offence at all: Unless you are to usurp my senatorial right of freedom to propose an amendment and to speak to it- I remind you that Lord Shaw said that the judges below had usurped an important constitutional right- you surely will not rule that an amendment which does not introduce a single word but seeks the omission of words that the House of Representatives has used in its amendment is not relevant. [More…]
To detract and subtract from their juridical tribunals the methods by which the citizen can have some kind of freedom against the increasing menace of direct Government prosecution, if you like, or interference in the habits of people through so-called administative tribunals is to encourage nothing more or less than those hateful things known as sniffersout that imposed an iron will on Scotland for 200 years. [More…]
We pride ourselves upon the fact that freedom of expression is one of the great liberal achievements. [More…]
I hope that the security of the state will always permit us the widest possible freedom of expression. [More…]
Whatever be those considerations, the basic objection which the Opposition has is that this clause is an infringement of freedom of expression which ought not to be seen in a Bill of this character which is directed towards improving human relations. [More…]
The whole tradition of freedom of speech that we have means, I think, that at times we have to live a little dangerously. [More…]
The position in Australia is nowhere near so serious in this field that we should risk the possibility of a real incursion into freedom of speech. [More…]
I have maintained that we must read this Convention in the line and in the light of our appropriate means, because we are obliged to use only appropriate means, and we are required under the Convention to preserve the right of freedom of expression of opinion. [More…]
I recognise what this Bill means so far as freedom of speech and freedom to write are concerned. [More…]
I imagine that it could lead to a limitation of freedom of speech which would be most undesirable. [More…]
While this may not at the present time meet the requirements of the United Nations convention as to the freedom of movement of an individual, it would meet the requirements subject to the land being handed over to Aboriginal communities. [More…]
As I have said in reply to a question, the Premier of Queensland has informed me that on certain conditions he is not opposed to the handing over of land to Aboriginal communities and this may then permit us to abide by the United Nations convention on the freedom of movement of an individual. [More…]
He expressed appreciation that at last we have given to Aborigines the freedom of selfdetermination, and if an injustice is done to an Aborigine he has the right to receive legal aid. [More…]
Let us look at the freedom of selfdetermination that the Aborigines have. [More…]
Here is an example of the freedom of self determination that exists in Queensland when an instruction is given by the Queensland Department to serve notices on those people who have only a monthly permit to remain on the reserve. [More…]
It may very well be that the administration of the day is seeking information, the development of information services or the development of statistical services which might very well be described as cutting across personal freedom, privacy and in particular the personal concerns of a citizen of this country. [More…]
The safeguard against any intrustion into personal privacy, against any intrusion into a person’s freedom, against the restriction of anybody’s movement and against the compulsion for somebody to divulge some fact which he does not wish to divulge is in the pattern of Parliament, because Parliament is the representative of the people, is the safeguard of the people and is the protection of the people from the bureaucracy. [More…]
The reason for that, as was given over many decades, was that such a system as is embraced within this Bill ran counter to the concept of the rule of law, and the argument went that the rule of law implied the absence of wide discretionary powers in the Government affecting the personal liberty, the private property rights and the freedom of contract of individuals. [More…]
Does this apply unreservedly to those persons with entitlements to benefits under the Repatriation Act; if not, is the statement misleading to the extent that Repatriation patients may not have freedom to attend any medical practitioner and to receive Medibank benefits for the services provided. [More…]
The Government also would hope that in accordance with the principle of freedom of international trade and as another step towards peace and harmony in the Middle East the Egyptian Government also before long will open the Canal to Israeli ships and cargoes. [More…]
It is one of the fundamentals of the freedom that we Britishers have under the law not to be required by any authority to give an answer which may incriminate us. [More…]
The Australian Development Assistance Agency co-ordinates such activities in conjunction with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), which includes such organisations as AUSTCARE, Australian Council of Churches, Australian Catholic Relief, Federation of Jewish Welfare Societies, Freedom from Hunger and Vietnam Orphans Fund. [More…]
Perhaps I should qualify all of them by saying that freedom of speech has always been regarded as precious in this country. [More…]
Freedom of expression goes further than just the individual. [More…]
Within certain guidelines that can be laid down we must have protection of the right to freedom of expression for individuals and for the various sections of the media. [More…]
Those guidelines should not be so narrow, restrictive or repressive that they interfere in any way with the freedom of the Press or, more importantly, allow areas for government interference. [More…]
However, I take strong exception to certain people who were given freedom of expression which they are abusing at the present time. [More…]
If these Bills are to be used as the basis for a double disssolution we would welcome it on the basis of the simple and easily understood attitude to the freedom of the Press in a democratic society. [More…]
We say this because to suggest that there can be editorial freedom without economic freedom is to be totally unrealistic. [More…]
All the statements of government in the past have been related to control of the outlet of television and radio, control that can be exercised through programming with regard to Australian content, for instance, or programming which would perhaps require a station to have a particular news session- all the things that infringe editorial freedom as it would need to be managed and sifted through those people who are presenting the daily news to the people of Australia. [More…]
These are things that we regard as absolutely fundamental in this society and we do not for one moment suggest that freedom of the Press can be taken for granted because we have seen too often ways in which it can be jeopardised. [More…]
These are things that sometimes are taken for granted but which, through legislation introduced by socialist or Labor Party governments, can impinge very much on a freedom that has been exercised in the past and should continue into the future. [More…]
One of them today used that oftused expression ‘freedom of the media’. [More…]
Regrettably, against public interest, some of these people often interpret ‘freedom of the media’ to mean ‘unrestricted licence’. [More…]
They selected for criticism individual or single attempts at change and defined these individual changes as snide bids to deny them freedom. [More…]
In closing let me once again record the view of the Opposition that the OTC has had freedom of action and with that freedom of action it has proved a most efficient and effective organisation. [More…]
I have seen the news item referred to by the honourable senator and, as one who has had occasion to criticise the Soviet Union for its restrictions on international freedom, I welcome the evidence of a loosening of such restrictions. [More…]
Freedom from Hunger Appeal [More…]
In South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, where Austcare and the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign are affiliated, the two organisations conducted a joint appeal. [More…]
On page 38 there is reference to freedom of information. [More…]
Under the heading ‘ Freedom of Information’ the statement appears: [More…]
The freedom of members from pressure by the Executive was fought and won years ago, and it must be defended against attack even if that attack should be cloaked under anxiety for the national safety. [More…]
He argues the principle of freedom of information, and discusses the political systems which demand the immediate reduction of secretive fronts. [More…]
It is well settled that, in the public interest, such documents should be written with the utmost candour and freedom of expression, that such candour and freedom of expression might be impaired if such documents could be ordered to be produced in an action, and that accordingly their production would be so much to the prejudice of the public interest, that, however pertinent they might be to the issues in an action, they ought not to be produced. [More…]
What has happened to these ideas that there should be a freedom for public servants to make comment? [More…]
We have seen now that public servants are not to have that freedom when it is essential in regard to mighty important matters. [More…]
In regard to freedom of information, do honourable senators recall that only a few weeks ago I asked Senator James McClelland what had happened to the freedom of information Bill. [More…]
Because today we have heard from Senator Button that the Government is backtracking on these questions of open government and freedom of information. [More…]
So we can see a return to the pre-open government, freedom of information period. [More…]
That is not allowing a freedom to ask that every question on notice be answered orally. [More…]
Liberals believe competitive free enterprise is the economic system which most effectively ensures that individuals can exercise freedom of choice and initiative. [More…]
It is for freedom of choice of the individual but not for freedom for that individual to choose between private and public enterprise. [More…]
What Mr Daly wants is freedom for the Government to use taxpayers’ money to buy votes and limitations on everyone else so that they cannot compete, even though their funds are provided voluntarily. [More…]
I refer to a question which I asked of the Minister on 28 May 1975 relating to the proposed Freedom of Information Bill, the machinations of an interdepartmental committee in relation to the Bill and to the Bill’s disappearance from public view. [More…]
Stirling freedom of choice and virile competition, and [More…]
They want freedom to spend or not to spend as and how they choose. [More…]
It merely has replaced a system that offered freedom of choice with one of compulsion and I ask: At what a cost? [More…]
It will not allow people the freedom to save or to spend as they wish. [More…]
Mr Fraser continues in the course of his National Press Club address to talk a lot about the concept of freedom. [More…]
In 1972 we had the total freedom of the stock market to behave as it wanted- 3 Vi years later we are still hearing rumblings from that- and at the same time we had a different sort of freedom for young Australian men who were conscripted to fight in Vietnam. [More…]
There were 2 kinds of freedom. [More…]
We can all be grateful that Mr Fraser would not want to restore to Australia the pre- 1972 notion of freedom if he were ever to lead a government in this country. [More…]
without freedom there’s no self respect. [More…]
Freedom to strive, to achieve, to seek excellence. [More…]
Freedom to be different and freedom to conform. [More…]
Let us analyse the good stuff because Mr Fraser quite clearly understands that the notion of freedom and the notion of equality are closely interwoven. [More…]
Mr Fraser went on to say that people should have freedom to choose what kind of education they wanted for their children. [More…]
Should that freedom of choice be limited to a few people- Mr Fraser ‘s friends- or should that freedom of choice be available to the whole Australian community? [More…]
That is an exercise of freedom by those people which they never had previously. [More…]
It is an exercise of freedom which will lead to greater equality- not enforced equality -of opportunity in this community. [More…]
That is their exercise of their freedom- a freedom which they did not have the capacity to exercise before this Government came to power. [More…]
As a result of that exercise of freedom which has been made available to them for the first time there will be, I hope, greater equality in this country; but it is not enforced equality- it is the fulfilment of freedom and the opportunity to have the same chance as everybody else in this society. [More…]
Clearly what Mr Fraser means when he talks about freedom in education is that freedom of people to send their children to private schools with the benefit of big concessions which favour the rich. [More…]
It is the freedom of wealthier people, in the context of this Budget, to gain a disproportionate benefit of life insurance concessions. [More…]
It is that sort of freedom about which he is concerned; but that is not the sort of freedom about which this Government is concerned. [More…]
It is not the sort of equality of opportunity about which this Government is concerned and it is not the sort of freedom or equality of opportunity which thousands of Australians who benefited from these programs in education, health and matters of that kind have achieved in the last two or three years. [More…]
This is a trendy senator from Victoria saying that Mr Fraser ‘s views on equality and freedom are well stated. [More…]
Freedom means choice in the hands of individuals. [More…]
In society it means minimum controls in the pursuit of alternative life styles which are themselves compatible with human freedom, and human dignity. [More…]
The substance of that part of his speech is: ‘Freedom means choice in the hands of individuals’. [More…]
Does freedom mean choice in the hands of a few select individuals or does it mean choice in the hands of the whole of the Australian people? [More…]
Does it mean freedom to enjoy privilege or does it mean freedom from fear? [More…]
Does it mean the sort of freedom from fear which a million Australians have now been guaranteed by the introduction of Medibank- the freedom from fear of the consequences of sickness? [More…]
That is the sort of freedom with which this Government is concerned. [More…]
It is quite apparently not the sort of freedom with which the Liberal Party is or will be concerned in the future if the philosophy which is espoused in this speech is indeed the philosophy of the Opposition in Australia. [More…]
Of course it does, but it means that that freedom of choice should be available to every Australian citizen and not to a select few. [More…]
That is what freedom really means. [More…]
A Liberal government would favour concessions to the rich and concessions to those who want the freedom to send their children to private schools at the expense of every other child in Australia. [More…]
If it had not been for Russia, Hitler might not have been stopped in the last war and we might not have been enjoying the freedom we are enjoying today. [More…]
Surely only a Party which waffles about personal freedom and protecting the rights of the individual against the tyranny of the State at the same time as it passes conscription Acts and at two of its [More…]
State conferences within the last month passes motions again demanding the reintroduction of conscription- surely only a Party that is capable of producing that sort of fundamental contradiction and a Leader who sent conscripts into the war in Indo China and waffles about personal freedom- only a Party and a Leader such as that could describe a growth rate of more than 20 per cent in the money supply as highly irresponsible when they presided over a growth rate of 34 per cent - [More…]
Not only is that an imposition on the taxpayer but also it is an imposition on the freedom of choice of the community in the area of health care and health provision. [More…]
This new initiative means that ethnic groups will now have more programming time and freedom to communicate with their respective audiences. [More…]
Professional skills cannot be developed unless the individual is highly motivated and has exercised his freedom of choice to select his occupation. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this requirement is a dangerous innovation which infringes the rights of the people concerned and the political freedom of all Australians? [More…]
Freedom of speech in this country has been curtailed in respect of those people who could tell us something which would be of interest to us. [More…]
I really feel that Encyclopaedia Britannica sank to the lowest depths when it had to use the Freedom from Hunger Campaign to distribute its brochures. [More…]
He promised people greater freedom and more choice under a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
Mr Fraser and the Opposition Parties he represents presumably mean that the people of this country had greater freedom and more choice in the 23 years prior to the Australian Labor Party coming to office. [More…]
Will there be any censorship of their freedom of speech? [More…]
He concluded by saying that the freedom to spend one’s income is one of the most important freedoms. [More…]
It is the kind of freedom that the Government is taking away from us. [More…]
It is the kind of freedom that is being taken away from us in this Budget. [More…]
Indeed, the danger in the future is that this freedom will be taken away from us to an even greater extent. [More…]
My remarks were not based upon the constitutional situation but upon information from Jewish sources about the relative degree of freedom from persecution afforded by the authorities in the three Baltic States in that period. [More…]
The Workers Party advocates that Government power should be gradually reduced till the Government is responsible only for the defence of Australia (non-existent at present), for the protection of honest Australians against criminals (at present the police are handicapped by unnecessary laws which restrict individual freedom), and the maintenance of a legal system to protect individual liberty and the rights of individuals. [More…]
They tend to proclaim individual freedoms, that freedom of the individual means all, but then they bay for harsh censorship laws, conscription, restricted immigration based on racial grounds, and the flogging and gaoling of people like homosexuals. [More…]
I think the most significant thing about them is that they demand freedom of choice, but it is always freedom of choice for those who can afford it and they deny freedom of choice or even freedom of opportunity to the poor and to those who cannot afford it. [More…]
Mr Fraser, in his philosophical discourse to the National Press Club, informed us that freedom to spend one’s income is just as important as freedom of speech, of religion and of association. [More…]
But the people described by Professor Henderson in his report, the people described for years by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, and more recently by the Social Welfare Commission and other organisations, have no freedom to spend their income because it is so low they have only sufficient or less than sufficient for their most rudimentary needs. [More…]
Even former Senator Murphy acknowledged in his early speeches in the field of legal aid that it is fundamental to the freedom of the individual and it is fundamental to the democratic system in Australia that people should have access to legal services which are quite independent of government. [More…]
provisions to be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community; and [More…]
For example, there is no real freedom of movement to and from Home Island- the Island on which he and the Cocos community live. [More…]
I would like a categorical assurance from the Postmaster-General that the freedom of choice as far as transport is concerned will prevail after this railway transfer is effected. [More…]
For 3 years this great upholder of the freedom of the country, this great upholder of the freedom of the electoral laws was able to cling to power as the leader of the majority party because he was able to secure at the previous poll the total of 19 per cent of the votes. [More…]
It is a great pity also that the Australian Press cannot be relied on to be as outspoken on behalf of Australian citizens as apparently the Canadian Press was outspoken on behalf of Canadian citizens when their freedom and their rights were denied to them in another country. [More…]
One is left with the conclusion that the freedom of the Press is a freedom for the Press itself and not the freedom of other people. [More…]
I think he should spread his concern to other places in which Australians are being put under some restrictions, including even restrictions in relation to their freedom. [More…]
Australia has been a prosperous country of contented people subscribing to the democratic system which demands freedom, protection of the rights of people, understanding and a national mutual love of people. [More…]
I think that the Senate has from time to time given the freedom of interjection upon a senator who - [More…]
I remind him that on 30 July 1974, 28 May 1975 and again in August 1 975 I asked the AttorneyGeneral or his representative in the Senate why the Freedom of Information Bill promised by this Government since early 1973 had not been seen publicly and seems to have disappeared without trace. [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…]
For that reason I would like to reiterate that I feel the Joint Tasman Bridge Restoration Commission should have more freedom under the clauses of the Bill and should be empowered to decide whether in fact it is wise to’ rebuild the bridge. [More…]
In part 3 of that answer I referred to the criteria for the release of documents to be set out in the proposed Freedom of Information legislation. [More…]
We do not have freedom of the Press in Western Australia. [More…]
We do not have the freedom to say what we want to say and know that it will be reported. [More…]
No matter whether people have a Chetnik, a Ustashi or a white guardist background, or the background of the vast majority of Yugoslavs who are not involved, they should have freedom of assembly. [More…]
Freedom has gone from this country as Senator Greenwood wants to see it go if we have to put up with this sort of piffle and the objections that he raises in the chamber. [More…]
He has the freedom of choice, which Senator Guilfoyle talked about in another context, to decide whether he takes that benefit or not. [More…]
He has the freedom to make that decision and to reap the benefits accordingly. [More…]
He formulated the ideal of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia, whilst at the same time establishing friendly links with powerful nations outside the zone. [More…]
It is only in these circumstances that the freedom to which we all aspire, for each individual, can be attained. [More…]
It is to this dignity, this equality and this freedom that the LiberalNational Party Government is dedicated. [More…]
Our relations with Indonesia are of great importance but not to the point where we will cast aside our commitment to fundamental rights and freedom. [More…]
Despite present difficult circumstances I believe, as the Governor-General said yesterday, that we have a unique opportunity to establish in Australia a truly liberal and humane society where freedom, equality and dignity prevail and where the disadvantaged have first call on our resources. [More…]
I have always regarded the Australian Parliament as the symbol of liberty, freedom, democracy, free speech, and indeed quiet thought. [More…]
That is the reverse of the policy of the present Government which, as the GovernorGeneral stated yesterday, is: to encourage the development of an Australia in which people have a 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…]
Again, that word ‘freedom’ is emphasised and re-emphasised. [More…]
It is to encourage development of an Australia in which people have maximum freedom and independence to achieve their own goals in life, in ways they decide … the Government does not believe that the poor and disadvantaged can be best helped by increasing the dependence of everyone on what the Government chooses to provide. [More…]
The people exercised their freedom to vote on the matter. [More…]
During the last Parliament I took a lot of interest in the progress with the Freedom of Information Bill about which I have had a number of representations since the former Parliament was brought to an end. [More…]
Consequently, we must seek to provide a measure of freedom of choice. [More…]
They will have a measure of freedom of choice. [More…]
I suggest that it is relevant to our assessment of freedom. [More…]
I suggest that there is no freedom without a real measure of discipline. [More…]
Freedom is meaningless if it is not related to discipline. [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…]
‘Fraserology’ as I interpret it from reading the collected wisdom of that man, enunciated in various speeches, involves a rather Leaving Certificate standard statement or dissertation on notions of freedom and equality in society. [More…]
I make that somewhat derogatory remark about it because the point about which we are concerned is simply this: It is no good to say that people can have freedom of choice in Australia and that people who are on the pension can have freedom of choice, if that pension is inadequate. [More…]
It is no good to say that poor men in Australia have the same freedom of choice as rich men and think that is the end of the problem. [More…]
Freedom is a notion which involves a deal of conceptual thinking. [More…]
Both in his National Press Club address last year and in the Governor-General’s Speech, Mr Fraser has indicated quite clearly that he has no understanding of the notion of economic and social freedom which we, as a Party, have tried to put to the people of Australia in the last few years. [More…]
Of course, that is like mother’s milk; we all believe in all that stuff- that people should have initiative and should have freedom to solve their own problems as much as possible. [More…]
I illustrate the point about freedom by instancing another State government-that of Queensland. [More…]
That first of those objectives is to contribute to the development of an economic and social order in which people can live with freedom and dignity and pursue both their spiritual development and material well-being in conditions of economic security and equal opportunity. [More…]
Married women should have a true freedom of choice but they should not be forced through economic circumstances- and that is the situation at present- to go out to work in order to maintain a decent standard of living. [More…]
The other reason, of course, which has been emphasised is the greater freedom that senators enjoy from constituency work in comparison to members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is interesting to consider the passage of the Freedom of Information Act in America and to consider what that means in terms of the democratic rights of a great many of the activists in the political movements in that country. [More…]
But nowhere near the danger that existed before the Freedom of Information Act was written. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of statements made recently on the Australian Broadcasting Commission radio program AM by Mr Barry 0 ‘Hagen from the Freedom from Hunger organisation characterising the Government’s policy of reducing foreign aid appropriations as ‘objectionable and reprehensible’? [More…]
Is it not right that the States which are close to the people in relation to education, health, housing, the law, police and municipal affairs should have the right to adequate money and freedom of action in spending that money? [More…]
We are working towards an Australia with maximum freedom for individuals to pursue their own goals in ways of their own choosing. [More…]
The authority surely must have the freedom to move teachers, to determine staffing needs, provisionally promote, and so on. [More…]
In all policy areas the Government will be alert to opportunities to increase the freedom of Australians to choosewithout exploitation - [More…]
This Senate is a place in which there is freedom of speech and, of course, a question directed, as the honourable senator has directed her question, to the conduct of a magistrate who declined to commit a person for trial is in order. [More…]
The other point I want to make while I am talking about this aspect is that in the old days of the Labor Government- it was a good government, in spite of some of the statements that Senator Davidson made a few moments agothe people who administered the various government departments had a greater freedom to take action and a greater opportunity to express themselves. [More…]
The general proposition that the Government should not intervene in the market place but should allow consumers and others maximum freedom in distributing their dollars and in deciding how their incomes should be spent is frequently enunciated by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) but very rarely implemented. [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 . [More…]
In all policy areas, the Government will be alert to opportunities to increase the freedom of Australians to choose without exploitation the kinds of goods, services and styles of life- they want. [More…]
We need to be alert to opportunities to increase the freedom of all Australians, including our female citizens, to choose without exploitation the style of life that they want. [More…]
I ask you, Mr President, to take this into consideration because any such investigation on your part, not knowing that there are many honourable senators who disagree with Senator Chaney ‘s views, may lead indirectly to some limitation of the freedom of the Press in this place. [More…]
Today I heard, amongst other things, our friend Senator Carrick, as the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson), express the opinion on behalf of the present Government that whilst there should be freedom of expression and freedom of independence on the part of the Commission that did not mean ipso facto that there should be freedom of expression and licence. [More…]
While ever honourable senators opposite say that the Department of the Media was established merely as a weapon of propaganda and for the purpose of not giving publicity and freedom of expression to the people of Australia the sadder and sorrier this nation will be. [More…]
In this place we are used to receiving lectures from those who sit opposite us concerning the freedom and the independence of certain institutions and of the Press and concerning the necessity for Press councils to protect the right of freedom of expression of all sorts of people. [More…]
It was because we on this side of the Parliament are so aware of the fact that there ought to be freedom of expression, whether or not it hurts us, that it was part of our policy to get rid of that department previously known as the Department of the Media. [More…]
On the point of accreditation I refer to the United States of America, the land of free enterprise, the land of the free where, we are told, individual freedom is precious above all things. [More…]
We do not hear much about complaints in the United States against these accreditation schemes in terms of abrogation of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
Then we shall succeed in getting a proper health service in this country and we will stop the arguments that have been carried on over the years about funding and about individual freedom. [More…]
That conference declared as its first principle that man had the fundamental right to freedom, to equality and to adequate conditions of life in an environment of quality, permitting a life of dignity and well being with a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations. [More…]
The conference declared as its first principle that man had the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life in an environment of quality, permitting a life of dignity and wellbeing with a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations. [More…]
And we further unanimously resolve: to place our claims before the United Nations and to appeal to all the peoples of the world who believe in freedom and justice for moral and financial support in the fight for our peoples ‘ rights, to call upon the Australian Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders to unite behind their Congress, and, as never before to fight as one to secure and preserve our ancient heritage, and we announce our resolve, with the support of our people, to build up the strength of the Congress, to conduct the next congress elections in September 1976, and to ensure that the claims of our people for a free and better way of life are pursued vigorously and without fear. [More…]
It would be a very strange and sorry thing if the left and right were to combine so vigorously- I refer to the South Australian Parliament and to the Liberal Administration here- in suppressing individual freedom. [More…]
The ABC is satisfying an ever increasing audience and it is providing a real freedom of choice to Australians. [More…]
This is a freedom of choice enabling Australians to choose from a large number of high quality programs. [More…]
The ABC is providing freedom of choice to listeners to hear broadcasts without being deluged by advertisements. [More…]
I suggest that those honourable senators opposite who so frequently like to talk about the freedom of choice, the importance of initiative in business, and so on, should welcome the initiative shown and the choice offered by the most recent successes of the ABC. [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 required to purchase components from the most economic source while still being required to obtain most of their requirements from local manufacture. [More…]
We will get into trouble when we embark on such an examination, because one of the first matters that will be raised is academic freedom. [More…]
When one looks at what happens within university or college departments or faculties and seriously questions it and says to somebody: ‘I think you ought to be responsive to public opinion’, that person says: ‘If we are responsive to public opinion we will lose our academic freedom’. [More…]
I would like to reach top decibel level on something that has come to my attention recently as a result of the practice of academic freedom. [More…]
I suggest that, if I as an individual were to go to the person responsible in this case and say: ‘I as a member of Parliament think that what you have done is intolerable’, he would turn around and say: ‘I am going to plead academic freedom’. [More…]
If we challenged it, academic freedom would be pleaded. [More…]
The playing of that sort of game behind the facade of academic freedom is something that we should not tolerate. [More…]
It was putting its trammels around the States so that they had no freedom of movement. [More…]
The one aspect of that Party of which I am most proud is the freedom of its members to exercise their votes in accordance with the dictates of their conscience. [More…]
I am proud to be able to get up in this place and to put a point of view which in the freedom of my Party I am able to do but which members of the Opposition have no right to do. [More…]
Mr Chairman, it is obvious that members of the Opposition become most disturbed when they recognise that there is freedom of speech on this side of the Senate. [More…]
If the caucused Labor Party were in government we would never see the day when any one of its members had the freedom to express a view different from the view expressed in the House of Representatives. [More…]
At least members of the Liberal and National Country Parties have a freedom to operate in the Senate as members of a House of review. [More…]
I simply say to those who designed and those who currently make up the Liberal and National Country Parties: Thank God for that freedom; thank God for the opportunity for us to express a view which is different from a view of the House of Representatives, the House of Government, and to ask that this matter be reviewed, which is what we do. [More…]
I point out to Senator Sim and his colleagues who are attempting to interject and who claim that they have the freedom to vote as they like in this place while Opposition senators do not that there is a very great difference between the way in which the Parties of the honourable senators opposite would have considered this Bill and the way in which we would have considered it. [More…]
First of all, let me say again that it is a recognised principle of the Liberal Party that members of the Party have the freedom of our conscience. [More…]
This country chose the repatriation system a long time ago as its means of repaying in part those who defended this country in war and who went away to protect our freedom. [More…]
But at the same time he has reduced the spending capacity of the pensioners in this country, on his own admission, by some $3 1 m. I believe that it is sad to hear the Prime Minister proclaim that his Government will give people more independence in the use of their money and more freedom to spend their money as they wish and then deprive those in the community who, through no fault of their own, have the least financial independence. [More…]
All the Government is providing in this Bill is the freedom to starve. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister can explain to me what the procedure will be and what is the position with regard to freedom of choice. [More…]
The Minister for Administrative Services must know that there is no real freedom of movement for the Cocos Malay people between Home Island and West Island. [More…]
Greater freedom is given to the States by the modification of the provisions relating to expenditure so that major items of expenditure only, both in the case of government and nongovernment schools, will need to be reported upon and expenditures which might be described as ‘ minor only ‘ will be made at the discretion of the States. [More…]
Could the Minister advise whether there is any Commonwealth law to ensure freedom of movement of blind persons with guide dogs? [More…]
Would I be in order if I asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether there is provision in Commonwealth law for freedom of movement for guide dogs in Australia? [More…]
We well know that they are prepared to give lip service to democratic institutions, to freedom and to self-determination. [More…]
What attitude did members of the previous Government take to the Baltic States- an end to freedom; an end to democracy; an end to selfdetermination. [More…]
But what I am concerned about- I referred to it earlier- is that perhaps the Minister listens to strange voices which may try to divert him from what I believe is a very sincere purpose, namely, to see that the program which we introduced and which is concerned with the rights, individuality and freedom of expression of every Australian child is carried forward and to insist upon and fight for the development of a program which will help to widen the horizons of every child in this country and which will help to enhance and enrich our greatest resource. [More…]
We believe the individual can benefit most from the educational process if there is freedom of choice in schooling. [More…]
We believe encouragement of freedom of selfdevelopment and striving for excellence in education is the foundation for a truly pluralistic society and an enterprising nation. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Australian people would be eager to see and to hear interviews with a man such as Solzhenitsyn who must be one of the most courageous men of massive integrity alive in the world today and also one of the great fighters for freedom. [More…]
Everything should be done to help voluntary bodies to sustain themselves, with the maximum amount of freedom possible being allowed to enable them to operate. [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…]
This gives them the freedom of choice which is implicit in the philosophy which we on this side of the chamber espouse. [More…]
In providing that freedom of choice we are doing no more than we promised the electors of Australia on 1 3 December that we would do. [More…]
I am sure that with the Fraser Government we will be able to build a country full of freedom which will give expression to the wishes of every Australian. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne, who had an illustrious Air Force career, who suffered in the horror camps in Europe as a prisoner-of-war to protect people like the honourable senator opposite and who fought for their freedom, rose tonight to take issue with the remarks by Senator Lajovic. [More…]
I am proud to have him as a comrade for the efforts that he put in to defend not only the freedom of Australians but also the freedom of people like Senator Lajovic. [More…]
It is a nice judgment of the freedom of the media how it exercises that good taste. [More…]
When one adds to that the cuts which have been made in government expenditure in a large number of areas, we feel that that again is an inhibiting factor on the capacity and freedom of individuals to spend. [More…]
I speak for myself when I say that I am concerned that the essential philosophy behind tax indexation is the belief which has been expressed by the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, on a number of occasions but perhaps most eloquently in the phrase which he used at the National Press Club luncheon last year when he said that the freedom to spend one ‘s own income is as important as the freedom of speech or the freedom of religion. [More…]
We were told that there would be no freedom of choice under Medibank. [More…]
One of the excuses is that people should have freedom of choice, for goodness sake, between 2 health insurance funds, that is, freedom of choice as to who is going to pay your medical bills. [More…]
Does anybody seriously give a damn about that sort of freedom of choice, about who is going to pay your medical bills? [More…]
Is that an important freedom of choice in our society? [More…]
That is the sort of freedom of choice which people are being offered, even if freedom of choice in relation to the payment of medical bills was a relevant factor in a contemporary society. [More…]
I believe that what the Government has done and contemplates doing will preserve the freedom of choice which, in our ideological view, is the right of every Australian taxpayer. [More…]
I believe further in the course of action taken by the Government in seeking to provide freedom of choice for the Australian people between the private health institutions or Medibank, or some sort of balance between the two. [More…]
When Senator Jessop was speaking about an hour ago he mentioned again the alleged commitment that he and his Party have to freedom of choice for the individual. [More…]
-As I understand it, the Australian Broadcasting Commission is a statutory corporation and is given the freedom of a statutory corporation in order that it may produce objectivity of decision-making and comprehensive and adequate programming. [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 which 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 persons 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…]
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…]
These proposals have been introduced with the excuse that there is some necessity to cut government expenditure in the field of health insurance and under the phoney pretence that the new proposals will provide freedom of choice in the field of medical care. [More…]
So much for the Government’s freedom of choice. [More…]
No explanation is given why this distinction is drawn or in relation to the denial of freedom of choice. [More…]
Freedom of choice seems to be the holy grail of the Government parties this year. [More…]
If the Government believes in freedom of choice, that choice should be between the payment of the same amount of money to private funds or to the Government fund for equal services. [More…]
Does that indicate in any way that they wanted freedom of choice? [More…]
I hold no particular brief for benefit funds in this debate but I do say that, consistent with the philosophy of people on this side of the chamber and of those people who sent us here, people should have the freedom of choosing their own doctor. [More…]
Senator Tehan made a statement also- I hope I heard him correctly- that people would have the freedom to choose their own doctor. [More…]
It appears to me now that Medibank will not continue in the style that the people have accepted but will be mauled in the name of freedom of choice and also to achieve savings. [More…]
I will detail more about freedom of choice later. [More…]
They do not want to be confused by false concepts of freedom of choice, as my colleagues have said previously. [More…]
One of the concepts which has been much discussed during the course of the debate relates to freedom of choice. [More…]
In the three or four years leading up to the introduction of Medibank there was continual discussion in the Australian community about what freedom of choice in terms of health care meant. [More…]
It was suggested by the then Opposition that, as a result of the introduction of Medibank, people would be denied freedom of health care choice not only at the hospital level, where there is an argument to be put on that score, but also at the private practitioner level. [More…]
I find it very strange that after this period there is once again a discussion about what freedom of choice in relation to health insurance in Australia means. [More…]
Not one Government senator who has contributed to this debate has really said anything about this question; rather honourable senators opposite have uttered ba-ba sorts of slogans about freedom of choice. [More…]
What is the sort of freedom of choice about which they are talking? [More…]
The freedom of choice which is being offered by the Government in this legislation is the freedom of choice of the private health funds to rip it off Australian citizens. [More…]
That is the only new freedom of choice which is being offered by this legislation. [More…]
He is still waffling away about this alleged freedom of choice which the Liberal Party proposes to offer the Australian people in relation to their health insurance. [More…]
No doubt in later debates Senator Baume again will get back to that concept because the Liberal Party, as he pointed out, has this curious belief that it is the only political party in Australia- indeed probably the only political party in the whole of the Western world- which understands what freedom of choice means. [More…]
Let us look at the sort of freedom of choice in relation to health insurance which was offered by the private health funds in Australia prior to Medibank. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that it was the Nimmo Committee which talked about the private health funds in these terms: That they were inefficient; that they were undemocratic insofar as their members were concerned; that they offered no genuine freedom of choice to the Australian people; that there were too many competing funds, and that they were wasteful for that very reason. [More…]
That is what the Nimmo Committee, which was appointed by the Liberal-Country Party Government, said about the private health funds, and it is the private health funds to which this Government now is offering freedom of choice. [More…]
No honourable senator opposite can really tell us what genuine freedom of choice is being offered to Australian citizens by the changes which will be made to Medibank. [More…]
The first is that the notion of freedom of choice as it has been expounded is an utter phoney. [More…]
The second is that freedom of choice, if it exists, is being offered to the private health funds, and the Nimmo Committee so eloquently expressed the capacity which the funds had to offer that freedom of choice to the Australian people. [More…]
We will have these confusions all in the name and in the pursuit of the idological myth about freedom of choice and all this sort of rubbish. [More…]
Senator Button became very agitated about freedom of choice. [More…]
Then he said that he could not really see how anyone could call it freedom of choice if a person were free only to choose who is going to pay his medical bills. [More…]
Some radical liberationists preach that the freedom of women is the eradication of family responsibility. [More…]
That the Health Insurance Commission be empowered to offer medical insurance cover at the level currently offered, and hospital cover for accommodation in standard, intermediate and private wards of recognised hospitals and approved private hospitals with no financial disadvantages to members of the public who wish to exercise a true freedom of choice by staying with Medibank as their chosen method of health insurance. [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 the artist and patron alike. [More…]
There is need for a determined campaign by all Australians- and that means all parties and all senators who have some understanding of the problem- by all those who value liberty and freedom and the rights of people, to see that this grave miscarriage of justice is not ratified and that the incorporation does not take place. [More…]
Nevertheless, even in that situation, 5 per cent or 10 per cent or indeed all the unionists involved naturally would have the freedom to apply for a postal ballot and use it in that manner. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite can clamour about it and speak about the freedom of the individual; but the West German and Scandinavian economies are much tighter. [More…]
The Minister assured the Islanders that the arrangement will seek the best way to preserve the Islanders’ livelihood culture and traditional way of life, including freedom of movement on the waters of the Torres Strait and environmental protection for the whole area. [More…]
That whereas all people should have the right to life, liberty, and political and religious freedom and whereas there are increasing reports on human slaughter and repression by the Communist-led government in Cambodia, your petitioners humbly pray, that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should: [More…]
To remit the maintenance of constitutional right to the region of judicial discretion is to shift the foundations of freedom from the rock to the sand. [More…]
Of these, the first is by far the most indispensable; nor can the subjects of any State be reckoned to enjoy a real freedom, where this condition is not found both in us judicial institutions and in their constant exercise’. [More…]
I must say frankly that I think these encroachments have taken place by way of judicial procedure in such a way as, insensibly at first, but now culminating in this decision most sensibly, to impair the rights, safety, and freedom of the citizen and the open administration of the law. [More…]
Whilst institutes, colleges and universities have autonomy in order to preserve academic freedom and the right of freedom of speech they have a basic responsibility to see that balanced views are put forward, and I hope they take note of that point. [More…]
Discussions about productivity improvements and freedom from disputes have indicated that the actual gain from eliminating industrial trouble would not be as great as one might think. [More…]
They are all involved in a general movement towards freedom and the granting of human rights. [More…]
They are aware, of course, as we all are, that under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights obligations are imposed upon the Soviet Union to carry out and to enforce rights of freedomrights of freedom of movement, rights to leave the country, rights to have a nationality and many other rights. [More…]
The Helsinki Agreement, a copy of which I hold in my hand, contains very clear obligations which are headed in Part VII ‘Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief. [More…]
For information passed on to freedom, political prisoners of Vladimir prison Georg Davydov and Vitold Abankin have received solitary. [More…]
For information passed on to freedom, Semen Glusman was threatened with a new sentence (Perm’ Camp No. [More…]
Freedom to travel, freedom to choose where one wishes to work and live, these are still violated in the case of millions of collective farmers and in the case of hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars, who 30 years ago were brutally deponed from the Crimea and who to this day have been denied the right to return to their native land. [More…]
The ‘ Final Act of the Helsinki conference confirms yet again the principle of freedom of conscience. [More…]
provisions to be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community; and [More…]
provide for the frail aged who are at physical or psychological risk, some degree of freedom, combined with accommodation and care which will help preserve that freedom, and keep them out of the continuous nursing situation. [More…]
In its Budget planning the Government has endeavoured to guide the economy of the country in a way which combines economic, social and political factors and which takes into account our underlying philosophies of freedom. [More…]
Discussions about productivity improvements and freedom from disputes have indicated that the actual gain from eliminating industrial trouble would not be as great as one might think. [More…]
It is based on the concept of freedom of choice which this Government firmly supports and is a flexible way of approaching the whole problem. [More…]
It is time the Opposition realised that, unless we in Australia have voted out socialism once and for all and have shown that our country has full confidence in democracy, the people of Australia will lose the freedom they have taken for granted for so long. [More…]
Where is there democratic socialism that has existed for any length of time where the people are still free, and where they still have freedom of speech, freedom of worship and freedom to strike for better conditions? [More…]
It is time that Australians realised that the thing to fight for is the freedom to fight. [More…]
I say that there has been a lot of publicity about it because there is much criticism in terms of freedom to advertise. [More…]
In the course of mentioning that aspect, I refer to a document which has been put out by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations entitled Freedom to Advertise. [More…]
It is described as a report of findings from a Roy Morgan Research Centre survey of public opinion about advertising freedom. [More…]
The conclusion is drawn that freedom of speech is part of the Australian way of life. [More…]
The conclusion drawn, by a majority of three to one, is that Australians equate freedom to advertise with freedom of speech. [More…]
The freedom to advertise and the freedom to speak, which I believe crosses party lines, is relative. [More…]
That was described as a freedom 150 years ago. [More…]
The freedom to decide that people who could not vote could still be sent to Vietnam was reserved for the government of the day. [More…]
All these sorts of freedoms are relative and must, in a sense, be examined on their merits. [More…]
-He has freedom to cause aggression. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh forgot about one thing and that is the freedom of movement. [More…]
It has merely replaced a system that offered freedom of choice with one of compulsion. [More…]
Where is there democratic socialism that has existed for any length of time where the people are still free, and where they still have freedom of speech, freedom of worship and freedom to strike for better conditions? [More…]
Operations and monitoring to maintain Tasmania’s freedom from these 2 diseases is costly and it is expected that that State will receive about $240,000 of Commonwealth money for these purposes in 1976-77. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this provision regarding transfer is yet another restriction on freedom of choice by contributors? [More…]
The kindest thing to say of this action is that it displays an unfortunate detachment from a need for news freedom. [More…]
It is given the status to give it freedom from outside pressures to carry out balanced programming. [More…]
Our platform sets out clearly that freedom of expression for the Press, radio and television, and freedom from government or political interference, are fundamental. [More…]
We seek to combine the principle of public ownership, of a broad but not too detailed public accountability, of a consciousness on the part of the undertaking that it is working for the nation and not for sectional interests, with the liveliness, initiative and considerable degree of freedom of a quick-moving and progressive business enterprise. [More…]
Our concept of freedom from government interference won’t work when they’re broke. [More…]
The Minister will be aware of statements made by the GovernorGeneral, Sir John Kerr, at the annual congress of the Returned Services League earlier this week to the effect that certain forces were trying to destroy notions of freedom and democracy among the young and were campaigning to convert students to political ideologies that ran against our traditional system of freedom and democracy. [More…]
There are forces at work in society today aimed directly at young people, which are calculated to influence in a fashion adverse to our traditional system of freedom and democracy, and adverse to our normal methods of democratic discussion. [More…]
The whole purpose of Parliament is to express the views of society in terms of a free democracy in which people can come together in freedom of association and freedom of expression, without any fear of intimidation. [More…]
In other words, the right of freedom to demonstrate should not connote the right to obstruct others in their freedom to associate or their freedom to express their views. [More…]
It is not they who are protesting; it is a handful of people who see the weapons of obstruction and the weapons of violence as weapons of intimidation against freedom of speech and freedom of association. [More…]
Let me make it clear that whoever may be involved in Australia, any citizen of this country who may be involved, will have the rights of freedom of association, the rights of freedom of speech and the rights of access to any campus to express that freedom. [More…]
We accepted that people should have perfect freedom to be able to choose. [More…]
The system is eminently workable and, above all, it is providing individual Australian with freedom of choice which appropriately fits the Government’s financial objectives. [More…]
The final point I make concerns at aspect that Senator Sheil raised while I was in the Senate, that is, freedom of choice. [More…]
When members of the Liberal Party raise the argument of freedom of choice they usually look back upon the preMedibank system of health insurance as some sort of ideal or model which ought to be followed in respect of freedom of choice. [More…]
That situation is held up by the Liberal Party and still seems to be held up by Senator Sheil as an ideal, as a model of freedom. [More…]
The ultimate hypocrisy is for anyone who belongs to and supports any of the political parties which on the basis of lies told by a Liberal Government conscripted Australian youths to fight in Vietnam to talk about freedom of the individual. [More…]
I heard a number of Government senators say that freedom of choice- the private health fund system- is the best. [More…]
If we are talking about a freedom of choice, let us be candid. [More…]
So let us not talk about freedom of choice. [More…]
The Medibank scheme introduced by this Governmentthis competent Government- gives the Australian community freedom of choice which I am sure to all Australians is the basis of democracy. [More…]
When we were in Opposition we considered that the original Medibank concept did away with the basic freedom of the individual to choose. [More…]
As I said earlier, that is a very important thing to the Australian, who is a freedom lover, who likes to be able to make his own choice and who likes to be able to feel that he is free to do within the law the things that he wants to do. [More…]
I listened with interest to Senator Bonner who spoke at great length on two premises, one that nothing is free and the other that Australians value freedom of choice. [More…]
I find it quite ironic that it is from the Government that speaks so much about freedom of choice and the rights of the individual that we have this system which locks people into one or other health insurance system. [More…]
I would also like to point out while I am talking about choice that freedom of choice was not the top priority of the Labor Government when it set up its Medibank scheme. [More…]
Freedom of choice was not our major priority. [More…]
I would like to draw attention to other organisations which have complained bitterly that freedom of choice has been restricted by the new arrangements. [More…]
So we have one of the major union bodies of this country representing many thousands- perhaps millions- of taxpayers complaining specifically that its members have been denied freedom of choice by the new Medibank arrangements of this Government. [More…]
It seems to me that that is a very serious interference with what the present Government likes to call’ freedom of choice’. [More…]
One of the ostensible objectives of the Federal Government’s changes to the national health insurance scheme was to offer greater freedom of choice. [More…]
So much for freedom of choice. [More…]
We were told that there was this great freedom of choice. [More…]
Many of my constitutents have said to me: ‘There is no real freedom of choice’. [More…]
I believe them because if there were real freedom of choice there would be 3 choicesMedibank, private funds and the choice to opt out altogether. [More…]
Let us not overburden the freedom of choice argument. [More…]
The 2 questions to which I referred at the outset bear upon the limit or ceiling on the amount of levy payable and the right of the citizens of Australia to a true freedom of choice to change over from one system to another without a waiting period. [More…]
I ask Senator Cotton, who is the Minister in charge of the Bill, in his reply to this debate to give a guarantee to the Senate and to the Australian community that people who retain their membership in a private health fund will enjoy real freedom of choice enabling them to transfer to Medibank Private or to opt for the levy system if the charges of the private health funds rise above those of Medibank. [More…]
Conversely, I ask the Minister to guarantee that those who choose to sign up now with Medibank Private will have the right of freedom of choice, about which Government members so freely express themselves, as to whether they will change from Medibank Private to a private health fund if the price of Medibank skyrockets. [More…]
It should be an important point to members on the other side who give us so many lectures about freedom of choice and about competition between funds. [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…]
I have just recently received a letter which was written by Lord Fenner Brockway, a Labor member of the British House of Lords, a man who for many years advocated freedom for India. [More…]
I also believe that all senators should hope that the Indian state of emergency will be lifted, that freedom of the Press, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly and association will be restored and that the national elections that are set down for February 1977 will take place. [More…]
Ill concerning discrimination in respect of employment and occupation affirms that: all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity . [More…]
I have always upheld and fought for equality and freedom of choice of married women to enter the work force. [More…]
Is this freedom of choice present? [More…]
Why does not the Government look at the proposition of introducing a realistic home maker’s allowance to be paid to all mothers and home-makers and which will give to those mothers who are forced into the work force and who do not desire to stay there a true freedom of choice? [More…]
It is typical of the idea of freedom of private enterprise that people should lift up their chattels and go from one State to another. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite want to talk about freedom and the employer having the right to rationalise his industry and the unions having to live with it, they should not come here and bleat about lack of union co-operation. [More…]
Our concept of freedom from government interference won’t work when they’re broke. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this provision is a restriction on freedom of choice of the contributors. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Science aware of the recently drafted Statement of Affirmation of Freedom of Inquiry and Expression by the United States National Academy of Sciences? [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…]
All we had was an attempt to try to damage in some way the fact that the Fraser Federal Government has provided for local government, not by this legislation, but by another means, a source of growth funds significantly larger than in the past, giving local government more freedom and more of a place in the sun. [More…]
In view of the continuing murder, arrest and intimidation of Thai students and patriots in our home country; the sending of Thai Special Branch Police to Tokyo, Japan, and the sending of right wing radicals to the U.S.A. in an effort by the military junta to suppress and harass Thai students in the respective countries; and finally, in view of the fact that informers of the Royal Thai Embassy are known to have been planted among us, we in Australia strongly feel that our security, our freedom of thought and the freedom to voice our opinion are being threatened. [More…]
Would you put your name on a letter if in actual fact you were under threat as to your freedom, life and liberty? [More…]
That we believe one of the essential freedoms which contribute to genuine democracy is freedom of access to information. [More…]
Political censorship threatens this vital freedom. [More…]
We therefore request that the 1976 Boyer lectures be broadcast as their author intends and that the Lateline radio program continue on the sound bases of adequate finance and political freedom. [More…]
As my colleague says, it is an important part of Aboriginal selfdetermination and freedom. [More…]
However, I would just like to say that it is usual for Senator Keeffe and other Queensland Labor senators in debates on matters involving the Queensland Government to make snide references to the Premier, some of the ministers or some of the Liberal Party and National Party members of the Parliament and suggest that there is now a lack of democracy or freedom or something or other in Queensland. [More…]
There is freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and so on. [More…]
The Attorney-General has re-convened the interdepartmental committee on freedom of information. [More…]
The object, of course, of that committee is to consider and report on proposals for freedom of information legislation. [More…]
We were told that there would be a freedom of information Act but for 3 long hard years- as we remember those years of the Labor Government- no legislation for freedom of information saw the light of day, despite all the great protestations that we heard and which we are starting to hear again. [More…]
I wish to quote in this debate the 4 freedoms which have been incorporated in the Charter of the United Nations and to which, I suggest, both sides of this House subscribe. [More…]
It is with these fundamental freedoms that civil liberties are concerned. [More…]
The first, of course, is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. [More…]
The second freedom is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. [More…]
The third freedom is freedom from want. [More…]
The fourth freedom is freedom from fear. [More…]
In a democracy people have liberty and freedom but freedom brings with it responsibility. [More…]
Live in freedom. [More…]
Enjoy freedom of speech, communication, worship, assembly and association. [More…]
Senator Durack said words to the effect that it was astounding to speak about the lack of freedom of speech in Queensland. [More…]
If he needs any confirmation of a lack of freedom of speech in Queensland I refer him to a book, by one of the lesser known authors in Australia but a well respected author, called The Odd One Out. [More…]
In that book there is an excellent account of what happened when I tried to avail myself of the right of freedom of speech in Queensland. [More…]
Police commissioners should have certain freedoms. [More…]
They should have the freedom to be able to act without political control. [More…]
We constantly express our belief in the individual and it would be quite wrong if we did not by our legislation and by our administrative acts do everything we could to buttress the freedom of the individual. [More…]
I would like in the brief time available to me in this debate to touch on some of the contributions that have already been made on individual freedom in Australia. [More…]
If we can legislate for improvement in that area I think we will probably take the most important steps that can be taken to increase freedom in Australia. [More…]
Once again, we have the clearest possible demonstration that this Government is serious about advancing the individual freedom and the rights of Australians. [More…]
We have picked up the very difficult question of freedom of information. [More…]
The interdepartmental committee has been reestablished and we are hoping that we will be able to bring forward freedom of information legislation. [More…]
If I am proud of anything about this Government, I am proud of the way that it has done so much in so short a time to look after the individual freedom of Australians. [More…]
Hungary, that basic human rights would be restored and that freedom would again flower in that country. [More…]
During the few days of freedom, the popular nature of the uprising was proved by the appearance of a free press and radio and by general rejoicing among the people; [More…]
Where does the right to have personal freedom in ones home begin? [More…]
We live in a world striving to find ways for men and women to improve their standards of life and, at the very least, to achieve one of the fundamental freedoms- freedom from want. [More…]
The Bills before the Senate seek to ensure that the continuing Commonwealth Government administration of the arts is attuned to the times, but maintains reasonable controls and balance while still providing freedom for the genuinely talented to develop their individual artistry. [More…]
The figures that I have obtained on this- they relate to the position a few months ago and there is a fair bit of freedom for interpretation of and speculation about such figures- show no evidence that from the first week in March, which was when the levy was repealed, there had been an increase in prices to beef producers. [More…]
As Senator Wright says, it is indeed contrary to the freedom of the individual. [More…]
He tells me that he has a certain amount of freedom and that he is able to go out and talk to groups of Aborigines to see whether they have any problems, simply to sit and have a cup of tea with them. [More…]
I would like to think that he will be able to retain that freedom, that he will not be loaded down with work which will keep him tied behind a desk, because that type of communication is one way in which to break down the barriers of bureaucracy with people who feel that they are disadvantaged and who find it difficult to communicate. [More…]
On the contrary, the Commonwealth Government is determined that there shall be set up and maintained statutory bodies which not only have freedom to carry out their work but also have an objectivity of purpose to bring about what the Broadcasting and Television Act says is their major task- that is, the provision of adequate and comprehensive programming. [More…]
That is, I think, constantly forgotten by the Labor Party which looks to the end in itself of a body having freedom but which does not look to the purpose of the freedom. [More…]
The freedom that any body is given is for the provision of comprehensive and adequate programming. [More…]
I do not stay long on the question of human values but I support everything that has been said in praise of the community of Queenstown, a remarkably coordinated community and, as Senator Grimes has mentioned, one that has an undoubted record of freedom from wasteful industrial disputes. [More…]
There has been a constant clamour for more freedom of information and more public debate about the broadcasting situation in this country. [More…]
Religious Freedom in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
That whereas all people criminate, have the right to life, civil liberty and religious freedom; [More…]
We demand instant release of all illegally imprisoned and exiled orthodox people and clergy and the return of their citizenship rights as stated in the U.S.S.R. Constitution including the right to follow and practice a religious belief and the freedom for leaving the U.S.S.R. travel overseas. [More…]
We demand restoration of freedom of religion in the U.S.S.R. and return of Churches for worship also restoration of monasteries, seminaries and other religious institutions which have been convened into institutions of antireligious propaganda. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray, that the Members in Parliament assembled, will take steps at diplomatic level with the Government of the U.S.S.R. to allow freedom of Religion in U.S.S.R. [More…]
The third principle relates to the freedom of association of individual members of unions and the manner in which they express that freedom as members of unions. [More…]
In doing so it provides a guarantee of political and individual freedom. [More…]
The 2 allegedly attractive features about the policy were that the States would be in a better financial position because of access to income tax and that they would have greater freedom in making decisions. [More…]
These Bills demonstrate that far from having greater freedom, the States in fact will have less freedom. [More…]
When that is combined with the limits of the funds available to them it is quite clear that not since the commencement of Federation have the States had less freedom than they have under the current policy. [More…]
Overnight he has become- as it were- the champion of federalism and the champion of the rights of freedom of sovereign State governments and local government. [More…]
It has been revealed time and again that this is not the circumstance; that there is not the luxury of freedom available to enable that sort of planned economy to operate. [More…]
He made it absolutely clear that he did not condone terrorism and acts of violence but that he would not deny medical attentionthat is, freedom of the body from pain- to anyone and he would not ask them their politics or religion in order to succour a suffering human being. [More…]
All these factors indicate the emphasis being placed by the present Government on education as an important area of community development; as a means of building up skills within the community which will be required in the future; as a means of providing greater choice and freedom for individuals as they expand their knowledge and therefore their ability to make choices of employment within the community. [More…]
It is a goal of the Government to provide true equality of opportunity for all, whether handicapped or not, and to provide equality of freedom of choice as between the streams of education. [More…]
Just as there should be freedom of choice between government and non-government schools there should be freedom of choice between government colleges and non-government colleges with respect to the training of teachers, provided the basic standards are oberved. [More…]
When one walks around sections of Boston one is taken back one or two centuries to the Freedom Trial and so on. [More…]
The second item is freedom of choice and the third states that departmental housing should be primarily for those who need it. [More…]
We are pretty sure that Australia is the country in which we are going to find a place where to live and where to raise our children in peace and freedom. [More…]
At the same time foreign students in Australia must have, and have, the same freedom to speak as have Australians. [More…]
Bluntly it says of rural attitudes: ‘Our concept of freedom from Government interference won’t work when they’re broke. [More…]
That they cannot begin to have their freedom and independence until all discriminatory laws are abolished and land rights are granted. [More…]
If the Director did give authority, in contradistinction to other people within the community who wished to commemorate those who died fighting for freedom and self-determination but who were denied the opportunity to do so, has the War Memorial changed its policy on commemorator ceremonies involving events in which no Australians were in a warlike operation? [More…]
The invaders in their attempts at destroying the freedom of this small nation have committed horrifying atrocities against the Timorese people. [More…]
As Australians one of our roles is to remind the Australian people of the debt we owe the Timorese for their assistance in aiding the preservation of our freedom in the Second World War. [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; competent counsel should be provided to the Torres Strait Islanders if required by the people of Torres Strait. [More…]
Thirdly, the Green report is a departmental report that was written by departmental officers and, wittingly or unwittingly, they have made recommendations which, when implemented by this legislation, I suggest will result in the building of a monolithic bureaucratic structure which in time to come will shackle the freedom of the broadcasters of this country. [More…]
I hope that this public inquiry which is to be held to determine whether they should be capable of selfregulation will expose them for the charletans that they are and that they will not be given any more freedom to exploit the Australian public. [More…]
So much for the freedom of the reporters who work for 3ZZ. [More…]
Only the ABC can continue to do those things and it can do them only if it has the creative freedom, the independence, and an appropriate financial allocation. [More…]
There will be in fact absolute freedom for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [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…]
Interdepartmental Committee on Freedom of Information (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Why has law lecturer Mr John McMillan been denied access to material relating to the interdepartmental committee deliberations on a proposed Freedom of Information Act, as was stated in the television program Four Comers, screened on 13 November 1 976. [More…]
1 ) The reference made by Mr McMillan in the Four Comers program to having sought access to files prepared by the Interdepartmental Committee on Freedom of Information set up by the Whitlam Government was not to a request directed to my Department. [More…]
b) The ANL has sought freedom to compete for sufficient paying cargo to fill vacant space between Brisbane and northern Queensland ports in order to maintain a viable economic service to those ports; [More…]
However, it is important that what is done should be done, firstly, within the general rules of the institutions and, secondly, that there should be no heavy handedness from a central situation such as a government which could in any way destroy the essential and authentic freedom of students to run their democratic bodies. [More…]
The White Paper implies that Australia would rely on the United States to deploy a force based on Diego Garcia or its Middle East fleet to maintain freedom of access to these areas. [More…]
That is an American revolutionary reciting the foundation of British freedom which was insisted upon by a purposeful Parliament. [More…]
It cannot work out in its entirety and in any case freedom of choice should prevail. [More…]
I further add for the information of the honourable senator- he is interested in the archives- that I think the Government has announced that it hopes to have both the archives legislation and the freedom of information legislation before the Parliament this year. [More…]
I think that the events during the recent conference of the Australian Union of Students should sound a warning note to all of us that the university campus, which is where one would expect there to be complete unanimity on the defence of such fundamental democratic principles as freedom of thought and freedom of expression, is not the place where one now finds it. [More…]
All who place some store on maintaining individual freedom within the framework of organised society cannot doubt the value of a second Chamber. [More…]
There is a commitment to increasing the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Australian people- giving people an opportunity to make their own choices and to live their own lives. [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…]
In recent days the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has promised legislation on freedom of information. [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…]
He said that the Liberal and National Country Parties had prepared a farreaching program to restore prosperity and to give effect to their philosophy of freedom, opportunity and concern for the individual. [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…]
While there is a promise of more freedom for individuals and a promise to increase and foster the strength and independence and creativity of Australian people, it is clear that the sort of legislation to be brought down will make conditions worse for the ordinary working man and for the unions. [More…]
What did Senator Wood say about this freedom and the claim that there was neither pressure nor influence on Liberals. [More…]
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…]
In the course of her Speech Her Majesty spoke of the necessity to protect individual liberties and human rights against unwarranted intrusions and made reference to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Commonwealth Ombudsman and pending legislation to come forward this year relating to the Human Rights Commission which is to be established and also to freedom of information. [More…]
The second piece of legislation announced by the Government is the proposed freedom of information Bill. [More…]
I asked many questions during its period of office about what was happening to a proposed Bill dealing with freedom of information. [More…]
The Speech told us what the Government had done and referred to the freedom of information legislation which is to be placed before the Parliament and to the establishment of an industrial relations bureau. [More…]
Over a period we hope to give more freedom to the States, more money to the States, and it may well be that over the years there will be fewer tied grants. [More…]
But again, I respectfully suggest that the only way to deal with recommendation (2) in Item 1 is to oppose it because it will impose further fetters on free debate in this place, upon freedom of action and, worst of all, it will take away a lot of the authority of the President. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs and refers to Polish born Australian citizens who fought for freedom during the last war and, in particular, those Polish ex-servicemen who fought side-by-side with Commonwealth forces and were awarded British campaign medals. [More…]
It harps about freedom of operations. [More…]
Above all, it guarantees freedom to all of its people. [More…]
We have only to observe the kind of freedom which the people of the sub-continent of India enjoy. [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…]
At the heart of my Government’s policies lies 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 Speech should have said that the Government had a commitment to increasing the freedom of people except their freedom to change their jobs, and a commitment to increasing the freedom of people to make their own choices except a choice about the sort of employment in which they are to engage. [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…]
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is now operating, legislation to appoint a Commonwealth Ombudsman has been passed, the Human Rights Commission will be established and a BUI relating to freedom of information will be placed before the Parliament. [More…]
-We talk about the freedom of the individual. [More…]
If the Liberal Party is not prepared to do something about freedom in this country then I feel very sorry for the future and for the people of this country. [More…]
In contradiction of what spokesmen for the Government have said, the Government’s program is not one which is designed to increase the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Australian people. [More…]
is given complete freedom of movement, unlimited access to the local population, and reliable interpreters, that will still not cure the Timor sickness that afflicts Indonesia’s relations with some of its closest associates- Australia, the US, and The Netherlands. [More…]
I make a very quick comment in the general area of political freedom and so on to talk about individual liberties. [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…]
Apart from a few shibboleths, such as ‘increasing the freedom, opportunity and equality of the Australian people’ and acknowledging some of the Government’s band-aid approaches to the problems of our society, the speech told us nothing and gave us only cliches. [More…]
What commitment to increasing the freedom of citizens currently unemployed has this Government made? [More…]
Freedom to starve is the only freedom for these people, particularly those who, through regulations, are no longer eligible for unemployment benefits; and there are many of them. [More…]
I see it as an instrument of freedom which might help to give people some freedom to live within the law as they are entitled to do in Australia. [More…]
The first thing to which I think we can point with considerable satisfaction is the renewed freedom of local government in Australia. [More…]
We all know that they have been used to reduce substantially the freedom and the discretion of the States to make their own policies and to spend money in the way they think fit. [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…]
If one is talking about freedom one has to consider Ministers who say that those in the work force have no right to change their jobs. [More…]
We the undersigned, being members of the Parliament of Australia concerned with basic human rights, applaud the actions taken by you in relation to your defence of prisoners of conscience in the U.S.S.R. and the advocates of freedom of expression, as well as your comments on the recent tragic events in Uganda. [More…]
is given complete freedom of movement, unlimited access to the local population, and reliable interpreters, that will still not cure the Timor sickness that afflicts Indonesia’s relations with some of its closest associates- Australia, the U.S., and The Netherlands. [More…]
If the Liberal Party and the National Country Party now believe they will do everything to give assistance to the struggle for freedom in South Africa and Rhodesia and that they will make it clear that we are aligned with those people against the governments of South Africa and Rhodesia I am delighted to hear it. [More…]
Young patriots were tortured but that did not extinguish the fear of freedom. [More…]
They won their freedom. [More…]
And Freedom’s sons the banner bear, No shackled slave can breathe the air [More…]
Naturally, there is very broad freedom within individual unions in this respect but each registered industrial organisation has such rules. [More…]
This commitment has been demonstrated in a wide range of reforms: The rapid advance to statehood of the Northern Territory, now underway; the granting of a greater degree of self-government for the Australian Capital Territory; active support for the participation in the Hobart Constitutional Convention; the decision to put to the electorate the 4 referendums on 2 1 May; our undertaking to introduce freedom of information legislation; and our fiscal policies of tax sharing and tax indexation which will render State governments and the Commonwealth government more accountable to the electorate. [More…]
The next point in the statement was: our undertaking to introduce freedom of information legislation. [More…]
We, the people of East Timor who have taken the first steps to freedom, call on you for help. [More…]
While the size of the sample was relatively small, the survey gave a clear indication of the relatively liberal attitudes of the community in the Australian Capital Territory to a woman’s freedom of choice as to whether or not she will have an abortion. [More…]
I think probably the first test case relating to the freedom to move was taken out recently in the courts in Cairns. [More…]
Certainly it ought to look towards freedom of choice in movement of Aborigines back towards their traditions, forward into our western culture or to a fairly continuous movement between the two. [More…]
To prohibit this generally would be an infringement of individual freedom. [More…]
I ask: In view of the statement in Her Majesty’s Speech at the opening of this parliamentary session on 8 March that a Bill relating to freedom of information would be placed before the Parliament and bearing in mind statements by senior Ministers that the Budget deficit will have to be cut by another $2000m, thus affecting employment opportunities within the Commonwealth Public Service, is the Minister now prepared to make public the staff ceilings that have been imposed on the various departments of the Commonwealth Public Service? [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…]
Paragraph 13 of the report relates to individual freedom in the public interest. [More…]
To prevent an individual from carrying on any particular activity involves some restriction on his freedom particularly if it affects his livelihood, but the curtailment of freedom involved in the prohibition of what can at most be an intermittent activity of recruiting mercenaries in the United Kingdom is a minor one and does not require a high degree of danger to the public interest in order to justify it. [More…]
On the other hand although, as will later appear, we do not think there are any means by which it would be practicable to prevent a United Kingdom citizen from volunteering while he is abroad to serve as a mercenary and from leaving the United Kingdom to do so, we should regard any attempt to impose such a prohibition upon him by law as involving a deprivation of his freedom to do as he will which would require to be justified by a much more compelling reason of public policy than the prohibition of active recruiting of mercenaries within the United Kingdom. [More…]
He did not quote paragraph 10 of that report which dealt particularly with individual freedom and the public interest. [More…]
To prevent a United Kingdom citizen from accepting service as a mercenary abroad is a restriction upon his personal freedom which could only be justified on grounds of public interest. [More…]
The conclusion arrived at by the Government was that the recommendation, so far as it referred to publication of a news item, represented an infringement of the freedom of the Press and would seem to be an unnecessary precaution. [More…]
One of the things which must be taken into account by government is the right of its citizens to their freedom of action, as far as is consistent with its policies against terrorism throughout the world. [More…]
That was their struggle for freedom at that time. [More…]
Bearing in mind the responsibility of the administering Power to undertake all efforts to create conditions enabling the people of Portuguese Timor to exercise freely their right to self-determination, freedom and independence and to determine their future political status in accordance with the principles of the Charter and the Declaration, in an atmosphere of peace and order, [More…]
Calls upon all States to respect the inalienable right of the people of Portuguese Timor to self-determination, freedom and independence and to determine their future political status in accordance with the principles of the Chaner of the United Nations and the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; [More…]
A number of the people who are responsible for this action which has been taken against Paths to Peace would be the very people who would be the first to cry McCarthyism if anybody were to do anything to limit their right to freedom of speech. [More…]
I make the point that the industrial relations policies which are being debated before the Senate today are a sort of legislation which has within it the protection of the individual the protection of groups of individuals, the right of people to find, not necessarily as individuals, some sort of representation in the courts, and the right of people to object to matters which they believe are not relevant to their freedom as members of a free society. [More…]
We must be aware that freedom in this country as anywhere alse must be related to discipline. [More…]
Whether a person is in an industrial circumstance or a commercial circumstance, without a measure of discipline no freedom will exist. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber believe that individual freedom is more important than that and that an employee should not be made to join a union and to abide by that union’s decisions whether good or bad, right or wrong. [More…]
We believe in individual freedom and that this Bureau will be an industrial ombudsman. [More…]
We believe in the complete freedom of the individual, that the individual’s right must be protected and that each and every member of the community is entitled to the same protection under the law. [More…]
A large part of those freedoms which I have just mentioned is the right of the individual to choose his own employment and to choose to join or not to join any organisation. [More…]
As Senator Wriedt says, I believe that it is fundamental to the working of this mechanism that they should be given that kind of freedom- the freedom in the first place to report on priorities within financial and other guidelines, and the freedom to dream further or to comment further than that. [More…]
The Bill provides that the councils shall do virtually the same work that the Commissions do today, that is, statutory bodies with freedom to seek and to find, to investigate, to dream, to report beyond the guidelines and the confines of the Government of the day but also equally within those confines. [More…]
Dame Phyllis Frost resigned last night as Victorian head of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign- and accused overseas aid bodies of wasting money. [More…]
She included the national committee of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign in her criticism. [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…]
The protection of academic freedom, which is of great value in this community, is achieved by setting up universities and councils as statutory bodies in which they make their own rules. [More…]
Let us take this matter in a sober fashion, bearing in mind that there are very real dangers if governments, State or Federal, should attempt to intrude their legislative powers to restrict on a campus, student or other action, political or otherwise, because it is very hard to decide what is true academic freedom and what is intimidation. [More…]
Ultimately he came to Australia, seeking at last a land of freedom and opportunity and, most of all, a place where his labours could reap reasonable rewards. [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…]
Liberal ideas and ideals, which originally emerged in opposition to autocratic power and entrenched privilege, are of the greatest relevance to the issues and problems facing contemporary society; to the problems of human freedom; to the problems of the relationship between the individual and the l arge organisations that dominate our society; to the problems of inequality and disadvantage; and to the problems of achieving meaningful change and reform. [More…]
We have acted to increase individual freedom and choice, to provide effective assistance to people who are disadvantaged or in need - [More…]
Members of the Government have mentioned in speeches in this House their disappointment at the inaction of the Government in accepting its responsibility towards the East Timorese people; the families of the 5 Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor; people like Jim Dunn and other people who have travelled to Portugal to get evidence from East Timorese who left their country, their homes and their families behind to live in some sort of freedom rather than live under the oppression of an Indonesian tyranny which has taken over their country, and virtually stripped it of all the good and supplanted it with all the evil. [More…]
Because of this success, and because of its freedom from income tax and profit payments, the Corporation has accumulated substantial reserves. [More…]
That is why the Government is pressing on with legislation in 2 areas; firstly, for proper archives legislation and, secondly, for a freedom of information Act. [More…]
Such access will be made possible under a freedom of information Act. [More…]
In responding the Commonwealth Minister for Transport mentioned: the budgetary and economic problems facing the Commonwealth; the flexibility allowed the States in proposing reallocation of Commonwealth grants between road categories, and the freedom with which they can shift their own road funds around; that the Prime Minister would shortly be writing to the Premier of Western Australia to attempt to resolve the State’s problems on quota expenditures from its own sources. [More…]
They are independently governed so that academic freedom may be maintained. [More…]
We are told also that the Government has in hand a Bill to provide standard procedures for Commonwealth tribunals and freedom of information legislation. [More…]
We await both of these Bills with interest, particularly the freedom of information Bill. [More…]
I note also there are more elaborate provisions in respect of the ability of the Attorney-General to give a certificate in respect of matters which he regards as undesirable to disclose and that freedom from disclosure is something which is allowed to be put to the Tribunal where it would prejudice security, defence or international relations or would disclose proceedings in cabinet. [More…]
Likewise, I think that the freedom of information legislation which is soon to come before the Parliament will make this legislation much more valuable. [More…]
At the level of industry itself we support maximum freedom of choice, opportunity and initiative as essential bases of both individual self-respect and mutual respect between management and employees. [More…]
That is the very essence of the freedom of the society in which we live. [More…]
We should guard those things which enable us to live and to operate in freedom under the law. [More…]
It is quite ridiculous, as I said earlier, to assume that freedom under the law can exist if the law cannot be implemented. [More…]
Even now he is accused of being repressive in regard to the freedom of people because he will not allow shopping hours to be extended. [More…]
Michael Danby is in print as having talked about violence and disruption wreaked by the left wingers on those who dare to oppose freedom of speech within university campuses. [More…]
People should have freedom to go where they choose but they should not bludge upon those who for years have made sacrifices to build up better conditions. [More…]
In a new climate of political freedom for Portugal’s colonies, three political groups are formed in East Timor over the following three months. [More…]
The concept of freedom of choice seems to have a remarkable meaning for some people. [More…]
But it is remarkable that the people who bleat loudest about freedom of choice will uphold that freedom only if a person chooses to be a private patient. [More…]
I believe that in a short period reason will prevail across the boundaries of race and religion and that independence, full freedom and peace will come back to the Cypriot people. [More…]
We are both countries enjoying democratic systems and freely elected government, both strong believers in and upholders of human rights, of traditions of freedom and of the maintenance of free institutions. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to allow Senator Walters to express her point of view with reasonable freedom. [More…]
I preface the question by reminding the Minister that at a later hour this day legislation designed to restrict the freedom of public servants will be debated. [More…]
Restrictions placed on freedom of movement of staff from Section to Section and in some instances in the same Section. [More…]
Restrictions placed on freedom of movement of mail for manual processing- i.e. [More…]
But they are entitled to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, not under the draconian legislation that is being introduced by means of this Bill. [More…]
A voluntary contract implies the freedom of two parties to enter into the contract or to refuse to enter into it. [More…]
But there is no freedom today in an industrial relationship. [More…]
The employee has no freedom to say whether he will or will not work. [More…]
It is this pursuit of equality in the world which, I think, in many respects is more important now to many people than the traditional pursuit of the concept of freedom. [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…]
We of the Labor movement accept 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…]
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is now operating, legislation to appoint a Commonwealth Ombudsman has been passed, the Human Rights Commission will be established and a Bill relating to freedom of information will be placed before the Parliament. [More…]
I ask: Does the Government intend to carry out its stated intention of introducing a Bill relating to freedom of information during the present session of this Parliament? [More…]
As to the freedom of information Bill, I think as recently as the opening of the Australian Legal Convention in Sydney round about 4 July the Prime Minister again said that the Bill would be brought into Parliament. [More…]
Will he ensure their freedom from harassment, as requested by the Federation itself in pursuing its own militant policies? [More…]
Australian exports have achieved an excellent reputation in overseas markets for their presentation and freedom from residues. [More…]
I think all honourable senators will agree that if there is one fundamental principle underlying the practices on university and college campuses it ought to be the total right of people to freedom of expression, whether their views are acceptable or totally odious. [More…]
The maintenance of freedom is not achieved when one believes the views of the other fellow but, as Disraeli said so much better than I long ago, it is preserved when one disagrees with him entirely and, in fact, finds his views objectionable. [More…]
It is a very serious breach of freedom. [More…]
The same principle of freedom of speech should be observed everywhere in Australia, not only on campuses. [More…]
It is a sad thing that they give our institutions a bad name but it is now doubly important that those who walk on the campuses and those with authority on the campuses should insist that this freedom be observed. [More…]
In the past the Government has invited the authorities on the campuses to uphold the rule of law and freedom of speech to ensure that there is no intimidation or threats of violence. [More…]
Basically the universities and colleges are set up as independent statutory organisations primarily for the protection of their right to academic freedom and inherent in that is the right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, through myself as Minister for Education, has in fact discussed the matter of freedom of expression and freedom of action on campuses with vice-chancellors and principals. [More…]
Recently in another place the Prime Minister was asked whether he knew that a group calling itself the Australia Freedom Group had released the names and addresses of the entire staff of the Joint Intelligence Organisation, claiming that this material had been leaked by the Australian [More…]
I wish to inform the Attorney-General that I looked in the directory and found nine names without addresses, whereas the list being circulated by the Australia Freedom Group or ASIO or whoever has 286 names and addresses. [More…]
They were therefore subject to Australian laws and rights, including what I regard as the right to freedom of movement, to freedom of speech, to self-determination, to compulsory education, to official legal tender and to comparable conditions of employment including wages and certain standards of health, hygiene and housing. [More…]
I mentioned that provisions would be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and also that provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 and who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time would be reviewed with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]
Again, the same as the Labor statement of September 1975. there should be freedom of movement and communication within the Territory; [More…]
As the honourable senator would further know, and as would be known particularly by Senator Messner, who has a very deep interest in taxation measures, the Government has also announced that it has extended the investment allowance for two years and, in respect of major projects, has decided to provide long term assurances of freedom from future adverse changes to controls on overseas borrowings subject to certain conditions. [More…]
Senator Collard had better make up his mind whether he supports the new federalism, with its professed objective of maximising the freedom of choice for State governments and thereby imposing no such restrictions, or whether he supports the policy entailed in this Bill, for which he also commended the Minister, of stipulating that a given proportion- Senator Collard said a higher proportion- would be applied to rural local roads. [More…]
Senator Walsh does not seem to understand the difference between road classifications and the greater freedom that this Government has given to the States to allocate road funds to the various road classifications.Certainly it is well within the right and responsibility of this Federal Government to recommend allocations to the various classifications but the States are completely free to allocate funds within those classifications as they see fit. [More…]
The Government boasts that its federalism policy gives freedom to the States, but here we have legislation that is taking it completely away. [More…]
This one was a leap into the unknown, purely and simply for freedom. [More…]
But the Bantus gained great respect for these hardy white men and women who were fiercely honest and prepared to fight to the death for their rights and freedom and, Mr President, they still are. [More…]
The first is the suppression of the freedom of speech and access to information, and the second is the presence in this country of an operative of a declared illegal regime- the paid agent of that regime operating in this country. [More…]
The first one requires little consideration because I do not think anyone in this chamber would argue for the suppression of the freedom of speech or access to information. [More…]
They are relative also to a recognition that freedom is a meaningless circumstance unless it is freedom within a measure of restraint, within a measure of discipline, a discipline which is the discipline of the majority. [More…]
We heard quite a few remarks from the previous speaker in this debate, Senator Scott, about the importance of freedom, equality of opportunity and things of that kind. [More…]
So much for Liberal Party notions of individual freedom in a free society! [More…]
People have no freedom to leave their jobs. [More…]
So much for Liberal Party views of the freedom of contract which exists between employer and employee! [More…]
We were told by the then Attorney-General, Mr Ellicott, that the main purpose of the human rights commission would be to investigate and report on the extent to which legislation in Australia conformed with international conventions purporting to protect individual liberties, particularly in the area of freedom from exploitation and so on. [More…]
The broad details of Australia’s Cocos policy are as follows: a representative form of local government for the Cocos community to be established with the ultimate aim being the creation of a fully elected body; arrangements to be made allowing a transfer to the Cocos community of the village area ofHome Island; the replacement of token money by Australian currency; establishment of a new form of fund to assist the financing of community activities’, there should be freedom of movement and communication within the Territory; the improvement of education and health facilities and general upgrading of living standards; the framing and implementation of laws which could be clearly applied and enforced, taking into account local institutions and customs; the progressive introduction of a wages economy appropriate to Cocos conditions; appropriate means by which Australian citizenship can be provided to residents of the Territory who wish to take up Australian citizenship; the provision of financial assistance to Cocos Malays who wish to move from Cocos to Australia; and the ownership by the Australian Government of all land on which its facilities are located. [More…]
Clunies Ross estate provide for direct payment of appropriate sums of money in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund be established for this purpose to be administered by and for the sole benefit of the community; the use of token money eventually be discontinued and replaced by Australian currency, taking into account the complexities involved; provision be made to issue local ordinances and establish better facilities for the administration of justice; health and education services be extended; rates of pay and employment conditions on Cocos aligned progressively with Australian practice and International Labour Organisation conventions; provisions be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]
We are entitled to know what steps the Government has taken to ensure freedom of movement and communications within the territory and to improve education, health facilities and general living standards. [More…]
In order to ensure our own political and economic freedom we will need the greatest possible flexibility and skill. [More…]
That seems to take away the freedom of the Director-General if the request is made by a Minister or a prescribed Commonwealth officer. [More…]
What we have done in recognising land rights for Aboriginals is to offer the universal freedom of personal liberty and private dignity inherent in Liberalism to Aboriginals so that they may choose their own life styles and live by their own culture and enjoy the same freedoms as all other citizens of Australia. [More…]
The Federal Council expressed itself, and that is a demonstration of freedom of speech in the Liberal Party. [More…]
I direct the attention of the Attorney-General to reports that the Government is now deliberately delaying the introduction of legislation on freedom of information and ask him, first: Is that the case? [More…]
They talk about the freedom and rights of people when they can hold up the whole nation and the people to ransom. [More…]
The Federal Government has decided that a better course of action is to allow the State governments more freedom, despite the facts and despite what we have already seen. [More…]
It seeks to loosen the controls on Federal funds and to establish a system of block grants that will give the States freedom to do whatever they like. [More…]
He told us, for example, that one of the reasons that South Africa has its present population structure is because the Voortrekkers left Cape Town in order to escape from the British and have their freedom. [More…]
The primary freedom that they wanted was the freedom to keep slaves. [More…]
I do not want to deride their great national traditions or the sacrifices they made in moving there; but the freedom that they were fighting for was the freedom to deny another man his freedom. [More…]
That was their freedom. [More…]
When they demand freedom for themselves and the rights to preserve their own culture they say that they are entitled to achieve this end by denying to other people who live within the Republic of South Africa the same rights that they want. [More…]
Senator Withers, in his wisdom, has said many times that Liberal Party senators in this place have freedom of choice. [More…]
Senator Hall quoted from the letter that Senator Withers had written to that newspaper and said that they had no freedom of choice and that they were bound by party policy. [More…]
They regard that as freedom of conscience. [More…]
A second trend is that, in pursuing economic and social objectives- in seeking to give effect to their broader aspirations- trade unions have sought to extend their strength and influence by intensive recruitment activity and have endeavoured to impose greater restrictions on the freedom of individual employees and, indeed, non-employees. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm that academic staff of the Australian National University are affected by the Commonwealth employees legislation and that therefore the academic freedom of the Australian National University would be eroded by the operation of the legislation? [More…]
The honourable senator raised the question of academic freedom. [More…]
I do not know whether the honourable senator is confusing academic freedom with licence of academics. [More…]
I do not see how academic freedom can be attacked if a person who does not work is not paid for just attending his place of employment. [More…]
I do not know whether academic freedom means that one need have no regard for the taxpayers who provide almost all of the income received by academics or whether it means that academics need have no regard for the students who one would imagine would be their first responsibility. [More…]
Peculiarly enough, I have never ever heard them say they are concerned about academic freedom because they have it and they exercise it properly. [More…]
No society can continue to exist with effect as the Australian society has done, and will do with prosperity and freedom, unless we ensure that trade unions, incorporated companies or classes of superior position and opportunity are under the law. [More…]
It has greater powers of freedom than does our movement. [More…]
The old idea of freedom of association and the old British concept of trade unions are being knocked bit by bit. [More…]
There is the record but today people talk about the freedom of the individual to join or to refuse to join a union. [More…]
If the Government is honest with itself as regards freedom of the individual, it must say that it is against human rights for a court to be able to say to a person: ‘You want to belong to that organisation, you want that organisation to protect your rights but we are saying that you cannot belong to the organisation’. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are so concerned about the freedom of the individual, I ask them to hark back a few years and think about what happened during the period from 1965 to 1972. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite oppose giving freedom to those who own their own businesses but are bullied by the lowest of tactics into joining a union. [More…]
There is freedom of choice. [More…]
It seems a strange confusion to suggest that something which seeks to allow the individual a greater measure of freedom and to allow him to take action behind an authority which he may not seek to take as an individual for various and proper reasons is dictatorial. [More…]
This legislation aims to give a real measure of freedom to the individual within the industrial sphere and a greater measure of protection to the Australian public. [More…]
This is freedom of association, freedom of expression and freedom to elect their officials and to determine the course of action that should be taken in a particular industrial dispute. [More…]
It is set up under Commonwealth statute to provide self governance in order to protect its academic freedom. [More…]
It is an independent statutory body set up with academic freedom and given a council for selfgovernment. [More…]
They came in a freedom bus and made representations. [More…]
In the Helsinki Accord it was expressly agreed by the Soviet Union and other participants that matters relating to the freedom of individuals and minorities in countries which accorded in the signing of the Helsinki Agreement could be examined. [More…]
I am concerned that in relation to the Australian Broadcasting Commission and in particular in relation to what has happened m Melbourne there is another example of the grey palsied hand of conservatism resting on a great national institution with very grave and detrimental effects to the freedom of information and the dissemination of news in this country. [More…]
I am very worried that if what I have suggested does happen we will more rapidly than I otherwise would have expected attain the status of some sort of banana republic which has the respect of no country which would aspire to democratic freedoms equivalent to those to which I hope members of this Parliament do. [More…]
Every time members of the Opposition interrupt to support the Denis Freneys of this world they underline their stance as disrupters in this community; they come on side with what is called low level terrorism, that is, the use of threat and intimidation to destroy freedom of speech. [More…]
Universities are given statutory authority in order to ensure academic freedom. [More…]
Fundamentally, that means they will uphold freedom of speech, whether it be from the Left or the Right, and not selectively, only when it comes from the Left and the far Left. [More…]
However, I must underline that people in other parts of the world will be horrified at the concept of our institutions in Australia if those institutions cannot support such study groups as this- such freedom of speech. [More…]
It talks about introducing freedom of information legislation. [More…]
“The Committee cannot conclude their Report without reminding the House, that, if henceforth, which they will not believe to be possible, no tax, hurtful to trade,’ and grievous to the People, can be remitted unless the Lords be pleased to remit it, or can be even recommended by the Crown to be considered by the Commons with a view to its remission, with that full assurance which has heretofore existed that such a tax will be remitted; not only will the powers of the House of Commons be impaired, but the foundation of the ancient freedom of England will be undermined; for where shall that ancient freedom be found when the right to determine the mode and the sum of taxation is divorced from the Representative Branch of the Legislature”. [More…]
I repeat what I said several days ago: To the rest of the world the reputation of Australia as a country which values and preserves freedom is imperilled if this is to continue. [More…]
If we are not allowed to express an opinion on the way in which the GovernorGeneral has carried out his duties, complete freedom and the right of justice is taken away from every senator in this chamber. [More…]
Mr Burns said the Premier, having suppressed freedom of expression, was now trying to stop freedom of choice as far as a vote was concerned. [More…]
The Opposition this afternoon has been directing itself to its firm and fervent belief in freedom of assembly. [More…]
It is not right for the Queensland Government to have policemen in the streets because that is paid from the taxpayers’ money but it is aU right for the Lakeside Hotel to be embattled and surrounded by police It is aU right that there should be no freedom of assembly in the Australian Capital Territory when the Labor Party and its associates do not want freedom of assembly. [More…]
Freedom of expression and freedom of association have been put in some doubt in Queensland. [More…]
It is the responsibility of this Government and the Australian Parliament to see that not one State in the Commonwealth limits in any way freedom of expression and freedom of association. [More…]
It would be wise for us to frown upon such a conference, and we should not allow ourselves to be placed in a position where young radical protesters have to take a stand on our behalf in the defence of freedom of expression and communication. [More…]
-I refer the AttorneyGeneral to the proposed freedom of information Bill, which has been the subject of long and intense study and recommendations by many honourable senators and honourable members, including Senator Tehan, the Chairman of the Government Parties’ law and government committee, Senator Knight and other honourable senators on this side of the chamber. [More…]
-The Government is certainly aware of the strong desire of honourable senators, honourable members and many other people in the community to have a freedom of information Bill introduced. [More…]
My predecessor in this portfolio reconvened an interdepartmental committee on freedom of information and tabled a report on the subject at the end of last year. [More…]
That report has been closely studied by the Government, particularly by officials of my Department, and a draft freedom of information Bill has been prepared. [More…]
Earlier in this session my predecessor, Mr Ellicott, was in the United States of America and had some very useful discussions with officials in that country on the subject of freedom of information and the Bill which had been prepared for introduction into this Parliament. [More…]
I assure the Senate that the Government remains committed to the introduction of a freedom of information Bill, and I reaffirm the undertaking given by my predecessor that such a Bill will be introduced. [More…]
After the Government is re-elected on 10 December, it certainly is my hope that I will be able to introduce the freedom of information Bill in the first session of the new Parliament. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, as a result of disclosures under the Freedom of Information Act in the United States of America, reports have revealed that there is a substantial danger of causing cancer in the use of chloroform in various forms? [More…]
Of course, the forcing of this process denies freedom of choice. [More…]
In recent times, the Premier has forbidden the right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. [More…]
People can no longer go in freedom in my State. [More…]
That is quite a reprehensible attitude because one should cultivate the right of freedom of speech. [More…]
In the light of the impending, and I hope soon to be introduced, freedom of information legislation and also in the absence of the broadcasting information office, the establishment of which has been recommended in the report of the Tribunal concerning self-regulation and which I hope will come on the scene, I feel that much of the criticism of the secrecy provisions in that they are rather too strong is justified. [More…]
When one considers proposed section 106B to which Senator Missen referred and considers this legislation in the light of the much vaunted freedom of information legislation which we keep hearing about, one thinks that it is a nice and interesting question what sort of documents would be confidential. [More…]
Broadcasting is a public concern, it uses public air ways, and the suggestion that disclosure of information should be subject to the sort of penalty set out in proposed section 106B is an extraordinary provision in the light of a Parliament which beefs about freedom of information legislation and which already has a Crimes Act on its statutes. [More…]
If the employees are to be dismissed because they hold political views different from those of the Queensland Premier, is this not a suppression of freedom of the individual political rights of the two employees? [More…]
We remind the Government that public standards regarding freedom of information and accessibility to information have changed in Western democracies and are changing in Australia. [More…]
One notion, which the Government has been trying to express for a long time, was the importance of economic freedom for the individual. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has frequently espoused this and has expressed it in terms of an individual ‘s freedom to make and spend his own money. [More…]
I should have thought that that was totally inconsistent with the well-being of the majority of the community as a whole and totally inconsistent with the very frequent references in the Governor-General’s Speech to the civil liberties or the individual political and social freedom of the citizens of this country. [More…]
The point, which I shall reiterate for Senator Wright’s benefit, is simply this: The notion of economic freedom does not necessarily lie well with the notion of individual liberty and individual freedom. [More…]
Really, what has been attempted is to lard over the notion of an individual ‘s economic freedom with some lip service notions of civil liberties. [More…]
He saw that as an essential freedom. [More…]
What he was really saying, of course, was that in his occupation he was advancing the cause of human freedom. [More…]
The second matter which is pointed out in this section of the Speech is that the Government will introduce freedom of information legislation which will give members of the public a right of access to government documents. [More…]
I hope the Government will introduce freedom of information legislation which will give citizens access to government documents. [More…]
It is a common, public secret that the freedom of information legislation which will be introduced is a sort of anatomical freak. [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…]
One of the ways to achieve that power, that choice and that freedom is through the acquisition of useful information. [More…]
Freedom of information legislation is very much in the final stages of preparation. [More…]
But I do not agree with his comments regarding other aspects of the Government ‘s programfor example, the announcement about the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
It brought experts from overseas to look into the preparation of freedom of information legislation, but it never reached the position of actually putting any legislation before the Parliament. [More…]
The significance of the document is that in many cases, irrespective of the type of government from which people are seeking freedom, it is very hard to define in advance whether people really are political refugees or whether, to use the term usually adopted by our Foreign Affairs people, they are subject to political duress. [More…]
Freedom in any aspect does not exist. [More…]
Phrases like ‘individual freedom’ were used constantly throughout the address by the Governor-General. [More…]
We have a government which talks at great length about individual rights and freedoms, about increasing the freedom of choice, about putting money into people ‘s pockets and enabling people the choice of how that money is spent and so forth. [More…]
However, several speakers in the Address-in-Reply debate- not all those speakers have been from this side of the chamber- have pointed out that there is a very serious and distressing disparity between what a Fraser Government is prepared to say about individual freedoms and liberties and what it in fact does on this matter. [More…]
Of course, the basic freedom which we require in a society such as ours is the freedom to earn a living, the freedom to go out and get a job and to have income to dispose of as one wills. [More…]
They have no freedom of choice whatsoever. [More…]
If they do not have their own income they do not have a freedom of choice in this basic way. [More…]
Here in the Australian Capital Territory, of course, we have a very clear example of the various failures of the Government to provide that freedom of choice which comes from having a job. [More…]
Let me describe now in some specific detail the unemployment situation in the Australian Capital Territory and let honourable senators judge for themselves whether or not the freedom to work really exists here in this Commonwealth territory. [More…]
Again, the opportunity of persons to earn their living in the private sector has been significantly reduced by the actions of a government which likes to speak of freedom of choice and extol the virtues of the free enterprise system. [More…]
The fact is that we set up tertiary institutions in Australia, giving them autonomy, in order to protect academic freedom. [More…]
This Government has invited all of the institutions to amend their ordinances and regulations to provide the kind of freedom that Senator Wright quite correctly has in mind. [More…]
If it is necessary to take further action in order to reach the goal of freedom of choice for the individual and the right of the individual to opt out, the Government will not be hesitant to do so. [More…]
Terrorist acts are a violent assault upon the freedom of each and every Australian. [More…]
The second provision relates to the freedom of scientific investigation and co-operation. [More…]
The real position is that, as in every other sphere of social and political life, freedom of choice should be available to married women in this situation. [More…]
The economy should be geared to give a genuine freedom of choice to a married woman to tend a machine, work in a factory or stay at home and care for her husband and children. [More…]
Freedom of information legislation will be introduced to give members of the public a right of access to Government documents where these can be made public without harm to any overriding public interest. [More…]
1 wish that the National Library could have greater freedom for development than is presently available to it and that the Parliamentary Library, with its legislative research service, dealing as it does with a wide range of mattersincluding the matter of its futures, following very hard on the heels of the Congressional Research Service in Washington- could be developed not just for the convenience of members of parliament but also to facilitate an effective appraisal of policy matters and their inferences for members of the community. [More…]
The pass system will not alter the existing freedom of movement, or the existing restrictions upon movement, within the building of persons permitted to enter the non-public areas. [More…]
But in view of the volume of comment on the Bill and because a number of other Bills introduced last year by my predecessor also have been the subject of a great deal of commentI refer to the freedom of information legislation and the Human Rights Commission Bill- it has not been possible to process the legislation to the stage where I am in a position to make to the Government any further recommendations in regard to the legislation. [More…]
They have also become aware that freedom of choice, freedom of association, freedom of speech and many other freedoms which are sometimes glibly spoken of can be found only in a democratic society. [More…]
They merely need the freedom of choice to follow the course or the dream they choose. [More…]
It is the provision of the freedom and capacity to follow whatever course one seeks to follow. [More…]
Fourthly, I suggest that we should examine the real meaning of freedom in our society. [More…]
We do all sorts of things in the name of freedom. [More…]
Eventually we reach a point where we are confusing freedom with licence. [More…]
The point I make is that if our sort of democracy is to survive we must recognise that freedom itself is a somewhat meaningless word unless it is freedom within a measure of discipline. [More…]
There is a tremendous movement in the Australian community, a freedom of movement, a real integration. [More…]
That is, the Government’s 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…]
If those programs are adopted the majority of married women in the work force who, according to recent surveys such as those conducted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Electrical Trades Union, have been forced to enter the work force through economic pressure will have a true freedom of choice and the option to leave jobs, thus creating employment opportunities for the young. [More…]
It referred to innovations in the field of human rights and civil liberties, the establishment of a human rights commission and to freedom of information legislation which I hope will be given priority. [More…]
There is the zone of peace, freedom and neutrality that has been proposed by the Association of South East Asian Nations. [More…]
When has it been accepted that life and limb should be placed above the freedom of movement and association of the individual? [More…]
When the matter is put in the balance, is it a reasonable result to have freedom raised up if on the other side of the balance our security is weighed down by overprotection? [More…]
I do not think any person’s freedom should be limited for either Senator Wright’s protection or my protection. [More…]
-The people’s freedom to move into their Parliament should not be limited. [More…]
The limitation of our freedom to move may extend to the limitation of other people’s freedom to move. [More…]
To prohibit this generally would be an infringement of individual freedom. [More…]
I have listened tonight with interest to what Senator Harradine has said and I support the need to ensure that individuals, be they independents or members of minority parties, have the right to be heard and the opportunity for freedom of expression in the Senate chamber. [More…]
The current policy of the Government is to permit private organisations considerable freedom in relation to the nature of benefits provided under supplementary benefits tables provided that the Minister for Health is satisfied that the tables are financially viable. [More…]
We are seeking to prevent recruitment, as subsequent clauses of this Bill will do, but we are not seeking to stop people from having the right and the freedom to join the armed forces of other countries if they wish to do so. [More…]
However, it is unlikely that producers in those areas will ever have the freedom of cattle movement that they had before the discovery of the bluetongue virus. [More…]
In the comments which I quoted, Lord Denning had nothing in particular to say on the question of privacy and freedom of opinion because he was not, in laying down principles, concerned with those issues. [More…]
In general, Australia is committed to the maximum possible freedom in media activities and the flow of information and news. [More…]
We favour freedom and competition in the provision of news, both nationally and internationally, as we do in other fields. [More…]
I would like to quote the words of Arthur Lewis, M.P., who was chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Freedom of Information. [More…]
We do not have that sort of freedom in this country. [More…]
The right of peaceful freedom of assembly was guaranteed by a thousand years of English common law tradition, and in an interview when he arrived in Brisbane for that function Mr Hodgman said that he found most degrading Mr Bjelke-Petersen’s McCarthyist outbursts. [More…]
We want freedom for the Aurukun people to decide the rate and pace and direction of their own development. [More…]
We want freedom for them to respond to the impact of white society at their own pace and in their own direction, that is what it ‘s about. [More…]
The pass system will not alter the existing freedom of movement, or the existing restrictions upon movement, within the building of persons permitted to enter the nonpublic areas. [More…]
What is euphemistically described as security in that sense might well be dangerous from the point of view of securing that freedom of members of parliament to have, as it were, anonymous guests or visitors come to the building if they so desire. [More…]
If a risk of insecurity is to be removed there is a corresponding infringement on the civil liberties- on the privileges- of members of parliament if that freedom of access and movement is in any way curtailed by a pass system and there is a collection of bureaucrats of one kind or another standing at the doors of Parliament House asking people for their passes and who they are when they come in and go out of the building. [More…]
If I could put it in a very blunt and obvious form, if a public servant wants to come and, in colloquial parlance, wants to leak something to a member of the Opposition- reprehensible as that may be regarded in general political terms- the freedom of that person to do that and the freedom of the member of Parliament to receive that information might be curtailed by a pass system such as is used in the Bantu lands or in certain airline establishments. [More…]
I do not say that that sort of freedom does not have to be sacrificed to some degree in the interests of security but these proposals represent a change because they affect the lives of members and their day to day movement. [More…]
If members are not told about this there is a very real risk that the limitations of the members’ freedom- as they are used to it- will cause friction and dissatisfaction among members of the Parliament. [More…]
As members of parliament we should be prepared to take that risk in the interests of freedom of access into this place for ourselves, our families and our constituents. [More…]
We all can lament the limitation of freedom that it means, but we have to realise that we have a particular responsibility. [More…]
One of the ramifications of that legislation which has been a source of concern to the Council of the Australian National University is its implication on academic freedom and the freedom of academics in the community to pursue both their chosen vocation and their right to express views about a great variety of controversial issues with which the community is confronted. [More…]
I do not think they will give in easily to petty attempts at restrictions on the autonomy of an institution which has reached its standing as a result of its freedom, given to it in the original Bill and maintained by the Parliament thereafter. [More…]
The way in which a nation is willing to guarantee academic freedom is important to the character of the nation. [More…]
I think it is important to underline the fact that the traditional freedom of the public to have access to the building in that sense has been preserved. [More…]
What we are seeking to do when looking at our privileges as members of Parliament is simply to ensure that we retain the freedom to carry out our duties as elected representatives. [More…]
I agree that when we impose a system of controls we are of necessity raising the possibility of some restriction of that freedom of which members of Parliament are very jealous. [More…]
I am not so much concerned with the so-called privileges and rights of members of parliament as they affect me, provided I am able to work efficiently and provided I have proper access to the Parliament, to have freedom of speech and access to the people whom I am supposed to represent. [More…]
In my opinion, that is of great importance but, likewise, security is of great concern, because within that freedom we are able to exercise our rights and perform our duties as members of parliament. [More…]
It is important, as the President said in his statement, that the pass system does not alter the existing freedom of movement, or the existing restrictions upon movement within the building, of persons permitted to enter the non-public areas. [More…]
I regard freedom of movement in this place as one of my privileges that ought not be jeopardised without my being consulted. [More…]
Yet over the past few weeks we have accepted lightly measures which limit us and limit the freedom of people to operate and associate. [More…]
For the sake of our well being- I believe that it depends upon our attitude to freedom of movement and associationwe should quickly consider whether it is necessary for a person having reached his place of operation to continue to wear his pass. [More…]
They are supposed to be the exponents and the champions of freedom. [More…]
Some people in some parts of the world- in a fairly significant number of parts of the world- have taken it into their minds to abuse the freedom which exists in a number of countries and to impose terror and restrictions which will lead to the achievement of their objectives. [More…]
They are doing that with a view to destroying freedom and imposing systems of authoritarianism so that they can take over the control of those authoritarian systems. [More…]
Security is important but so, too, is freedom. [More…]
Freedom must always involve risks. [More…]
Some of the things that are happening from the point of view of the imposition of an authoritarian attitude by governments make me feel that our freedom and the preservation of our democracy may be at risk. [More…]
We all know that murder, muggings, holdups, rapes and other types of attacks on personal freedom and liberty and the right to the preservation of personal integrity, take place; but what we try to do as a society is create a balance. [More…]
A free society is something which in every possible way we should attempt to uphold and preserve with its full freedoms. [More…]
I think we have the opportunity to lead the world back to a system of freedom, sanity and balance. [More…]
When I hear people say that the introduction of a pass system of the sort that has been referred to is an infringement of our freedom, or the freedom of our electors who have lawful occasion to come here, the most parallel precedent in history that I can bring to mind is the debates in the House of Commons when Canning and Sir Robert Peel were introducing legislation for the establishment of a civilian police force. [More…]
There were at that time, 150 years ago, vehement cries of invasion of freedom, because the House of Commons was proposing to establish and support a civilian police force. [More…]
So I say, prima facie, a system of security is overdue and, from what I can see, so far from infringing freedom it strengthens the freedom of members who have lawful occasion to come and go. [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 the following 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…]
Mr President, the Government is mindful of the inherent relationship between freedom of expression and a free society. [More…]
He spoke of the importance to the public of information, freedom of expression and so on. [More…]
In fact the Minister even said that freedom of expression is crucial. [More…]
I should say by way of comment that the Opposition, and I think the general community also, has cause from time to time to question the credibility of the Government when it speaks of the importance of freedom of expression in broadcasting. [More…]
There were some unfortunate episodes in the recent past when it appeared that the Government was not adhering to the principle of freedom of expression in broadcasting. [More…]
So when the Minister and the Government express as their first priority with regard to a public broadcasting service the sentiment of freedom of expression, we hope that they are genuine in that sentiment. [More…]
Is not such a practice inconsistent with the Government’s declared policy on freedom of information and its intention to legislate effectively in this area? [More…]
The hijackers were described by an ethnic broadcaster on station 2EA as ‘courageous seekers of freedom ‘. [More…]
The role of the Church within the community be defined to the satisfaction of the Church, and that the freedom of the Church to appoint staff sufficient for that role be guaranteed by the Government. [More…]
It would provide for selfdetermination so that the Aboriginal people and Islanders have the right to freedom of action, freedom of thought and freedom to go where they want. [More…]
He has enhanced his freedom and independence accordingly. [More…]
I merely add that the honourable senator would well know that the Government is committed to introducing a freedom of information Bill. [More…]
If we are all Australians we should have freedom to move; there should be no restriction on people so far as this country is concerned. [More…]
Whilst we may gain some publicity or some better communication of what was being said in adjournment debates I think we would lose some of the freedom that we have to address the Senate in our own way for as long as we think is necessary and with the freedom which we think is appropriate. [More…]
The Government could get into a lot of international trouble if, as has occurred, reports going to international bodies from the Women’s Affairs Bureau of the Department, via the Department of Foreign Affairs, put forward the concept that the Union of Australian Women and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are the only organisations in Australia dealing with women’s affairs. [More…]
Inherent in that, because we trust that council and put it together in a particular way, is our giving to it freedom to go about its business. [More…]
Unless the honourable senators think that that is simply a casual or simplistic answer, I want to say that in the broader sense I am conscious that the community feeling- I suggest it is also the parliamentary feeling- is that whilst in relation to statutory corporations, particularly educational bodies, we should be zealous to preserve academic freedom, we, as a Parliament, have a responsibility for the correct discharge of our duties, particularly in the administrative sense and in the sense of efficiency in terms of money. [More…]
On the one hand we uphold this principle of freedom and the rights of the statutory authorities and yet, as all honourable senators will know, this Parliament- I think, rightly- is seeking more and more the right to probe. [More…]
For my part, I have no objection at all to the most searching scrutiny by Parliament- I could not have objection anyhow- but I would encourage it, because I believe that it in no way interferes with the essence of academic freedom. [More…]
As I have informed the Senate in recent days, there have been discussions between the Premiers and the Commonwealth about a method of development of infrastructure borrowing which would conform with the 1927 Financial Agreement, and the gentlemen’s agreement, yet perhaps enable wider freedom of movement by the States. [More…]
-I thought the honourable senator believed in freedom of information. [More…]
This practice is followed by delegations from countries such as ours, where there is a freedom for expression, and all our delegates concurred in the decision. [More…]
How does the Prime Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, Freedom of Information Legislation- Policy ProposalsReport of Interdepartmental Committee, dated November 1976’, recommended that documents containing information the disclosure of which would be prejudicial to the international relations of the Commonwealth, should be exempt from mandatory disclosure. [More…]
The honourable senator would be aware that the Government is currently considering a draft Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
How does the Prime Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, ‘Freedom of Information Legislation- Policy Proposals- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, dated November 1 976 ‘ that Cabinet documents and certain internal working documents of government should be exempt from mandatory access, I have reconsidered my decision and have decided that it would not be in the public interest for the interdepartmental committee report referred to in the question to be disclosed. [More…]
The honourable senator would be aware that the Government is currently considering a draft Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
How does the Prime Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400 ‘Freedom of Information Legislation- Policy Proposals- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, dated November 1976’ that certain internal working documents of government should be exempt from mandatory access, I have reconsidered my decision and have decided that it would not be in the public interest for the inter-departmental committee report referred to in the question to be disclosed. [More…]
Freedom of Information: Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration (Question No. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government ‘s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, ‘Freedom of Information Legislation- Policy Proposals- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, dated November 1976’, that certain internal working documents of government should be exempt from mandatory access, I have reconsidered the decision and have decided that it would not be in the public interest for the document to be made public. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
Aboriginal people want self-management; they want some freedom; they want the chance to stand up, the chance to run their own lives, to make their own mistakes and to establish their own lifestyle. [More…]
They want freedom from a repressive government that treats them like idiot children. [More…]
Again that is an important statement because it is implicit in that statement that at times Aborigines will make choices which will not suit other people; but they will be choices which they make in their own freedom to make them, to follow their own lifestyles and to live their own lives on their own land. [More…]
Again, this legislation offends demonstrably against concepts of civil liberty and it offends grievously against this Government’s professed interest, which has been continuing for a long time now, in freedom of information legislation. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side told me to wait until I saw their freedom of information legislation. [More…]
I have seen numerous Bills come before the Senate which show not the slightest reflection of an understanding of the concept of freedom of information and freedom of information legislation. [More…]
Obviously, such vetting would err on the side of greater security and less individual freedom and the danger of a new McArthyism is real. [More…]
Although freedom of information is vital, the Parliament cannot, and will not, tolerate attempts to prevent the carrying into execution of carefully-planned defence projects. [More…]
We must understand that the Parliament operates in a society in which there should be freedom of discussion and debate on these matters and that persons involved in that process of freedom of discussion and debate should not be subjected to the sort of pernicious powers which are available to the Government under the Atomic Energy Act and which will be available to the Government if the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill is passed. [More…]
Senator Button also gave it away at the finish of his speech when he talked about empty rhetoric, the freedom of discussion and debate and the pros and cons concerning uranium mining. [More…]
It seemed to me that so long as there was an opportunity for the expression of freedom of opinion about uranium mining in Australia, Senator Button would have no objection to it other than that he would not have used the vehicle of the Atomic Energy Act for this purpose. [More…]
Wherever questions arise as to what might be regarded as excesses or abuses within the media, there is a general tendency to defend those abuses on the grounds of freedom of expression. [More…]
This Government believes that there is at least a contending freedom and that is the freedom of the general population of this country to maintain what it regards as the normal standards of behaviour and not to have thrust upon it by way of assault, standards which it abhors. [More…]
This proposed legislation compares very poorly with nuclear regulatory processes in the United States where public rulemakings hearings are mandatory and public access to information is guaranteed by Freedom of Information legislation. [More…]
For boycotting or threatening to boycott such projects, or for publishing about or advocating the boycotting or threatening boycott of such projects, the penalties are up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine, h could have an impact on press freedom as well as the rights of trade unions, workers and other citizens. [More…]
Then we heard from that great mistress of freedom of action, Ms Horan, who first of all attacked Senator Bonner by asking him whether he had gone all black. [More…]
This Parliament not yet having before it a freedom of information Bill and, clearly, being in the process of considering a change in the area of confidentiality of government documents, I hope that we will soon find ourselves with legislation which is effective in regard to restricting the amount of confidentiality. [More…]
This relates to the point I made earlier in regard to freedom of information and the proper disclosure of commercial documents and information which ought, surely, to be within the public scrutiny. [More…]
It relates also to such fundamental issues as the freedom of association with particular causes which may be seen to be worthy or the decision not to associate with causes which might be considered unworthy. [More…]
They relate to the powers of university authorities and the associations that exist on campuses; they relate also to the meaning, I believe, in this case in particular, of conscientious objection; and to the significant issue of the fundamental freedoms of individuals to which I referred at the outset, such as the freedom of association. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
Bearing in mind the Government ‘s announced policy of providing for general freedom of information, will the Minister undertake to make the report available to the Parliament? [More…]
It would not be the Goverment ‘s wish to limit that freedom in any way. [More…]
Fifthly, there will be appropriate guarantees for freedom of movement for 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 cooperation on immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements. [More…]
The treaty will contain provisions covering appropriate guarantees of freedom of navigation, passage and overflight. [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…]
In particular, the protected zone provisions of the treaty will permit freedom of movement by the local people within the protected zone, but at the same time the treaty will provide for immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements. [More…]
As we establish the Kakadu Park, as we set up mechanisms to ensure the preservation of the ecology, as we define the sacred lands, surely we build the dignity, the freedom of choice and the fulfilment of the Aborigine. [More…]
Another part of the report says that many more species probably remain unrecorded because the species in the lessaccessible parts of the park, in parts of the plateau and some permanently wet areas were not collected as thoroughly as they should have been; some species were not known previously; regions are notable for their present relative freedom from introduced species. [More…]
It is very hard to see from the Bill how much freedom the Supervising Scientist will have to act. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
Most of these vessels have been fishing in accordance with the concept of the freedom of the high seas. [More…]
If it is necessary to have an industrial or 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…]
The amendment would prohibit the freedom of action necessary to do that. [More…]
What consequences to our export market does he see if Canada or some other large trading country should secure freedom from this disease before Australia does? [More…]
Further, the use of section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act which relates to communication of restricted information with intent to prejudice defence, contravenes Articles 18, 19 and 21 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, which deal with freedom of speech and assembly. [More…]
On the one hand, the Covenant proclaims these basic rights of speech and freedom, whilst, on the other hand, the Atomic Energy Act as it is applied to Ranger would impose a penalty of 20 years imprisonment for a person communicating certain aspects of the Ranger development to the public. [More…]
The matter that I shall debate is one of the basic tenets of Australian democracy, namely, the freedom of the individual to offer himself for public service in the Parliament. [More…]
In the course of my comments today I shall outline how, whilst this freedom theoretically exists, certain Australians find that their ability to nominate for Federal office is severely limited. [More…]
Removal of this constitutional requirement would allow public servants the same basic freedom to nominate for political office as is enjoyed by other Australian adults. [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…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Ukraine are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom minded Australian. [More…]
She knows that the Government has allowed considerable freedom to its statutory authorities and its commissions. [More…]
I give the Senate a specific example: It seems to us extraordinary that a Government presided over by Malcolm Fraser, a Prime Minister who talked in his policy speech about what I think he called the fifth freedom, namely, the freedom to spend one’s own earnings as one wishes- a government which is committed to that sort of principle- should countenance legislation such as this. [More…]
who burnt himself to death, died shouting ‘Freedom for Lithuania’. [More…]
Although since 1972 there have been fewer such demonstrations of the wish for greater freedom on the part of the Lithuanian people- fewer overt signs- I believe that these feelings are no less present and are perhaps stronger now than ever. [More…]
I have already referred to protests concerning religious freedom that have been made to the United Nations. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall the occasion when a Lithuanian sailor, Simas Kudirka, sought refuge on a United States coastguard vessel in 1970 and was later sent back and sentenced to 10 years hard labour for having made an attempt at freedom. [More…]
I have raised this matter this evening because this month marks the sixth anniversary of those events in Lithuania and elsewhere in the Baltic States when the people of the Baltic States took a stand for their freedom and independence and, through those events, made their views known to the world. [More…]
On 14 May, in one of the squares of Kaunas, Romas Kalanta (born 1953), who had finished secondary education and was the son of a college lecturer died by selfimmolation, under the banner ‘Freedom for Lithuania’. [More…]
The procession was chanting ‘Freedom! [More…]
the crowd chanted, ‘ Freedom for Lithuania! ‘ [More…]
From the park the demonstration moved down Freedom Avenue in the direction of the KGB headquarters. [More…]
There were many people on Freedom Avenue, where Kalanta burned himself to death, and the police did not allow them to stop moving. [More…]
It is merely a dressing up of the Aboriginal Act which has been used to restrict the freedom of Aborigines in Queensland for so many years. [More…]
The continued development of the outstation movement is an important element in ensuring that Aborigines have freedom of choice. [More…]
The Council said that the freedom of the Aboriginal people to choose their own lifestyle is of the utmost importance. [More…]
The Council believes that the best means of ensuring this freedom of choice throughout the Commonwealth is to ensure land and other rights for Aboriginal people through legislation parallel to that already enacted or at present proposed by the Commonwealth for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Under the present compulsory student fees system there has been inadequate freedom for students to opt out of supporting such activities on conscience grounds. [More…]
400 ‘Freedom of Information LegislationPolicy Proposals- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, dated November 1976’; that documents the disclosure of which would constitute a breach of confidence by revealing material obtained in confidence should be exempt from mandatory access. [More…]
He has argued that what is necessary is that the States be given freedom by way of more access to taxing themselves, if they so desire, and for them therefore to use the independence that they would have from that to gain their sovereignty. [More…]
When the Commonwealth and State governments, in this case proudly, accept that responsibility to provide that money for the secular delivery of compulsory education in those sectors of the community that by conscience and by freedom of choice elect to support non-government schools, we are not in any way infringing principles; we are in fact providing secular education inside non-government schools. [More…]
Secondly, can the Minister say whether it is a fact that the measures which he has now announced are to ensure individual freedom on university campuses, particularly the freedom of association, and to ensure that those sorts of freedoms are in fact preserved. [More…]
Of course, the principle is one which aims at freedom of association on the campus. [More…]
They proclaim themselves to be the defenders of the liberty of the individual against the real or potential tyranny of the State while simultaneously voting for the tyranny of the State for which confiscates the personal physical freedom or even the life of arbitrarily selected individuals. [More…]
The miscellaneous provisions in Part VI cover a series of constitutional-type guarantees in relations to the freedom of trade and the acquisition of property on just terms. [More…]
It is that in all communications that I have made I have said that the universities and the colleges are given the role of statutory corporations to guarantee academic freedom. [More…]
I refer to the freedom of association of students. [More…]
We said in that policy speech that we would be introducing freedom of information legislation. [More…]
Nothing in what I said in any way argues against the premise of what is being done now, which directs itself purely to the socio-political activities of students and their right to freedom of association on the campus in those activities. [More…]
Freedom of Information Bill 1978 [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill represents a major initiative by the Government in its program of administrative law reform. [More…]
Although a number of countries have freedom of information legislation, this is the first occasion on which a Westminster style government has brought forward such a measure. [More…]
The basic principles of the Freedom of Information Bill are simple: [More…]
The crucial element in drafting the Freedom of Information Bill has been to strike the appropriate balance between openness and secrecy. [More…]
The need for this balance was expressed in the report on the United States Freedom of Information Bill by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in the following terms: [More…]
At the same time that a broad philosophy of ‘freedom of information’ is enacted into law, it is necessary to protect certain equally important rights of privacy with respect to certain information in Government files, such as medical and personnel records. [More…]
Thus, for example, the freedom of information legislation in the United States operates in a quite different administrative context. [More…]
There is a good deal in common in freedom of information laws in other countries in the kinds of information protected from mandatory disclosure, notwithstanding differences in the constitutional and administrative structures within which those laws operate. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill operates on a wider scope than any of the existing means of obtaining access to information. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill will require Ministers or departments seeking to withhold information to justify their decisions to deny access to information. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill, together with other recent reforms in administrative law, thus emphasises the administrative accountability of Ministers and their departments. [More…]
The necessary publication must be made within 12 months of the commencement of the clause and must be in a form approved by the Minister administering the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
There are those who say that the Freedom of Information Bill should apply to all documents, and not only to those to be brought into existence in the future. [More…]
In enacting freedom of information legislation within a Westminster-based system of government, the matter of the final authority to decide whether the giving of access would be contrary to the public interest is clearly of central concern. [More…]
It is thought that the imposition of a more rigid time limit would impose undue strains on the administration of departments, and require the diversion of an undue amount of departmental resources to dealing with freedom of information requests. [More…]
The time limit applies to a request that is identified as being made under the Freedom of Information Act and that is sent to the agency concerned at an address of the agency specified in the regulations. [More…]
As I have indicated, the Government believes that the principles on which the Bill has been drafted are the proper principles on which to base a Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD ORDINARILY BE MADE AVAILABLE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL 1978 [More…]
The following documents are examples of the kinds of documents that would ordinarily be made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
The relevant provisions of the Archives Bill and the measures contained in freedom of information legislation have been carefully coordinated in order that together they should constitute comprehensive arrangements covering the public accessibility of the widest range of Commonwealth documentation. [More…]
Broadly speaking, freedom of information covers material which is thirty years old or less, while the arrangements under Archives legislation relate to records more than thirty years old. [More…]
Inevitably, however, in the interests of personal privacy, good government and security, some exemptions will have to be applied and these will be very similar in principle to those provided for under freedom of information legislation. [More…]
For example, it gives a much greater freedom to the State housing authorities to determine what they will do with the funds, lt also places a much greater emphasis on home ownership rather than on the provision of rental housing, ft provides for much more flexible mortgage conditions than have applied in the past, lt makes adjustments to interest rates which have applied in the past and it provides that any surplus generated by the. [More…]
The fact is that it is humbug for the Leader of the Opposition to talk about the freedom of the States when the Whitlam Labor Government aimed to destroy the States and their total freedom. [More…]
How does the Prime Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400 ‘Freedom of Information Legislation- Policy Proposals- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, dated [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
Foreign policy concerns of the Holy See under Pope Paul included: The problems of the proliferation of nuclear weapons; the improvement of social welfare; assisting the development of the poorer countries; a rapprochement with China; the evolution of relations with Marxist regimes; and a desire to expand official communications with the Communist, Islamic and Asian world in order to ensure the maintenance and continuity of the freedom of Christian observance. [More…]
What progress has been made in ensuring to the inhabitants of Home Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands the provision of freedom of movement and association, as announced by the Minister for Administrative Services on 1 6 June 1977. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400 ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, November 1976’, relating to law enforcement documents. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill introduced in the Parliament on 9 June 1978 gives effect to those recommendations. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400 Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee- November 1976 and clause twenty-six of the Freedom of Information Bill introduced into Parliament on 9 June 1978, that there should be an exemption from mandatory access for documents that reflect internal deliberative processes involved in the functions of Departments, the disclosure of which would be contrary to the public interest, I have reconsidered the decision and decided that it would not be in the public interest for the various documents associated with the Medibank Review Committee to be disclosed on the grounds that policy advice from officials to Ministers on a matter of Government policy such as this, should not be publicly disclosed and that such disclosure could well lead to a lack of candour and frankness between Ministers and official advisers in the future. [More…]
Had a formal report been prepared I would have proposed that it be examined in accordance with the meaning of the Parliamentary Paper and provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill to see whether exempt material in the Report could be segregated and the remainder made available. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information LegislationReport of Interdepartmental Committee-November 1976’, and the provisions of clause twenty-six of the Freedom of Information Bill introduced into Parliament on 9 June, which provides that matter in the nature of, or relating to, opinion, advice or recommendation prepared for the deliberative processes involved in the functions of the Government, disclosure of which would be contrary to the public interest, should be exempt from mandatory access. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee- November 1976, and the provisions of clause twenty four of the Freedom of Information Bill introduced into Parliament on 9 June, that documents the disclosure of which would reveal any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet are exempted from mandatory access. [More…]
It has been criticised by under-developed countries for the term and conditions on which assistance is provided and, even in the case of the United Kingdom and Italy, it was a widely held view that the conditions imposed for the granting of short-term financial accommodation unduly restricted the freedom of both governments to introduce measures to cope with internal problems. [More…]
They have that latitude and the freedom, which other senators do not have, to change their views from day to day according to their view of the matter before the Senate. [More…]
The matter of freedom of access to committees has been mentioned and I can say no more than that in elucidation. [More…]
Our tradition is essentially one of ‘live and let live’ in an atmosphere of political freedom. [More…]
It seems strange that in Australia, where all citizens enjoy their rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and have freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of affiliation, that citizens of Yugoslav origins have their rights interfered with by the Consular officials of another country. [More…]
The Government has also very much in mind the need to protect the rights of individuals, especially in relation to freedom of expression. [More…]
That the Freedom of Information Bill 1 978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill was introduced into the Senate on the last day of the parliamentary sessional period ending in June. [More…]
This history of the freedom of information legislation has straddled a period of at least two governments and, in a sense, possibly three governments. [More…]
The interdepartmental committee which looked into this matter was told to use the United States Freedom of Information Act as the basis for its proposals. [More…]
I briefly recapitulate the arguments in favour of freedom of information legislation. [More…]
In countries such as the United States the provision of freedom of information legislation has been seen as a solution to some of these problems. [More…]
I think you, Mr Acting Deputy President, will recall that when this matter was first discussed by Government senators in this chamber some 18 months ago- with a degree of excitement- I described the legislation on freedom of information to be introduced by this Government as being an anatomical freak, that is, it was a gelding before it was born. [More…]
In my view there was no hope of this Government introducing legislation for freedom of information which would have any significant teeth and which would go anywhere near as far as did the legislation in that unusual and, in a way, great democracy, the United States, where legislation of this kind was first brought into existence after the Scandinavian countries. [More…]
Perhaps for those honourable senators who come from States which have already introduced freedom of information legislation this is a unique opportunity for them to represent the views of their States in this chamber and adopt the sort of position which their State governments have adopted. [More…]
On 12 June this year he said that there were strong and compelling reasons for the referral of the Freedom of Information Bill to a Senate committee. [More…]
I refer now to Senator Missen who has been diligent in the pursuit of freedom of information legislation in Australia. [More…]
His degree of diligence has taken him to the United States of America to study the freedom of information legislation there. [More…]
Senator Missen has made six or seven other points of a similar kind in articles in the Melbourne Age and elsewhere which go right to the heart of the notion of freedom of information legislation. [More…]
Affairs, which at least is composed of elected members of Parliament and not of officials who presumably would be concerned about the consequences of any freedom of information legislation. [More…]
This extremely high degree of the people’s political responsibility for the affairs of state could only be reached by experience and practice, rooted in the soil of the communities with their innate sense of freedom . [More…]
One element that has been drawn to the attention of Liberal senators in this Parliament is the fact that our Liberal Party platform specifically issues a warning in regard to the purposes for which economic freedom is to be seen to be existing and strengthened. [More…]
Liberalism aims to create a society in which individual economic freedom exists. [More…]
As democratic socialists- we bear the label proudly- we stand for the values of equality, liberty and democracy: greater real equality in the distribution of wealth, income, power and status in the community; full respect for the personal freedom and dignity of the individual; the fullest possible opportunity for democratic participation by every individual in all the major decisions that affect his or her life in the work place and in the local community as much as in the larger political sphere. [More…]
The debate concerns social control by someperhaps those in government- on the freedom of action of others. [More…]
For example, I would not want it to be thought that I recommend complete freedom of use of narcotics, although I note that all narcotics- opium, morphine and heroin- at one time were freely available across the counter in this country and in most Western countries. [More…]
If the programs I have mentioned were adopted, they would provide a true freedom of choice and the option for those people to leave jobs, thus creating job opportunities for the young. [More…]
I believe that there should be a true freedom of choice but not by virtue of the fact that there are not sufficient supportive policies of the Government to provide that true freedom of choice for married women with dependent children, to take the economic pressure off them and to enable them to become full-time homemakers. [More…]
In the Soviet Union a system which denies fundamental human freedoms, the freedom of thought, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom of association - [More…]
I am back now to this great hero of freedom in Australia who, in one particular crisis, took the public interest off the Budget and off Fraser ‘s maladministration of Australia. [More…]
My advice is that the Government has submitted to the International Labour Organisation’s Committee on Freedom of Association its observations on the allegations made by the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association concerning the compatability of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act 1977 with ILO Convention No. [More…]
As I understand this convention, it was designed to guarantee workers’ freedom of association and the right to organise. [More…]
The Committee on Freedom of Association will then issue its decision in the form of a report to the ILO governing body. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, ‘ Freedom of Information Legislation Policy Proposals- Report of Interdepartmental Committee, dated November 1976’ and the provisions of clause thirty-two of the Freedom of Information Bill introduced into Parliament on 9 June, are to the effect that, where release of documents containing commercial or financial information, the disclosure of which would be reasonably likely to expose a commercial or financial enterprise unreasonably to disadvantage, there should be an exemption from mandatory disclosure. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee- November 1976’ that there should be an exemption from mandatory access for documents that would disclose the deliberations of Cabinet and documents that reflect the internal deliberative processes involved in the functions of departments, and the disclosure of which would be contrary to the public interest. [More…]
Effect has been given to those recommendations in the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
While the Government does not propose to make available documents of this kind the report will be examined in accordance with the principle that, so far as departmental resources permit, material that is not exempt within the meaning of the parliamentary paper and the provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill will be segregated and made available. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental Committee- November 1976’ that there should be an exemption from mandatory access for documents that reflect the internal deliberative processes involved in the functions of departments, and the disclosure of which would be contrary to public interest. [More…]
Effect has been given to those recommendations in the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
I have, however, reconsidered the decision and while the Government does not propose to make available documents of this kind, the report will be examined in accordance with the principle that, so far as departmental resources permit, material that is not exempt within the meaning of the parliamentary paper and the provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill will be segregated and made available. [More…]
How does the Attorney-General reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
In my consideration I have had regard to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill 1978 and in particular to clause 30 of the Bill which provides that documents the disclosure of which would constitute an unreasonable disclosure of the personal affairs of a person are to be exempt from mandatory disclosure. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
and (3) Whatever might be the legal position with respect to the disclosure of a document such as that referred to in the question to a member of the public upon request made by him if the Freedom of Information Bill in its present form became law, the question whether a member of the Public may be allowed to inspect the report must be considered in the light of the law as it now stands. [More…]
What I have said makes it clear that I do not consider my confirmation of that decision as being inconsistent with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
400, ‘Policy Proposals for Freedom of Information Legislation- Report of Interdepartmental CommitteeNovember 1976’, that documents that disclose the deliberations of Cabinet should be exempt from mandatory disclosure. [More…]
Effect has been given to that recommendation in the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
As the Minister responsible for funding tertiary institutions, does not the Minister think that this case reflects very gravely upon the concept of academic freedom as practised by the University of New South Wales, the fact that one can get justice only if one has the money, and the failure of the State Labor Government to end compulsory membership of student unions? [More…]
Indeed, my Government has conveyed to every State Premier its views and a request that the States themselves might, as Victoria and Western Australia have done, take action to provide for such a freedom which, after all, is inherent in the Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations Charter and which therefore ought to be acceptable to all. [More…]
The Commonwealth believes that, consistent with the rights of institutions to maintain their academic freedoms, they should demonstrate their responsibilities to maintain the democratic freedom of the individuals within those institutions, because those individuals in the institutions should be as free as other individuals. [More…]
Nevertheless, it must regret that any individual should be threatened with the lack of freedom to pursue studenthood simply because that individual refuses to pay a fee that has no relationship whatsoever to studenthood. [More…]
Liberalism is about freedom; Liberalism is about people. [More…]
In these welfare and education services the dignity and freedom of choice of every individual must be ensured. [More…]
In the view of the Australian Labor Party, government funding of the arts is desirable only when there is a guarantee of freedom of expression. [More…]
Does the Minister believe that the current voluntary D notice system is in fact an effective balance between legitimate government secrecy on the one hand and freedom of information and freedom of the Press on the other? [More…]
Will the Minister inform the Senate of the total in the original submission by the Aboriginal Health Service in New South Wales, the amount the Government will appropriate for this program and the amount being donated by the Freedom From Hunger Campaign? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has advised the Prime Minister that, without prejudice to the forthcoming debate on the Freedom of Information Bill, he considers them acceptable. [More…]
What concerns me is that in regard to legislation such as this members of the Government, the Liberal Party-National Country Party coalition, go out to the electorate and say that they have the freedom to vote as they see fit on matters of interest and of vital importance, to primary producers particularly, and come in here and mouth the very same words, yet when the vote is taken they vote, irrespective of what their thoughts are, in support of the Government en masse. [More…]
For those of us who are interested in the rural industries this is a matter in relation to which we should take the view that there is some freedom in the community. [More…]
The main point I wish to make today relates to freedom of choice. [More…]
Senator Thomas said that he believed in freedom. [More…]
Where is the freedom in the action that the Government has taken? [More…]
We believe that when the Labor Party was in government it gave the proper emphasis to freedom by holding a referendum and allowing wool growers to make a choice. [More…]
If Senator Thomas were really sincere in what he said about believing in freedom, he would advocate a complete lifting of the export ban and allowing every stud merino breeder to sell his rams to the highest bidder for export overseas. [More…]
That is freedom. [More…]
It is indeed my conviction that most Australians believe in the system of free enterprise democracy which is based on the family unit, which admits the profit motive within the law as being satisfactory to the desires and the dictates of human nature, which admits equality of opportunity, which admits that freedom is a relatively meaningless concept unless it is experienced within a properly conceived and majority held and enforced discipline. [More…]
Consistent 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…]
I trust that the implementation of those measures has been done with the least possible intrusion on the freedom of individuals. [More…]
It is given self-governance for one purpose, not as an end in itself, but as a means to protect academic freedom. [More…]
The main purpose is to adhere to the principle enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights that there should be freedom of choice and freedom of action and that no one should be compelled to sponsor or to back causes which are obnoxious to him. [More…]
But at the same time in Australia today there is not that true freedom of choice; economic discrimination is experienced by the mothers who stay at home and do the most important job, that is, raising the future citizens of this country. [More…]
A famous Frenchman said recently that liberation of women is freedom to choose between managing their homes and working in an office or factory. [More…]
I believe that at a time when there is debate throughout the community and in the Parliament on the matter of freedom of information and a great demand by the public and members of parliament for increased access to information it is not appropriate for information available to senators and members in their Parliamentary Library to be restricted. [More…]
So there is a question of the physical liberty and freedom of movement of the subject involved here. [More…]
That the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report as soon as possible, in so far as the Bill relates to issues common to or related to the inquiry into the Freedom of Information Bill 1978. [More…]
The Archives Bill was presented to the Senate at the same time as the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
It contains issues relating to the national archives which, in the view of some honourable senators at least, involve the same principles in relation to the disclosure of documents and the methods by which the disclosure of documents may be brought about as those in the Freedom of Information Bill itself. [More…]
I envisage that the major inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs would be directed towards the provisions of the freedom of information legislation, and it may be that after the members of the Committee determine what principles they think should apply in relation to that legislation they could as a more supplementary matter examine the terms of the Archives Bill to see whether they think that those principles are appropriate for application to legislation of that kind. [More…]
The Government will not oppose the motion as amended now by Senator Button to refer the Freedom of Information Bill and the Archives Bill to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]
There has already been a good opportunity for the public to consider both the principles on which the Freedom of Information Bill is based and its detailed provisions. [More…]
As I mentioned in my second reading speech, the tabling at the end of 1976 of the interdepartmental committee report on freedom of information legislation provided an opportunity for public debate on the principles. [More…]
The departments, as part of an exercise, reassessed the questions in the light of the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
Allowing for differences demanded by the fact that the legislation will operate within a Westminster-based system of government, the Bill compares well with the legislation in the few countries that have freedom of information. [More…]
The need to protect internal working documents has been recognised in every country that has freedom of information legislation. [More…]
The Canadian Government, for example, has gone no further than to publish a Green Paper on Freedom of Information. [More…]
In a White Paper, published only in July 1978, on the revision of the United Kingdom Official Secrets Act, the United Kingdom Government- a Labor government- expressed its view on freedom of information and an open government in the following terms: [More…]
Since the Bill was introduced I have had an opportunity to see at first hand some of the administrative problems arising from the freedom of information legislation in the United States. [More…]
The Government does not believe that departmental resources should be unreasonably diverted from the ordinary work of departments to answering freedom of information requests. [More…]
Senator Button has made out a case for the reference of the Freedom of Information Bill to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and [More…]
In fact, the exemptions are basically the same as those contained in the Freedom of Information Bill 1 978 although they are fewer in number. [More…]
The Opposition has even greater objections to the exemptions contained in the Archives Bill than to those contained in the Freedom of Information Bill because of the age of the material- 30 years. [More…]
I will not comment on that except to say that no doubt we will be looking among other subjects with interest at the reaction to those questions and to other questions in regard to matters relevant to freedom of information. [More…]
So far as the amended motion is concerned, one recognises that one of the two Bills before us- the Archives Bill- is only partially relevant to the subject of freedom of information generally. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill has been on public display for a few months and, of course, it has had a period of some five years in gestation. [More…]
We will urge them to put in submissions that are directly related, of course, to the way in which freedom of information might operate in this country. [More…]
There is a vast amount of material to be looked at in regard to freedom of information. [More…]
By this I have in mind the possibility that there is some lack of knowledge both in this Senate and in the community as to what freedom of information might involve. [More…]
-I support the reference of the Freedom of Information Bill and the associated Archives Bill to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, of which I am a member. [More…]
I acknowledge at the outset, however, that it may be with some alarm that supporters of freedom of information legislation view the prospect of the referral of these Bills to yet another committee. [More…]
The history of the Freedom of Information Bill has after all been littered with the devoted attention of committees, albeit not parliamentary committees and what unsatisfactory history it has so far been. [More…]
When the original initiative was taken and the commitment made to introduce freedom of information legislation by the Whitlam Labor Government the matter was referred, as I suppose is inevitable whenever the Public Service sees its institutional interests immediately involved, to an interdepartmental committee of public servants. [More…]
Regrettably, however, that greater intensity of effort did not result in any more sensitive appreciation of the kind of legislation that is needed if freedom of information legislation is to justify that name. [More…]
In the two IDCs however, it can be said that the freedom of information idea was not just strangled but in fact bludgeoned into insensibility, then garrotted and drawn and quartered for good measure. [More…]
Whilst the present Freedom of Information Bill does not mirror exactly the terms of that second IDC report- it is only to be expected, I suppose, that there would be some modification when it took a further 18 months for that IDC report to be transmitted into the present legislation, which was introduced in June this year- certainly it can be said that the Bill preserves the spirit of that 1976 committee. [More…]
But by and large the Bill is at best, to any objective observer, a very grave disappointment and, at worst, an absolutely counterproductive travesty of everything that freedom of information legislation is supposed to be about. [More…]
It is possible to produce good tough freedom of information legislation which will balance the rights and interests of the community generally against the necessary demands of government, and I am confident that this is what will be recommended by the Committee. [More…]
I am sure, in all charity, that Senator Lewis has gone back to his room to prepare a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs about the issues involved in this debate on the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
In fact, I do not think I am revealing any secrets when I say that he accused me in a not unfriendly way earlier this evening of trying to deny the people of Australia the benefits of the Freedom of Information Bill as drafted by his Department. [More…]
I can do so politically in the knowledge that the vast masses of the people of Australia are not as yet as concerned as they might be about the contents of the Freedom of Information Bill, but perhaps that will come in time. [More…]
Finally, does the Minister agree that a most important consideration in this matter is the best interests of the Australian public, that is, Australian travellers being able to enjoy large reductions in air fares and full freedom of choice in relation to air carrier? [More…]
With respect to the particular matter mentioned by the honourable senator, that is the Australian people being able to enjoy a reduction in fares and full freedom of choice of air carrier, I agree that they are important considerations. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
I have reconsidered my decision having regard to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill 1978, which was introduced in the Senate by the Attorney-General on 9 June. [More…]
I have decided that the three accident reports may now be made available subject to the deletion of certain matter identifying persons from whom statements were taken, the release of which I consider would have a substantial adverse effect on staff management interests of the Australian National Railways within the meaning of clause 29 of the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
3 ) and (4)1 have reconsidered the decision having regard to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill 1978. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government ‘s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
It will be noted that the exceptions mentioned are similar to, although not necessarily identical with, the exemptions contained in paragraph 32 ( 1 ) (a) and paragraph 35 (b) of the Freedom of Information Bill 1978 now before the Senate. [More…]
What amount will the Government appropriate for this program, and what amount is being donated by the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. [More…]
See my statement of 6 November 1977 announcing a grant of $60,000 for a two-year pilot program and my statement of 4 December 1977 welcoming the announcement that the Freedom from Hunger Campaign would be continuing to contribute to the work of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service. [More…]
The tables show that it is not a government for all the people with regard to the much vaunted Fraser freedom to have money in one’s pocket. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information? [More…]
I have considered the question of the release of the reports in the light of the Government’s policies as provided in the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
The Government is awaiting 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…]
I repeat that all honourable senators will share the Government’s abhorrence of any situation in which the ordinary freedom of the individual is restricted because of religious discrimination, whether anti-semitic, as in this case, or otherwise. [More…]
I could not think of anything more abominable in terms of human freedom than to forget about the rights of individuals to freedom of choice. [More…]
In Australia today there are cases of people being denied freedom of choice-, which is part of the very freedoms that are in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
This part of s. 116 emphasises the principle of religious freedom. [More…]
Let us dwell for just a moment on this question of freedom from religious tests. [More…]
Certainly, as regards Jews, it was in only 1 846- a short time ago- that the Toleration Act of 1688 was extended to give Jews freedom in English law and the kind of toleration which allowed them to enter into the full communal life in that country. [More…]
When the Australian Constitution was written, we took steps to try to extend religious freedom here and to exclude tests based on one’s religious beliefs forever from the way in which the Government proceeded and, I would hope, from the way in which its instrumentalities and agencies proceeded. [More…]
What we are finding hard to stomach is the calm acceptance by Qantas of these restrictions, contrary to any beliefs we have in freedom of religion. [More…]
However, as Senator Baume has mentioned, the one fundamental human right that is mentioned in our Constitution- we do not have a Bill of Rights- is the right to religious freedom and the unacceptability of discrimination on grounds of religion or faith. [More…]
If a person anywhere in the world tries to book on Qantas and indicates that he or she wants to fly via Damascus the question will have to be asked and that can only reflect poorly on this country whose Constitution mentions the right to religious freedom. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite continually stand up in this chamber and say that they have freedom to vote according to their conscience. [More…]
I wish to quote from a letter that was sent to the Australian on 17 July 1974 by Senator Withers about honourable senators opposite having a freedom of choice. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite have any intestinal fortitude, as Senator Chipp has said they ought to have, and if they have the freedom which they always claim they have, they will cross the floor and vote with the Labor Party to defeat this clause. [More…]
He referred to the Senate’s role, the role of individual senators and the freedom which is enjoyed and has been demonstrated by members of the Liberal Party in this chamber but which is not available to members of the Opposition. [More…]
I think that there is another freedom, right or responsibility which has been left out of the discussion. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
and (3) Persons making the submissions referred to in the question, in the absence of legislative provisions similar to those contained in the Freedom of Information Bill, would not have anticipated that their submissions would be made public, but would have made such submissions with the general expectation that they would remain a matter of confidence between them and the Government. [More…]
As the submissions were made to the Government by individuals of companies in the light of no freedom of information legislation, I consider that the decision not to release the documents was, and continues to be, a proper one to take. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this apparent failure to provide information with the Government’s public commitment to freedom of information. [More…]
and (3) Persons making submissions concerning the Swanson Report, in the absence of legislative provisions similar to those contained in the Freedom of Information Bill, would not have anticipated that their submissions would be made public, but would have made them with the general expectation that they would remain a matter of confidence between them and the Government. [More…]
As the submissions were made to the Government by individuals or companies in the light of no freedom of information legislation, I consider that the Government’s decision not to release the document was, and continues to be, a proper one to take. [More…]
The mass circulation German magazine Stern, in a series of special articles published earlier this year under the general title ‘ Freedom 1978’spelt out dozens of similar case histories. [More…]
Senator Evans has chosen to make some comments- he has the right to do so- about aspects, as he sees them, of contemporary West Germany and about what he sees to be some delimitations on freedom in that community. [More…]
I believe that the information available from these sources compiles with the spirit and intention of the Freedom of Information Bill now before the Parliament. [More…]
The end of the First World War brought freedom and independence to Slovenia. [More…]
I see the wisdom of years, and I pray to God that I also see men and women of principle: men and women of vision, men and women who are not the mere minions of government and bureaucracy, but men and women who are now prepared to stand up and be counted, and are in tune with the song of freedom that is presently resounding throughout this nation. [More…]
I see no difference in this situation as compared with any other scheme which allows people freedom to insure wherever they wish. [More…]
His proposal that there should be greater freedom in the selection of the body which makes the funds available has been noted. [More…]
It’s a clear sign that this nation will takeand is taking- the path to freedom and democracy. [More…]
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, therefore humbly pray that the Senate will fulfil the pledge of a Member State of the United Nations and take steps to remove the compulsion from the Electoral Act in order to allow freedom of expression for everyone who has the right to vote for Senators. [More…]
So in point of fact the area concerned is not one for simplistic headline seeking at all; it is one for very deep soul searching by the people of the world who believe, as does this Government, in freedom for the people of the world. [More…]
Finally, what is currently the status of the proposal to introduce a voucher system of education funding to individual families which would have advantages by way of greater accountability in schools, freedom of choice and greater incentive for schools to achieve basic educational standards? [More…]
Finally, Senator Teague asked about the progress of the voucher system in terms of freedom of choice. [More…]
However, I stress that another real freedom of choice option is before the Senate, that is, the provision within the States Grants (Schools) Act of a sum of funds to the States for pilot studies to allow freedom of choice as between government schools. [More…]
One of the things that we could do in the Territories and in the States is to develop first of all a real freedom of choice as between government schools and then as between the two streams of education. [More…]
I think that the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) should call in the representatives of United Artists and say to them: You people are very good in your own country when it comes to talking about the American way of life and you are very good when it comes to talking about freedom but this does not give you an open licence.’ [More…]
The centre is not under the control of the Government and, of course, it has academic freedom. [More…]
The time to examine that freedom, the time to take that responsibility, is before they have intercourse, before there is any likelihood of a child eventuating. [More…]
We have had huge arguments on the pros and cons of abortion and the freedom to have an abortion. [More…]
The other conflicting philosophy mentioned by Senator Button was the right of freedom of choice, the freedom of choice of a woman. [More…]
I recognise readily that a woman in circumstances of not wanting to have a child has a right to freedom of choice. [More…]
When Senator Button, according to Senator Chipp, poses the dilemma of the right to life versus the freedom of choice, then I think we have to face the fact that we are in an awkward situation in that if we accept the concept of a living foetus then we have to accept the concept that one of the parties involved does not have freedom of choice. [More…]
If a person accepts the separate life of a foetus, that comfortable freedom to choose for himself or herself is barred. [More…]
Thirdly, and perhaps the most important of all, it is an action which, if supported, will give women even greater freedom for it is an extension of women ‘s rights to have control over their own bodies. [More…]
Of those in favour, 55 per cent saw such laws as giving women ‘freedom to decide one’s self or as ‘enhancing women’s personal choice’. [More…]
These responses were to a completely open-ended question and showed the concern of the majority of people in the Australian Capital Territory to give women greater freedom and control over their own lives and bodies and futures- a right which they should exercise themselves and which the law should protect and guarantee. [More…]
If we support, as I believe many honourable senators in this chamber say they support, the principle of freedom of choice, then we ought to give to the women of the Australian Capital Territory freedom of choice in relation to these matters. [More…]
If the Parliament is to be completely independent from the Executive it must have at its disposal the financial resources and staff that it requires to enable it to meet its own needs and to ensure its freedom of operation. [More…]
Although certification by the Californian Department of Food and Agriculture and the University of California Riverside of freedom from avocado sunblotch virus is accepted, plants from these sources are still grown in quarantine for screening for other diseases. [More…]
Lithuania, a nation of over 3 million people, is deprived of human freedom and those national and individual rights which are deemed sacred in Australia today. [More…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Lithuania are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom-minded person in Australia. [More…]
That is not to say that the ABC ought to have complete freedom in the matter of racial discrimination any more than should any other section of the community. [More…]
They now feel that they have a greater sense of freedom and achievement because they are directly on the spot participating in decisions for the development of the Northern Territory. [More…]
My question, to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, refers to the threat that the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation Draft Declaration on the Mass Media poses to the freedom of the world’s Press. [More…]
The Government is conscious that we should not end up with a resolution that results in the restriction of freedom of expression. [More…]
I just remind the Senateperhaps I do not need to to do so- that in UNESCO we have quite a number of emerging countries which, over the years, have not had the valuable experience of freedom of the media that we have. [More…]
We will work in every way practicable to restore freedom in the world. [More…]
I simply say that no gratuitous gesture against freedom of such magnitude has ever been made by any other government in Australia; nor would I hope that it would be made again. [More…]
These could imply a need for government interference in media activities and thereby diminish the freedom of media to operate in a way which we consider essential to the very basis of a free society. [More…]
As honourable senators would know they have long distances to travel and a car gives them freedom to move between their communities and the Centre. [More…]
Mr Curtis was reported in last Friday’s edition of the Adelaide Advertiser to have said that the High Court’s rejection a fortnight ago of the Government’s claim of privilege for documents in the Sankey case is certain to lead to changes in the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
Mr L. J. Curtis, who is a First Assistant Secretary of my Department, did take part in the seminar in Adelaide last week that was referred to by Senator Jessop, during which he said that the decision of the High Court in the Sankey case was certain to change the debate in relation to the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
All he said was that the decision of the High Court will be taken into account in the debate in relation to the Freedom of Information Bill and will be the subject of a good deal of discussion. [More…]
Of course, the situation arising under the Freedom of Information Bill is quite different in that people will be simply seeking there to obtain access to certain documents for their own information and not in relation to litigation before a court. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill has been referred to. [More…]
In the animal and plant health fields, I am sure all honourable senators 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…]
That in order to ensure complete freedom of association within universities, and to ensure the automony and intellectual freedom of student bodies the prevailing system should not be done away with. [More…]
Would the Minister contemplate establishing a judicial inquiry to report on the activities of these cults in Australia ensuring, firstly, that no intrusion into or harrassment of genuine and non-harmful groups by the inquiry is permitted and that true freedom to worship is not impaired in any way and, secondly, that the criteria of such an inquiry includes the following: Whether the sect requires from members compulsory financial contributions to the cult or its ‘spiritual’ leader; whether physical or mental damage is exerted or threatened to cult members or their families; whether undue influence is placed on family structures to induce family breakups; and any other associated matters which the Government in its wisdom considers appropriate? [More…]
This question impinges upon one of the most fundamental areas of our society, namely, freedom of religion. [More…]
I ask Senator Carrick and all the Ministers who talk about the Liberal philosophy of freedom of choice whether they think that those 400 oil refinery operators should have a choice and not have the power of the State dragooning them. [More…]
Can the Minister provide to the Senate additional information on the steps that this Government is taking to promote greater freedom of choice within government schools? [More…]
The Government is seeking in a number of areas to promote greater freedom of choice within government schools. [More…]
Finally, I would like to say that the Government believes, as I certainly do, that in the future development of quality in education it is essential that there be a partnership involving the government, the education system, the parents, the community and the school and that, wherever possible, that there be freedom of choice within that situation. [More…]
I mention that because in a sense it is a summation of a very important view expressed in this report which goes to another question of the claim by many commercial television operators in Australia that the notion of freedom of the media carries with it the notion that the media should be free to show whatever they like without any prospect of government intervention. [More…]
Speaker after speaker mixed up the issues of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism, imperialism, hegemony, racism, discrimination and freedom, and heaped all these charges onto South Africa and Rhodesia. [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…]
Freedom of Trade Union activity in Peru is ensured under the ‘Social Guarantees’ provisions of the 1933 Constitution (Article 62) together with the right of collective bargaining (Article 43 ) and the prohibition of labour contracts which restrict the rights of workers (Article 44). [More…]
Other Austraiian adults enjoy the freedom of nominating for political office without being required, by virtue of constitutional provisions, to resign from their current employment. [More…]
Thus one of the basic tenets of Australian democracy, namely the freedom of the individual to offer himself for public service in the Parliament, is severely limited for public servants. [More…]
Lithuania, a nation of over 3 million people, is deprived of human freedom and those national and individual rights which are deemed sacred in Australia today. [More…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Lithuania are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom- minded person in Australia. [More…]
Yet this Government has said so much about the freedom of choice in education. [More…]
In view of recent Press comment on the question of freedom of choice in government schools, will the Minister inform the Senate what progress has been made in this area by the Commonwealth Government both in the Territories and in co-operation with the States? [More…]
The matter has quickened in more recent times by an initiative from the Schools Commission, which has the Government’s full support, and that is to set up pilot programs in the various States to see whether we can get a degree- if possible a maximum degree- of freedom of choice for the parent as between individual government schools. [More…]
This exercise by women of their freedom of choice, which I freely acknowledge, has had the effect of limiting further the opportunities and choices available to school leavers and people under 20 years of age. [More…]
There is no doubt that at long last things are moving in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to bring about freedom for the members of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]
provisions to be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community; and [More…]
The freedom of information legislation is a good example. [More…]
Another advantage of referring Bills to committees is that they could be dealt with at leisure between sessions as in fact has been done with the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
Although many Indians live in penury India has been able, with all of its vicissitudes- the problems with Mrs Gandhi and the emergency- retain a free Press, free elections and freedom of assembly. [More…]
By democratic’ I mean societies in which the people of a country are able freely to choose their parliament or their government, are able freely to express their opinions, have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the right to form political parties, and have the other basic democratic values. [More…]
lt seemed fairly obvious to many members of the Labor Party back in the early sixties- I cannot recall the date- that when a low frequency radio station was being installed at North West Cape in Western Australia we were selling out our rights, our heritage and our freedom to move in any global conflict. [More…]
There should be a true freedom of choice. [More…]
But that freedom of choice is not available to the vast number of married women with dependent children who are forced into the work force through the economic circumstances. [More…]
As well as giving married women a true freedom of choice, my suggestion would do something for the population. [More…]
So far as the committee of which I am chairman is concerned, it is currently engaged in a very detailed reference with regard to freedom of information which will take it some months to deal with. [More…]
Whether or not we agree with the system of government in Vietnam we should recongise that it developed because of a lack of understanding by the Western democracies of the need and the desire of the Vietnamese people for national independence and freedom from a colonial yoke. [More…]
I would suggest that this is what all of us have so long been striving for: a world in which freedom, justice and solidarity are part of every man’s everyday life. [More…]
When we hear such words from a leading statesman we must remember that we should develop, in the words of Senator Wheeldon when he was speaking on the subject, a distinct foreign policy of our own, a foreign policy that we can declare to the world and in which we can act in solidarity with others in the world to achieve this peace and freedom about which Herr Brandt talks. [More…]
The developed countries, with three exceptions, cannot reach the targets of foreign aid which they set for themselves to assist the nations of the less developed world to increase their standard of living and the freedom which should be available to them. [More…]
We should make our voice heard in world affairs and establish our credentials as a pro-democratic country in favour of human rights, human freedom and the right of people to selfdetermination. [More…]
We should express disapproval of countries which abuse human rights and freedoms and we should express disapproval of those who interfere with the right to selfdetermination for others or intervene in the affairs of others directly. [More…]
We should disapprove of the use of tanks and guns to deprive people of their political rights and their freedom, whether it occurs in Prague, Tehran, Suweto, Chile or anywhere else. [More…]
We should try to be perceived in the world as being in favour of democracy, human rights and human freedom, and where we see those things abused we should oppose it and express our opposition. [More…]
In other words, the Treasurer has given a clear indication that the Governmentwill act if there is a continuation of these practices by charitable bodies enjoying tax freedom. [More…]
In reply to a question from Senator Lajovic on 22 February the Minister referred to a statement by the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority on the principles underlying its policy of freedom of choice in government schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The option to exercise freedom of choice for enrolment has been widely used. [More…]
I share the view of the Schools Commission that freedom of choice within government schools would be a desirable extension to all the States of Australia. [More…]
I commend the pilot scheme of the Schools Commission and I would hope that parents throughout Australia would press individual schools and their administrations to achieve wider freedom of choice and wider participation by parents. [More…]
In this report there is evidence that the Commissioner approached the Queensland authorities with complaints of blatant discrimination, restriction of freedom, restriction of rights, but the Queensland Government did not respond or reply. [More…]
He carries out a responsibility given to us under the referendum for the protection of the rights and freedoms of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
That the Senate believes that the unjustly imprisoned members and affiliates of the Soviet Helsinki group should be granted their freedom and allowed to pursue their lawful activities on behalf of basic human rights without further harassment, and that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs should express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms the opposition of Australia to the imprisonment of members of the Helsinki group. [More…]
Indeed, in 1977 at the ILO conference the committee of experts in its report on the application of conventions and recommendations expressed its reservations concerning the freedom of workers in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to organise as provided by ILO Convention No. [More…]
87 of 1948, which is the freedom of association and protection of the right to organise convention. [More…]
The nine-member ILO committee on freedom of association meets regularly to consider alleged violations against the ILO Convention 87, which concerns the right to form a union of one ‘s own choosing. [More…]
To return to the Helsinki group and the associated denials of what we regarded as the minimum of rights and freedom of association and freedom of speech, one asks why the KGB operates to quash any sign by anyone to exert his rights. [More…]
I would have expected the Presiding Officers to take some note of the necessity for freedom of access to our galleries. [More…]
We talk about self-management and about the rights and the freedom of people. [More…]
Everyone who lives in a democracy would support the argument that it is the most desirable form of government because it should maximise the freedom of the individual in society. [More…]
Most people are prepared to accept some delay and some inefficiency in the workings of a democracy as the price they pay for safeguarding those freedoms. [More…]
But the view that has been taken by my predecessor and by me is that these matters impinge very much upon the question of religious freedom and belief and such activities. [More…]
It was felt that the matter should be tackled in that way rather than by taking direct action against any particular organisation because, as I have said, such action would impinge on the fundamental questions of religious freedom. [More…]
To do so does not help those who have to stand trial, which they are entitled to do with some degree of freedom. [More…]
If it is extended to drug detection, it is likely to get out of hand, lead to abuses of power along the lines experienced in America, have little, if any effect on crime detection, inhibit freedom of communication by law abiding citizens and be gradually extended to areas of crime detection. [More…]
I have been discussing in this Senate the freedom of information legislation, and the varying degrees of concern and rhetorical commitment to that concept, but in essence we are concerned here with the same sort of debate in relation to the degree of information that is withheld. [More…]
Although the FBI’s crimes may have threatened our democracy even more than the Watergate crimes didbecause the FBI’s lawlessness has been going on for such a long time on such a broad and pervasive scale, and because it has had such a chilling effect on freedom of expression and assembly- it seemed that the government wasn’t going to do anything about these abuses of the law after their disclosure. [More…]
Any security service, or any police force for that matter, necessarily involves a restriction on individual freedom in the interests of the community. [More…]
-A great deal was only exposed by the Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
Some was exposed by other people who did not rely on the Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
I do not want to go into it now but from some recent experiences I have been having, I am not entirely sure that the United States Freedom of Information Act is quite as effective as some of its enthusiastic admirers might believe, well intentioned though it is. [More…]
Freedom of Information Act to take steps to prevent such things happening again in the future. [More…]
New Zealand, for example, has a list of approved overseas organisations which include volunteer services, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, the Red Cross, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, an organisation known as World Vision and others. [More…]
We think that too great a responsibility to protect individual freedoms is imposed by the Bill as it stands. [More…]
The Freedom of Information Bill, a vital Bill, is quite properly being given full consideration, largely due to the work of Senator Missen and others. [More…]
The Commonwealth gave them too much independence and too much freedom to approve schemes which were inherently dubious. [More…]
Having put those general views, I want to turn to the question of what I might call the freedom of information implications of this Bill. [More…]
As chairman of a committee of this Senate which is at present looking into the Freedom of Information Bill I am certainly concerned with this aspect of the legislation. [More…]
It may, of course, be that ASIO either in whole or in part is excluded so far as its records are concerned from the operations of the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
He refers to the submissions made based upon the Freedom of Information Act in the United States of America and he points out that even under that Act many of the records of ASIO would be confidential information. [More…]
When we consider the final Freedom of Information Bill we may want to have a greater disclosure of information. [More…]
When we look at the clauses in this Bill, we realise that there is certainly a difference in approach in the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Bill to that which is contemplated in the present proposed wording of the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
Of course, the present wording of the Freedom of Information Bill may not continue to be its final form. [More…]
These are important questions of privacy with which the Freedom of Information Bill is concerned. [More…]
Other clauses of the Bill also contain freedom of information implications. [More…]
A general remark I make about these clauses is that the Freedom of Information Bill, as presently drafted, requires, in clause 28, that the only existing secrecy clauses that will continue are those that are prescribed by regulation. [More…]
At some later stage we will have to consider in this Parliament under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, as I hope it will then be, whether such provisions in this legislation cought to be continued in that form or whether they are too extreme in accordance with our views of freedom of information. [More…]
Finally, we must bear in mind in respect of this freedom of information area what Mr Justice Hope said in the small part of his third report which was disclosed. [More…]
We must bear those comments in mind when we look at the parts of this Bill which relate to freedom of information. [More…]
I hope also that the Attorney-General can indicate in his reply to this debate whether he would be prepared to reconsider the terms of this Act when the Freedom of Information Bill comes into law. [More…]
The ideal of the principle and practice of voluntary freedom of association no longer exists. [More…]
Compulsory unionism is with us in the form of blatant compulsion or is camouflaged under the cloak of preference at the point of employment, or by intimidation of waiverers or by rendering ineffective conscientious or other objection by an obligation on claimants to show cause why they should be allowed the privilege of freedom of voluntary association. [More…]
Personal freedoms have become negotiable in industrial relations matters and the case that I have outlined has confirmed that they do not - [More…]
I think we are nearing the time when, with the restrictions on freedom and liberty in Queensland, there shall be greater violence in that State than we have experienced in other States of Australia. [More…]
The Liberal Party vigorously advocates individual liberty and the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, organisation, assembly, procession, religion and non-violent dissent. [More…]
The recent American Freedom of Information Act, the Church report and the Pike report all show the direction which the United States is taking to deal with this very question. [More…]
Those of us who are in the radical movement surrender to no one our defence of the principles of liberty and freedom, of the right of assembly or of any of the principles that are embodied in the platform of the Liberal Party. [More…]
One of the conditions of democracy is freedom of information. [More…]
How can we preserve secrecy without endangering constitutional law and individual freedom? [More…]
I have referred already to the need for secrecy counterbalancing the need to preserve our freedom. [More…]
Thus, the right to strike constitutes a fundamental freedom in a democratic society. [More…]
My response was that Australia would not countenance that kind of action; that it strongly deplored the importation and perpetuance of old quarrels, but that action involving restraints on the freedom of individuals in Australia would only be taken as provided by Australian laws. [More…]
Considering that every person has the right freely to hold and to express his convictions and the obligation to extend a like freedom to others, the objects of Amnesty International shall be to secure throughout the world the observance of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by: [More…]
The provisions and rules of the ACTU constitution, of course, are historical but their application is in accordance with the International Labor Organisation objective for the establishment of an economic and social order in which persons can live with freedom and dignity, and pursue both their spiritual development and material well-being in conditions of economic security and equal opportunity. [More…]
I queried the extent to which they are secrecy provisions which, I take it, should the Freedom of Information Bill be passed by the Senate in its present form, or anything like it, would be proscribed. [More…]
I endeavoured to obtain from the Attorney-General some indication as to whether, if and when freedom of information legislation is enacted, he proposes to reconsider these secrecy clauses in the light of any changed circumstances that might arise from that legislation. [More…]
I ask whether these clauses will be seriously reconsidered by the Government in the light of the freedom of information legislation, if it becomes law. [More…]
How does the Attorney-General see this provision and the other provisions in relation to a future Freedom of Information Act? [More…]
Such provisions, by and large, as Senator Missen said, are incompatible with the freedom of information principle. [More…]
I hope that the freedom of information legislation that ultimately emerges from the deliberative processes of Parliament will embody some substantial reduction in the scope and operation of the secrecy clauses, including in particular section 70 of the Crimes Act. [More…]
He sees those clauses as being related to freedom of information matters. [More…]
I find it easier to identify an immediate relationship with freedom of information in clause 57 rather than clause 18. [More…]
Nevertheless, clause 18 obviously has connections with freedom of information. [More…]
The relationship between the Australian Security Intelligence Organization and any freedom of information legislation which ultimately may be enacted has not yet been resolved. [More…]
Any relationship between this legislation and freedom of information legislation is one to which the Government will give further consideration. [More…]
I think it is generally conceded that any freedom of information legislation would preserve secrets relating to defence, security and so on. [More…]
If the AGPS is to survive as an entity and service agent it must be given some freedom from the restrictions imposed within the structure of the Public Service. [More…]
In 1968 he led the State to financial independence and freedom from the tag of being a mendicant State. [More…]
We do not believe in interfering with people’s freedom’. [More…]
If it is true, would legislation along the lines of the New South Wales legislation not only be a major departure from this Government’s commitment to freedom of information but also make it even harder to get information about government administration than has ever been the case in the past? [More…]
Freedom of information is a different question and does not concern the production of documents in a court or the balancing of interests as between litigants in a court and the need for certain documents to remain confidential in the hands of a government. [More…]
The Government’s policy in relation to freedom of information has been put down in its Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
I add that the definition of government documents in the New South Wales legislation seems to be a lot wider than the exemptions granted in relation to these documents in the Commonwealth freedom of information legislation. [More…]
Also, under the freedom of information legislation a right of review has been given to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in respect of some government documents. [More…]
As I have said, the freedom of information legislation has been referred to a Senate committee for a very full investigation. [More…]
Under it, we were told, the States were to receive greater freedom, extra funds and a substantial say in matters of national importance. [More…]
It was prepared for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom as part of its contribution towards the International Year of the Child. [More…]
This report by the Western Australian Section of the Women’s International Leage for Peace and Freedom is concerned with the health of one group in this ocean of suffering- the Aboriginal children of Western Australia. [More…]
All States, in presenting their estimates and statements of expenditure, have assured the Commonwealth that they are on schedule towards the 1 984 target date for provisional brucellosis freedom which is required under the terms of the eight-year program. [More…]
However, market countries wishing to capitalise on their own freedom or impending freedom from bovine tuberculosis could discriminate against meat from a country or an area still infected or from meatworks taking cattle from such an area. [More…]
If we are to get through the crises that will confront us in the next decade, surely we must have freedom to express reasonably our dissent and our differences of viewpoint. [More…]
We have been concerned with the rights of the individual and have been in the forefront of issues concerning the right to vote, freedom of expression and the right of assembly. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to the Liberal Party doctrine of freedom of choice. [More…]
When does the Minister expect to have a report from Sir John Moore, the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, which may devise a formula which will give freedom of choice to trade unions which desire to remain in the various State industrial tribunals? [More…]
In considering the material that has been tabled today, the Committee sought to formulate recommendations which were feasible and practicable, which could be implemented by the Government and the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal without encroaching on the rights of the licencees of television stations to make profits and to have a very high degree of freedom in their choice of programming. [More…]
We say that this is the very issue that was involved in the Sankey case where the High Court took the view that it was appropriate for a judicial tribunal to make its own mind up whether the interests of justice in a particular case were such as to outweigh the interests in maintaining the freedom from disclosure of Cabinet deliberations. [More…]
The question raised by the Opposition’s amendment is, I think, one at which the Government will look generally in the light of the freedom of information legislation wash-up. [More…]
Government policy, as indicated in the freedom of information legislation and in this and similar legislation, has been to protect absolutely documents of the character of those set out in clause 57 ( 1 ) (a) and (b)- in particular, of course, defence secrets, Cabinet documents and that type of document. [More…]
As I have said, we have included a similar provision in the freedom of information legislation and we are awaiting the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on that legislation. [More…]
Therefore, I would prefer that the clause be passed now, subject to my undertaking that it and similar clauses will be reviewed in the light of the final outcome of the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
I do not presume to prejudge or even trespass upon the possible breach of privilege by commenting on what the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs recommend regarding access to personal files and documents when it comes to dealing with the question of freedom of information. [More…]
The provisions of this Bill, insofar as concern has been expressed about them, are not unrelated to another inquiry which Senator Missen ‘s Committee is currently conducting, namely, that into the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
For example the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, in its freedom of information reference, has been taking evidence and deliberating now for something of the order of at least 20 days, which would represent approximately 1 20 hours of consideration. [More…]
Freedom from Public Service Board control over starting. [More…]
Freedom to raise or spend finance independently of the Commonwealth Government Budget. [More…]
As the staff of the ABC has, I believe, experienced many frustrations in recent years, particularly about the management and role of the ABC, I take this opportunity to say that I hope that every freedom will be given to staff members so that the people who are working to produce a national broadcasting service can contribute to the inquiry and can make improvements as a result of it. [More…]
It is not as if this policy of immunity from Australian legislation is being carried through to its logical, conclusion; namely, either complete independence from Australia, which is one solution and one logical way of dealing with the kind of approach that the Government seems to have in mind; or something less than that but nonetheless quite substantial- a system of complete selfgovernment where the Norfolk Islanders would have complete responsibility for their domestic affairs and complete freedom from Australian Government interference. [More…]
Will the Minister tell the Senate the Government’s attitude to this initiative, with particular reference to the possible effects on maintenance and protection of freedom of the Press in the Western democracies. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry is satisfied that the national brucellosis eradication campaign is on schedule, working towards the 1 984 target date for provisional brucellosis freedom. [More…]
Fortunately, we live in a country in which we have freedom of speech and expression, which people in those countries do not have. [More…]
It will keep Vietnam’s present regime going while those people are fleeing and looking for a refuge where they can enjoy the freedom which honourable senators opposite enjoy. [More…]
I have gone from the general Cases about which I spoke before to these specific cases- the misuse of the powers of immigration officials and the taking away of the freedom of those people who in some way may have misused their entitlement. [More…]
Not only were wages restricted but also personal freedom was restricted. [More…]
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…]
People with an interest in freedom of information- a large number of honourable senators have worked very hard on the proposed Freedom of Information Bill of this Government, which in many ways is deficient and needs to strengthen the right of the public to examine documents- will also be surprised at that attitude being adopted in New South Wales. [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…]
People do not argue with that because there is a question of academic freedom and that ought to be preserved. [More…]
But in most instances, of course, the freedom of action of the permanent head will be circumscribed and constrained very narrowly by the procedures which the Public Service Board lays down. [More…]
By their specificity, such rules, if enacted will circumscribe the freedom to publish which will remain after the operation of general legislation on unfair publication as qualified by its general defences. [More…]
That IDC- God help us if it turns out to be like the Freedom of Information IDC- has been moleing away at the legislation and the one major result of its labours, so far as I am aware, is that it has recommended the complete emasculation of the role of the Ombudsman in the particular investigation of complaints scenario which the Australian Law Reform Commission so thoughtfully recommended. [More…]
The Government regards this amendment as placing a limitation on the freedom of the Commissioner to resign. [More…]
In addition to indexation, repatriation pensioners enjoy freedom from taxation on disability pensions. [More…]
Does Regulation R.2 10A ( 1 ) of the Army Law Manual prohibit Service personnel from joining or actively participating in political parties; if so: (a ) does this regulation infringe the civil liberties of Service personnel, and especially the right to freedom of association guaranteed by the United Nations; (b) does any similar regulation apply to: (i) members of the Commonwealth Public Service working in Defence establishments; or (ii) members of the Army Reserve; (c) does the Report of the 1973 Working Party on the [More…]
Question Time having expired, the Minister has exercised his freedom to give an answer to the previous question. [More…]
If it is extended to drug detection it is likely to get out of hand, lead to abuses of power along the lines experienced in America, have little, if any effect on crime detection, inhibit freedom of communication by law abiding citizens and be gradually extended to areas of crime detection. [More…]
In selling the policy, the Government resorted to the rhetoric that the States would have more funds and more freedom, thus leading to greater responsiveness and responsibility in government at all levels. [More…]
In announcing its federalism policy the Commonwealth indicated that, to give the States more freedom, specific purpose payments would be absorbed into general purpose revenue. [More…]
I refer to the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
As I said at the outset, it is better than nothing, but clause 5 appears to limit very much freedom of examination of a Bill, freedom which I believe is both desirable and necessary. [More…]
It has also gone to my committee for consideration of the freedom of information aspect. [More…]
that such a prohibition would not infringe upon the freedom of oil companies to price their sales to other independent buyers as they wish, subject to the existing law; [More…]
It ought to be appreciated that the Narcotics Bureau has hardly been without power of a very considerable kind in the past by virtue of the luxury it has enjoyed of almost total freedom from judicial or other scrutiny in its exercise of search and seizure powers. [More…]
Member State of the United Nations and take steps to remove the compulsion from the Electoral Act in order to allow freedom of expression for everyone who has the right to vote for Senators. [More…]
If he is still not satisfied I ask him to come back to me and I will then talk to him about the Nugget file, which contains excerpts from the United States Government’s special internal file on nuclear power plant accidents and safety defects, as obtained in January 1979 by the Union of Concerned Scientists under the Freedom of Information Act of that country. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle spoke glowingly about family allowances, which were going to give women freedom. [More…]
If the Whitlam Government, with access to all the files, had wanted to investigate this person it had a perfect freedom so to do. [More…]
In the session of the British Parliament which came to an end only with the decision of Mr Callaghan finally to submit himself to the inevitable judgment of the British population, a Bill on freedom of information had been introduced by the Liberal member for the Isle of Ely, Mr Clement Freud. [More…]
The Senate Committee which presented the report which is before the Senate, namely, the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, is almost at the stage of being able to bring to the Parliament its final report on the Freedom of Information Bill which was introduced into the Parliament by the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) some time ago. [More…]
Freedom of information, which by and large has been resisted in most Westminster parliaments- certainly, by and large, it has been resisted in this Parliament and it has been resisted, in particular, in the United Kingdom Parliament- nevertheless came forward in the British Parliament as the subject of a private member’s Bill which engendered a great deal of debate. [More…]
Her maiden speech was made introducing a private member’s Bill, one very much along the lines of a freedom of information Bill because it was a Bill which sought to provide that meetings of local government councils throughout the United Kingdom could be held only in public and that the Press and members of the public should have access at all times to all aspects of local government meetings in the United Kingdom. [More…]
I raise this subject as a Christian member of parliament and as one who believes in the democratic right of an individual to have the freedom of spiritual expression. [More…]
Senator Jessop has referred to one element of that, the questions of freedom of expression within our society, freedom of religion and freedom of travel. [More…]
But this also raises the question of the right to travel which in turn raises the more general issue of personal liberty or any possible curtailment of the right of citizens in this country to participate in such organisations and their right to basic democratic freedom such as freedom of expression and freedom of religion. [More…]
As the Senate would know, I have expressed considerable caution about what action it would be appropriate to take because these matters do raise very fundamental questions about freedom of religion- religious belief, religious activity. [More…]
For example, will ‘private students’ include persons sponsored by community aid programs, such as Rotary and the Freedom from Hunger campaign? [More…]
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, and in the dignity and worth of the human person and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom. [More…]
The child shall enjoy special protection, and shall be given opportunities and facilities, by law and by other means, to enable him to develop physically, mentally, morally, spiritually and socially in a healthy and normal manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity. [More…]
All of us, whether we have children or whether we do not have children, have a responsibility to see that the next generation of our citizens have opportunities, the freedom to express themselves, the capacity to develop their talents and the opportunity to move into places which the preceding generation leaves so that all that is good in society may be carried on and expanded and all that is undesirable in society may be corrected and, if possible, eliminated. [More…]
We believe that the readiness of a growing child with cerebral palsy to improve physically, mentally and spiritually, really depends on the freedom we give him to form a constructive selfimage as a person in his own right. [More…]
If we deny him that freedom by the many forms of bastardisation prevalent in State Institutions then he has no other possibility but regression bom om of hopelessness. [More…]
For example, are students sponsored by community aid groups such as Rotary and the Freedom from Hunger Campaign included in the Treasurer’s statement? [More…]
It is patently pathetic to think that a government- certainly this coalition Government- would have any interest by way of the socio-economic measures that are contained in this Budget in destroying the freedom, productivity and development of this great land. [More…]
-Tonight I bring to the attention of the Senate an area which I think is of great importance to us and to people in this country who believe in freedom. [More…]
We then were investigating in another part of the world under another kind of political system the same kind of systematic imprisonment, denial of freedom and denial of due process. [More…]
Firstly, there is no inconsistency between the freedom of speech in Parliament, that is, the freedom from question or interference by any court or other authority outside Parliament, and the rules of order which each House imposes upon its members in relation to the language they may use. [More…]
But this freedom from external influence or interference does not involve any unrestrained licence of speech within the walls of the House. [More…]
If the opinion is that there should not be this auditing of expenditure, let me say that this freedom from accountability is growing to such an extent in this Parliament that the Parliament should be taking a good look at itself. [More…]
The British journalist, William Shawcross, recently published a book entitled Sideshow- Kissenger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, which was based on information obtained under the American Freedom of Information Act about the role of the American Government in that Cambodian war. [More…]
I submit, in passing, that the points would have been more graphically illustrated for Government senators if 1 had been permitted freedom of speech and the right to quote from a document about which they are undoubtedly concerned. [More…]
(2) The Benson and Hedges Company is the prime ‘off television’ sponsor of the cricket and is thus entitled to freedom from competition in or around the cricket telecasts, regardless of whether or not they choose to advertise on television. [More…]
The Benson and Hedges Company has contracted to be a major sponsor of cricket ON television and, as such, is entitled, on this ground, to freedom from competition as above. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General, in the interests of freedom of information, table the Paper embodying the Joint Review of Public Assembly Laws, referred to in his press release of 9 July 1979; if not, why not. [More…]
1 ) That the Freedom of Information Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]
That the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report as soon as possible, in so far as the Bill relates to issues common to, or related to, the inquiry into the Freedom of Information Bill 1978. [More…]
The Ministers said the prevention of child removal was a complex matter involving questions of jurisdiction, dual nationality, citizenship, freedom of travel and rights of the child. [More…]
We need to be assured that to the greatest extent possible the freedom to move abroad, which has been recognised internationally in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in our own tradition since the promulgation of Magna Carta in 1215, is fully recognised in our community. [More…]
It is admirable to the extent that the freedom of movement- the right to travel, to enter, to leave from and return to one’s own country- is too important to be left to unfettered ministerial or bureaucratic whim, which is exactly the situation that has prevailed until now, with a general discretionary power being vested in the Minister with respect to refusals to issue passports and the cancellation of passports. [More…]
I for one do not have any difficulty with the notion that quite precise guidelines should be imposed here as elsewhere if persons are going to be denied their right to a passport and their right to freedom of movement. [More…]
If this legislation is a test of this Government’s sincerity about civil liberties in the area of the freedom of movement, it is a test which this Government has manifestly failed. [More…]
The freedom of the individual is recognised, but it is qualified, as it must always be, within our own society and within our own nation as subject to the rights of others as we see them- the rights of the spouse, the rights of the child, the rights of the law in terms of breaches of the law- and subject to international rights and obligations. [More…]
We ask you to treat him with full courtesy, civility and freedom’. [More…]
I take it that he was referring to my description of human freedom to travel and the qualification in terms of putting the place of birth. [More…]
What I said was that we subscribe fully to the notion of the freedom of the individual, but that we recognise that under the rule of law, which Senator Tate understands, that freedom is subject to the rights of others. [More…]
In fact it enlarges the dignity and the freedom of the individual Australian in journeying abroad. [More…]
I follow what Senator Carrick said in his answer, namely, that any freedoms must be limited by the overriding freedoms of others. [More…]
That is to say, freedom as an individual notion exists subject to the qualification of respect for the freedom of others. [More…]
We would say on the Opposition side that the amendment is a minor restriction on the freedom of the Minister or the authorised officer. [More…]
The Opposition believes that such a freedom of an applicant for a passport is highly appropriate. [More…]
I now get back to the discussion of the great philosophers of the eighteenth century, the balance of freedoms and so on. [More…]
The New Federalism has given the States significant freedom from the dictates of Canberra. [More…]
The freedom that we enjoy in this country, as opposed to the way of life in communist countries, is something for which we must fight. [More…]
I believe the freedom of the individual to behave just as he pleases is mistaken for democracy. [More…]
I think most of us interpreted that to mean that the chap who did not have the SS man alongside his lathe had freedom to negotiate. [More…]
I read it three or four times a year to keep me abreast of what justice is required for freedom of association not only in trade unions but also in employer organisations. [More…]
But now, with this unprecedented situation in the country where a former President of the Court, a justice, 25 commissioners and, the final climax, President Sir John Moore have expressed opposition to the Bill, I think the time is opportune to refer to the document which is entitled ‘The Protection of Trade Union Rights: Twenty Years Work by the Committee on Freedom of Association.’ [More…]
87 guarantees to all workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever and without previous authorisation, the right to establish and join organisations of their own choosing; these organisations are to have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes, without interference by the public authorities; they shall have the right to form federations and confederations, and to affiliate with international organisations of workers and employers; these rights also apply to federations and confederations; the acquisition of legal personality by organisations may not be made subject to conditions restricting the exercise of these rights; in exercising them workers and employers and their respective organisations must respect the law of the land- [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators opposite that after they have read Senator Missen ‘s speech they should read the relevant sections of the International Labour Organisation’s conventions regarding freedom of association not only for trade unions but also for employers. [More…]
In so doing, it was fairly clear that Senator McAuliffe sees this legislation as an attempt somehow to undermine the freedom of association of trade unions. [More…]
The point is that in his speech there was no indication of any attempt in this legislation to cut across the freedom of association of any trade union, whereas the core of this legislation is to provide an opportunity for particular workers and individual members of a trade union to express their views in a free way. [More…]
87 concerning freedom of association and protection of the right to organise held in San Francisco between 17 June and 10 July 1948. [More…]
But I and the Opposition believe that departmental reports of this kind make a very important contribution to freedom of information. [More…]
If transmit powers of 20 watts were to be utilised, it is considered that it would be most difficult to obtain the agreement of administrations which might be expected to offer freedom from interference to earth station reception in Australia if the low power services employ the same nominal orbital positions as those assigned to Australia in the Plan. [More…]
A summary of it can be conveniently found in Campbells and Whitmore ‘s book Freedom in Australia, Second Edition, pages 194 to 196, or any reputable constitutional law textbook. [More…]
At the same time there are prohibitions against the export of our products to other countries which, incidentally, are quite vocal on requiring that we give freedom of entry to their particular products. [More…]
The other matters referred to the Committee relate to the questions whether the imprisonment of Senator Georges was as a result of civil matters and whether the privilege of freedom from arrest in civil causes was infringed by his arrest and imprisonment. [More…]
The report discusses the privilege of freedom from arrest and concludes that the matters leading to Senator Georges ‘s imprisonment were not such as to attract that privilege. [More…]
Therefore, if there has been an offence under (a), (b) or (c)- if a person refuses to take the action that the Director-General considers is reasonable for him to take in order to terminate or reduce the extent of his incapacity; however minor the offence against one of those sections may be- the Director-General now does not have a freedom. [More…]
He now has a freedom only to decide whether the postponement should be six weeks or 12 weeks or a period somewhere between six weeks or 12 weeks. [More…]
-On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, I present a report on the Committee ‘s reference on the Freedom of Information Bill 1978 and related aspects of the Archives Bill 1978, together with the transcript of evidence taken. [More…]
The subject matter of freedom of information concerns not only the rights of individuals but the whole structure and machinery of modern Australian government. [More…]
1 ) That the Freedom of Information Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]
That the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report as soon as possible, in so far as the Bill relates to issues common to, or related to, the inquiry into the Freedom of Information Bill 1978. [More…]
The need for an effective Freedom of Information Act was accepted by nearly all written submissions, with the striking exception of the Premier of Queensland. [More…]
The view which the Committee formed, that the present Freedom of Information Bill and the access provisions of the Archives Bill are inadequate, has found overwhelming support from the public discussion. [More…]
In regard to implications for the present system of government, the Committee has examined and reports at length on the alleged detrimental effects of freedom of information on the Westminster system of government. [More…]
The Committee has concluded that there is nothing intrinsic to that system that justifies sweeping limitations and exceptions to the basic principles of freedom of information such as are contained in the present Bill. [More…]
The greatest area of public dissatisfaction with the Freedom of Information Bill is in the range and extent of exemptions enumerated in the Bill. [More…]
Our proposal includes the opportunity, by way of a reverse freedom of information proceeding, to allow the supplier to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to prevent disclosure. [More…]
We have urged that all agencies, and particularly the Public Service Board and Attorney-General’s Department, give urgent attention to the planning and implementation of programs to train and develop staff in freedom of information matters. [More…]
It will be evident that the Committee envisages an enlarged role for the Administrative Appeals Tribunal under the Freedom of Information Act. [More…]
We believe he should play an extended role as investigator, conciliator and monitor of the freedom of information legislation. [More…]
In this regard, we recommend that section 6 (3) of the Ombudsman Act, which would preclude him from investigating a matter which is also the subject of an appeal to the Tribunal, should not apply in freedom of information matters. [More…]
For the purposes of freedom of information, ministerial decisions should also be within his jurisdiction. [More…]
In his role of monitoring the legislation, the Ombudsman should be empowered to advise agencies, at their request, as to their obligations under the legislation and, in his reports to Parliament, to offer suggestions for improvement and reform in relation to freedom of information in general. [More…]
A number of our recommendations involve the widening of the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in freedom of information appeals. [More…]
Substantial sections of our report deal with the practical operation of freedom of information legislation and the facilities which make public participation possible. [More…]
I draw attention to our various recommendations on access, on manuals and directories and the regular updating of them, on the availability of the internal law of agencies, on the need for informative freedom of information handbooks explaining rights and procedures, on language requirements and ready availability. [More…]
We have applied the same basic principles as we have done in reference to similar provisions of the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
The Government’s initiative in the field of freedom of information is most welcome and is a worthwhile commencement point. [More…]
Incidentally, his contribution to making freedom of information a public issue in this country can hardly be underestimated. [More…]
The findings could be summarised succinctly but, I think, accurately as follows: Firstly, despite what has been said by so many Government spokesmen, the Westminster system does not justify extensive limitations on the scope of freedom of information; secondly, many claims about the resource implications of freedom of information legislation have been undoubtedly greatly exaggerated, and the Public Service can and should be able to cope with legislation much less narrow than that which has so far been proposed; thirdly, the present Freedom of Information Bill allows much too much information to escape the net entirely, containing as it does too many unnecessarily restrictive exceptions and exemptions; fourthly, the Bill provides insufficient safeguards against administrative, procedural and financial obstruction of freedom of information requests- too many obstructive powers rest with agencies; fifthly, the Bill does not impose sufficiently clear and precise guidelines for agencies to publish directories, indexes, manuals and guides on the operation of the legislation; and sixthly, the present review and appeal procedures are both too cumbersome and too limited. [More…]
Secondly, it has recommended a reduction in the capacity of the bureaucracy to put procedural and financial obstacles in the way of freedom of information applicants. [More…]
I certainly want a freedom of information Act. [More…]
The community wants freedom of information legislation. [More…]
But we do not want any old Freedom of Information Bill enacted. [More…]
We certainly do not want a Bill like the present one which is pregnant with the danger of doing more to undermine freedom of information than to advance it. [More…]
-(Victoria)-by leave-This report, like the Freedom of Information Bill with which it deals, is one of the most important matters to be laid before this Senate in recent years. [More…]
I should like to say, with regard to the problem of security documents, a subject on which I have some professional experience, that our recommendations will not only improve freedom of information, but also markedly improve the national security arrangements. [More…]
It is for the Parliament, not for the Executive, and certainly not for the Public Service to decide the details of a Bill such as the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
The Government Freedom of Information Bill was clearly the product of the bureaucracy, with some minor Ministerial input. [More…]
I feel quite sure that freedom of information would go a long way in this community to taking away that tremendous cynicism about government and about parliamentarians of which we hear so much. [More…]
We have also been informed that on the advice of his Department the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will want to have the Freedom of Information Bill and this report referred to an interdepartmental committee, which would mean, firstly, that it would be buried completely. [More…]
Secondly, it would mean that it would be watered down at the hands of the same Public Service Departments which have made submissions to the Committee opposing greater freedom of information- because of not enough staff, because it was not practical or was unworkable- but who were in fact unable to justify in a rational way just what it was that would make it more difficult for them, where the extra workload would come in. [More…]
I think it will be seen that one of the most valuable aspects of the report, apart from its recommendations about the Australian piece of legislation, will be found in the bibliography which is an integral part of this report identifying the areas of debate and discussion, and identifying the sources pf debate and discussion on the question of freedom of information. [More…]
On page 55 of the Committee’s report, at paragraphs 4.62 and 4.63, will be found its conclusions about the operation of the Westminster system of government and freedom of information. [More…]
The report reads: 4.62 We value the Westminster system of government; we do not seek to change it; nor do we believe effective freedom of information legislation would change it A great deal of the talk about the Westminster system and how it would be altered by freedom of information legislation has been obscured and misleading. [More…]
Very often people have alleged that the Westminster system is under attack by freedom of information legislation when what is actually under attack is their own traditional and convenient way of doing things, immune from public gaze and scrutiny. [More…]
Freedom of information legislation does not alter this one iota. [More…]
The other features of the Westminster system which we have identified will either not be significantly changed by our freedom of information proposals or else will, we believe, be changed for the better. [More…]
4.63 Freedom of information legislation does not relate to any specific system of government, be it a Westminster, presidential or any other system. [More…]
Any political system which holds that the people are entitled to a maximum degree of information about how their government operates, so that it can be made more responsive and accountable to them, will welcome an effective Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
I have no hesitation in saying that the witnesses who appeared before our Committee- the permanent heads of the Department- of the Treasury and of the Department of Prime, Minister and Cabinet- appeared without qualification to be most opposed to the effective operation of freedom of information legislation. [More…]
The other public servant quite clearly indicated the extent to which he regarded freedom of information to be an intrusion upon the procedures of his Department. [More…]
I believe that freedom of information is capable of making an important change in the way in which Australian government operates and in restoring something that has been substantially lost in the last couple of years in Australia and in other Westminster systems: That the control of legislation and of the shape of government lies in the hands of Parliament and that the purpose for which that control is exercised is the better government of the people of the country concerned. [More…]
It is a world in which they do not have equal rights to education, employment, health services or even the restrictive freedoms that other Queenslanders have. [More…]
Their freedom is less than others because of the pre isions of the Aborigines Act, the Torres Strait Islanders Act and the regulations and by-laws associated with those two Acts. [More…]
I suggest that the exposure of that so-called confidential information, in particular the remarks of the Queensland Minister, indicate that, until the Commonwealth Government stops soft pedalling with Queensland, there will never be freedom for anybody there who is less than white. [More…]
That freedom of learning and teaching cannot be maintained unless tertiary institutions can operate autonomously, free from the threat of government control. [More…]
Under these conditions, suppliers experience a high degree of freedom in price setting and manufacturing costs do not appear to be a significant factor determining a company ‘s competitiveness. [More…]
Of course, we will be supporting, in I hope its new and burnished form, the Freedom of Information Bill when it comes again before this Parliament. [More…]
Our relationship with neighbouring countries like Indonesia is, of course, important, but the sensitivities of the Indonesian Government should not be considered more important than the lives, the freedom, the self-determination and the health of the men, women and children of East Timor who have been sorely abused for centuries by a neglectful colonial power, who have been abandoned in the wake of a revolutionary change in that colonial power and who were then taken over by a neighbour obsessed with unreal fears that a hostile power could develop amongst the 600,000-odd people on the edge of its own country of 1 30 million people. [More…]
East Timor presents a typical tragedy of modern times; of people who initially were denied freedom and development by their colonial power, then were denied self-determination by a neighbour and then, despite the willingness of others to help and despite the good will which existed, perverse national pride prevented the Indonesians admitting until now that a problem existed. [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…]
We learnt that contrary to the Helsinki Accords, to which the Soviet Union is a party, there is not freedom of religion, there is not freedom of speech, there is not freedom of assembly and there is not freedom of migration, even when it is a case of the reuniting of families. [More…]
We are talking about a struggle of ideas between thosewhatever their views might be on economic policy, health services, nationalising banks or something else- who believe in a system in which there is freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of the people to change their government, and those who do not believe in those freedoms. [More…]
The first is that the Bill does nothing to actually change the law in any of areas such as police powers, freedom of assembly, voting rights and all the rest of them, where civil rights are very obviously in need of specific legal protection. [More…]
Freedom of assembly, to take one example in making the point, is denned in Article 21 of the Covenant- the Covenant is conveniently incorporated in the Human Rights Commission Bill by way of a schedule- as being legitimately subject to restrictions: . [More…]
in the interests of national security or public safety, public order (ordre public), the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
That set of permissible exceptions from the scope of freedom of assembly contained in Article 2 1 of the Covenent- particularly insofar as it includes the wide-ranging French expression, ordre public, which is much more extensive in its connotations than the English expression ‘public order’- appears to allow the survival of even a street march law such as that which exists in Queensland. [More…]
Putting it simply, a Bill of rights is a document which identifies fundamental rights and freedom and requires that they be respected and perhaps sets out some mechanism for their enforcement. [More…]
Civil liberties depend with us upon nothing more obligatory than tradition and upon nothing more inflexible than the principles of interpretation and the duty of courts to presume in favour of innocence and against the invasion of personal freedom under colour of authority. [More…]
The common law has therefore not fared well as a course of basic principles and rules on the protection of rights and freedom. [More…]
Clause IS contains unique features (not included in the 1977 Bill) which bear directly on the freedom of information debate in Australia. [More…]
It anticipates the final form of the Freedom of Information Bill 1978, which is presently being investigated by the Senate’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, which will soon report to the Senate. [More…]
Secrecy’ clauses, in general, are at present being reconsidered by all Government Departments at the Government’s direction to see whether they should be preserved or not when the Freedom of Information Act comes into operation: yet, here we are creating a new secrecy clause. [More…]
There is an area in this Bill in which was mentioned this week when we presented to this House a very substantial report on freedom of information, that has not yet been debated by us. [More…]
His freedom to act independently from the political pressure of the government of the day, and from the power of the bureaucracy must be preserved. [More…]
His freedom to act independently from the political pressure of the government of the day and from the power of the bureaucracy must be preserved. [More…]
Yesterday in this chamber the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on the Freedom of Information Bill was presented. [More…]
I am suggesting that even if we had freedom of information legislation similar to that in America it would enable people- the Aborigines and negotiating parties- to gain access to information such as that contained in these documents, which never sees the light of day. [More…]
The report goes on to say that there has been discrimination in employment, the provision of goods and services, the availability of accommodation, freedom of association and the use of facilities available to the public. [More…]
Many of our colleagues have pointed out that our countries are democratic and are deeply impregnated with a sense of freedom; they believe in morality and in natural law . [More…]
When times are normal and fear is not stalking the land, English law sturdily protects the freedom of the individual and respects human personality. [More…]
One would have thought, for instance, that Article 1 makes it absolutely clear that Congress should impose no limitations on the freedom of the Press. [More…]
Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
The final thing that I say on this particular point is that if one turns to the recently produced magnificent volume entitled Freedom of Information brought down yesterday in the Parliament, one will find on pages 60 to 62 a discussion about conclusive Ministerial certificates. [More…]
One would hope one would plead with the AttorneyGeneral, that, having this report before him now and having before him a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs- which seeks in terms of the Sankey judgment and other matters to argue as precisely as it can argue on those pages against the system of conclusive Ministerial certificatesunless he expects the members of the Consitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and other members of the Senate not to believe that this report is being treated with monumental contempt, he will make some sort of attempt to come to grips with the question of whether conclusive certificates, which this Committee recommends, ought to be subject to a number of qualifications and appeals which should not appear in the Freedom of Information Bill or the Archives Bill and, equally should not appear in the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
Here a confusion, I must say, entered the remarks of both Senator Missen and Senator Puplick because, in saying that a judicially enforceable Bill of rights is perhaps not the immediate answer to Australia’s situation, I agree only in a sense of that expression, namely, that the judges should not be given as their basic raw material a Bill of rights which is drafted so widely, so ambiguously, as to allow them the freedom of interpretation which was the concern of both Senator Missen and Senator Puplick. [More…]
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of ought conscience and religion. [More…]
Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; … to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice. [More…]
It is a fact, as has been pointed out by honourable senators, that most violations of human rights- perhaps up to 95 per cent, according to documents circulated by Senator Missen- occur within State jurisdictions and have to do with freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, the rights that one has when a criminal investigation is carried out by the police, and that type of situation. [More…]
It ought not to be left to the courts to have the freedom to interpret very widely and vaguely drawn expressions of human rights which might be compatible with some philosophical treatise expressing the yearnings of the human spirit that were dwelt on by Senator Puplick for the greater part of his speech. [More…]
What it does is to rely on an understanding of the law, which was perhaps excusable even at the time of the drafting of this Bill and of the Freedom of Information Bill; namely, an understanding as to the almost sacrosanct character of the conclusive certificate issued by the Executive such as would prevent an independent, impartial body such as a court or commission from inquiring into the reasons which might have led the Executive to decide to withhold a particular document from that court or commission. [More…]
In the freedom of information report recently tabled by the Senate Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, in relation to clauses which were of similar structure in that they simply relied on conclusive certificates of the Executive to prevent documents being obtained under the Freedom of Information Bill, it was decided by the Committee that nevertheless reasons for non-disclosure need to be given to an impartial tribunal so that it can decide on the relative strength of the claims made by the Executive for non-disclosure as against, in that case, the need for a full disclosure in accordance with freedom of information philosophy; in other words, let an independent tribunal judge where the public interest lies. [More…]
In the case of clause 15, I think one need to go no further than to ask the Government, as representd here by the Attorney-General (Senator Durack), not to proceed with this clause until it has come to a publicly announced response to the findings and recommendations of the Senate Committee in relation to freedom of information. [More…]
It seems to pre-empt the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on the Freedom of Information Bill 1978. [More…]
Everyone lawfully within the territory of a Slate shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence. [More…]
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. [More…]
Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law - [More…]
Senator Missen has pointed out some substantial procedural defects in the present Bill: The lack of any enforcement power by the Human Rights Commission; the power given to the Minister to by-pass the Commission and give its power to the States; the possible conflict of the revised Freedom of Information Bill which I thought dealt very effectively with the undesirability of conclusive certificates by Ministers; and the undesirable introduction in the Human Rights Commission Bill of the legal concept of standing to preclude people without sufficient interest from making a complaint. [More…]
As a State Senator I am an ardent defender of the decentralisation of power where it is appropriate for administrative efficiency or political freedom. [More…]
They include: The National Socialist Party of Australia; the White Christians League; the Hungarist Movement- the World Association of National Socialist Hungarians; and the Australian League of Rights and its related bodies such as the Christian Institute for Individual Freedom. [More…]
This was a big block to the progress of freedom. [More…]
But any political passion for equality wrecks any hope of freedom because natural law springs from two principles; firstly, self-preservation; and, secondly, a natural repugnance to unwarranted infliction of pain and death. [More…]
The first was for religious toleration, freedom of speech, and the right of assembly. [More…]
Most States, not only Queensland and Western Australia, although they have become the most notorious in this respect, have on their statute books legislation which, if enforced in a ham-handed way, is manifestly offensive to rights of public assembly and freedom of association, assembly and political protest in the public domain. [More…]
There is also the treatment of trade unions, which is quite offensive to the historical notion of freedom of association of labour which has manifest itself in a number of ways, most recently in the essential services legislation in that State. [More…]
Some grotesque intrusions have been made into the freedom of political belief in the conduct of the education system in Queensland. [More…]
Some of the major developments of the common law of our courts include the writ of habeas corpus, freedom from arbitrary arrest, the presumption of innocence and trial by jury. [More…]
Of course, the principles of universal suffrage, the Bill of Rights enacted in 1688 and freedom of religion are some of the great achievements of parliament and parliamentary democracy. [More…]
In order to ensure the protection of the freedom of individuals to decide whether or not to join a socio-political association; and thereby to protect a fundamental human right and freedom of conscience in such matters; [More…]
I noted with some interest when I began to read the report on freedom of information of one of our parliamentary commitees that, of the many submissions received, the only really hostile submission received was from the Premier of Queensland. [More…]
It is not surprising that the Government has brought in legislation of the type that will further restrict the freedom of people throughout the Territory as it stands by and watches that freedom being restricted in Western Australia and Queensland. [More…]
I quote from page 24 of the Freedom of Information report of one of our own committees, where it says: [More…]
So I think there is a very good case not only in respect of this particular piece of legislation but also as part of the general principle of trying to establish in a more principled way the role of the Parliament so that the sort of information which we will be talking about in another piece of legislation- the Freedom of Information Bill- can be made available. [More…]
Having recently presented a report on freedom of information, the members of that committee hope that there will be very substantial work done by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in that area of the law. [More…]
I was given a lecture by Senator Evans recently about his report on freedom of information, that without further ado or consideration the Government should implement all the recommendations that were made. [More…]
Freedom of learning and research is fundamental to democratic societies. [More…]
With a degree of sadness that we have before us this sort of situation in relation to one of our great institutions, let me just say that it is my pride that I have enjoyed 10 years’ association with it, and that I have great faith in the Council of the University to be able to make decisions which are reasonable and responsible and which do take into account some of the fundamental considerations of what is important to the Australian way of life, considerations which include an absence of compulsion and a freedom of choice. [More…]
It is easy to say that freedom of association, a concept with which I am obviously in complete accord, implies, as a necessary corollary to it, the freedom not to associate. [More…]
It has been associated with the legislation in Victoria and in other Liberal jurisdictions which has been aimed at limiting freedom of action of student organisations and the autonomy of the universities in controlling them. [More…]
They are quite insensitive to university autonomy and, if we want to put this way, to the academic freedom that is integrally associated with the notion of university autonomy. [More…]
On the whole, the Bills represent a small step towards the practice of voluntary freedom of association on the campuses of two eminent Australian tertiary institutions. [More…]
The fact is that over a growing number of years the community, in a very articulate fashion, and the students have expressed the view that it is repugnant to democratic freedom that students on campus should be compelled to join organisations to which they are philosophically opposed and that they should be compelled to provide money out of their pockets to benefit organisations to which they are opposed. [More…]
The Opposition has argued that the Bill represents an attack on academic freedom. [More…]
It is the duty of government to legislate to set up the framework of a statutory body within which academic freedom shall flourish. [More…]
There is no attack at all on academic freedom. [More…]
Does anyone suggest that that was an interference with academic freedom? [More…]
In fact the interference with academic freedom was the restraint of the student against re-enrolling. [More…]
The fact is that the decision as to whether an individual parliamentarian acts with freedom of conscience and free of all outside influence is a matter of the honesty and integrity of that individual. [More…]
The amendment proposed would provide that unless the kind of principles which the Government has already accepted in its Freedom of Information Bill apply- that is, that a hearing in public would prejudice the investigation of the law or the fair trial of the person and the several other matters then set out- the hearing should be held in public and not in private. [More…]
To me the objective is the creation of a regulatory framework which is intended to provide for the operation of a free, fair, open and efficient capital market and which is designed to ensure the enjoyment of freedom of enterprise in the same way that our traffic laws provide for the enjoyment of our right of freedom of passage over our public highways. [More…]
By the same token, no Parliament can work unless there be an acknowledgement of past practice, together with an observation of the Standing Orders, which have been set out for no other purpose than to ensure the freedom of honourable senators to express themselves in parliamentary language and to enable democracy to operate in our parliamentary system. [More…]
Freedom of Information). [More…]
Respect for the Integrity of the Person, including Freedom from: [More…]
Government to be proposing to vest such powers in a narcotics bureau which was itself then under a serious cloud, with unanswered allegations outstanding in respect of both its competence and, more particularly and more seriously still, its integrity and its freedom from corruption of an internal kind. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs came to the same conclusion in its report on the Freedom of Information Bill. [More…]
The Government is likewise concerned with the proposed amendment to delete pans of Clause 1 S ( because of their freedom of information implications). [More…]
The Senate Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs has submitted a major report on the Freedom of Information Bill which raises these matters for debate and consideration by the Government. [More…]
In other debates this year, in which the same question has arisen- for instance, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation legislation- I have said that the Government, when it determines its policy in relation to freedom of information, will reconsider these types of clauses in various measures. [More…]
They are all bound up with, and relevant to, the question of freedom of information but at this stage, pending that policy’s being determined by either the Government or the Parliament, the Government believes that this clause, which is similar to clauses in other legislation, should stand. [More…]
I make only one further comment and that is that it might not be as effective as one would like, even within its own terms, to the extent that the Opposition would regard it desirable not only that an aggrieved individual or group be able to litigate but also that the Human Rights Commission have the power to initiate litigation on behalf of someone so aggrieved, as was a provision in the Human Rights Bill 1973 and as has been recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs in respect of the enforcement of freedom of information matters by the Ombudsman. [More…]
In which of these countries do human rights, in terms of the practical constitutional freedom of citizens, approach the standards: (a) laid down in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and ( b) enjoyed by the average Australian in Australia. [More…]
All States are well on target and in fact, it is anticipated that the interim objective of nationwide Provisional Freedom (ie 2 infected cows per 1,000 cows) by 1984, will be achieved earlier. [More…]
This Bill is an onslaught upon the rights of freedom of speech and of peaceable assembly in this country. [More…]
If it had embarked upon that course it could not be accused of interfering in the freedom and independence of universities, as it will be accused as a result of this statement and the legislation which, presumably, is to follow in the Budget session. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Acts and their regulations and by-laws be abolished forthwith, and that Land Rights be established, believing that only when these two demands arc fulfilled will Aboriginals and Torres Strait Island people begin to have their freedom and independence. [More…]